i hate when zoomers are like that it always makes me say: no shot they don’t know my squad, george lucas the blud no 🧢 on a stack 💰frfr, if i’m keeping it a buck with you 💵

“we have lord of the rings at home”

person whose only expose to the fantasy genre is lord of the rings: getting real lord of the rings vibes from this

nonchalant NTR game night (with snacks)

i have so many thoughts about this passage

entirely contrary to james' point, this is the unpragmatic conservative political consequence of religious belief: it has the power to arbitrarily justify any amount of gruesome pointless suffering and give it cosmic purpose

but precisely for that reason it carries it's most valuable asset. like idk if you're the dog and you're powerless to stop your own vivisection, then fuck it entertain any fantasy you like if it helps you cope.

if i were a neoliberal: religion is game theoretically dire because the short term utility maximizing play is horrid in the long run and because it's treated like a private matter but has externalities

also though - i hope people don't get the wrong idea that i support "religious tolerance" or any such nonsense because of this. i'm sympathetic in the sense that i see frail humans confronted by suffering, gasping and flailing for respite, and i feel sorry for them

oh and as a final word - the real issue is that religion in any form simply isn't a "live hypothesis" for me (to use james' jargon). that is of course unless you uses religion in the broad and empty supernatural sense that only the most ardent positivist would object instead of his other definition.

honestly even his most hollowed-out and non-committal versions are far too much for me

but james can't even appeal to the short term lol

you're having an affair with the secretary, how scandalous!

nietzsche's got u covered

eh definitely not the post-moderns but the yes to the frankfurt school in their most uninteresting moments by their least valuable members (walter benjamin)

no thanks!!! :) i've read enough policy wonks, that arc is complete

i mean kinda yeah

marx is clearly the bottom but has to be listed first out of convention srry

YOU JUST DID IT AGAIN???!!?

i’m mr. mouton in this clip

i’m feeling somewhat sympathetic for those who feel the pull of the metaphysical need. how else is one to cope with weakness in the face of monstrosity and no power to overcome the conditions this horrific world is predicated upon? for most it is too much to bear.

it’s psychologically more agreeable to indulge in a palliative compensatory fantasy and retain some semblance of order and justification rather than constantly run against frustration and failure.

footnotes: william james, ludwig feurbach, karl marx, raymond geuss, richard rorty

asshole

@kasey.cafe nooo that was such a banger oomfie why’d you delete the engels sketch

teaching evaluations are vile professors are cops and therefore any positive evaluation makes you a bootlicker sellout; but negative evaluation is futile complaining to the police dep bureaucracy in either case, you’re also just filling out a consumer survey and greasing the wheels of capital

reflection inspired by:

original post was largely partial to student’s pov, but reviews also obviously reinforce every existing prejudice on the teacher’s end. there’s a whole lot of precarity in academic work and reviews make you complicit in economic oppression.

even if participating in ousting a genuinely abusive instructor, the position of authority that enables, facilitates, and produces abuse remains intact. and using the masters tools of university administrators brings you no closer to abolishing this power relation.

it makes me feel powerful ٩(◕‿◕)۶

me at my 8th cup of tea today:

you should be in my covers hnggggg

dewey is such a dreadful writer

motherfucker

at what point do you wake up and go "oh wait i'm like literally mussolini"

i legit will never comprehend what goes through the mind of a 61 follower soundcloud artist that makes derivative work from already derivative work decide "ah yes today i will enclose the commons" literally what's wrong with you

somehow it used to be closer

while we're here this will never not be funny to me

i attended a class and signed in for her and that was like the best college story i have tbh

i was super antisocial for a year+ prior so it was pretty nerve-racking to message, but i really wanted her to remember me and to see her again so i gathered a pittance of courage

this was the first night we ever met lol

this was first messages post-stalking uwu

@kasey.cafe we're so cringe for being such lesbians

not me desperately composing an email tone discord message to keep contact with the most captivating person i’ve ever been around

i wanted to leak our first dms but penguin unadded me

and i yapped about how much i hated locke 💖

my understanding is that rorty is using the strong sense of “intrinsic/essential”, as in some a priori gödel-proof theory of numerical forms not relative to axioms going back to the first screenshot: “mathematicians can in fact produce a mechanism for generating all the true descriptions of 17…”

though i don’t know enough math to say if im still missing your point or not :)