Marcelo Antillón

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

These pictures are nearly 150 years old.

They were made by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, one of the coolest artists you've never heard of...

[𝐬𝐨𝐯 ᯓ ✈︎ @sovietsoleri]

Giacomo Balla. "Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash," 1912.

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

Books for Book-o-Phobes
We have fallen into the bad and unquestioned habit of thinking that our educational system is broken, but it is working on all cylinders. What our educational system aims to produce is cultural amnesia, a wholesale lack of curiosity, history-less free agents, and educational goals composed of content-free processes and unexamined buzz-words like “critical thinking,” “diversity,” “ways of knowing,” “social justice,” and “cultural competence.”

Our students are the achievement of a systemic commitment to producing individuals without a past for whom the future is a foreign country, cultureless ciphers who can live anywhere and perform any kind of work without inquiring about its purposes or ends, perfected tools for an economic system that prizes “flexibility” (geographic, interpersonal, ethical).

In such a world, possessing a culture, a history, an inheritance, a commitment to a place and particular people, specific forms of gratitude and indebtedness (rather than a generalized and deracinated commitment to “social justice”), a strong set of ethical and moral norms that assert definite limits to what one ought and ought not to do (aside from being “judgmental”) are hindrances and handicaps.

Regardless of major or course of study, the main object of modern education is to sand off remnants of any cultural or historical specificity and identity that might still stick to our students, to make them perfect company men and women for a modern polity and economy that penalizes deep commitments. Efforts first to foster appreciation for “multi-culturalism” signaled a dedication to eviscerate any particular cultural inheritance, while the current fad of “diversity” signals thoroughgoing commitment to de-cultured and relentless homogenization.

We Must Know…What?

Above all, the one overarching lesson that students receive is the true end of education: the only essential knowledge is that know ourselves to be radically autonomous selves within a comprehensive global system with a common commitment to mutual indifference. Our commitment to mutual indifference is what binds us together as a global people. Any remnant of a common culture would interfere with this prime directive:  a common culture would imply that we share something thicker, an inheritance that we did not create, and a set of commitments that imply limits and particular devotions.
Ancient philosophy and practice praised as an excellent form of government a res publica – a devotion to public things, things we share together. We have instead created the world’s first Res Idiotica – from the Greek word idiotes, meaning “private individual.” Our education system produces solipsistic, self-contained selves whose only public commitment is an absence of commitment to a public, a common culture, a shared history. They are perfectly hollowed vessels, receptive and obedient, without any real obligations or devotions.

They won’t fight against anyone, because that’s not seemly, but they won’t fight for anyone or anything either. They are living in a perpetual Truman Show, a world constructed yesterday that is nothing more than a set for their solipsism, without any history or trajectory.

I love my students – like any human being, each has enormous potential and great gifts to bestow upon the world. But I weep for them, for what is rightfully theirs but hasn’t been given. On our best days, I discern their longing and anguish and I know that their innate human desire to know who they are, where they have come from, where they ought to go, and how they ought to live will always reassert itself. But even on those better days, I can’t help but hold the hopeful thought that the world they have inherited – a world without inheritance, without past, future, or deepest cares – is about to come tumbling down, and that this collapse would be the true beginning of a real education.

- Patrick Deneen

[Marcelo Antillón @marceloantillon]

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#Mapa del Estado de Occidente en 1824
(#Sinaloa y #Sonora juntos) 

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They just messed with the wrong Mexican #JuanWick

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Be grateful if you simply woke up healthy today, you are already having a better day than a lot of people out there.

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool." — Richard Feynman

[Salomón Chertorivski @Chertorivski]

Llevamos casi 24 horas en la Cámara de @Mx_Diputados viviendo una tragedia legislativa que podría ser recordada como la sesión más desaseada y violatoria del debido proceso parlamentario.

[Borges, Jorge Luis @BorgesJorgeL]

La gratitud es una de las más elevadas formas de ser y estar.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Don’t be scared because you don’t know.

Be excited because you are about to learn.

[pho @photonisdead]

Gm, art is powerful it can change how we see things

[Marcelo Antillón @marceloantillon]

@heyBarsee @ReneAGarzaM Lo que me decías 👆🏼

[Marcelo Antillón @marceloantillon]

@renatoulloa Nomas así se quita lo sonso mi buen 🙏🏼

[Rena @renatoulloa]

Pues no me dio miedo ser sonso en un tema nuevo, ahora a aprender 🦾

[Marcelo Antillón @marceloantillon]

@crockpics Woman Oh Woman 🫡

[A Murder Of Crows @TheWellOfSongs]

So many miracles every day.