fuuuuck these people. fuck 'em, fuck 'em, fuck 'em in the ear.
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“To what extent is everything you just said a function of being white?” "WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH CHESS" -- Bobby Fischer to strangers
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Hannah Arendt namechecked. Funny, I was just reading her and she's scorching on this kind of "scholarship".
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The bit on Augustine and Levinas does give the game away, though: "a good conscience is fraudulent". Endless abjection as purity.
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@St_Rev All of the anti post modernism stuff comes off as such a boogeyman affair. Then I read shit like this. -
@TrivialGravitas It's deeply unimportant, except inasmuch as it's wasting the time and brain of the elite. -
@TrivialGravitas ...and in turn encouraging them to shit up the world.
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@St_Rev ofc it's both, but only one of those meanings is physically there, the other strictly imputed -
@St_Rev semiotic madness. this idea that what things *represent* is more important than what they *are* -
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@schakalsynthetc "What things are": difficult technical problem. "What things represent": fucking playground. Easy choice for a prof. -
@St_Rev@schakalsynthetc for the record, this is exactly why I tempered my cs degree with an English minor. I needed the fluffy playground -
@David_Hatten@schakalsynthetc If I could do everything over, I'd study Chinese religious history. But I loathed humanities at the time. -
@St_Rev@David_Hatten 99% of my loathing for humanities is disappointed faith, tbqh -
@St_Rev@David_Hatten veered to math bc it's much like semiotics & comp lit except that it has standards and engages usefully with reality -
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.