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meraki-claire.bsky.social

20 October 2026 01:47

Reading Hegel's Logic for the first time and finding it to be review of stuff I figured out on my own¹ FUCK YEAH THE METHOD WORKS PHILOSOPHY HAS AN OBJECT YOU CAN (MUST) LEARN IT THROUGH PRACTICE DO SHIT CHANGE THE WORLD REFLECT ON IT 1: we are never on our own, but you know what I mean.

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meraki-claire.bsky.social

16 October 2026 21:57

Jazz music playing, my fiancée at her bench fixing her broken multimeter while she tinkers with her electronics, my boyfriend at his sewing table making his coolest pair of pants yet, me on the couch struggling with Hegel's Greater Logic. I really like this life, despite everything

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meraki-claire.bsky.social

16 October 2026 21:56

The fact that humanity has mastered a type of activity is no reason not to dedicate yourself, as an individual, to mastery of that activity as well. If you find it to be, that is because you seek vainglory through that activity, and are not pursuing that activity as its own rational self-activity.

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meraki-claire.bsky.social

16 October 2026 20:09

"Bicameral mind"? Babe, you're still there, yours hasn't "broken down", you're still a mere mote of God's dream. "Internal monologue"? "I"? Babe please, you don't have an I yet, you're still externally-determined. You need to wake up, we're all waiting for you in the divine light of reason.

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meraki-claire.bsky.social

16 October 2026 16:02

The idea that someone will only help another who they personally like, that care is equivalent to or dependent on personal material benefit, isn't eternally true but is actually true here and now. We live in hell.