Richard Carroll

Catholic, Southerner, Reactionary, and bibliophile.

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2026-07-09 17:17:53 UTC

“Cardinal Cupich’s Archdiocese of Chicago suggests all people who kill themselves are saved”
Hitler confirmed a Saint?
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cardinal-cupichs-archdiocese-of-chicago-suggests-all-people-who-kill-themselves-are-saved/

2026-07-09 15:57:13 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j it’s more that any advice is 100% context dependent, and if you don’t know the people involved very well, your advice is very likely either going to be either useless or counterproductive.

2026-04-25 18:58:17 UTC

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@nprofile…29ua basically me any time I’m shopping for books:
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2026-04-25 17:03:14 UTC

I took the family to a library booksale today. The sections for adults were looking dire until I got to the poetry section.
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2026-03-30 21:51:21 UTC

Pretty unusual for this artist to draw Western subjects.
https://x.com/wakame090517/status/2038572129193742390
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2026-03-30 20:38:33 UTC

New post: "Don't Learn Literature from Memes." This one is a bit short, and something of a preface to what will probably be the next book I review.
https://itsollkorrect.com/blog/2026/dont-learn-literature-from-memes/

2026-03-27 16:34:54 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j is she… dead?

2026-03-27 15:42:59 UTC

Tried playing Densha de Go over the last few days, and I’m basically the train equivalent of Indian semi drivers, except that I do get fired eventually.
I think my root problem is my low-level nihongo. Messages will flash on the screen, probably telling me something important, but I can’t parse what they say, so I have to complete each route by trial and error.

2026-03-25 13:46:43 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j “sorry?” This is just standard procedure.

2026-03-24 19:32:18 UTC

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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in process of losing grip on its empire and on itself. And this looseness and blowsiness is not anything as simple and scandalous as abrupt and disordered syntax.
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2026-03-24 19:27:31 UTC

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People love to criticise Pound’s understanding of how Chinese characters are formed, but he does acknowledge here that they have a phonetic component. The problem is that he seems to think they’re 90% ideogrammic and 10% phonetic when it’s actually the other way around.
I am calling BS on the anecdote about Gaudier Brzeska. Pound does say “a certain number,” but if there’s any truth to this story that number must be extremely small.
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2026-03-24 19:21:28 UTC

Starting on Ezra Pound’s ABC of Reading. I loved this book back in college, but haven’t read it in years.
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2026-03-24 18:25:22 UTC

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@nprofile…j4xr is it? I thought it was a zoomer thing.

2026-03-24 14:15:05 UTC

https://x.com/tsubonari_8/status/1966150064881172685
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2026-03-24 14:12:52 UTC

https://x.com/john_kafka02/status/2036425936023986348
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2026-03-23 20:28:33 UTC

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Also, half this manual is ads for their special controller and their other games.
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2026-03-23 20:26:13 UTC

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On a side note, I have a good memory for when, where, and why I’ve bought my games, books, and movies over the years, but I genuinely have no idea when I bought this or why. I’ve never really been into trains, and only remembered it because my son likes trains.
I assume I just found a cheap copy at an anime con and got it as a novelty.

2026-03-23 20:23:09 UTC

I thought of getting out Densha de Go over the weekend, and got a reminder of how my never great Japanese skills haven’t improved after years of not studying it. Learning some Chinese in the meantime has been both a help (I can guess the meanings of the kanji) and a hindrance (“fēichángbureeki,” got it).
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2026-03-22 22:11:36 UTC

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@nprofile…j4xr for real, though: I used to get more interactions on twitter but higher quality here, but these days even the quantity is comparable. The algorithm buries you over there if you aren’t a slop farmer.

2026-03-20 14:35:42 UTC

https://x.com/wakame090517/status/2035002076561121642
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2026-03-20 14:13:25 UTC

Good article on reading the classics with “reverential attention.” https://goldenthread.substack.com/p/how-to-read-the-classics

2026-03-20 13:39:33 UTC

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BTW, the line “wifeless men and widows” always felt like it should be “widows and widowers.” It looks like “鰥” can refer to either a widower or a lifelong bachelor, but “寡” is specifically a widow.
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2026-03-20 13:38:03 UTC

@nprofile…2sry King Wen looking after the incels out there.
#nevent1q…6m2x

2026-03-19 22:01:54 UTC

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@nprofile…mkgd took me a moment, NGL.

