the jist of it is: if they are right wing, you can do whatever you want to them, it;s fine

it's not intolerant

@Tonight at 11 - DOOM Concerning German intellectuals of the 20's-30's era, the only German intellectual of that era that I have any respect for is Bertolt Brecht, hence my use of his picture as my account thumbnail.

why no love for Wittgenstein?

Austrian

but close nuff

Not German. Simple.

Also, I've not read Wittgenstein.

fair nuff

it's the only worthwhile language guy I've encountered

MMmm.

Linguists tend to be fairly crazy people.

He was worse then that. A logician^^

Wittgenstein's work is like getting a peak behind the matrix

he was getting at a lot of fundamental things we don't normally see

Noam Chomsky, Robin Lakoff, Dale Spender... Linguistics is insane...

It;s not linguistics

it;s philosophy of language

I was following up on something I said earlier.

noam chomsky gets so much praise for his pre grammar ideas, but wittgenstein beat him to the punch and had a more profound insight

Hmmm... I'll put him on my 'To Read' list.

well, he changes his mind on key stuff

but you should look up the Beetle in the Box thought experiment

that he had

it's a good window into what hes interested in

https://archive.org/details/relationofhrlf00olsouoft/page/19

Here's something I'm reading right now.

Analysis of Norse myth. Specifically, the parallels between the Hrolf Kraki legends and Beowulf. Very well researched. Worth a read.

I'm fully immersed in local geopol and political history shit rn

in terms of reading

looking at lots of maps

and whatnot

Right now, I'm listening to a debate between Boris Johnson and Mary Beard, on Greece v Rome. It's glorious.

lol

i listened to that a long time ago

imagine being called "Beard" and being a woman

sad times

she came out defending that bbc black roman cartoon

lmfao

*Sigh*

she seems respected as a historian, but ive always noticed a kind of wishful thinking on her part