Dr. John 🧡
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Anglican • Ph.D. in American & Environmental Literature with a minor concentration in Poetry • J.D. (soon) • Board game hobbyist • Ruskinian Socialist
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War is back in vogue and a zeal for war is spreading. The principle established after the Second World War, which prohibited nations from using force to violate the borders of others, has been completely undermined. #Peace is no longer sought as a gift and a desirable good in…
RT🔒: "We need, ASAP, to devise some way to socially sanction this kind of kneejerk libidinal "hot take" impulse. It should be as shameful as pissing your pants in public."
People say the classics are outdated, but The Great Gatsby has never been more relevant.
Don’t let anyone bully you into thinking you’re pretentious just because you read and know things. If more of us spent time passionately pursuing knowledge in books and libraries, we wouldn’t be suffering a literacy crisis.
"It turns out if you give people access to the Library of Congress, they watch videos on tiktok." - Neal Stephenson
Wassily Kandinsky • Aquarell für Frau Toni Kirchhoff • 1927
Should I read MacIntyre's After Virtue? I feel as though I ought.
“Justice removed, then, what are kingdoms but great bands of robbers?” Augustine, City of God
This is the way.
This explicitly means the removal of immigrant or immigrant-descended populations, not merely deporting illegal aliens or cutting immigration levels. It’s a fantasy, but it’s revealing that this is what the DHS thinks it should do with its social media megaphone.
This is a toxic way of understanding economic progress. It’s good when people are careful about what they spend: saving, investing, and delayed gratification are all good things. It’s not Americans’ duty to consume as possible to make the big line go up.
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever, and it's costing the economy, per CNBC
In much the same way as AI, the economically mediated influence of image-consuming mass tourism can impose the logic of the simulacra upon real things, violating and gradually erasing their quiddity.
Such well-known places tend to be tastelessly Disneyfied for tourists formed by mass media entertainment, more interested in consuming an artificial spectacle than in discovering the history, people, and culture that made a place itself. You need to go off the beaten track.
I’m not pissed that the NYT called Stoppard undereducated. I don’t actually care about that. I’m offended by the implication that reading books isn’t education itself. The attempt to divorce reading and education is why students think they’re now just in school for career prep.
Kandinsky. Always Kandinsky.
We live in a culture of ten-second reels, history as memes, AI that can summarize Hamlet in a sentence. And all of it is designed to make you distracted, your attention fragmented, your brain weakened. Read whole books, get an offline hobby, resist the infinite scroll.
Bingeing TikTok reels may be hazardous to your well-being. 71 studies, >98k people: The more short-form videos teens and adults watched, the more they struggled with attention, self-control, and stress and anxiety. Read a book. Watch a movie. Long live longform.
Wassily Kandinsky, Grey-Grey -Brown, 1924 #art #kunst #bauhaus #modernart #kandinsky
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