Greg coined this term for [[Jonathan Pageau]]'s symbolic conception of the fringe. The end of a world, the edge, the border, the fringe Category: The stranger (or the alien) -The strange, the margin, the unknown The wall closes up the border, and when we go to far we get allergic to the stranger in a bad way. Obsession over the edge is a problem, whether it is being allergic to it or obsessively attentive to it. Celebration of identity (July 4th, Hanukkah) vs celebration of strangeness (Halloween, Purim). Carnival, false king, upside down world. Culture is what binds us together. Celebration of the holidays. Hierarchy of narratives, or of identities. At the edge of a world we encounter that exactly that which the world is not, the strangers to the world. The edge is where identities and narratives break down. Center. The center is the common origin where all spokes revolve around. The larger a wheel is, the further away the spokes are from the center, and from one another, and also the faster the wheel turns. When the wheel becomes too large, the spoke forgets its connection the wheel altogether. The wheel ceases to exist because the center loses its connection to its spokes. As center loses sway over the spoke, the center becomes more and more pervasive as a countermeasure. That is why we have large authoritarian systems. Absolute order and absolute order are two sides of the same coin – consequences of the dissolution of the center. If the highest point is cut away, reason and language both shatter. 1984 and A Great New World. #build Source: Jordan Peterson Exodus Seminar, End of the World Series