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Encyclopedia, not dictionary

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 21:46:28 +0000

Encyclopedia, not dictionary - aimed towards multiple audiences. Probably not as silly & uneducated as this tweet makes out.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowe_Ateny

Meanwhile, here's the way

artappraiser — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 20:27:19 +0000

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Meanwhile, here's the way people thought while "The Enlightenment" was bubbling through the brains of elites:

The first Polish language dictionary (published 1746) included definitions such as:

"Horse: Everyone knows what a horse is."
— Quite Interesting (@qikipedia) July 5, 2021

So we in the U.S. in the 21st century, with our PoMo brains, must still forever pay for the bad things these kind of people did in the colonies of north America?

American Affairs is an

Orion — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 15:29:41 +0000

In reply to thanks, turns out I already

American Affairs is an unorthodox journal. Every issue has at least something interesting in it.

Bitekover & Dem pushback

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 06:55:45 +0000

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Bitekover & Dem pushback

Republicans simply don't have a platform, just a culture attack brand.

https://digbysblog.net/2021/06/the-aggrieved-voter-turnout-model/

ah, hah one of my favorites

artappraiser — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 21:37:32 +0000

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ah, hah one of my favorites, drove me nuts as a kid, but ironically that's a PoMo classic doncha know, that "Hollywood" can get us to believe anything contra our lying eyes

Really how can you tell? In

ocean-kat — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 21:33:49 +0000

In reply to Remember how Jackie-O got

Really how can you tell? In one pic he's wearing glasses which we all know is pretty much the perfect disguise.

Remember how Jackie-O got

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 19:34:00 +0000

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Remember how Jackie-O got into snuff films for a while and everyone was thinking, "who could blame her", but then she pulled out of it, but like John Jr was totally scarred, and we never even admitted it, and waddawe got now but George Fucking Clooney? I think not, this is a piece of Americana we have to deal with - John Jr was the real deal - we all let him down. Like when we went to say goodbye to Castro, celebrate his Marxist life - wasn't *that* a kick in the ass. Too soon...

OMG are you sure it’s not Clooney!?? pic.twitter.com/hQCZKGeVFL
— (@mkfphotos) December 12, 2020

On the other hand, a current

artappraiser — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 19:15:51 +0000

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On the other hand, a current "trending" on twitter reminds me that QAnon is really really a PoMo/Foucault type thing, way past anything he dreamed about. And also how ridicule by peers (lol!) is the only way such a thing can be dealt with:

Another person taking a picture with Vincent Fusca at the rally yesterday. QAnon believers think he’s JFK Jr. pic.twitter.com/z5iV6xiz54
— PatriotTakes (@patriottakes) June 27, 2021

Un-retouched photo of Jackie-O waiting for Vincent(JFK Jr) in the van, parked down by the river. pic.twitter.com/KjWlMgiLpL
— guyp (@jackflash59) June 27, 2021

but there really are certain

artappraiser — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 18:47:13 +0000

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but there really are certain common realities if you look hard enough:

Took a trip to Walmart today to buy an air conditioner. It's as bad as everyone says - seas of cheap plastic junk, near universal obesity, lots of electric scooters for people far too young to be non-ambulatory. But even more grotesque is the idea that cultured elites . . .
— Ian Marcus Corbin (@ianmcorbin1) June 27, 2021

would heap scorn on the People of Walmart. This is ground zero. The engine room of the capital-accumulation economy. This is where limitless, ever-growing consumption happens. This is where swollen, screen-addicted bodies are made, consumers for healthcare services . . .
— Ian Marcus Corbin (@ianmcorbin1) June 27, 2021

and pharmaceuticals. These are the low prices that allow for stagnant wages, which prop up share price. This is why your portfolio is doing so well. This is the money that climbs up the chain until it gets to you and me, and we spend it at Whole Foods . . .
— Ian Marcus Corbin (@ianmcorbin1) June 27, 2021

or our neighborhood bookstore, or some artisinal cheese shop. The People of Walmart are the originary wealth creators. So much of the cultural disdain poured on them functions to acquit the elite of their role in designing and profiting the system . . .
— Ian Marcus Corbin (@ianmcorbin1) June 27, 2021

As long as we know they're Racist and economics is about simple free choice, we can reassure oursleves that they deserve every bit of the misery and degradation that powers our curated lives.
— Ian Marcus Corbin (@ianmcorbin1) June 27, 2021

Endocolonialism
— Kyle Patton (@patton_kyle) June 27, 2021

I would quibble with his bringing in "racism" of Walmart clientele here, as there are plenty of Walmarts in this country that service a black underclass demographic, I've definitely been to them where this white lady was decidely a minority customer. Unless you are pointing out a kind of "racism" where "both sides do it", as there is definitely that.

I think: ironically, elite Woke kids don't see this side of society, they are blind to it, were raised not to see Walmart, don't even realize it's there.

I'm confused. We know that

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 11:22:57 +0000

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I'm confused. We know that internet changed people's interactions and expectations. Then Amazon for eCommerce online shopping. Then Google Search changed the next (10 years later). Then iPhone/Android for walk-around computer guides. Then Facebook for friending and sharing info. Now online banking/payments. WhatsApp for calling. Zoom for meetings. These are in-your-face signals of new paradigms, but historically there's always been zeitgeist phenomena - things that shaped us, that inform our assumptions and subconscious behavior - WWI, the Spanish Flu, the Lost Generation, the Great Depression, WWII, post-war boom/suburban sprawl, the hippy protest 60's, Reagan generation, fall of The Wall/end of (most) Communism, and so on. When the microscope let us see smaller and smaller, our brains assumed we just had to look deeper to find answers. (Google says just have to type your phrase clearer). Heisenberg came along, and suddenly answers weren't guaranteed or even possible - all our "certain" treaties fell apart and we got WWI instead of eternal peace. 90s' confidence in internet and the sole remaining superpower got waylaid by the dot com crash and the unwinnable war in Iraq - bringing major changes in people's psyche and assumptions. 1950s assumed getting married and buying a house in the suburbs with affordable education as a basic - Gen Z thinks you're crazy rich and totally unwoke if you manage (or want?) this. 50 years difference, may as well be different planet.

So why is Foucault noting dependencies even controversial? Gladwell notes the 5 richest most successful internet tycoons born within 2-3 years of each other. I had access to the same facilities as one of them but 5 years later - the super window of opportunity had already passed, not that it was bad by any means - but the wormhole in space and time wasn't there. Small rare fissures.

Much of our thought came out of specific periods - small segments of the Renaissance and the plague, Marco Polo's return, Columbus' first voyage. Christianity was formed at the Council of Nicaea more than any other event. Martin Luther's treatises were Christianity 2.0. These defined most of what we know of Europe - not the sum of all the pieces - we're not that complex.