somethingsomething
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I've never disliked a Tarkovsky movie, although Solaris was a little cheesy. He actually knew how to make an art house film, and is one of the few who saves the genre for me.
I'd recommend watching 8 1/2 as another good art house starter film if you haven't
somethingsomething
2d ago
what is the philosophical origin of "no consensus-building"? This rule describes exactly what I want out of an intellectual community but this community is the first place I've seen it put this way in a really clear and succinct way. I'm curious where it comes from. I know very little of the rationalist etc. lore, but I'm also curious about what philosophy writing it could come from, which I could imagine being Isaiah Berlin pluralism etc. but possibly others?
I had a culture war thread idea which would be along the lines of "we all live in a honor culture." In the first part of The Leviathan, Hobbes spells out how honor works and it occured to me that in contrast to how "honor culture" is used as a kind of derisive term towards various outgroup-type targets, viewing even the enlightened classes through the lens of honor culture feels like it could be a fairly profitable essay topic. I'm curious if anyone here has thoughts or reading suggestions on that.
somethingsomething
3d ago
Yeah mark this as a point for "Gavin can govern" for me (hey thats kinda catchy, maybe they should use that). When Joe Rogan says he ruined CA, I kinda feel like to me it seems much more like these crazy people with crazy veto power that I can't imagine coordinating with, but maybe that's just my naivete. Or maybe Gavin developed some kind of backbone relatively recently. Idk but this seems like more of a real-world accomplishment than anyone else on the Democrat side bench has managed.
Yeah what you and prima said aligns with my thoughts, but it seems like you'd expect this wisdom to be in a philosophy text or blogpost somewhere and expanded upon
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