Perforce
Definition: by force or necessity
Why I Looked It Up
I knew of a type of software named Perforce (the company still exists; the software product doesn’t). I always thought it was a weird name.
In Everything, All the Time, Everywhere, another book called The Origins and Postmodernity is quoted:
Although not within its grim satifations, such plebeianization perforce denotes not great popular englighthenment, but new forms of inebriation and delusion…
What is the author saying here? No idea. “Plebeianization” means to make something simple or common or pedestration. So, I guess he’s saying this happened by force?
Prior to this, the author of the original book said:
It entailed a leveling process by means of which the great geniuses of modernism were cut down to size.
So…smart people were “cut down to size” by force? I guess?
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Teach Yourself To Live
December 7, 2023
This is kind of an odd little book. It was first published in 1955, and it’s a guidebook to life, basically. It covers things like personal development, relationships, goal-setting, etc. Lots of basic, obvious stuff, which has been covered in countless books since then, but I wonder how novel this...
Links to this –
Teach Yourself To Live
This is kind of an odd little book. It was first published in 1955, and it’s a guidebook to life, basically. It covers things like personal development, relationships, goal-setting, etc. Lots of basic, obvious stuff, which has been covered in countless books since then, but I wonder how novel this...
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Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern
November 16, 2023
I gave this book every chance, I really did. I didn’t abandon it, but I skipped around a lot. It’s purportedly about postmodernism . Or, perhaps about a history of how we ended up postmodern? I wasn’t sure. Each chapter was basically a history of many things, often pop-culture. I would read a...