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14 Nov

I'm going to go write, but first, Simone Weil said:

"Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating."

And Auden wrote:

"Evil is unspectacular and always human, / And shares our bed and eats at our own table."

I've had a theory since like college that we are too fascinated with imaginary evil. And think of goodness as uninteresting. More intriguing to read about serial killers than people sheltering the homeless. And the fascination is justified under the idea of depth in evil.

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Zito

@_Zeets

14 Nov

https://twitter.com/mitchell_silver/status/1327244866426974211

Paris is doing something similar too. Seems like cities are realizing how absurd it is that so much space is given to cars and parking lots.

https://twitter.com/mitchell_silver/status/1327244866426974211

I think this pandemic and the need for spacing people outside also make the absurdity very obvious.

I’ve Seen a Future Without Cars, and It’s Amazing

nytimes.com/2020/07/09/opi…

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Zito

@_Zeets

14 Nov

Since 2016, papers have been looking to make Trump and his supporters respectable and they'll find a way to do it against all evidence of bigotry and cruelty

His base spent the last four years terrorizing everyone labeled an enemy while he encouraged them and his administration worked to create a world hostile to others but journalists will be damned if they don't maintain the idea that it's all just a big misunderstanding

Just a bunch of failed fiction writers

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Zito

@_Zeets

13 Nov

"Horace was...anti-giraffe. The animal was, he believed, conceptually untidy: ‘If a painter had chosen to set a human head on a horse’s neck [or] if a lovely woman ended repulsively in the tail of a black fish, could you stifle laughter, friends?’"

lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/…

"They have been known to host tiny yellow-billed oxpeckers on their bodies: the birds remove ticks from their skin, and clean the food from between their teeth. Giraffes have been photographed at night with clusters of sleeping birds tucked into their armpits, keeping them dry."

Alright, but this is hilarious:

"Each time a giraffe dips down to drink, legs splayed, the blood rushes to its brain; as it bends, the jugular vein closes off blood to the head, to stop it fainting when it straightens up again."

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Zito

@_Zeets

13 Nov

https://twitter.com/lingerie_addict/status/1327004201042505729

Lol come on, man. What is this nonsense?

https://twitter.com/lingerie_addict/status/1327004201042505729

All these unpopular opinions are embarrassing because people tend to generalize their personal experience as an objective view of things.

"You can learn life lessons or symbolism or whatever from more interesting, relevant, and modern books. Including graphic novels"

Who reads the classic for life lessons? They're not self help books. Symbolism? As if that's the totality of it. "Whatever" is hilarious.

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Zito

@_Zeets

3 Sep

Oh wow, would you look at this?

Maybe the bully will then get a book/podcast/TV gig where they can talk endlessly about the rampant mob that attacked them and is too sensitive to seeing other ideas?

"The question we should be asking is not why people are sometimes cruel...but how we have come to create institutions that encourage such behavior and that suggest cruel people are in some ways admirable—or at least as deserving of sympathy as those they push around."

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