don’t wanna waste our time being the only thing on each others minds

i’m thinking about this terms of an excess (surfeit?) of instrumentality, and pairing this with “pragmatism is true but it doesn’t work”. like let’s play along for a moment and say that the future presents itself as a telos and we’re acting with nested activities towards that.

sometimes surely that means that acknowledging your telos (in a particular domain?) can be counterproductive. which there isnt really anything mysterious about, it just runs against the grain of most knowledge fetishized approaches.

also i think virtue ethics can avoid the charge of instrumentality (as implied by my use of excess), although i do think we’re somewhat treading into verbal immunization strategies, although not nearly as egregious as the attempt to compatibalize it with consequentialism

it’s just a problem that doesn’t really arise in other worldviews (which counts in favor of VE fwiw). you’re not gonna act immorally by respecting the categorical imperative or maximizing utility too much. like you can spin it but they’re relatively marginal concerns

whereas here i think in maybe even most instances verbalizing an account of what you’re doing and why would be destructive to the practice itself

and weirdly also has a distorting effect, by focusing too much on the nested nature of one’s projects you’re missing out on the other side of virtue ethics that places specific emphasis on practices being goods in themselves

the dangerous habit for me is/was to abstract just a little bit more from the direct experience i had in mind. i over-indulged and frequently made things so vague and indeterminate as to have no useful content whatsoever.

it was useful for making my experience more general and more palatable to an audience while getting the psychological satisfaction of supposedly achieving some higher truth than the menial and boorish truths of the everyday. it was also self-protective by means of obscurity.

your posts were inspirational because they were particular (as opposed to “universal”). they were focused on the mundane everyday (hence nichijou-kei [the specific invocation of which is a reference to my first post]).

"i have always thought that showing that «it is possible (realistically) to think this way» is a better way of describing the goal of philosophy than the usual - and usually also misguided - attempt to show that «it is necessary to think that way»." your posting said “try thinking/doing it this way”

i’m the trans woman equivalent of non-binary lemonade lover

idk how exactly to put this but with a lot of things there simply aren’t second chances, and this applies more as the scale increases

interpersonally things are pretty flexible but when it comes to matters of cultural significance, taking advantage of (or failing to take advantage of) propitious conditions is 1) really hard and fragile 2) really important

i’m kinda thinking atproto

those are two very different types of highlight but i’m in phone and lazy

this is a bad post because it’s socially mindful boooo

jaz watching wan show is cute comfortslopcore

dangerous habit

(for me). btw thanks for existing on this account, nichijou-kei particularity-posting inspo

it’s a metaphor with worn embossing but the previous 9 months at least have felt like shallow, tense, constrained breathing to some extent

it had been building for some time for sure, but it certainly accelerated. the anxious kind of breaths one takes when trying to shy away from notice, or maybe more accurately between phrases while singing on stage

similar to those kind of performances, some minimal self-consciousness is required for immediate corrective measures (remaining in-tune, on-beat, etc), but meaningful evaluation can only take place retrospectively, with distance, when one’s lungs are full again.

only then can one examine the performance with clarity, and those evaluations might be beyond technical details and extend into choice of song, venue, instrument. perhaps one would prefer to be an audience member or a rugby player. maybe they love music but just need a break.

also to be clear i put myself on stage im not like victim lol. and to drop the metaphor i have behaved pretty shitty to some people while i learned a lot of painful lessons. not trying to flatten things, just noting the relief. not necessarily to affirm the present even, also to draw attention to

the ways in which i was withholding things and being less than forthright, even in the privacy of my own judgement, for quite some time

it was cool tho, fun times

kademlia profile hella cute

that was intense man, i kinda got my shit rocked 😭

my head is sooo full dude, i almost wish i could put off finishing until tmrw, macintyre is dense and doing a lot, but i kinda can't wait for monday so i'll power through

he's like, deceptively dense. each statement is very legible but he's covering a LOT of ground in the work and its just a very ambitious project

whew all done, im gonna lay down now

"marxist socialism is at its core deeply optimistic. for however thorough-going its criticism of capitalist and bourgeois institutions may be, it is committed to asserting that within the society constituted by those institutions,

all the human and material preconditions of a better future are being accumulated. yet if the moral impoverishment of advanced capitalism is what so many marxists agree that it is, whence are these resources for the future to be derived?

it is not surprising that at this point marxism tends to produce its own versions of the ubermensch: lukac's ideal proletarian, leninism's ideal revolutionary. when marxism does not become weberian social democracy or crude tyranny, it tends to become nietzschean fantasy."

"we cannot characterize behavior independent of intentions, and we cannot characterize intentions independently of the settings which make those intentions intelligible both to agents themselves and to others"

"there is no present which is not informed by some image of some future and an image of the future which always presents itself in the form of a telos - or a variety of ends or goals - towards which we are either moving or failing to move in the present"

something about this presentation really struck me, in a way that teleology usually does not

like it had more gripping force, i feel inspired and off-put at the same time. it's too narrow, but powerfully so. the application of a narrative mode is relevant too and im of course thinking of the guess passage

my life is one giant treadmill

i was gonna post something laudatory of geuss like "can he just miss once" but cmon we all know he's missed lots of times

we wanna talk about russell brand? didn't think so

neither rawls nor adorno

christoph menke really popped off with that title

i let my mind wander because it was very busy with macintyre thoughts. i listened to music for a bit and eventually found my way to geuss' "virtue and the good life" in outside ethics. fuck he's good.

i don't mind the resurgence of virtue ethics since i think it has far more contextualist potential than its peers and has been somewhat underexplored approach in relatively recent anglophone philosophy, but yea i don't think its gonna cut it as exclusive worldview

it just opens up a lot of fun patterns for thinking about things and i'm able to entertain it a lot more than the alternatives

hm hes talking about practices as potentially evil, so we're getting there but those are certainly not the terms in which i would externally criticize a practice