Stray Notes

1. Academic social justice theorists are Calvinists — dividing thinkers into categories of elect and damned. This is bad for thought and for social justice.
2. Twitter consensus is not Truth.

“A man in a suit using an iPhone while sitting over a tall coffee” by Anete Lūsiņa on Unsplash

3. Literature offers a deep picture of the reality that media tries to describe (obscuring it in the process). We have more to learn about what happened today from Dostoyevsky than we do from MSNBC.

4. Trump is a very weak misreading of Nietzsche.

“Fight Tyranny sign with Trump's face on it in the basket of a bicycle” by Samantha Sophia on Unsplash

5. I don’t want to work for an economy which does not value the labor of producing self-knowledge.

6. The subject of anthropology might be exhausted. From now on, any student of the human subject that does not include a study of the digital machines that are co-extensive with the human is probably irrelevant. We are cyborgs with human longings.

7. Implanted truths are not truths at all — they are impositions. The only truth is the truth that grows, dialectically, from the germ of mystery.