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it's also hard because contemporary '<philosopher> companion' books wildly vary in quality and veracity of interpretation, and are usually deceptively partisan. which again is like *fine*, but it's also a bit rough when you're trying to get started. sometimes they're super great tho

i feel ya - there's a lot to catch up on! i think it super depends on what you're going for, and also on how much general philosophy background you have. i might not be the best to ask since i'm a lil autodidact without a ton of breadth, if you have a guy you wanna read,
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i think it's totally find to just google like "per-requisites for deleuze site:reddit.com" (or check out the SEP page for influences) and go from there lol. ex. read a few things from spinoza, read some nietzsche, then dive right in!
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i'm kinda very much of the opinion that motivation matters a lot, so that's why i'm sympathetic to that approach. you might be missing a little in terms of comprehensiveness, but i don't think it's bad to get a first pass to spark interest, as long as you're not completely lost
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because people can very easily spend their whole lives with the greeks, and that's cool and all, but if you're hype about a guy then fuck it. like in the above example, you'll likely need some pre-reqs for spinoza/nietzsche too, but if you let yourself get too carried away its easy to lose the spark

i was looking at someones project today to try and contribute and i was so scared jules, there wasn't an html file in sight *donald trump please save me guy, but for dan abramov*

only gonna include the interesting ones ▸ given ▸ angel sanctuary (goat) ▸ devilman crybaby ▸ key the metal idol ▸ monster ▸ blood+ ▸ lucky star ▸ love me, love me not ▸ bunnygirl senpai ▸ harmony (based) ▸ bloom into you ▸ supernatural becomes commonplace

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noticed this when kasey and i talked about it recently, but my anime list is kinda really wack rn so idek if i trust this



yea! i'm a huge raymond geuss shill and i think 'who needs a world view' is a great place to start! (either that or 'philosophy and real politics') goodreads: goodreads.com/drearywillow website w/ recs: dreary.dev/politics skylights (very early atproto goodreads): skylights.my/profile/drea...

you can also do "from:me" thanks to mary :> more here bsky.social/about/blog/0...

i keep track of my bloomfies important political contributions
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(i searched "from:cyberpuritan.kawaii.social hot take" and i got results because of *hot* dog 😭😭😭)


values and worldviews are the enemy 🫡


lol it wasn't just shreyan, my feed was busy tonight with unsavory takes


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yes always my sweet ugly fat online bug 🥺

i know sweetie patpat

(oh yea and i wasn’t implying you didn’t, was just tryna give a broad vibe of their interests)

@dbw.kawaii.social and i’m not aware of any disagreements, they’re just also cool and have good takes. at most maybe a difference in attention, which ofc is also politically salient. they’re a big foucaulthead i think

i wish you people had better politics
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i just want every person globally to be somewhere between a diza and an aly, is that too much to ask?



things would be so much easier if i believed in authenticity
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how lovely life could be if i thought there were a salvageable crevice
minima moralia, adorno, 5

How nice of you, Doctor. 1 - There is nothing innocuous left. The little pleasures, expressions of life that seemed exempt from the responsibility of thought, not only have an element of defiant silliness, of callous refusal to see, but directly serve their diametrical opposite. Even the blossoming tree lies the moment its bloom is seen without the shadow of terror; even the innocent 'How lovely!' becomes an excuse for an existence outrageously unlovely, and there is no longer beauty or consolation except in the gaze falling on horror, withstanding it, and in unalleviated consciousness of negativity holding fast to the possibility of what is better. Mistrust is called for in face of all spontaneity, impetuosity, all letting oneself go, for it implies pliancy towards the superior might of the existent. The malignant deeper meaning of ease, once confined to the toasts of conviviality, has long since spread to more appealing impulses. The chance conversation in the train, when, to avoid dispute, one consents to a few statements that one knows ultimately to implicate murder, is already a betrayal; no thought is immune against communication, and to utter it in the wrong place and in wrong agreement is enough to undermine its truth. Every visit to the cinema leaves me, against all my vigilance, stupider and worse. Sociability itself connives at injustice by pretending that in this chill world we can still talk to each other, and the casual, amiable remark contributes to perpetuating silence, in that the concessions made to the interlocutor debase him once more in the person of speaker. The evil principle that was always latent in affability unfurls its full bestiality in the egalitarian spirit. Condescension, and thinking oneself no better, are the same. To adapt to the weakness of the oppressed is to affirm in it the pre-condition of power, and to develop in oneself the coarseness, insensibility and violence needed to exert domination. If, in t…


i have a banned meme but just know that it'd be theoretically funny

idk i'm really not bringing the thunder today srry im kinda out of it


*deletes 3kvvcyysnjp26 from ur repo*
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lol wait your did is veryepic, cute

alright we had our fun but y’all can stop following me now
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don’t make me take matters into my own hands by writing another wittgenstein thread or whining incessantly about the intractable problems of my life
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i WILL post screenshots of contrived melancholy lyrics!! do as i say or else!!

sucks when emotionally apt music is just incommunicably sonically uninspiring

the fantasy of age regression has basically nothing to do with an accurate representation of youth

it doesn’t work anymore i’ve got the hating part down, overwatch just sucks now
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also now i’m just tired and depressed and don’t wanna be annoyed, which isn’t nearly as fun as testosterone-fueled bitter anger and resentment



nope ur not my mommy