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thewonder

Joined: June 28, 2019 at 17:06Last active: May 19, 2023 at 22:1575 discussions1294 comments

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Camus, Sartre, Agamben, Deleuze & Guattari, Hardt & Negri, Epicurus, Arendt, Weil

Favourite Quotations

“Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.” - J.D. Salinger

Discussions (75)

Fantasian

September 11, 2021 at 02:38 0 comments The Lounge

Meta-Anarchism

May 17, 2021 at 23:08 11 comments Political Philosophy

So long!

January 25, 2021 at 04:44 2 comments The Lounge

PLUR

January 20, 2021 at 23:22 5 comments The Lounge

blegh.

October 14, 2020 at 05:51 1 comments The Lounge

On Civil War

August 05, 2020 at 20:16 1 comments Political Philosophy

Cya!

September 27, 2019 at 16:59 2 comments The Lounge

Nominalism

September 27, 2019 at 03:50 7 comments Metaphysics & Epistemology

Neutral Monism

August 13, 2019 at 21:52 54 comments Philosophy of Mind

blegh.

June 30, 2019 at 01:24 3 comments The Lounge

Forms-of-Life

June 28, 2019 at 18:31 1 comments Political Philosophy

Comments

...Don't Look Back.
October 17, 2021 at 13:20
Blegh, ignore that ish and carry on. I've finally buckled down and decided to leave the internet for good. Peace, all! Cya never.
October 17, 2021 at 12:55
Lyrically speaking, it's the best song written in over fifty years. I should seek to end it, but worry that my pretense doesn't continue it further.
October 16, 2021 at 09:40
The point about my artistic expression, however, is that "The Long Goodbye" is better than almost all other songs. There's a few with Dylan to contend...
October 16, 2021 at 09:37
I've been trying to facilitate a generalized peace to no avail. They don't intend, y'know, but we can...
October 16, 2021 at 09:28
I happen to be the "teenage brother who smoldered" under that "Joy Division poster".
October 16, 2021 at 09:23
The 'song of storms": "Joy Division " by Simon Joyner
October 16, 2021 at 09:22
Belgh... They can always just use them to enforce whatever and it makes me terribly sad.
October 16, 2021 at 09:18
It's just idk, man. It's just a world that you ought not to learn. The white world is fucked, man. We can't do anything. That is all that I've got.
October 16, 2021 at 09:10
I've played it before and I'll play it again, the song that liberated me from neo-fascism: "Teen Age Riot" by Sonic Youth
October 16, 2021 at 09:07
Oh, right, they ought to participate within that "feminist" project. Go fuck yourself, y'know. We are liberationists. We subscribe to full liberation....
October 16, 2021 at 09:05
Here's another one: "The Sprawl" by Sonic Youth
October 16, 2021 at 08:58
I mean, y'know, what "false consciousness: is and what false consciousness does...
October 16, 2021 at 08:56
It's not that the primary targets of misogyny are feminists who deviate from the social norm: it's that the primary targets of the sex trade are those...
October 16, 2021 at 08:53
I beg to differ.
October 16, 2021 at 08:51
Okay, but "pretty, witty, and white". Where're we going?
October 16, 2021 at 08:51
What about "Box of Rain", though, can you really contend with "Box of Rain"?
October 16, 2021 at 08:49
We have the godsend and..., well, we have the godsend.
October 16, 2021 at 08:45
It doesn't exist, y'know. The "song of storms"...It just doesn't exist.
October 16, 2021 at 08:42
Yeah, man, a lonely hipster has just claimed his right over prostitution, that of it being safe, which, should you deny, you will find yourself in con...
October 16, 2021 at 08:39
There exists not the "indie" bosh to follow that with. Let us proceed, however, with "The Ballad of El Goodo", with nothing else to proceed from.
October 16, 2021 at 08:33
I wrote this expressionist folk album: Where I Have Found You Now It's no good, as I can't sing, but it's kind of a bit deeper than almost all Folk mu...
October 16, 2021 at 08:18
You follow it with songs, man, but where it leads to is here: "The Universe!" by Do Make Say Think
October 16, 2021 at 08:04
Blegh. It's somewhat lost in Australia. Here's low talk: "When All Eyes Were On Us" by low talk It just breaks my fucking heart that you don't think t...
October 16, 2021 at 08:01
In lieu of my imaginary wife, I bring to The Philosophy Forum this cover by Galaxie 500: "Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste" I don't just contemplate wh...
