#david alter

[eyes-above--the-waves]

I think we all need to pitch in and get David Alter a group therapy session where we unpack why he is constantly so offended by a guy who is literally sunshine and rainbows like, sir, you are not okay.

[wormzspring]

Oops guess whos d.i.ding (on the process to be diagnosed after it being brought up by my therapist) so this is awesome 🙏 tagged with alter tags for clairty... don't be weird thx

[topazl1on]

smartschoolboy9 music is really fire 🔥🔥

[lanadelphoxx]

[elinordash]

FILM & TV YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW: Day 3 – Characters

“Watson was more in love with Holmes — in a pure sense — than he could have been with a woman. He wouldn’t want to give up the excitement, the danger. As for Holmes, if Watson had gone off and left him for a woman he wouldn’t know what to do. He’d be stoned out of his mind every night.” – Jeremy Brett, as quoted in David Stuart Davies’s Starring Sherlock Holmes

[davidtennan-t]

oh he is serving

[hlebopecc]

metaphysical yaoi real????

[mitchmarner]

toronto media pitching a fucking tantrum that they didn’t get a special invite to mitch’s charity event because they’re pathetic, cruel, obsessive little freaks about him and he didn’t want hockey stories overshadowing the charity work … and then they immediately prove why it was the correct move by coming online to write stories about it to ignite a hate bandwagon toward him instead of doing the morally decent thing of focusing on and promoting the charity anyway … you know …. the kind of thing that could’ve proven why you belong at next year’s event by showing you’re an adult who can behave and prioritize charity over leafs stories for one fucking weekend

[nobie]

We can be together!

[slyandthefamilybook]

...And here we come upon a problem as basic as the nature of knowledge itself: all of our prodigious cognitive and computational abilities are inadequate to a full comprehension of our complex world. As humans, we remain heavily dependent on certain tools of perception and conception that our cultural and biological heritages have taught us are useful. These tools–such as language, causal logic, religion, mathematics–are indeed powerful, but they are powerful precisely because they reduce complexity to intelligibility by projecting our mental concepts onto the world. One consequence of this is that our recognition of significance is always what some philosophers call "theory laden," meaning that it is shaped by what our theoretical framework and cognitive tools encourage us to recognize as meaningful. Anti-Judaism, as I have argued throughout this book, is precisely this: a powerful theoretical framework for making sense of the world.

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After all, no matter how overrepresented the Jews may have been among the European "bourgeoisie," they remained a tiny minority of that class. How could that tiny minority convincingly come to represent for so many the evolving evils of the capitalist world order? More broadly, how could untold millions of Europeans (and not only Germans) come to believe–or act as if they believed–the claims of the Nazis (and not only the Nazis) that Jews and their conspiracies so threatened the security of the world that they needed to be excluded, expelled, or exterminated? According to Horkheimer and Adorno, the liquidation of the Jews of Europe was not grounded in "reality." It took place in the vast gap between and explanatory framework ("anti-Semitism") that made satisfying sense of the world to a significant portion of its citizens, and the complexity of the world itself.

They set out to explore that gap in a philosophical history of modern thought they drafted in 1944 and later published as Dialectics of Enlightenment. Their final chapter, "Elements of Anti-Semitism: Limits of Enlightenment," suggested that what gave anti-Semitic ideas their power was not so much their relation to reality, but rather their exemption from reality checks–that is, from the critical testing to which so many other concepts were subjected. "What is pathological about anti-Semitism is not projective behavior as such, but the absence of reflection in it." In their terms, the problem is a heightened resistance to reflection about the gap between our ideas about Jews, Judaism, or Jewishness, and the complexity of the world. From their point of view, anti-Semitism provides adherents with a cognitive comfort: the fantasy that the gap between our understanding of the cosmos and its fearful complexity does not exist.

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...[A]cross several thousand years, myriad lands, and many different spheres of human activity, people have used ideas about Jews and Judaism to fashion the tools with which they construct the reality of their world. The goal of my project, like Horkeheimer and Adorno's, is to encourage reflection about our "projective behavior," that is, about the ways in which our deployment of concepts into and onto the world might generate "pathological" fantasies of Judaism. And my choice of method owes something to Auerbach's conviction that the study of a given moment, problem, or even a single word in the distant past can teach us something about a much longer history, extending even to our own.

Selected excerpts from Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition (2013 Nirenberg, David)

[elysianmuses]

“It’s complicated.”

“Perfect. I love complicated.”

- Kill Your Darlings, 2013

[mushroomdropsystem]

Sign this petition or I'll follow you home and kill your dog

I came up with this this in the middle of a panic attack 🖤🖤

I'm so sane about these mfs

(He's literally me)

🚬

[im-thekeeper]

The duality of the man

And Lidge

[himbopunk]

oc x canon but in a "this guy needs more friends" kinda way.

(they met in a did/system groupchat. lucky's display name was probably like #1 mutie catboy or something stupid like that.)

[mscottontail-stash]

R E B E L L I O N | R E D E M P T I O N

"Do you know what the worst part is? Part of me was excited about proving myself to the Dread Wolf. This is how you do it, right? You get people so eager for those little scraps of approval they never see the knife coming."

[crowleysgirl56]

From everything that’s gone on today I don’t think we’ve taken the time to appreciate the gorgeous production photos from season 2 that have just been released from official photographer Robert Wilson.

Case in point, how are we all not collectively collapsing from heart attacks from this orgasm inducing photograph:

I mean LOOK AT HIM! SWOON SWOON SWOON.

Point me in the direction of a single person who doesn’t think David Tennant is attractive so I may give them a stern talking to.

Also, it is interesting that these pictures were released now. Very interesting indeed.

You can find all the pictures here: