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4th, penultimate, stanza: The prevalence of those gray flakes falling? They are sun motes. You have slept in the sun Longer than the sphinx, and are n...

Not necessarily personal baggage, though that can be part of it, or it. I think I just mean whatever seems to be in the way of a pure aesthetic experi...

Ok yeah, we're on the same page. It's really hard to separate what you want to express from the muck you've accumulated, while still finding the prope...

If you know where you're going, though, you can just punch it into the gps, and get the route sketched out.

I think I'm following. Let me test that: I understand you to be saying something like this : art is created in a shared environment. It's a broad, big...

a couple quick thoughts (1)Art has been commodified for a long time. Botticelli, for example, was directing a workshop of lesser-artists,in order to c...

A wiki project would be a lot of fun- but I just plum don't have enough expertise in this area to offer any edits (my previous post was unadulterated ...

Stanza 3 : A look of glass stops you And you walk on shaken: was I the perceived? Did they notice me, this time, as I am, Or is it postponed again? Th...

stanza two : So this was all, but obscurely I felt the stirrings of new breath in the pages Which all winter long had smelled like an old catalogue. N...

@"Banno"I suppose a good intro would contextualize everything. . Frege, I'm told, is foundational. But Wittgenstein plunks down in the middle like a r...

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fwiw, I was a baby-boy, too-nurtured. Might have been ok, but crisis (age ~14). If Mom & Dad didn't lose it, I probably would have been fine classwise...

It'll arrive. One of these days. Probably right when you forget to ask

Yes, that's it exactly! The difficulty is that, in ontophobia, you can't access the quality, for lack of a better word, of ontophilic space. You can o...

My feeling about suicide is that it's a response to an emergency that can be handled in various ways, but the person experiencing the emergency can't ...

I've noticed a pattern in pessimistic literature where any immediate feeling of meaning and contentment can only be read as a retreat from horror. The...

You can believe in a motive force of 'contradiction', and still disavow Mao. In fact, I'd recommend it. Let me summon a muse, because I might be out o...

I thought your post was really good. You approached 'subjectivity' as something like, I think, a role in a game. It was a structural approach. And I t...

The lady's the bible, the zizek's the 'you still like her,'

I have to start with something petty In fairness I didn't get {'when people are together in crowds, the fact of being together, changes them. Being to...

made me lol. De Sade by way of modern relationship therapy.

Makes sense. My religious upbringing was of the desultory 'I guess this year we're going to try going to mass for a couple months' sort and my spiritu...

The Gospels, funnily enough. Continuing on from the Old Testament, alongside a whole lot of secondary literature, and Yale lectures from their open co...

But what I'm having trouble discerning is precisely the implications of subjectivity when brought to bear on the phenomenon of crowds. That crowds hav...

I take the OP to be something like : If you think there's such a thing as a problem of evil, then the same logic should lead you to question parenthoo...

I'd add : no one worth trusting fully trusts themselves. That doesn't mean not trusting-yourself makes you trusttworthy, but it does mean you have the...

I think it's fair that I give myself some vulnerability. Here's how I think of 'subjectivity' in the sense relevant to this thread. if it's flawed in ...

That's fair. I'm thinking of it like this: The well is, in theory, public.It's never been easier to access 'high scripture.' But what does the applica...

There is no better way to pacify a righteous rage at real injustice than to give it a fake but clear decoy and let it feel falsely empowered through c...

Here's the contrarian, instinctively pouncing.... Though not really. I agree with those parts of your post that are susceptible to agreement vs disagr...

True, but one thing that women understand very well is that men often play out the social aspects of debate, without realizing it. But let me disentan...

Yeah, I realized after the post I'd left something important out and tried to sneak a patch in. I do think that stuff is important, in moderation.Some...

Reflecting, I think you guys are largely correct in terms of tactics for getting a democrat elected, and I was incorrect to argue in those terms. That...

I agree, ideally. And I also find that, more often or not, I'm competing or preening. Not only not living up to the ideal, but roundly ignoring it. I ...

It is, of course, a bad approach. But if we're on more or less the same side, I can think of nothing less productive than devoting a huge portion of o...

I think any worldview that focuses on identifying an inherent core of badness, rather than recognizing the inevitability of human fear, anger, weaknes...

Matthew 5:37 - " 'Let your word be "Yes, yes' or 'No, no': anything more that this comes from the evil one.'" This is orthogonal to the main flow of t...

Will respond in the morning.

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Also @"Maw" I was really careful here so its frustrating when you bulldoze over it. I wouldn't have qualified population with 'active voters' if I did...

I don't ask that anyone be more centric ('limp' is the background connotation.) I think it makes sense to get real and precise about what policies hel...

In terms of tactics, I think one puzzle piece is to not alienate roughly half of the US population( of voters.) If you begin with an attack, the perso...

Italian Fascism took root in the Po Valley. It made use of a political/economic space outside real state control to build a parallel de facto state. I...

I of course agree that we should constantly be checking ourselves morally. 'Not as bad as the worst' isn't a good standard of measurement. But, then, ...

Imagine I responded to your post like this: 'Oh here's another person who thinks every one who voted for Trump should be treated as a literal nazi. Bi...

I read the article. The worst thing you can do, right, is say 'it's bad, but it's not Auschwitz.' If I said that, I'd be torn to shreds. I wouldn't sa...

Literally, who are you talking to? I'm serious man, I would appreciate if you responded to my engaged response. I am responding to yours. I discussed ...

Link one: Hanover didn't define Naziism as anything. He pointed out a disanalogy between Trump and Hitler. Of course there is a good point - one you m...

If the close-reading of the cartoon is confusing, bracket the second paragraph and focus on the first . In the meantime, I'll take the time to read al...

I do recognize that. I tried to show in my post that I understand the point of the cartoon, and I also understand Hanover's argument, and I tried to s...