so cool to put a thought into a toaster and have the same answer arrive twice within a couple minutes, someone else come explain why we should put our political energy towards doomed projects. then someone argue con

This take brought to you by a brief overview of Lacanian philosophy which says "everyone's either psychotic, perverted, obsessive, or hysterical."

As an obsessive I'm not saying he's wrong I'm just saying any academic discipline that still uses the term "hysterical" should be dropped from the canon

In the mind of an average reddit user "philosophers" can be either sharp-dressed French sex offenders, sloppy-dressed bearded blokes, or Nazis.

Women can't be philosophers, only "social critics" and "writers." Obv

If you don't say "there's 4 types of people and they all suck" ur not a philosopher

Isn't Lacan like "Hey I know everyone ditched Freud for Jung's revision but what if we took the abandoned part of Freud and made a whole worldview from it?"

I know some artsy nerds (affectionate) that use substack! I feel extremely neutral about it

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