#parochialism — Public Fediverse posts

My question of the day. Mastodon is a global network so why do so many posts ignore geography when relevant and communicate as if addressing neighbors, fellow town and state residents? Why the parochialism? Is it ignorance or laziness or what? It is truly frustrating for those of us who are curious about locations associated with posts.
#LocalMindset #GlobalMindset #Parochialism #LocationInfo

My question of the day. Mastodon is a global network so why do so many posts ignore geography when relevant and communicate as if addressing neighbors, fellow town and state residents? Why the parochialism? Is it ignorance or laziness or what? It is truly frustrating for those of us who are curious about locations associated with posts.
#LocalMindset #GlobalMindset #Parochialism #LocationInfo

My question of the day. Mastodon is a global network so why do so many posts ignore geography when relevant and communicate as if addressing neighbors, fellow town and state residents? Why the parochialism? Is it ignorance or laziness or what? It is truly frustrating for those of us who are curious about locations associated with posts.
#LocalMindset #GlobalMindset #Parochialism #LocationInfo

My question of the day. Mastodon is a global network so why do so many posts ignore geography when relevant and communicate as if addressing neighbors, fellow town and state residents? Why the parochialism? Is it ignorance or laziness or what? It is truly frustrating for those of us who are curious about locations associated with posts.
#LocalMindset #GlobalMindset #Parochialism #LocationInfo

My question of the day. Mastodon is a global network so why do so many posts ignore geography when relevant and communicate as if addressing neighbors, fellow town and state residents? Why the parochialism? Is it ignorance or laziness or what? It is truly frustrating for those of us who are curious about locations associated with posts.
#LocalMindset #GlobalMindset #Parochialism #LocationInfo

Illumination in dark times
A genealogy of modern Western selfhood and a post-Western world

"Smith ... outlines a genealogy of modern Western selfhood: a radically individual, hypermasculine character that was formed during the rapid nineteenth-century expansion of the white man’s world. “Bold, conquering, and altogether assertive,” it was “dedicated to action,” hostile to reflection, indifferent to community and the environment, and guilty of possessing, Smith writes, an “undeveloped heart,” a term borrowed from E. M. Forster’s assessment of the British elite." "

" “We must alter our very relations with the world around us.” This means giving up the exalted and exaggerated idea of the West that boosts a masculinist self-image but severely constricts thought and feeling. “We should welcome our era’s uncertainties,...the not-knowing of how the post-Western story will come out.” Smith’s final warning—that “we will not survive the Western notion of the individual much longer”—should resonate today, as nineteenth-century individualism reasserts itself in the degraded Nietzscheanism of Peter Thiel and Stephen Miller." >>

* Mishra, P. (2026, April). "The Authority of Thought". Harper's Magazine.
https://harpers.org/archive/2026/04/the-authority-of-thought-pankaj-mishra/

* Somebody Else's Century: East and West in a Post-Western World by Patrick Smith. 2010 >>
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/169395/somebody-elses-century-by-patrick-smith/
#TheWest #WhiteSupremacy #masculinity #ImpulseControl #EthnoNationalism #WesternCivilization #AngloAmerican #parochialism #individualism #subjectivity #SettlerSociety #Culture #RacialInequality #war #EastWest #PostWesternWorld #DarkTimes #illumination #narrative #environment

Image: Double Bay War Memorial, Steyne Park, Sydney

Illumination in dark times
A genealogy of modern Western selfhood and a post-Western world

"Smith ... outlines a genealogy of modern Western selfhood: a radically individual, hypermasculine character that was formed during the rapid nineteenth-century expansion of the white man’s world. “Bold, conquering, and altogether assertive,” it was “dedicated to action,” hostile to reflection, indifferent to community and the environment, and guilty of possessing, Smith writes, an “undeveloped heart,” a term borrowed from E. M. Forster’s assessment of the British elite." "

" “We must alter our very relations with the world around us.” This means giving up the exalted and exaggerated idea of the West that boosts a masculinist self-image but severely constricts thought and feeling. “We should welcome our era’s uncertainties,...the not-knowing of how the post-Western story will come out.” Smith’s final warning—that “we will not survive the Western notion of the individual much longer”—should resonate today, as nineteenth-century individualism reasserts itself in the degraded Nietzscheanism of Peter Thiel and Stephen Miller." >>

* Mishra, P. (2026, April). "The Authority of Thought". Harper's Magazine.
https://harpers.org/archive/2026/04/the-authority-of-thought-pankaj-mishra/

* Somebody Else's Century: East and West in a Post-Western World by Patrick Smith. 2010 >>
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/169395/somebody-elses-century-by-patrick-smith/
#TheWest #WhiteSupremacy #masculinity #ImpulseControl #EthnoNationalism #WesternCivilization #AngloAmerican #parochialism #individualism #subjectivity #SettlerSociety #Culture #RacialInequality #war #EastWest #PostWesternWorld #DarkTimes #illumination #narrative #environment

