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look i kinda get it, pomos are marx-influenced and the kind in the air, especially at the time, was something more akin to that silly orthodox. like i can trace back what he's getting at, but there are so few people nowadays that like that and he's acting like its the most widespread contemporary
thing. idk we're hopping in relevance a lot by saying things like "younger generations of academics" which imply a group but is vague enough to retreat to.
maybe i'd stop getting one-guy'd if i just gave up a little more and accepted it as this very nebulous ideal-typic construction but he doesn't speak that way and is very smug about the whole thing
maybe this is the reaction some people have to nietzsche, like am i being PhilosophyTube rn? the curse of abigail thorn
bro im gonna cry, i can't even make it one sentence without triggering myself. the pro-moralist anarchists are so fucking annoying man 😭
waow dude tell me more how everyone evaluates things no thats super interesting
yea "totalitarianism" sucks, good discussion
i say, holding my breath for the inevitable usage of this point into a complete non sequitur
and of course i am rewarded for my patience. now we're arguing against "left unity" types
like maybe im just being incredulous or simply wasn't there for the undocumented history of this sub-culture. but this reads less like a coherent position or group of people and just disagreement with a grab-bag of tendencies on the left that don't form any coherent group at all
lol this is just the laziest, ugliest genealogical strand of ideological critique. people that don't like universalism are privileged, boom mic drop
gonna cry dude like even when we're stating a fine position (anti-anti-legibility) we're all awkward and stilted with it. like what are these random quotes. it's just so weird to see an eagleton sentence where democracy is taken for granted as good
we're so messy and all over the place, a hodge-podge of concepts and they don't paint a very pretty picture
"the nouveau riche might be crass and arrogant, and the poor - usually more tightly tied to objective materiality - might be obliged to speak plainly and directly of practical factuality, but today’s ossified and comfortable middle classes prefer indirectness."
i don't even have to say anything right
OKAY STOP NO THERES NO WAY
literally i will not allow you to loop in an anti-berlinian critique of negative freedom into the same crowd
okay okay from this point on i am making a vow to interpret this as a free association session where he lists out everything he doesn't like