Nice post! It's cool to see big-picture metaphysical ideas like this being fleshed out and given some practical shape. The point about being trapped in abstraction struck me, because I realised I hadn't really thought that much about how these two aspects of Baudrillard's thinking fit together (i.e. the prominence of Eros or production and the prominence of abstraction, or the replacement of the real by its reproduction). I wonder if in the idea of Deep Canvassing (a new one on me) there's a glimpse of this, since what it is to be a true friend is precisely *not* to be abstract - to be particular, to put labour into building that particular bond. (As opposed to the phoney friend, who could be a phoney friend to anyone---in this sense their friendship is abstract.) Lots to think about there, thanks!

(I've actually been mulling over the exchange we had on Stein and cosmo-erotic humanism, and just put up a blog post about it in case you're interested: https://divinecuration.github.io/2021/05/31/antivitalism.html)

Sam