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Leon Šamec

@RinValger

all opinions my own; you can support me on https://t.co/uosJSsjF63; https://t.co/1i84nm9sXv lots of other mini essays on Substack

Katılım Ekim 2022
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Wall Street Mav
Wall Street Mav@WallStreetMav·
The European brain cannot comprehend that Americans do this for fun.
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Leon Šamec
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Having lots of sex even with different people that is not cheating is not immoral, of course, if it is not pedophilia or rape. If these restrictions are stemming from religion that is another thing.
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Leon Šamec
Leon Šamec@RinValger·
My neighbor's news were terror to hear to me. I was lying on the bed and was hearing through the wall the reporter on the TV. The sheer listening to them was terror to me.
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Leon Šamec
Leon Šamec@RinValger·
I had to play Diablo for significant amount of time to ventilate from dipshits I was interacting with on X by pretending that they were demons I was killing. That was better than interacting back with them as I would then be engulfed in an idiotic exchange.
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Leon Šamec
Leon Šamec@RinValger·
@WallStreetMav If I was offered to be engineer of that engine I think I would accept it only if I was desperate for money.
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Leon Šamec@RinValger·
@WallStreetMav I can't comprehend why would you build such a great engine just for a 15 second stunt.
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Elon Musk
Elon Musk@elonmusk·
@brivael Rousseau was such a diabolical asshole!
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Brivael Le Pogam
Brivael Le Pogam@brivael·
Je me rappelle au lycée, j'avais une prof de français qui me répétait : « Rousseau, c'est mon auteur préféré. » À l'époque, j'étais complètement illettré, je n'avais pas lu un roman. Depuis, j'ai rattrapé un peu le retard. Et force est de constater : Rousseau est lui aussi un poison pour l'esprit français. Tu as raison de remonter à lui. Le geste fondateur est là. L'homme naît bon, c'est la société qui le corrompt. La propriété, la hiérarchie, la tradition, l'institution, tout ce qui structure une civilisation devient suspect. Le mal n'est plus dans l'homme, il est dans l'ordre. Donc il suffit de défaire l'ordre. De cette intuition découle tout le reste. La Terreur, qui croit pouvoir régénérer l'homme par le décret. Le socialisme utopique, qui croit pouvoir abolir l'égoïsme par l'organisation. Le wokisme, qui croit pouvoir purifier la société en démantelant ses normes. À chaque fois la même logique : l'homme est innocent, l'institution est coupable, donc il faut casser l'institution. C'est faux. L'homme n'est pas né bon. Il est né pulsionnel, ambivalent, capable du meilleur et du pire. Les institutions n'oppriment pas une nature angélique, elles canalisent une nature ambiguë. Détruire les institutions ne libère pas un bon sauvage, ça libère un homme livré à ses pires instincts. Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze n'ont fait que radicaliser Rousseau avec les outils du XXᵉ siècle. La matrice est la même : soupçon de toute autorité, dissolution de toute hiérarchie, fantasme d'un état originel pur que les structures auraient trahi. Donc oui, le péché originel commence avec lui. Et la France a une double dette : avoir donné Rousseau au XVIIIᵉ, et avoir donné la French Theory au XXᵉ. Deux fois le même poison, juste recombiné. Au travail.
Melissa Chen@MsMelChen

Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality and Emile popularized the myth that humans are born good and society (property, hierarchy, tradition) ruins us. Fix it with the right education, the right state, the right social contract, and we shall return to natural harmony. This is the kernel of modern progressivism: the belief that inequality is unnatural, institutions are oppressive, and experts/moral vanguards must engineer a better humanity. From this foundation, many took it to the extremes - reign of terror, Pol Pot. But even in moderation it was harmful! Because ultimately It rejects the empirical reality that humans are flawed, self-interested, and that institutions channel that into productive order rather than radicalism and violence. French Theory (post-1968) took Rousseau’s suspicion of truth, power, and norms and turned it into an uglier monster. But the original sin starts with him

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Leon Šamec
Leon Šamec@RinValger·
@bitcloud I think that the high amount of understanding you can get from AI can reduce your ability to write school essays as for them to be long enough you have so spit unfinished thoughts.
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Leon Šamec
Leon Šamec@RinValger·
@hexesandspell It is when people push through with bullshit that sabotages the real ones.
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@hexesandspell·
A street philosopher with no degree has more wisdom than a podcast teaching success from a studio.
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Leon Šamec
Leon Šamec@RinValger·
@MaryRuwart It is a problem when the guy in power won't be correcting fault in the system although you sufficiently explained it to him.
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Leon Šamec
Leon Šamec@RinValger·
I think I would prefer to work in 17th/18th century than today. The feeling of being just a cog in a machine goes too hard on me nowadays, mechanicism hits my soul hard nowadays, it is uncomfortable, then it was more fleshy.
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Leon Šamec
Leon Šamec@RinValger·
I have problems with saying "I think" when I get emotional, you should forgive me for that, for when I don't write it then.
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Leon Šamec
Leon Šamec@RinValger·
@StephenPiment I was reading Aristotle's Politics and couldn't make of/understand most of what he was saying/trying to say. It was like a wall of text to me.
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Stephen Pimentel
Stephen Pimentel@StephenPiment·
Homer, Virgil, Plutarch, Plato, and Aristotle are all superb and far more worth reading than a large majority of recent books.
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