holy fuck this guy is absolutely bonkers i love him

i don't know how to communicate how big of a move that is, imagine writing a book on morality in political context and then casually 150 pages in be like "actually the scope of what i mean by the core concept under discussion is as broad as a general theory of evaluation"

its the exact reverse move from one i typically like to make, but for that reason it's merely a nominal distinction. interestingly he threw around "moralists" earlier which had a different timbre. fascinating

this was such a good call

alright, enough of that

the dead have their tasks, and i am not one of them yet

kind

we pack up our gear and we're gone again driven by passion, outward away from family and friends but what they can't see is that every day i'm drowning in a sea of faces that i miss so desperately with each flashing countenance a torrent of emotion, joy, and memories

the people i've grown to love so deeply throughout the years i've chosen a big family and the weight of their absence has brought me more than once to tears

i wake from sleep violently only to witness those lives and faces disappear slowly behind me again i'm pulled back into deep waters washed further away from my sisters and brothers am i truly living a dream when the only time i spend with you is in my sleep?

how am i to stay the course, to remain bold when all those my heart longs for remain firmly anchored at home am i truly living a dream when the only time i spend with you is in my sleep?

with every it's-been-a-while embrace i wish it could last an eternity silently praying for the courage to say "oh god, how i've missed you

i've seen you in my sleep we were laughing, crying, joking you know, the way it used to be back when we were younger and all that much more free i just hope you see that nothing's changed between you and me

no matter the time we've spent apart i know it's not always easy to show it but please believe that i carried you in my heart that you were with me through every mile i could have sworn i saw your phantom standing in the aisle!"

it seems you already know what i'm thinking and that, even after all this time some things still do go without saying

we savored the taste of our sweet youth and now, with calloused hands, gather the remaining fruit to go any farther, we must endure further pains skinned, mashed, and finally strained fermenting in the time spent away only to return with a fine vintage two cheers to the health of those who stayed

allow me to indulge in melancholia for a moment

the world made you forget soundcloud.com/luckynumber0...

ooh yay thunder

my sock has a freaking hole in it

oki gotta finish night tasks then i lay down and reply to women

wrapped up another meowd banger, she shrimply doesn't miss

just gonna watch everything she has honestly, thats the path to enlightenment

raz containment thread

fuuuuuck hes being so cool rn. "there is no value-neutral definition of liberty" "if there is one common thread to the argument of this book it is its critique of individualism and its endeavor to argue for a liberal morality on non-individualistic grounds"

"the argument of this book strives to rehabilitate the traditionalist affirmation of the value of freedom. but it accepts the revisionist arguments against both the presumption of liberty and the simple principle, as well as their critique of linguistic analysis.

in some ways my proposed defense of the traditional belief in the value of freedom is based on a radical departure from some historically central liberal doctrines."

i just have such a soft spot in my heart for people who throw away all of the intellectual scaffolding that would regularly arrive at their conclusions

good analysis that authority is not merely defacto authority, there is some normative justificatory core to the concept, whether or not that project succeeds is a separate question

this discussion of love is unexpected but not unwelcome, the connection to inspirational models of authority is clever

"the case for the validity of a claim to authority must include justificatory considerations sufficient to outweigh counter-reasons. that is one reason why the case is hard to make.

but if anarchists are right to think that it can never be made, this is for contingent reasons and not because of any inconsistency in the notion of a rational justification for authority, nor in the notion of authority over moral agents"

for my brand of anarchism this is no real objection at all because thats not the kind of claim against authority i make, but for philosophical anarchism (a la robert paul wolff) it is a more pressing issue. i think it probably doesn't take the deontic considerations clearly enough

on their own terms and would require more elaboration, but i'm not too bothered about it since its mostly in passing and furnishes his view nicely

"One also has to take notice of the disadvantages to one's life of too obsessive a preoccupation with questions of the precise limits of authority." WE LOVE A GRILL PILLED QUEEN

i think i might take break tonight heading into anti-perfectionism. i'm not at ease with the consent sections but i'm withholding judgement to see what he can do with his conception

random thing i wanna throw out there from reading raz, i think theres a ton of benefit from reading oppressively mid authors. if you only hit up "the greats" in standard curricula you lack the cultivation of a bullshit detector and miss out on the enjoyment of well-formed thoughts

unfortunately "the greats" are usually mid as hell so undergrads aren't completely deprived, however its a different kind of mid from a grad student phoning it in

clannad mid is different from seasonal isekai slop mid ya feel

i love love love love when the snare head is overtight and the beads are loose

keep it up white boy in the punk demos, youre killing it

lmao im peeping the toc rn and its just so opposite of my vibe. not sure why i'm doing this but i feel like i'll be the most sympathetic rn ill ever be

ok fine im big enough to admit i just wanna read raz, and i think itll be a nice mental exercise, i don't expect it to be theraputic hehe

i really gotta read more feminist shit again, tho they cant be libs or im gonna be misogynistic

maybe i just gotta revisit the cultural politics of emotion, ahmed would actually be therapeutic atm

istg im gonna lib out

can we stop doing retarded shit please

alright thats it im reading the morality of freedom