this is petty but i just am extremely unimpressed by gillis' writing style

there's already plenty of substance i disagree on but that alone makes this unappealing to slog through

honestly also the stakes and terms of concern feel like gossip and chatter that we're trying to elevate to significance. maybe its just me being biased against contemporary events as potentially significant in the same way, but i can't help but feel that none of this will matter in a few years

just another one of those works that feels like it arrived stillborn from the press

"as an anarchist who came up in the radical left in the '90s and '00s" is like half of gilly's shtick lol

we haven't begun yet but one think i want to note at the outset is that he keeps attributing "liberation" as a common goal and is speaking about how he's going to demonstrate that the true hearty socialists and anarchists realize it better than postmodernists but like

the critique of holism is good and fair

i think the fact that the question of scientific realism vs antirealism not being a conscious or central issue should tip you off to something, and you'll need a great deal of caution attributing and constructing that position to knock down

i imagine it'll be treated as lack of rigor or as cowardice or some other similar deficient trait but i think theres benefit to ignoring something and seeing what comes of it

when i first heard the news on patreon, i was rather disquieted. but after the last couple months of my own development, i really get it

if nothing else, i can only appreciate the cautiousness and consideration of display, in contrast to my brash and haphazard experience

i sat my white ass down and listened

wes cecil is really an odd figure, i don’t think he ever really has very profound insights lol. observational comedy as philosophy/sociology

i like basically every post yasa makes, no one is doing it like them

the choice of chop suey was intentional because i had this segment in mind, i was being a little hyperbolic below

i was too lazy to find a segment that didn’t have a repeat sign that undercut my point like op lol but shhh nobody noticed

the flow of my speech is so uneven lol

it’s as if i have to strenuously extract the thoughts from my brain, then in a separate step i rush to spit them out all at once, in this staggered repetition

ooh i should add machiavelli to this list, i took an entire course dedicated exclusively him and it was probably one of the only courses that i think actually attempted a more serious reading. even if you approached tepidly, spending so much time familiarizing yourself with one work of one

individual (crucially it was fairly meticulously contextualized before and during!), you sort of can't refrain from enaging

oh shit and lenin too

okay look i’ve done a fair amount of charitable reading but still, i feel like there’s some difference between a self-acknowledged attempt at charitable reading and just reading to see where it takes you, and daring to be inspired without hesitancy

i find the obsession with epistemology in certain circles to be fascinating

philosophical traditionalists at heart, you have to respect the hustle

i’m pretty tired

i just want a reason to talk to you

still great btw

hm i wanna go up but i dont wanna be covered in cat hair

guess i’ll change

that oughta do it

okay i only made it through book 1 tonight but thats alright, it was just enough

more later :)

i prefer "you're stabbing me while i sing this" over "i'm stabbing you while i sing this"

if nietzsche accuses me of decadence, so be it

come on, come on, there has to be a better way get up, get up, let's leave this mess i know a place that we can get away from all of this come on, come on, get up, get up

i've been dreaming of us leaving everything and everyone we've ever known i've been thinking all these visions must be a sign, so hold on and don′t let go

who wants flowers when you're dead? nobody

i hope this account (and arf) have made it clear how much my thoughts bounce around

nothing if not inconsistent

prevent completes are one of the oddest features in follow-up workqueues tbh

they have to be one of the most widely misused for sure right

"here's our variance workqueue, where everything Accumulates"

i'm kind of like a marble statue in the way that i'm more pudgy than you expect and my dick is smaller than you expect

eat your heart out david <3

drawing specific attention to "my own terms"

not an inversion nor a reversion, but an augmentation on a motif