Max Jackson

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[Max Jackson @DeadHorsePinata]

I was reflecting on Dostoevsky’s Demons and had a lightbulb moment where I saw Kirilov as an anti-Christ, i.e. a metaphysical inversion of Christ at the absolute limits of Christian thought

With obvious correlates in Nietzsche's anti-Socrates

https://t.co/0h3xhqsbaz

[Max Jackson @DeadHorsePinata]

We have to learn how to forgive ourselves too!

[Max Jackson @DeadHorsePinata]

I feel like there’s a phase people move through when they get into improv in which each scene is seen as some opportunity to unleash the frustrations they suppress in their everyday relationships.

[Max Jackson @DeadHorsePinata]

Nobody gets being human right on the first try - figuring out who we are and what we want and need is something that kind of has to happen the hard way through trial and error, which can mean a lot of pain for us and those we connect with.

[Max Jackson @DeadHorsePinata]

frustrating because desperate self-indulgence is hard to connect with in scene and from the audience, sad because it speaks to the common experience people have where all relationships (and especially intimate ones) are spaces of resentful self-diminishment and isolation.

[Max Jackson @DeadHorsePinata]

please enjoy this account of my disastrous attempt at standup during the pandemic: https://t.co/85lrP8y1a3

[Max Jackson @DeadHorsePinata]

Kinda the same way that Wittgenstein recommended looking at Freud, as brilliantly illuminating so long as you never take him literally

[Max Jackson @DeadHorsePinata]

Tolstoy justified the divinity of Christianity by saying that only the divine could be so compelling and divisively baffling at the same time

I think the same could be said of Hegel

[Max Jackson @DeadHorsePinata]

I'm getting a lot out of Hegel by reading him the way Kierkegaard recommended, as if everything he did was preceded buy "Behold my weird poem, see what it inspires in you"

[Max Jackson @DeadHorsePinata]

Sweet, sad reflections on the last few weeks of our beloved cat's life: https://t.co/Dh8u95ioZ7

[Max Jackson @DeadHorsePinata]

One thing that's shifted for me as I've gotten older: I've come to see every day that we (in a liberal democracy) don't collapse into violent chaos as a certain kind of miracle: https://t.co/KyDG9wRBRg

[Max Jackson @DeadHorsePinata]

Now I’m on to Kierkegaard, proto-Heidegger, whose Christian thought is much more inwardly illuminating and as such for me much more useful and relatable

[Max Jackson @DeadHorsePinata]

I finished a few of Tolstoy’s nonfictions - The Gospel In Brief, The Kingdom of God is Within You, and The Inevitable Revolution - and I have to move on

[Max Jackson @DeadHorsePinata]

His polemics are full of a psychic baggage that sadly left his legendary writing abilities palpably diminished. I feel stained, like I need a multi-hour shower, and sad that such a great artistic spirit could be so terribly diminished