nicole ruiz@nwilliams030·Jan 10, 2020The pendulum is swinging: post-rationalists around the world are racing wildly towards aesthetics, intuition, and spiritualityQuote Tweetnicole ruiz@nwilliams030·Jan 10, 2020Get: Aesthetics— they could save your life https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1215764445139333120?s=21…Show this thread710168
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 11, 2020Replying to @nwilliams030Haha no. I’m calling it but definitely not liking it.13
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @nwilliams030People who navigate by aesthetics are almost always evil or turn evil12:25 AM · Jan 11, 20203 Retweets3 Quote Tweets26 Likes
nicole ruiz@nwilliams030·Jan 11, 2020Replying to @vgrmore often than people who adhere too strongly to any other ideology that lacks balance and empathy?17
Forked Lightning@iAmLikelyWrong·Jan 11, 2020Replying to @vgr and @nwilliams030I would be curious to know why you believe this.1
post-logistic era@PavitSankar·Apr 19, 2020Replying to @vgr and @nwilliams030Aesthetics are the ethics of last resort1
Tim@coyotespike·Apr 19, 2020Replying to @vgr and @nwilliams030There's a great autobiographical Rorty essay where he riffs on the lack of unity between ethics and aesthetics, with heavy emphasis to Nabokov's Lolita12
Zwickau@Zwickau8·Apr 21, 2020Replying to @vgr and @nwilliams030Quote TweetZwickau@Zwickau8·Mar 31, 2020we're gonna have SO much fun
Adele Dewey-Lopez@AdeleDeweyLopez·Jul 8, 2020Replying to @vgr and @nwilliams030strong agree, i think it's one of the key things that leads to fascism (in the most literal and unironic sense possible)1