Ernest Worthing @ejworthing@octodon.social

Marx, in one parahraph:

http://voiceholt.com/self-destructive-tendency-of-capitalism-brian-leiter-explains-how-to-think-about-marx/

Beware people who offer you a "red pill." Most of them are peddling hallucinogens.

In the Gita, the leader of the evil forces had good men on his side.

"This suggests that evil cannot flourish by itself in this world. It can do so only if it is allied with some good. This was the principle underlying noncooperation--that the evil system which the [British colonial] Government represents, and which has endured only because of the support it receives from good people, cannot survive if that support is withdrawn."

--Gandhi on Ch. 1 of the Bhagavad Gita

Did you know that there is an animated version of Schubert's Erlkönig?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS91p-vmSf0

If we design city transportation to maximize the number of people traveling, cars will be a low priority.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/27/opinion/automated-vehicles-cant-save-cities.html

Proof:

Everything you do is more interesting than a random 1000 digit number.

Suppose that some whole numbers are not interesting. Then there must be a least uninteresting whole number. Being the least uninteresting whole number is interesting. That is a contradiction. So all whole numbers are interesting.

Since everything you do is more interesting than a random 1000 digit number, and that number is interesting, everything you do is interesting.

Manafort produced an incriminating email trail because he couldn't figure out how to convert a PDF file to Word.

https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/paul-manafort-couldnt-convert-pdfs-to-word-documents.html

Cultural Marxists grew up listening to Pete Seeger or obscure punk bands. Many of them went to socialist summer camp. Many celebrate May Day. They own copies of Capital, Volume I, and they’ve read bits of it.

Cultural Marxists are not and have never been members of the Communist Party. Nor are they, typically, members of socialist parties or labor unions. The only thing they do to help to bring about the revolution is promote the growth of the capitalist economy.

Archaeologists have found toy wagons in Mayan sites. There is no evidence that the Mayans used wagons or any other wheeled vehicle for transportation.

Nobody tried to market wheeled luggage until 1972, and it didn't catch on until the 1990s.

Source: Robert Shiller's finance course (on Coursera).

@Elizafox

Eris says that all things happen in fives, or are divisible by or are multiples of five, or are somehow directly or indirectly appropriate to 5.

The Law of Fives is never wrong!

I've been exploring the literary post-modernist text-based game #TriadCity.

The game has a lot of interesting features, some of which I can already experience as a newbie.(Joycean dreams!) But the game has a steep learning curve.

http://smartmonsters.com/TriadCity/reviewersGuide.jsp

Have any of you played? Any advice on where/how to explore?

Boo nationalism! Yay formerly endangered birds of prey!

Roses are red.
Memory's persistent.
The pipe that you're seeing
is non-existent.

"Nice is different than good."
-- Little Red Riding Hood

Anarchist philosopher Robert Paul Wolff is giving a series of YouTube lectures on Karl Marx's thought. The first one was posted today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35cr_whPC88&t=2s

Wolff's short book Understanding Marx gives a clear and interesting take on what Marx's got right about economics and what he got wrong. The lectures should be interesting.