preach sister!!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️

my bad

shaking my head while i game so people know i don’t agree with steve

LOL i saw you delete for a sec and i was like nooo come back banger post i suppose you could start there too… 🤔

oh yeah and lizzy is right here abt political philos. contemporary companions/lectures help here too. you’re still likely gonna have a better time if you eventually get around to the heavy hitters (ex. marx), but that could also look like adam smith depending where your interests are

yea there’s a lotta good stuff in books you can’t quite get anywhere else (tho fwiw many of geuss’ books are actually just collections of essays!). there’s a ton of different directions you can go, if i had to give a suggestion i’d say start by reading something contemporary / watching a lecture

and making note of names that sound interesting, and following that thread. i’m biased but i think geuss is a relatively approachable read and namedrops a bunch of cool folks, but definitely a pretty opinionated pov.

yea at least i can like smile and nod and put on my liberal policy wonk hat for a few mins, while with the other crowd im bored out of my mind and they’ll get confused if i mention marx

faux socialists prolly because it’s more disingenuous and has this weird effect of neutralizing real radical politics. they’ll just huff and puff but functionally say the same slop the progressives, who at least at best know some policy

it’s like the worst of both worlds where they don’t know theory and they don’t understand contemporary institutions so they just spew moralism

lol this is true, but in terms of people i’m likely to come in contact with.. it’s almost more irksome that they’re npc “socialists” instead of just normie progressives

i am so fucking over video essay “anti-capitalism”

why is this my entire generation’s politics

im super meh on that quote it's pretty reddit but yea they're definitely easy to get confused by, and trap yourself with being unfamiliar with language/historical context. also tho interestingly, often it doesn't matter what they actually said/believed vs what the common historical interpretation

was, because that's what other philosophers were responding to

it's also hard because contemporary '<philosopher> companion' books wildly vary in quality and veracity of interpretation, and are usually deceptively partisan. which again is like *fine*, but it's also a bit rough when you're trying to get started. sometimes they're super great tho

i feel ya - there's a lot to catch up on! i think it super depends on what you're going for, and also on how much general philosophy background you have. i might not be the best to ask since i'm a lil autodidact without a ton of breadth, if you have a guy you wanna read,

i think it's totally find to just google like "per-requisites for deleuze site:reddit.com" (or check out the SEP page for influences) and go from there lol. ex. read a few things from spinoza, read some nietzsche, then dive right in!

i'm kinda very much of the opinion that motivation matters a lot, so that's why i'm sympathetic to that approach. you might be missing a little in terms of comprehensiveness, but i don't think it's bad to get a first pass to spark interest, as long as you're not completely lost

because people can very easily spend their whole lives with the greeks, and that's cool and all, but if you're hype about a guy then fuck it. like in the above example, you'll likely need some pre-reqs for spinoza/nietzsche too, but if you let yourself get too carried away its easy to lose the spark

i was looking at someones project today to try and contribute and i was so scared jules, there wasn't an html file in sight *donald trump please save me guy, but for dan abramov*

only gonna include the interesting ones ▸ given ▸ angel sanctuary (goat) ▸ devilman crybaby ▸ key the metal idol ▸ monster ▸ blood+ ▸ lucky star ▸ love me, love me not ▸ bunnygirl senpai ▸ harmony (based) ▸ bloom into you ▸ supernatural becomes commonplace

noticed this when kasey and i talked about it recently, but my anime list is kinda really wack rn so idek if i trust this

lolwut

yea! i'm a huge raymond geuss shill and i think 'who needs a world view' is a great place to start! (either that or 'philosophy and real politics') goodreads: goodreads.com/drearywillow website w/ recs: dreary.dev/politics skylights (very early atproto goodreads): skylights.my/profile/drea...

you can also do "from:me" thanks to mary :> more here bsky.social/about/blog/0...

i keep track of my bloomfies important political contributions

(i searched "from:cyberpuritan.kawaii.social hot take" and i got results because of *hot* dog 😭😭😭)

good take 🫡

values and worldviews are the enemy 🫡

this you?

lol it wasn't just shreyan, my feed was busy tonight with unsavory takes

yes always my sweet ugly fat online bug 🥺

i know sweetie patpat

bald man good

(oh yea and i wasn’t implying you didn’t, was just tryna give a broad vibe of their interests)

@dbw.kawaii.social and i’m not aware of any disagreements, they’re just also cool and have good takes. at most maybe a difference in attention, which ofc is also politically salient. they’re a big foucaulthead i think

i wish you people had better politics

i just want every person globally to be somewhere between a diza and an aly, is that too much to ask?

._.

things would be so much easier if i believed in authenticity

how lovely life could be if i thought there were a salvageable crevice

emotionally damage my friends

i have a banned meme but just know that it'd be theoretically funny

i love you!!! stupid stupid stupid

idk i'm really not bringing the thunder today srry im kinda out of it