Please Don’t Go To Church Because Of Me Haha

u ever look at a shade of green and think "yes."

I don’t think I have, actually. I went and read the whole thing, and her main idea is people “misusing the word technology”. That’s literally what she says two paragraphs before the above excerpt -

“But [the word technology] is consistently misused to mean only the enormously complex and specialised technologies of the past few decades, supported by massive exploitation both of natural and human resources. This is not an acceptable use of the word.”

That is precisely the sentiment I was responding to - the idea that our modern use of the word “technology” is somehow wrong or misinformed. But it’s not. It has simply progressed as our society has progressed.

She goes on to write that “Its technology is how a society copes with physical reality…” and no, it isn’t. Perhaps it was, centuries ago. But within the modern societal consciousness, that is not what technology means. The meaning has changed. It’s just like how you wouldn’t describe, say, a fantasy magic system as “weird” because “weird” doesn’t have any relation to magic in the modern parlance. But it did - in Shakespeare’s day, that was the word’s primary meaning - magic, power, the occult, fate, witchcraft - though he would have spelled it “weyard”.

The most ridiculous thing is that this is all written in response a review of one of her books, in which the reviewer is very clearly using “technology” in the modern sense. But she still pedantically insists that, actually, his review is incorrect because… she’s working with a completely different definition of the word than everyone else on the planet.

And on a side note, fuck this whole… essay? I hate it. ‘Not an acceptable use of the word’ my ass. That’s the kind of linguistic arch-conservativism that creates institutions like the Académie Française.

— Ursula K. Le Guin, from “A Rant About ‘Technology’”

have you studied dialectical materialism

Have I seriously studied it in an academic environment? No.

Have I read enough to know that, like the rest of Marx’s work, it’s complete bullshit? Yes.

"- oh hunter"

on my bullshit again with these two

Oh how I yearn for a simpler time, when a young man would simply give his paramour an intricately crafted wooden spoon to show his affection and ability to provide for their future family, especially if they ever ran out of spoons

butchfemme jackieshauna this, futchfemme jackieshauna that, they are FUTCH4GIRLTWINK OR FUTCH4FUTCH !!!

RESPECT JACKIE'S TARGET LITTLE BOYS SECTION DRIP.

APPRECIATE THAT SHE WOULD HUNDRED PERCENT BE THE LOSER GIRLFRIEND WHO JUMPS OVER THE TABLE TO HELP SHAUNA OPEN A JAM JAR, PROUDLY TAKES IT FROM HER LIKE 'LET ME BABE 😎💪🏼', STRUGGLES WITH THE TOP FOR LIKE EIGHT MINUTES BEFORE SHAUNA POINTS OUT, TRYING NOT TO LAUGH, THAT THE LID WAS ALREADY OPEN AND SHE WAS TURNING IT THE WRONG WAY.

i was watching the yes minster episode “The Skeleton in the Closet” today and had a random thought.

at about 10 minutes in, Sir Humphrey and Jim are walking through, like, a foyer? there’s big double doors behind them. and as they walk past, a woman comes through the doors and walks offstage the way they entered. they don’t interact with or even acknowledge her, and almost no viewer will even notice her presence. believe me when I say that her presence adds NOTHING to the episode.

but for some reason I started fixating on her (probably because she was kind of pretty and I’m very gay). who was she? why was she there? how did she get on the show? her cameo was so inconsequential that I can’t imagine she even got paid. did she just happen to walk through the shot and they left it in? or was she actually hired to be on screen for four seconds?

this post isn’t leading to any spectacular conclusion, it’s just a random thought. maybe I’ll write a fic about her character.

obsessed

yeah I think. I think you need to confess that. that’s a sin.

oh no I don't have anything to confess to Father I just wanted to be in this little dark box with you :)

I want to empathize as a fellow transfem but I REALLY hate Olympic fencing and that overrides everything else. Olympic fencers deserve discrimination I think.