as an occasional magic the gathering player I sometimes watch magic nerds on youtube and its interesting the difference between a pleasant nerd and an annoying nerd. annoying nerds on youtube try to do like "improv comedy", or have a bit of anger to them. pleasant nerds just stick to their interests maybe with a little dry humor, and are nice and soft spoken
really sad today. I've been thinking a lot about christopher lasch's 'the culture of narcissism', whose lesson is basically, 'grow up'. and I see ways in which I have failed to do that. my birthday is coming up
the zohran trump stuff is so crazy to me
it’s interesting to learn how china teaches about marx, lenin, and mao as part of their civic education, but for most chinese people, these lessons are largely empty formalities. Americans learn about the founding fathers’ principles of liberalism and republicanism but generally have basically no real engagement with these ideas.
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