#political thinkers

[political-science-solution]

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[skullz-reblogz]

quoting my sister here because holy shit i never heard this put into perspective this way and she's so fucking right

"Jesus was rejected by society alone, and by supporting those who shut out minorities and other cultures, we might just be shutting out his own reincarnation. if anything minorities such as different races and those part of the LGBTQ have a closer connection to *heaven* itself. Being close-minded leads us to believe a false prophet"

using religion as your excuse to be a bigot goes directly against the teachings

[stepford-wife]

maybe more than one issue can matter at once

[jessica-marie-baumgartner]

Corporate publishers are killing themselves with their boring wokeism.

And conservatives know it.

[airplanefoodblackmarket]

We talk about “brain worms” a lot on this site, but it will never not be funny that the current leading figure of the anti-vax movement and the chief Ratfucker in the 2024 election campaign claims to have literal, actual, honest-to-god worms in his brain.

Could not even imagine more perfect news to wake up to this morning.

[thequietabsolute]

— John Grey. A Universal Liberal Hegemony.

[screenshot from my book notes. Nb., this is my own interpretation so don’t search for the reference for use in your essays, any students out there]

[flyinglowdown]

i have a dream. and that dream is cressida/eloise/lord debling

[waugh-bao]

Henna from the Fes Old Medina (July, 2024)

[aibidil]

On “Civilization” from The Dawn of Everything

One problem is that we’ve come to assume that ‘civilization’ refers, in origin, simply to the habit of living in cities. Cities, in turn, were thought to imply states. But as we’ve seen, that is not the case historically, or even etymologically. The word ‘civilization’ derives from Latin civilis, which actually refers to those qualities of political wisdom and mutual aid that permit societies to organize themselves through voluntary coalition. In other words, it originally meant the type of qualities exhibited by Andean ayllu associations or Basque villages, rather than Inca courtiers or Shang dynasts. If mutual aid, social co-operation, civic activism, hospitality or simply caring for others are the kind of things that really go to make civilizations, then this true history of civilization is only just starting to be written.

As we’ve been showing throughout this book, in all parts of the world small communities formed civilizations in that true sense of extended moral communities. Without permanent kings, bureaucrats or standing armies they fostered the growth of mathematical and calendrical knowledge. In some regions they pioneered metallurgy, the cultivation of olives, vines and date palms, or the invention of leavened bread and wheat beer; in others they domesticated maize and learned to extract poisons, medicines and mind-altering substances from plants. Civilizations, in this true sense, developed the major textile technologies applied to fabrics and basketry, the potter’s wheel, stone industries and beadwork, the sail and maritime navigation, and so on.

A moment’s reflection shows that women, their work, their concerns and innovations are at the core of this more accurate understanding of civilization. As we saw in earlier chapters, tracing the place of women in societies without writing often means using clues left, quite literally, in the fabric of material culture, such as painted ceramics that mimic both textile designs and female bodies in their forms and elaborate decorative structures. To take just two examples, it’s hard to believe that the kind of complex mathematical knowledge displayed in early Mesopotamian cuneiform documents or in the layout of Peru’s Chavín temples sprang fully formed from the mind of a male scribe or sculptor, like Athena from the head of Zeus. Far more likely, these represent knowledge accumulated in earlier times through concrete practices such as the solid geometry and applied calculus of weaving or beadwork. What until now has passed for ‘civilization’ might in fact be nothing more than a gendered appropriation – by men, etching their claims in stone – of some earlier system of knowledge that had women at its centre.

—The Dawn of Everything, Graeber and Wengrow

[httpsoftbunni]

The Average Person Doesn't Think Deeply

This might sound like a reflection on deeper thinking, but in my experience, many people don't engage in profound thought about most things. They tend to go through life without questioning much. I don't believe this is necessarily linked to intelligence, though there may be some connection. I've known people who excel academically and likely have high IQs, yet they still seem somewhat superficial in their thinking. They accept the world as it is and don't challenge it. Their thinking often seems limited to what's necessary for school or work. When you attempt to engage them in deeper, philosophical discussions, they often seem disinterested or even frustrated by the questioning.

Even average people are capable of deep thoughts, but my impression is that most people are conditioned to avoid such thoughts by a variety of forces, social as well as internal.

For one, it's really taxing, cognitively as well as emotionally, to think about such things, and there's often no immediate payoff to all of that mental effort. As you've noticed, plenty of brilliant people will put incredible amounts of effort into the everyday and the immediate, but will seemingly devote no time to the more abstract and mysterious. There's a lot of anxiety in uncertainty, and the sort of metacognitive stuff you're alluding to involves a lot of uncertainty. Most people would just prefer to take refuge in the everyday and the mundane, even in the world of spectacle and drama, rather than think seriously about the nature of the human condition and the true significance, or lack thereof, of their own lives.

Deep thoughts often go against the grain of our prescribed social functions, too--contemplating the meaning of drudgery usually leads you to conclude that the drudgery isn't worth doing, so there ends up being quite a lot of social pressure not to seriously question such things. We're taught from an early age to conform rather than to dream, and the nature of educational systems throughout the developed world attests to that ethos.

[empirearchives]

“What is fatality to us of today? Policy is Destiny for us.”

— Napoleon to Goethe

Source: Emil Ludwig, Goethe: The History of a Man

[your-average-teenage-mess]

Okay so I'm actually gonna stop doomscrolling and then complaining about every single annoying thing i saw someone on the internet say after I'm done with this one, but can i just-

have you considered that the way some of you get attached to your "queer icons" is actually pretty horrific to be on the other side of? Like, an artist does not "betray" you simply by virtue of doing stuff that are not the stuff that originally made you connect with their art, and that's fucking okay, and trying to phrase it as if they "stopped resonating with the queer communities that made them popular in the first place" is actually such a terrifying burden to put on a creator's shoulders? Like, people act like the fact that they got parasocially attached to a fucking preformer makes it the preformer's fault that people felt bad after they stopped performing the one fantasy they came for after fucking years on end, which- i think sometimes keeping a consistent and comprehensible identity can be part of a public work's job, but public facing creators are not their work. The person making a piece of art is still a person behind it, and their entire body of work is not bound to the one thing you liked about it, because they do not fucking know you.

just in case you're the kind of person who needed to hear that.

[sskk-manifesto]

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[athenov]

greek "leftists" who whitewash russian imperialism are the most annoying people on earth. happy last month of 2024

[theidealistphilosophy]

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.

Thomas Sowell, Source Unlisted.