mad max it up and get weird with rhythm at the same time with this one youtu.be/R4Y7wKfpOqY?...

god is the president of heaven

making my way down town, wonking fast faces pass and i’m a loser baby so why don’t you kill me

policy wonking is for the girlies

so sick of guys confusing political judgements for economic judgements they then go on to define as incorrect. if the “consumer class going Kalecki” story were true, you’d expect to see middle class guys who lost the evening coffee shops swinging hard toward Trump, but that didn’t happen, did it?

become ungovernable

the implication of this post being that "nobody is interested in text but everyone should be interested in AI" is wild and so sad. plenty of people are curious about text, and AI as a text generator that reflects the user back at themselves is a deeply fascinating thing. like Socrates in the pocket

"Absolute immunity is a helluva drug" --Glaucon

it is almost never worth posting anything

my two dads

thanks, @mcnallyeditions.com, for maintaining a uniquely really great philosophy section at your affiliated bookstore’s Seaport location, and thanks to the store’s philosophy buyer who in true form presented me with this rec while wearing a Phenomenology of Spirit t-shirt like it was 2016

picked up this first edition in a bookstore in ithaca yesterday, and given the as-yet to be fully understood implications of this morning’s festivities, I can’t help but feel my symbol system is getting really weird

The Kool-Aid man breaking down the walls he's erected around his own emotions to avoid truly being vulnerable with people so as not to get hurt, and finally letting someone in: oh yeah

this one small brain think thoughts

i watched this animal farm teaser 4 months ago and i thought it looked like a very good movie. i got so excited about it finding a US distributor this past summer that i reread the book. still very excited about it. why hate on a movie that isn’t even out yet? youtu.be/fyfj97mSRX0?...

dubai chocolate is representative of nothing, least of all late-stage capitalism. people do buy chocolate and have for over a hundred years

i am once again begging everyone to please stop suggesting Jünger was a Nazi

the reasonable soul

she taught at the University of Chicago in the Committee on Social Thought at the same time as Leo Strauss, noted Heidegger fanboy, so that was probably a whole thing too

me, a crank: fukuyama was wrong because his whole argument comes from studying under bloom and cribbing kojeve’s move, yoking heidegger’s nietzsche to marx and calling it hegel they all think it’s tragedy, but it’s just farce

you, a fool: fukuyama was wrong because stuff kept happening me, an intellectual: fukuyama was wrong because the lack of purpose he describes is not an inherent function of liberalism but a result of a failure to metabolize containing Russia or global warming mitigation as sources of meaning

asked Claude for a self deprecating joke about my apple music rewind and the model said: "my top genre is avant-garde jazz. i’m going to be alone forever and i deserve it"

libertarians are people who want to use the media system to get out of having to maintain a community

"The Straussian Moment" actually refers to the point where even the education system gives up and stops checking citations

Charlie Kirk was a person. He might not have cared if I died, but if I don’t care that he died then I’ve already lost. I believe in the dignity of all human beings and I want to live in a society that treats each of us as sacred and ensouled.

someone should let me publish a piece on silicon valley weirdos and their fascination with Plato’s Republic i’ve been pitching this around all summer and nobody is buying

Book 8 of the Republic contains an extended critique of democracy as inevitably devolving into tyranny, and if a student were to read only this book of the Republic and no other, the argument would appear clearly in favor of determinism, authoritarianism, class-based elitism, and bioessentialism.

i wish analytic philosophers were allowed to just say 'i'm doing autotheory' rather than sublimating it in implausible universal claims

The Kant Car

balaji srinivasan is a special advisor to Chainlink, and he's got a good bit in his book that describes exactly why they want to put everything on the blockchain. the short version is it's adam tooze's bit about statistics being the driving force of history in Weimar

when i say "i’m a liberal" i’m saying "i am a political existentialist" and when you say you’re a liberal you mean "i was a libertarian like 12 years ago but then trump came along"

here's a good reader of nietzsche talking about bad readings: "in studying nietzsche, we learn to master completely the constant inclination to fall prey to the wording of utterances; we are trained to overcome the crudeness of arguing with isolated propositions." lot of this going around lately!

can confirm that SUNY Purchase students still look like this, at least as of 2015

it’s really not fun to use the great books to perform ego for an audience. the fun is in treating the Great Books like dolls. you can make them kiss and make them fight. it’s just play. ever wonder what a teatime between hegel nietzsche and kierkegaard looks like? you’re never gonna BELIEVE it folks

this ad is a lot like the work coming out of Warwick philosophy in the 90s: seems fine at first glance, but notice that one word and start asking questions, and next thing you know the entire thing becomes a confused and stilted meditation on national identity see also: CCRU

paying taxes is punk rock

nobody thinks about how when everyone shares an image set of seig heils at the same time, the whole timeline is just overt Nazism your takes condemning the imagery are lost in the sea of mimetic contagion and all that’s left are the images themselves how does it make you feel

N is for Nietzsche

yeah I read theory

in the standard interpretation of the Master Slave dialectic, the slave is the more advantageous position. beyond good and evil is not a book about political slavery just because rw influencers point at it? listing the number of times "slavery" appears is using ctrl+F, not interpretation

the entire section McManus cites here sets up an extended discussion and critique of the Hegelian master-slave dialectic. he removes the paragraph-level citation from his quote (it's 257) and then presents it as Nietzsche advocating for slavery, and it's as disingenuous as the reading he's mad abt

Drop some HORSES 🐎🐴🎠🖤

politics isn't sports and worrying about the score makes you look very far away from a commitment to The Good

someday im going to rescue Nietzsche from the right wingers and demonstrate his rightful place in the liberal disability studies canon and then you'll all see

- Hannah Arendt

setting up a gofundme to raise money for my dream, personally paying off the national debt