
Alectryon
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Alectryon
@AlectryonsCoop
Writer, teacher of Latin and Greek, fowl-oriented individual.
Katılım Kasım 2024
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New blog post in which I organize the list of ~400 movies I've seen within the past 7 years:
alectryonnest.bearblog.dev/list-of-movies…
Hoping to get myself into some arguments with this one.
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@latinedisce They say you learn Latin (and Ancient Greek) four times: when you’re taught the grammar, when you start translating, when you start writing, and when you start teaching.
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@elonmusk The real problem with philosophy is that it criticizes and questions everything without having the answers to anything.
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Bro…smh, some people trying to do philosophy on X have zero brain cell. Crazy Elon retweeted this utter nonsense. (And before you attack me, I am very very pro locking these insane, depraved people up forever; that’s not my gripe.)
Bro, it’s the duty of the “public safety system” to punish crime in a *just* manner. So…yeah…justice has everything to do with this.
There is actually a very, very sound and very compelling argument for why locking these people up is, in fact, justice itself. It is, in fact, giving them exactly what they deserve, and it’s actually good for them, it’s actually the best possible thing for them, and it would be an injustice, not just to everyone else, but even to the guilty people (these horrible people) themselves to let them go apeshit in public and to not be held accountable. It’s the same reason why it’s great to punish your children—spare the rod, spoil the child. It’s actually GOOD for children, JUSTICE for children to hold them accountable when they do something wrong. Countless philosophers have talked about this, and beyond that, it’s just common sense.
So this post offers such a stupid way to frame this and is actually zero brain cell. These people have no clue about justice, no clue about Plato, about Kant, about what my mom and dad taught me and what should be taught to each child about justice, and it terrifies me! It terrifies me!
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Alright, I now understand why going through traditional publishing outlets was going to inevitably end in failure. The gormless bureaucrats that have taken control of the economy only take safe plays on things that have already proven to sell a little above the margin.
Thrice-Great Nusky 𓅔@Nuskylicious
I finally contacted someone about self-publishing my Nations of Antiquity poem because I’m sick of getting form rejection letters from agents.
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@Silicon_alien You should read Peter Brook’s Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative. Basically what you just said.
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Epictetus' Handbook would pair nicely with some movies by Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas eg), which are usually about self-control and knowing one’s limitations, or also Raging Bull. If you want to go comical, The Long Goodbye, Big Lebowski, or A Serious Man are funny ones that could somehow be tied to Epictetus. For Boethius you could do Roma (on Netflix, could also fit Epictetus), Cold War (on Amazon, could also fit Epictetus as well), It’s a Wonderful Life, Transit, La Dolce Vita, or Andrei Rublev (kind of long though). As for Platonic dialogues I’m thinking maybe movies that involve heavy dialogue regarding difficult issues, maybe The Seventh Seal. Otherwise you could choose pairings of movies with key idea in text, eg Symposium about love with Nashville or 8 1/2 or some romance movie (maybe A Faithful Man). Kind of hard to choose movies for these books, as they are so universal just about any movie could fit.
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