The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

I FOUND THE BOOK WITH THE ORB

You could be reading a book right now.

It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed.

Might fuck around and
Resist alienation,
Hate and despair, dude

only by a certain self-adjusting buoyancy and simultaneousness of volition and action, can you escape

The evil that men do lives after them

Started the day with Bettie Serveert, wrapping it up with Yo La Tengo, just riding the feedback into the sunset: youtu.be/ecXAs79nHLk?...

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I for one am tired of Humanities academics pushing their elitist agenda of basic literacy, independent thinking and an elementary knowledge of human history

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

This has been such a fun project to work on. For this episode, we do our best to hover between the particulars of Sand’s novel and her frustrations with 1848 in Paris. open.substack.com/pub/thecultu...

Cañones, New Mexico
Population: 37
Photos from Google Places API
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cañones,_New_Mexico

This was an incredible cloud in formation over our house the other night.