Shau

Artist and Wordsmith. Shau (Kevin O’Shaughnessy)

[Dr Stephen Pax Leonard @stephen_pax]

To restore its reputation, Cambridge needs to close following:

Education
Gender Studies
Post Colonial Studies
Sociology

These departments employ ‘researchers’ airing ideological grievances dressed up in gibberish.

Not grounded in an any scholarly tradition, they allure fakes

[Liza Libes @pensandpoison]

What happens when the SAT stops asking students to read great literature?

Classrooms stop teaching it.

That’s why a new test is in order.

I sat down with @CLT_Exam founder @JeremyTate41 to discuss the collapse of the Western canon, why elite universities have abandoned academic excellence, and whether a standardized test could be our last hope to bring great books back to the classroom.

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

AOC is almost 37.

By the time Queen Victoria was 37 she had nine children.

Who is the “badass”?

[Aristocratic Fury @LandsknechtPike]

Nicolaus Copernicus was born in a granary house like this in Toruń in 1473.

His family were wealthy merchants. The conditions of living were very good for the time.

The house in which he was born has been preserved to this day and it's now a museum dedicated to Copernicus!

[Shau @Shau2026]

“In a democratic system, politicians are nothing more than the condensation of imbecility.”

-Nicolás Gómez Dávila

[Shau @Shau2026]

Currently re-reading: The Authentic Reactionary by Nicolás Gómez Dávila. I HIGHLY recommend this book!!

[A Time to Keep @no_grave_]

Home is made by little details

[The City Mentor @TheCityMentor]

Yet another city in Poland with stunning (reconstructed) historic architecture

[Joshua D Phillips @JoshPhillipsPhD]

Read Douglass "A Plea for Free Speech." It covers one of my fav concepts: Prohibiting free speech is "double-wrong." The speaker has a right to speak & the listener has a right to hear

It's infantilizing to tell adults they can't listen (read, view) materials you find offensive

[Liza Libes @pensandpoison]

Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy’s “uninspired, unedited passages” (??) are still a thousand times stronger than Joyce Carol Oates’ soporific 67th drafts.

(I did not want to make an enemy of Joyce Carol Oates, but her unprompted attack on Fyodor and Leo left me no choice.)

[Jeffery Tyler Syck @tylersyck]

Monticello (1809 final reconstruction):

[Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon]

If your only source of information is official news media you know less about reality than someone who never watched the evening news in their lives. Not everything on X is correct but at least here you have stand a fighting chance of catching glimpses of the truth.

[Shau @Shau2026]

“Your daily life is your temple and your religion.”

-Kahlil Gibran

[Shau @Shau2026]

“These days, personal taste has suffered a decline. Colors have become garish, flimsy shapes, and hideous designs. It is only natural that surrounded by such objects, our sense of beauty should be dulled.”

-Yanagi Sōetsu

[Shau @Shau2026]

Use the techniques, perspectives, and insights of the greats to expand your toolbox but then craft your own perspective based on your experience.

Oh, and don’t make yourself subservient to notifications and updates on your devices! Airplane mode can be your best friend.

[Shau @Shau2026]

Art is something that you do, not something to be merely studied in books.

Philosophy - good philosophy- is extracted from the way you live your life, not the articulation of verbal formulas.

[Shau @Shau2026]

“So briefly rests the dew upon the bush clover—even now it scatters in the wind.”

-Lady Murasaki’s final poem on her death bed in the ‘Tale of Genji