Timothy Taubes
@timothytaubes.bsky.social
Philosophy, History, Culture, Art, Books, Critical Analysis, #Resist
Please...Be My Guest
November 17, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Please...Be My Guest
“And in general the moment we leave perceived facts and seek explanation- which after all is implied in the desire for truth- we find that we are moving away from the given. Universal and abstract truths are not given facts, nor do they merely reproduce the given,
November 17, 2025 at 2:34 AM
“And in general the moment we leave perceived facts and seek explanation- which after all is implied in the desire for truth- we find that we are moving away from the given. Universal and abstract truths are not given facts, nor do they merely reproduce the given,
American culture is sustained on violence. It grows out of our violent heritage. Our entire history, from before the revolution to the present, can be documented as the systematic application of organized and random violence.
November 17, 2025 at 1:27 AM
American culture is sustained on violence. It grows out of our violent heritage. Our entire history, from before the revolution to the present, can be documented as the systematic application of organized and random violence.
The political divide will not be healed until we are able to govern without a president. A president is not a flagpole around which to rally, but the emblem for which one pledges allegiance to one side or the other of an equivocal ideology. The president is division personified.
November 16, 2025 at 11:55 PM
The political divide will not be healed until we are able to govern without a president. A president is not a flagpole around which to rally, but the emblem for which one pledges allegiance to one side or the other of an equivocal ideology. The president is division personified.
Squirrel Takes a Nap
November 16, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Squirrel Takes a Nap
The Other Realm
There is only one realm. The Other Realm is a mental construction. The Other Realm is a part of this realm no matter how Otherish a complexion it is made to assume. When humankind began its contingent existence, its Other Realm came to life.
There is only one realm. The Other Realm is a mental construction. The Other Realm is a part of this realm no matter how Otherish a complexion it is made to assume. When humankind began its contingent existence, its Other Realm came to life.
November 16, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The Other Realm
There is only one realm. The Other Realm is a mental construction. The Other Realm is a part of this realm no matter how Otherish a complexion it is made to assume. When humankind began its contingent existence, its Other Realm came to life.
There is only one realm. The Other Realm is a mental construction. The Other Realm is a part of this realm no matter how Otherish a complexion it is made to assume. When humankind began its contingent existence, its Other Realm came to life.
State Capitol Hartford CT, August 2, 2025
November 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
State Capitol Hartford CT, August 2, 2025
Where's the ballroom at
November 14, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Where's the ballroom at
@thebulwark.com
American Idols
American culture is a cinematic nightmare. Examine the aesthetic artifacts it produces. Americans are the unenviable prisoners of a market driven industry that exploits the psychological tinder box suppressed beneath the modern landscape.
American Idols
American culture is a cinematic nightmare. Examine the aesthetic artifacts it produces. Americans are the unenviable prisoners of a market driven industry that exploits the psychological tinder box suppressed beneath the modern landscape.
November 14, 2025 at 12:29 AM
@thebulwark.com
American Idols
American culture is a cinematic nightmare. Examine the aesthetic artifacts it produces. Americans are the unenviable prisoners of a market driven industry that exploits the psychological tinder box suppressed beneath the modern landscape.
American Idols
American culture is a cinematic nightmare. Examine the aesthetic artifacts it produces. Americans are the unenviable prisoners of a market driven industry that exploits the psychological tinder box suppressed beneath the modern landscape.
We Broke Through the Clouds
November 13, 2025 at 3:39 AM
We Broke Through the Clouds
CIVIL DEMOCRACY
Vertical checks & balances not horizontal among a higher echelon of power
1 house legislature/term limits/biennial elections
Executive council with rotating chair
Independent department of judication
No party role in national politics
Public Oversight
Civil bureaucracy
NO PRESIDENT
Vertical checks & balances not horizontal among a higher echelon of power
1 house legislature/term limits/biennial elections
Executive council with rotating chair
Independent department of judication
No party role in national politics
Public Oversight
Civil bureaucracy
NO PRESIDENT
November 13, 2025 at 12:32 AM
CIVIL DEMOCRACY
Vertical checks & balances not horizontal among a higher echelon of power
1 house legislature/term limits/biennial elections
Executive council with rotating chair
Independent department of judication
No party role in national politics
Public Oversight
Civil bureaucracy
NO PRESIDENT
Vertical checks & balances not horizontal among a higher echelon of power
1 house legislature/term limits/biennial elections
Executive council with rotating chair
Independent department of judication
No party role in national politics
Public Oversight
Civil bureaucracy
NO PRESIDENT
Tribute to a Soldier
There is no greater honor than to serve in the defense of one’s country. The soldier going into combat does so under the assumption that those who are sending them into harm’s way are doing it for the right reason.
