Cȯsꭑọ ∴ ọꭑƨȯƆ @cosmiccitizen@schelling.pt
Humanist interested in the consequences of the machine on intellectual history.
Joined Dec 2022
Having trouble finding something that critiques Girard from a (neo)Confucian perspective. It feels pretty basic to point out that the basic constitution of individuality in the Girardian system occurs through control of an external referent and defended against mimetic rivalry.
My boomer WWC neighbor is bumping Eminem
"Excitotoxicity" seems pretty darn close to what the kids these days call "fried."
@feistel yep
Barnum-esque discipline
Anybody else hate having to maintain focused attention on a long-term complex symbolic task for hours at a time?
Behold, the modern successor to the Mysteries of Eleusis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfA3ivLK_tE
No paper in psychology will ever be cited as much as that goddamn gorilla in the basketball video. When this civilization is a distant memory there will be reports of that video circulating, attesting incredible epiphanic power to it like it was the Oracle at fucking Delphi.
Cȯsꭑọ ∴ ọꭑƨȯƆ
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I know this has been said before, but *holy shit* is this all that it's ever been? Countless numbers of broken people grasping desperately at fake solutions and violating vital norms to cover the difference?
Whereof there is glitch, therefrom will be ornamentation:
Specifically thinking of Heidegger and Hamann, but examples abound.
Deeply disappointing to turn to a new chapter on an old philosopher and discover the antisemitic tirades. I'm not especially squeamish, but in many of these cases the philosopher will very clearly declare "This antisemitism is very important to my project and you do not understand me unless you buy into my antisemitism." OK then, guess I'll move on.
@niplav Like isn't it telling that "fearless girl" has no greater identity? She's not drawn from myth or history. She is no one in particular because that would distract from the framing of this issue in strictly demographic terms.
There are lots of examples of amazing women and girls who could have been memorialized. But if that were the goal, then this project would vitally shift toward establishing recognition for the immortal words and deeds of public heroes. Zoon politikon.
@niplav On that last point, there's a very Arendtian view of what's happening: the marketplace (in the form of index funds) has now conditioned the constructive activities of humans (or "homo faber") to work on a very bleak, monotonous "societal" commodity form. We don't get individuality under these conditions, only demographic classifications. Thus it's important that "fearless girl" advertises a demographic-based version of the same old commodity slop as everything else.
@niplav FWIW I think I prefer this form of political action -- shifting the rhetorical framing of an issue by introducing new aesthetic elements to the public square -- more than 99% of alternatives. Yet I think what carries the day is the critique that this was obviously commissioned by State Street to advertise a boutique index fund.
Developing an elaborate version of sovereign citizenship based on the illegitimacy of Rhode Island's government derived from the 1663 charter, the wrongly decided Luther v. Borden precedent, the Newport Tower conspiracy theory, and John Dee's "General and Rare Memorials pertayning to the Perfect Arte of Navigation."
“For what is the highly touted reason with its omnipotence, infallibility, effusiveness, certainty, and evidence? An Ens rationis , an **oil god,** to which a shrill superstition of irrationality imputes divine attributes.”
The oil god modernity manifested:
... which gave Apollodorus occasion to say, that should a man pick out of his writings all that was none of his, he would leave him nothing but blank paper: whereas the latter, quite on the contrary, in three hundred volumes that he left behind him, has not so much as one quotation.
thinking about this bit from Montaigne this morning:
The philosophers, Chrysippus and Epicurus, were in this of two quite contrary humours: the first not only in his books mixed passages and sayings of other authors, but entire pieces, and, in one, the whole Medea of Euripides; ...
I finally got around to listening to Kantbot debating Thaddeus Russell. It's an absolute farce. Amazing. It's absolutely amazing to see a clash between a person who's desperately hiding his ignorance and a person who's so in-control of the conversation that he's willing to run up the score like the Harlem Globetrotters.
Humanist interested in the consequences of the machine on intellectual history.
Joined Dec 2022
