Is there something you planned to do before you got trapped in the endless tumblr scroll?
Are you yelling at yourself to get up and do the thing, but you can’t, because you’re trapped in the endless tumblr scroll?
Consider this your save point.
Put tumblr down, stand up, stretch, and go do the thing you planned to do. Future you will be incredibly grateful.
Things people in the notes have been able to do thanks to this post:
eat breakfast
go to bed
get out of bed
take a shower
write
practice
watch Superman Returns and write a paper on it
retain shreds of sanity
I need y’all to know that you’re doing amazing, and I’m so glad that I was able to help you break out of a procrastination loop you did not want to be stuck in.
Helpful post I’ve added to my queue in case it helps someone else at the random point when it’s posted.
FYI, this was an actual streetlamp in Wrocław, Poland. Local services removed the overgrowth because apparently nearby people had trouble sleeping with this by their windows.
This ammonite fossil is about 71 million years old, and it is covered with Ammolite, which exhibits a natural gamut of bright colors.
Ammolite is an opal-like organic gemstone found primarily along the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains of North America. It is made of the fossilized shells of ammonites, which in turn are composed primarily of aragonite, the same mineral contained in nacre, with a microstructure inherited from the shell.
When it comes to grifters, the worst thing you can do is believe your own bullshit. That’s what made L Ron Hubbard such a successful grifter. The man could pivot on a dime. He was whatever he needed to be in that moment. He knew to never put himself in a situation where his credibility could be measured.
Peterson believed his own hype. You watch that debate, and you watch a man realize that he’s way in over his head.
What’s saddest to me is that Zizek seemed like he actually prepared too. Zizek picks him so efficiently in the first 10 minutes that he gets visibly bored. It gets to the point where Zizek is trying to give him freebies to save face. I think about that event a lot, but I don’t think I could actually sit through that video again.
Important thing for the video:
Presumably the topic of discussion was Marxism. It becomes abundantly clear fairly quickly into the debate that Jordan has only read the Communist Manifesto. Which is like saying you’ve studied the Beatles because you heard Yellow Submarine on the radio one time.
Make no mistake you are watching Jordan kneecap his claim to the term “intellectual”
The really galling thing to me was how, he keeps harping on on the *absence* of certain points. Like he says “Nowhere in this entire 20-page advertising pamphlet does it talk about XYZ” as if it’s a huge gotcha, all of which are all really really easy to find if you just look for them, like, at all, anywhere *other* than the 20 page pamphlet designed purely to advertise it!
Like it’s clear he sees communism/socialism/leftism/whatever as obviously *below* discussion. As not worth talking about. Which… okay, sure, whatever - but if you think it’s below discussion and not worth debating about, why did you show up to a live public debate to discuss it!
My favorite bit from the video is where Zizek just kinda gets fed up with Peterson and goes “Name these Marxists you keep talking about!” As if Peterson isn’t just complaining about people who made fun of him on Twitter.
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