i'm not so unique and i don't have to try so hard to be

this is where negative dialectics can begin its work; the actual is rational, and all that exists deserves to perish

honestly the tone of these is too harsh, nowadays we exist within a culture where cynicism abounds but it is entirely misplaced, so the affirmative countermeasure has some bite to it, some real and necessary purchase as a twinkle of motivation to propel the dialectic forward

i have complicated feelings about annie-style (the other one) micrological joys and i’d like to flesh them out when i’m in a better headspace

after listening to Our First Taste of Escape, i'm becoming more sympathetic to the criticism that brian's vocals are the weak link

the first year of the rest of my life, several fresh starts

a rhetorical move i dislike is one that essentially says anarchism implies lack of evaluation, that it’s authoritarian to not tolerate differences of opinion. when ig they really mean to say that the evaluation in question is not all that significant, because obviously they have their own limits