Byronic Heroine
@byronicgirl
self-critical archetype🍸🚬💭 | e-μύωψ and yapper in the e-πόλις (highlights) | mostly art, literature, film, and ‘political’ philosophy | ☧🌊🏔️
I have many mutuals who I disagree with on a ton of stuff, but whose posts I find interesting and challenging to my own perspective. Tbh, I see mutuals as interlocutors and it doesn’t matter to me what their irl identity/credentials etc are as long as they post interesting stuff!
An elderly man living in a eucalyptus tree Australia 1893
Alexander wept, Caesar wept, Jesus wept. Your problem in life is not that you’re too passionate. You are not passionate enough.
There’s only one solution to education in the age of AI, however much people may not want to hear it: stand around in the agora asking passersby what virtue is
This is the central problem with higher education in the age of AI. We can't require students to do take-home writing assignments (e.g. term papers) any more, because most will cheat and have ChatGPT or Claude or Grok do the writing. But we can't teach critical thinking,…
the only surviving shot from the soviet film “ivan the terrible, part 3” by sergei eisenstein. it was commissioned by stalin in the 1940s, who admired the first part and disliked the second one so immensely that he banned it. one of the great lost movies.
the key is to make friends with people weirder than you so you’re normal in comparison
Next weekend, I'll offer the first installment in a series on Plato's Euthyphro, beginning with Strauss's interpretation of it. Strauss's lecture shows how carefully we ought to read Plato and articulates the tension between reason and revelation. x.com/i/spaces/1BdxY…
Woof! Just finished writing a commentary on Strauss's interpretation of the Euthyphro. What started as taking a few notes turned into a much bigger project. I want to share it with you in space early next week as a prelude to a close reading of the Euthyphro itself.
Ice Mountains in Antarctica - Ivan Aivazovsky, 1870
Did you try checking under the rocks at the beach for your old self?
You don't see people putting their ear against the ground to listen if a stampede is coming too often anymore
Not to brag but by the age of 26 I had watched citizen kane
Still in awe of this Bronze Age sealstone found at Pylos ten years ago. It's only 3.6 cm long (1.42 in.), but just look at the hair, the muscles, the sword, the patterned kilt, and that limp, dead arm.