i'll continue to defend their misshapen usage against detractors but i won't be so restrictive in my own uses

lenin has this dismissive line that goes "that's just an objection to life in the 20th century" and while most of the time i think that's actually a good refutation, sometimes i do actually have objections to life in the 21st century

i should record myself having conversations with people sometimes because its cute when i get expressive about text on the screen

empiricism is far more mystical than idealism

OMG slime girls going to the World Spirit summit

iirc the adornian academics that responded to F's work were frustrated by his disadherence to adorno's explicit statements about immanent critique but were way too formulaic about the whole thing. brings to mind geuss' interview take on genealogy as method

tbh tho george dubya wasn't giving much anyway, it's not like it required particularly astute analysis. back in the day we used to tout the concept of legitimacy, but in the 21st century there are no fun intellectual playthings to keep us occupied while we pretend like we're advancing anything

amateur poetry is endearing

im a little conflicted about debloating bc i feel like it'll be too easy to cut out the useful things i just don't understand yet or am not confident with yet, but on the other hand i feel vv comf with all the ugly distracting things gone