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Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
rukirie.bsky.social
Almost a month since I cancelled my ChatGPT subscription and nuked my account. No regrets.
6 months since I cancelled Disney. Netflix after Xmas 😵. Then Google.
December 1, 2025 at 10:39 PM
rukirie.bsky.social
Jiraurocracy:
Administration chiefly through Jira workflows, dashboards etc and nonelected Jira project admins (Jiraffes).
November 23, 2025 at 9:59 AM
rukirie.bsky.social
How long until sentient washing machines and from there how long until the epidemic of mass appliance suicide? See also "You pass butter."
November 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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June 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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January 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
rukirie.bsky.social
Of course it's more nuanced than I thought. Good insights from
open.spotify.com/episode/0y24...
January 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
rukirie.bsky.social
Meanwhile, in Iceland, election results in a 180° direction of government.
December 21, 2024 at 9:30 PM