"Rostow must have been among the first to perceive that the culmination of human social evolution was shopping" (M.Sahlins) ...lol

RIP youtube.com/watch?v=uR8pEZ…

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Our friend, Jon Gibson - 1940-2020 Jon Gibson was one of the people responsible for the new musical languages which came out of the 1960s and 70s. Jon brought the technique of circular-breathing to the music, and to the Philip Glass Ensemble. 1/3

Can anyone lead me to where Emile Benveniste discusses the Greek middle voice? #ClassicsTwitter

"Roundabout the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust cloud ..." I can't recall where W. James says this. Will to Believe? Any help greatly appraciated.. @DavidRondel

Absolutely terrifying footage from a ferry carrying passengers escaping the shores of Lake Evia in #Greece.

Stephen L. Miller "I'M NOT CRYING; YOU'RE CRYING!" -- Steve-o on days ending in Y

It was quite a scene last night watching the MSNBC crew leaning in on the optative........for the first 11 minutes after the polls closed before NH was called.

Hegel: being on time Husserl: being in time Heidegger: being and time Nietzsche: being out of time Twitter: being out of characters

Taliesin Meche, 2016 graduate of Reed College, was murdered yesterday while defending strangers from racist abuse. A role model and a hero.

TRUMP PHRASE TRANSLATOR: Drain the swamp = fuck the poor MAGA = fuck the poor "Tax cut" = fuck the poor "Health care" = fuck the poor x.com/mikel_jollett/…

L: "Very fine people" R: "Sons of bitches" #TakeAKnee

Happy Birthday John Dewey !

A very sad day for this nation. I always wondered what it would be like to live in a time when things were consistently getting better. Will likely never know.

Exactly..nihilism x.com/Econ_Marshall/…

There is nothing remotely like the music of #TimSmith #cardiacs This is heartbreaking and beautiful listening to Kavus Torabi Kavus about how it feels visiting Tim All love to Tim and all those who love the visionary Listen to #cardiacs now #dirtyboy bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05…

Our society produces lots of broken people and then gives them access to guns. Every time there's a shooting, you get the same back and forth: "Mental health!" "No, guns!" It's both—and mental health in this context is a social problem more than a matter of individual psychology.

Capitalist Realism x.com/jaimejin/statu…

Another year, another (large) Steven Pinker book. To deal with such situations, nothing is more therapeutic than: Philosophy-Envy Author(s): Richard Rorty Source: Daedalus, Vol. 133, No. 4, On Human Nature (Fall, 2004), pp. 18-24