EdenicFaithful

Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw

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Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 18, 2026

EdenicFaithful Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw 13hr ago

So, what are you reading?

Still on The Question of Palestine. Said's writing is great as usual, and it is making me want to reread Orientalism. He kinda omitted that the displacement of 1948 was in the context of war, but perhaps he was assuming common knowledge. Interesting facts abound, but the core of the book is the system of thought he's applying, and it remains unclear how useful it is.

Otherwise picking up Al-Ghazali's The Book of Contemplation, book 39 of his Revival of the Religious Sciences series.

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Culture War Roundup for the week of January 12, 2026

EdenicFaithful Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw 1d ago

I suspect it's a sign that an era is coming to a close. Usually, women have other men who would do the dirty work for them. If they feel that they have to do it themselves, something is probably collapsing.

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Culture War Roundup for the week of January 12, 2026

EdenicFaithful Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw 5d ago · Edited 5d ago

I'm just gonna register that I think everyone who is following this story should watch a random sample of police bodycam videos. Try Midwest Safety on Youtube. It may not change your view, but it will probably change your perception, because there appear to be many commonalities across a broad spectrum of situations.

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Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 11, 2026

EdenicFaithful Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw 7d ago

So, what are you reading?

I finally finished Al-Ghazali's The Book of Knowledge. I thought it would be a quasi-religious manual about logic and argument, but it turns out to be a remarkably interesting attempt to consolidate and support the basic opinions of Islam's Prophet and the Companions on the topic of knowledge in comparison to what was deemed knowledge in his time.

...the most satisfied state of mind for the sagacious is to deem yourself alone in the universe with God, in front of you is death, the day of judgment, reckoning, heaven, and the fire; ponder deeply on what will serve you best in that which is before you and abandon all else.

Otherwise I'm attempting Said's The Question of Palestine, for reasons unrelated to my reading on Islam or contemporary events, being more interested in the idea of Othering. I'm still on Bly's Iron John, and some day soon, I hope, I will make progress in The Dawn of Everything.

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Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 4, 2026

EdenicFaithful Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw 11d ago

The last time I was on Voat, the comments were basically people, if they can be called that, daring each other to commit violence, endlessly on repeat. Perhaps I visited on a particularly bad day, but I doubt it improved any before it shut down.

Still, re-reading Scott's essay, it is remarkable that his basic example of a place full of witches is Fox News. Seems like a serious epistemological problem, a failure to recognize that while Glenn Beck might have triggered people back in the day, fundamentally he wasn't and isn't a threat to human decency. If Fox and Limbaugh are one's starting point, maybe there's another reason why the number of alleged witches visible in public keeps growing.