<2021-04-21T17:29:49.000Z> AnonymousBosch: Well, any job is gonna be "mostly terrible" in America. If you're gonna teach I recommend looking at which state: demographics, access to chartered/private schools in your region with openings, and subject matter you'll be covering are what really make the difference.
<2021-04-21T17:31:36.000Z> AnonymousBosch: All those variables would be the key things to look at if you wanna walk down this long and lonely road.
<2021-04-21T17:46:57.000Z> AnonymousBosch: Depends. I found a chartered school- which means less funding, so lower pay and bennies, but I get MUCH more control over my curriculum and daily lesson planning (the oversight on my actual plans is nearly zero after I finished my first year at my current school).
<2021-04-21T17:48:09.000Z> AnonymousBosch: Location is everything too- without doxxing, I'll say I'm in Dixie, with lots of whities and conservative Christians going to bat for me when I teach stuff outside of "Consensus."
<2021-04-21T18:55:34.000Z> AnonymousBosch: I moved from a Yankee state too. No jerbs up there.
<2021-04-21T18:55:47.000Z> AnonymousBosch: Don't underestimate To Kill a Mockingbird
<2021-04-21T18:56:02.000Z> AnonymousBosch: We spend the whole time understanding the resentment of the poor whites
<2021-04-21T18:56:22.000Z> AnonymousBosch: I couch it as "understanding the motivations of the Villain
<2021-04-21T18:56:35.000Z> AnonymousBosch: Plus I get to say nigger in class, lol
<2021-04-21T20:28:08.000Z> AnonymousBosch: Atticus literally cucks and says we shouldn't even hate Hitler in the book. I absolutely run with that
<2021-12-02T05:25:11.000Z> heidegger14: Brother thoughts on Spinoza besides him being a proto-redditor jew 
<2021-12-02T06:39:40.000Z> AnonymousBosch: I'm somewhat partial to the parts of the Ethics devoted to the passions and the need to curb and control them, I think that part is good because I generally tend to lean into Virtue Ethics. Like Schopenhauer though, that's about all I like of him. I think his panentheism is cover for cringe atheism (but I'm open to more charitable readings) and his terminology feels intentionally contrary to how other philosophers are using words like "will" and "substance."
<2021-12-02T06:40:02.000Z> AnonymousBosch: Him being kicked out of the synagogue has to be worth some points though.
<2021-12-02T16:32:20.000Z> heidegger14: Absolutely based, I had the same feeling about his Ethics especially books 4 and 5. I just did an autism dive into Spinoza's Ethics, Theological-Political Treatise, and Political Treatise. Ethics reads almost like a self-help book at times, but I do buy his idea that humans are seriously flawed by desire, passion, appetite, etc and need boundaries placed by the sovereign to ensure "cultivation." He has his redditor moments where he says all prophecy and magic is just superstition of weak minds, which I don't necessarily agree with, but he does say religion has a place in a stable society. Do you think Spinoza inherits some of his pantheism from the Greeks? I couldn't help but think of the pre-Socratics while reading Ethics, especially in how they viewed God as natural and in-the-world 
<2021-12-02T16:52:17.000Z> AnonymousBosch: I can definitely see the influence of pre-socratic Monism on his work, and his idea of God/the Universe, as well as his Ethics, seems to align with the Stoics as well. His work definitely feels like a throwback to that era in that sense. I really do love his ethical ideas of restraining and monitoring the passions, but his epistemology and metaphysics irk me.
<2021-12-02T17:13:52.000Z> heidegger14: Yeah I was reading Deleuze's book on Spinoza before I dove into Spinoza's major three works, and he just uses Spinozan metaphysics to justify have gay poopy sex while playing didgeridoo. I don't like the implications of a world without a transcendent God, it devolves into purposeless and very contingent forms of life. What use is building a legacy if we're all just an infinite substance of bodies and modes? 
<2021-12-02T17:17:47.000Z> AnonymousBosch: I am embarrassed to say it, but I am partial to some of Deleuze's concepts in Capitalism in Schizophrenia, but I always return to the copypasta from /pol/ asking Deleuzians to explain "rhizomes" without google or I will shoot them in the face. Also his idea that repression and fascism are correlated is just retarded if one spends ten seconds looking at any pre-fascist nation and its degeneracy. His idea of a totally immanent world seems shamelessly ripped from Spinoza and has the exact same problems Spinoza's world has with providing solid metaphysical groundwork for any sort of morality or objectivity.
<2021-12-02T17:40:55.000Z> heidegger14: Don't be embarrassed, I think Deleuze was onto something in Difference & Repetition with his critique of categories. Categories aren't always solid and are somewhat fluid and contingent. It just sucks that this critique doesn't stay measured and thereby becomes the basis to attack race, gender, personhood, nation, religion, etc, any category that exists. In trying to give people more identity options, it just flattens everything into one bland monotonous ball of goo. Poststructuralism is such a cancer 
<2021-12-02T17:47:19.000Z> AnonymousBosch: Wow, it’s almost as if Nietzsche and Kierkegaard weren’t joking around when they tried to warn everyone about Leveling. 
