Donald Trump really seemed to function as America's collective shadow and we lowkey as a nation had to integrate the uglier things about our society

i never understood why research assistants were ok in one context but alarming in another. for instance, one chemistry research faculty i know has 20+ human assistants whereas most arts faculty i know have none🧐@kanair

i am beginning to see that Dogen has an edgy, informal, esoteric side. an inchoate darkness, where barren stone women give birth at night, in the shadows

the individual is the cathedral

“Clouds and mountains all tangled together up to the blue sky a rough road and deep woods without any travellers far away the lone moon a bright glistening white nearby a flock of birds sobbing like children one old man sitting alone perched in these green mountains a small shack the retired life letting my hair grow white pleased with the years gone by happy with today mindless this life is like water flowing east”

liberation is not submission

Choice has never been so good a guide for me as either necessity or intuition.

isn’t it exhausting always having to defeat, to rage, to arm?

i don’t know why anyone on this app thought ed sheeran was some kind of a principled activist

the warmth I became was life-world itself, prior to division into subject and object

what do you call a compunction to chase the latest idea as a hopeful antidote to the past and present?

every sensation fades until I was simply warmth itself

"When the great lord passes the wise peasant bows deeply and silently farts."

james c scott writes extensively about how local, tribal, vernacular confronts empire. and how formal, empire is "parasitic on informal processes that, alone, it could not create or maintain."

every node may fold back to source, ultimately regenerating the whole through joy and novelty

spirit suffers when made into an instrument

you cannot restructure a system you are unwilling to let go of

ours is a time of Mammon, Mordor and a journey right through the Heart of Darkness