ASK TREESHIP whats your favorite gilmore girls episode

treezy tell us abt the last time you checked your privilege

nakh, this question is difficult. it's hateful when people say that suicide is a "selfish act" or that it is usually motivated by a desire to "get back" at others. i've heard this many times. related to this, i think, is any opinion based on a general assumption that people only ever have base, selfish motives for their actions. less serious than the suicide example but connected to this idea are people who think having an interest in the arts is just a way to acquire "social capital".

now can you somehow mix the two together to create the ultimate hateful sincere opinion?

isn't that that one al alvarez book

ha I have that book

treesh what is the most angry and/or aggressive you can ever remember being

I had a really bad political argument with my father while visiting him in Singapore last summer. I don't even remember what it was about but I remember arguing in a really unfair way, with personal attacks and just in general being a dick.

is your father a laissez-faire type?

Essentially. I don't want to get into it here. He's a good person.

that is very treeshian, for your most intemperate moment to be about political principles, and to hold yourself responsible in retrospect

i assumed your answer would be about hitting someone when you were 14 or something like that

in the wake of recent alt-lit rape scandals
have you ever been in a sexual situation that you now regret or feel weird about

seriously?

the answer is no, unequivocally, but i am disturbed by the ambiguous wording of the question. "regret or feel weird about" could mean a bunch of stuff, but due to the first part of your question if i said "yes" it would imply i did something morally wrong.

also, i thought we were chill dylann.

have you ever been in a sexual situation that you now regret or feel weird about

surely he was only asking from experience

we're chill

kinda fucking with you maybe. but reading about stephen tully dierks or whatever his name is and similarly behaving guys, i definitely run through my memory of sexual encounters looking for questionable behavior on my part.

treemonisha: have you noticed a palpable difference in temperament or attitude or w/e between academic types who grew up in a household that values intellectualism (e.g. parents are college professors/some other kind of academic/artist/etc) and those who grew up in largely blue collar surroundings?

this is a tough question. the sharpest academic-types i know (not all involved with universities necessarily) tend to be from some kind of "interesting" background, so weren't born into the yuppie intelligentsia. the people i am thinking of have unconventional left wing political beliefs that are rooted as much in experience as in theory. academic-types i've known whose parents were professors tend to have more predictable views. but this is such a small sample size, and there are so many exceptions, that it's hard to generalize.

what have you observed on this front?

a certain sense of boredom/blasé attitude towards a given discipline in the former group; a somewhat refreshing anti-authoritarian streak and sometimes a less attractive tendency towards aiming to impress in the latter

why do you post to ilx?

because it's the only message board that matters™

and when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless and ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity--then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions only one thing: whether you have posted to ilx, or not.

no way to verify this but i guessed kierkegaard and then i googled it and it was kierkegaard

felt excited about that victory because i had to skip quizzo tonight

last time i went the only answer i successfully contributed was "kalashnikov" and i was like :/

Treeship,

What would be your first action as mod?

It was great to see you again,

http://ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=100687

i sometimes pretend to be on 77 to keep posters guessing, but i'm not actually in there ;_;

oh. that is a poll i started a few weeks ago titled "unban all banned posters (at midnight on halloween)". poll closes soon.

so i would do that but i would also ban the other mods in a move that my enemies will call a coup but my allies will call a revolution from above. after that only history can say.

can one mod really ban another? what checks and balances do we have in place?

oh i don't know. are the mods unbannable? that's kind of disturbing if true.

i flagged my post for moderation so maybe we will find out

i think i will possibly be banned for doing that

under this administration, it's likely. especially after you disregarded waterface's request for discretion.

treeship do you think youre a good ilx poster?

what's your issue with me, lamp?

i dont understand you and am curious

what don't you understand?

why you post so much to ilx, what you get out of it, what youre 'about'

tbf i probably shouldve read the early part of this thread before asking

about the amount that i post, i am a compulsive procrastinator in graduate school and i think the amount of time i spend both posting to ilx and talking to people on gchat and facebook chat is dysfunctional.

but i like many of the people here and the discussions are more interesting than most other places i've found on the internet.

do you like that hozier song?

what are the next most interesting places you have found on the internet

treeship what grad program are you in?

dylannn: yes, very much. a bit self-pitying, but in the way that i can be so i relate. "take me to church" is the one you are talking about right?

nakh: i don't know. lots of things. i like that blog "the charnel house."

lamp: i'm just doing a one year masters of education program that involves certification as a high school english teacher. i've dabbled in literature grad classes but never officially enrolled in a program and ultimately decided not to pursue a phd... for now

trís ive never read anything by rawls or rorty or any of those centre ground american humanities mavens, do you think people should read their books?