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Oscar Wilde said, Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others. ~ I say, It is better to die on your effete than to live on your knees.
Philosophy is the art of meaning what you say but hermeneutically disguising it, occasionally denying it, professionally deconstructing it, demonstrably disambiguating it, quietly disparaging it, dutifully disassociating from it, deferentially disavowing it, and apophatically disaffirming it.
November 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Philosophy is the art of meaning what you say but hermeneutically disguising it, occasionally denying it, professionally deconstructing it, demonstrably disambiguating it, quietly disparaging it, dutifully disassociating from it, deferentially disavowing it, and apophatically disaffirming it.
**Read only books you don’t understand**
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October 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
**Read only books you don’t understand**
A great philosopher is someone who has decided to modify a...
Read more: https://longer.blue/posts/gD5H39NvJc
A great philosopher is someone who has decided to modify a...
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The posts and palaces and public places have been filled with buffoons, fools and clowns at various levels, offering a variety of services. Their function is to preach before the fetish the fiction of its perfection.
— Achille Mbembe, *De la postcolonie*
— Achille Mbembe, *De la postcolonie*
October 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The posts and palaces and public places have been filled with buffoons, fools and clowns at various levels, offering a variety of services. Their function is to preach before the fetish the fiction of its perfection.
— Achille Mbembe, *De la postcolonie*
— Achille Mbembe, *De la postcolonie*
The most potent component of racism is frame-flipping — positioning the bigot as the actual victim. Blacks are not victims, but beneficiaries of the war against hard-working whites. This is bigotry that doesn't seek to name-call but prefers to change the subject and straw man.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
October 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The most potent component of racism is frame-flipping — positioning the bigot as the actual victim. Blacks are not victims, but beneficiaries of the war against hard-working whites. This is bigotry that doesn't seek to name-call but prefers to change the subject and straw man.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
Existence is a scam made up by philosophers to sell more philosophy, which, after all, is the deliberate misuse of language for precisely that purpose. But if it’s all ineffable, we need to talk.
Life is a moral catastrophe. To exist is to be unavoidably complicit in an order that is entirely evil. What are we to do about this moral fact? Should we retire from existence as quickly and as peacefully as possible? Or is there another way?
Philosophers must reckon with the meaning of thermodynamics | Aeon Essays
Everything eats and is eaten. Everything destroys and is destroyed. It is our moral duty to strike back at the Universe
buff.ly
August 26, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Existence is a scam made up by philosophers to sell more philosophy, which, after all, is the deliberate misuse of language for precisely that purpose. But if it’s all ineffable, we need to talk.
"I don't quite know what an Aryan is."
"Well, it's quite easy. A non-Aryan is the missing link between man and beast. That can be proved by the fact that no animals, except the Baltic goose, have blue eyes."
— Nancy Mitford, Wigs on the Green (1934)
"Well, it's quite easy. A non-Aryan is the missing link between man and beast. That can be proved by the fact that no animals, except the Baltic goose, have blue eyes."
— Nancy Mitford, Wigs on the Green (1934)
August 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
"I don't quite know what an Aryan is."
"Well, it's quite easy. A non-Aryan is the missing link between man and beast. That can be proved by the fact that no animals, except the Baltic goose, have blue eyes."
— Nancy Mitford, Wigs on the Green (1934)
"Well, it's quite easy. A non-Aryan is the missing link between man and beast. That can be proved by the fact that no animals, except the Baltic goose, have blue eyes."
— Nancy Mitford, Wigs on the Green (1934)
There are only two problems with the world today:
1. The world.
2. Today.
— Nein (Eric Jarosinski)
1. The world.
2. Today.
— Nein (Eric Jarosinski)
August 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
There are only two problems with the world today:
1. The world.
2. Today.
— Nein (Eric Jarosinski)
1. The world.
2. Today.
— Nein (Eric Jarosinski)
✠ Catholic things ✠
Breviaries, lectionaries, reliquaries, mortuaries, misereres, ossuaries, cemeteries, dicasteries, prebendaries, sanctuaries, sermonaries, oratories, vestiaries, seminaries, monasteries, antiphonaries, responsories, hymnaries, friaries, and rosaries.
Keats' airy Citadel.
Breviaries, lectionaries, reliquaries, mortuaries, misereres, ossuaries, cemeteries, dicasteries, prebendaries, sanctuaries, sermonaries, oratories, vestiaries, seminaries, monasteries, antiphonaries, responsories, hymnaries, friaries, and rosaries.
