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Kerwin Fjøl
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Kerwin Fjøl
@zermatist
Media ecology, semiotics (not the French kind), intellectual history, other various nonsense. https://t.co/xDtglVk4q0
Annwn Katılım Eylül 2017
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@AldousAsterion @olivertraldi I think it has been the default attitude of early scholars on canonical texts. In fact, in a lot of medieval exegesis (w/multiple religions), the scholar winds up correcting an inconsistency even while pretending just to interpret it. Strauss represents this attitude on steroids.
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@zermatist @olivertraldi Very Jewish way of thinking, no? The author & text are perfect. Therefore increasing cleverness in interpretation is required to make them suffice across time.
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I have to admit that I am not tempted by the idea that there are no accidents in a "great book". I'm not even sure what it would mean, really.
mansfield book club@contrapolisci
Wanting to learn to read like a Straussian? Skip AI, read Great Books.
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If anyone needs to understand the foolishness of Straussian thinking, I've distilled the fundamental problem with it here.
Kerwin Fjøl@zermatist
@olivertraldi The reason great books are great is often that the author is stumbling in an unrefined manner upon a groundbreaking new idea, one which lesser minds will later come along and refine and finesse. The greats are great because they're bold and daring, not perfect.
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Where did this guy come from exactly? He's one of these recent new internet personalities who has been unceremoniously dropped onto my TL and now everyone is talking about him as if they've known his work for years.
Max 📟@MaxNordau
WATCH: "Professor Jiang" explains that we could fix poverty by printing infinite money but we don't because we want people to be poor. I am not joking.
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@ScottMGreer Well, that makes me feel a little better!
I am still quite pessimistic, though.
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@zermatist The admin is doing a lot on immigration. Not just the ICE raids. the only refugees allowed in are white. It's much harder to get a green card, H1b, and student visa. These places still complain that migrants are too frightened to come work.
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One could make the same case for Europe and claim it's hopeless because its governments fail to deport people with orders to leave. (France only evicts 10 percent of migrants with deportation notices.)
But that's dumb, and just as stupid as insisting Americans must accept the browning of their country.
Kerwin Fjøl@zermatist
The problem is that America is already flooded with hostile aliens from the third world, and Trump has explicitly said he refuses to deport them, so long as they work at a fast food joint or a hotel or whatever. (cont.)
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@ScottMGreer Don't you think both should be done? What is the value in announcing you won't deport immigrants who are working? It basically sends the message, "The browning of America will not be done as a sprint but a leisurely jog"
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@zermatist The ICE raids have convinced over 2 million migrants to leave the country. Sweden is pushing good policies to make their country unfriendly to new migrants, but can't get the migrants there to take payouts to leave.
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Kerwin Fjøl retweetledi
In my 35 years as a dissident, only one academic ever invited me to speak to her class: Amy Wax of Penn Law School. Despite a vicious campaign to strip her of tenure and fire her, she invited me REPEATEDLY.
Her book on race is finally out in audio.
Amy Wax is the bravest woman I ever met.
barnesandnoble.com/w/race-wrongs-…
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Some of the most interesting ancient and medieval writing occurs during the unrelated tangents, not the main argument. This is something worth keeping in mind when you consider the standards of today's editors.
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I can definitely understand voting Republican if you think their tax policies are better, but if you're voting for them because you think they're going to turn the tide on multiculturalism, you're just delusional. America is run like a corporation. Corporations aren't racist.
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The truth is, there are no brakes on the browning of America. There will always be a "based" right, and it will continue to get a) browner, and b) more vulgar and obnoxious. This is why I've been saying since 2024 that Latinos For Trump represents MAGA better than anyone.
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The problem is that America is already flooded with hostile aliens from the third world, and Trump has explicitly said he refuses to deport them, so long as they work at a fast food joint or a hotel or whatever. (cont.)
Xenocosmography@xenocosmography
1) Help to defeat MAGA. 2) Democrats flood the US with ~100,000,000 virulently hostile aliens from the third-world. 3) ??? 4) Total America First victory.
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New Neurosis album surprise drop today and with Aaron Turner joining the band on vocals and guitar. Holy shit.
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@olivegroves333 If you've got a choice of breeding hot or breeding smart, you know what to pick.............
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The reason "eugenics" and "dysgenics" are meaningless concepts is that true evolutionary fitness is retardmaxxing
Jonatan Pallesen@jonatanpallesen
The total number of smart people in the world has just peaked. And now it's about to crash.
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@SaladBarFan I always felt like he was one out of maybe five people on here who understood where I'm coming from. Probably a lot of people on here would say the same thing.
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Kerwin Fjøl retweetledi
What if instead of giving money to shameless grifting whores Elon Musk threw a couple million at Spotted Toad to come out of retirement and start blogging again?
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He didn't answer :(
Kerwin Fjøl@zermatist
@xenocosmography I remember you being very unimpressed by Trump in 2016 and claiming that his pursuit of the presidency was only at best a bad parody of Moldbug's ideal of a CEO running a sovcorp, so I'm wondering how it is that you've swung so radically far in the other direction
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