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Interesting to think of mainstream USian conservativism as less developing its own policy apparatus (academia, think tanks, experts, bureaucrats, human capital) than being “antipolicy” plain and simple

No. Pretty skeptical of the idea that “proverbs” existing “explain” foreign policy. This would be like saying “stitch in time saves nine” explains Starmer’s education policy

Are manosphere chuds still obsessed with ‘cucks’? Are they still pretending to be lady cuckoos and laying eggs in the nests of other species’ nests? Would be funny if it weren’t disturbing our local bird populations

Tfw damn you’re in a tight spot

Only Marxism can give us an adequate account of the essential mystery of the cultural past, which, like Tiresias drinking the blood, is momentarily returned to life and warmth and allowed once more to speak, and to deliver its long-forgotten message in surroundings utterly alien to it -- jameson

Hey now You’re an ogre On a pike now Get paid

I’ve had roving anxiety all week but this evening it’s taking the form of the decomposing raccoon covered in maggots I found in my yard this afternoon

Just finished listening to Freud’s _Civilization and its Discontents_ (1930). Kinda funny how one guy can just come up with a brand new vocabulary for describing how the insides and outsides of us work, and everyone was like, huh, yeah, sure

Wild to me how Gandhi told Dalits “yeah I’ve wiped my own butt before, I’m a bit of a Harijan myself. I’m kind of an expert in sanitation work. In fact I know more about you than you know about yourself.”

Do Greek people have to read the odyssey in school (in translation) or is it just us folks in the Anglosphere?

In the future there will only be two buttons, this one and “please authenticate yourself again.” Robots will do your homeostasis activities and anything fun or dignifying for you but you, the real you, will still be held accountable for pushing these two buttons

I bet if you were to explain to Homer our notion of PTSD over and over through cinematic montages and the like he’d totally get it. Nolanism is not transhistorical or universal but I think it’s translatable.

Reading recs on the global history of “the weekend”? How did/does eg E Asian calendrical reform metabolize “work for six days and rest for one” as a governing principle for organizing time and labor?

As an Xennial college grad my news consumption skipped over network nightly news as a kid to reading (critically) outlets online in college and stopped short of getting news mostly thru short form video

‘Automation’ of translation I think is coordinate with a modernist episteme I like to call “neoliteralism” or “slop referentialism” — the ideology that words from different languages are merely labels you use to identify things that are preexisting and universal