Graham Harman

@objectoriented.bsky.social

Yes, this is my real account. Long Beach, California.

People seem to feel like they've already done their election-related mourning and are enjoying internal Republican fights and making fun of Elon Musk. But we'll be snapped back to reality by the post-January 20 immigrant roundup. It's going to be ugly.

Amazing how when you hit a certain age, hearing random loud pop music is incredibly annoying but classical music immediately healing. I used to suspect that was largely a pose by older people, but it's more like a physical fact.

From Safranski's biography of Goethe I had not the expected sense of a golden boy unable to fail at anything he touches, but more the sense of someone whose decision making processes were poorly focused and often counterproductive. Yet his best writing is almost incredibly good.