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As I write this I can see the frat party across the street from my window that my roommate is at. I can hear the chatter from a few doors down, and the dance beat from another floor. I feel like I should be there but I’m not. Instead I’m in my room trying to read the Iliad for tomorrow’s lecture.

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I think it takes a kind of exclusion to see society from a self-sufficient, individual point of view. A lot of people seem to think that libertarians are selfish and indifferent to the welfare of others. Maybe that’s true for some, but it seems like it’s the other way around as well. Libertarians accept full responsibility for their own lives because they can’t count on anyone else for anything beyond mutual self-interest. They realize that the nature of all relationships is transactionary, because they don’t have very much to offer and have received accordingly. Rather than adopting the libertarian worldview as an ideal state of affairs, they recognize the principles by which it operates as the hard facts of life. Life isn’t fair and it will never be. Or rather, in Nozick’s concept of justice, life is too fair. In the great bell curve distribution of nature, some men must be on the left side on any given criteria or a combination thereof.

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I can’t wait to see the film adaptation of one of my favorites:

It’s just the trailer but I’m already a little disappointed. Hagu-chan is supposed to be so much cuter, they should’ve got her seiyuu to act. And the scene about seeing for the first time the precise moment that someone falls in love seems a little less poignant than I thought it should be. It’s my favorite part so they had better get it right. I’m also not sure how well it would work as a film when there is so much less time to develop the characters - the slow-paced anime series had absolutely no plot and each episode was just a slice of their lives.

She’s a genius.