"I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucidydes, for Newton and Euclid, and I find myself much the happier." -Jefferson writing to Adams

This is the Documentary Effect in full effect. I'm sure arguments could be made that the opposite of these claims is true also using a bunch of facts strung together and it'd sound convincing. Like the two Michael Jackson documentaries. Etc etc blah blah blah

The 3/2 beer version of Andrew Tate.

“Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.” — Miles Davis

It has never been clearer to me that what we are experiencing are the effects of a post-literate society, one ruled by those do not read

😂😂😂

PSA: don't get roped in by dumb shit like this.

My man.

Gerrit Dou - "Astronomer by Candlelight"

I'm currently watching dogs and a baby, and man, people who have dogs instead of babies are fucking stupid.

Her writing is terrible. The vague generalities and blind squirrel/acorn things she accidentally stumbled into getting correct aren't impressive. On par with any of the worst destructive intellectual forces on either side.

Nietzsche warned us that the death of God would lead to dumb shit like this. Even the majority of non-Christians can agree that this stuff is way dumber than Xianity, right?

If Layne Staley was still alive I'm pretty sure even he'd be annoyed with how overrated he is.

I like them both at this point, but on the whole, Sheryl Crow > Lucinda Williams.

It’s so sick her name is Wrigley-Field

At this point, philosophy in academia is 'here is why real philosophy isn't philosophy, but a weird fetish with linguistics is" followed by a collective "zzzzzzzzz"

Music is metaphysical. From Pythagoras to Augustine to Dante to Mozart to Tolkien, there has been an understanding of the eternal reality of music.

Evidently after a tragedy all the smart people who say smart things take a break from social media.