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

like she emphasizes the things she wants to be true

in these cases Rome's multicultural aspects

She has excellent knowledge of history, but yes, she does have quite a strong bias.

and suddenly that turns into, its entirely possibly for there to be a family of african romans in britain

so common it warrants this depiction on the bbc

it's not impossible

but the possibility is not the point here

true

cartoon equivalent of this

we wuz compozers an shiiiiit

The problem is that they exaggerated the amount of black people in Roman Britain. A handful of black soldiers makes sense, since there were soldiers from the north of Africa, but to have them ALL be black or mixed-race is absurd.

Yes, we wuz Kangs.