I got my first fountain pen last week because of the previous posts here. My colleague has recommended moleskin notebooks, but I haven’t purchased anything, yet.
Don't. Do not use a Moleskine with a fountain pen. If I recall correctly we have briefly discussed the question in a discussion in our Journaling community, and I would not be surprised it was also discussed in the fountain pen community too, you can also do a quick online search to find a lot of user feedback regarding using their fountain pens with Moleskine. They don't play nice together, to put it politely. Moleskine are great for ballpoint pens, like really. Not so much with fountain pens as their paper is kinda cheap and the teh fountain pen ink will bleed through it. Fountain pens leave a lot more ink and use a different type of ink than ballpoint or gel, using good paper paper is real important part of the process.
If you want something like Moleskine that will also be good with fountain pens, try Leuchtturm 1917. They should also be similarly priced.
If you want something unique but not cheap: try to get your hands on some notebook using Tomoe River paper (this thing is a blessing for fountain pen lovers: one of teh thinnest paper ever while still working well with a lot of fountain pens). A lot cheaper while still being nice with most fountain pens (not Tomoe-nice, but nice nonetheless), I can suggest Clairefontaine/Rhodia. Here in France, it's cheap enough for kids to be able to use it in school and, at least back in my days, in school we had to learn handwriting using a fountain pen ;)
Always have been a problem. It was just a lot less consumerist-focused in the past.
I just read a text from Pascal that he wrote somewhere in the year 1656 and in which he was discussing how a bunch of people from the Sorbonne university (they were not your average angry lynching mob, they were scholars) were asking for another one to be severely punished for something he had said in favor of some text they deemed heretic (which was no joke, back then). Pascal then explains they refused to change their mind when they were faced first with the fact that all the guy said was that he could not find any occurence of that heresy in said text (they even refused to read the text to see by themselves when he proposed to do so); and then when they were told that this dude they wanted so badly to punishe (for something he did not say) was indeed agreeing with them on the condemnation of that heresy only refusing to blame it on that specific author since he never wrote that. Their reply? He still deserved to be punished because of his attitude. I have grossly over-simplified the thing but that is indeed the core idea: they did not like the dude and his tone and wanted to make him pay for that, they openly said fuck it to any fact demonstrating them wrong. And those people were scholars.
This happened some 370 years ago but it could be happening at this very moment in (too) many universities—one would just need to replace 'heresy' with any of the 'sensitive' topics we consider so much more important nowadays.
And I have little doubt it will keep on happening under a variety of guises. Probably even much more frequently, seeing the world-wide rise of proud idiocracies, and their proud idiot leaders, and the rise of all those communitarisms that that thrive on hating on one another, almost everywhere.
Edit: typos and a few minor changes.