@MostlyMonkey Much of the explosion in post-gradute degrees is due to the children of the UMC desperately trying to disguise/forestall their downward social mobility.
deeply suspicious that no prior English-speaking civilization invented an alternative to the suffix "-maxxing", considering how incredibly entropy-condensing it is, and how equally applicable to concepts/domains that have existed across the entire chronological spectrum
“Chaucer's characters live age after age. Every age is a Canterbury Pilgrimage; we all pass on, each sustaining one or other of these characters; nor can a child be born, who is not one of these characters of Chaucer.”
—William Blake
Dialectic According to Plotinus
Dialectic is the capacity to discern the nature of each thing: to identify in what it differs from and in what it resembles other things, as well as to understand its place and mode of being, which depends on its henological consistency.
Bach drank 30 cups of coffee a day.
Napoleon used 3kg of snuff a month.
Descartes would stay in bed for 12 hours every day.
Kant owned 2 houses so he could walk between them.
Find whatever helps you keep your edge and hope it doesn't destroy you.
At least 80% of a New Yorker’s personality involves romanticizing an obscenely expensive third-world lifestyle.
“I pay $4500 a month for a 50sq. ft. bedroom in a 7-story walkup with no A/C. I can’t afford a car, and my neighbor just got stabbed on the subway, but the vape store…
pretty funny that for generations the neoliberal end-of-historyists’ whole sales pitch was
“yeah, our metamodels & eschatology may be cringe and sterile and unaesthetic and unsophisticated/low-taste but at least they’re *true* and *predictive*”
only to get completely mogged out…
Was Hegel the only person in the 19th century to understand Life’s role in mediating Thinking and Being?
Honest question here.
“Life, considered now more closely in its Idea, is in and for itself absolute universality; the objectivity that it possesses is permeated throughout…
there will be two classes in the future:
those who outsource their lives to low-entropy token sequences
and those who clutch on to their humanity,
making decisions with the beautiful, imperfect, and intangible context of human lived experience.
only the latter will survive.
there will be two classes in the future:
those who outsource their lives to low-entropy token sequences
and those who clutch on to their humanity,
making decisions with the beautiful, imperfect, and intangible context of human lived experience.
only the latter will survive.
In abusive blue collar homes, the dad comes home drunk. In abusive white collar homes, the mom sends the kid to therapy and every disagreement involves accusing the other of being mentally ill, gas lighting, it's like Harry Potter wizard spells using therapy speak.
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