Keats' airy Citadel.
August 2, 2025 at 3:09 AM
✠ Catholic things ✠
Breviaries, lectionaries, reliquaries, mortuaries, misereres, ossuaries, cemeteries, dicasteries, prebendaries, sanctuaries, sermonaries, oratories, vestiaries, seminaries, monasteries, antiphonaries, responsories, hymnaries, friaries, and rosaries.
Keats' airy Citadel.
Breviaries, lectionaries, reliquaries, mortuaries, misereres, ossuaries, cemeteries, dicasteries, prebendaries, sanctuaries, sermonaries, oratories, vestiaries, seminaries, monasteries, antiphonaries, responsories, hymnaries, friaries, and rosaries.
Keats' airy Citadel.
O, cut my lace in sunder, that my pent heart
May have some scope to beat, or else I swoon
With this dead-killing news!
Queen Elizabeth
Richard III. 4,1
May have some scope to beat, or else I swoon
With this dead-killing news!
Queen Elizabeth
Richard III. 4,1
July 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
O, cut my lace in sunder, that my pent heart
May have some scope to beat, or else I swoon
With this dead-killing news!
Queen Elizabeth
Richard III. 4,1
May have some scope to beat, or else I swoon
With this dead-killing news!
Queen Elizabeth
Richard III. 4,1
Fascism, for Adorno, is therefore not an excrescence that can be simply removed from an otherwise healthy organism.
July 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Fascism, for Adorno, is therefore not an excrescence that can be simply removed from an otherwise healthy organism.
Emerging from a conformist society that has enfeebled the capacity for resistance, fascism is less a distinctive political form than a radicalization of what modern society is already becoming: cold, repressive, thoughtless.
July 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Emerging from a conformist society that has enfeebled the capacity for resistance, fascism is less a distinctive political form than a radicalization of what modern society is already becoming: cold, repressive, thoughtless.
Fascist movements exhibit extraordinary flexibility in ideology, or what Adorno called “conceptless praxis.”
July 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Fascist movements exhibit extraordinary flexibility in ideology, or what Adorno called “conceptless praxis.”
Fascism evacuates politics of its content and reduces it to the mere circulation of propaganda. The old fascism and the new are alike in their ingenious use of propaganda without a higher purpose, as if the only aim were the perfection of mass psychology for its own sake.— Peter E. Gordon
July 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Fascism evacuates politics of its content and reduces it to the mere circulation of propaganda. The old fascism and the new are alike in their ingenious use of propaganda without a higher purpose, as if the only aim were the perfection of mass psychology for its own sake.— Peter E. Gordon
He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. ... Self-love seems so often unrequited.
— Anthony Powell, Acceptance World (1955), Ch. 1
— Anthony Powell, Acceptance World (1955), Ch. 1
June 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. ... Self-love seems so often unrequited.
— Anthony Powell, Acceptance World (1955), Ch. 1
— Anthony Powell, Acceptance World (1955), Ch. 1
We start life so full of life, with so much in us, so much more than we can ever comprehend. Then life itself knocks it out of us, and philosophy begins.
— Gillian Rose
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— Gillian Rose
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Jenny Turner · What else actually is there? On Gillian Rose
Love’s Work is the ‘existential drama’ of a postwar Jewish British woman philosopher, born in London in 1947, who...
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May 16, 2025 at 11:55 PM
We start life so full of life, with so much in us, so much more than we can ever comprehend. Then life itself knocks it out of us, and philosophy begins.
— Gillian Rose
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
— Gillian Rose
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Not that I have anything against paederasty myself — each man must decide for himself where beauty lies and surely the more affection in this world the better — but it is common knowledge that some paederasts are subject to pressures that do not apply to other men.
— Dr Stephen Maturin, HMS Surprise
— Dr Stephen Maturin, HMS Surprise
May 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Not that I have anything against paederasty myself — each man must decide for himself where beauty lies and surely the more affection in this world the better — but it is common knowledge that some paederasts are subject to pressures that do not apply to other men.
— Dr Stephen Maturin, HMS Surprise
— Dr Stephen Maturin, HMS Surprise
You fast, but Satan does not eat. You labour fervently, but Satan never sleeps. You want to light a votive candle, but they have disappeared because Satan has put a tariff on them. The only way to outperform Satan is by acquiring humility, for Satan has no humility.
