Moral Feelinx

The children yearn for the social credit system of the People's Republic of China

It really exemplifies how being convincing can be a virtue of philosophical writing all by itself

I'm probably pretty late to the game, but damn, Charles Mills' "The Racial Contract" is a good book. It's just perfectly written for what it's attempting to do

Irankrieg: Der Postillon beantwortet die wichtigsten Fragen Nach dem Angriff der Vereinigten Staaten und Israels auf den Iran brennt der Nahe Osten. Was sind die Hintergründe der Eskalation? Welche Auswirkungen

Irankrieg: Der Postillon beantwortet die wichtigsten Fragen www.der-postillon.com/2026/03/ratg...

Egal, wie stressig euer Morgen ist:

Die S-Bahn fährt nicht.

Eine Kita-Gruppe ist mit mir gestrandet.

Das erste Kind hat gerade gesagt, dass es mal Pipi muss.

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"Jetzt ist nicht die Zeit für Belehrungen, sondern für Geschlossenheit und gemeinsames Handeln" ist mehr oder weniger die Botschaft, mit der Wilhelm II. Deutschland in den Ersten Weltkrieg geschickt hat, und es ist wirklich eine Schande, dass ein Bundeskanzler sowas sagt.

Hard to concentrate on academic work when war rages and spreads, and all my thoughts are with the innocent people who die, are wounded, or are made homeless.

Die Bundesrepublik sollte mal der Gegenentwurf sein zum Kaiserreich, zum Scheitern Weimars, und zur Nazi-Diktatur, und unter Merz ist von diesem Anspruch nichts mehr übrig.

Es ist völlig Wahnsinn, auf welchem Level Merz die basalen moralischen Ansprüche der deutschen Bundesrepublik nicht nur aufgibt, sondern aktiv bekämpft. Nach innen wird gespalten und diskriminiert, und nach außen macht er sich mit Völkermödern und Kriegstreibern gemein.

This is something I wrestle with a lot - on the whole, things are awful not just because *stuff happens*, but because people have chosen for them to be this way. I'm not really sure what to do with that.

John Brown didn’t give up on Kansas & I’ll be damned if I ever do.

Can anybody recommend a good comic or graphic novel that features a dytopian bureaucracy of some kind? #GraphicNovels #Comics

Checks out

This is gold. Absolute gold. Spice even.

Chani and Paul talking... CHANI: So, Paul, how's the Muad'Dib job going? PAUL: They pay me in woims. CHANI: {math lady overlay, thinking about woims} PAUL: Woims.

I've been woimpilled

It's time for some woimposting

cant.stop.laughing

I think all of this is true and fascinating, but it's also important to add: Sometimes refraining from commensurating can also constitute a moral failure. So there is really a whole spectrum of cases between morally faulty commensuration and moral failure to do so

Nancy 2/22/26… 🪱WOIMS🪱

A Bauhaus Poster

A page of Isotypes as used and propagated by Neurath

Like, there is certainly some convergence between the social political aspirations of clarity and verifiability, and this particular kind of aesthetics (at least at that historical point)

There is a facinating and very hard to spell out convergence between the enlightenment politics of logical empiricism and the aestehtics of Bauhaus, and it's even more fascinating to see these exemplified and brought together already a generation earlier by Du Bois

As it is en vogue to describe Germany’s political landscape as resembling “Weimar conditions,” its worth taking a closer look at the era’s high levels of political fragility. In just 14 years of existence, the Weimar Republic saw 20 different governments. On average, a cabinet lasted only 244 days.

Wait, what? How on earth could anyone justify that selection? If Judith Butler isn't a political philosopher, who is?

Ursula Le Guin wrote a response to this kind of nonsense years ago. Read it instead.

www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about...

I wish we could show this headline to Thomas Jefferson and just see what happens

Sometimes folk argue that Ayn Rand isn’t a philosopher. And I’m like of course she is. Philosopher isn’t a success term, there are garbage philosophers!

Anyway, Zuckoff's biography of Ponzi is greatly enjoyable, in part because it makes me think about things like this.

Another way to conceptualise this could be to say that the sacrifice of his skin for a person he didn't know wasn't actually a good act, because it sprang from a kind of inability to think about consequences that isn't admirable. But that seems wrong, too. Of course he did an admirable thing there

After Ponzi's release from prison, he made his way back to Boston. While working at a mining camp as a nurse, he came up with the idea of going to another mining camp, starting a utility there that would supply water and power, and selling its stock. During this time, a fellow nurse called Pearl Gosid had suffered severe burns in an accident. Despite not knowing her, Ponzi volunteered for two major operations to donate 122 square inches (790 cm2) of skin from his back and legs to Pearl. This resulted in pleurisy and similar complications, and Ponzi losing his job.

Reading up on Charles Ponzi, and this little anecdote made me think about virtue and vice. It seems that the same thoughtlessness that allowed him to scam people also made him do self-sacrifices few would be capable of. Is it just a matter of bad moral luck that Ponzi ultimately became a conman?