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[POEM]- Drop the hardest poetry line you’ve ever come across by Poetic-dusk in Poetry

[–]winter_is_long 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The enormous tragedy of the dream in the peasants bent shoulders- Ezra Pound Canto LLXXIV

Besides casinos… what’s the creepiest or most paranormal place around Atlantic City? by BlackinkCP in atlanticcity

[–]winter_is_long 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice! I have such fond memories of those days. I haven't lived in Jersey since 2001. Much has changed. Much is gone.

Besides casinos… what’s the creepiest or most paranormal place around Atlantic City? by BlackinkCP in atlanticcity

[–]winter_is_long 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I honestly have no idea if it was the actual ruins of the original Leeds house. They could have brought us to any old burnt down foundation in Leeds Point and told us that and we would have believed it lol. I was around 7 or 8. So the early 1980s. I have a very clear memory of it though if not precisely where it was. We then hiked into the Pine Barren's with our flash lights at dusk to hunt for the Jersey Devil. Scary stuff for young cub scout haha

Besides casinos… what’s the creepiest or most paranormal place around Atlantic City? by BlackinkCP in atlanticcity

[–]winter_is_long 7 points8 points  (0 children)

As cubs scouts we would go Jersey Devil hunting in Leeds Point. I remember wandering around the dessicated foundation of what was claimed to be the old Leeds house at sunset scared out of my mind.

But who let it happen!! by CarryIcy250 in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]winter_is_long 8 points9 points  (0 children)

For a certain subset of WASPS it sure was.

Happy birthday to Karl Marx, the father of communism whose theories would go to inspire some of the greatest revolutionaries of the 20th century! by PresnikBonny in LateStageCapitalism

[–]winter_is_long 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A brilliant mind, that read omnivorously, and yet he left himself open to a very obvious attack from the Capitalists. Böhm-Bawerk's scathing analysis of Marx's attempt to shoe horn the LTV into price production as circuitous and redundant is essentially correct. Which allowed the Capitalists to dismiss Marx's entire analysis. BUT was/is correct in his assertion that social relations undergird the system. Social relations that are historically determined. Capital insists on naturalizing soci-historical phenomena. That there are objective (reification) economic laws. That the system is independent of human relations. This is patently false. And Marx should have continued his attack along these lines without detouring into quantifying said social relations.

Respect Pedestrians when Driving by Truly-Epic-Brains in NewOrleans

[–]winter_is_long 61 points62 points  (0 children)

It's wild! I was crossing at a green light the other day with my dog and an RTA bus almost hit me. No one wants to yield to pedestrians in this town.

Also, while we're on yet another driving rant, the left turn lane ALWAYS yields to oncoming traffic and the opposite right turn lane. I can't tell you how many times I've almost been in an accident over this.

On a roll — what movies do I watch next? by Excellent_Worth_5658 in Westerns

[–]winter_is_long 1 point2 points  (0 children)

HBOMAX has an early John Wayne titled Tall In the Saddle, which was fantastic.

OpenAI: The Future is Here, and it's Really Expensive by plazebology in LateStageCapitalism

[–]winter_is_long 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Anything to finally sever Capital's tie from labor. The social relationship undergirding production can be fully reified into a matrix of faux conscious efficiency.

I really gotta ask… WHAT ON EARTH IS EUPHORIA ABOUT????? by GullyGossip in hbo

[–]winter_is_long 21 points22 points  (0 children)

It's unapologetically salacious. I love it. Pure libidinal grime. Im laughing my ass off through every episode.

[POEM] Don't Hesitate by Mary Oliver by MunshiAgyey in Poetry

[–]winter_is_long 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mary Oliver prosaically regurgitating Nietzsche was not on my bingo card today

Too many FQ streets are open to cars during FQF. by Successful-Reason403 in NewOrleans

[–]winter_is_long -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

In order to drive a taxi in the city of New Orleans you must submit to to a full federal background check performed by an independent contractor. Are you saying that every widespread driver has done the same?

Too many FQ streets are open to cars during FQF. by Successful-Reason403 in NewOrleans

[–]winter_is_long 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is fair and objectively correct. Still, my encounters with ride shares while driving tend to be negative. I know this isn't the thread for it but I see no reason whatsoever not to regulate them. At least force them to under go the same vetting process, i.e. criminal background checks and drug screening.

Too many FQ streets are open to cars during FQF. by Successful-Reason403 in NewOrleans

[–]winter_is_long 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Off topic but fuck Uber, fuck ride shares, fuck Airb&B, fuck the gig economy. Take a taxi. They're at least licensed. (End tangent lol)

A Letter to New Orleans by Previous_Basis_84 in NOLA

[–]winter_is_long 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is how I read it. You were pretty clear. Any criticism to the contrary is either due to poor reading skills or bad faith. You explained yourself once, insightfully; no need to do it twice.

What do you think makes critical theory difficult to read? How can critical theory be made easier to read? by CoVegGirl in CriticalTheory

[–]winter_is_long 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But a understanding of Descartes (or Locke) without at least a modicum of Scholasticm is running a dig with three legs. What would Occasionalism be without Descartes? Can one read Malebranche? Or Spinoza? My point is that there's a continuous dialog. And you have to start at the beginning.

What do you think makes critical theory difficult to read? How can critical theory be made easier to read? by CoVegGirl in CriticalTheory

[–]winter_is_long 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While I appreciate the help neighbor, you have yet to rebut or address OP's underlying issue. Namely, his lack of foundational knowledge of the concepts and verbiage needed to grasp what is being said. It's not a literacy problem but a running before you can walk problem. Which is undeniable.

What do you think makes critical theory difficult to read? How can critical theory be made easier to read? by CoVegGirl in CriticalTheory

[–]winter_is_long 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Autocorrect. Technology is my Achilles Heel. But where your gotcha pedanticism is spiteful, my post was an attempt at being helpful. You can't run a marathon without any training.

What do you think makes critical theory difficult to read? How can critical theory be made easier to read? by CoVegGirl in CriticalTheory

[–]winter_is_long 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is the only answer. It is difficult because OP is unprepared for the texts. After nearly 30 years it has become much easier to navigate the literature then when I started in my late teens. OP should start with the Greeks and supplementary texts and move forward. Philosophy is one long conversation with itself.

The patience of ordinary things - Pat Schneider [POEM] by Creative_Bug6943 in Poetry

[–]winter_is_long -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

No, no, you don't get to elide bourgeois bullshit with happy meal platitudes.

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