Definitive ouroboros photo
[ Charles Cameron — yes, this! ]
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When threatened, the Armadillo lizard bites its tail, curls into a ball & exposes its spikes! pic.twitter.com/0vnw4ioOho
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August 24th, 2017 at 4:08 pm
Another great ouroboros pic:
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August 26th, 2017 at 6:04 am
Hey ho, Taylor Smith’s shattered ouroboros from her single, Looks what you just made me do:
August 27th, 2017 at 3:15 pm
Unh-uh, I’d missed this one.
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Trevor Noah formulates a comment on Donald Trump twedeting in ouroboric form:
Here’s the video:
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Love Donald Trump or love Trevor Noah — don’t hate! —
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— it’s fascinating how keenly the human mind seeks out and notes self-eating statements — self-referential, that is — see Doug Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, for an understanding of how key self-reference is to human consciousness.
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I’m not kidding — the ouroboros, serpent-eats-its-own-tail, self-referential format should be of intrinsic interest to all who care about the ways of the world, and poarticularly to intel analysts.