Alex Hochuli 🇰🇬🇲🇭🇰🇮🇸🇨🇲🇿 I do NOT let a dinner party go by without mentioning the end of history and Bungacast says the woman eating fruit salad out of tupperware in front of her computer

Alex Hochuli 🇰🇬🇲🇭🇰🇮🇸🇨🇲🇿 The food is overcooked, the guests are subdued, conversation is podcastese—sounds like a polycrisis

The Mania has spread so far that voting for performers on a television entertainment contest has become a political act.

Ballard would be proud of you.

Let's adjourn to meatspace

I was wondering why there was so much angst about a relatively small protest movement, but the sense that the political class has lost control of its next generation is palpable here.

Not sure it’s enough to cause a rethink of fomenting The Resistance™️ as strategy, however.

Average Balkan conversation

Worse, in seeking to liberate a defeated Palestine, what they imagine is Palestine might liberate a defeated them. But it won't.

The West has this bizarre medieval view that it got from Gorbachev all of Eastern Europe as a dowry.

Interesting digest of left publications & conversation. Features Aufhebunga Bunga

Eager to read this

Unless they believe neo-feufdalism is just around the corner. In which case it's just idiotic.

As good as many are saying. Trenchant from Musa al-Gharbi in COMPACT on campus protest, Columbia, the risible Shafik, the role of universities in reproducing elites, and tin-eared protests.

compactmag.com/article/behind…

A neat picture of actually-existing post-liberalism.

We care. They – solipsists, nihilists – don't. As such, reason is impossible. We just need action [but are powerless, so...?]

Plato listening to the Thracian barbarian girl playing the flute wrong on his deathbed

Paradoxo de Epícuro
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Aposta de Pascal
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Inversão zizekiana da proposição do Ivan Karamazov

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Vitória de Zizek

How will I ever get into the consciousness of someone from the past? I'll never interact with them? It's bloody awful. Never! I despair. All these fkin immersive art bullshit screensaver exhibits and no one's putting me in the head of a 1650s Englishman or 1920s German fuck off.