stemlords in my replies smh, you should know better

might be a solution but it isn’t an answer :)

(also, it may not be a solution at all. i could simply say “that’s the wrong question, but i don’t have a right one for you”)

questions better left dissolved

i agree that they’re tepid and mundane conclusions, but the way people think about their identities are not tepid!

tbh i don’t have a great brief-article length piece that summarizes my views on the topic. tl;dr i don’t think the common notion of identity is defensible, there is no authentic self to unearth, and i have no interest in constructing one myself. the subject that is me is constituted by the

identities i do have, and it’s not as simple as naively “opting out”. resist as far as contextually practicable against something entirely contrary to my interests

oh yes i was actually just about to mention that i think this whole genre on anarchist library stuff is like extremely terribly written and fails to articulate anything convincing, and yet i think it meditates on a significant topic

idk how to describe it but in some contexts political philosophy that’s shitty poetry leaps over itself into accidentally becoming profound for me

i think it might be the kernel of utopianism i find compelling, and it falls into the same vices and virtues there as well. but yeah in terms of quality, this is literally just a few paragraphs of inside references to books the person has read lol

nuh uh i’m gonna go advise some of the worlds largest healthcare organizations instead ^_^

at one point refusal felt possible but no longer

and in case i didn’t cite geuss enough dreary.dev/pdfs/geuss/d...

it’s the in-between bit im annoyed by

ideally destruction

somehow i saw your pfp and thought it was david omfg

unfortunately yes

if you know a workaround lmk

me on not enough hours of sleep 🫠

minimum viable willow

ohhh i see gotcha

(sorry yea im pretty heavy in meme-mode) but you *do* have control? that’s interesting, how!

what the hell

sounds like puppy needs to stage a revolutionary war :3c i’m glad i live in a country that values 🇺🇸FREEDOM🦅 and has a perfect track record on disenfranchisement

also erm,, taps the sign

well i would hope not! who’s a good puppy? :3

i need a name for to refer to you as a dog can get start working on a fursona

yes we love u bug

well there’s a few different ways to approach this but essentially authenticity is a technology of identity creation, usually predicated upon some notion of a ‘true self’, which i think is incredibly naive, conceited, lazy, flimsy, both historically and philosophically

recs include freud, nietzsche, adorno’s ’jargon of authenticity’ (for the specific existentialism takedown)

that ‘carefree wandering’ youtube guy has some more accessible vids on a different angle, while talking about profilicity thing, which is like fine enough too ig but kinda its own meaning

it’s been a while but iirc his stuff seemed almost in the vein of durkheim

preach sister!!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️

my bad

shaking my head while i game so people know i don’t agree with steve

LOL i saw you delete for a sec and i was like nooo come back banger post i suppose you could start there too… 🤔

oh yeah and lizzy is right here abt political philos. contemporary companions/lectures help here too. you’re still likely gonna have a better time if you eventually get around to the heavy hitters (ex. marx), but that could also look like adam smith depending where your interests are

yea there’s a lotta good stuff in books you can’t quite get anywhere else (tho fwiw many of geuss’ books are actually just collections of essays!). there’s a ton of different directions you can go, if i had to give a suggestion i’d say start by reading something contemporary / watching a lecture

and making note of names that sound interesting, and following that thread. i’m biased but i think geuss is a relatively approachable read and namedrops a bunch of cool folks, but definitely a pretty opinionated pov.

yea at least i can like smile and nod and put on my liberal policy wonk hat for a few mins, while with the other crowd im bored out of my mind and they’ll get confused if i mention marx

faux socialists prolly because it’s more disingenuous and has this weird effect of neutralizing real radical politics. they’ll just huff and puff but functionally say the same slop the progressives, who at least at best know some policy

it’s like the worst of both worlds where they don’t know theory and they don’t understand contemporary institutions so they just spew moralism

lol this is true, but in terms of people i’m likely to come in contact with.. it’s almost more irksome that they’re npc “socialists” instead of just normie progressives

i am so fucking over video essay “anti-capitalism”

why is this my entire generation’s politics

im super meh on that quote it's pretty reddit but yea they're definitely easy to get confused by, and trap yourself with being unfamiliar with language/historical context. also tho interestingly, often it doesn't matter what they actually said/believed vs what the common historical interpretation

was, because that's what other philosophers were responding to