#Individualism

I'm starting to discern a Nietzsche -> Mark Fisher -> Capitalist Realism -> "anti-idpol" pipeline.Still fuzzy around the edges, but *very nihilistic* at its core.That someone who hated the masses
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Enjoyed last years' @threadapalooza.As a former footballer (soccer player) who quit to study economics , now turned hybrid rationalist / Popperian / @RoamResearch-Roaman...I will do a 100-tweet thread
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Cherry-picked versions of GOP history argue that the party has been unchanging in its support for black rights and ordinary Americans, but that's just not right. The long history of
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'The Lessons of History' by Will & Ariel Durant is a masterclass in the predictability of human nature. It teaches us what changes over time and what remains constant. Use
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US history as synecdoche for world history really begins in 1854. Not coincidentally that was peak UK too.Everything before that is mostly provincial backwater prequel stuff.Bleeding Kansas, Perry in Japan,
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Once again, I'm seeing violence discourse and since the #AsianCyberpunkJam is going on now so I'm thinking...Let's talk about Japanese body horror/cyberpunk why I FUCKING LOVE TOKYO GORE POLICE and
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Having just shared with a coauthor the latest draft of our piece, I'm declaring my work done for this (fill in your preferred adjective) year. So I thought I'd do
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The books I read throughout 2020 helped me stay balanced in a year of uncertainty I’ve summarised and/or quoted from a selection of them below. Read on to see
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Ok, I'm game, 1 like = 1 book that's influenced my political thinking.This should be fun.https://twitter.com/Sharon_Kuruvila/status/1287390837530398720 1. Freedom in the Making of Western Culture by Orlando Patterson.One of the very
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Let's talk about #MarshaPJohnson, a (TW riot, assault, bigotry, hate crimes, slurs)Marsha "Pay It No Mind", Johnson was an incredible activist, sex worker, drag queen, and black trans woman
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As we all wait, and wait, and wait, here's an article by @OwenJones84 . Which gets right to the heart of "where do the Democrats go now?" - and the
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Joshua Hawley, Missouri's Junior Senator, is an autocrat in waiting. His arrogance and ambition prohibit any allegiance to morality or character. Thus far, his plan to seize the presidency has
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Okay. Let's livestream the film Music.Full disclosure: last month I was part of a team @Communica1st assembled to watch and advise Sia on this film (said advice seems ri have
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Here goes my @threadapalooza on Heidegger, the greatest thinker of the modern era, a social, political, and cultural conservative (who briefly flirted with fascism and Nazism), a mystic, a contemplative,
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1 IntroductionFascism: what is it and why does it get such a bad rap?This thread is for information purposes only 2 Fascism itself is used as a pejorative and most,
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» Why Jürgen Habermas Disappearedhttps://foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/07/why-jurgen-habermas-disappeared/ Culminating in his recent Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie (Another History of Philosophy, 2019), his turn to religion is best unde
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