October 16, 2021 at 07:44
Having laid claim to my rightful territory, in memoriam of my former flights and fights: "Sing Another Song Boys" by Leonard Cohen In apologetic admit...
October 16, 2021 at 07:38
"Does Not Suffice" by Joanna Newsom
October 16, 2021 at 07:24
"It's Alright" by Spacemen 3 "I'm So Depressed" by Abner Jay Bad Girl" by Lee Moses
October 16, 2021 at 07:23
Also, the favored whipping post of critical theorists and Christian moralists alike, "romanticism". They have, again, outlawed what the best of Victor...
October 16, 2021 at 07:17
Also, "aesthetics". I must say that I am only revolted by conversations about the "aesthetics of violence" and, perhaps, even more, about those so-inc...
October 16, 2021 at 07:10
Contentious bid for "subjectivity", here. It's either the feigned ekstatic celebration of what is not, but is often called "différance", actually the ...
October 16, 2021 at 06:56
I focus on them too much as it is. It doesn't do anyone too good to be all that good to be combative. Consider if that Nietzsche or Marx had only thou...
October 16, 2021 at 06:34
Perhaps, I mean, I don't want to stifle anyone's creativity, here. When we think of philosophy as historically tied to the advisory of sovereignty, th...
October 16, 2021 at 05:58
...and they were misinterpreted to justify aristocracy, Marxism-Leninism, and Nazism. The point of the experiment is to see if there is social risk to...
October 16, 2021 at 05:30
Right, I'm not saying that Nussbaum would will my reducto ad absurdum. By that it is a reducto ad absurdum, it is intended to show that a potential co...
October 16, 2021 at 05:28
Perhaps, but Plato, Nietzsche, and Marx, I think, are evidence of the potential misuse of philosophy. Right, her idea is to bring everyone within bios...
October 16, 2021 at 05:16
Well, it is not. Social darwinism is inextricably tied to scientific racism, classism, prejudice against the "insane", etc. We're having a conversatio...
October 16, 2021 at 05:06
Sure, but it's still not relevant to this idea. Nussbaum accepts Aristotle's division of zoe, what Giorgio Agamben claims became "bare life" to some c...
October 16, 2021 at 04:55
Right, but the idea is to test theories that you wouldn't usually associate with, or in relatively close proximity to, social darwinism. Say, the phil...
October 16, 2021 at 04:43
That sounds interesting, but both of us had accepted as given that social darwinism is bosh. He was just rejecting my reducto ad absurdum of Nussbaum....
October 16, 2021 at 04:37
"Home of the Brave/ The Individual" by Spiritualized
October 16, 2021 at 04:31
It's not to find out whether Eugenics is nefarious. I think that it's nefarious. Because there is needless debate on its nefariousness, I have include...
October 16, 2021 at 04:25
That'd make for a good Sci-Fi novel, I think. A brilliant Eugenicist creates an irreversible algorithm to put his campaign into effect, only to find o...
October 16, 2021 at 04:07
Now, I'm confused. Considering fourth-generation warfare, I could see how the more benign concept of simulation, to prevent technological failure, cou...
October 16, 2021 at 03:58
I'm not at you, but sometimes a spade is just a spade. An intellectually gifted one. The idea is to ask whether a highly intelligent person could suit...
October 16, 2021 at 03:36
I'm trying to explain that responsible parenting, including the choice of when to have a child, doesn't have anything to do with Eugenics. You, I thin...
October 16, 2021 at 03:16
I agree, but a lot of people are rather confused as to what it is due to reasons that I mentioned above. The thought experiment is just a litmus to se...
October 16, 2021 at 03:05
The problem with defining Eugenics is that people don't believe that it is what is. It is a sociological campaign designed to systematically eliminate...
October 16, 2021 at 03:00
What I am emphatically trying to point out is that this idea that Eugenics, referring to the sociological theory created by Sir Francis Galton, has an...
October 16, 2021 at 02:44
I don't want to be accusatory of you, as I don't think you the kind of person to do so, but it seems self-evident to me that, in practice, Eugenics ca...
October 16, 2021 at 01:40