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the idea that continental philosophy is something fantastical. that's sort of a common misconception but its still bound, like anything called philosophy with a capital p, to a (hopefully) high standard of rigor, and it does tend relate to the reallyactually real world, actually. it should go without saying that it doesn't always hold to this standard, but the shit worth reading - and the shit people are actually reading - more or less tends to be. I think its an all to common practice though - not especially in anarchist circles, but anywhere people are engaging with this stuff - to sort of treat that whole tradition is if its purpose is not to be explanatory but to just sort of blow the reader's mind, which just sort of perpetuates the sort of bad, incoherent, thinking habits that are associated with it and has people sitting in rooms just repeating the word rhizome back and forth to each other for eternity, never really understanding whether what they're saying means anything.

also, idk if im in love with the idea of instrumentalized fantasies, but that's a story for another day (and whether i'm against it or not may not mean much)