So last night I got a call from an old acquaintance of mine. Went over to his place and watched I ♥ Hucklebees, which is probably the best pop philosophy movie I've seen in quite a long time (which isn't saying much, mind you). The tension between the existential detectives (played superbly by Lily Tomlin and Dustin Hoffman) and the "French lady" (Isabelle Huppert). There's a lot of perverted and popularized Hegelian shit going on in this movie, but none of that's really important. It's a damn good movie. I mean, there's even a part where the main character says, "Are you sure you two aren't working together?" — and I thought, damn, this movie is spot on. There's all this false antagonism between analytic philosophy and continental philosophy, between philosophy and psychology, between science and just about everything when the truth is we're all on the same side studying the same things, the same phenomena.
Today was pretty uneventful, though. I wrote a bit on the ever present dark cloud of essays that follow me around, though not nearly as much as I should have. I temporarily lost my copy of The Vocation of Man, which didn't help things at all. So instead I worked on this new piece springing out of the Crito, you know, the one I mentioned yesterday. I've got about a page written, and it looks like it may actually be worth something. After noon I went to a couple classes — which reminds me, there's a couple of extensions to Cayley's Theorem I should write. Yeah, more boring maths...
Speaking of boring maths, I lost my faith in humanity again tonight. I tutor maths sometimes in the evening, and usually it's alright because people have to care before they come to tutoring. At least, that's the way it used to be back before the football team decided to offshore their mandatory study hours onto us. I was absolutely swamped with willfully ignorant footballers. Nothing pisses me off more than willful ignorance.
I seriously just don't know what we're doing wrong.
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