decentralize everything 🤌 View quoted note →

feels like a big deal. View quoted note →

hmm… Rousseau. 🤔 “Rousseau’s central image is that the arts and sciences do not necessarily break chains; they decorate them. He says they throw “garlands of flowers over the chains” and produce “the appearance of all the virtues.” In context, he means refined culture makes domination feel pleasant, civilized, sociable, tasteful, and respectable. People may become more polite without becoming more free or good. A big part of his argument is about social masking. Earlier, Rousseau says, rougher manners made character more visible. He is not necessarily saying earlier humans were morally perfect; the text explicitly says human nature was not fundamentally better. But he thinks refined society teaches people to hide themselves. In one sharp line: “One does not dare to appear as what one is.” So politeness becomes a veil: people flatter, posture, compete, and conceal their true motives.”

Corbett is doing his film and literature series again. 🤌 https://podverse.fm/episode/UOxeXWWg2

mood

i love the cyberdeck trend. just my speed.

Thomas Massie flipping the script on a “journalist”, ending in Massie chasing the fleeing reporter saying, “i just want to give you an opportunity to answer the rumors about you loving gay porn!” is cathartically hilarious

i think there are a bunch of people who need to have hands layed on them Tony Spell style.

Matricaria discoidea. aka wild chamomile. aka pineapple weed. aka thing that grows in the driveway. drying some for winter tea.

tree collard seems to be doing ok 😂

yes please 🙏

speaking of strange intersections, ever think its weird that the Rothchilds were behind the creation of the Federal Reserve, the creation of modern Israel, and the employers of Epstein?

in what country do you think propaganda would be the heaviest and most intense… in the nation of the totalitarian dictator who can do whatever he wants, or in the nation that requires the peoples agreement?

i used to walk to the kitchen for breakfast. now i walk to the coop and the garden. and feel alive.