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by bm3719 11mo ago
Because we're intersubjective beings. Difference in intelligence level alienates one from the other. Past two standard deviations, anything like a "meeting of minds" becomes impossible. The only mutual interactions past th
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by bm3719 1y ago
This stuff is all true. Lacan also had a habit of permanently "borrowing" people's collectible books, charging Felix Guattari to drive Lacan home, sleeping with his female clients, and many, many other despicable things. He
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by bm3719 1y ago
I'm not fluent in French or German either, only enough for light reading in both, and certainly not enough for anything complex/dense. For Lacan, Hegel, and other continental thinkers, I read the same translations that most Engli
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by bm3719 1y ago
Say you wanted to teach cultural studies. That necessarily includes politics, so you should talk about it. However, you can teach politics (or even theorize about politics), or you can do politics. I assert you can't do both, at l
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by bm3719 1y ago
I think Lacan's obscurantism, if you want to call it that, can be thought of one of two ways: 1. He claims to not to want to be understood too quickly. If you believe that, you might say he's forcing the reader (or emerging psych
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by bm3719 1y ago
Sokal was right, of course. He deservedly made fools of a bunch of naked emperors. However, he also influenced a lot of people (myself included) to eschew a whole genre of thinkers for which there was a lot of truly brilliant ideas. For e
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by bm3719 1y ago
Our gestating Machine God doesn't yet have hands as good as ours, so good this is good advice. We had a system of overproduction of sentient office equipment, who waste their time on pointless Zoom calls and sending emails that no one
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by bm3719 1y ago
The thinking-averse outnumber the thinking-inclined. They've tried this thinking thing, and want nothing to do with it. They all went to public school, after all, and the rare times thinking happened it was painful and had to be forc
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by bm3719 1y ago
> This isn't even getting into the Jungian "death drive" The death drive is Freudian, not Jungian. However, it might be very relevant here. Freud's conception of it would include passively accepting death. As you s
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by bm3719 1y ago
Interesting that Kojève and Bataille were pals. Might be relevant to the following: > In “Colonialism from a European Perspective,” Kojève argued that the industrial nations of Europe should give financial aid to the “underdeveloped cou
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by bm3719 1y ago
Hegel, and later Sartre (but from a very different perspective), emphasized the importance of The Other, in the sense of the definition of the Self. In short, by defining the other, one demarcates the boundary of the self and defines ones i
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by bm3719 2y ago
Arguably, we've let metrics rule in the same way the Soviets optimized for steel and wheat production, but instead for pure economic market signals. Doing so, we see a market strongly signaling that it has a peasant surplus. Unfortun
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by bm3719 2y ago
They don't matter because we've finally created a world where the modern peasant is as economically irrelevant as any other outdated farm or industrial equipment. If you opened a printing press staffed by scribes with fountain pe
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by bm3719 2y ago
A potentially simpler solution if you just want something like a header on the page(s), org-publish-project-alist elements support a :html-preamble key that you can assign to any custom function on a per-project basis. That's how I ins
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by bm3719 2y ago
As someone who works for the federal government, I'm surrounded by waste. Untold millions of dollars of it; the sum total accounting for millions of Americans' worth of tax revenue. I'm also surrounded by chair warmers, who
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by bm3719 2y ago
His sister agrees with that notion: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69520118/1/altman-v-alt...
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by bm3719 2y ago
Probably the biggest disservice done by Scrum was changing our thinking and language around methodology. It made it so that if something was going to displace it, it had to start with a capital letter, be a "real" version of some
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by bm3719 2y ago
Maybe it's because money doesn't buy as much as it did 4 years ago. Since most employees have limited control over their mostly-static salaries, they've scaled down output accordingly.
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by bm3719 2y ago
Good. Some of us don't use smartphones. 10% of US adults don't according to a 2023 Pew survey, though I suspect most of those are old people. Any business requiring one explicitly excludes me as a customer and generally makes t
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by bm3719 2y ago
It's been many years since I last read it, but I seem to recall Kaczynski defined surrogate activities as those beyond what one would feel substantively deprived should they be without. He gives the example of pursuit of social fulfil
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by bm3719 2y ago
I do this because I have to protect my brain from marketers that are working against my financial interests, time management goals, and general mental hygiene. If I'm searching for, like in your case, tech info, it's because I wa
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by bm3719 3y ago
You may be interested to know that you are actually quite fashionable, as haute couture has recently discovered the garbage bag look: https://www.balenciaga.com/en-us/trash-bag-large-pouch--whit...
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by bm3719 3y ago
> Of all the things my kids and i have looked at under the microscope, sperm is some of the most entertaining to watch. Nothing like the wholesome family activity of looking at your father's sperm. Maybe you should print a picture
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by bm3719 3y ago
There's certainly other forces at play, but having participated in one, I tend to view the main reason that war is traumatic to the individual is its depersonalized (and in modern times, mechanistic) nature. A person being confronted s
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by bm3719 3y ago
In the 60s and 70s, there was a thread of Western academic thought in Marxist circles that mapped connections between traditional leftist narratives like the exploitation of labor to things like race and gender. Of course, socialist femini
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by bm3719 3y ago
For those in favor of censoring the internet, here's a notion that helped me: Probably all of us would be against censoring the verbal communications between individuals in our society. Such communication is full of untruths and agend
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by bm3719 3y ago
I suppose we all reserve our greatest ire for the apostate. If Rand were alive today, I'd probably respond by saying that as she identifies as a philosopher, she's (part of) the logos to libertarians' praxis. So, naturally t
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by bm3719 3y ago
I might go the standard box method at some point, but right now I just dig a hole in a bare part of a garden and throw stuff in it till full. Then I cover it up and dig another hole. Seems to work okay.
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by bm3719 3y ago
I try my best to carefully manage it. All compostable biomatter goes into compost, with the only exception being anything salty. I also shovel up all the animal plop and mix that into the soil twice a year. I haven't done any scient
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by bm3719 3y ago
I have a long-term goal of doing similar. Specifically, I'd like to produce as much food as 2 people need, even though we won't actually try to survive off of it. If/when I do reach that point, I'll probably trade&#x2F

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