18: Slipping the DISC: State of The Portal and Chapter 2020: Difference between revisions

What I'd like to do is to bring you these three theories over the course of the next year or two—that is, a theory of death, a theory of markets, and how the agents within those markets, and the measurement of those markets should be changed and understood, and a theory, also, about who we are and what is this place in which we find ourselves, called Geometric Unity. The purpose of the Portal, if you will, is to create a channel that has never existed. Now, I could try to submit everything to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Review_Letters Phys Review Letters]. I could try to submit to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Econometrica Econometrica]. I could try to go through all of the normal channels, and I think what I've started to realize is, part of the problem of having screwed up all of this early stuff in our lives, of having tried to do this the formal and "right" way, so to speak, the privilege of having been screwed over so directly and so beautifully by the system, is the right to raise the middle finger to the institutions. Like, how dare you expect that I'm going to use your quiet procedures.

If you think about what Peer Review is, it's the exact opposite of what Peer Review should mean. "Peer Review" should mean that you publish your article, and then the peers in the community review it, but in fact what it is is Peer Suppression, you take your article and you mail it off to somebody who you don't know. That person gets an early look at it. They might hold it up in review.