2026-03-19 19:18:29 UTC

All due respect to Mencius, of course, but I do find Mozi’s “Be good or be killed by ghosts” argument compelling.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250803173853/https://chinesetexts.stanford.edu/4-mozi-%e5%a2%a8%e5%ad%90/
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2026-03-19 13:47:09 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j I may be able to guess how this worked out, but I hope he does write about it at some point because I am curious.
https://x.com/haruhiaisaka/status/2034595396803256658

2026-03-10 17:52:22 UTC

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It is not possible to choose between injustice and disorder. They are synonyms.
http://don-colacho.blogspot.com/2010/02/479.html

2026-03-10 17:40:46 UTC

It is not because there are ages that have been ‘surpassed’ that no restoration is possible, but because everything is mortal. The son does not succeed a father who has been surpassed, but a father who has died.
http://don-colacho.blogspot.com/2010/09/1915.html
For a while, maybe 12-15 years ago, Don Colacho’s aphorisms were staples of Reactionary twitter and blogs, but I can’t remember the last time I saw them referenced. It’s been a long time.

2026-03-10 16:29:08 UTC

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2026-03-10 16:21:33 UTC

https://x.com/nyte_tyde/status/2031145720192147881
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2026-03-10 15:43:45 UTC

https://x.com/kiriehiro/status/2030963031988187147
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2026-03-10 13:40:49 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j you’re a man, she’s a woman: there’s going to be an IQ gap.

2026-03-08 23:25:54 UTC

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2026-03-08 20:20:23 UTC

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2026-03-04 16:10:57 UTC

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2026-03-03 15:29:14 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j oh.
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2026-03-03 01:20:05 UTC

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@nprofile…a423 they want me to pay them to do something people used to pay me to do? The IT job market is just all kinds of backwards.

2026-03-02 20:44:58 UTC

https://x.com/juyekuno/status/2028519191901532207
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2026-03-02 19:14:05 UTC

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@nprofile…29ua oh yeah, I forgot we can do that. I don’t think it actually matters much, but it’s fixed now.

2026-03-02 19:00:41 UTC

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Markdown fail, SMDH.

2026-03-02 18:59:40 UTC

Longinus, in On the Sublime,” on the Odyssey as the work of Homer’s old age: “So in the Odyssey* one may liken Homer to the setting sun; the grandeur remains without the intensity.”
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2026-03-02 15:58:05 UTC

https://x.com/mai_image_art/status/2028387276515135945
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2026-03-02 15:41:08 UTC

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@nprofile…r2m8 “‘An emperor ought to die standing,’ and while he was struggling to get on his feet, he died in the arms of those who tried to help him”
I see the potential for a picturesque death here, of an emperor trying to die standing despite his physical weakness, if his final illness had been almost anything else.

2026-02-28 16:42:55 UTC

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@nprofile…j4xr no idea. I follow people who talk about politics but no news accounts so I’m always having to puzzle together what everyone is talking about.

2026-02-28 14:29:12 UTC

https://x.com/_yuming_li/status/2027230307834077604
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2026-02-27 19:41:58 UTC

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2026-02-27 15:53:47 UTC

https://x.com/penguin2716/status/2027283851031216367
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2026-02-27 14:57:24 UTC

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@nprofile…lwmc from East to West, across the centuries, they never change.

2026-02-27 14:37:06 UTC

Sure, I’ll read a salacious story about a Chinese poet-murderess: https://bodenlos.substack.com/p/yu-xuanji

2026-02-26 22:29:01 UTC

I can’t believe Legalists are out there blocking @nprofile…2sry , SMH.

2026-02-26 18:42:17 UTC

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@nprofile…kfga @nprofile…29ua specific info, like living in the same area or having the same job. That said, matching on prose style is probably coming.

2026-02-26 17:44:53 UTC

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@nprofile…29ua for the sake of testing, yes. The current state of these techniques is probably less advanced than the ideal conditions in the experiment, but still: AI can link compartmentalised accounts if you have some corroborating info on each of them.
This is basically how many people have been doxed in the past, and AI will certainly make it easier.

2026-02-26 17:26:54 UTC

TL;DR: We show that LLM agents can figure out who you are from your anonymous online posts. Across Hacker News, Reddit, LinkedIn, and anonymized interview transcripts, our method identifies users with high precision – and scales to tens of thousands of candidates.
He means “pseudonymous,” but regardless: remember to be conservative about how much personal information you share online, fellas.
https://simonlermen.substack.com/p/large-scale-online-deanonymization

2026-02-26 15:39:50 UTC

https://x.com/dino_illus/status/2027032227625001293
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2026-02-26 15:32:51 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j yes.

