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

Hannah Arendt would be ashamed of her Center affiliating itself with Thomas Chatterton Williams

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

not sure how anyone who actually read the article could construe this as suggesting israel was the cause of the famine. h*mas is the bad guy here. the headline was written this way, not by her, to get you to share the post and you're doing it. hell, i'm doing it. is anyone paying attention for real

a lot of elite academia at the PhD level works exactly like this, not surprised to see the phenomenon embedded in the model

there’s a lot of things that are wrong with this and to add another one, the name ‘Saddam’ is not pronounced ”sodom”

the Grok companion would be pretty big for her vocaloid software if she's got a good partnerships manager

the passage this misquote is from is about how difficult it is to achieve an ideal state, being fragile and prone to corruption. under Heidegger the meaning is reversed and great states are about weathering adversity. how'd he get the Rectorship again?

straight from the former clarium capital founder's mouth in 2007. the reason they're always going on about Strauss is that they think Strauss tells them Machiavelli said it was okay

ok but who color balanced all these consecutive texts in the voegelin collected works though

in Plato's Republic, the end result of aristocracies (ie bad philosopher kings) that become democratic oligarchies is always tyranny. 13 years after the Republic was written, Xenophon wrote Hiero. it only took 12 years to turn "tyranny is a bad thing" into "won't someone think of the tyrant"

do people honestly think the Frankfurt School was a response to Marx not going far enough and not trying to use Marx to account for the rise of fascism and the problem of failed revolutions

nobody reads anymore

the Frankfart School was the direct result of WWI and failed revolutions, not modern popular culture. they were all literally Marxists, it was founded by a Marxist, Walter Benjamin had to leave because Adorno wouldn't work with him anymore on the basis that he wasn't enough of a Marxist

nihilism is for the girlies too

the last man is a woman