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I keep thinking about Stendhal's formulation that love is born of admiration + hope, and alongside this Augustine's assessment that the degradation of the empire consisted in a turn from a culture of seeking admiration to one of seeking money and pleasure

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nearly all the dating discourse that bubbles up is just women saying "men aren't admirable" and men saying back "women aren't admirable" it's very tiresome

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No one ever talks about being a β€˜face guy’ or a β€˜hands guy’ because so to love β€œI to I” as Scruton has it is no perversion, and necessarily individuated

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It’s so depressing that every right wing take I see on aesthetics is such thoughtless garbage when we had an intellectual giant working in this space a mere five years ago

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The inescapable β€œmakeup is deceptive” takes are so stupid bc to anyone with eyes the way a person chooses to apply makeup reveals far more than it conceals

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you know what we’re just going to skip glutes today, she said. my female clients, they never want to skip glutes. but for you it doesn’t really matter so much, you know what I mean

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somehow the slang meaning of "smash" never showed up on my radar until well after "wanna smash?" had become common usage among my male coworkers meaning "are you up for a few rounds of SSB" and we simply never acknowledged this. they would make jokes about "phrasing" all the time

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"the present chaos is due to a sort of general oblivion of all that men were originally aiming at. no man demands what he desires; each man demands what he fancies he can get"

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the essential texts are like - chesterton: what's wrong with the world - chesterton: manalive - capra et al: it's a wonderful life

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I complain, but the wanting to write β†’ doing the research pipeline is actually very good. like many things it's hard to get started but feels good once you get going