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JFK was the first president to spare the turkey from death, and then he was assassinated three days later — the conservation of violence.
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Fredric Jameson on English detective fiction versus American detective fiction
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Favorite bit from Augustine’s Confessions: “I have personally watched and studied a jealous baby. He could not yet speak and, pale with jealousy and bitterness, glared at his brother sharing his mother's milk.”
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it’s crazy how some Anglo-Saxons fled after the Norman conquest, worked for the Byzantine emperor, then founded a colony on the Crimean coast
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wanna drop out of college, give everything up and run an aesthetics account from a public library while living on the streets
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@AnUntimelyMan
The chad centrist is truly a societal pariah, an ideological ronin in search of a master that never comes
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Trump engaging in Socratic dialogue about the phrase “all men are created equal” in 2009.
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I’m 19 today, but it’s always been ambiguous to me whether we should celebrate or mourn the passing of time
Either way, I can certainly celebrate receiving gifts
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I am an archaeo-futurist. I believe we must innovate to return to tradition. For example, women need pants with large pockets so that they can return to the “gatherer” role they once fulfilled in our hunter-gatherer past.
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The other Pascal’s Wager is that you must treat every stranger kindly in case they are an angel in disguise
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I believe that the largest libraries should have hotels attached. A sort of hostel for wandering scholars. Functionally speaking the university has come closest to my childish dream of the ‘live-in library’
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Schumpeter makes a good point about how a potential decline of capitalism might happen. Instead of a purely economic logic leading to decline as classic Marxism outlines, he argues that capitalism will gradually erode the socio-cultural base that enables it (‘work ethic’, etc).
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Werner Heisenberg makes a sharp comment concerning vague declarations of peace:
"anyone who speaks in favor of peace without stating precisely the conditions of this peace must at once be suspected of speaking only about that kind of peace in which he and his group thrive best"
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Elon Musk has taught a generation of men that they can be very online, shit-post and still be successful and this may very well be for the worse
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Biology is a fucked up discipline at the 101 level. the student is soaked in details. I would like to start off just with extremely simple organisms and be able to learn all the relevant details. whether that would actually be a good pedagogy idk
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Few know this, but the first recorded use of this meme was in a 4chan theory post about Nick Land.
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Obvious enough, but most of the difficulty in life comes from keeping obvious observations in your head long enough to act on them
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If you look at a diagram of an ant’s path along a treacherous landscape, full of twigs and stones and so on that it must navigate around, the ant’s behavior will look very complex. But the complexity is a function of the landscape which the ant traverses, not the ant itself.
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Fukuyama explains the student protests of 1968 France by saying they reacted against the “absence of struggle and sacrifice in their middle-class lives that led them to take to the streets and confront the police”
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This poem about a solar eclipse by the 7th century BC Greek poet Archilochus gives a good sense of how unexpected natural occurrences must have shaped people’s appetites to believe in all sorts of other now ridiculous seeming claims; “After this, everything is believable”
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I am large, I contain multitudes (gut bacteria, secondhand ideas)
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I was just trying to research the semantic history of "fish" to determine at what point whales were no longer popularly called such, and stumbled across some sort of wild analytic philosophy ontological debate about whales as fish involving Carnap, Kripke, essences
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It’s funny when some Silicon Valley people call woke stuff a new religion, because a lot of techno-utopianism (‘Californian ideology’ if you will) is *literally* about Immanetizing the Eschaton in the form of the singularity and things of that nature.
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Carl Schmitt did the Karl Popper 'paradox of tolerance' thing in the 1930s lol
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Borges on aesthetic theodicy (in his essay On the Cult of the Book) throughout history, in Homer's Odyssey and from Mallarme (one in the era in the spoken word, the other in the era of the written word)
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Your knowledge garden –– sterile, monoculture, carefully managed, collapses if the ideological greenhouse is penetrated
My knowledge garden –– overgrown, diverse, resilient, lush, doesn't mind facing the outside world
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We learn much from confident mistaken predictions of intelligent men of the past. This is Bertrand Russell predicting a dichotomy of apocalypse or world state for the future
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I’m only reading practical shit this month, Spinoza’s Ethics, Nichomachean Ethics, a few selected books of the Bible. I don’t have time to mess around
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Managing melancholy by always having a book shipment to look forward to
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I Sacrificed My Children to Moloch and All I Got Was The Placebo Effect
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I sympathize with the bonsai, because I too was grown in a small container and shaped to a particular end by others
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Deleuze on people expressing themselves too much
“..we’re riddled with pointless talk, insane quantities of words and images. Stupidity’s never blind or mute. So it’s not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude...”
