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Almost a winky face.
misologists
A person who hates reason and logic.
Phaedo done: 0/5. Dialogues are terrible, and this one is extra bullshit.
Bonus: I have exhausted my meme supply.
Summary: Soul, body, changeable, blah, blah.
Commentary: It's just a repetition of the previous page(s)!
Bonus:
Hellas, he replied, is a large place,
"Hell is a large place" is the title of my anime about a Demon Bounty Hunter. It's just Yu Yu Trigun.
Bonus: Live fake horse racing!
Summary: Rock flies, somebody dies.
Commentary: This story sucks, and it has sucked everytime I read it since middle school. It has three issues.
1. Shirley Jackson's prose is like nails on a chalkboard. "the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green." Get the fuck out of here. That reads like it was written by a middle schooler.
2. It's opaque and contradictory in, I assume, an intentional way, but it's just annoying.
3. Tessie is the least interesting/likable character in the story. I wouldn't go so far as to say I want her to get stoned to death, but she's not much above that.
Girl with Daddy issues gets groomed by older guy, taken to secluded location, winds up pregnant, he also bangs her step-sister, no one knows who some of the kids' dads are, suspicious adoptions, all while the poors starve from climate change.
"The Uses of Poverty: The Poor Pay All" by Herbert Gans (1971)
Bonus:
Actual footage of Herbert Gans
Summary: The poor are the GRIST IN THE MILL OF SOCIETY!
Commentary:
Read one of his other articles for school and looked him up. Apparently this is his most famous. It contains the excellent:
Alternatives for the cultural functions of the poor could be found more easily and
cheaply. Indeed, entertainers, hippies, and adolescents are already serving as the deviants needed to uphold traditional morality and as devotees of orgies to "staff" the fantasies of vicarious participation.
Phaedo Bonus: Why don't we get drunk and read shitty philosophy. Summary: I got drunk and finished Phaedo. Commentary: ') Almost ...
