jneuf.bsky.social
Philosophy professor, critic, book review editor, recovering violist. Interested in aesthetic disobedience, democracy. Some opera, bit of Melville, more dogs than strictly necessary.
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But an actual man is so much harder to argue against than a straw man!
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That's why they're yelling all the time. Otherwise people would not notice them.
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Sorry. Shoulda CWed that
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I hear you. This is the view I woke up to a while back.
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Didn't Peter Falk already do a great Socrates?
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So obvious that the roots of "What you give is what you get" lie in the labor theory of value, once you think about it.
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Dude. Atlas is awesome, so "Atlantic" is fine. "Pacific" is totally beta, though.
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Shootitarianism?
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I never stop thinking about this comic frame
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I was going to make a visual for "WVOQ in Cincinnati" with Quine's head pasted over someone's, but it was too hard to graphically match fonts.
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Super interesting. I bet there's a big difference between public virtues & private virtues. I bet private virtues are pretty ordinary/old-fashioned. Public virtues seem to be so infused w/ conspiracy-resisting-trauma-avenging-action-hero virtues as to be unrecognizably (to me) virtues in real life.
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You definitely live in the right town to exacerbate that particular problem.
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I grew up in central MN and used to find the accent of people from up north (from da range--the g there sounding more like a ch) striking
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To this day I regret that I killed my own Minnesota accent shortly after I discovered I had one when I was 15.
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Thanks!
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Klemperer must be conducting the Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra which, as you know, is commonly shortened to BulgO. So the underpants stand in for the orchestra.
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I think Stephen Fry would really capture the book's mix of slapstick and dry humor.
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They were really on top of things with blackbirds. Maybe they they were making up for their very bad day naming woodpeckers?
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Whoa. That made me curious how many followers I have. 🤘