“so that’s an image of my childhood: the workers hunched over in the middle, a line of policemen with their billy clubs and pistols in the back, and the priests in the front pontificating”
ah yea this is the interview where he says it (01:26:00): “i rewrote [the book] every year [for five years]. it went from 600 pages to 98 pages in the last two rounds of revision, and i decided i had to publish it or else it might stop existing”
yeah lol the first vid i watched was him reading his lain dissertation a few days after it came out when i was scouring the internet for all lain content
super fair, i was and still am perma lurker on all platforms, but the last year or so i’ve experimented with commenting more on smaller youtube channels
bsky is like insane exception that came out of nowhere (kaseys fault)
okay REAL lol i feel that so hard, it’s so weird watching as a wagie, like i don’t belong here
would i recognize you in the comments or in discord at all? ur a real og damn
which is fine ofc, if i really care so much there’s an obvious solution. no complaining allowed until spiro prescription and 6 months of voice training uwu
you’re just tired
i need to lock in
you’re just tired
i need to lock in
you’re just tired
i need to lock in
you’re just tired
i need to lock in
you’re just tired
i need to lock in
“I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise, [light exposure, and social interaction] that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.”
Schopenhauer
meh its nbd i just don’t know how to speak or move my body or interact with coworkers and i don’t know how to do basic responsibilities
the way im talking sounds self deprecate-y but im actually okay with those things, its just rather humiliating
i muster the courage to ask for help for a simple issue that i know is simple, i don’t understand the explanation, im too cowardly and embarrassed to ask for more help
🙃
the social ineptitude is anscillary but ever-present
@ 2:12:00 for the record
this is really great seminar to come back to every so often. i wish i was exposed to more discussion around realism/utopianism and their relation. it’s shocking how stuck in the dark ages anglophone political theory is relative to this
northernlion is so funny man
“i don’t think it’s horrible i just think it’s needlessly vindictive. but then there are people on reddit like ‘actually you didn’t go far enough, you should have tied his shoes together when he wasn’t looking and taken him to the longest staircase in the city’”
ah i see thanks, hard to know if i’m being exposed to a new form of american fascism i’m unfamiliar with or if it’s europeans having funny words for things
another tally for the former