On Worldliness:
August 1, 2026 at 12:06 AM
On Worldliness:
The strange other worldliness of pulsating sea foam in the early morning light.
September 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The strange other worldliness of pulsating sea foam in the early morning light.
January 20, 2025 at 11:35 AM
The moast innerstink ca’at in the werld
July 25, 2026 at 4:33 AM
The moast innerstink ca’at in the werld
This is part of the larger phenomenon of “savvy makes you stupid.” Yes, politicians have always spun, exaggerated, cherry picked. But constant fabrication utterly unmoored from reality? No, not really. Insisting Trump is nothing new is ignorance masquerading as worldliness.
This is absolutely correct. Most politicians cared a lot about their reputations for honesty; they would of course spin and sometimes go over the line where it couldn't be backed up at all but very few politicians and no previous presidents would just outright lie all the time.
I am very tired of the stupid-savvy 'oh you think politicians were honest before Donald Trump' take, like yes there has in fact been a qualitative change in the way modern american politics have been conducted that is largely attributable to him, and is bad.
May 13, 2026 at 11:10 PM
This is part of the larger phenomenon of “savvy makes you stupid.” Yes, politicians have always spun, exaggerated, cherry picked. But constant fabrication utterly unmoored from reality? No, not really. Insisting Trump is nothing new is ignorance masquerading as worldliness.
John Huston: "Peter Lorre was one of the finest and most subtle actors I have ever worked with. Beneath that air of innocence he used to such effect, one sensed a Faustian worldliness."
#TCMParty #TheMalteseFalcon #SummerOfDarkness
#TCMParty #TheMalteseFalcon #SummerOfDarkness
June 6, 2026 at 12:40 AM
John Huston: "Peter Lorre was one of the finest and most subtle actors I have ever worked with. Beneath that air of innocence he used to such effect, one sensed a Faustian worldliness."
#TCMParty #TheMalteseFalcon #SummerOfDarkness
#TCMParty #TheMalteseFalcon #SummerOfDarkness
idk man when i visited one i was an idiot teenager with the level of sophistication and worldliness youd expect of nine rats in a barrel and i still came out of it basically nonverbal for a day and a half because of the weight of the place
September 21, 2026 at 1:12 PM
idk man when i visited one i was an idiot teenager with the level of sophistication and worldliness youd expect of nine rats in a barrel and i still came out of it basically nonverbal for a day and a half because of the weight of the place
February 7, 2026 at 1:42 AM
... that mesmerized me. There's what I can only describe as a worldliness to the text, a worldliness that makes me reflect on life in all its multifaceted strangeness.
Meanwhile, I read works by authors who can't stop posting, and I don't get that worldliness. Instead, it feels... small and petty.
Meanwhile, I read works by authors who can't stop posting, and I don't get that worldliness. Instead, it feels... small and petty.
March 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
... that mesmerized me. There's what I can only describe as a worldliness to the text, a worldliness that makes me reflect on life in all its multifaceted strangeness.
Meanwhile, I read works by authors who can't stop posting, and I don't get that worldliness. Instead, it feels... small and petty.
Meanwhile, I read works by authors who can't stop posting, and I don't get that worldliness. Instead, it feels... small and petty.
Pope Francis to seminary rectors: “Beware of careerism. Beware. Beware of worldliness, jealousy, vanity. It is bad. When you find an ecclesiastic who seems to be a peacock more than a man of the Church, it is ugly.” press.vatican.va/content/sala...
January 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Pope Francis to seminary rectors: “Beware of careerism. Beware. Beware of worldliness, jealousy, vanity. It is bad. When you find an ecclesiastic who seems to be a peacock more than a man of the Church, it is ugly.” press.vatican.va/content/sala...
We should have a 2nd wave of mostly-compulsory primary education that happens somewhere in your 30's or 40's.
You are going to relearn history and reread classics, this time with the benefit of far more worldliness, and you'll interact with a broad slice of your community.
You are going to relearn history and reread classics, this time with the benefit of far more worldliness, and you'll interact with a broad slice of your community.
December 10, 2025 at 4:49 AM
We should have a 2nd wave of mostly-compulsory primary education that happens somewhere in your 30's or 40's.
You are going to relearn history and reread classics, this time with the benefit of far more worldliness, and you'll interact with a broad slice of your community.
You are going to relearn history and reread classics, this time with the benefit of far more worldliness, and you'll interact with a broad slice of your community.
It's an ideology of low social trust, borne out of the naive faux-worldliness that asserts that everyone is equally corrupt
September 30, 2023 at 11:05 PM
It's an ideology of low social trust, borne out of the naive faux-worldliness that asserts that everyone is equally corrupt
Much clear-eyed worldliness. Such savvy
January 17, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Much clear-eyed worldliness. Such savvy
"Peter Lorre was one of the finest and most subtle actors I have ever worked with. Beneath that air of innocence he used to such effect, one sensed a Faustian worldliness."
John Huston on Peter Lorre, born László Löwenstein on 26 June 1904.
John Huston on Peter Lorre, born László Löwenstein on 26 June 1904.
