Mission of Böhme

tenor saxophone operator for Dave Matthews band, carnival barker for dead gods, former press secretary for the White House, poems and ecstatic noise

[Mission of Böhme @QuentinMahoney]

The answer, of course, is to abolish grades entirely and provide students with qualitative evaluations. Evergreen pedagogy vindicated

[Mission of Böhme @QuentinMahoney]

In 1984
I was hospitalized for approaching perfection

[Genius @Genius]

what’s the greatest opening line to a song?

[Mission of Böhme @QuentinMahoney]

American Pope /// Spinozan Pope

[camillao 🕊️💙 @Mar90490]

Pope Leo’s whole off the cuff speech in Sapienza university: “Who studies, who seeks the truth, eventually seeks God and will find God in the beauty of creation” ❤️

[Mission of Böhme @QuentinMahoney]

You see these titles in your mans backseat — red flag?

[Mission of Böhme @QuentinMahoney]

Tascam Leo

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

We could metaphorically say that in the era of the “digital triumph,” political action that is truly oriented to the common good requires a return to the “analogue.” Perhaps this is the real antidote to a politics that often shouts, consists only of slogans and is incapable of responding to people’s actual needs.

[Mission of Böhme @QuentinMahoney]

@VersoBooks Old friend is in town

[Mission of Böhme @QuentinMahoney]

This is why we had Jameson season tickets (on Spenser’s Faerie Queen, from the criminally overlooked Allegory and Ideology)

[Mission of Böhme @QuentinMahoney]

@TherynDArnold Haven’t read that MacGregor, but his Communist Ideal in Hegel and Marx is good (at least, I thought it was when I first encountered it)

[Mission of Böhme @QuentinMahoney]

A 2028 platform with real legs would campaign on delivering Trump, Biden, and Netanyahu to The Hague, no compromise. Begin a domestic and international truth & reconciliation process of moral reckoning and debt clearing

[Mission of Böhme @QuentinMahoney]

The Hegelian pope!!

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

#ArtificialIntelligence systems increasingly shape and permeate our mentality and social environments. Like every great historical transformation, this too calls not only for technical competence, but also for a humanistic formation capable of making visible the logic behind economics, embedded biases and forms of power that shape our perception of reality.

[Mission of Böhme @QuentinMahoney]

They’re calling it “The Full Baudrillard”

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction during a Pentagon sermon.

[Mission of Böhme @QuentinMahoney]

Nobody is talking about how Hampshire was Elliott Smith’s alma mater

[Mission of Böhme @QuentinMahoney]

I first read this as starring Terry Eagleton

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The first teaser for ‘EVERYBODY WANTS TO FUCK ME’, starring Taron Egerton, was just shown at CinemaCon.

The thriller follows a man who discovers that every woman is stalking him & wants to fuck him.

[Mission of Böhme @QuentinMahoney]

Thus began/Outrage from lifeless things

[Mission of Böhme @QuentinMahoney]

If only we could have seen this coming

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Tim Dillon on MAGA: “It’s the greatest con in history, truly. To run as America First and you’re gonna take care of America and then turn around and go all of these things daycare, Medicare, we have nothing to do with that, we’re fighting wars. It is the greatest scam in history”

[Mission of Böhme @QuentinMahoney]

@sethharpesq @HeerJeet What might be called the “Simpson/Bruckheimer Corollary” to C Wright Mills’ original analysis would, I imagine, have nontrivial explanatory parallel

[Mission of Böhme @QuentinMahoney]

Another judiciously executed Seymourian Epithet

https://t.co/DyqikK7A3x

[Mission of Böhme @QuentinMahoney]

@kunktation Say what one will about Adorno, he’s pretty good about the automated quality of commercial art well prior to LLMs. Not sure there’s much functional difference between most Netflix content over the last 8 years and an AI-Gen tv show (the issue of labor/IP another story, obviously)

[Mission of Böhme @QuentinMahoney]

No surprise at all that Zippy the pinhead has zero interior life, and that he assumes this is the case for everyone else

[Mission of Böhme @QuentinMahoney]

Rene Descartes and the foundation of modern philosophy — certainly no introspection happening there!

[David Senra @davidsenra]

Great men of history had little to no introspection.

The personality that builds empires is not the same personality that sits around quietly questioning itself.

@pmarca and I discuss what we both noticed but no one talks about:

David: You don't have any levels of introspection?

Marc: Yes, zero. As little as possible.

David: Why?

Marc: Move forward. Go!

I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past. It's a real problem and it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home.

David: So I've read 400 biographies of history’s greatest entrepreneurs and someone asked me what the most surprising thing I’ve learned from this was [and I answered] they have little or zero introspection.

Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self.

He just woke up and was like:

I like building Walmart. I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts. And he just kept doing it over and over again.

Marc: If you go back 400 years ago it never would've occurred to anybody to be introspective.

All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy, and all the things that kind of result from that are, a kind of a manufacture of the 1910s, 1920s.

Great men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff.

The individual runs and does all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology.

And then this kind of this kind of guilt based whammy kind of showed up from Europe. A lot of it from Vienna in 1910, 1920s, Freud and all that entire movement. And kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to basically second guess the individual.

We need to criticize the individual.

The individual needs to self criticize.

The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell in the past.

It never resonated with me.