From from the last day of May in 2021 until the last day of May in 2022, we’re going to use this substack to write a book called “Deep Socks.”
This book will enable the reader to see the worlds around them - the social world, political world, work world, psychological world, and spiritual worlds - with greater depth.
Throughout this whole “book” process, the metaphor of shallowness and depth repeats, at many scales. This is because shallowness is the greatest threat to our collective human survival. If our perception of the complexity of the realities we occupy doesn’t intensify significantly, that is, come to possess many more layers on average than it currently does, we will likely commit (accidental) collective suicide.
This book is our contribution to that deepening. It’s organized into four seasons. The first is called “Shallow Winter.” and is about the complete failure of all existing political or social frameworks to grasp our metasystem.
Each “season” of the book is further divided into three “months”. In the case of “Shallow Winter” the first “month” is “Managerial Society in Winter” and tells of the secret revolution which put managers in charge of an emerging world state and of the social conditions which make that emerging world state unlikely. Each “month” in turn, is organized into four chapters, and each chapter into three sections.
If this doesn’t make sense to you, ponder the following schedule: every week, we’ll publish three posts: these are the sections. One week, one chapter. One month, one “month”. Every three “months,” a season.
There’s three ways to follow the book. If you’re mildly interested, simple check in everyone once in a while, read from where you left off. The basic chapters will always be free. If you want more, or want to support the project, three dollars a month gets you access to our discord, plus two more pieces a week. One bonus piece will be cultural criticism, sometimes a nasty takedown of a shallow puppet-person, and the other some sort of multimedia-collage. If you would like to use this creation of this book to become a world-historical figure of the deep center, right, left, (or some other angle), then send us an email (sockpuppetstudio at tutanota dot com) to initiate the Deep Socks Academy, a free para-educational program for collective self-deepening.
If you still didn’t understand the plan from above, here’s another, provisional version:
DEEP SOCKS
I. SHALLOW WINTER
MANAGERIAL SOCIETY IN WINTER
PETTY TYRANNY AND EMBERS OF FASCISM
MARX IS FREEZING INTO VAPOR
II. DEEP SPRING
THE VICTORY OF THE DEEP CENTER
THE HEROES OF THE DEEP RIGHT
THE WEALTH OF THE DEEP LEFT
III. INTENSE SUMMER
ACTUAL CRISIS 1 - ALONE
ACTUAL CRISIS 2 - ADVANCE
ACTUAL CRISIS 3 - REDO
IV. DEEPER FALL
PRACTICUM FOR THE DEEP CENTER
PRACTICUM FOR THE DEEP RIGHT
PRACTICUM FOR THE DEEP LEFT
We would also like to publish deep material from you, so if you have any, get in touch: sockpuppetstudio at tutanota dot com.