Indeed they are. For whatever sociological or psychological reason, they chose poorly as to how to formulate their new government. That is an internal...
I meant the Iranians.. not the Americans. Why didn't they "revolve" into a better democracy and not a theocratic regime? It's not like they had to for...
(fetishizing terroristic suicidal violence that has shitty means and ends) you mean? Yep, here we are again. All the big bad West. Why didn't they ove...
That is to say, just as much as you think it is the lie that the West doesn't want to work with liberal democracies because it's not in their interest...
Just wondering- do you think there is a difference between an orca hunting in deliberative ways, or even playing games like toss the the human into th...
These are all the tropes. I said in another thread: There is a tendency (of anti-Westerners), to romanticize or glorify the "little guy" no matter wha...
I've noticed he does it in other posts. It's not just him, though. There are posters that make an argumentative or provacative point and just leave. K...
He loves to do that kind of posting.. I call it "drive by", but funny you had a similar term. Make a quick post with the most argumentative point and ...
Yes, I knew those were the things you would bring up as your responses. 1) I would just replace "matters of life and death" (although when it comes ti...
The excess of consciousness is the "Human".. So to me, it is about bad faith trying to constantly keep away from the existential implications of this....
I don't think Ligotti / Zapffe is suggesting it's not human. I see it akin to a sort of bad faith. The "human" here is equated with the "excess of con...
This isn't quite addressing what this OP and Ligotti is getting at. You can't escape your orientation towards living, as we are existential beings. To...
:up: I just want this to be kept in mind when discussing all of this. There is a tendency (of anti-Westerners), to romanticize or glorify the "little ...
I think you misread the point here, and which is why it seems like it is normative and descriptive. Ligotti is being descriptive here, not counseling ...
Yeah, based on our exchanges, I do remember this being your position. I was just seeing if there was something else I was missing. But, as I stated ea...
Ok, but how, why? To be clear, antinatalism doesn't mean that you believe that an outcome of "zero humans" is possible. I think there is a whole web o...
Just curious, what do you see as Iran's (and by association, their proxy armies) ultimate vision, one where they would never need to use violence agai...
You look at it as a zero-sum game, like just ignoring the problems means the problems go away. That is not the case. One is reflecting upon the proble...
So that's not necessarily the case. I think the interesting feature of my argument is that all that has to matter is the case that you actually have a...
@"Ludwig V" I have not fully kept up with the most recent posts/discussions in here, but I saw the word "supervenience" and thought it might help in t...
By working with pro-democratic forces. See Japan, post WW2 for example on a society that went from feudal to militarist (ala Germany), to democratic. ...
At the end of the day it's up to people to be vigilant about keeping democracies. America is a bit different, being it is one of the oldest and longes...
It's pretty simple. Democracy alone doesn't mean much. In 1932 Germany, the Nazis got a majority vote and then preceded to tear down the institutions ...
Interesting. He talks at length of antinatalism, and not usually against it. Quite opposite, he often makes fun of them (anti-antinatalists), (e.g. "C...
Ok so let's compare here: schopenhauer1 said: Nope, the suck just sucks, and you are not a pussy for acknowledging this. It is just life. It's juvenil...
Well, I think you are trying to show difference in form, and I'm just trying to show some similar ideas that were tackled better with Freud's ID, Ego,...
Yes, as with worship of other philosophers, I am not debating Nietzsche on his own terms, because I don't agree with his terms. That's like saying, "D...
Why do you suppose that Nietzsche's armchair philosophy of "slave morality" (asceticism and the like), is out of ressentiment? Just knowing this fact ...
That individual substance is bracketed as its own thing and not another instance of similar substance. OR That set of gametes is its own thing and not...
Nah. He's pretty obscurantist. It's as clear as mud to me, granted I can't read it in its original Klingon, I mean German. I think a lot of people at ...
It's not that they are gametes so much, as that they are this set of gametes. There is a difference. As to the aspect of a continuous identity, that i...
@"Vaskane" @"Count Timothy von Icarus" @"Fooloso4" Interestingly I found this article comparing the two. It is clear this guy is an adherent of Rand, ...
Yes this idea of the "good man" being seen with resentment seems still very Randian as well. People scoff at the individualist trying to build somethi...
My response is not based on the empirical per se, but the empirical can be added to it. Rather, it is contra the paternalistic idea that imposing the ...
I have. He is an obscurantist asshole philosopher that is a hotbed for ill-defined ideas for thesis statements so you can then call me an asshole for ...
Again, you haven't defined it. You gave some example that you fit into a thesis- the Hip Hop artist because he is "overcoming" his circumstances. So a...
It's ill-defined. The fact that you cannot even define it without looking basically like Ayn Rand's characters proves that it's basically that in drag...
Sure. But obviously one could contend that "survival" is some moral mission, especially above and beyond that of imposing the conditions of suffering ...
I mean, Ayn Rand's notion of the industrialist and artist actually fits this description so I think it is more evidence that her vision embodies the O...
First off, I think Nietzsche is utterly wrong in his assessment, and largely garbage. The idea of an Overman and the idea of some new synthesis based ...
Then you aren’t getting me because you’re focused on the genetics and not the causal history part which is uniquely an event that is tied to the perso...
:up: This falls right into another thread I made about how people often (unintentionally) assert mental states in the equation when trying to account ...
The pragmatist theory of truth is about practical consequences based on their success in solving a problem, and thus is an argument for pluralism for ...
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