If you’ve invited a lib into your apartment, it’s entirely on you. Don’t be surprised if they start colonizing your apartment and call it “Aid” or “Democracy” or something.
Yeah, it’s like inviting a vampire into your home and then being surprised when it tries to drink your blood.
If you don’t invite a lib in, they’re bound by arcane laws of civility to stay out.
The scorpion complained about wearing a mask during the pandemic. The scorpion fears not its own demise.
You should just respect the customs of whoever’s house it is
I can’t tell people not to I touch things in my apartment? Fucking what?
Don’t these people worship property and ownership?
Only as a convenient vehicle for dominating their surroundings. The moment it conflicts with what they want they snap.
This is the stupidest take on hospitality I’ve ever seen. This person needs to be beaten over the head with a copy of Derrida’s “On Hospitality” until they become unconscious or learn something, whichever happens first.
That’s the Derrida book I think about the most. Unironically a great read
It has informed so much of what I do, working with food and conviviality. I come back to it every now and then, and it’s still fresh.
It is a source for one of my favorite ethical essays, too.
Have you read Levinas? Derrida’s later stuff takes a lot of inspiration from his ideas about ethics and justice
As a cracker, when I enter someone’s house I immediately go to their couch and begin rubbing my dirty shoes into it while yelling “fuck your couch!”
Do some crackers actually wear their outside shoes in bed? I see it in movies sometimes and it’s such an absurd annoying detail.
that’s just convenient for films, not a documentary detail of yankee lifestyle. im sure somebody does it tho
I did it once as a kid because I was so excited to go on a trip. I went to bed in my clothes, all picked out. Shoes on. Ready to face the day. So excited I could barely sleep.
We of course left the house one hour later than intended because my family are perpetually tardy.
And that’s the origin story of my villain arc.
