I see people inventing all kinds of new rules for why you can't point out that JD Vance is Tucker Carlson with some trimmings to make sure he's not too obviously out of sync with Trump. But no one explains why that's wrong. His relation to Carlson remains taboo, which is telling.
@slooperbia50068 Jews have been all over the place on these questions but I don't see your objection (setting aside that this video is AI-generated)--should people come into court naked, perhaps?
@slooperbia50068 I prefer a garmented world. Clothes allow attention to be directed to a range of attitudes unrelated (or only distantly, increasingly distantly related) to fornication.
@slooperbia50068 I'm not anti-facade, either.
@slooperbia50068 When their imitation of the central object/beast got to the point of dressing themselves in its skin as part of the ritual.
@slooperbia50068 It's a hedge; there may be more elegant ways of performing one.
@slooperbia50068 Neither he nor Burgis will complain about an omission of Gans, though.
@slooperbia50068 A hedge, like "perhaps," "suggest," "seems," etc.--indicating a lessening of epistemic commitment to the claim. "On the face of it" does the exact same thing, A way of saying "I could be wrong, of course..."
@slooperbia50068 I was waiting for the email. "Anthropocentric" is a very common word--I don't know what more I could say about it. Centered on the human, intellectually and/or morally, as opposed to some other center--God, History, Language, etc.
@slooperbia50068 Most people who refer to a way of thinking as anthropocentric are doing so critically.
@slooperbia50068 Perhaps
@slooperbia50068 I didn't know this is what Satan did.
@slooperbia50068 I'm not familiar with any of Walker Percy's work.
@slooperbia50068 I actually know that essay and a few others—I was thinking of his fiction
@slooperbia50068 The part about movies?
@slooperbia50068 I'd have to go back and scroll through it at this point.