Cȯsꭑọ ∴ ọꭑƨȯƆ @cosmiccitizen@schelling.pt
Humanist interested in the consequences of the machine on intellectual history.
Joined Dec 2022
This wiki article makes it clear that the goal is to find a gender-neutral word to use in spanish (or portuguese), but... why does this project need to be undertaken in English? English is already gender-neutral in most respects. "Latin" is an epicene adjective in English, and so also is "Mexican," "Brazilian," etc.
It seems like anglophone America is being used as safe harbor for a cultural project that doesn't really have any use / relevance within this language.
It's so funny to me that justice-and-tolerance types have been tying themselves in knots trying to find a way to say "latin" (as in "latin american") without saying latin. "Latinx" was draft 1, and "latine" is draft 2. What the hell is the matter with "latin"?
An argument
1. modern media really is bad for your ego's ability to manage object relations -- and social media is the purest, most psychoactive brew we've ever had
2. society & socialization hove become demonstrably worse in an accelerating trend (EG falling levels of trust, civic participation, etc.)
3. *this* breakdown in social fabric is the fundamental cause beneath the upswing of personality disorders
"Each portion of matter may be conceived as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fish. But every branch of each plant, every member of each animal, and every drop of their liquid parts is in itself likewise a similar garden or pond." ~ Leibniz, Monadology 67
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"My wound existed before me: I was born to embody it." ~ D, *Logic of Sense*
"... while the System itself is up above, turning about itself, ceding absolutely nothing to the compromises, down below, whose secret he keeps, taking, on the contrary, ‘the best of all sides’ in order to deepen or to make another
fold in the room with closed doors and with sealed windows, the room in which Leibniz is confined when he states, ‘Everything is always the same, with degrees of perfection excepted’" ~ Deleuze, *The Fold* 32-33
"It is an almost schizophrenic tension. Leibniz comes forward in baroque strokes. […] The courtly wig is a façade, an entry, like the vow to hurt no one’s established feelings, and the art of presenting his system from one point of view or another, in such and such a mirror, following the apparent intelligence of a correspondent or of an opponent knocking on his door, ..."
The oughts can bear the is-es but the is-es can't render an ought.
Falling like a knife because a falling knife has no handle.
Cȯsꭑọ ∴ ọꭑƨȯƆ
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@cosmiccitizen on a slightly shorter timeline you will become your enemies' worst strawman
By the by, from this it's pretty plausible to believe in a "world soul," or to describe Nature itself as this vast and comprehensive process of development which comes from itself and moves into itself infinitely. Its potentiality is apparently infinite, as it gives rise to all of the potentialities of every mineral, vegetable, animal, and rational being.
This world-soul was also what the stoics, especially Chrysippus, identified as the supreme rational principle of all reality.
Thus Aristotle dispensed with all of the naysaying sophists, pyrrhonists, and metaphysicians for a millennium and a half... until the Democritan metaphysicians were proven right and efficient causation became the exclusive paradigm sufficient to describe the sum total of the natural world.
Humanist interested in the consequences of the machine on intellectual history.
Joined Dec 2022
