I'm excited to watch the JBP-Žižek thing. I want to be angry at myself for that but I'm just not. I want the insipid resolution of a boxing match.
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Replying to @generativist
oh god, I can't even imagine deriving any pleasure from it at all. On the one hand a buffoon in a tweed jacket whose primary trick is relying on the fact that he knows how to look like a smart person, on the other an apologist for Stalin, who murdered many of my relatives.
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Replying to @mykola
IDK much abt the latter's apologia. But, I think both are clowns and I would like something in political-cultural space to have a resolution at this point. Even if my momentary, fight-night side loses, at least something happens instead of just constant collision-less collisions.
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Replying to @generativist
Didn't you get the memo? Resolution died in the 20th century. The future is just going to be like this but more so!
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Replying to @mykola
I semi-seriously believe that to be true. It's gonna be our Sisyphean boulder.
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Replying to @generativist
Our grandkids are going to be so amused at the idea that we used to think that there was such a thing as objective reality or a universal social consensus, I think. "Resolution" will feel as reductionist for them as fundamentalist christianity does for us, I think.
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TBH that probably *is* what I want. The illusion of an obvious winner & loser. Undoubtedly, the whole thing will exactly reproduce modern incoherence -- both sides celebrating their victories and ridiculing the invented losers. I'm just hoping for the unlikely -- an outcome.
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