Image: Double Bay War Memorial, Steyne Park, Sydney

Illumination in dark times
A genealogy of modern Western selfhood and a post-Western world

"Smith ... outlines a genealogy of modern Western selfhood: a radically individual, hypermasculine character that was formed during the rapid nineteenth-century expansion of the white man’s world. “Bold, conquering, and altogether assertive,” it was “dedicated to action,” hostile to reflection, indifferent to community and the environment, and guilty of possessing, Smith writes, an “undeveloped heart,” a term borrowed from E. M. Forster’s assessment of the British elite." "

" “We must alter our very relations with the world around us.” This means giving up the exalted and exaggerated idea of the West that boosts a masculinist self-image but severely constricts thought and feeling. “We should welcome our era’s uncertainties,...the not-knowing of how the post-Western story will come out.” Smith’s final warning—that “we will not survive the Western notion of the individual much longer”—should resonate today, as nineteenth-century individualism reasserts itself in the degraded Nietzscheanism of Peter Thiel and Stephen Miller." >>

* Mishra, P. (2026, April). "The Authority of Thought". Harper's Magazine.
https://harpers.org/archive/2026/04/the-authority-of-thought-pankaj-mishra/

* Somebody Else's Century: East and West in a Post-Western World by Patrick Smith. 2010 >>
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/169395/somebody-elses-century-by-patrick-smith/
#TheWest #WhiteSupremacy #masculinity #ImpulseControl #EthnoNationalism #WesternCivilization #AngloAmerican #parochialism #individualism #subjectivity #SettlerSociety #Culture #RacialInequality #war #EastWest #PostWesternWorld #DarkTimes #illumination #narrative #environment

Image: Double Bay War Memorial, Steyne Park, Sydney

Illumination in dark times
A genealogy of modern Western selfhood and a post-Western world

"Smith ... outlines a genealogy of modern Western selfhood: a radically individual, hypermasculine character that was formed during the rapid nineteenth-century expansion of the white man’s world. “Bold, conquering, and altogether assertive,” it was “dedicated to action,” hostile to reflection, indifferent to community and the environment, and guilty of possessing, Smith writes, an “undeveloped heart,” a term borrowed from E. M. Forster’s assessment of the British elite." "

" “We must alter our very relations with the world around us.” This means giving up the exalted and exaggerated idea of the West that boosts a masculinist self-image but severely constricts thought and feeling. “We should welcome our era’s uncertainties,...the not-knowing of how the post-Western story will come out.” Smith’s final warning—that “we will not survive the Western notion of the individual much longer”—should resonate today, as nineteenth-century individualism reasserts itself in the degraded Nietzscheanism of Peter Thiel and Stephen Miller." >>

* Mishra, P. (2026, April). "The Authority of Thought". Harper's Magazine.
https://harpers.org/archive/2026/04/the-authority-of-thought-pankaj-mishra/

* Somebody Else's Century: East and West in a Post-Western World by Patrick Smith. 2010 >>
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/169395/somebody-elses-century-by-patrick-smith/
#TheWest #WhiteSupremacy #masculinity #ImpulseControl #EthnoNationalism #WesternCivilization #AngloAmerican #parochialism #individualism #subjectivity #SettlerSociety #Culture #RacialInequality #war #EastWest #PostWesternWorld #DarkTimes #illumination #narrative #environment

Image: Double Bay War Memorial, Steyne Park, Sydney

Illumination in dark times
A genealogy of modern Western selfhood and a post-Western world

"Smith ... outlines a genealogy of modern Western selfhood: a radically individual, hypermasculine character that was formed during the rapid nineteenth-century expansion of the white man’s world. “Bold, conquering, and altogether assertive,” it was “dedicated to action,” hostile to reflection, indifferent to community and the environment, and guilty of possessing, Smith writes, an “undeveloped heart,” a term borrowed from E. M. Forster’s assessment of the British elite." "

" “We must alter our very relations with the world around us.” This means giving up the exalted and exaggerated idea of the West that boosts a masculinist self-image but severely constricts thought and feeling. “We should welcome our era’s uncertainties,...the not-knowing of how the post-Western story will come out.” Smith’s final warning—that “we will not survive the Western notion of the individual much longer”—should resonate today, as nineteenth-century individualism reasserts itself in the degraded Nietzscheanism of Peter Thiel and Stephen Miller." >>

* Mishra, P. (2026, April). "The Authority of Thought". Harper's Magazine.
https://harpers.org/archive/2026/04/the-authority-of-thought-pankaj-mishra/

* Somebody Else's Century: East and West in a Post-Western World by Patrick Smith. 2010 >>
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/169395/somebody-elses-century-by-patrick-smith/
#TheWest #WhiteSupremacy #masculinity #ImpulseControl #EthnoNationalism #WesternCivilization #AngloAmerican #parochialism #individualism #subjectivity #SettlerSociety #Culture #RacialInequality #war #EastWest #PostWesternWorld #DarkTimes #illumination #narrative #environment

Image: Double Bay War Memorial, Steyne Park, Sydney

A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

We are stubborn because we are narrow-minded; it is hard to believe what is beyond the scope of our vision.
 
