Worm That Walks
@W0rmThatWalks
"...the souls of men seeing the images of themselves like Dionysus in a mirror..." | Platonist | NRx mind; anarchist heart | Homesteader | Toxoplasma Symbiote
Elevator speech of views: Against: Leviathan states, dehumanizing technology, soulless materialism, mindless consumerism, alienation from Nature For: organic, integral community; self-ownership and self-determination; human-scale tech, Perennial Philosophy, ecological harmony
The Queer Theory of Americanness: Real Americans are those in a state of alterity relative to people who actually have lived in America; those who start living in America rapidly lose their Americanness via normalization and must always be displaced by new Real Americans.
Nah. This is what Europe is like, but America doesn't work like this. The Real Americans have always been the pioneers who showed up chasing a dream.
Moments like this drive many right-wing people *insane* Public criticism of the postwar asylum system was tantamount to Holocaust denial like, last year. The sort of thing which can get you totally ostracized. But then an article like this comes, and suddenly it's normal.
The asylum system is not working. It cannot cope with a world of proliferating conflict, cheap travel and huge wage disparities. A more pragmatic approach starts by helping refugees find shelter closer to home econ.st/3TzdTGJ
this is why so many young people are blackpilled on capitalism it's because what we have now isn't a free market. nor is it fair. it's a rigged game.
the problem isn't capitalism, it's MMT stonks go up because printer go brrr. then people (who are already rich) get richer and think it's because of "muh investing GENIUS" when really they are riding the wave of $$ debasement When they do QE, it's not for the middle class 🚨
Attempts to induce the cognitive helminthiasis known as 'Sydney Sweeney just ended wokeness', which have already been definitively falsified in previous iterations, are a near-perfect indicator of the carrier being either a moron or slop merchant. Block or mute.
People who get this excited about advertising deserve to be enslaved
Undoubtedly, part of the reason for this abrupt release is damage control/distraction from the Epstein kerfuffle, but I’ll take it: absolutely a bloody nose for the Boomer Truth Regime to have this confirmed, even if it’s something that was common lore in DR circles.
MLK watched his friends rape women and laughed. We’ve known this for a while via a King historian who was allowed to access these files. Now we have the files. MLK was scum.
The brazen fabrication of the Russiagate hoax by the US intelligence community and their media partners for purely political ends (all of which was visible from the start) was and is the only genuine scandal involving Trump and the Kremlin:
Even after John Brennan was told by career intel experts that the Steele dossier was garbage, Brennan ignored them and forced its inclusion in the ICA. “Yes, but doesn’t it ring true?” Brennan reportedly responded after being told the Steele dossier “failed to meet basic…
I had a Kantian/Libertarian philosophy prof - an intelligent, passionate man who was my most engaging pedagogue in a formal setting - who had us focus one day on why, given our usual moral priors, we should not seek to eliminate certain predaceous animals. Absurd, but instructive
A blue whale eats between 30-50 million krill a day. They can live to be over 100 years old. Trillions of krill tortured to death for the benefit of a single animal life. Is it worth it? Let us exterminate the blue whale!
Liberalism is an ethnicity. We could already have its exact genetic profile if we were serious enough about it. ...
There’s certainly a time and place to ‘terrify the normie; spit upon the journalists; become incomprehensible; revaluate all values!’, but that time is not a semi-formal debate show. Good example of failure to translate from one medium to another.
Wolfgang Smith and 'scientism' in the face of traditional metaphysics and phenomenology.
Interesting that Wolfgang Smith bases his geocentric thinking on the primacy of the phenomenological perception that the human being has of the world. Man's phenomenological experience of reality is fundamentally Earth-centered (in more ways than simply cosmological).
Cannot imagine selling my dignity like this. You feel embarrassed for him having to do this level of bootlicking, like some uncontrollable reflex went off in public.
Sad @colbertlateshow is cancelled. I'll miss moments like this, where Claire Danes is talking about "the intelligence community allying itself with journalists" & Colbert abruptly changes the subject!
No fitting translation for the German word Geist that gets the full spectrum. Literally ‘Ghost’ yet too Halloween-ish which is why theologians rather say Holy Spirit, but spīritus feels too light and Romanesque, whereas Mind too intellectual. (Hence also the loanword Zeitgeist.)
I have my quibbles with some of the questions, but this is at least roughly accurate.
New political compass test just dropped. taxedbrass.github.io/tbpolcomp/
GDP is a meaningless aggregate statistic. As I demonstrated before actual prices over median wages show the real economy in higher resolution.
Tucker: We shouldn’t use GDP as a measure because I don’t know what it is. If we only used concepts understood by Tucker to discuss political and economic issues, we’d be stuck with UFO enthusiasts and demonologists as our only sources of authority.
Our ancient Judeo-Christian civilization… That wasn’t called that until I was 25.
The term "Judeo-Christian" effectively did not exist before around 1995 & the initial gearing up for The War on Terror. It is purely an affectation of neocon propaganda: there is no "Judeo-Christian tradition." Saying so is historical vandalism.
I'm ever more convinced that the reality of Soviet economic life has been mischaracterized, including by the regime itself, as "communism/socialism" – to make it seem vaguely intelligent, experimental, and foreign – when it was more like a county entirely managed by a…
The word “Neoplatonism” is itself neo (new) and, like so many other neologisms in philosophy, far more problematic than helpful The word was invented in 19th century Prior to the 19th century all so-called “NeoPlatonists” understood themselves as fully within Plato’s teaching
This Wednesday, Mrs. MCC and I will continue our series on Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil! We will finish Part Two, On the Free Spirit. Come join the reading and discussion. x.com/i/spaces/1vAxR…