Wisdom in SpaceAn idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will make better soup.
-- H. L. Mencken
WIST QuotationsHe that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men will know how things are.
Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, Preface (1820)
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ポイズン雷花平和
理想で戦争を回避出来ると云うのは臆病神の戯言に過ぎん！
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平和｜ポイズン雷花
理想で戦争を回避出来ると云うのは臆病神の戯言に過ぎん！ 平和外交平和外交て口煩く云ってる奴は現実に目を向け、 真正面から向き合う事の出来ぬ困った臆病神でしか有りませぬ。 だからこそう平和外校と云う名の夢物語にしがみ付くしか生きる術を見出せぬ！ 憲法改正反対と云ってる連中もそう、平和憲法と云う夢から覚める勇気を持てぬ臆病神。 歴史は今まで幾度も無く証明してる。理想論と夢物語で平和を得、維持するのは不可能！ もっと云うのならば、神話に過ぎぬ。それがこの世界の現実。 此処で妾が問う。平和国家をうたう日本が平和を守る為今するべき事は何？ 今現在刻々と、確実に差し迫って来てる脅威を抑止、除去する
мир
Сказати, що війни можна уникнути за допомогою ідеалів, — не що інше, як нісенітниця боягузливого бога!
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мир｜ポイズン雷花
Сказати, що війни можна уникнути за допомогою ідеалів, — не що інше, як нісенітниця боягузливого бога! Дипломатія миру Ті, хто говорять про дипломатію миру, повинні дивитися на реальність. Він не що інше, як неспокійний і боягузливий бог, який не може протистояти йому лобом. Ось чому я можу знай
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will make better soup.
-- H. L. Mencken
Peace
To say that war can be avoided with ideals is nothing more than the nonsense of a cowardly god!
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Aurin (ki, ki, kis)Haha sorry for the pretentious poetic title! 😂
I just realised that aside from the manic-depressed-paranoid pendulum, a similar pattern holds true for another one: Goals.
When I was still living in circumstances that weren't just shitty, but actively traumatising, I would swing wildly between having the highest of aspirations (saving the world, always) and feeling hopeless. And more significantly, I would pour so much intensity into my hopes and dreams and goals, into just formulating them and broadcasting them. You probably saw this on this very blog. I think it was important for me to do that because it was my way of keeping the dreams alive.
I still have high hopes and aspirations. I still want to save the world!
But things feel different now. Not because I became wiser or learned something or thought cleverer thoughts, but as a result of living a more stable life.
I have stepping stones within reach now. I don't have to cling to the stars themselves anymore, I can put my feet in front of me, plant them firmly on the ground, on real, concrete stepping stones, and go one step at a time while occasionally LOOKING up and dreaming up my guiding lights and checking if I'm still in alignment.
I am being more grounded and more realistic, but I'm not a realist in the sense that I limit myself to what others have decreed to be "realistic" (ie don't think outside the box, don't rock the boat, don't try to hold those in power accountable).
It's still very new to me and feels a bit icky tbh. Almost as though what counted weren't the qualities of my dreams and ideals, but the fact that they were so unattainable. As though the very act of getting closer to being able to do concrete steps towards them made me a mere "realo" rather than a lofty idealist. As though I was less radical now, because I feel less like a proletarian. Or something.
(Of course the real irony is that I'm not even in any way financially stable yet, I don't have a job (objectively speaking) and me and Dion are still very disabled and all those things. But even though it's still technically precarious, we DO have a liveable apartment now and we have reasons for optimism.)
GravitasCapitalism IS Racism.
Capitalism IS Racism.
Miguel Afonso Caetano👉🎯"Intellectual history has long suffered from a materialist deficit. The discipline, as Samuel Moyn argues, is in sore need of “a theory of ideology” that conceptualizes ideas as not merely intellectual but also material forces. Absent an awareness of the social dimension of ideas, Moyn contends, intellectual history risks sliding into idealism, substituting a theory of discursive context for what should be one of social relations.
In Moyn’s work, intellectual history stands accused of operating on an “implausible” theory of historical agency and change. It imagines ideas to arise at the point where historical context meets writerly intention but, in doing so, fails to acknowledge that both history and intention are themselves socially and materially conditioned. This leaves it generally ill equipped to confront the role ideas play in perpetuating and justifying material inequalities or relations of dominance.
We are seeing the effects of this analytical deficit today. As we bear witness to far-reaching shifts in not only the political economy but the intellectual life of advanced capitalist societies, our capacity to interpret how we got here appears pallid and incomplete." 🎯👈
https://www.jhiblog.org/2026/02/02/stuart-hall-ideology-and-neoliberalisms-reactionary-drift/
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