today was kind of a more gummy, weighed down day. less springy. that being said tho its cool i kinda now have to tools and ability to realize (i.e. produce) things on a whim, even things i've wanted for some time
a concept reveals to us its being, being is revealing itself through our engagement with the concept. the concept is not related to the being in an arbitrary way, but in a necessary way
69 basically summarizes what ive been talking about for a bit on ineffability. again just going to repeat that now feels like a better time for this once i have practically felt the painful limits of that. originally it was kinda just "ok ok yea sure you're giving the standard philosophy line"
not really applicable to the immediate example, although part of what i was getting at anyway was not placing specific emphasis on agency (hence lazy 'evil' [which i suppose is actually counterintuitive]). ig it's more like "pbc can do no wrong and if it can then its ok bc le decentralize (gesture)"
i didn't appreciate it very much at the time, but my course with emily fletcher was pretty great for exposing me to a lot of contemporary feminist philosophy that i regularly think about. it was far too analytical and anglophone-influenced but having the entry point was still really valuable
the syllabus doesn't speak my language by it engages my emotional faculties in the right way and is oriented around interesting concepts, even if it asks the wrong questions and gives worse answers
honestly, i'm fucking angry that my friends' anger is dismissed, and i'm disgusted that anger as such is deemed categorically inappropriate as a reaction
i think i have at some points been a despiser of scientific pomposity and scientific procedure of all kinds. safer heuristic when you've been burned but it's time to move past the trauma
Instead of entering into the immanent content of the thing, it is forever surveying the whole and standing above the particular existence of which it is speaking, i.e. it does not see it at all.
i also like that, in part because it's smaller, the pace of things is slower. there's more time to meditate on the discussion and having that pervade the air one breathes is pretty beneficial for progress