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It is not actually necessary to make your "worldview" a naked rationalization of your own existence.

Whenever you talk to someone who has studied philosophy academically you can physically see them check what you say against a list of potential errors they carry pre-loaded in their head. Their eyes goggle slightly, they usually look up, the brow furrows. ". . . yeah . . ."

at grocery check-out. a stooping, stout, heavily underbitten dysgenic white-hispanic staggers out of the store behind me. Young-ish check-out lady: "I think he just stole something." Instantly as he exits he pulls two tubs of ice cream or maybe hummus out of the crack of his ass

older white woman employee nearby instantly says "well you know, he needs it a lot more than we do." x.com/abs0luteknower…

chuckling to myself placing eleanor roosevelt's "The Moral Basis of Democracy" on the shelf I have designated for fiction

whites systematically make up quaint little stories to explain the things that irritate them about other cultures. "they burp to show appreciation" -- actually no. they just burp

"Sie fiel ihm in die Arme mit der ganzen Härte des Rechtsstaates..."

There will never be substantive improvement in things like homelessness; drugs; petty crime; cleanliness etc. until the complexity of our political process is radically diminished.

Boomers are the type to say "oh yeah I'd always help my family, no issue" and then every time someone needs help switch to "what kind of idiot gets in trouble like that, should have been careful, not getting a dime from me I tellya"

I enjoy the Blade Runner soundtrack and even the many flatheaded imitations of it

Political theory is the discussion of that which can ultimately be decided by force. What cannot be decided by force, be it never so lofty, is no object for such a discipline.

The shallowness of human loyalty is so severe, that most often it is maintained by a defiant rejection of disloyalty, rather than by meditation on that to which one remains faithful.

We are now testing to what degree human beings will endure long-term associations with one another without coercion. With every new experiment we find the same thing: they will not. Not even a little

The motivations of earlier generations seem so consistently, ruthlessly small that I can scarcely believe that real people were moved by them. The old seem to be props--scenery against whose contrasting colors a real life could be performed.

Many of the jokes, thoughts, catch phrases, debates that were once considered exciting and new have become politically concrete. The best "discourse" on this platform occurred from roughly 2018-2021, and primarily in that last year, when it seemed we had "lost power".

seems like a hell of a lot of Social for not much Security

The vulnerability of law, which is evasion, is counterposed to the vulnerability of sovereign will, which is flattery.

Ultimately, the problem with our "institutions" is that they are the petrified hold-overs of yesterday's moral myths, which nobody, least of all those at their apex, still bothers to believe, except perhaps conservatives--and they don't count.

It seems to be the historical pattern for the legacy power to defeat the rising power by expending the last of its strength; then, the game belongs to an un- or less involved third.