choose your battles; the only thing here that I really object to is using speakerphone

[an artifact of how humanities thought is chaotic but patterned] writing this thread prompted me to add A Room of One's Own (1929) to my Goodread's to-read list

After all, what defines suspension? When you're suspended, what are you suspended in? What does suspension presuppose? Why, of course — emptiness, nothingness

Anyway, very pleased to see that the author of Traces of the Flower Moon 花月痕 (1858) has his own one-word interpretation of Hongloumeng 紅樓夢, and it's... emptiness 空.

Another very good answer and arguably in dialogue with my own.

Have I ever shared this? My one-word interpretation for the main theme of Hongloumeng 紅樓夢 is "suspension." One day, I did the surprise-yourself-into-sudden-enlightenment technique (learned from an early Buddhist text, fwiw), and this is the first word that came to mind, and it's pretty good!

it's not even that unprecedented

I'm not dismissive of Graeber because I'm not dismissive of Thorstein Veblen, who seems to be getting at similar concepts with his notions of "conspicuous consumption" and "conspicuous waste" and his distinction between industry (real) and business (predatory, fake)

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Sports and fascism are in intimate dialogue, and you aren't serious about eliminating the latter if you're unwilling even to critique the former.

it's not even that unprecedented

I'm not dismissive of Graeber because I'm not dismissive of Thorstein Veblen, who seems to be getting at similar concepts with his notions of "conspicuous consumption" and "conspicuous waste" and his distinction between industry (real) and business (predatory, fake)

I suppose it's unclear whether "means-testing" counts as a bullshit job

it's bs from the perspective of humanity, but it's doing real "propaganda labor" for a certain breed of (anti-human) neoliberalism

I don't think Graeber's anarchism means he's critical of, like, a national health system

seems as if a lot Graeber's most vocal detractors base their opposition heavily on his membership or alleged membership in some broader category

they're triggered that he's an "anarchist," or they're convinced that he's a "libertarian"

wish there were a way to express it unambiguously and impersonally that, actually, there isn't infinite talent "waiting in the wings," that my fellow un(der)employed doctorate holders are the best and often the only scholars your society has produced, and you can either use us or continue to regress

genuine question (it's for my list): is "being afraid of your wife" 懼內 too general to be considered a "trope"?

Rare moment: mentioning Hegel in a way that isn't critiquing or making fun of Hegel

Tags are funny on this one:

Hegel
Olympics
corruption
dialectic
fascism
gambling
irrationality
masculinity
meaninglessness
philosophy
slavery
sports

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Lin Debted to You[r tears]

oh yeah, love to see it

"Werktreue"

smh, you call that a foreign language

almost as bad as Dutch being "if my childhood self were designing a language"

"Droom van de Rode Kamer"

Ming-Qing trope #13 (in no particular order, an on-going list): immediately before dying, writing the perfect poem encapsulating your philosophy of life

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Lien Debt-you

nice

have you considered, though, only writing one (1) novel but spending 10-15 years on it?

half the time you're listening to transcriptions of old folk dances, or whatever, but heaven forbid if the rhythm is in any way acknowledged by your body

(currently listening: Bartok's 4th String Quartet, fourth movement, eminently jammable)

hate how, when you go to a classical music performance, people look at you funny if you silently "jam along" in your seat

imo, no whatever the policy is, it should take seriously what values and belief systems different games and rankings inculcate in the world

The question "who can run faster?" is structurally in dialogue with the question "who can, at any moment, win in a fist fight?"

Especially men, how many live their lives constantly dwelling on this sports-adjacent hypothetical?

the episode I'm currently editing does some line-by-line analysis! coming out soon...

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