Coxcomb the Diviner

[John H. Boyer @johnhboyer]

Happy to announce I built a Greek/English reader site with all the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, & Aristophanes.
Multiple translations for each play; click to parse & define for any Greek word; full Greek & English search.
https://t.co/8RevjZwyLl

[Coxcomb the Diviner @cxcmb_]

@lesliedouglasx @bronzeagemantis He’s deconstructing beliefs and has no care about society at large. Traditionalism has never worked in any capacity, and ethno-nationalism is off the table for everyone except Israel - which leads us to, yes, deconstructing beliefs. The world needs provocateurs & thinkers.

[foid'dib @tapwaterskeptic]

Happy Kissinger introducing Mao to his tall wife day to all who celebrate

[Coxcomb the Diviner @cxcmb_]

@lesliedouglasx @bronzeagemantis The difference which you ignore in bad faith is that the currents BAP criticises each lay a universalist claim to the future. ‘Society will’, ‘man should.’ The Nietzschean project instead is metapolitical: deconstruction to liberate higher man. No less ambitious, more realistic.

[Coxcomb the Diviner @cxcmb_]

The upper echelons of all races, the aristocratic few, are bound by a common thread.

In this sense, yes, I’m completely colour-blind. I’m not caste-blind though

[ℜ𝔞𝔢 @dystopiangf]

My wokest opinion is that human biodiversity is cool (ethnicities are basically tomes of ancient biological information extracted from eons of interactions w/ a particular biome) and that smashing everyone together into a greige worker class sludge would be a tragic loss

[Coxcomb the Diviner @cxcmb_]

@mahood1ab2 @spookyh8r These counterfactuals are silly. Had you followed a single path since 18, fixed & unresponsive to your environment, it’s not unlikely that you’d be a nervous wreck by 35, or do stuff that makes you feel barren out of sheer stubbornness. You’d be asking ‘what if I explored more’.

[Coxcomb the Diviner @cxcmb_]

@bronzeagemantis Not a sorry soul will remember ‘Hazony’ in a couple of years. They *will* remember you for quite a while, so as kleos goes, you’ve got it covered

Victory to the Gods

[Coxcomb the Diviner @cxcmb_]

@teachrobotslove Not really. This is mostly a BPD/PD thing. Most people want to be happy or don’t optimise for happiness.

[Coxcomb the Diviner @cxcmb_]

The cure for cancer (which an AI will never discover) is a public good. Pure mathematics is a high-status game like chess or fencing, one of the few left in the modern world.

So no we won’t, and the fact that this got a gajillion likes speaks to how utterly stupid this sphere is

[A Araya @artaraya]

@realBigBrainAI And when AI discovers a cure for cancer are we going to lament the loss of cancer research jobs?

[Coxcomb the Diviner @cxcmb_]

@mr_kemy @st_louis_stan Except this is the shittest, most pretentious movie this guy has ever produced, and that’s saying a lot for Noé

[Multipolar Press / Constantin von Hoffmeister @constantinvonh]

"What our so-called conservatives lack, as much as our so-called revolutionaries, is originality."

— Ernst Jünger

[Coxcomb the Diviner @cxcmb_]

@CourageOverAll True love certainly exists, and women are evil by nature.

Make of this what you will!

[Coxcomb the Diviner @cxcmb_]

@xwanyex This is not my impression of American culture at all, as an outsider. You love underdog stories, most 80s and 90s sports films - and these are a stapel of American culture - are about people overcoming their handicap and beating Goliath. Think of Hoosiers, Rudy etc.

[Coxcomb the Diviner @cxcmb_]

Whatever else it was, fascism never meant to 'erase cultures', especially not in Italy, certainly not in its early modernist phase. Vulgar though it may have been, the idea that it levels lives is the product of the same culture that promotes socialism as a cure-all.

[Manel Márquez 🍉 @manelmarquez]

"El verdadero fascismo no lleva camisas negras, vende progreso.
La sociedad de consumo logró lo que el fascismo no pudo hacer: borrar culturas, uniformar vidas y destruir Italia sin que nadie se diera cuenta.
El fascismo no fue derrotado, fue reemplazado."

Pier Paolo Pasolini

[eugyppius @eugyppius1]

It's obvious that the Covid response changed our lives and our politics in huge ways, constitutes this enormous caesura, and this fact is hardly ever discussed or analysed, just a completely forbidden topic in establishment discourse because so many are complicit.

[Coxcomb the Diviner @cxcmb_]

@space_homer Yes it ok. Ergo Proxy is pretentious though and Frieren is cool

[Coxcomb the Diviner @cxcmb_]

The only appropriate commentary on the Cornell 9 or whatever the news cycle shat out this time

[Bronze Age Pervert @bronzeagemantis]

I was just at frat house party all of a sudden six pitch-black motorbikes pull up in front, six guys all in black leather with runic helmets get off, walk into house proceed to rayp EVERYONE, women, men, chairs, everyone, then walk out and ride away. I was untouched.

[Coxcomb the Diviner @cxcmb_]

I don’t disagree that men are too passive, but they’re *also* too violent!

There is no tension here because… [insert convoluted vulgar dialectical argument from undergrad rhetoric textbook & something about sociohistorical context, but ironically phrased]

[Coxcomb the Diviner @cxcmb_]

@teachrobotslove @antigone_ikari He isn’t. The guy should not even be mentioned under the same breath as Tacos.

‘I’m addicted to foocking’ does not in itself interesting literature make