ilx posts with striking imagery

fizzles is a quiet, but highly distinguished, force to be reckoned with

cloisters inaccessible to all but the very poorest and most humble

wow

That was a great post. I still sometimes think of the phrase "journeyman pickle-maker"

do you think pankaj mishra and his friends like kant, arendt and roth would see sanctimonious uncontextualized linkdumps as an enlightmenment praxis?

typically practised its mostly a sort of pass/ag censure or a feelgood gesture of commonality, at its highest aspiration it can even approach the phatic, a reassuring block of text that doesn't need to be read but purportedly affirms the link poster's own views, which a priori are the same as every other right-thinking link poster's views

― Hayat Boumkattienne (nakhchivan), Wednesday, January 21, 2015 8:03 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

imagery?

obscure words awkwardly conjoined

ilx posts with striking horseshit

^^^

:-(

thought that was a great post but maybe more of a truth bomb

sanctimonious uncontextualized linkdumps as an enlightmenment praxis?
sanctimonious uncontextualized linkdumps as an enlightmenment praxis?
sanctimonious uncontextualized linkdumps as an enlightmenment praxis?
sanctimonious uncontextualized linkdumps as an enlightmenment praxis?
sanctimonious uncontextualized linkdumps as an enlightmenment praxis?
sanctimonious uncontextualized linkdumps as an enlightmenment praxis?
sanctimonious uncontextualized linkdumps as an enlightmenment praxis?

in context that was apropos, out of context it's a phrase idk what your beef is

marcos is the new ilx darling - kinda dumb and always ready to say the right thing

I disagree with marcos here but I disagree more with Mordy's assessment

that's harsh mordy

i'm sorry - marcos u seem like a sweet guy, but maybe a little too willing to endear yourself to the ilx hivemind which rubs me the wrong way

maybe he's just a genuinely nice person

marcos is the new ilx darling - kinda dumb and always ready to say the right thing

― Mordy, Thursday, January 22, 2015 2:21 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't find any of this to be remotely true, and I also think you're pretty much a dick for saying it.

he's just jealous

(I still FP'd him)

I did too

please temp-ban mordy for the "marcos is dumb" thing

haha mordy i can take "kinda dumb", that's fair. not sure what you are talking about re: "ilx darling", lol, i don't even feel like i post enough here for most folks to even recognize me

tbf i only included kinda dumb bc you seemed confused by a straight forward nakh post- i don't have any other evidence for that

there is no hivemind, this place is a quagmire of constantly shifting allegiances, appeals to some sort of taken-for-granted consensus always seem wrong-headed to me

I'd have said "being kinda dumb" except I would have maybe subbed in "dense"

i think you stole that dis from a bobby goldsboro song

Fine Mordy. Would you care to explain to us all just what an "enlightmenment praxis" is?

it's the same as a texas belt buckle

indulging nakh's pedantic elitist nonsense is nagl

yeah, he was responding to an article about how the enlightenment has been and should be performed (particularly critically in western society) and was mocking the poster of that article for backpatting himself for posting a link as tho that put him in company w/ some kind of enlightenment ideal.

nakh has obscure posts but this was not one

^

it's not complicated?

enlightenment praxis - the practice of enlightenment

at least if u were reading the thread at the time xp

the practice of enlightmenment.

i'm glad there's a level at which we can all participate

I don't think it was a complicated point either, but it was a dickpoint lol @ nakh calling someone else sanctimonious

i don't think nakh is sanctimonious. maybe pretentious at times, but sanctimonious? he's pretty cynical.

the practice of enlightmenment.

― how's life, Thursday, January 22, 2015 7:42 PM (58 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you're right that this is a clumsier way to say "enlightenment praxis"

but sanctimonious? he's pretty cynical.

what does sanctimony have to do w cynicism

nakh's m.o. is to point out the shortcomings/failings of other's posts/thoughts w elegant prose, like he's some kind of officious schoolmaster. fuck that guy.

it's hard to be self-righteous when u aren't really righteous about anything i think?

i guess sanctimonious about quality posting?

what does sanctimony have to do w cynicism

― Οὖτις, Thursday, January 22, 2015 2:45 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nakh might present himself as intellectually superior to other posters but never morally superior

^ right this is what i meant

is it just the elegant prose that makes his m.o. different to everyone else here then

eh ok

xp

i think his lack of moral superiority is something of a rarity here

it's true that at the moment I can't recall him staking out a position on anything beyond "you are stupid and I am smarter than you" (which tbf I think can be interpreted as implying a moral system that prizes intellectual superiority above all - a questionable value imo - but idk if I care enough to get into this)