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some form of platonism must be true or youre po-mo

the world is either radically intelligible or it isnt. when you deny basic intelligibility the burden is on you to give a reason localize it or just admit that it is purely contrived.

why did I say this?

shoutout to my coworker for thinking that “illuminati” and “alumnae” meant the same thing and absolutely destroying everyone in the room when he casually dropped the sentence “i get a discount there because i’m an illuminati” into the conversation

sometimes I think too hard about like. how the ability to record audio fundamentally changed how humans interact with music. can you imagine if the only time you ever heard music in your whole life was when you or another human being in your actual physical presence decided to create it. and 99.99% of the time that person was not a professional but just like your wife or your dad or your co-worker or church choir singing or playing whatever they happened to know. i honestly don't think we can fathom it

Everyone on this post making nonsense "WAH it must have been BETTER back then" comments is ridiculous. I have 24/7 instant high-quality access to Carly Rae Jepsen's entire catalog. Go listen to Cut To The Feeling and appreciate that miracle or get off my post.

But the bad part of this is how people conceive of music. You see this because people who are "into music" these days express this by posting JPEGs of album art on the internet. That's what music has become.

my sincere apolocheese was going down on the worldbuilding of the av*tar movies again and realized that mr cameron was so focused on the Noble Savage Who Does Not Do Evil Technology writing for their religion he forgot to add stuff like. Do not harm each other or living things in general

I took my little brother (autistic, mostly non verbal) out and he was using his voice keyboard to tell me something, and this little boy (maybe 4 or 5?) heard him and asked me "Is he a robot??" I tried to explain to him that no, he isn't a robot, he just communicates differently, but my darling brother was in the background max volume "I am robot I am robot I am robot I am robot"

From the “East of the Sun and West of the Moon” collection, illustrated by Kay Nielsen