LMFAO WHAT "it's my opinion that all appeals to sexual psychology are vapid and without general insight" you weren't kidding when you bashed psychoanalysis earlier lmfao

we keep spitefully quoting adorno/horkheimer but not actually talking about them

i like the start of the "broader scientist moral narratives" section. the inversion is generative and cute, and that's all it's meant to be

i'm a little confused about his characterization of rorty "twisting around in awkward distress", when he's pretty up-front about the non-neutrality of basically everything, i don't really see how that fails to dovetail with his particularist pragmatism

if nothing else, this book has definitively convinced me to never produce anything like my old-style blog posts ever again. it's not essay-as-form beauty; it's intellectual laziness, deficient in discipline, and lacking in literary skill

i've already described and lived through my uncomfortability with voice recordings and it's the same vices on display. i think they're fine tools in circumscribed domains for initial organization, and if that's all you're ever really interested in, that's fine enough, but the meaning changes a lot