@RachelXReads I've been following along old online discussions while reading Against the Day, and it's funny how many readers identify themes and images from Genesis or Revelation as references to something like Neon Genesis Evangelion instead
Death is always lurking. We see it in violence, in the wounds of the world, in the cry of pain that rises from every corner because of the abuses that crush the weakest among us, because of the idolatry of profit that plunders the earth’s resources, because of the violence of war that kills and destroys. #Easter
@NVA_Soldaten the way you've arrived at such a simplistic vision of both japanese and american people elides a great many nuances! this is why it can seem like the conservative brain perceives the world as only having about 60 people in it
@NVA_Soldaten your most recent retweet seems to imply that a video of a japanese folk band covering john denver (himself famous for his progressive politics) allows some meaningful insight into the political lives of approx. 480 million people
@jwest_edm no one's suggested that your studies have had any sort of political impact
the original post asked if work in the humanities can be apolitical - speculative greek metaphysics and medieval christological theories have had enormous political implications, so they can be ruled out
Just got the names of the 7 civilians Israel murdered in a school shelter yesterday.
(Please let me know if any Western MSM writes or says their names)
The victims of the Israeli terrorist attack were from two related families, including mothers and fathers:
▪︎ Atef Ahmed Al-Niddir (father)
▪︎ Fatima Al-Najjar (mother)
▪︎ Ahmed Atef Al-Niddir (son, 4 months old)
▪︎ Fawzi Abdullah Al-Niddir (father)
▪︎ Arwa Omar Al-Niddir (mother)
▪︎ Samira Fawzi Al-Niddir (daughter)
▪︎ Sama Fawzi Al-Niddir (daughter)
I’m attaching a photo of the 4-month-old baby, one victim of Israel’s terrorism.
He’s on the floor next to his slaughtered father.
@ASPertierra the preeminent historian of Müntzer, Gunther Franz, was an avowed Nazi and saw the Reformation, Peasants War and Nazism as part of the same continuity. naturally his more editorializing work hasn't been translated into English, but you see glimpses of it in Matheson's translation
@think___y@quilpatay@fitzcavendish@dee_of_e Butler describes a shift from one school to another; they do not ascribe a truth value to either. that you thought one school being 'ridiculously untrue' to be an indictment of Butler/continental phil indicates a fundamental misunderstanding of the subject
@think___y@quilpatay@fitzcavendish@dee_of_e it's not even up for debate if it's true or not - it's a description of a major development in Western philosophy that happened. that's clear enough if you have a basic grasp of the subject matter - the problem here is that you don't.