Sir Culls

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[Sir Culls @circles2waves]

we live in a world (Twitter) where, upon reading something we are surprised by, we, without faces to read, find ourselves stalking profiles. Then we can relieve ourselves: "oh, they're insane", "oh, they're stupid", "oh, they're a fascist".

[Sir Culls @circles2waves]

some are calling it the best facebook marketplace purchase ever. Ignore my boner

[Sir Culls @circles2waves]

“In nobility is all wisdom.”

CHORUS, Alcestis, Euripides

[Sir Culls @circles2waves]

brother came from dust and is NOT grateful. These are our adults! And we wonder why we wake again deserving dust!

[V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams]

“Most democratic and egalitarian nation in history…” idk man I mean the bar was pretty low

[Sir Culls @circles2waves]

If, of course, we take “political” to mean “meaningless junk set to stow undercurrents of true but deceived social intentions.”

[Sir Culls @circles2waves]

You’re implying that those who make “defenses of social justice work” consider what they’re defending “scholar-activism” instead of just scholarship. Scholarship detached from any social value is, when evaluated by one side, always, by that side, considered overtly political.

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

It's hard not to notice that defenses of social justice work mostly turn on insisting that scholar-activism is a made up right-wing term—despite hiring committees, grant orgs, and scholars using it—rather than simply saying "here's why scholar-activist work is good and matters."

[Sir Culls @circles2waves]

This is where you start to see the true ugliness of BOTH the words conservative and progressive.

[Sir Culls @circles2waves]

"[The name 'gentleman', "whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis,"] describes a man standing in his own right and working after untaught methods."

Emerson

[Sir Culls @circles2waves]

Emerson, Manners

[Sir Culls @circles2waves]

@thezachloeffler that being said, as I said above, I had no familiarity with what you were even responding to when I wrote this, and, now having read parts of it, I also think its a load of blubber. It argues for the freedom of scholars but rejects the conclusions they overwhelmingly come to

[Sir Culls @circles2waves]

what I don’t get is why the objective is defined JUST by facts instead of what we agree about. You can call it “delusion,” but don’t *you* agree with it?

“Only what proves itself to every man and woman is so,
Only what nobody denies is so.”
Whitman

[Dialectical Zach-Zack Loeffler @thezachloeffler]

Otherwise, we can’t be the objectivists we want to be. Surely there must be another way of holding on to truth than by sacrificing it to delusion.

[Sir Culls @circles2waves]

@thezachloeffler I was at a wedding party yesterday so I couldn't respond, but I want to clarify that I have no issue with what you said here. But I would argue following the *attitudes* of *critical writers* is just as susceptible to blindly honoring your parents

[Sir Culls @circles2waves]

And this “pre-critical account” is just honoring your parents, I presume (I have no clue what OP is really referring to, which makes my possibly irrelevant reading to me more exciting).

[Sir Culls @circles2waves]

philosophers hate simplicity because they want things to be hard so that they get to continue in their self-contained labor. Scholarship and philosophy are twins in that they imply and require an exclusive or solitary effort. I think that’s anti-democratic

[Sir Culls @circles2waves]

But you also don't have to consider it false to consider it, as speech in the great congregation, seldom worth it

"and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee" Psalm 40

[Dialectical Zach-Zack Loeffler @thezachloeffler]

Pretty unscholarly assumption that work sensitive to the undeniable senselessness of omnipresent suffering is somehow in principle false whereas a kind of neutrality that denies its politics, in spite of the conspicuous evidence, is a guarantor of truth

[Sir Culls @circles2waves]

How strange it is that I would need to lay down my claim to Grown Knowledge, only by Youth thirsted, to yield my tongue to those whose youthfully collected Waters mark my eyes muddy... Myself speaking pleads to play solemn! Myself silent you dispose.

[Sir Culls @circles2waves]

Some people loathe this, and really loathe Jesus, and the former is only and usually obviously a consequence of the latter, because they want more than anything to be an Adult, to take Things seriously, to talk with sterile faces begotten by Knowledge. To see our childishness!

[Sir Culls @circles2waves]

Not to mention our own poor shepherding of the child we at best are.

[Sir Culls @circles2waves]

Not to mention our own poor shepherding of the child we at best are.

[Sir Culls @circles2waves]

The matter of the times will and always has been the entitlement humans have over children. Theirs, others', the future's.

[Sir Culls @circles2waves]

I'm sorry but if you're writing a book, and you're okay with ANY person picking it up and it not being for them, you are doing scholarship, not literature. And some people on this app would say it's okay to do scholarship. Find them to please yourself

[Sir Culls @circles2waves]

The American heart is the plain!