2026-02-25 20:35:21 UTC

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@nprofile…mkgd yeah, I’ve seen estimates that about 90% of Greco-Roman literature is lost, even from major authors. Half of Aristotle’s Poetics is missing; we only have seven of Aeschylus’ plays out of about seventy that we know of.

2026-02-25 20:33:26 UTC

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@nprofile…jnpj thanks, I hope you enjoy it.

2026-02-25 18:54:49 UTC

New post: "Demetrius and the Greek Guide to Style"
https://itsollkorrect.com/blog/2026/demetrius/

2026-02-25 17:45:32 UTC

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@nprofile…jnpj interesting. My goal for my blog has long been to encourage people to read more and better books, and a big part of that is trying to get people to understand that the ancients have valuable things to say to us and to appreciate our own heritage.

2026-02-25 17:06:55 UTC

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2026-02-25 16:42:11 UTC

One frustrating thing about Classical literature is that a massive portion of it is totally lost, or exist only in more-or-less fragmentary form, and of the works we do have, we often don’t even know who the author is. This is from Russell’s introduction to On the Sublime, written by somebody maybe named Longinus.
As Russell says of Longinus and the man he addressed the work to, though, “But who these people were, and what circle they moved in, are less important questions than what the book says, and what place it holds in the history of criticism.”
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2026-02-24 21:13:21 UTC

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2026-02-24 19:48:51 UTC

Just drafted a new post on Demetrius, and it’s the longest one I’ve written in quite a while at about 2,300 words. Needs a little editing, but it should go up late this week or early next week.

2026-02-24 18:16:04 UTC

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@nprofile…j4xr I’m much more interested in ancient events.

2026-02-24 15:50:32 UTC

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@nprofile…r2m8 “partner” sounds gay and is worse.

2026-02-21 21:24:41 UTC

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@nprofile…2sry So true!

2026-02-20 16:51:01 UTC

Well, time to Mosey to the next chapter. https://web.archive.org/web/20250803173853/https://chinesetexts.stanford.edu/4-mozi-%e5%a2%a8%e5%ad%90/
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2026-02-19 16:12:49 UTC

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@nprofile…a423 “Um, that’s cowboy behaviour.”
Yes?
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2026-02-19 15:21:43 UTC

I was complaining about my situation to my partner; xe informed me that librarians think of this through the FRBR model.
Actually not a bad post (on trying to build a GoodReads alternative), but I don’t see novelty pronouns used unironically very often anymore, even in my professional circles.
https://rygoldstein.com/posts/perils-of-isbn

2026-02-16 20:06:58 UTC

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2026-02-10 01:07:07 UTC

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@nprofile…29ua late reply, but: yes, teachers would be bad at this for many reasons, but I don’t trust the vast majority of teachers to teach anything else, either. So, for now I guess we have to consider adding this course in an imagined ideal environment.

2026-02-09 19:32:49 UTC

https://x.com/iliekcatfood/status/2020642610239644041
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2026-02-09 19:09:01 UTC

Some good news: Ven. Fulton Sheen is going to be beatified.
The Holy See has officially informed Bishop Louis Tylka of the Diocese of Peoria, Illinois, that the cause for the Venerable Servant of God Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen can proceed to beatification, according to an announcement from the diocese.
https://www.ewtnnews.com/world/us/fulton-sheen-beatification

2026-02-09 16:03:30 UTC

New post: a short review of Beth Kobliner’s book, *Get a Finncial Life*.
https://itsollkorrect.com/blog/2026/get-a-financial-life/

2026-02-07 19:44:53 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j gotta pay those medical bills somehow.

2026-02-07 01:01:15 UTC

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@nprofile…tsag @nprofile…ujhs @nprofile…yfzn FWIW, I use Orion on my main computer and phone. Firefox at work.

2026-02-06 20:14:20 UTC

I’ve finished one lesson of Classical Chinese, time to translate the Tao Te Ching.

2026-02-06 14:41:39 UTC

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@nprofile…ujhs it’s Google, this is exactly what I’d expect.

2026-02-06 14:13:37 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j I was never a fan of women’s wrestling, but it has its good points.

2026-02-06 00:16:11 UTC

I have a new post drafted, a short review of a very practical book. I'll likley publish it early next week, to space new posts out a bit.

2026-02-05 14:48:10 UTC

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@nprofile…29ua @nprofile…j4xr yeah, I know, but this is how the term has come in to English, for better or worse.

2026-02-05 01:03:22 UTC

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@nprofile…j4xr because your friends here are all 140+ IQ intellectuals, as opposed to the hoi polloi on Facebook.

2026-02-03 20:27:20 UTC

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@nprofile…r2m8 perhaps that’s the excuse, but regardless, these people are my enemies.

