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i find the phrase “vertiginous kaleidoscope” to be aspirational in some of my moods

raymond geuss, not thinking like a liberal, 136-137, robert denoon cumming

DESPITE MY GREAT admiration for Sidney Morgenbesser, he was clearly a man of the living and spoken word, not of the written word. He was too intellectually impatient to work over a written text again and again to get the structure and form of expression exactly right. A doctoral dissertation, however, had to be a longish completed, and preferably polished, text, and I worried about my own strength of character and ability to settle on, stay with, and complete an appropriate piece of writing under Sidney's consistently acute, but also constantly wandering dialectic. The vertiginous kaleidoscope that was Sidney's mind and discourse was in a way a model of intellectual activity, as a kind of permanent theoretical motion, but I thought it was probably also important to be able to take a snapshot of the provisional results of that activity at some given time and fix it in writing, even if one's thoughts in some sense really had already moved on. I thought Sidney, as a doctoral supervisor, would be an active hindrance to that part of the process. In addition, I wanted

i think about this anecdote a lot from geuss, and recognize myself quite a bit. one of the reasons i appreciate kasey's familiarity with me is that she's grown accustomed to this and treats my statements with the appropriate amount of distance.

not the first time i’ve noted my affinity with sidney

willowMar 21, 2025

raymond geuss, who needs a world view, pg 34
As I said above, I lost contact with Krigler when he moved so far west as to be outside my ken. One might think that, in parallel to that, I lost touch with Sidney, because I moved so far east (to Cambridge) that our worlds could no longer intersect. That, however, would not be the whole truth. If one thinks that it is a central part of pragmatism to value actions, deeds, real changes, rather than mere words, Sidney had always been a rather odd kind of pragmatist, in that for him the spoken word was everything. He could (and did) talk about anything; argue one side of an issue, then change and argue the other, reversing positions immediately, elegantly, and at will; assimilate any new perspective; counter, deflect, or rebut any objection, or accept it and suggest revisions of the original position that had been criticised. He was an absolute master of all of this. It was his

raymond geuss, who needs a world view, pg 35
way of keeping the world at a safe distance. You could say anything to him and it was all grist for his mill. However, although spoken words were everything, also, in an odd way, they were nothing. They weren’t real, but part of an autonomous realm of discourse, and did not necessarily lead to deeds or consequences. One could also, when talking with him, sometimes get the sense of being caught in a web of words: one could say anything precisely because the words did not really count; they were mere speech. Sidney and I eventually had a terminal falling out, ostensibly about the appointment of a new member to the academic department of which we were both members. He supported the appointment and I opposed it. After a very long and very acrimonious series of debates, interviews, and discussions in the department and the university, the decision was taken to make the appointment. This was disappointing, but it was the sort of thing that happens in human life and which one must deal with as best one can. The fact that Sidney and I were on opposite sides of what I took to be an extremely serious matter also did not bother me terribly—we often disagreed; what could be more usual among philosophers? One might even say it was our natural state, as the joke had it: two philosophers, three opinions. However, the day after the final vote, he came up to me and tried to suggest that life would now simply go on as before; this infuriated me. In my view, this had not just been one further turn in the argument, that could be countered or reversed by another dialectical twist, but an actual decision had been made which had consequence that changed reality.

raymond geuss, who needs a world view, pg 36
I made the countersuggestion to him that if he wished things to remain as they had been, he should write to the provost immediately and say that we, the members of the department, had not really intended to make a decision and needed more time for further discussion; then life could continue as before. When he started explaining evasively and interminably why he was not willing to do this, I lost my temper and took the nuclear option, doing the one thing I knew he would find it difficult to construe as a mere move in a verbal game or which he could make disappear by verbal redescription: I told him I was not going to talk to him anymore. If I had been less angry, I might have responded more positively to his no doubt genuine desire that we stay on good terms. Since I am not, and have never been, a Kantian, I never attribute special value to the consistency of action per se; however, since I was able to arrange an almost immediate change in my affiliation to a different academic department, and soon after emigrated to Britain, we never in fact had another conversation. Thus, I don’t know, and never will know, whether he actually took the point I was trying to make to him: that speech sometimes has real consequences.

