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diff --git a/microblog/index.html b/microblog/index.html index 13939dd..98b258e 100644 --- a/microblog/index.html +++ b/microblog/index.html @@ -12,9 +12,13 @@ This is my <i>microblog</i>, a place for me to jot down random thoughts that I want to keep, but are too small enough to constitute a real article/post. </p> <hr /> + <p id="9"> + Democracy is the protection of negative freedom and civil liberties, not the enforcement of general will. + <a href="https://www.andrewyu.org/microblog/#9">(anchor link)</a> + </p> <p id="8"> Democracy is the protection of negative freedom and civil liberties, not the enforcement of general will. - <a href="https://www.andrewyu.org/microblog/#8">(8)</a> + <a href="https://www.andrewyu.org/microblog/#8">(anchor link)</a> </p> <p id="7"> Reading <i>雷雨</i> and thinking about <i>A Streetcar Named Desire</i> and <i>The Glass Menagerie</i> There's a commonality in these plays—and perhaps many more—that struck me: The presentation of femininity as dependence. @@ -25,33 +29,33 @@ <br /> (Or perhaps this experience is limited by my perception of my own trans femininity and isn't a common theme upon modern cis femininity?) <br /> - <a href="https://www.andrewyu.org/microblog/#7">(7)</a> + <a href="https://www.andrewyu.org/microblog/#7">(anchor link)</a> </p> <p id="6"> I kinda think faith is something we all struggle with, and doesn't seem to be too relevant to whether we are religious in the traditional sense. For me there're things like faith in logic, faith in knowledge, faith in properties of humankind, etc. They seem to be so ungrounded, founded upon beliefs that I cannot support with my own weight. - <a href="https://www.andrewyu.org/microblog/#6">(6)</a> + <a href="https://www.andrewyu.org/microblog/#6">(anchor link)</a> </p> <p id="5"> As much as I believe in determinism, I do not believe that humans have capacity to pre-determine their own fate. - <a href="https://www.andrewyu.org/microblog/#5">(5)</a> + <a href="https://www.andrewyu.org/microblog/#5">(anchor link)</a> </p> <p id="4"> My world is still of metaphorical illusions. I need to learn to be afraid of romanticized narratives and perspectives. However, it is apparently hard to do so—I sink into romantic words that create a color filter in my perception, they make reality look so beautiful, so... ``sweet'', moving me further away from what reality really is. - <a href="https://www.andrewyu.org/microblog/#4">(4)</a> + <a href="https://www.andrewyu.org/microblog/#4">(anchor link)</a> </p> <p id="3"> I'm probably not the only one who has these dangerous/harmful/unhelpful thoughts:<br /> How different, or perhaps ``better' could my life be, if I could go back to the start of Year 9, and make different decisions? Perhaps that would mean choosing something other than IGCSE History. Or perhaps that means... when that was still possible, let my yearn and longing for intimacy with trusted people to discuss philosophy and science with, stay undeveloped.<br /> Perhaps I could have became a happy person. The me of the present could never know. - <a href="https://www.andrewyu.org/microblog/#3">(3)</a> + <a href="https://www.andrewyu.org/microblog/#3">(anchor link)</a> </p> <p id="2"> To what extent is "it sets a precedent" a concern that justifies or warrants declining a request that is on its own, appropriate? - <a href="https://www.andrewyu.org/microblog/#2">(2)</a> + <a href="https://www.andrewyu.org/microblog/#2">(anchor link)</a> </p> <p id="1"> I hereby discard the structuralist view that people are composed of the opposing parts "benign" and "malicious". These simple and perhaps judgemental concepts are insufficient in face of the complexity of the human condition. - <a href="https://www.andrewyu.org/microblog/#1">(1)</a> + <a href="https://www.andrewyu.org/microblog/#1">(anchor link)</a> </p> <div id="footer"> <hr /> |