You need to be vocabulary maxxing because there are some thoughts you'll only have if you have the words for them. Nietzsche: "We have only the particular thought for the words that are present in our minds." Knowing more words means giving more clay to your mind to sculpt ideas
Very unpopular opinion but I think in a healthier world our schools would teach the so-called “useless things”: Latin, old poetry, classic cinema, how to read and enjoy challenging novels. Studying these things won’t make you a better person. But they will give you a better life.
The honest B or C student, submitting essays filled with awkward constructions, malapropisms, earnest, if failed or surface-y arguments--a surprise hero of the present age.
anyone with taste more esoteric than me is a circlejerking schizophrenic. anyone with taste less esoteric than me is a slop producing brainrot consumer
11 am, Saturday, East Village Brunch
$36 for eggs
What are you working on?
No yeah that’s sick,
That’s sick, that’s so cool, no no that’s actually so cool, have you seen […]? No yeah for sure, for sure, that’s so cool, no yeah I totally get it, totally, yeah definitely no, no no, for sure yeah that’s so cool, no yeah, yeah no, no, no no no, yeah I get it, no yeah, I just think that […]. What am I working on? Nothing just exploring haha, no yeah haha yeah yeah no I’ve looked into that yeah, yeah, yeah no I totally get that, no for sure. Have I heard of them? Yeah they just raised their seed right? Yeah that’s sick haha no way! Yeah for sure, I think they’re cooked too. Haha for sure, keep me updated alright?
No yeah totally, I’ll keep you updated too.
No yeah,
for sure.
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