[La petitesse de l’esprit fait l’opiniâtreté, et nous ne croyons pas aisément ce qui est au delà de ce que nous voyons.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶265 (1665-1678) [tr. Heard (1917), ¶273]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #abstraction #belief #bias #bigotry #closedmindedness #comprehension #dogmatism #illiberality #insularity #intolerance #little #narrowmindedness #obstinacy #parochialism #scope #speculation #stubbornness #vision

A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

We are stubborn because we are narrow-minded; it is hard to believe what is beyond the scope of our vision.
 
[La petitesse de l’esprit fait l’opiniâtreté, et nous ne croyons pas aisément ce qui est au delà de ce que nous voyons.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶265 (1665-1678) [tr. Heard (1917), ¶273]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #abstraction #belief #bias #bigotry #closedmindedness #comprehension #dogmatism #illiberality #insularity #intolerance #little #narrowmindedness #obstinacy #parochialism #scope #speculation #stubbornness #vision

A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

We are stubborn because we are narrow-minded; it is hard to believe what is beyond the scope of our vision.
 
[La petitesse de l’esprit fait l’opiniâtreté, et nous ne croyons pas aisément ce qui est au delà de ce que nous voyons.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶265 (1665-1678) [tr. Heard (1917), ¶273]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #abstraction #belief #bias #bigotry #closedmindedness #comprehension #dogmatism #illiberality #insularity #intolerance #little #narrowmindedness #obstinacy #parochialism #scope #speculation #stubbornness #vision

A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

We are stubborn because we are narrow-minded; it is hard to believe what is beyond the scope of our vision.
 
[La petitesse de l’esprit fait l’opiniâtreté, et nous ne croyons pas aisément ce qui est au delà de ce que nous voyons.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶265 (1665-1678) [tr. Heard (1917), ¶273]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #abstraction #belief #bias #bigotry #closedmindedness #comprehension #dogmatism #illiberality #insularity #intolerance #little #narrowmindedness #obstinacy #parochialism #scope #speculation #stubbornness #vision

It's time for a repost, just because I missed the full moon damnit.

#werewolves #parochialism

It's time for a repost, just because I missed the full moon damnit.

#werewolves #parochialism

It's time for a repost, just because I missed the full moon damnit.

#werewolves #parochialism

It's time for a repost, just because I missed the full moon damnit.

#werewolves #parochialism

It's time for a repost, just because I missed the full moon damnit.

#werewolves #parochialism

Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism
"Freedom and liberation are never-ending tasks."

"There was only one Nazism,” he says, “the fascist game can be played in many forms, and the name of the game does not change.” Eco reduces the qualities of what he calls “Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism” down to 14 “typical” features. “These features,” writes the novelist and semiotician, “cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism. But it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it.”
>> list
https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/umberto-ecos-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html
#FarRight #fascism #violence #IdealisedPast #tradition #AntiIntellectualism #parochialism #Machismo #nationalism #EthnoNationalism #racism #FearOfDifference #xenophobia #heroism #heroes #identity #AntiSci #newspeak #misogyny #culture #education

Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism
"Freedom and liberation are never-ending tasks."

"There was only one Nazism,” he says, “the fascist game can be played in many forms, and the name of the game does not change.” Eco reduces the qualities of what he calls “Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism” down to 14 “typical” features. “These features,” writes the novelist and semiotician, “cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism. But it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it.”
>> list
https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/umberto-ecos-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html
#FarRight #fascism #violence #IdealisedPast #tradition #AntiIntellectualism #parochialism #Machismo #nationalism #EthnoNationalism #racism #FearOfDifference #xenophobia #heroism #heroes #identity #AntiSci #newspeak #misogyny #culture #education

Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism
"Freedom and liberation are never-ending tasks."

