- The Perfect Run
This is web novel slop, but it has a pretty unique setting, a time loop, and I’d say it’s executed well. It also doesn’t overstay its welcome. Would recommend. - Dreams (2025)
Dogshit-ass movie, do not recommend.
It’s such a slog to get through. There are scene after scene where nothing happens, we just watch the characters do stuff, and I’m constantly wondering: what is the hook of this movie? When is anything going to happen? What is the purpose of this scene? What is the director trying to showcase here? How does any of this move the story forward?
Throughout most of the movie, these questions remain unanswered.
After reaching the ending, I came to the conclusion that maybe the director was trying to explore themes of control and how the attempt to control everything ultimately leads to failure. But if that’s the case, I think he failed to properly develop that theme. It wasn’t visible enough throughout the film, and the movie never gave me enough to engage with that interpretation while watching.
To end on a positive note, the setting was interesting and the sex scenes were good.
4/10
- Kant vs Hegel
- Ljot Swanhild: Videospiele zocken und Konversation
And then Ljot woke up later that night, it was all just a dream, Ljot is nothing and will always be nothing, but that doesn’t mean its bad, there is no ego left, there are no friends left, it was my own choice and I am satisfied, there was nothing ever there in the first place.
- Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings
Here’s a corrected and smoothed version of your text, keeping your meaning and tone intact:
This is the Penguin edition. It includes multiple works by Descartes: (0) an introduction that gives some background information, (1) Meditations on First Philosophy, (2) Objections and Replies, a text that gives replies to common objections against his Meditations, (3) Principles of Philosophy, basically a summarized version of (1), (4) Descartes’ correspondence, which is a collection of letters with people asking him questions regarding his work, and finally (5) comments on a certain manifesto, which is a rebuttal against the work of philosophers of his time who Descartes thought had misunderstood him.
I really like how the text is written. I don’t know how much that is due to this particular translation or Descartes himself, but it is very readable and I enjoy his stylistic choices. Content-wise, I like that he first questions all assumptions, basically tearing down the established worldview before starting again and trying to reconstruct it from the ground up. I like this approach.
Personally, I think this “tear down” is more interesting than the reconstruction, as quite early on I already had a bunch of problems with the reconstruction, so the later parts were less interesting because they depended on earlier parts I had already disagreed with.
I also think it’s really cool to include common objections people had against his work and then provide his direct replies. Often, philosophical works do not take objections this seriously.
Having the Principles of Philosophy as a quick summary of his work is also really nice. I think in general more works should have this structure: first the main philosophical work (i.e., the argument), then a section with common objections, and finally a summary. It makes everything very neat and approachable. The correspondence that Descartes had with Princess Elizabeth was also very cute to read, it gives an interesting view of the time: what people thought, what issues they had, and so on.
Finally, his comment on a manifesto was a really brutal takedown of his opponent. Descartes would have fit right into modern debate culture, in a positive way.
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