— apologies to St. Moses
— apologies to St. Moses
April 4, 2025 at 3:30 AM
You fast, but Satan does not eat. You labour fervently, but Satan never sleeps. You want to light a votive candle, but they have disappeared because Satan has put a tariff on them. The only way to outperform Satan is by acquiring humility, for Satan has no humility.
— apologies to St. Moses
— apologies to St. Moses
Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please
Midas, they say, possessed the art of old,
Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold;
This modern statesmen can reverse with ease;
Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.
— Sir John Byrom, c. 1760
Midas, they say, possessed the art of old,
Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold;
This modern statesmen can reverse with ease;
Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.
— Sir John Byrom, c. 1760
April 4, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please
Midas, they say, possessed the art of old,
Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold;
This modern statesmen can reverse with ease;
Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.
— Sir John Byrom, c. 1760
Midas, they say, possessed the art of old,
Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold;
This modern statesmen can reverse with ease;
Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.
— Sir John Byrom, c. 1760
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Sometimes people think his name is i.e. marshall, but that is a mistake
April 2, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Sometimes people think his name is i.e. marshall, but that is a mistake
I danced with a Great Dane. He walked on his hind legs and wore an evening dress. I submitted entirely to the dog and I had the feeling that I was able to dance for the first time in my life, secure and without inhibition. Occasionally we kissed, the dog and I. (T.W. Adorno, Dream notes)
March 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I danced with a Great Dane. He walked on his hind legs and wore an evening dress. I submitted entirely to the dog and I had the feeling that I was able to dance for the first time in my life, secure and without inhibition. Occasionally we kissed, the dog and I. (T.W. Adorno, Dream notes)
There is no right pet in the wrong one.
(Lily Latté with her cat, Theodor W. Adorno with his dog, and Fritz Lang with his opossum)
(Lily Latté with her cat, Theodor W. Adorno with his dog, and Fritz Lang with his opossum)
March 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
There is no right pet in the wrong one.
(Lily Latté with her cat, Theodor W. Adorno with his dog, and Fritz Lang with his opossum)
(Lily Latté with her cat, Theodor W. Adorno with his dog, and Fritz Lang with his opossum)
I have been told there is another motive perhaps more powerful than all these, that induces people to cultivate this inclination; namely the exquisite pleasure attending its success.
— Tobias Smollett on 'sodomy', Roderick Random
— Tobias Smollett on 'sodomy', Roderick Random
February 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I have been told there is another motive perhaps more powerful than all these, that induces people to cultivate this inclination; namely the exquisite pleasure attending its success.
— Tobias Smollett on 'sodomy', Roderick Random
— Tobias Smollett on 'sodomy', Roderick Random
Trump is trying to remake the world in his image. He may yet succeed. That his first major foreign-policy move was an attack on his best friend, ally and trading partner is not an accident. It is the point.
— Tony Keller, Globe & Mail, 4 Feb 2025
— Tony Keller, Globe & Mail, 4 Feb 2025
February 21, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Trump is trying to remake the world in his image. He may yet succeed. That his first major foreign-policy move was an attack on his best friend, ally and trading partner is not an accident. It is the point.
— Tony Keller, Globe & Mail, 4 Feb 2025
— Tony Keller, Globe & Mail, 4 Feb 2025
“People have a tendency to believe far too much in what they believe,” she said. “Why not give some airtime to the thing you don’t believe?”
— Andrew O’Hagan, Caledonian Road
— Andrew O’Hagan, Caledonian Road
February 21, 2025 at 8:43 AM
“People have a tendency to believe far too much in what they believe,” she said. “Why not give some airtime to the thing you don’t believe?”
— Andrew O’Hagan, Caledonian Road
— Andrew O’Hagan, Caledonian Road
The Nazis knew that broadcasting gave their cause stature as the printing press did to the Reformation. The Führer’s metaphysical charisma ... turned out finally to be merely the omnipresence of his radio addresses, which demonically parodies that of the divine spirit.
— Theodor Adorno
— Theodor Adorno
February 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The Nazis knew that broadcasting gave their cause stature as the printing press did to the Reformation. The Führer’s metaphysical charisma ... turned out finally to be merely the omnipresence of his radio addresses, which demonically parodies that of the divine spirit.
— Theodor Adorno
— Theodor Adorno