Pedantic Struggles: The All Encompassing Philosophy Thread™

[BurtReynolds]

i thought he retired.

[BurtReynolds]

[Mickey]

Fisher tended to view the act of critique as generative, a getting-outside-oneself. It really shows through in his essays on film and music. He killed himself because he had severe depression. Pretty good book though.

After re-reading most of Capitalist Realism today for the first time since 2016, I'd like to revise my position: this is an incredibly juvenile and undercooked theory, despite some good insights.

[BurtReynolds]

I am sick of all this anti-Americanism!

[BurtReynolds]

Philosopher of our times.

The sentient fedoras attempting to correct him are at least as dumb.

[BurtReynolds]

[BurtReynolds]

“I am trying to imagine under what novel features despotism may appear in the world. In the first place, I see an innumerable multitude of men, alike and equal, constantly circling around in pursuit of the petty and banal pleasures with which they glut their souls. Each one of them, withdrawn into himself, is almost unaware of the fate of the rest….

Over this kind of men stands an immense, protective power which is alone responsible for securing their enjoyment and watching over their fate. That power is absolute, thoughtful of detail, orderly, provident, and gentle. It would resemble parental authority if, fatherlike, it tried to prepare charges for a man’s life, but on the contrary, it only tries to keep them in perpetual childhood. It likes to see the citizens enjoy themselves, provided that they think of nothing but enjoyment. It gladly works for their happiness but wants to be sole agent and judge of it. It provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasure, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, makes rules for their testaments, and divides their inheritances. Why should it not entirely relieve them from the trouble of thinking and all the cares of living?

Thus it daily makes the exercise of free choice less useful and rarer, restricts the activity of free will within a narrower compass, and little by little robs each citizen of the proper use of his own faculties. Equality has prepared men for all this, predisposing them to endure it and often even regard it as beneficial.

Having thus taken each citizen in turn in its powerful grasp and shaped him to its will, government then extends its embrace to include the whole of society. It covers the whole of social life with a network of petty complicated rules that are both minute and uniform, through which even men of the greatest originality and the most vigorous temperament cannot force their heads above the crowd. It does not break men’s will, but softens, bends, and guides it; it seldom enjoins, but often inhibits, action; it does not destroy anything, but prevents much being born; it is not at all tyrannical, but it hinders, restrains, enervates, stifles, and stultifies so much that in the end each nation is no more than a flock of timid and hardworking animals with the government as its shepherd.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

basically Nietzsche's last men, but earlier

[BurtReynolds]

[Birds in Hell]

'misteaks'

[surfndestroy]

Good news for nihilists? Life is meaningless after all, say philosophers.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6036427

[BurtReynolds]

[BurtReynolds]

People consider this doofus a thought leader

[wease]

People consider this doofus a thought leader

Any aliens that look at the earth laughs at how far behind them we are. And probably doesn’t even consider us “intelligent life”. And compared to them, we aren’t

[Bi_3]

People consider this doofus a thought leader

Aliens enacting whiteness

[BurtReynolds]

skip to 17:45 to get past the dense groundwork.

[simple schoolboy]

What manner of theology is this?

[BurtReynolds]

pre-natal anti-natalism?

[simple schoolboy]

pre-natal anti-natalism?

Its more than that though, its that anyone who ever died chose to die in that manner.

Because this thing happened to you, you secretly deep down chose it.

[BurtReynolds]

I think that's just called gibberish.

[BurtReynolds]