Cȯsꭑọ ∴ ọꭑƨȯƆ @cosmiccitizen@schelling.pt
Humanist interested in the consequences of the machine on intellectual history.
Joined Dec 2022
Let's say that you're imagining a really enmeshed kin-group that has to rely on each other for everything, down to the basics of survival. It basically enmeshes everyone emotionally and any particular person only gets to *borrow* identity or role from this family-system, which basically has narcissism at the group level.
It seems obvious to me that the whole thing must push mimetic rivalry to the kin-group level. Only the most subtle kinds of mimetic rivalry are safe inside such a system.
But the Confucian system doesn't seem to take place in a much more enmeshed social reality -- one in which an assertion of independence would bring overpowering social sanction, &therefore the individual achieves identity through ritual and deference. Seems like a totally different polarity.
Maybe Fukuyama's *Identity* book covers this? His "political order" project took China as the normative case, so maybe he loosens up on his neoplatonic shtick. IDK let me know if you have recommendations.
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."
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.
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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.
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.
I just got bamboozled by the instructions to assembling a scooter so
Humanist interested in the consequences of the machine on intellectual history.
Joined Dec 2022
