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.
Slavery is an appalling practice but humanity was an appalling practice even before slavery got formalized.
And it didn't bypass spiritually superior indigenous communities who habitually communed with forest guardians before breakfast.
Fun fact: want to tenderise the flesh of a slave whose number is up? The Maori would throw that hapless human produce on hot stones so that dying in agony would create an enviable succulence. Or at least, that was the theory.
There are parts the world where slavery is still practiced. And not negligibly small-scale either. Wherever there's ego-driven vultures who obey the call of their stone age nervous system, someone, somewhere, will be looking for an abjectly diminished flunky to lord it over, and glibly call it born-to-rule status or natural law.
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.
That mountain degradation will be accelerated so the gravel can be sold to the Venezuelans at cost, then some enterprising and plucky larvae of Peter Thiel will get a cut to ensure those freshly-minted salt mines pass the health and safety inspection that would normally evade even an overheated sociopath in a polyester suit.
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.
Yessss! She is the whole package. Definitely ontology lab material
Slavery is an appalling practice but humanity was an appalling practice even before slavery got formalized.
And it didn't bypass spiritually superior indigenous communities who habitually communed with forest guardians before breakfast.
Fun fact: want to tenderise the flesh of a slave whose number is up? The Maori would throw that hapless human produce on hot stones so that dying in agony would create an enviable succulence. Or at least, that was the theory.
There are parts the world where slavery is still practiced. And not negligibly small-scale either. Wherever there's ego-driven vultures who obey the call of their stone age nervous system, someone, somewhere, will be looking for an abjectly diminished flunky to lord it over, and glibly call it born-to-rule status or natural law.
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.
Before Bob's cabin was technically a cave it served the same purpose and the interior decoration wasn't that much different.
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.
That mountain degradation will be accelerated so the gravel can be sold to the Venezuelans at cost, then some enterprising and plucky larvae of Peter Thiel will get a cut to ensure those freshly-minted salt mines pass the health and safety inspection that would normally evade even an overheated sociopath in a polyester suit.