“Yet this is aspired to as the highest Children are brought up to regard this as the highest: to be heard and be admired for an hour.”

Kierkegaard wouldn’t have liked social media: “it is…as if all communication must…be adapted so that it can be presented in at most one hour before a gathering that…wastes 1/2 hour in the noise of approval and disapproval and in the second 1/2 hour is too confused to be able to gather the ideas.”

How sad.

😳🙁

Beautiful.

My kids had this debate a couple nights ago.

Kicking the new year off with strep and flu sweeping through our household. Fun times. 🙄

The people voting for the Leopards Will Eat Your Face party sincerely believe the leopards will not eat *their* faces because they are better than Those People. That's why they're so comfy with eugenics etc to begin with.

I can't help noticing that people who advocate harsh, "rational" measures to "improve" humanity always assume that they themselves (or those they love) are exempt from those measures. Mostly they assume they're already the superior beings, but when push comes to shove, just because they don't wanna.

Philosophers on Bluesky: Let's play a game! Explain your current research project in one skeet. I'll start in the replies below. (Please feel free to reskeet(?) or reply to this skeet as you see fit and hopefully this will help more of us to connect here).