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

the taken-for-granted patriarchy really gives the game away

enzo was right that legal scholars are putting up way more numbers than philosophers

boooo fuck you drm guy

i like geuss so much because he's a poor scholar

never cites hit sources, views of his own meld with things he's virtuously stolen from others

of course this is occasionally frustrating but i'm choosing the affirmative side of it right now

i appreciate this more as i read his influences and i'm more in the know, and it fills me with wonder about how much more there is to unearth and discover

i realize it was actually peiwen first

good for her policing her boundaries, i recognize now that they are sacred

fuuuck that hits the spot

that's why i have to be sensitive to this constraint, cache is only so big

i realize these are actually kinda contradictory but that almost makes it cuter

the real take is of course nietzsche, the pointers exist as far as you wish to pursue them, although at a certain point you'll probably just give up and the influence will be so indeterminate as to not be worth following

its just the boundary between my own pointers and others that gets fuzzy, but thats an issue with the imposition i'm bringing to the material, not the material itself

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

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