i’ll read the full paper later tonight after i recover a bit, i’m ofc very interested in the topic. but i think this basically shows the dead end of epistemic-exclusive realist ideology critique

as in, we’re humans yea, and we do mean things to animal guys, yea. vicious circularity in justification real likely. but like there’s not a lot to really glean from that, because it’s not just likely or suspect there’s just no alternative. idk maybe paulo will prove me wrong, i imagine ill end up

re-reading rossi too now that i have some more time apart, but im just really not inspired by this methodology

when will you learn

this is what i kinda meant here. epistemic rad realism is too flat and one-sided in service of remaining on solid analytical footing, and it suffers for it

idk ideology in this sense is just way less interesting because it's just the powerful deluding themselves

"animals, unlike humans, are unable to contest speciesist and anthropocentrist legitimation stores, not because they are in the lower rungs of the social order, but because they lack the relevant contestatory capacities. their disempowerment, then, is not enforced but constitutive." 🤨

speak more on that bro because uh constitutive of what. this is why i was hella sussed out by "for obvious reasons" above, like idk chief maybe lay that out because i don't trust you lol

this is fucking WEIRD dude

enforced and constiutive are such crude and not at all exhaustive ways of getting any understanding of power. how am i supposed to trust you with ideology critique when this is the best you got. "disempowered" is such a narrow starting place

"lacks the relevant psychological (cognitive and metacognitive) capacities required to contest legitimation stories" i lowkey think ur a fascist but beyond that this whole framing of like legitimation stories is all shit from the start I HATE YOU BERNARD WILLIAMS

i get more and more annoyed every time i see this stupid fucking caricature, and prefixing with "often-cited" doesn't get you off the hook. just say you didn't do the reading. he has so many more interesting things to say you fucking losers.

oh wow cool, another bibliography with 2008 and 2010. yawn yawn yawn.

i prefer endnotes over footnotes

thank you for being what you are to me

i often don’t know exactly what to say and that usually results in abstention or a feckless scattershot of approximations, but i trust you to read between the lines

when i was in middle school i bought myself construction ear muffs so i didn’t have to listen to the world as much

i like the little wheelchair badge here

for all of their faults, microsoft at least knows how to make pink accent theme

so they’re pretty much good in my book

i like boy mars argo

idk maybe the whole skipping meals thing is a bad strat, but the thought of eating at work makes me gag

four to five times a week, month, year, depending

it’s fine to be playful but this pretty cynical. i’m allowed to pursue companionship. the unenthused and detached demeanor is maybe somewhat concerning i guess but like whatever. let people enjoy things, even if it’s a little off-kilter

my job would be a lot easier if the people i worked with were literate

then again, my job wouldn’t exist if the people i worked with were literate

alternate title: untimely meditations

lol he’s just a little stilted but that’s alright

i accidentally stayed up too late reading about aristotle but that’s oki i still made it to work on time

“oh maybe just one chapter more” x3

i initially just wanted to convey “times three” but the face works too

killow?

dreamt of a girl helped to run away by an older girl. she was given pockets full of coins and guided to a place to live. with her new freedom, the first thing she did was wander back to her old home and cried in her empty old bedroom.

inverse of the cr1tter sample: “used to be bipolar and a crack addict and now i’m just a crack addict”

yea dw im going back to bed i just forgot to turn the air conditioner back on

real as hell, 3publicagekey is my favorite rkey and needs to be put to use once more

also i think it’s hilarious that the go-to way to tag me is on the blackly account now lmao

bruh

oh btw i got balabolka up and running on my leisure laptop the other day

lovely software

i should probably transition to a local model at some point but it’s still working and treats me quite well

i think i very much dislike the academic article as form

it’s so ugly, it’s almost disqualified from consideration on aesthetic grounds alone

of course i’ve read plenty of serviceable pieces but i can’t help but feel that essays or monographs or whatever are suited far better for serious thought

surely someone has written a genealogy of the academic article