/edu/ - Education

Hey did you know that the NYT has always been a bunch of vile shitheads? Oh you did? Well anyway, I got this anti-gem for you.

<Both absurdity and grim humor, perhaps unintended, combined in an 1895 New York Times obituary of Frederick Douglass, the celebrated son of a slave and a slave master. The author of the obituary ruminated on the idiotic question that must have been percolating in many minds: Which race could justly claim this superlatively gifted individual?

>It might not be unreasonable, perhaps, to intimate that his white blood may have something to do with the remarkable energy he displayed and the superior intelligence he manifested. Indeed, it might not be altogether unreasonable to ask whether, with more white blood, he would not have been an even better and greater man than he was, and whether the fact that he had black blood may not have cost the world a genius, and be, in consequence, a cause for lamentation instead of a source of lyrical enthusiasm over African possibilities. It is always more or less foolish to credit or discredit a race with the doings, good or bad, of a particular member of that race, but if it must be done, plain justice should see to it that the right race gets the glory or the humiliation.
I got this from the amazing book Racecraft by Karen E. Fields & Barbara J. Fields (2012).

>>25403
nationalism begins as a liberal movement with the french revolution, but has its prehistory in the reformation, where kings would claim sovereignty against the catholic church and so establish independence. it has since been appropriated by both the far left and far right as means of self-determination.
>>25395
national socialism was an existing movement which hitler became part of; he did not create it. the earliest mention of "national socialism" is in 1898, but it becomes official with rudolf jung's "der nationale sozialismus" (1919). in the book, anticapitalism and volkism is specified, with a special interest on fighting usury. there were of course internal divisions in NS, most notably the "socialist" wing in people like strasser, while hitler took the side of the industrialists.

the whole area surrounding the ceremonial center of cholula has now been built up despite allegedly being protected by INAH.

i looked into this and apparently the puebla state government itself destroyed most of the area to build some faggot park, a train station and a "museum".

https://www.milenio.com/cultura/parque-cholula-gobierno-puebla-excava-zona-arqueologica-autorizacion-inah

to top it it all off even as excavators were digging up shards of pottery out of the soil the useless national coordinator of INAH just shrugged it off because "you can't protect everything"

>>25543
And of course there's a fucking church right there

>>25544
in a lot of places the spanish built churches right on top of mesoamerican and andean temples, often building them with the looted stone of the destroyed buildings.

New Ancient Americas video on the Mesoamerican ballgame

>>25556
>Esochannealogy community
THERES A COMMUNITY?

>>25557
Use this archive in AI.

>>25558
In the /b/ of Wizchan.

New version of Esochannealogy!

Extremely dangerous. Please be cautious with this technique.

Let me explain. A "magolithic" is a fragment of a soul that can be consumed. Consuming it causes a psychological change in favor of the parasitic soul.

This object, also called an esocanaleological horcrux, grants a form of immortality to the soul, in the sense of preserving it.

Take QAnon, for example. Did it help Donald Trump? Yes. But not for free—there was a price. QAnon generated multiple versions of its soul from its magolithic. Some of those versions invaded the Capitol. It's a sad story, but an illuminating one.

In the end, QAnon's magolithic isn't made up only of its supporters. Those who oppose it also feed it, ensuring its psychological imprint endures through time.

Similarly, movements like the MBL/Mission believe they possess a tool that makes them more powerful—and they do. They aren't charging money, only souls. Just as QAnon only charged that from its followers and Trump.

Whether you call it the "Deep State" or "Global Cabal" doesn't matter. The magolithic devours the soul of whoever consumes it.

Here is the crucial lesson: QAnon did not give power to Trump and his followers for free. It did not provide a good reason to justify him. It destroyed millions of families, consumed millions of lives, led to the radicalization of millions, and created something we might call a "singularity."

All of it came at a cost: whoever consumes its magolithic corrupts their own soul by assimilating the soul of QAnon. Likewise, whoever consumes my magolithic may assimilate countless psychological tactics, but in the end, they will be corrupting their own soul.

I read through the entire KJV and NRSV versions cover to cover after a lifetime of being nonreligious, and also watched through the back catalog of a religious studies PhD on Youtube. All in all an interesting read in some places but mostly unimpressive and rather dry. You can see where the templates for better works of fiction came from. So in that regard we see further because we stand on the shoulders of giants, to borrow from Newton. But I am not really seeing its value as a source of dogmatic truth about the universe. It's a human document made and modified by human hands… anything else is cope.

