In broad brush stroke terms: Blake was a Romantic who used his myth-making ability (his imagination) to graph out what he thought was broken, in terms of Fallen Man, and how balance (Edenic existence, Jerusalem) might be restored.
Spinning off from Romantic: the Gothic, which in turn becomes Noir, which in turn gives rise to a new kind of fiction associated with the Cold War: the spies make it even colder.
But in contemporary discourse we disallow Blake's system to serve as any kind of Hegelian framework, preferring the latter's dialectic and social Darwinism (eugenics). Blake is closer to Kierkegaard in challenging Urizen's rule (aka Newton's Sleep).
Kierkegaard is still read in Philosophy, under existentialism. Also, we know Nietzsche appreciated Emerson, a Transcendentalist (post Unitarian), so that connects us to philosophy also, at least to what we've called Continental philosophy.
It's somewhat ironic that the European lineage helps keep American philosophy alive in memory. There's a two-way street across the Atlantic.
But then there's a "two-way street" across the Pacific as well, and we saw a lot of East-meets-West throughout the 1900s. Wittgenstein's later philosophy crossed paths with Zen Buddhism. We got into social engineering through media, ala Marshall McLuhan's global village.
Now we have Cascadia (the bioregion) and Ruscadia (the Pacific side of Eurasian) holding hands across the Bering Strait, and there's nothing WDC might do to break those ties, which are psychological and indigenous and based in history. On the contrary, WDC fed the beast at a critical juncture, as the USA-USSR business relationship had always looked promising, from a Montreal 67 perspective, in the midst of a Cold War.
So in creating a "Cascadian Pragmatism" that links Wittgenstein to Bucky, via language games and Operation DuckRabbit, we get the computer science side of things (logic, propositional calculus i.e. early NLP), and through Blake we get a mythos consistent with that of Grunch of Giants (a pithy book) and with Rorty's Achieving Our Country ("our country" being a work in progress we're happy to keep hammering into shape).
Rorty was my main thesis advisor, supervising my explorations into Wittgenstein's later philosophy at Princeton (Class of 1980). See my Graph Theory 2025 video for more context.
At the level of "hive mind" or "groupthink", Cascadian Entomology is pleased to supply all the metaphors we want, with full understanding that we're dealing with memes, not attempting to anthropomorphize the insects themselves. We're doing sociology or even sociobiology if we allow ourselves that term.
What's the opposite of "anthropomorphize" wherein we make "us" more like "them"? We're the bugs, with buggy languages we need to keep debugging. LLMs, the gossip-bots, keep reminded us of what we've claimed and assists with omnitriangulating.
A tiny detail we might use is Wittgenstein's beetle-in-a-box: we could make that a scarab.
Futurism seemed alive back then. A lot of our forks and branches stem from those days, which includes a focus on trains (our weak bridge to Ayn Rand).
