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Metin Seven 🎨

“𝙾𝚗𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜𝚗’𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚘𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝 𝚖𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚍𝚘 𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚖. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚊𝚋𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚎𝚖𝚙𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚢 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚜𝚞𝚏𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚝.”

― 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘔. 𝘉𝘭𝘰𝘸

#quote#quotes#thoughts
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Jesse Miksic

Being a child of the digital age means you’ve spent decades learning to “understand” colors… RGB, CMYK, hue, tint, exposure, waveforms, optics…

Only to take up a physical medium, like painting, and discovering that colors are truly chaotic and contingent, entirely at the whims of light and material factors

In other words, the experience of *doing* is not reducible to mathematical or systemic abstractions

#design#colorTheory#philosophy
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Dianora (Diane Bruce)

Now that I've had some sleep..🙂

Stanley outlines the striking parallels from other authoritarian regimes with the current situation in the U.S.
I have always felt uncomfortable with the US Nationalism of chants of "USA" and Stanley gives it a name. "Supremacist Nationalism". It's also why those of us in Canada were upset our flag has been used in the trucker convoy. Our brand of Nationalism has always been more quiet an not so much flag waving. I will also note Stanley has moved to Canada due to the fears of U.S. fascism (he himself notes criticisms of his use of that term) But a rose by any other name using the criteria from Umberto Eco.

This is a must read for those of us in Canada. Especially now during an election campaign.

#Canada#Philosophy#Books
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sz_duras

… which traces a line of flight. Nomads are always in the middle... ” (Deleuze and Parnet p 30/1 Dialogues 1977/87) (That this middle is the related to the parasite, to noise is obvious enough that this comment is unnecessary….) 2/2 #philosophy

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Androcat

I want to develop, or participate in developing a program to root out the nebulous concept of "rational self-interest".

I don't think toots is the right medium.

Any ideas about such programs as already ongoing, or good sources, or suggestions about platforms to use?

My rough draft is that there are ultimately three kinds of self-interest (really actions motivated by self-interest):

Normal self-interest (I don't want to keep the term rational, it's misleading and unclear) - applying to actions that benefit oneself, which one has reason to believe would scale up if not indefinitely then at least to a very large scale. This is stuff like moderate exercise, moderate income*, moderately healthy diet.

Irrational self-interest: This applies to self-benefiting-actions one has not examined for scaleability. This is stuff like ... well, a LOT of things that we are conditioned to regard as "normal".

Pathological self-interest: This applies to actions one has good reason to believe will not scale. A gross example is extreme wealth. Owning stock in companies that do not freely give a fair share of their profits to workers, or which externalize ecological destruction in order to extract profits.

*) For some sense of moderate (this is a frought topic)

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Graham Downs

A horse walks into a bar. The bartender says, "You're in here a lot. Are you an alcoholic?"

The horse thinks for a moment, then responds, "I don't think I am."

And POOF! He disappears.

This is where #philosophy students start to snicker, because they're familiar with Descartes' postulate, "I think, therefore I am."

But telling you that first would've been putting Descarte before the horse.

#jokes#puns
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The Little Wars

"If you do cool stuff then Aslan knows you're chill" isn't the worst theology. I read Mere Christianity from the restricted part of the library at christian school but the people who have referenced it to me have been universally Unitarians. And I get it, but, why are you trying to tell me that #philosophy is in any way compatible with #christianity as a #religion when we both know it isnt.

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Dianora (Diane Bruce)

I just read Jason Stanley's book on *Erasing History*. tonight. I loved his term of a Anti-Colonist Nationalism as I had been struggling to put a name to that feeling that some Nationalism is bad (Supremacist) but Nationalism could be done right. eg. A caring society with empathy etc. This is a beautifully written book. He wrote about ideas I have had as well about the Enlightenment and that was helpful. Yes, the Enlightenment wasn't all roses.

A very approachable book, and I highly recommend reading it.

Sorry I am tired a bit rambling but I am off to bed!

#Philosophy#Books#Enlightenment
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