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Well, clearly deplatforming works against individuals, but not against the ideas they're vessels for... otherwise this conversation wouldn't be happen...

@"StreetlightX" I think the point is one which @"VagabondSpectre" is gesturing toward above. There comes a point where deplatforming is like sticking ...

No, I think it's fair. When the rhetoric skews toward 'words in a vacuum', you have to supply the non-vacuum action. You can't use that ploy without o...

It is a characterization of liberal political ontology (one I actually agree with.) 'Words simply float free of any gravity of worldly consequence.' I...

Could be. But I think when you go full-bore 'action over words', you oughta be able to back it up. It sounds good. What's your worldly consequence? Is...

it's probably trivial, a harsh word, but the point is that all this rhetoric about 'powdered wigs' and 'words' is self-implicating.

The only problem is that literally every post on tpf is 'looks.' We're all doing looks! This is looks, that is looks. It's all looks. you do understan...

I don't know what that means, so I think you got me.

Let's say I don't & want to learn - guide me toward it. You do the words on here, what does your worldly practice look like?

Which you'd know if you'd read.... Where's the extra-word center of gravity here? As a blusterer, I know the litmus test of bluster is how cartoonish ...

@"fdrake" There's also something to be said about 'thinkpieces' which correspond to the 'above it all' position I mentioned. These have proliferated l...

yes, yeah. A lot to chew on there Ok, first thing - Scruton's 'context' - the estate, the horses (there were horses, right?). My first thought is, if ...

That's a good point. I guess the point of therapy is that it's supposed to let you deal with that -with releasing the anger, with saying no - in a con...

Yeah, that's a good way to look at it. I've been feeling lately that my next step is to stop heeding the prompts and self-mystifications of the false ...

A psychobable alarm, i think. What's weird, looking back, is that my 'idea' depends on a total misconstrual of the therapy. Herman states very explici...

@"Maw" @"ssu" @"StreetlightX" Is it cynical or paranoid to say that maybe the whole point of an article about Paglia with a Koch thing at the bottom i...

I have a reflexive way of approaching posts where I try to turn arguments and ideas inside-out in order to make them self defeating, or performatively...

It's all good. The op's structure raised some alarms for me at first. It seemed, to me, like a trojan horse post. Where you broadcast one idea (this w...

@"unenlightened" Addendum: It's important to undo the simplifying narratives because "grooming" of the already traumatized works exactly by making use...

This sounds right to me. The tricky part is validation & it's so tricky it gets me frustrated if I think about it too long. One of the nastier side ef...

I don't think anything's wrong with that ( in moderation, balanced by other things.)

That analogy makes sense to me. Looking forward to the part about therapies. It's something I think a lot about, but I also tend to get trapped in my ...

versus The former is about a group as a whole. The latter is about a particular member of a group.

It doesn't look like my logic, no.

Jasser's a Muslim of course. So he's probably not conditioned to view Muslims as the enemy. But I feel like you must know he's a Muslim, so the OP is ...

It's a strangely structured OP. A cynical commenter might note that Jasser's take makes up ~half the post, and well over half of the argumentation.

oh i was the parents getting divorced when I was 17, not the other one.

Cannot recommend The Differend by Lyotard highly enough. Funnily - you mentioned Naming & Necessity - Kripke has a big cameo. Lyotard wrote an Anti-Oe...

Maybe, but your example was 'why don't you love me?' which question four says exactly! I do have some of my own issues with the test though. surely be...

@"Wallows" @"unenlightened"Isn't question number four about emotional neglect?

3 1/2, I think, for me. All of my romantic partners and close friends have been in the same region. Obviously, I'm a small sample size, but I wonder i...

What texts of Deleuze are you basing this analysis on?

I like the transition to living versus thinking. On this, we're on the same page. Still - I'm not going to let this go - we can live just as well as w...

get out of town, i responded in non heidi terms, and so did a few others.

I haven't read the whole essay through, though I will try to soon. What I did really like was that phrase, 'a fleeting identity, a gathered field.' I ...

It's very clear. So, for instance, people prior to the enlightenment wouldn't talk of 'human rights' (clearly language on holiday) and so forth. A nec...

(Responding a bit late, so I'll understand if you've moved on from this.) The beginning of you post reminds me a lot of Hegel's analysis of sense-cert...

Yeah, that makes sense. My cosmogenic framing doesn't really work, since regularity can't arise without some singular situation which exhibits regular...

@"StreetlightX" I've been thinking about this a bit more. Building on what's been said. It seems like there's two conversations going on, and most of ...

Sure, but then : This argument, this structured argument relies on a central concept. This center is the desire for presence, or a center. In order to...

ohhh,ok, yeah. I'd missed your post to Banno. Now I'm in the embarrassing position of more or less agreeing entirely. That bit about physical 'univoci...

I 'm not sure about all of that. I know that in regard to this: you were gesturing toward the possibility of deconstructing the difference, so that th...

But in talking about the triplet of examples (in cavell, or wittgenstein) there's clearly a felt, intuitive, difference between the first two and the ...

The best I can gesture toward is something like - experience has to have some kind of temporal element (having just been, is, moving toward) so it can...

Yeah, but you're still treating things in terms of purity and impurity. As far as the second, argument - I don't know why life's structured so you hav...

But then the first argument, based on ratios, wouldn't work.

Three cheers. This is my view as well.

I don't know, what if I said I predicted you were going to make a post defending nothingness instead of experience? But, my point isn't that your cate...

Well, there are definitely things that happen to people that are not good and are not primarily physical. I don't think anyone was denying that. But c...

I have a hunch that looking at life as something that can be carved up into discrete experiences which are either good or bad contributes majorly to a...