Timothy Taubes
@timothytaubes.bsky.social
Philosophy, History, Culture, Art, Books, Critical Analysis, #Resist
Predictable MAGA projection.
November 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Predictable MAGA projection.
November 17
Connections: Link to song from the day before.
Another version of Good Rockin' Tonight. Many consider Good Rockin' Tonight the very first Rock & Roll song ever written.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo9a...
Connections: Link to song from the day before.
Another version of Good Rockin' Tonight. Many consider Good Rockin' Tonight the very first Rock & Roll song ever written.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo9a...
Wynonie Harris - Good Rockin' Tonight
YouTube video by TheBluesfan12
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM
November 17
Connections: Link to song from the day before.
Another version of Good Rockin' Tonight. Many consider Good Rockin' Tonight the very first Rock & Roll song ever written.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo9a...
Connections: Link to song from the day before.
Another version of Good Rockin' Tonight. Many consider Good Rockin' Tonight the very first Rock & Roll song ever written.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo9a...
And, asking what these phrases mean, we are forced to perceive that both truth and reality go beyond the perceived facts. The given facts are in other words not the whole of reality, while truth cannot be understood except in reference to this whole.” -Bradley
November 17, 2025 at 2:34 AM
And, asking what these phrases mean, we are forced to perceive that both truth and reality go beyond the perceived facts. The given facts are in other words not the whole of reality, while truth cannot be understood except in reference to this whole.” -Bradley
if you ask if they all are copied from fact, the answer must be different. And we are driven to admit that, at least when we pass from individual truths, our truth no longer represents fact but merely “holds” or “is valid”.
November 17, 2025 at 2:34 AM
if you ask if they all are copied from fact, the answer must be different. And we are driven to admit that, at least when we pass from individual truths, our truth no longer represents fact but merely “holds” or “is valid”.
nor are they even confined to the limits of actual perception. And in the end, when we come to general truth about the Universe, it seems impossible to regard this as transcribed from the given Universe. Our truths in short can all of them in some sense be verified in fact, but,
November 17, 2025 at 2:34 AM
nor are they even confined to the limits of actual perception. And in the end, when we come to general truth about the Universe, it seems impossible to regard this as transcribed from the given Universe. Our truths in short can all of them in some sense be verified in fact, but,
Events take place within the duration-less boundary between future and past within which we are confined.
History is a mental construction, not the event.
The most consequential "event" is the transformation of a feudal society to one of a property-owning middle class.
It's all one story
History is a mental construction, not the event.
The most consequential "event" is the transformation of a feudal society to one of a property-owning middle class.
It's all one story
November 17, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Events take place within the duration-less boundary between future and past within which we are confined.
History is a mental construction, not the event.
The most consequential "event" is the transformation of a feudal society to one of a property-owning middle class.
It's all one story
History is a mental construction, not the event.
The most consequential "event" is the transformation of a feudal society to one of a property-owning middle class.
It's all one story
This constant barrage of violence becomes stored in the human psyche with nowhere to go. The contemporary landscape offers no opportunity to relieve these pent up agitations. That is one reason why ICE resorts to violence with willful malice. They were weaned on violence and now they can vent.
November 17, 2025 at 1:27 AM
This constant barrage of violence becomes stored in the human psyche with nowhere to go. The contemporary landscape offers no opportunity to relieve these pent up agitations. That is one reason why ICE resorts to violence with willful malice. They were weaned on violence and now they can vent.
The distinction between art imitating life, and, life imitating art, becomes blurred.
November 17, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The distinction between art imitating life, and, life imitating art, becomes blurred.
Americans are bombarded by violence on a daily basis. The culture industry; television, the movies, video, music, even comic books, are the purveyors of this violent material. The industry has been peddling the idea that you solve your problems with a gun for nearly a century.
November 17, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Americans are bombarded by violence on a daily basis. The culture industry; television, the movies, video, music, even comic books, are the purveyors of this violent material. The industry has been peddling the idea that you solve your problems with a gun for nearly a century.
Violence touches something in the depth of our being. Submerged deep in our animal impulses to dominate and control, it reaches the cortex of the reptilian brain. It grabs you by the throat and doesn’t release until you are lifeless. Not a master and slave. Predator and Prey.
