Cyborgneticz @Cyborgneticz@scholar.social

Wittgenstein argues that we are not naturally disposed towards unfriendliness or unsociality; by being speaking beings who create names for the things in our world, we show a predisposition of making something sharable -- language. The thing which separates us, according to Wittgenstein, is when we talk nonsense or mutual unintelligibility. Talking nonsense goes deeper than using a nonsense language, when we speak in nonsense, we are purposefully unintelligible.

Mr Rogers ethics extend to our own neighborhoods through how we welcome others. Rogers believes that we welcome people into the neighborhood as they are, and we like them as they are. We are called to overcome internal biases, to put aside the incidentals that are barriers to liking them. Rogers gives us tools to do so. He believes that discourse, even the offer of it, provides an open ground for individuals to meet and begin the process of welcoming each other.

I am so tired I am drowning myself in caffeine so I can do things. All I want is to go to the gym to trick my body into being energetic and then sleep forever.

I just made my outline for what days I'll be teaching what. Feels good. Now I just need some outlines for the texts I don't know as well, and I'll be as prepared for next semester as I can be!

One thing I needed to do this weekend crossed off my list. Yesssss

I've been called a "departmental Gramsci expert" a few times this semester in public settings.
I don't like it. I'm not an expert on Gramsci. I'm still trying to build a firm theoretical foundation because this man is Not writing systematically. I just really like him and have a good grasp on him. Not an expert. Also expertise is overrated, and I am dubious whenever someone claims to be an expert.

my favorite part of the day is the frantic

HOW MUCH DO I NEED TO DO TODAY SO I CAN SLEEP TOMORROW

time

my haircut is scheduled to be in two weeks, but god it's awful

I typically despise textbooks, but Sheldon Wolin's 'Politics and Vision' and Wiser's 'Political Philosophy' provide detailed analyses of political philosophical movements and thinkers, contextualising them in theoretical maps.

They have been so good in studying for comps.

I keep thinking <<wow why am I so exhausted>>
I spent 3 hours looking for one answer in a text and ended up having to cobble together a theory based on some of Gramsci's arguments and external literature. I want to miss seminar and home n sleep.

y'all I attend a Presbyterian service as well as Catholic and sometimes a Quaker service as well so I got experience

The Prison Experiment movie scared me and I didn't finish it

trying to explain why Catholics love Mary and how that has the potential for a feminist take on the Bible to Presbyterians can be stressful

My weird roommate is still watching Critical Role and I hate this

Vivino is a good app, but also not very helpful.

my mentor <<teach for yourself. most students are here for degree so they can get a job. don't teach for them. teach because you love the material.>>

I feel inspired as hell to work on my syllabus and lecture notes this weekend

so my partner's grandfather helped design some engines of one of the apollos, which is cool, and as a result he learned a lot about space and believes in the radical egalitarian nature of space exploration
I like that

my partner still doesn't like being my weird roommate but maybe if he stopped telling me about conspiracy theories he wouldn't be the weird roommate

my partner/weird roommate <<so do you cook when I don't>>
me <<uhm I make gumbo and jambalaya on special occasions>>

Sometimes on my bike ride home, I stop by at the dog park so I can pet some dogs.