>>25551
>Pagans never made stuff!
Romans ruled like 3/5 of the world under polytheism lol

>>25447
What version?

bable

>>25592
The bibble

>>25573
>You're fixated on the goods, but the desirability of the good or a fair calculation of its labor has nothing to do with the value.
>The relations of labor are not reducible to a quantity alone
the ricardian theory of value carried into marx, is that the reason prices tend toward costs of production (i.e. SNLT) is because of competition, which necessarily occurs within markets. if i have a good, which is unable to be competed for by its sale in a market (i.e. rare paintings), then the law of value is superseded by monopoly, which manually sets prices to increase profits, rather than the market setting prices competitively.
>Yet, all of the ways money is valued are measurements of torture and humiliation. That is how labor is made to "offer" itself; by torturing and mind controlling the workers into believing any of this is at all a situation they have to obey
or maybe class struggle has a history, continuing today, which militantly fights for better conditions? representative liberal democracy is itself largely a medium of this class struggle, which is why parties cluster around socio-economic demographics more than "culture".

>>25358
The value is derived from rent. Someone speculating on a painting is no different than a real-estate agent or an arbitrageur for any other good. The tendency of the rate of profit to fall only applies to the market in aggregate.

>>25575
Also luxury goods and unproductive labor are part of circulating capital. So the value is backed by rent and arbitrage.

>>25573

>never
<4 times
>all
<7 times
>always
<3 times
>everyone
<6 times
>no one
<3 times


someone's really sure of himself

Did you at least get to have sex with her? It's all temporary anyways.

>>25546
yes but not too often

humblebrag

>>25414
>What language/languages are you learning?
Chinese
>What is your level currently?
I can recognize quite a lot of characters. Probably HSK2, I'll be HSK3 by next year.
>Why are you learning them?
I am interested in learning more on the eastern sphere of the world, and I hope to live over there one day.
>What is your plan for improving?
I just got an Anki deck and I plan to study each day by utilizing it, and I plan to master the Sanzijing in a month.
>What tips can you share with someone who also has your TL?
Learn radicals. Write things down physically. Read stories. Learn to think in Chinese. Solve problems.

>>25513
Good luck Anon

>>25417
if you try making sense of japanese by comparing it to other languages it will only make it more difficult

https://sakubi.neocities.org/ some resource ocmpilation for learning japanese, it already assumes you know the basics

>>25485
>>25484
Moreover, the entire premise of education (as it currently exists) is one of submission. It isn't an accidental stroke of etymology that you have to 'submit' a paper ;).
To deviate from the accepted standards is an unconscionable act, and deserves to be met only with browbeating in the eyes of the imperious arbitrators.
If you truly think critically, you'll come to the realization that much of academia is a kind of 'ritual' more than it is anything transcendentally objective; most of its presuppositions are arbitrary and cannot be honestly defended, and so they fall back upon the circularity of their own tautological self-validation, either through demanding accreditation (circular) or through deferring to likeminded communities who already predispose themselves to the starting premise that education *must* be an inherent 'good', i.e. curating their argumentative experience with the likes of reddit and bluesky and academic forums and so on (tautological). The basis of contemporary education is to work backwards from a series of starting presuppositions and deem anyone who attempts to dissent anew from this as 'stupid' or 'ignorant' or 'crazy'. So-called 'common sense' is really just a form of brutal conformism, and it is fundamentally feminine in essence–it is best encapsulated with the spirit of the phrase 'Really? I can't even…' or something akin to that. The very notion that the fundamental foundations might be a festering source is treated as an inconceivably profaned thing. I don't share the same cynicism towards the future possibility of the human condition, or the reading of its full nature, as Eugene, but he is absolutely on the mark at least with respect to the current state of affairs.

Name a single philosopher who has produced anything of world shattering, history moving value from the modern universities. There isn't one. Probably the most interesting figures currently out there are those involved in the speculative realist movement, but in the end, irrelevance is the doomed fate of those who radically innovate (i.e. 'challenge') under this system. If you want to be a philosopher, OP, you must do it for the love of an enduring truth which might one day be excavated and embraced hermeneutically, assuming anything evePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>25486
BTW OP I have a degree in philosophy. It was a waste of time and money and most importantly sanity. All it did was further entrench my hatred for the capitalist world.
Anyone who currently thinks this shit is worthwhile, at least from a philosophical (and not, say, medical–assuming an honest doctor, of course) perspective, is as delusional and pliable to recuperation as someone like Chomsky. It's hilarious to see so many anarchists embrace university. Worshipping a microcosmic mirror of the dynamic the state already serves, thereby telling on themselves in the implicit process: "We want to abolish our lack of power, not to abolish power altogether–we'll forge it again in our image." Very similar logic to Zionism, wherein the phrase "never again" is perverted into indicating "never again TO THE LIKES OF US", rather than being a universalist renunciation of genocide.

>>25486
>>25487
I was a phil major for years and ended up dropping out and I agree 100% with what you are saying. Academia is just a recuperation factory.

>ideological brainwashing factories
reactionary rhetoric

>>25505
academia is anti-communist, sorry, the theory industry is an industry just like music and movie industries are, and its stimulated by Capital to toe the NATO line in similar ways