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willow
one of the primary functions my quote posting serves is author-affirmation through pedigree
Raymond Geuss, “Nietzsche and Genealogy”, Morality, Culture, and History, pg 2-3. This kind of pedigree, then, has five main characteristics: 1. In the interests of a positive valorization of some item 2. the pedigree, starting from a singular origin 3. which is an actual source of that value 4. traces an unbroken line of succession from the origin to that item 5. by a series of steps that preserve whatever value is in question. previously referenced: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hx53snho72xoj7zqt5uice4u/post/3ldbhkaqeic23
willowApr 8, 2025
quote posts are like footnotes, and i like writing footnotes more than writing the text itself