this article is bizarre https://jasminewang.substack.com/p/attending-to-the-other … 95% of the time, I do not crave the attention of others, and - in fact - having it feels oppresive. Sometimes when I'm very burned out I get angry that dogs are looking at me instead of leaving me alone. Normies, man.
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4/ > Weil was part of a particular lineage of ethical psychology that conceptualized the ethical agent as a witness; primary responsibility is not to change the world but to understand Philosophy, psychology, and ethicism are all 100% fake. Just wordcels playing stupid games.
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Give her another chance. She may be a saint.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Weil …
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Simone Weil was a woman, and my read from her biography and late writings is that she was pretty seriously mentally ill. Does it invalidate her philosophy? Yeah, I think so; she's an extremely unhealthy role model. Could she have "just" stopped being that way? I doubt it.
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funny/sad story: at 14 she was suicidally depressed because her brother was better than her at math. (he grew up to be one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century.) then she had an idea! instead of killing herself, she would become...a philosopher!
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