it’s a metaphor with worn embossing but the previous 9 months at least have felt like shallow, tense, constrained breathing to some extent

that was intense man, i kinda got my shit rocked 😭

my head is sooo full dude, i almost wish i could put off finishing until tmrw, macintyre is dense and doing a lot, but i kinda can't wait for monday so i'll power through

he's like, deceptively dense. each statement is very legible but he's covering a LOT of ground in the work and its just a very ambitious project

whew all done, im gonna lay down now

"marxist socialism is at its core deeply optimistic. for however thorough-going its criticism of capitalist and bourgeois institutions may be, it is committed to asserting that within the society constituted by those institutions,

all the human and material preconditions of a better future are being accumulated. yet if the moral impoverishment of advanced capitalism is what so many marxists agree that it is, whence are these resources for the future to be derived?

it is not surprising that at this point marxism tends to produce its own versions of the ubermensch: lukac's ideal proletarian, leninism's ideal revolutionary. when marxism does not become weberian social democracy or crude tyranny, it tends to become nietzschean fantasy."

"we cannot characterize behavior independent of intentions, and we cannot characterize intentions independently of the settings which make those intentions intelligible both to agents themselves and to others"

"there is no present which is not informed by some image of some future and an image of the future which always presents itself in the form of a telos - or a variety of ends or goals - towards which we are either moving or failing to move in the present"

something about this presentation really struck me, in a way that teleology usually does not

like it had more gripping force, i feel inspired and off-put at the same time. it's too narrow, but powerfully so. the application of a narrative mode is relevant too and im of course thinking of the guess passage

my life is one giant treadmill

i was gonna post something laudatory of geuss like "can he just miss once" but cmon we all know he's missed lots of times

we wanna talk about russell brand? didn't think so

neither rawls nor adorno

christoph menke really popped off with that title

i let my mind wander because it was very busy with macintyre thoughts. i listened to music for a bit and eventually found my way to geuss' "virtue and the good life" in outside ethics. fuck he's good.

i don't mind the resurgence of virtue ethics since i think it has far more contextualist potential than its peers and has been somewhat underexplored approach in relatively recent anglophone philosophy, but yea i don't think its gonna cut it as exclusive worldview

it just opens up a lot of fun patterns for thinking about things and i'm able to entertain it a lot more than the alternatives

lmfao i know its freyenhagen's fault but its fucked that reading macintyre is making me admire adorno even more 😭

he's only just begun fleshing out "practices" and already there is buzzing of deficient practices

all of the practices currently on offer are unfortunate, disfiguring, and above all a depressing waste of potential. and its not just like once we start having better practices it will be all well and good, we've been walking a dark path for far too long

and like crucially back on the freyenhagen point, he emphasizes that we don't have a working conception of mankind, which is well and true, but i think if you look at the malformities of our particular virtues you'll see a more harrowingly intricate picture

hm hes talking about practices as potentially evil, so we're getting there but those are certainly not the terms in which i would externally criticize a practice

we STAN an it/its inclusionist king 👑

took a mental break and watching cody ko "the 'visit me' thing is kind of insane i think. if they're friendly enough to say 'visit me' like 'travel to me' that implies that sex will be had. no ex is like 'travel to me, visit me in my city so we can hang out as friends'." clearly he hasn't met me

god i missed juliet so much it was so nice to hear her voice

i like that we’re finding something that works for us, even when from the outside it might look misshapen

a reduction in contact is not a reduction in significance or intimacy

i really do love her

i thought i might make it through whose justice which rationality today too but it’s not looking like that’ll be the case, i’ll just finish after virtue

that was pleasant yay

i talk a lil too much but thats okay

listening to separate people simultaneously verbalizing their actions and ignoring one another is actually incredibly satisfying

*logs into main to follow slices then log out* "i wonder what all these notifs are" oh its just me quoting myself

"in practice the reference implementation is more authoritative than the spec"

github.com/did-method-p... updates.microcosm.blue/3lz7nwvh4zc2u

self-reflection as a form of self-harm

illinois tollway thanks me for my payment, never again

if anything it's a release on a supervenience relation i.e. a denial of the hypostasization of identity into a supervenience relation with reality. the naive materialist inversion gets its appeal from the disruptive impact but nonetheless maintains the connection in too strict and uncontextual a way

i think the core wish is actually still understandable though, it would be a radically different culture and scheme of categorization, which would basically undermine the distinct significance and mystification of identity as such

it is, of course, for that precise reason that the strategy is not viable. but the reductivist simplicity is compelling in the same way that nietzsche's fantasies of unreflective aboriginal masters is

oops