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there's an ilx post i think of sometimes that's along the lines of "any attitude beyond total apathy produces hypocrisy"

Hypocrisy is like the factory setting for human beings. We're basically walking talking self-mythologizing cognitive dissonance machines by default.

Walt Whitman had some words for this i think

XP disagree but then we prob know different humans

kinda wish Ernie Kovacs drank more moderately on the night he crashed the car

all the greats were alkies

xxpost By default, I says. You can always pry open the control panel and futz with the settings but that takes (deeeeeeep siiiiiiiiigh) effort.

harmless contradictions are fine

makes things interesting

like saying i love potato fries then ordering sweet potato waffle fries

I think adolescents care a great deal about hypocrisy, and adults just care about what gets done? But that's probably my own bias.

Otm

I guess in one sense it's better to know what's right and not do it then to not know what's right and not do it. I think the badness of hypocrisy has something to do with its undermining your position to make moral demands on other people. If you make a moral demand on others that you're not willing to satisfy yourself, then you're basically contradicting the demand.

Do as I say, not as I do!

In his essay about Lynch, DFW swears up and down that the neighbor at the end of Blue Velvet actually eats a bug immediately after broadcasting her disgust about a bird eating a bug. If true, it's probably the canniest observation of human behavior in cinema history.

Nobody has any right to make moral demands on another

apologize for that immediately

fuck you your hat is horrible sorry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzgtLXa57i0

80% of 'hypocrisy' is just things being different. 'How can you be against the death penalty when you eat meat?' Stuff like that.

that isn't hypocrisy, that's a poor misreading of what hypocrisy is by the person that utters it

yep

Even nihilists look both ways before crossing the street.

"some communists RATM are, they accept payment for their CDs!"

FWIW, I feel like most of the rampant hypocrisy that people are engaged in almost all of the time is nothing catastrophic. It's mostly like: my self-perception is not a wholly accurate reflection of my engagement with the world. It's just important imo to be aware that these things will always be at least a little out of sync and to always be tweaking.

Most things are nothing catastrophic fyi

Thank u, I have updated my i

Shoots finger gun, winks, makes click noise

I guess in one sense it's better to know what's right and not do it then to not know what's right and not do it.
I think there's a solid case to be made that the former is worse than the latter!

I guess in one sense it's better to know what's right and not do it then to not know what's right and not do it.

Björk is unlistenable

I don't want to listen to her but I suppose other people do.

not many people feel that way
(at least i'm keeping with spirit of thread)

you should actually believe it.
oops n/m

Fucken millennials, man, I tell ya. Not enough soaring WHOOOAAAA-OHHHH-OHHH-OHHHHHS and autotuning for you, I suppose. When I was your age, etc.

dude millennials love Björk

Björk is unlistenable

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bjork is really good but agree w/ 'unlistenable'

There are some moments where I love her but I'll admit that it's a struggle for me to get through a bjork album :(

I want to listen to her but my ears stop working whenever she's on.

I am willing to forgive police officers involved in fatal shootings of unarmed people if they admit their culpability, face reasonable consequences for their actions, don't attempt to blame the victims of their actions, and the victims' families forgive them.

waistcoats are shit. they're twee formal gilets, the apotheosis of try-hard retrograde Gentleman's Fashion. they're basically steampunk.

Occasionally used to wear them when I was younger and didn't look like a twat. I think Dr. Feelgood pulled it off though.

i made the error of buying one with a jacket a few years ago. if i think of it just as a jacket accessory it's tolerable but the idea of wearing it by itself is revolting

handy for snooker

I think I still have some left over from a time when I worked in lots of different offices as a roving consultant. I didn't always know whether I was going into a formal business-wear situation, a casual creative one, or a mix of the two.

If I wore a suit (or nice separates) and tie, I'd be overdressed among graphic designers and IT nerds. But if I wore a polo and chinos I'd be underdressed among finance and BD/sales. Vest (with or without tie) could go either way.

Nowadays I wear the t-shirt I slept in and work over Skype, so my grownup clothes wait in a closet for the next funeral.

just caught myself browsing "john virgo waistcoat" on GIS, imagined what someone wld think of me if they glanced at my phone, and decided to stage an intervention on myself

"john virgo waistcoat"

good lord why subject yourself to that

inexplicably fond childhood memories of big break

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYTQzZGYyYzAtNmMxMC00MTg2LTg4Y2UtZmJmYWFlNGUwMDgwXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTgxOTIzNzk@._V1_.jpg

I do too, Ogmor.

Did you guys know he has an app and is planning to open a vegan restaurant

how does he not have his own line, he's missing a trick

No! Did read somewhere both Virgo and Thorne lost tens of thousands in gambling. Thorne is ruined iirc. xp