Show thread🇪🇷GötterdämmerungMar 26, 2025

@DeuxMoi: Respectfully, that show walked so I could run. But let's be real. Real anonymous sources don't care about high school drama. If GG was around today, it'd be tracking CEOs politicians & celebs sneaking out of private clubs.

La #Rochefoucauld: Here lies the great paradox of gossip. Those who wield it best are never seen. Yet, this Gossip Girl was everywhere & nowhere. Omnipresent yet intimate. She was less a person than a force... until of course they ruined it by giving her a face.

🇪🇷GötterdämmerungMar 25, 2025
#Gossip
A candle flickers in the center of the room. La #Rochefoucauld lounges in an armchair, elegantly detached, his piercing gaze seeing through everyone. #HeddaHopper perches on the edge of her seat, hat immaculate, ever ready to skewer reputations with a flick of her tongue. #PerezHilton, all energy & bravado, leans in, already drafting a headline in his mind. And in the shadows, a phone screen glows: @Deuxmoi faceless, ever watching, feeding the beast of modern gossip in Real Time™.
Show thread🇪🇷GötterdämmerungMar 19, 2025

A knowing glance is exchanged, a slow sip of wine. And then....

La #Rochefoucauld: Self-awareness, that modern panacea. The belief that if one names an emotion correctly, one has somehow tamed it. Tell me, does recognizing your own loneliness make you less lonely? Or does it merely give your suffering a more precise vocabulary?

I shift in my chair, slightly uncomfortable.

Madame Geneviève d'Alembert (former lover or Rousseau): But surely naming one's emotions helps?

🇪🇷GötterdämmerungOct 22, 2024
La #Rochefoucauld is one of my favorite thinkers, but I always wondered if he had lived through the French Revolution, would his writings acquire a political edge to them?
Yes, almost most certainly. His writings would've taken on a more political tone, just like Chamfort. The Ancien Regime was already crumbling by the end of the 18th century. The Revolution created an environment where selfishness & vanity were no longer mere moral flaws but also political issues that impacted society itself.
formuchdeliberationMay 20, 2024

"It seems that nature, which has so wisely arranged the organs of our body for our happiness, has also given us pride to spare us the pain of knowing our deficiencies."

~ François de La Rochefoucauld, Moral Reflections
#quote #philosophy #rochefoucauld #nature #pride #knowledge #self #understanding

Judy ElfferichMay 31, 2023
‘Nicht Harriët, hier is de krant.’

Ooteoote-serie Poetry in motion, 408: T.S. Eliot, The Boston Evening Transcript
https://bit.ly/PIM408-eliot
#krant #gezapigheid #TSEliot #Rochefoucauld #animatie
Poetry in motion 408: T.S. Eliot, The Boston Evening Transcript

  Animatie: Scarlett Wang. Tekst van het gedicht (Engels) Over T.S. Eliot Elke week hier een poëzie-animatie gekozen door Judy Elfferich.

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xameerMay 24, 2021
- Philosopher Friedrich #Nietzsche greatly admired La #Rochefoucauld and was influenced not only by his ethics, but also his style.