<2021-12-02T18:02:20.000Z> heidegger14: I recently read John Rawls and his faggoty Theory pf Justice. Veil of Ignorance is the worst concept to ever emerge out of the Western liberal tradition. Levels everybodh to total characterless atoms 
<2021-12-03T04:22:05.000Z> AnonymousBosch: It's literally what Plato satirizes in the Republic when he says "True Justice" means the family and the ethnos is abolished. He actualized a 2500 year old joke.
<2021-12-03T04:28:52.000Z> AnonymousBosch: God I hate Rawls so much. When Kant talks about willing universal maxims and thinking about the Other and what they would want, Rawls takes it to the retarded conclusion of "we should all pretend we're nobody." I hate utilitarians with a fiery passion and I spend the first two weeks of my Ethics class at the college hammering this before going back and telling them all we're starting from scratch and seeing where ethics should actually lead us.
<2021-12-03T04:52:07.000Z> heidegger14: I think my hate for Rawls surpasses my hate for Kant. Kant's ethics are workable, his maxims make sense and Groundwork was actually an enjoyable read. I mainly dislike Kant's political project, I think Perpetual Peace is the single gayest document German Idealism ever produced 
<2021-12-03T04:52:58.000Z> heidegger14: You've read MacIntyre I assume? I still need to study more Aristotle before touching After Virtue. 
<2021-12-03T05:45:12.000Z> AnonymousBosch: Yes I’ve read pretty much everything of MacIntyre’s and saw him speak a few times. Big proponent of Virtue Ethics like him. 
<2021-12-03T05:45:46.000Z> AnonymousBosch: I think Kant’s politics are hella retarded,
<2021-12-03T05:46:28.000Z> AnonymousBosch: But his repudiation of Hume and the Categorical Imperative are a passable alternative to Utilitarianism. 
<2021-12-03T05:47:20.000Z> AnonymousBosch: Plus the whole idea of noumena/phenomena is a great jumping off point to get students to think of things outside of a materialistic, momentary paradigm. 
<2021-12-03T05:48:39.000Z> AnonymousBosch: I think Virtue Ethics, if you’re interested in diving in, is best approached historically: read Aristotle, then Aquinas, then Anscombe, and end with MacIntyre. 
<2021-12-03T17:26:06.000Z> heidegger14: That is absolutely based, sadly my podunk school never got great guest speakers, just has-been women talking about retard shit. Which Aristotle works do you recommend? I breezed through Nicomachean Ethics last summer but need to revisit it again. The ancient Greeks always confuse me for some reason 
<2021-12-03T18:42:55.000Z> AnonymousBosch: I would say read Eudemian Ethics next and the Politics. 
<2021-12-03T18:44:52.000Z> AnonymousBosch: Then I would peruse Aquinas’ portions of the Secunda Pars dealing with Ethics. It’s the natural extension of Aristotelian thought. 
<2021-12-03T19:45:48.000Z> heidegger14: Thanks for the recommendations borther, that'll be my winter reading! 
<2022-01-11T17:18:48.000Z> AnonymousBosch: Hey, my wife's been doing a "Deep Dive" on the Sims 4 and was thinking about writing up something about how the game has recently incorporated stuff that is covertly endorsing pedophilia and child paraphilias. Would the People's Samizdat have space for something like that if I got her to put her thoughts into an article form?
<2022-01-11T19:12:51.000Z> heidegger14: That would absolutely fit, we've been wanting more media/cultural articles too. Just have her e-mail us at tpswritesubs@protonmail.com with a pen name, text copy+pasted into the body of the email, and an image she would like to use for the header. No problem if she can't find an image, we can find one 
<2022-01-11T20:11:59.000Z> AnonymousBosch: Cool. The idea's still percolating. She didn't wanna put words to pen until she was sure it would end up someplace, when she finishes I'll make sure it finds its way to you guys.
<2022-01-11T20:21:15.000Z> AnonymousBosch: Any particular word count to aim for/not go over?
<2022-01-11T20:25:56.000Z> heidegger14: Think the longest article we've ever published was 10k words, but we tend to average out to 1.5k-3k words. Really anywhere under 10k maximum, and over 1k minimum, would be ideal 
<2022-01-11T20:26:09.000Z> AnonymousBosch: Perfect 
<2022-02-16T22:12:52.000Z> heidegger14: Hey borther, just wanted to let you know that I'll be deleting this account on Friday and making a new one, named after a wrestler, to stay in contact with my bros. You're kind of a mentor type to me so I figured I'd let you know, HH brother
<2022-02-16T22:13:27.000Z> AnonymousBosch: Okay good to know! I'm sure I'll be able to identify and refollow you when that happens!
<2022-02-17T22:24:40.000Z> heidegger14: New account is MechManRandySavage, just followed brother HH