i am pretty fond of "the conservatism of universal disgust" as a phrase, but politically it's disastrous and the perfection one achieves is the pathetic purity of ideological complacency.

the anti-anti-hypocrite stance is well-taken but is dragging

oh my god this whole book is dragging im so bored

in fairness the rest of the chapters after snobbery do seem more interesting

rorty did more to make me sympathetic to anti-cruelty, shklar is so uninspiring

lol i have no patience for moralists like this blegh