one thing you can say about christians at least from a fuerbachean-marxist standpoint is that at least they were able to construct and projectively identify with a more powerful being that could imaginatively achieve things. the secularized acquiescence is all the more flacid by comparison
right-libertarianism has similarities with anarchist communism (AC), but is even broader: while AC doesn't allow for hierarchical economic relations and won't endorse making a distinction between racial classes, right-libertarianism embraces any organizational style that is consensual, growthful, or
like, as used as an unmasking device. it's just weak and pathetic and weird. people will say internal criticism but that has a much different moral tone
it's unfortunate for anti-wittgensteinian reasons: our houses are absolutely not in order and we desperately need philosophy to push onward, but instead it seems hopelessly committed to dragging us backwards with every intervention
“a great game you shouldn’t play” is about the inverse of my current approach to reading books and listening to music
“a horrible book that you should read”
There is a contradiction built into the very idea of art - art must be a failure because it tries to do something that can't be done with the means it is committed to trying to use (if it wishes to remain art).
marxist humanism always held a soft spot for me because i thought it most adequately captured what marx himself was after, in a “most frequently returned” theme sense