Notices by garfield (garfiald@mastodon.social)

anybody else frenetically putting together their end-of-decade lists because i sure am

I spend a lot of time on here getting pissed off at myths about the Middle Ages, whether it's the idea that they didn't do philosophy, or that they were idiots who couldn't draw. These misconceptions are down to the myth of the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages is the way the medieval period is taught at school: you had the enlightened Roman Empire, a golden era of wisdom and liberty, then you had a millenium of pure wretchedness before the Renaissance kicked "Western civilisation" back into high gear.

When white people say "where does it stop?" to reparations, that's because they're beginning to comprehend the sheer extent of what they should give back. That's the sound of their head spinning at the sheer enormity of what they have committed

ill post a hot take for every boost this toot gets

any anime girls on here?

white people dont get to ask not to be told about racism. fuck you, you did this

no one has actually read a book, and survived

people always ask me "where did you get this amazing ass" and the truth is, i got it handed to me

when people from different instances have an argument

that said, sometimes fascists arent allowed to speak at universities, which was surely what orwell (a man who travelled to spain specifically to shoot fascists with a gun) was primarily concerned about

post like nobody's reading

simon and garfunkel, a rare Double Twink combination, was by nature unstable, hence the short length of their collaboration

tim and eric is more of an otter/bear duo, but tim upholds twink thought against adversity

So, to summarise: every single job and accolade Peterson has ever obtained, including the debates he took part in, were things he was given by friends he had on the inside, and not things that he earned through merit. Every. Single. One.

"Wealth inequality" isn't an abstract problem which came about from bad tax policies. Don't let the media pretend that it is. It is precisely because workers are relentlessly exploited and mistreated that billionaires exist. The inequality we endure would not exist in a world where workers are treated fairly.

you know, when you look back at all of recorded human history, people keep getting things wrong over and over again about literally everything. but i've looked at the empirical evidence, and it looks to me like our current set of beliefs about the way things are is the correct one

if people do april fools pranks on here it will be completely indistinguishable from normal mastodon posts

The idea that you either "get" a work of art or don't implies that there is a singular meaning or "explanation" to the work, one which is often attached to authorial intent, which, to put it politely, is a trash garbage idea.

I dont think I like the idea of "getting it" when it comes to works of art. It's super disempowering to the reader and counterintuitively encourages a passive mode of engagement with the text.

Wow! Check out this brand new method to make every aspect of production, from housing to healthcare "open source", and take the trend that's taking silicon valley by storm into the analog world. They're calling it "communism"