June 26, 2026 at 12:36 PM
"Peter Lorre was one of the finest and most subtle actors I have ever worked with. Beneath that air of innocence he used to such effect, one sensed a Faustian worldliness."
John Huston on Peter Lorre, born László Löwenstein on 26 June 1904.
John Huston on Peter Lorre, born László Löwenstein on 26 June 1904.
It's part of a genre of skeet on here which is 'incredibly parochial person who has mistaken their parochialism for worldliness'.
April 10, 2026 at 12:34 AM
It's part of a genre of skeet on here which is 'incredibly parochial person who has mistaken their parochialism for worldliness'.
I’m always reminded of the part in Arendt’s ‘Origins of Totalitarianism’ where she discusses 19th century Parisian salon culture and how the bourgeoisie would bring a Jew or gay person along as a prop to show off their ‘worldliness’, only now these people do it with Nazis and cranks and get rolled.
Reactionary centrists always believe criticism of conservatives from lefties is just kneejerk, because they don’t believe lefties are capable of knowing anything they don't know, because centrists are the smartest people in the room. They reject expertise as much as MAGA
before this i was aware of her writing stuff supportive of building more housing and YIMBYim related stuff, her argument in that paragraph seems like "yes you disliked him from the start but you disliked him for liberal elitist reasons"
September 6, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I’m always reminded of the part in Arendt’s ‘Origins of Totalitarianism’ where she discusses 19th century Parisian salon culture and how the bourgeoisie would bring a Jew or gay person along as a prop to show off their ‘worldliness’, only now these people do it with Nazis and cranks and get rolled.
Using chopsticks at Panda Express to prove my worldliness.
March 13, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Using chopsticks at Panda Express to prove my worldliness.
But Diane dont narrow ur worldliness!
August 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM
But Diane dont narrow ur worldliness!
Vertiginous (but not vegetarian!) kitchen scene for Fire in 4 Elements series. Christ delivers lecture on worldliness in the back room. By Joachim Beuckelaer, whose day is today.
December 5, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Vertiginous (but not vegetarian!) kitchen scene for Fire in 4 Elements series. Christ delivers lecture on worldliness in the back room. By Joachim Beuckelaer, whose day is today.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL0B...
DAVID PARSONS "Akash"
Germany: *entirety* 12.01.2010 62mins
#NightCurrents #SPACEmusic #AMBIENTmusic
pure synthesis surrealism of off-worldliness
DAVID PARSONS "Akash"
Germany: *entirety* 12.01.2010 62mins
#NightCurrents #SPACEmusic #AMBIENTmusic
pure synthesis surrealism of off-worldliness
Akash
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September 25, 2026 at 3:49 AM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL0B...
DAVID PARSONS "Akash"
Germany: *entirety* 12.01.2010 62mins
#NightCurrents #SPACEmusic #AMBIENTmusic
pure synthesis surrealism of off-worldliness
DAVID PARSONS "Akash"
Germany: *entirety* 12.01.2010 62mins
#NightCurrents #SPACEmusic #AMBIENTmusic
pure synthesis surrealism of off-worldliness
look, all I’m saying is that his worldliness makes him a cosmopolitan, of sorts, and the variety of places in which he’s lived means he lacks a certain amount of roots, if you will
June 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
look, all I’m saying is that his worldliness makes him a cosmopolitan, of sorts, and the variety of places in which he’s lived means he lacks a certain amount of roots, if you will
The response to 9/11 intensified an “imperial arrogance,” as Edward Said called it, “unschooled in worldliness, unfettered either by competence or experience, undeterred by history or human complexity, unrepentant in its violence and the cruelty of its technology.”
Adom Getachew on its aftermath:
Adom Getachew on its aftermath:
Holding Ourselves Responsible
The failures of the UN’s Responsibility to Protect framework.
www.bostonreview.net
September 9, 2026 at 8:09 PM
The response to 9/11 intensified an “imperial arrogance,” as Edward Said called it, “unschooled in worldliness, unfettered either by competence or experience, undeterred by history or human complexity, unrepentant in its violence and the cruelty of its technology.”
Adom Getachew on its aftermath:
Adom Getachew on its aftermath:
Holland’s Christianity is something pure and ethereal. The medieval Church was the biggest landowner in Europe. It was a multinational corporation, the biggest the world had ever seen. You simply can’t separate the ideas from that commercial worldliness.
January 23, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Holland’s Christianity is something pure and ethereal. The medieval Church was the biggest landowner in Europe. It was a multinational corporation, the biggest the world had ever seen. You simply can’t separate the ideas from that commercial worldliness.
Im just going to say that I cannot imagine my life without great novels, the joy and mess of them, the sentences and the humanity, the worldliness and sadness, and the drama; I cannot understand how they are even possible; they breathe life and reality into the world
I had the incredible experience of having apparently forgotten anything I had ever read about it, it was all new to me, every word and event. Totally a thrill
August 28, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Im just going to say that I cannot imagine my life without great novels, the joy and mess of them, the sentences and the humanity, the worldliness and sadness, and the drama; I cannot understand how they are even possible; they breathe life and reality into the world
A tiny bit of worldliness would do wonders
June 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
A tiny bit of worldliness would do wonders