Cȯsꭑọ ∴ ọꭑƨȯƆ @cosmiccitizen@schelling.pt

The American liberal, who has recently come back from a brutal campaign destroying the government that had been understood as the most powerful in the world, wrote a new definition of universal human rights on the back of a cocktail napkin and in the same evening proceeded to hire a prostitute in a racist manner (???) and passed out from a bunch of old-timey drugs.

Continental liberalism: [visibly sweating] We have to very precisely preclude every possible consequence of popular liberty of while constraining the revolutionary potential of liberalism, but if we don't accommodate the popular appeal, we'll be inviting a new Napoleon.

American liberalism: YOLO

In Avatar, James Cameron uses his aesthetic imagination to reconcile his drive for oceanic ecotourism and his rich techie drive for techno-competence pr0n.

And on that same date:

On this note, I was looking up the news from July 13, 1946. I found this really touching remembrance that WEB Du Bois wrote for a friend of his. It's a pretty amazing little wormhole. You'll be glad you read it.
https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/pageturn/mums312-b216-i115/#page/1/mode/1up

AB FONTES!

I have this urge sometimes to make a hobby out of re-listening to archival postwar media in chronological order, like listening week-by-week to all those "Bell Telephone Radio Hour" things. It seems like the key to recovering whatever culture was before the Boomers.

I have no use for Roman theory. I have no use for Aristotle, either. I root for the Platonic or the non-Socratic Greeks.

My shibboleth is the password for everything true, moral, and beautiful. Your shibboleth is meaningless sounds that conceal your ignorance behind obfuscation.

The highest form of friendship can communicate exclusively in memes.
What the Greeks called "philia" refers to that affectionate recognition of the self in others, and much of meme culture is organized around the recognition of the self through moral friction. By presenting memes to others we are able to confess our troubles, our self-concepts, and refer these to trusted others for aesthetic evaluation. The totality expresses that play drive building through moral striving.

Remember when that Dean did that interpretive dance to R.E.M. to inform a bunch of MFA students that their COVID-era tuition wouldn't be refunded? What a display of dominance.

You need to be mischief-maxxing. You need to be training children in how to make weapons and vehicles. In your Dennis the Menace era.