fix aurebesh in post, improve footnote syntax in markdown

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Logical arguments no longer work. This has been especially visible in the pandemic response in 2020. If you dug even a little below the surface of any mainstream narrative in the past two years, you likely found points of disagreement. But showing people scientific papers, charts, statistical analysis, or other types of evidence accomplishes nothing, or worse it invites accusations of being part of the Other Team, one of those backwards, wrong, stupid people.
In mid-2020 Vin Armani (now Cyprian) started calling this change "The Dim Age"[^1]. He suggested that most people still see the world as exclusively physical, oblivious to patterns of reality that are plainly obvious to more mystically aware people.
In mid-2020 Vin Armani (now Cyprian) started calling this change "The Dim Age"^[[Free Man Beyond The Wall episode 478: We've Entered The 'Dim Age'](https://freemanbeyondthewall.libsyn.com/episode-478)]. He suggested that most people still see the world as exclusively physical, oblivious to patterns of reality that are plainly obvious to more mystically aware people.
In an attempt to remedy my newfound illiteracy, I started exploring symbolism, which as I understood it dealt with identifying and understanding meaning. I found Jonathan Pageau's project [The Symbolic World](https://thesymbolicworld.com/), which has some very accessible videos breaking down movies and other pop culture artifacts from a symbolic perspective [^2]. These commentaries did not seem arbitrary or speculative, but pointed to cultural trends that I couldn't un-see once I understood them. I binged a bunch more of his material, including eventually a book his brother Mattheiu wrote, _The Language of Creation: Cosmic Symbolism in Genesis_[^3]. Through this I discovered a side of reality I had been almost completely oblivious to, and what's more, an aspect of my faith which had somehow completely passed me by.
In an attempt to remedy my newfound illiteracy, I started exploring symbolism, which as I understood it dealt with identifying and understanding meaning. I found Jonathan Pageau's project [The Symbolic World](https://thesymbolicworld.com/), which has some very accessible videos breaking down movies and other pop culture artifacts from a symbolic perspective ^[[Symbolism and Propaganda in Popular Culture](https://thesymbolicworld.com/videos/symbolism-propaganda-in-popular-culture/), [The Fall of Loki (Into the Multiverse)](https://thesymbolicworld.com/videos/the-fall-of-loki-into-the-multiverse/)]. These commentaries did not seem arbitrary or speculative, but pointed to cultural trends that I couldn't un-see once I understood them. I binged a bunch more of his material, including eventually a book his brother Mattheiu wrote, _The Language of Creation: Cosmic Symbolism in Genesis_^[[The Language of Creation: Cosmic Symbolism in Genesis: A Commentary](https://amzn.to/4iBOExr), ISBN 978-1981549337]. Through this I discovered a side of reality I had been almost completely oblivious to, and what's more, an aspect of my faith which had somehow completely passed me by.
From there I started listening to the [Lord of Spirits](https://www.ancientfaith.com/podcasts/lordofspirits) podcast. I learned that commonplace, obvious understanding of existence as material _and spiritual_ has been mostly lost, displaced by modern confidence that the material world is the limit of reality, over which sovereign mankind rules. The ancient faith of Christianity, known now as "Eastern Orthodoxy", corresponds with reality, especially spiritual patterns of reality as we see more plainly every week, better than anything else I know.
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For a while I think my highest values have been freedom and truth. A desire to be solely responsible for myself, and a desire to understand myself and the world fully and accurately. But I didn't realize that my chief obstacle is hardly megacorps and governments: I am ruled by my own out-of-control desires: for comfort, pleasure, control, satisfaction, even self-mastery. In a paradise where my every whim was manifested, I would still be a slave to desire, consuming and _wanting_ more and more.
Investigating eastern orthodoxy, this ancient Christianity, revealed a better path to freedom and truth: aiming higher. Every action and choice is in service to something. Instead of serving little tyrannical gods like comfort or pleasure, or potentially nobler gods like a country or even a "liberty movement", I will attempt to serve the Most High.
[^1]: [Free Man Beyond The Wall episode 478: We've Entered The 'Dim Age'](https://freemanbeyondthewall.libsyn.com/episode-478)
[^2]: [Symbolism and Propaganda in Popular Culture](https://thesymbolicworld.com/videos/symbolism-propaganda-in-popular-culture/), [The Fall of Loki (Into the Multiverse)](https://thesymbolicworld.com/videos/the-fall-of-loki-into-the-multiverse/)
[^3]: [The Language of Creation: Cosmic Symbolism in Genesis: A Commentary](https://amzn.to/4iBOExr), ISBN 978-1981549337

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New design! The tools I used before have a lot of unmaintained or outdated dependencies and I wanted something a little simpler. The new site uses [pnpm](https://pnpm.io/), [11ty](https://www.11ty.dev/), and [Nunjucks](https://mozilla.github.io/nunjucks/). Content is still in [markdown](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/).
One thing I'm proud of is a visual ping for footnotes.[^1] When you click a footnote[^2] it briefly highlights the thing you jumped to.
One thing I'm proud of is a visual ping for footnotes.^[It highlights when you click back, too.] When you click a footnote^[Hi.] it briefly highlights the thing you jumped to.
In the upper right I added a style toggle that applies the font from Star Wars, "Aurebesh". I learned how to read it but sometimes want some practice. <span data-font="aurebesh">People who can read this are cool and I like them.</span>
In the upper right I added a style toggle that applies the font from Star Wars, "Aurebesh". I learned how to read it but sometimes want some practice. <span data-language="aurebesh">People who can read this are cool and I like them.</span>
I also finally made a section for recipes!
> May 2025 edit: I updated the design some more without changing the tech stack. The main improvements are animated clouds and a host of minor adjustments.
[^1]: It highlights when you click back, too.
[^2]: Hi.