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

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