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If I memorize enough poems then I shall not use my phone so much while waiting in line.
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This month’s stack 😌
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity is an interesting conservative criticism of Mill’s On Liberty linking it to the chaos of French Rev and attacking his expensively abstract humanitarianism and defending hierarchies and religion as a base for morality.
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1890s, France: Defending Alfred Dreyfus from the false charges against him
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I’ll save this in case I ever have a friend whose work has come to nothing
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A politician that ends every speech with “The corn lobby must be destroyed”
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POV: You are my classmate in zoom school and I am listening intently to your insightful points
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Heisenberg on the relationship of ordinary language to reality compared to scientific language
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Some wonderful polemic from 1970s Alasdair MacIntyre on British policy abroad
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I think youngsters would buy more German philosophy books if we found appropriate memes for the cover.
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My favorite decision theory paradox related to infinity is the ‘Ever Better Wine’ that improves without limit in time. How should the immortal agent who enjoys wine make a decision of when to drink it? I don’t believe that there was a rational way to choose when to have it.
I just discovered the St. Petersburg paradox so I'm REALLY excited for my next conversation with a rationalist.
rationalist: hi
me: wanna play a game?
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@Vermeullarmine
buddy all the atheists i know are far more consistent than official catholic doctrine has been throughout history.
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@NuclearTakes
Dear citizens: Please stop calling us 'the government.' There is no such thing.
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I think of Hobbes as the original 'just wanted to grill' political philosopher because of the importance he placed on removing the possibility of civil conflict. That's the motivation for people submitting to the absolute sovereign, so they can grill in peace.
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Pocket poem books have transformed my life, I am constantly pulsating with poetic energy, dropping verses left and right
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Imagining a future w far less mandatory educational institutions and far more extremely well trained librarians, capacious luxurious libraries with study space connecting precocious youths and home-schooling parents to the knowledge they want
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Gaston Bachelard makes an interesting suggestion in the essay Metaphysics of Dust, that the basic intuition of early atomism came from observations of dust — in particular, when a ray of light suddenly shows dust floating in an empty room.
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The William Blake I saw at the Getty Center — Nebuchadnezzar’s twisted visage. I hadn’t expected to find Blake there, they had several of his etchings.
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Marx wanted the means of production to be distributed first, not the means of consumption. That is, a fairer distribution of wealth is supposed to be the consequence of a fairer distribution of the means of production. That is why Marxism is not welfare capitalism.
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The ideal male living space (cross on wall, bed on floor)
I watched True Detective Season One in the last few days, loved it. I think I’m a sucker for those sort of eerie mystery plots. Additionally I also am a sucker for the plot device of a character that hallucinates and then there is a scene where you don’t know if it’s real or not
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Schelling (1960) on formal models of rationality: “It may not be an exaggeration to say that our sophistication sometimes suppresses sound intuitions, and one of the effects of an explicit theory may be to restore some intuitive notions that were only superficially ‘irrational’ ”
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Tbh despite the perhaps worse aesthetic I really doubt this would be worse than much of the garbage Americans eat. Many might be better off eating the bugs! I get the dehumanizing efficiency criticism, but this criticism unfortunately holds for our current mass food practices too
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Damn, early Nick Land cited in a random article I was reading goes hard.
A good point is made. Democracies, historically and presently, have often depended on the labor of workers in non-democratic conditions (Ancient Greek slaves, present day wage laborers in China)
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The university is the modern Tower of Babel. God broke apart the quest for knowledge into dozens and dozens of different academic disciplines that struggle to communicate with each other to punish us for our Faustian striving.
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Perhaps my favorite Redon painting, certainly the most evocative to me, The Cyclops.
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Mildly interesting to see people react to Moore’s argument. I think the argument should be understood as resting on more general idea, ‘we know particular everyday things with more certainity than the premises of any skeptical argument so they can be used as evidence against it’
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It is important to learn more than one systematic ethical theory so as to find the best way for you, personally, to justify whatever you were going to do anyways to others.
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Abstraction is the root of all evils, people will go to a few museums and look at some nice images of the past online and declare themselves passionate advocates and practitioners of Western culture.
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