Stephen Pimentel
@StephenPiment
Engineer and essayist: @palladiummag, @mansworldmag_, @im_1776, @unherd, @AntigoneJournal, @TheSideViewCo. Classics, political philosophy, governance futurism.
San Francisco is a city on the edge: gleaming for APEC leaders in 2023, yet shadowed by nearby homeless encampments. The contrast is more than visual. It’s a metaphor for America’s civic contradictions. I look at the city in my latest for @im_1776. (1/6)
Can't have open genomes because something something far-right.
Colonial narrative, storytelling, and literature are good and should be vigorously pursued.
In essence, "decolonizing your bookshelf" is about actively resisting and casting aside the colonialist ideas of narrative, storytelling, and literature that have pervaded the American psyche for so long, says @itsjuanlove. trib.al/VKxyuRp
Indulging in the "punch a Nazi" meme is telling on oneself. It is straightforwardly a leftist declaration of a friend/enemy demarcation. It is quite obvious that the target is not Nazis, who barely exist. The target is always something else, which is being falsely labeled Nazi.
In terms of political economy, Britain is coming to resemble post-war Italy.
My wife had the TV on in the background today, watching an old rerun of Leave it to Beaver. This is the warning you must endure before watching. The leftist cannot bear even watching a simulacrum of wholesome family life.
“Coming or going, Day or night, You must just strive to Face the incomprehensible.” — Daitō
Why is Visa in a position to define limits of speech or affect political development? The must read Bismarck Brief (follow @bismarckanlys) on Visa closely this financial giant.
Visa is the middleman between thousands of banks, millions of merchants, billions of credit/debit cards, and $12 trillion of payments in 2022. But the company is a dead player subservient to U.S. banks. Read the new @bismarckanlys Brief here: 1/n
If “poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world,” what form of “poetry” (human making) is most influential today?
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If a bank teller leaves a stack of cash on the counter, and you reach out and grab it when his back is turned, that’s not a “glitch.” That’s theft.
Sometimes I still think about that whole viral “infinite money glitch” saga where people just started committing check fraud at Chase ATMs en masse, without understanding what they were doing or that they would inevitably get caught, calling it a “glitch” instead of…
My heart of silk is filled with lights, with lost bells, with lilies and bees. I will go very far, farther than those hills, farther than the seas, close to the stars, to beg Christ the Lord to give back the soul I had of old, when I was a child, ripened with legends, with a…
“We are frustrated that we have failed to control him.”
Gawker was the aggressor here, right? It’s not as if Hulk Hogan ever published private material about Gawker.