“[Galt’s] realism is hard-headed, his compassion is tough-minded, his humour contagious but tainted with the sense that chaos and catastrophe are never far away.”
“I was in love with the book. In pure, ignorant defiance of the decree of the Iowa Writing School that controls almost all modern fiction, Galt tells without showing.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin discusses John Galt’s ANNALS OF THE PARISH
those in political and economic ruling classes and cadres are not just morally wrong. descriptively speaking, they are building up and defending literal shit.
@livinghell true, but from an #enlightenment perspective they don't make many mistakes actually. Sustaining greed, as the wealth of nation (Smith), treating poor just little better than people of color (Malthus population law, Kant and most were great racists). Defending private property like it would be an extended part of your body (Lock). Believing we would be lazy rapists waiting for victims (Rousseau comparing humans with lonely wolfs) and thus need a violent oppressor (Hobbes Leviathan) to bring peace, order and prosperity. Believing the invisible hand that naturally regulates the market would be Jewish (Fichte). And so on and so on. .....
"[David Gushee] identifies 'authoritarian reactionary Christianity' as the primary cause of global democratic backsliding.
That’s because we are witnessing yet another wave of a secular revolution that has been a feature of Western civilization since the dawn of the enlightenment in the 17th century."
Our world calls out for a new #enlightenment. A guide to an intelligent and democratic #reconstruction of our social, moral, and vital values in place of the current state of cultural civil war perpetuated by mechanisms designed to generate private profit and individual attention.
I've dabbled with Linux over the years, first with Ubuntu in the early 2010s, then Elementary OS when that dropped, and a few years ago I really enjoyed how customizable the gui was with Xubuntu. I was able to make it look just like WIndows 2000 which was really cool....
i3, and swaywm , I have used almost ... All Linux/BSD/Windows/Osx/Unix Desktop Environments. I really like #enlightenment but it can be pretty buggy especially on wayland.
James Hutton (1726–1797), father of modern #Geology, was born #OTD, 3 June. One of the first European proponents of “deep time”, the concluding sentence of his 1788 paper “Theory of the Earth” has been called one of the most lyrical sentences in all of #science. It reads,
The result, therefore, of our present enquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning,—no prospect of an end.
The Dawn of a Mindful Universe A Manifesto for Humanity's Future by Marcelo Gleiser, 2023
An award-winning astronomer and physicist's spellbinding and urgent call for a new Enlightenment and the recognition of the preciousness of life using reason and curiosity—the foundations of science—to study, nurture, and ultimately preserve humanity as we face the existential crisis of climate change.
Which distro has the best GUI in your opinion?
I've dabbled with Linux over the years, first with Ubuntu in the early 2010s, then Elementary OS when that dropped, and a few years ago I really enjoyed how customizable the gui was with Xubuntu. I was able to make it look just like WIndows 2000 which was really cool....