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Accept the limit. Everything gets easier.

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Submit buttons are awesome but I ammmmmmmm tired. Should I sleep or push thru and

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@justinecheng_ @LevellingSpirit That’s why interiority is really about the cultivation of morality

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@justinecheng_ 🧡

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@justinecheng_ I’m thinking ….

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@zamaranthism Ok, but then you’d have to say why is Zionism evil. A particular evil? Inherently evil? Its outcomes in history have been evil?

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@justinecheng_ I understand where interiority becomes problematic (“this is right because my feelings say so”), but this is a rather limited view of interiority. I live what I think because I have actively sought to make it part of my being. How I move and act in the world.

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@justinecheng_ If we don’t have interiority then how or why does our experience of the world matter? Unless you think it should not? Yet half of what I say refuses the idea that I must listen to conventional wisdom about x, because I can see, feel, sense that X is not it.

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@justinecheng_ @LevellingSpirit can you weigh in

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@justinecheng_ Romanticism is the establishment of the individual as a self, which requires the development of interiority that becomes the primary source of everything. But that interiority comes from engagement/ur thinking about yourself in relation to your world. Maybe I’m off…

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@justinecheng_ Are you saying they don’t have origins? Isn’t the point that you become the origin, you become the source. I’m a bit confused…

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@justinecheng_ But romanticism is not saying that that interiority is purely internal.

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@drumm_colin Wouldn’t he have to give up his position? Isn’t he generally a stubborn man who refuses to bow to power?

[Sam Wetherell @samwetherell]

RIP Chris Wickham. Unlike so many historians who emphasise particularities and contingencies, he was the master of constructing grand, coherent, beautifully rendered worlds out of his evidence. This, from his 2021 Past and Present essay, is a masterpiece of historical writing.

[Robbie Griggs @robbiegriggs]

For my part, I've tried to resist this disposition and have chosen, as far as is possible, to do things the harder and longer way. The first assignment supervisor gave me was to translate the Septuagint of Deuteronomy 28 - 32, which took me weeks and taught me a lot.

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@pruett_jordan @drumm_colin My own sense is that sex is where violence is hardest to understand. because it is internal to pleasure. I don’t have more to say yet, but I’m thinking on it.

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@pruett_jordan @drumm_colin Yes, I am aware that ur substantive positions differ.

Re Dworkin, I’ve come back around a bit to considering there is something in her general observation. Ppl say that rape victims are scared to come forward after they’ve been raped, it’s supposed to explain underreporting.

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@pruett_jordan @drumm_colin I was thinking analogically. :)

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@pruett_jordan @drumm_colin Hmm.

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@pruett_jordan @drumm_colin It’s like a blend of graeber and dworkin