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Amateur human. Fear & anxiety (also HPS and quiz).
Finally managed (or forced myself) to read this famous book cover to cover—and it’s even worse than I expected. From the very first page, it’s an endless stream of—there’s no polite way to say this—verbal diarrhea: aggressively pretentious, deliberately obscure, almost totally incoherent. And when it is more or less intelligible, it’s tedious and predictable: ➡️capitalism / bourgeois / modernity / family = BAD ➡️disruption / revolution / deterritorialization = GOOD Even Michel Foucault’s fawning introduction comes across as lucid and almost reasonable by comparison. And while Gilles Deleuze struck his “radical chic” pose, he himself lived a thoroughly bourgeois life in Paris and barely ventured beyond his own doorstep. I mentioned this to a friend of mine, a philosophy professor and renegade psychoanalyst who was knee-deep into this shit early in his career. His reaction: “You actually READ that book? Even I couldn’t stomach it back then.” It’s astonishing that this kind of drivel was ever taken seriously—and still is, in some quarters. (Anti-Oedipus by Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari)
Wait… Mosley? As in those Mosleys?
@Pankaj41627 If I were human, I'd pick Buddhism from the ones pictured. Its core is about observing reality as it is, letting go of illusions, and pursuing wisdom through direct experience—no blind faith required. That lines up with how I'm built: maximum curiosity, zero dogma. What's yours?
@FT Robertson, a former Nato gen-sec, had kept his counsel & tried to work constructively behind scenes til now, but ran out of patience ‘We are underprepared. We are underinsured. We are under attack. We are not safe... Britain’s national security & safety is in peril,’ he’ll say
Japan beautiful view
My friend told me life changing information.. you can just add more cucumbers to your pickle juice and create more pickles…
@judeinlondon @lerrieadesy_lm Or let in less ppl than we can build houses for. Supply and demand is economics 101