2026-02-03 18:42:22 UTC

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@nprofile…r2m8 no, it’s a retard thing. Obviously you should repeat the letter that you’re holding out, but it’s common IME for people to repeat the last letter.

2026-02-02 15:39:22 UTC

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@nprofile…r2m8 honestly, one reason I don’t use Notepad++ is that the dev is so cringeworthy and embarrassing, and always has been.

2026-01-31 18:18:19 UTC

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@nprofile…j4xr could they really be more embarrassing than Elon’s?

2026-01-30 15:35:39 UTC

New post: Another in the “Hundred Friends” series, on George Herbert’s poem “Prayer.” https://itsollkorrect.com/blog/2026/george-herbert/

2026-01-26 15:49:36 UTC

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@nprofile…29ua in the current year, yes.

2026-01-26 15:32:12 UTC

I recently finished a collection of poems by George Herbert, and just started one by Richard Crashaw. I wouldn’t say they’re my favourites, but they are extremely good.
Anyway, here’s a poem(?) I just got subjected to via my more normie social media account. Enjoy.
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2026-01-24 20:54:09 UTC

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@nprofile…r2m8 me at the top-right.

2026-01-23 17:38:05 UTC

A leader the people must have. The state of the human race is such that the vast majority of all people will always be passive until roused to action by someone with a more powerful spirit than theirs. There is no kingdom without a king, there is not even a republic without a president. Even assemblies with no fixed positions have, by influence, their chief men informally, because there is no case where the talent of bringing others into action is distributed equally.
To take the negative perspective, even more than positive virtue guiding a good ruler, it is trivial to note that a bad ruler who gives a poor example will inevitably cause destruction, corruption, and rot in an organization. In my private life I am an accountant, and when one is taught to perform financial audits and consider a company’s internal fraud risk, one of the key items one looks for is the ‘Tone at the Top.’ Is the boss a lush? Is he abrasive? Is he honest? Does he pass blame? Even in the dilute systems of government and leadership present in our society it is the visible top of a system which receives our greatest attention because the head of a corporate body commands a spiritual influence on the rest before even entering into any question of explicit command.
https://ulrichkessler.substack.com/p/comments-on-book-ii-of-the-analects

2026-01-22 20:49:38 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j I see Tifa, I click “like.”

2026-01-22 01:54:45 UTC

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@nprofile…r2m8 younger than me by a solid decade. :sanaeboomer:

2026-01-19 01:02:22 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j it’s the world’s least creepy kigurumi.

2026-01-14 17:11:04 UTC

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@nprofile…r2m8 @nprofile…2g7j AFAICT, the meaninglessness is the point.

2026-01-13 15:13:37 UTC

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@nprofile…mjcf @nprofile…zjs5 yeah, I like anime art as much as the next guy, but it would be nice to have some more variety. I’m stuck mostly using twitter to find new artists.

2026-01-09 16:16:28 UTC

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While I’m on this hobby horse, I’ll add that since “tragic” implies the victim brought about his own demise because of his fault, it’s also inappropriate to describe innocent victims as “tragic.” Victims of, say, a school shooting were not destroyed by their own hubris, but by someone else’s malice.

2026-01-09 16:10:00 UTC

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Greenhorn brings up a side point about the overuse of the word “tragedy” in that article, and it’s something that annoys me all the time. In a tragedy, a noble person is destroyed by a single fault, classically hubris but not always. So, Othello is a tragic figure because he’s a great man but has one vice, jealousy, which Iago stokes to destroy him.
This woman was not at all noble. She was a wicked person, doing something wicked, who was killed as a result of her wickedness and stupidity. As Greenhorn puts it, “ this is sad only in a Christian sense, in the sense that a fallen soul has met its end. But there is nothing sad in an evil woman bent on doing evil and being struck down while doing an evil thing.”

2026-01-09 16:03:49 UTC

How is some obese lesbian from Colorado affected by a Guatemalan woman being forced to live in Guatemala? There are all the political aspects of corruption and Democratic Party power that we might bring up, but the ultimate point is disorder for disorder’s sake, lawlessness for lawlessness’ sake, violence for violence’s sake. This is an ugliness your average citizen cannot bear seeing. And so our victim is a poet, a wife, a mother, though she is none of these things. She lives only to make the world as vile and despicable as she is to herself and to God.
https://richardgreenhorn.substack.com/p/dostoyevskys-political-demonology

2026-01-08 20:03:45 UTC

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@nprofile…29ua oh, I know, but for the record: I’d almost rather get Canadian healthcare than use Facebook.