Jun 28, 2017
What kind of asshole cites Nietzsche using page numbers?
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What kind of asshole cites Nietzsche using page numbers?
*Things I can’t post on Facebook lest it be seen by the wrong asshole.
Do you ever start uttering a sentence and stop caring halfway through? This happens to me a lot in conversations about (academic) philosophy.
The hardest thing I have EVER had to teach is the concept of institutionalized oppression.
People, regardless of intersecting identities, level of eduction, political affiliation, whatever, ALWAYS fail to understand how a system of oppression can exercise oppressive force through bodies without their consent.
People always think that oppression must be actualized BY individuals, and not THROUGH them as part of the system, which allows them to assume they aren't part of the problem. That's bullshit: we're all part of the problem.
Now, I'm not saying we're part of the problem in the same way: systems exercise oppression through different bodies in different ways. Hence, it is the case that all men are trash; some men are aware of the way they have become trash and take steps to prevent being more like trash.
THEY'RE STILL TRASH AND NEED CONSTANT ATTENTION TO KEEP THEIR TRASH NATURE FROM SURFACING.
Same thing with any member of a privileged group. Unless they're active in combatting the ways the system exercises power through them, they're still complicit in the maintenance and perpetuation of that system.
This was a thing I had to explain to my class as well as my department.
Most of them didn't get it.
Is it too much to ask for some discussions of modality that don't immediately veer into theories of mereology?
Ew I hate the notation being used in my logic text this quarter.
I guess I can handle ≡ for ↔. At least I understand some of the reasoning there. But why would you use ⊃ instead of →? Why???
This professor is totally going to hate me: she asked for a two page double space minimum response to the articles in question. It looks like she's going to get eight.
I'm starting to understand what my professor meant when he said "people run when the philosophers come." It's like unleashing some theory kraken on the rest of the class.
They are so fucked that I have to give the class presentation.