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luke viia

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    decided to read Industrial Society & Its Future by Mr. Unicycle himself. It's....okay? Not very well-reasoned, but his whole thing about needing effort-based goals in our lives and how modern society foils that (except by giving us a desire for "surrogate goals") and cannot be reformed is interesting. I'm not done with it yet, but idk. He trashes "leftists" repeatedly but then also throws in a paragraph starting with "The conservatives are fools." So, you know, both sides. also reading some Nietzsche for the first time in my life (I once heard that Nietzsche was a "young man's philosophy" so naturally waited until my late 30s to read him, being an iconoclastic stable genius myself). Started with Human, All Too Human, which felt like a good introduction, and I bookmarked quite a few pages, but there was plenty to dislike. I'm about halfway through Thus Spake Zarathustra now and it's a slog, ngl. I can see why it's hailed as a literary achievement, but again I disagree with most of what he's saying, so yeah. Trying to reserve judgment until I get through some more of his stuff, but idk how much time I want to spend with the guy. Might get through Beyond Good & Evil and call it quits. also recently read: Emmanuel Swedenborg's Divine Love & Wisdom, which was equal parts insane and profound; a few books on Platonic metaphysics by Tim Addey, who follows Proclus' teachings - not easy stuff, but I do love neoplatonism; and Crime & Punishment, which is absolutely a fantastic novel. And it's what made me pick up Nietzsche, though Dostoevsky is 1000% better, fairer, and clearer in his (well, Raskolnikov's) philosophy. edit: finished Kaczynski's essay and it was, unsurprisingly, not great. pretty much what you'd expect... cracked luddite revolutionary manifesto. sadly not hard to understand his frustration with modern society, though.
  2. ah I didn't really mean intellectual likeness, did a bad job explaining myself in that post, but I get what you mean. I was trying to describe a similar outlook on life in general. I know what I'm after. best wishes to all the watmm lovers out there
  3. love this stuff, pretty spendy generally but it goes on steep sales occasionally and I'm there for it. strong, not too sweet, giraffe looks appropriately zooted, would recommend pretty much the opposite of a posh ale but it's the same price as PBR and goes down even easier, made in Portland, skips the hangover, overall A+ piss in my book
  4. the track saw rail I use at work is slipping roughly 1/8" over a ten foot span and it is REALLY irritating. the anti slip pad seems fine and I think it's doing this because the boards I have to trim are slightly cupped/warped, which is also a giant pain in the ass since I can't clamp any of it bc of the type of cuts I'm doing, and fixing the boards themselves isn't an option bc our table planer is out of commission and I'm the one that's supposed to fix it, but I've never actually used this somewhat ancient planer nor have I ever replaced a fancy planer's cutter head and I'll probably kill someone (me) if I try it unsupervised. my boss has never replaced the head on this thing either, so he's no help, and the only mechanically inclined guy I have access to is known to move way too fast, lose things, force parts into position etc. ffs 1/8"
  5. psychology today puts out a lot of trash articles, but this one is good: On Superfluous People
  6. for sure. I've only dated a few people that had music tastes similar to mine, and while the old mix CDs from those relationships are still some of the most vivid and amazing emotional memory-banks I possess, similar tastes in cultural artifacts alone will definitely not sustain a happy relationship. the class of traits you listed are indeed more important. I do think, though, that a similar way of seeing / moving through the world, of searching, of humor, a similar way of hoping to explore existence and grow into it, is necessary (for me anyway idk) - so that both people can not only love each other face to face, but walk together shoulder to shoulder.
  7. John Berger is such a legend. love that the whole series is on YT (as well as his documentary about time) edit: did the Advisory Circle name that album after this series? ? never made the connection before
  8. that's been the strategy. tbh not really feeling a connection, she's super nice and all, and quite pretty, but I'd rather just be friends. she probably feels the same way; totally cool with that. to be clear I didn't ask about aphex lol, I'm not that dense. though i did ask what kind of music she enjoys (if she's going to any fun concerts this summer, etc), and she seems to be a music by proxy type person. not like us, the intellectual mind dancers, the machine whisperers, the humble filter sweepers, the patch cord dreamers. an insurmountable gap, really.
  9. there's a crow near my shop that sounds like a really angry monkey
  10. deleted my last post - clearly I wasn't following this story very closely, the sub imploded. not sure whether to feel "better" about that than what I thought previously or not. gonna repeat my ugh at everything, though.
  11. a few more paragraphs and this would fit in nicely with a gothic short story collection
  12. where's @BCM when you need him? anyway, be the yek you want to see in the world
  13. thx to @Rubin Farr for alerting me to this group, major weird and funky goodness
  14. I've been set up with a woman by a mutual friend and I've never been set up with anyone ever, how the hell do people do this? Do I just ask her about whether she's heard the new aphex? and ghost her if the answer is no? That seems like the thing to do
  15. known this guy since he had spots (he wanted an apple, I was a huge disappointment)
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