I totally forgot! You nailed it, sister. Maybe do someone awesome like Simone Weil, if you feel like looking at Christians? She has a very interesting perspective.
If an earthquake slams into a mountain, we don’t shrug and go, “Eh, tectonic plates move everywhere.” We still measure the crater, the landslides, and the fact that Bob’s cabin is now technically a cave.
Saying “tectonic plates shift all over the planet” doesn’t magically un-crack the side of this mountain. If you’re curious about cause and effect, you still study how this quake reshaped this terrain even if the Earth has been doing its wiggly plate dance since the dawn of time.
Let’s zoom out for a second because right now you’re grading the cave on whether Bob can still put a couch in it and I’m over here looking at whether the mountain is slowly turning into gravel over the next fifty years, whether anyone can build there later, what survives the next quake, what happens when the water runs out, and who owns the land now that the mountain has unionized.
Is this new game show gonna feature any prominent philosophers? Because I think a couple of big names need some serious re-examining.
No one is off the table. Have a special someone top of mind?
Foucault, please. His legacy irritates me on a visceral level.
I’ve already taken Foucault for a spin. The man is so widely misunderstood he might qualify as a cryptid. But I can do him again
https://open.substack.com/pub/emmakearney/p/myth-if-you-follow-the-rules-act?r=9ocx5&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
I totally forgot! You nailed it, sister. Maybe do someone awesome like Simone Weil, if you feel like looking at Christians? She has a very interesting perspective.
If an earthquake slams into a mountain, we don’t shrug and go, “Eh, tectonic plates move everywhere.” We still measure the crater, the landslides, and the fact that Bob’s cabin is now technically a cave.
Saying “tectonic plates shift all over the planet” doesn’t magically un-crack the side of this mountain. If you’re curious about cause and effect, you still study how this quake reshaped this terrain even if the Earth has been doing its wiggly plate dance since the dawn of time.
First of all, that was clever.
Let’s zoom out for a second because right now you’re grading the cave on whether Bob can still put a couch in it and I’m over here looking at whether the mountain is slowly turning into gravel over the next fifty years, whether anyone can build there later, what survives the next quake, what happens when the water runs out, and who owns the land now that the mountain has unionized.