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just saw a suicide note generated by ChatGPT on Threads

It doesn't need to have been consciously done. I recommend this on Gilgamesh and epics more generally www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKOo...

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I also wonder what has changed in how we engage in "epics?" the traveling Homeric bards of Greece vs whatever we're up to today? all very interesting but what I'm thinking of most right now is how ONE WEEK feels like too long to wait to me before people move on lmao

I have seen people doing genuine idpol in new and fascinating ways a la (as a GREEK I disapprove of Lupita playing Helen) but the person saying this was a "half Greek" American and I was so floored I thought WHOA I wish I could write a whole thing about YOU, lady!

I was thinking about this and was like well I hope this isn't true but you know what......

as kind of shown by how the country is reacting to the Odyssey lol so many threads to pull on. diversity? class (critics love it we REAL Americans hate it 😡)? historical accuracy? IMAX vs regular theater? comparisons to be made in how historically ppl have interacted with Homer? etc

can't write it because I'd have to go see The Odyssey and I won't have access to a theater for a week but I'm interested in how the project of an epic was once to code an entire culture's values and beliefs into one narrative that could be passed down and re: America I can't imagine us doing that rn

real #overthinkers are manifesting parasite symptoms with their #thoughts rn

based on available data, you can just sort of invite Slavoj Žižek into a Zoom and ask him to talk shit about his own books, and he will do so

still thinking of this hat I believe I will make one

'resentment for those who think themselves above obedience' is so key here. i always thought it strange how post ww2 british parents hated their kids reading fantasy or fairy stories and I wonder if that is what that was all about

Some brilliant thoughts here: "Resentment is the mind seeking revenge for the experience of jealousy. “You think you’re better than me.” It’s the inevitable outcome of classed society. Any time it presents itself, it’s an occasion to consider how our particular civic project is chugging along."

One of old professors told me after Savonarola was executed, some dude in Florence shouted “thank god, now we can practice sodomy again” he was real af for that

waiting for "On Faggotry" to drop

yesss her thoughts on geometry vs algebra inspired me

“Resentment is the mind seeking revenge for the experience of jealousy. ‘You think you’re better than me.’ It’s the inevitable outcome of classed society. Any time it presents itself, it’s an occasion to consider how our particular civic project is chugging along.”

Already posted this but reposting because I think it matters.

as an essayist it feels good as HELL to title some bullshit like "On _________" it makes me feel like the fag Montaigne

I love reading shit from antiquity! I disagree with Aristotle on the nature of friendship. yes he was much smarter than I am, but look who's dead. and who isn't.