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Quality is undefined
"Squareness may be succinctly and yet thoroughly defined as an inability to see quality before it's been intellectually defined, that is, before it gets all chopped up into words."
or imo chopped up into images; being square means you can only see something as quality after its been neatly categorized (e.g. cottagecore, indie sleaze, etc.). quality for "squares" is created only discursively
— Aug 01, 2026 04:53PM
"Squareness may be succinctly and yet thoroughly defined as an inability to see quality before it's been intellectually defined, that is, before it gets all chopped up into words."
or imo chopped up into images; being square means you can only see something as quality after its been neatly categorized (e.g. cottagecore, indie sleaze, etc.). quality for "squares" is created only discursively
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“I think this fear of insanity [meaning the inability to be rational] is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world. Or the fear of heretics.”
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Chapter 10 (pg 97) talks abt science -worth revisiting
“What shortens the life-span of the existing truth is the volume of hypotheses offered to replace it; the more the hypotheses, the shorter the time span of the truth.”
“The major producer of social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none other than science itself.”
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— Jun 28, 2026 07:31PM
“What shortens the life-span of the existing truth is the volume of hypotheses offered to replace it; the more the hypotheses, the shorter the time span of the truth.”
“The major producer of social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none other than science itself.”
Not moving us forward