first thoughts

In any text, there's something that's left unsaid. And sometimes that unspoken thing isn't even known by the people supposedly behind it. Romance is a lot like this. You don't say everything, and you almost can't say everything. No matter what you say or do, you'll manage to leak how you really feel about each other. And its really in those ways that you communicate to them, "I love you, I'm hear for you." Sure, you can say it out loud, you can read posts on how to show love, but truth is a pesky thing and it will find a way.

And so with sofiechan. There's content that I see here just on the first pass that took me a while to find my way to when I discovered it on my own. Within a couple minutes I see Foucault's Discipline and Punish, Zero HP, LessWrong, Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy, Curtis Yarvin, and Paul Graham. If I discovered all of these when I was 15, it would blow my mind.

I've often felt like an outsider, and through the above I've slowly managed to find a lot of like-minded people. And the crazy thing is it doesn't matter how sweaty they are, how wealthy or poor they are, I still love them. Yet I grew up feeling like I was one wrong move from being an outcast, or guilty of an unforgivable thoughtcrime.

A few more topics/people I haven't seen mentioned (at first glance):
- Slavoj Zizek (curious to talk to people about Christian atheism)
- El Segundo, the place and all the stuff happening in US defense / deep tech
- Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies
- Anti-Oedipus by D&G (pretty sure it's not word salad, but what is the body without organs?)
- Against Method by Paul Feyerabend

>If I discovered all of these when I was 15, it would blow my mind.
Blowing the mind of 15 year olds is a great thing to aspire to. Do it enough and you change the world.

>one wrong move from being an outcast, or guilty of an unforgivable thoughtcrime.
The philosopher is never appreciated in his own time. Like Socrates, the best he can hope at best for is a glorious and influential death at the hands of ungrateful plebs. Seek not safety, but glory.

>Slavoj Zizek (curious to talk to people about Christian atheism)
Well I've never been a Zizek guy so I'll leave that to someone else. I'm more into Nietzschean theism myself.

>El Segundo, the place and all the stuff happening in US defense / deep tech
I should get around to writing my report on their cowboy industrial policy project. I'll be visiting them again later this year.

>Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies
My favorite part of this is that the pop interpretation amounts to a contentless nihilistic totalitarianism. Nothing is allowed except the infinite suspension of every question of import. Nothing that would venture to answer the big questions of life (and therefore deny alternatives) can be tolerated. A wonderful formula if you wish to send secret police to arrest your enemies but wish not to admit in the open what it is you actually stand for. I'm glad the open society project has mostly failed.

>Anti-Oedipus by D&G (pretty sure it's not word salad, but what is the body without organs?)
Deluzians I've talked to saying these guys have a very important body of work but also not worth reading. Which is it?

>Against Method by Paul Feyerabend
I've liked things in this area.

Start a thread on any of these, anon.

>contentless nihilistic totalitarianism

Personally not aware of the pop interpretation, but his takes on Plato are fun

>Deluzians I've talked to saying these guys have a very important body of work but also not worth reading. Which is it?

No clue yet. From the first chapter Anti-Oedipus is difficult to understand

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> Deluzians I've talked to saying these guys have a very important body of work but also not worth reading. Which is it?

Justin Murphy wrote a little book called "Based Deleuze" that I found helpful in arranging Deleuze's thought in a way that I could better relate to my interests.

https://www.amazon.com/Based-Deleuze-Reactionary-Leftism-Philosophers/dp/1734452900