@ukepounder I find that remaining academically active even during breaks builds good habits, keeps you sharp, and better guarentees better results when school revs up again! I truly enjoy being productive. I suffer from success.
People throw around "larp" so casually that it's become a meaningless catch-all accusation rather than a meaningful criticism. I observe it discourages genuine interest because beginners are afraid of being dismissed or mocked before even getting the chance to learn.
@ukepounder I find that remaining academically active even during breaks builds good habits, keeps you sharp, and better guarentees better results when school revs up again! I truly enjoy being productive. I suffer from success.
And, if I may, it also sometimes undermines people who actually know what they're talking about by treating expertise and pretense as if they are the same thing. Buzzword, buzzword, buzzword. Start being enlightening, open minded, and educational rather than an otiose snob.
in antigone 332–333, sophocles writes, πολλὰ τὰ δεινά, κοὐδὲν ἀνθρώπου δεινότερον πέλει (“many are the deina, and none is more deinos than the human being”).
I translated a radical document by Joseph Fouché, from his time as a staunch Jacobin, that seemingly has not been translated into English before. Stefan Zweig calls it "the first communist manifesto." Link in replies.