November 17, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Violence touches something in the depth of our being. Submerged deep in our animal impulses to dominate and control, it reaches the cortex of the reptilian brain. It grabs you by the throat and doesn’t release until you are lifeless. Not a master and slave. Predator and Prey.
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 16, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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
Confirmation to the council regulated by civil code and conducted by the legislature. A new member of the executive council rotated on/off biennially with the chairpersonship assumed during the member’s last two-year term.
November 16, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Confirmation to the council regulated by civil code and conducted by the legislature. A new member of the executive council rotated on/off biennially with the chairpersonship assumed during the member’s last two-year term.
The presidency is the caretaker of an unrealizable truth. Something never achieved, always in route, charging in one direction, then another. In the CIVIL DEMOCRACY the office of the president is eliminated and the executive branch reorganized as an executive council with a rotating chair.
November 16, 2025 at 11:55 PM
The presidency is the caretaker of an unrealizable truth. Something never achieved, always in route, charging in one direction, then another. In the CIVIL DEMOCRACY the office of the president is eliminated and the executive branch reorganized as an executive council with a rotating chair.
The political divide is the embodiment of a contingent existence. Things can either be one way, or otherwise. We rely on our reasoning capacities to determine which choice is right and believe this comingling of diverging opinions will result in a hybrid truth.
November 16, 2025 at 11:55 PM
The political divide is the embodiment of a contingent existence. Things can either be one way, or otherwise. We rely on our reasoning capacities to determine which choice is right and believe this comingling of diverging opinions will result in a hybrid truth.
Of all the Hollywood MAGA assholes Voight is the dumbest and the most filled with hate.
November 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Of all the Hollywood MAGA assholes Voight is the dumbest and the most filled with hate.
The American revolution was a war of territorial conquest. The Brits and the Yanks were members of the same class society and were after the same golden egg. Liberty was equated with property (John Locke Second Treatise), not civil liberties in the modern sense. It was all about money.
November 16, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The American revolution was a war of territorial conquest. The Brits and the Yanks were members of the same class society and were after the same golden egg. Liberty was equated with property (John Locke Second Treatise), not civil liberties in the modern sense. It was all about money.
November 16
Wildcard🃏: Any song, your choice.
All the same song
Elvis 1954
Roy Brown (original) 1947
Ronnie Montrose 1973
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT2m...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgdz...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTPx...
Wildcard🃏: Any song, your choice.
All the same song
Elvis 1954
Roy Brown (original) 1947
Ronnie Montrose 1973
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT2m...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgdz...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTPx...
November 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
November 16
Wildcard🃏: Any song, your choice.
All the same song
Elvis 1954
Roy Brown (original) 1947
Ronnie Montrose 1973
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT2m...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgdz...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTPx...
Wildcard🃏: Any song, your choice.
All the same song
Elvis 1954
Roy Brown (original) 1947
Ronnie Montrose 1973
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT2m...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgdz...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTPx...
The claim that “eternal waveforms,” are commensurate with feelings cannot be demonstrated. Two categorically different truths neither of which can claim sovereignty, notwithstanding Leibniz’s comingling of contingent and eternal truths.
November 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The claim that “eternal waveforms,” are commensurate with feelings cannot be demonstrated. Two categorically different truths neither of which can claim sovereignty, notwithstanding Leibniz’s comingling of contingent and eternal truths.
“In feeling there is plurality and unity and without contradiction. There being no relations and no terms. And yet, on the other side, more than bare simplicity, we experience a concrete whole as actual fact.” (Bradley)
November 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
“In feeling there is plurality and unity and without contradiction. There being no relations and no terms. And yet, on the other side, more than bare simplicity, we experience a concrete whole as actual fact.” (Bradley)
Assigning an all-inclusive truth value to a verifiable equation is problematic. It satisfies a linguistic syntax of logical truth (Carnap). It doesn’t address, “feeling,” as an undifferentiated ground of a metaphysical truth.
November 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Assigning an all-inclusive truth value to a verifiable equation is problematic. It satisfies a linguistic syntax of logical truth (Carnap). It doesn’t address, “feeling,” as an undifferentiated ground of a metaphysical truth.