I second this. Thank you
Yep, Pos the pecker checker peter gazer
I’ve got your back anon
You mean ‘granted’
HOKUTO SHINKEN!
Exactly. If your entire sense of self is wrapped up in an ideology then anything counter to that ideology is a threat to the ego. I’m glad you managed to overcome that, couldn’t have been easy
As long as they aren’t demoralized to the point of being unable to absorb genuine information
I’d rather read the metaphysical meandering of a Muslim king than the rational idealism of Hegel or the emo bs the existentialists cooked up. Worshiping ones own intellect is a fatal trap too many philosophers have fallen onto. Aquinas was a solid guy considering his situation, nothing bad to say about him though I thought he referenced the republic a few times
I hear you, metaphysics can be a useful exercise, it’s a tool to use and then go build more practically minded sets of ideas upon. There are countless philosophers with bizarre and shitty ideas that have created metaphysical narratives that are logically consistent, if the foundational suppositions that the metaphysical narrative is based on is bizarre and shitty so will be the rest, sound logic or not
had me in the first half
At the root of any metaphysical axiom is a fundamental article of faith that the whole thing is built on which is why I regard most metaphysics to be dishonest and unproductive
He doesn’t advocate for philosopher kings explicitly but that is the attitude behind the arrogance of the existentialists as a whole. They assume their intellect is the source of their virtue
Camus and ‘life affirming’ are an odd thing to say in the same sentence.
*laughs in stoic.
The existentialists insisted over and over that they were anti nihilism and then out the other side of their mouth say that life has no inherent value and is an exercise in futility. A ‘torturous existence’, in your words.
We may disagree about a whole lot but it is interesting to talk philosophy within the context of geopolitics and I appreciate your interest in doing so. The metaphysical thinkers tend to be a bunch of useless navel gazers but Kant has some decent ideas about what the role of the state should be. He tends to be an advocate for authoritarian tyranny over inalienable rights and I don’t fuck with that at all. As for Rand, I read atlas shrugged as a teenager and it struck me as halfway a call for individualism and the other half a four dollar romance novel sold at the checkout line of a supermarket. She’s got some good one liners, I’ll give her that
Camus leaned towards humanism and wasn’t anywhere near as fucked in the head as the rest of his pals, Sartre was completely deranged. My point stands though, Camus’ nihilistic world view served as a precursor to the the shitty identity politics way of looking at the world in which every interpersonal interaction is an expression of a power imbalance that can and should be leveraged by the enlightened would-be philosopher king. Machiavellian/Platonist/Hegelian jerkoffery
I meant to post this on the Donald. Not particularly Q related. Sorry about that, internetting while inebriated
That tracks
I absolutely like nietzsche better. Your statement perfectly illustrates why Camus and his French pals are the real nihilists, and yet nietzsche gets pidgin holed as a nihilist by the lefty academics because he Nostradamus status saw thier bullshit coming from a century out
Existentialism is gay
I agree fully with this comment
One can only hope and time will surely tell. It would have been nice to actually set up shop and get our hands on those sweet sweet rare earth metals but oh well, fuck it. I guess it’ll all still be there later, akmed and the boys will soon splinter into different groups and tear up Kabul and every other city infighting just like they did last time they took control
*I understand the downvote, I was being humorous about the earth metals. The geopolitical reasons for us going in and staying in the Middle East are a lot more complicated than resources or the desire to “abuse and subjugate”, we are working off Kissinger’s model that no one country in the Middle East can be allowed to gain the majority of the influence over the region, we don’t want Iran or turkey or even Israel for that matter to call all the shots. It’s a complete clusterfuck and that is by design. The Kissinger school of geopolitics has been a bumpy ride
https://mobile.twitter.com/MalangKhostay/status/1429419414122860544/photo/1
He seems pretty legit. Hopefully they just do there little wahabi sharia thing and mind their business. In theory they should side with the sauds against Iran so it’s not like they are gonna crawl in bed with those guys
Did he just use the word ‘problematic’ unironically?Incognito lefty alert
https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/emergency-disinfection-drinking-water Unless you live in a desert there is probably better uses of your time and space