"There was only one Nazism,” he says, “the fascist game can be played in many forms, and the name of the game does not change.” Eco reduces the qualities of what he calls “Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism” down to 14 “typical” features. “These features,” writes the novelist and semiotician, “cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism. But it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it.”
>> list
https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/umberto-ecos-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html
#FarRight #fascism #violence #IdealisedPast #tradition #AntiIntellectualism #parochialism #Machismo #nationalism #EthnoNationalism #racism #FearOfDifference #xenophobia #heroism #heroes #identity #AntiSci #newspeak #misogyny #culture #education

Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism
"Freedom and liberation are never-ending tasks."

"There was only one Nazism,” he says, “the fascist game can be played in many forms, and the name of the game does not change.” Eco reduces the qualities of what he calls “Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism” down to 14 “typical” features. “These features,” writes the novelist and semiotician, “cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism. But it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it.”
>> list
https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/umberto-ecos-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html
#FarRight #fascism #violence #IdealisedPast #tradition #AntiIntellectualism #parochialism #Machismo #nationalism #EthnoNationalism #racism #FearOfDifference #xenophobia #heroism #heroes #identity #AntiSci #newspeak #misogyny #culture #education

Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism
"Freedom and liberation are never-ending tasks."

"There was only one Nazism,” he says, “the fascist game can be played in many forms, and the name of the game does not change.” Eco reduces the qualities of what he calls “Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism” down to 14 “typical” features. “These features,” writes the novelist and semiotician, “cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism. But it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it.”
>> list
https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/umberto-ecos-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html
#FarRight #fascism #violence #IdealisedPast #tradition #AntiIntellectualism #parochialism #Machismo #nationalism #EthnoNationalism #racism #FearOfDifference #xenophobia #heroism #heroes #identity #AntiSci #newspeak #misogyny #culture #education

Hint for Russian trolls:

Put it around that Biden should pardon Hunter.

It'd look so sick (1990s surfie argot) for Joe to demonstrate a complete lack of faith in the US justice system and to put Hunts alongside #RogerStone.
Cyano-cynicism.

And then there is the "equality before the law except for the elite" angle.

It's a real winner.

#USPol #EthicsAreForTheWeak #Parochialism #Divisiveness #GetInTheGutter #MelianDialogue #BeTheFascist

Hint for Russian trolls:

Put it around that Biden should pardon Hunter.

It'd look so sick (1990s surfie argot) for Joe to demonstrate a complete lack of faith in the US justice system and to put Hunts alongside #RogerStone.
Cyano-cynicism.

And then there is the "equality before the law except for the elite" angle.

It's a real winner.

#USPol #EthicsAreForTheWeak #Parochialism #Divisiveness #GetInTheGutter #MelianDialogue #BeTheFascist

Hint for Russian trolls:

Put it around that Biden should pardon Hunter.

It'd look so sick (1990s surfie argot) for Joe to demonstrate a complete lack of faith in the US justice system and to put Hunts alongside #RogerStone.
Cyano-cynicism.

And then there is the "equality before the law except for the elite" angle.

It's a real winner.

#USPol #EthicsAreForTheWeak #Parochialism #Divisiveness #GetInTheGutter #MelianDialogue #BeTheFascist

Hint for Russian trolls:

Put it around that Biden should pardon Hunter.

It'd look so sick (1990s surfie argot) for Joe to demonstrate a complete lack of faith in the US justice system and to put Hunts alongside #RogerStone.
Cyano-cynicism.

And then there is the "equality before the law except for the elite" angle.

It's a real winner.

#USPol #EthicsAreForTheWeak #Parochialism #Divisiveness #GetInTheGutter #MelianDialogue #BeTheFascist

Hint for Russian trolls:

Put it around that Biden should pardon Hunter.

It'd look so sick (1990s surfie argot) for Joe to demonstrate a complete lack of faith in the US justice system and to put Hunts alongside #RogerStone.
Cyano-cynicism.

And then there is the "equality before the law except for the elite" angle.

It's a real winner.

#USPol #EthicsAreForTheWeak #Parochialism #Divisiveness #GetInTheGutter #MelianDialogue #BeTheFascist

A quotation from Fussell, Paul:

«
Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are lucky, humility. Experiencing on their senses a world different from their own, they realize their provincialism and recognize their ignorance.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/fussell-paul/49437/

#quote #quotes #quotation #experience #humility #ignorance #parochialism #provincialism #travel #selfawareness

A quotation from Fussell, Paul:

«
Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are lucky, humility. Experiencing on their senses a world different from their own, they realize their provincialism and recognize their ignorance.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/fussell-paul/49437/

#quote #quotes #quotation #experience #humility #ignorance #parochialism #provincialism #travel #selfawareness

A quotation from Fussell, Paul:

«
Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are lucky, humility. Experiencing on their senses a world different from their own, they realize their provincialism and recognize their ignorance.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/fussell-paul/49437/

#quote #quotes #quotation #experience #humility #ignorance #parochialism #provincialism #travel #selfawareness