allow me to indulge in melancholia for a moment

the world made you forget soundcloud.com/luckynumber0...

ooh yay thunder

my sock has a freaking hole in it

oki gotta finish night tasks then i lay down and reply to women

wrapped up another meowd banger, she shrimply doesn't miss

just gonna watch everything she has honestly, thats the path to enlightenment

raz containment thread

fuuuuuck hes being so cool rn. "there is no value-neutral definition of liberty" "if there is one common thread to the argument of this book it is its critique of individualism and its endeavor to argue for a liberal morality on non-individualistic grounds"

"the argument of this book strives to rehabilitate the traditionalist affirmation of the value of freedom. but it accepts the revisionist arguments against both the presumption of liberty and the simple principle, as well as their critique of linguistic analysis.

in some ways my proposed defense of the traditional belief in the value of freedom is based on a radical departure from some historically central liberal doctrines."

i just have such a soft spot in my heart for people who throw away all of the intellectual scaffolding that would regularly arrive at their conclusions

good analysis that authority is not merely defacto authority, there is some normative justificatory core to the concept, whether or not that project succeeds is a separate question

this discussion of love is unexpected but not unwelcome, the connection to inspirational models of authority is clever

"the case for the validity of a claim to authority must include justificatory considerations sufficient to outweigh counter-reasons. that is one reason why the case is hard to make.

but if anarchists are right to think that it can never be made, this is for contingent reasons and not because of any inconsistency in the notion of a rational justification for authority, nor in the notion of authority over moral agents"

for my brand of anarchism this is no real objection at all because thats not the kind of claim against authority i make, but for philosophical anarchism (a la robert paul wolff) it is a more pressing issue. i think it probably doesn't take the deontic considerations clearly enough

on their own terms and would require more elaboration, but i'm not too bothered about it since its mostly in passing and furnishes his view nicely

"One also has to take notice of the disadvantages to one's life of too obsessive a preoccupation with questions of the precise limits of authority." WE LOVE A GRILL PILLED QUEEN

i think i might take break tonight heading into anti-perfectionism. i'm not at ease with the consent sections but i'm withholding judgement to see what he can do with his conception

random thing i wanna throw out there from reading raz, i think theres a ton of benefit from reading oppressively mid authors. if you only hit up "the greats" in standard curricula you lack the cultivation of a bullshit detector and miss out on the enjoyment of well-formed thoughts

unfortunately "the greats" are usually mid as hell so undergrads aren't completely deprived, however its a different kind of mid from a grad student phoning it in

clannad mid is different from seasonal isekai slop mid ya feel

i love love love love when the snare head is overtight and the beads are loose

keep it up white boy in the punk demos, youre killing it

lmao im peeping the toc rn and its just so opposite of my vibe. not sure why i'm doing this but i feel like i'll be the most sympathetic rn ill ever be

ok fine im big enough to admit i just wanna read raz, and i think itll be a nice mental exercise, i don't expect it to be theraputic hehe

i really gotta read more feminist shit again, tho they cant be libs or im gonna be misogynistic

maybe i just gotta revisit the cultural politics of emotion, ahmed would actually be therapeutic atm

istg im gonna lib out

can we stop doing retarded shit please

alright thats it im reading the morality of freedom

i love you and i’m gonna cry more

sometimes i just get overwhelmed

all my friends mean so much to me and it’s hard to disambiguate the feelings, there are these swirling waves and glimpses of experiences and associations that emerge and fall back into the swell again and again

it’s a very roundabout way to get there. the proximate thing is that i’m (for some inexplicable reason) exposing myself to more contemporary political content and its hopelessly dour and sad and hateful. the world is trying to make me a raz liberal, i just hate cruelty right now

and that painful energy gets weirdly funneled into the affection i feel for the ones i love

i’m so much more sensitive now, and my sphere of concern is so much tighter and more concrete. i don’t know if it’s a regression before or a progression beyond the enlightenment, probably a little of both

i've fallen behind on sleep

i'm gonna take a shower then finish this anime

tomorrow i’ll vacuum

i think avoiding media posts are important for my mental clarity

data weighs on my brain concomitant with its size i suppose

unemployed friend on a tuesday at 2pm: babe look i entered all of windows-1252 into a guarantor note in a follow-up billing activity

i lied i did work instead

i like that my pfps characteristically tend to have their eyes closed or hidden

use this to identify my shoes when i assassinate a prominent public figure