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I can see how these themes are disparate. I went ahead and lounged the thread for that reason. I still want to think through this, though. The absurdi...

What he was I don't know -- I don't want to cast him as an anti-hero at all, at least, and I want to assure you that this makes sense to me. I can't g...

Eh, I think this is too big picture. The United States is not a democracy because of so many reasons. The easiest way to see this is to look at the po...

I'd be, unfortunately, verified in my beliefs. And, yeah, not give them up. We don't live in a time when "giving them up" is something we can do.

I don't claim this event in any political movement way -- I'm using it as a means to broach the question about the lameness of voting in the United St...

Which is what brought me to the question: If you can't outvote Trump, et al., what's the other option?

To Gaza? No. Nothing pertinent. It's the responses to it -- like Donald Trumps -- that made me think this way. "Well... c'mon Trump how many kids have...

It does. Or, if if it doesn't, as you bemoaned this is not a thread on regulating weapons. This is a thread that could apply to people in Britain, Spa...

It relates because thems could have taken the means into their own hands and forced the gov to not take their land other than "move on" to be vagabond...

Oh, suppose I say, "There is a genocide in Gaza", then the response -- not from you but due to media -- would be "Israel has a right to defend itself"...

The reason the 2nd amendment is germane but off topic is that it's not how you'd pursue the bullet -- you don't revolt by appealing to the supreme cou...

Yet the question is -- the ballot or the bullet? How do we justify each position, philosophically?

Just doing my job, sir. And, yeah, it's a disturbing thought.

Sure. I'm still disgusted with the means of politics. I've often found that raising this disgust about other such scenarios results in excuses so I'm ...

OK -- in that way I'm interested in a 2nd amendment discussion, but I want it to be a sub-plot: first political violence in the world and then 2nd ame...

I envy your position lol. I think organizing is the only way out, which I take to be the same as what you say here, with anarchist modifications:

I have no desire to turn this discussion towards the 2nd amendment and all that -- I've stated my case that I'm in favor of the Australian buy-back pr...

Yeah... Even so I think this way, or try to:

I feel like it's bad of me, but it is how I feel -- making your own bed and all.

We must carry on, yes. I'm using Malcolm X as a philosopher. He has a point -- I guess the question is, philosophically, "How do we carry on?"

We don't know. Also, the motivation doesn't matter to the question: I am inspired by the current event, but am broaching a larger question about polit...

I remember you talking about the group of anarchists you housed with. I figured you'd prefer if they could stay rather than be pushed out.

Suppose you encounter a government official who as ejected you from some grounds on the basis that the municipality claims those grounds and your peop...

Which is the political question: The Ballot or the Bullet? How do we, in a philosophical sense, tackle this question?

Charlie Kirk didn't deserve what happened to him in the sense that all he did made him worthy of punishment: But we're in a time when speakers of move...

6 days ago PBS said over 60,000

The part that makes me wonder is how much violence we're already responsible for. And that is pretty fucked up.

If people aren't familiar with Malcolm X then the question I'm posing is with respect to political violence and its justifications. The bread-and-butt...

I added a link to my OP to give context for the thought.

The only part that I see in the guidelines is: Unless I'm missing something, at least. I could be. The reason I post this is because of the recent ass...

It does when I think on it in a universal sense -- it's not like I know which way is what. That's sort of Kant's point: Keep on arguing which way you ...

A response without jargon: There's a sense in which each side can assume the first truth and explain the other. That's the confusion of an antinomy.

I think then we're running into a kind of antinomy -- which, if we follow Kant, would make it indeterminable via knowledge but we can reimagine the wo...

What thoughts do you have on the unexpected directions?

This is good. I love the jazz drums carried as a thematic background for the transitions. Even the flowing out of jazz to rock back to jazz -- great m...

I actually wouldn't make that inference: Supposing we are all free then this other would have to be similarly so. I'd suggest that the identity betwee...

This is a manifesto from a band named Lego Indiana Jones and it's pretty good! https://lij.ie/posts/desideratamusicae/

Something I haven't been able to talk about, but am getting an idea about now, is Adorno's use of "philosophical experience". I think what he's ultima...

Here's a fun thought you're inspiring in me: Supposing that most of us are not irreplaceable there is a sense that even if the me that I feel myself t...

The Privilege of Experience Now we're getting into some dialectical reasoning: Adorno, by prioritizing the subject and experience thereby obtains the ...

Like before, since there's a page break, I want to try and summarize this section. With some of the questions I have above about particular passages I...

Understood. Given what we've said so far it ought not surprise you that I disagree ;) But that'd be for a thread on teleology rather than reading a bo...

Perhaps this is no surprise given our disagreement thus far: But I don't think that the distinction is teleological. Which stops your line of reasonin...

I was surprised at how small Starry Night is when I saw it. Various printings of it are huge in comparison. But seeing the real deal was very cool bec...

Take Heidegger's distinction between present-at-hand/ready-to-hand. Prior to Heidegger -- at least so the story goes from his lips -- ontology was foc...

I'm thinking that "hitting bottomlessness" is not something we ascribe to other thoughts as much as is an encounter with the vertiginous. We don't jud...

To take back what I said far too flippantly yesterday: This is close, I think, but I want to make a distinction between the absurd and the groundless ...

Dialectics and the Solidified -- Thought is always negative but does not leave what is solid behind. That which is immediately perceived begins as a m...

Then the answer is "no" ;)

Didn't I answer this? As a moment in a dialectic rather than a literal ground we stand upon. "Hitting bottomlessness", I'd say, is the moment you see ...