mental doodles from my noodles

 white people house music

 Page 350 of the Grundrisse, still behind. Hoping to catch up next week, since David Harvey's book release was the central theme of next week.  Levinas is still there, I swear. a year ago I assigned this? Sorry -- it was the worst assignment for coming back to philosophy reading, because it really is one of the hardest books I have read. On that front, the Grundrisse has been a good exercise because it's a higher difficulty than Capital V1, but close enough that I don't need to think too too much. I feel the slog at times, but then there's parts where I see some benefits from having read something else from the man. I think I've managed to pare down things to Marx, then Levinas. Go me! :D

 I think I'm a reluctant anarchist in the sense that I wish something other than anarchy would have worked But am an anarchistic because I believe the state won't work. Against the state. Against the nation. For the people. I liked Occupy for the reason that it gave me that experience where people could be people.  We all are just dancing according to whatever nonsense. And anarchy is the way out of that nonsense. If we just choose to see it, and act on it. 

 Semiotics on the back back burner. Marxism on the front burner. Levinas I'm still thinking through.

 they are complaining about not being able to make as much money as they had been making by setting up a sham business that caters to our laziness and upcharging it. fuck those motherfuckers. if they are that concerned with it then they can jump into the meat shredder and increase protein yields

 one of the things about marcus aurelius that's often understated is that he was an emperor of rome. while acknowledged, it's rarely pointed out that if that's the case, he has absolutely no authority or wisdom on matters of ethics.

 sometimes i think to myself: i wish pandas would fuck I will dedicate myself to finding the panda aphrodisiac because surely it will be needed once we tame human desire through medical science just to ensure that our species survives but really i just think the pandas are cute