@FungibleWorker this is sick. reminds me that you put me onto Schmitt's Theory of the Partisan which I found useful in my (almost-finished) thesis on domestic counterinsurgency targeting early Cold War conspiracy theorists, the framing of security threats blurring the liberal civil/military line
@mattiabanfi24@6lim6atan For example: I would say the socially constructed idea that women are more nurturing is not arbitrary, even if it is untrue. The basis of the assumption is the physical proximity to child-rearing and caretaking, then mistaken for a natural fact about a gender
@mattiabanfi24@6lim6atan It doesn't mean that it's arbitrary. Arbitrary would be the relationship between the words "tree" or "shoe" to the actual physical objects. Socially constructs typically have some material basis for why they formed (and then afterwards taken to be natural).
I'll never forget when Tracy Chapman came into my office with her new novelty song, Fart Car. I said kid, you change the first "r" to an "s," slow down the music at least 2x, you got a hit
music is the coolest thing to be obsessed with. books are second. movies a distant third. chess is fourth. mini-golf five. the devil is six. then god is seven. then god is seven. then god is seven. this monkey's gone to heaven. this monkey's gone to heaven.