scarecrowomen asked:
how did you acquire discipline and adherence to routine? I will accept a joke, a serious reply, or anything in-between
triviallytrue answered:
by happenstance more than effort on my part. sometimes you find yourself in a situation where discipline and adherence to routine are thrust upon you, as opposed to left to you to impose on yourself, and all you have to do is lean in
so i mentioned ive been reading a book about the october revolution and it makes me sympathize with tumblr revolutionary leftists more. like i still think a revolution in basically any major western country is exceedingly unlikely and would also be bad but like...being a revolutionary intellectual is *so cool*. it turns your nerdy opinionation, your disaffection, even your thirst for violence, and it transmutes it into the coolest thing.
@discoursedrome said:
the dream is to be a revolutionary intellectual, get executed after the revolution because you're too much of a nerd, then be rehabilitated as an idealistic hero 50 years later
hmm in this fantasy for me i dont care about after my death, but i also dont want to be in power, maybe i flee to another country after the revolution and get to imply with all my sayings that if the faction i was in had come to power it wouldnt be such a horror show
so discoursedrome is Bukharin and you're Trotsky, i see
i think many people imagine themselves as non-agentic because they're afraid of having to take responsibility for themselves. if you just do whatever everyone else does then our society sort of absolves you from responsibility for your actions
LAWYER: "Under jury qualifications you wrote 'can tell who is going to heaven just by looking' is that correct?'
ME: [Gesturing to the defendant while mouthing H-E-L-L and rolling my eyes]
pulled so many eastern european municipalities in the wikipedia random article gacha today
TROUBLEMAKING FRONTIER PREACHER
MANICALLY AMBITIOUS CON ARTIST
EUROPEAN NOBLE FAILSON
DOOMED FRONTIER EXPLORER
Sir. Ma’am. I’m afraid there’s no easy way to tell you this. We think your son may be a nascent utility monster. We saw him out in the schoolyard with the other children today, stomping ants. All of the children were all stomping ants but he seemed to be deriving a much, a much deeper and more visceral joy from each individual stomped ant, than any of the other children were deriving. Lots of little signs like that. Anyway. We might be morally obligated to get him addicted to heroin
