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blackbootz  ·  3072 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: June 14, 2017

I've thought about this quote like six times since I first read it Wednesday.

Life is short. Spend it involved in the never ending and often thankless toil for improving the lot of fellow humans? Or noping the fuck out and squeezing life's lemons? That's a false dichotomy, but it predicts a lot of human behavior.





kleinbl00  ·  3072 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I read yesterday that Rousseau summed up the world as the conflict between "natural man" and "unnatural man", or primal instinct vs civilization, and that history is nothing more than the gyration of this conflict around its equilibrium.

OftenBen  ·  3072 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Dude, Beowulf over and over again.

kleinbl00  ·  3072 days ago  ·  link  ·  

(People think you're smart when you quote Rousseau)

(Either that or breathtakingly pompous)

user-inactivated  ·  3072 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Nah, people only think you're pompous if you quote someone hasn't been dead at least 200 years.

kleinbl00  ·  3072 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Shit. I should stop quoting Claire Wolfe.

lil  ·  3071 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Quoting is cool. Period.