Part of the reason is also that Kierkegaard was a Christian thinker who despised Christendom, often insisting that there were almost no true Christians in a world full of people who aligned their faith with nationalism, bourgeois moralism and psychological wellbeing...

There are, you see, two ways of reading a book: you either see it as a box with something inside and start looking for what it signifies, and then if you're even more perverse or depraved you set off after signifiers. And you treat the next book like a box contained in the first

we’re together in dreams

was mostly keeping it together until I read Kyle MacLachlan's tribute to David Lynch

Twin Peaks is actually very simple

Like any great artist, Lynch does not see these things as binary, it’s the tension that makes it art

It’s so interesting to see people flail against grasping one of Lynch’s main theses: America as a place of both good and evil where neither half can escape the other. He really did strike at a common neurosis most artists avoid like it’s radioactive.

Nearly all of the speculation about AI is premised on the notion that intelligence is simply data at scale, that Mind is something that will be spontaneously secreted when we hit a critical threshold of Bigness. The problem is that that’s very obviously not what intelligence is.

"do not commit the sin of empathy" reminds me of immortan joe saying "do not become addicted to water" it's just so over the top evil that you gotta laugh out loud at it

This one weird trick to destroy evolutionary psychology

you don’t have to go to european museums for this. there are like half a dozen world famous paintings unceremoniously hanging in completely random corners of the art institute of chicago

depicted: deleuze heidegger and derrida celebrating their victory in the wake of the death of the subject

jj abrams: "omg what if chewbacca finally got the medal that he didn't get in the original movie!" tony gilroy: "German Sociologist Max Weber (1864-1920) once said that a government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence, a trend that still--"

They put Joe Pesci in the craziest looking wig of all time and he still went hard in the paint for every second of his screentime. In a cast full of killers he stood out.

I think it’s a sign of a healthy, well-adjusted nation when a decent chunk of the population constantly operates in a psychological state one degree removed from Harry Caul at the end of The Conversation.

The bad right-wing critiques of OBAA depend on not noticing the ways the film mocks the French 75, and the bad left-wing critiques depend on not noticing the clear contrasts that the film draws between the French 75 and the immigrants' underground mutual aid network.