smatthewstolte.bsky.social
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Feelings also don’t care about your feelings. A person, not a feeling, is the sort of thing that can care.
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This is the reverse for me. When I was young, villains had troubled pasts. Only as I got older did the culture shift to black and white: all villains are plain bad. Likewise, I was initially taught that most wars were complicated messes; now I am taught even small disagreements involve one good guy.
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I’m worried this might be the sort of fact people can know but never believe.
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Man, those months in my life, man. I’ll tell ya! I can feel myself holding that very stack of comics right now, in August 1994. And everything around me.
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“It’s not you I hate, DEI program; I hate what I became because of you.”
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Does this feel like a modern day Trek phenomenon to you or just the culture we live in now? It feels like the latter to me. Something was sustaining the old morals (within a domain) and just isn’t there anymore.
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Somewhat less directly relevant but something that could give you a framework and stimulate your thinking is Nietzsche’s Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life. Also an enjoyable read.
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Timothy Noone’s lecture is a defense of the history of philosophy. Here.
communications.catholic.edu/speeches-and...
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In five years, no one will be able to tell that this post was engaged in moderate hyperbole.