#disillusionment never came so quick as when i saw that a cohort-made was publishing a paper

[ghelgheli]

academic philosophy (and the surrounding family of disciplines) relies on an ignorance of the world to legitimize itself, because as soon as you know what’s going on in the actual, material realm you’ll realize that the “cutting edge” knowledge produced by these institutions is in fact, at best, the obscurantist retelling of shit people finished litigating years ago in their local meetings/zines/literally tumblr