There is no greater honor than to serve in the defense of one’s country. The soldier going into combat does so under the assumption that those who are sending them into harm’s way are doing it for the right reason.
November 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Tribute to a Soldier
There is no greater honor than to serve in the defense of one’s country. The soldier going into combat does so under the assumption that those who are sending them into harm’s way are doing it for the right reason.
There is no greater honor than to serve in the defense of one’s country. The soldier going into combat does so under the assumption that those who are sending them into harm’s way are doing it for the right reason.
Modern Jihad begins in the last quarter of the 19th century when Grand Sanusi Muhammad al-Mahdi took up the sword against the advance of French colonial incursions south from Algeria into Islamic equatorial Africa.
November 11, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Modern Jihad begins in the last quarter of the 19th century when Grand Sanusi Muhammad al-Mahdi took up the sword against the advance of French colonial incursions south from Algeria into Islamic equatorial Africa.
@meiselasb.bsky.social
CIVIL DEMOCRACY
Vertical checks & balances not horizontal among a higher echelon of power
1 house congress/term limits/biennial elections
Exec council/rotating chair
Independent dept of judication
No party role in nat'l politics
Public Oversight
Civil bureaucracy
NO PRESIDENT
CIVIL DEMOCRACY
Vertical checks & balances not horizontal among a higher echelon of power
1 house congress/term limits/biennial elections
Exec council/rotating chair
Independent dept of judication
No party role in nat'l politics
Public Oversight
Civil bureaucracy
NO PRESIDENT
November 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
@meiselasb.bsky.social
CIVIL DEMOCRACY
Vertical checks & balances not horizontal among a higher echelon of power
1 house congress/term limits/biennial elections
Exec council/rotating chair
Independent dept of judication
No party role in nat'l politics
Public Oversight
Civil bureaucracy
NO PRESIDENT
CIVIL DEMOCRACY
Vertical checks & balances not horizontal among a higher echelon of power
1 house congress/term limits/biennial elections
Exec council/rotating chair
Independent dept of judication
No party role in nat'l politics
Public Oversight
Civil bureaucracy
NO PRESIDENT
Is There Life in Outer Space?
Is there life in outer space? It’s a loaded question. What constitutes life? Organic? Carbon based? Silicon based? Oxygen breathing? Are the laws of physics universal?
Is there life in outer space? It’s a loaded question. What constitutes life? Organic? Carbon based? Silicon based? Oxygen breathing? Are the laws of physics universal?
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Is There Life in Outer Space?
Is there life in outer space? It’s a loaded question. What constitutes life? Organic? Carbon based? Silicon based? Oxygen breathing? Are the laws of physics universal?
Is there life in outer space? It’s a loaded question. What constitutes life? Organic? Carbon based? Silicon based? Oxygen breathing? Are the laws of physics universal?
The famine caused by Stalin's collectivization reduced the peasants to eating those who had died of starvation.
November 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The famine caused by Stalin's collectivization reduced the peasants to eating those who had died of starvation.
A president is the vestigial member of absolutism. Instead of deriving power from providence, a president is delivered power from an equally problematic source; the general will- a philosophical fallacy. Co-existence and absolute independence are incompatible concepts.
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
A president is the vestigial member of absolutism. Instead of deriving power from providence, a president is delivered power from an equally problematic source; the general will- a philosophical fallacy. Co-existence and absolute independence are incompatible concepts.
