Elliot
@1t2ls.bsky.social
gym selfies and poetry 🏳️🌈 NYC
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same handle on tiktok
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American society is so cooked.
December 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
American society is so cooked.
bulk was supposed to start this week but i’ve been sick; still not better but we’re prepping the meats
December 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
bulk was supposed to start this week but i’ve been sick; still not better but we’re prepping the meats
Today’s poem: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “In Memoriam”, section 119.
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December 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Today’s poem: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “In Memoriam”, section 119.
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my top artist of the year was Radiohead. and yet if you asked me if i like Radiohead I would say “not really”
December 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
my top artist of the year was Radiohead. and yet if you asked me if i like Radiohead I would say “not really”
The amount of graft is obscene.
December 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
The amount of graft is obscene.
Today’s poem: Thom Gunn, “Black Jackets”
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December 2, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Today’s poem: Thom Gunn, “Black Jackets”
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check-in day. 179 this morning.
December 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
check-in day. 179 this morning.
i have visiting privileges
November 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
i have visiting privileges
the cat posting will continue until vibes have improved
November 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
the cat posting will continue until vibes have improved
all who call on the name of the floof shall be saved
November 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
all who call on the name of the floof shall be saved
it’s past 2pm. the gym closes at 4pm. must leave apartment.
November 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
it’s past 2pm. the gym closes at 4pm. must leave apartment.
Rorty, “The Humanistic Intellectual: Eleven Theses” (1989)
![8. In the current flap about the humanities, however, the heresy hunters have a more vulnerable target than usual. This target is what Allan Bloom calls 'the Nietzscheanized left'. This left is an anomaly in America. In the past the American left has asked our country to be true to its ideals, to go still further along the path of expanding human freedom which our forefathers mapped... But the Nietzscheanized left tells the country it is rotten to the core - that it is a racist, sexist, imperialist society, one which can't be trusted an inch, one whose every utterance must be ruthlessly deconstructed.
9. Another reason this left is a vulnerable target is that it is extraordinarily self-obsessed and ingrown, as well as absurdly over-philosophized. It takes seriously Paul de Man's weird suggestion that
'one can approach the problems of ideology and by extension the problems of politics only on the basis of critical-linguistic analysis'. It seems to accept Hillis Miller's fantastic claim that the millennium [of universal peace and justice among men] would come if all men and women became good readers in de Man's sense'. When asked for a utopian sketch of our country's future, the new leftists reply along the lines of one of Foucault's most fatuous remarks. When asked why he never sketched a utopia, Foucault said, 'I think that to imagine another system is to extend our participation in the present system.' De Man and Foucault were (and Miller is) a lot better than these unfortunate remarks would suggest, but some of their followers are a lot worse.
This over-philosophized and self-obsessed left is the mirror image of the over-philosophized and self-obsessed Straussians. The contempt of both groups for contemporary American society is so great that both have rendered themselves impotent when it comes to national, state or local politics. This means that they get to spend all their energy on academic politics.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:erlumtdbibbxc35lmlybbvde/bafkreiabq4jio6m75yqhk2mh2n5fki7omiwvowwzb3psandby2uf7awtoy@jpeg)
November 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Rorty, “The Humanistic Intellectual: Eleven Theses” (1989)
my sleep schedule is a bit screwed up.
November 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
my sleep schedule is a bit screwed up.
Today’s poem: Terrance Hayes, “Zora in Beaufort, 1940”
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November 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Today’s poem: Terrance Hayes, “Zora in Beaufort, 1940”
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fwiw, more americans are literal biblical creationists than think trump is a good president
November 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
fwiw, more americans are literal biblical creationists than think trump is a good president