i’m totally here for it, that’s how i determine my identity too :) me bantering back is extending the play <3

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no no i’m kidding, i say it both ways bsky.app/profile/did:... bsky.app/profile/did:...

woah woah who said i was trans

willowApr 10, 2025

so sad….

i imagine recreating the record is what made kold’s take precedence over mine? how does it work if one is valid and one is invalid

he changed his display name since i created the record.. pdsls.dev/at://did:plc...

he changed his display name since i created the record.. pdsls.dev/at://did:plc...

annie just sleep talked “click the x on that one, yeah” can’t even escape tech support in her dreams

yess more alt text secret posters!!

yea ik (that’s the /j)

yoooo ur neocities would go so hard

i should update mine, i’ve only been pushing to dreary.dev and even that’s super unmaintained

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i feel so at peace here 🙂

didn’t know you supported transphobia /j

i wanna light fires, i wanna explode, i wanna be everything you want to know

at this point, i’d probably have to do the opposite. my old posts are crystal clear, my new posts are often unparsesble without context that i obscure

he’s okay!! and can be used in neat ways! i just think most of the time it’s like an odd noble savage type thing lol

and by “cutesy way to indicate”, i just mean i wanted to post this but i thought it’d be too raw for main

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willow 01:05
she nut in my mouth and 5 mins later im yapping about thomas kuhn geuss taboo sex

ngl me too, i think he’s weirdly overhyped and pretty boring (it was just a cutesy way to indicate i had sex)

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the book (really an extended essay) is an early one of geuss’ where he describes various senses in which the public/private divide have been used in different historical contexts for different purposes, with the intent to break the intuitive sway of a unitary distinction

so tempted to diogenes post

raymond geuss, public goods private goods, 15-16

The second reason why Diogenes' action is offensive is that many societies hold not just to the principle of disattendability in public places but also to a principle of avoiding near occasions of envy; that is, it is thought to be inappropriate to exhibit the satisfaction of certain basic, imperative human needs in the presence of others if that satisfaction is problematic, precarious, or otherwise not to be taken for granted. Thus in many preindustrial societies one never eats in the presence of someone else who is not also eating, and I suggest that the reason for this, at least in part, is because food is a relatively scarce and uncertain good in some societies. Diogenes is also reported
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to have been reproached for eating in the market-place. Historically as food becomes more plenti-ful, this taboo also often relaxes.® Sexual gratification can be seen to have a similar structure, given the way social and other factors restrict opportunities in many societies. Thus there is a taboo on showing that one is being or has recently been sexually satisfied in a public place where others are present who may not be, or may not have recently been, thus gratified? Diogenes violates this taboo, too.

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thank you for your support!!!

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mutual (we both follow each other)

we got a labeler now??

mom found the poop sock (annie called to scold me)

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i’m getting soooo good at buying gas

every time i stop in a small white trash town i feel like im connecting with my ancestors ☺️

i tried it for a while but it was annoying because it stopped me from passing people like i wanted

tell me about it (hand-me-down from my dad)

i’ve got places to be!

yeah all the time, usually i’m skeeting simultaneously

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willowApr 19, 2025

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ngl i was afraid of bites when you first mentioned but now getting weak just thinking about it

insane reply babe 😭

i was gonna be nice and ignore this but they blocked futur :(

saya i guess
there's not really a concept of a
"graphics chip" vs a GPU, you might be confusing it for integrated gpu vs discrete gpu
my draft reply in the composer:
not really the time but you're so hot anna

my real take is that it’s mostly boring standard radslop, the things that are good seem kinda incidental. they’re like things you should read to be properly contextualized, but not like “wow this is so inspiring”. and a lot of stuff i would just ignore entirely

a concerning amount of chomsky tells you all you need to know