Ironicwarcriminal posted:blinky what's that takin' over book like i might get it for the missus
its cool, lots of wisdom interspersed with silly stuff like what bugs creep him out. it reads mostly like a collection of emails stitched together tho, also it's pretty old and he has kinda developed a lot as a voice since so it's cruder than what he would be capable of now. comes with a neat dvd too
blinkandwheeze posted:owned
tell your maid to dust that turtnable, jesus
stegosaurus posted:defying the tomb
i just got this too
stegosaurus posted:Defying the tomb is really good. i wanna write this guy.
Write to! Write to
Urgh, americanisms
ilmdge posted:
mao would say "DAMN THATS TOO MUCH LEOPARD PRINT, LOOKS LIKE A DAY AT THE RATCHET ZOO"
clanzy posted:im working through baudrillard's america book right now. i like it except when he gets all self-congratulatory about how ~~deep and thoughtful~~ european culture is. mostly i think it's that it puts things i've felt at a primordial level forever into more stirring words than my idiot nerd brain can imagine
Yes, here I’m totally for Europe — and specifically for the German authoritarian tradition. England is already corrupted. In England, students think they can simply stop you and ask you a question. I find this repulsive.
That said, I quite admire the United States and Canada. In some ways, they are better than Europe now. France and Germany, for instance, are currently in a very low state intellectually — especially Germany. Nothing interesting is happening there. Yet it surprises me how intellectually alive The United States and Canada are. Let me give you an example: Hegelian studies. If Europeans want to understand Hegel, they go to Toronto or Chicago or Pittsburgh.
littlegreenpills posted:i was rereading do androids dream of electric sheep until yesterday evening when I left it on the sofa and the dog in my avatar ate it. she just vomited a large bolus of partially digested paperback onto the floor and now I have to clean it up. she is a bad dog
a REALLY bad dog
littlegreenpills posted:a hippy cult metamorphosing into a falun gong esque state within a state which transmuted itself into a heavily-armed paramilitary movement by coercing or violently purging any followers who weren't down with temporal violence
lf bithc