Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia
Kinda into gimmicks rn tbh bsky.app/profile/aohs...
What’s good on USian egalophobia? “Temporarily embarrassed millionaires” “wages of whiteness” “status threat” “undeserving poor” are these keywords/theories all describing the same kind of psychosocial phenomenon?
Techbros lose sleep over the near certainty that AI will not only achieve sentience but that it will be extremely woke
Poirot: Zees was not an italian crime of passion, but a cold-blooded methodical Anglo-Saxon crime! Mon dieu!
*time passes as the world gears up for WWII*
Ahh ‘‘twas but a global conspiracy coordinated by an actor (who is bad at acting) to do US-style vigilante justice
Idk guys I think I’m with Raymond Chandler on this one. That was a very silly ending. Are “mysteries” supposed to be silly?
A group of young kestrels is startled by the presence of a butterfly. 🤣🤣🤣
Did he say tonne or ton
As far as I understand it, this isn’t the question….
Flight attendants had to move my giant yoshi plush to an empty seat in the back because it was taking too much room in the ceiling compartment, look a what they did to him 😭😭
A more generous reading (out on a limb) — it’s genuinely weird how we share a reality with each other, and also Moldbug. I go to weddings. So does Moldbug. I am normal. He is a fascist freak. How strange!
Better red than expert
That’s crazy talk
Wow that’s dedication
I know the chronology is reversed but it feels backward engineered from the _Knives Out_ franchise.
Pretty enjoyable fluff. “Orient express” but the reading is just a British voice actor doing a bunch of stereotyped European + USian accents.
Guy who doesn’t understand selfies or perspective: wait how did they get so big???!
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Building a mystery
marx: religion is the opiate of the masses...
buddha: the dharma is like medicine and i'm the physician. also, it'd be good for the masses.
are there other religious sayings that, like, could be construed as agreeing with Marx on the metaphor?
The council affirms: "Jesus is a NOT a god-man, He is a man-god!"
Idk, I'll take it on your word that the theology is the thing, but it _really_ seems like you're working something else out against the "god-man" Christians?
How does "heresiographic" discourse reemerge in seemingly secular evaluation of the "cult"? Or, is it possible to read what is thought of as "pathological" / "political" in the modern "cult" anachronistically backward into premodern heresiography?
Luis O. Gómez, "On Buddhist wonders and wonder-working," JIABS 33 (2011)
But I think this is in part the phenomenology of "revivals": "it's a revival" summons the content into being, rather than the revival waiting for a social scientist to come along and measure it appropriately
It's an interesting set of attempts to create a feedback loop -- simply by citing a "gen z religious resurgence" in class, a religious student got us all talking about it!
Strangely resonant with the last narrative I finished -- single Jewish men walking away from the horrors of civilization.
Even the Buddha turning directly to the camera, breaking the fourth wall, and saying "this is a gimmick" -- is a gimmick
