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Anonymous asked: 🔥 the Enlightenment

suspected-spinozist:

unpopular relative to the median tumblr user: i’m strongly pro. 

unpopular relative to that guy, you know the one, who keeps going on about the importance of the enlightenment as a signifier of the fundamental superiority of western civilization: you do realize that your defense of tradition and/or reason was a) frequently extremely dogmatic, b) often amoral, and c) full of very irritating people defaming each other in public like you wouldn’t believe 

napoleonchingon:

napoleonchingon:

A better “Mathematician’s Apology” 

sorry about the math

Seriously, that would be a better book than “A Mathematician’s Apology” is currently.

#this is a mathematician’s apology hateblog

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socialjusticemunchkin:

sdhs-rationalist:

orbispelagium:

maxiesatanofficial:

freud theorized that humans were motivated by two opposing drives: the “life drive,” or “eros,” the drive towards sex - creativity - survival - self-betterment, and the “death drive,” which post-Freudian psychologists call “thanatos,” the drive towards self-destruction - compulsively reliving traumatic experiences - megalomania - etc.

I theorize that I, and others like me, are motivated by a different pair of two opposing drives: the drive to start messaging a Tumblr Popular stranger out of the blue because I think their output is neat and I want to be friends, and the drive to not come off as a presumptuous weirdo

If I fill the Tumblr Popular Stranger role for anyone, by some surreal divine joke, I can assure you that contacting me is fine.

I endorse the latter.

Same.

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cyborgbutterflies:

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One of my favorite kinks, to be honest.

sophistrication:
“ René Magritte, The Art of Conversation, 1963
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sophistrication:

René Magritte, The Art of Conversation, 1963

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nniihilsupernum:

fuck yall im not fighting in the culture war

this means not fighting on any team, not just the team that annoys you. im n o t  f i g h t i n g  i n  t h e  c u l t u r e  w a r. i understand that this is kind of a hard stance to accept but im actually not in any way optimizing my blog for any particular team winning the culture war bc i am living my quiet life, tending my aestheticblogging garden, being cute and gay, 

im not being a taxoplasma! im not angry abt [CENSORED]! i just legitimately want to read it ok