this is a manifesto denying the denial of Solipsism… and then turning tail and running back down Plato’s cave… achingly wonderful reasons on my mind…
it’s also me taking a swing at Sophia… which is to say Maya… only it might turn out to be a hug…
hope you like it,
ryan =)
(snag a copy @ mayasecret.googlepages.com/home
or email me @ mayasecret@gmail.com
and I’ll schmooze one on over thatta way… =)
Beware! This is a download of some sort.
I’m sure I dont want to know what you’re peddling.
It’s a download of the download sort - sneaky, I know - mostly because I can’t post 60+ pages here…
And it’s free too!
It’s in .rar format as I’ve included the font that I wrote it in, but doesn’t come with windows… so, unless you’ve got antivirus software (not necessary) and a bit of gumption (essential), beware indeed!
=)
ryan
I’m not sure how one goes about asking complete strangers to noodle through 60+ pages of one’s own thoughts… ideas here better resembling alphabet soup gone insane than an organized progression of thinkery… sentences completely unsolicited… though I am, I must say, increasingly confident that this most likely isn’t…
Now, to be perfectly honest: I’d like very much for this to become a thread… only… there’s a hitch…
It’s not that I think that Ann Landers/Dear Abbey-size hunks of philosophy are incapable of communicating meaningful musings - even though in my experience around these kinds of places they as often as not don’t - it’s just that my original post’s way too long… (and it’s also got a background I’ve kind of grown partial to… and, in the Word version, endnote links which are really quite convenient… just hold the cursor over the green flower thingy and the endnote pops up… =)
So, while this is a link to a paper I’ve written, it’s more importantly the beginning of a thread of discussion… just somewhat unconventional…
Thus, if you’ve the audacity to actually give this train wreck of a swan song – actually it’s more of a croak - a shot, then this is what you’re getting yourself into:
This half of a manifesto is the last breath of my faith in philosophy… brought on – or rather carried off – by the discovery/admission/belief that philosophy is in fact nothing more than language… indoctrination one-year-olds gets kisses and other kinds of attention for… and that’s it… and disagree if you’d like… tell me how you or your artist friend think without words… only, for your own self esteem, please don’t notice that you’re telling me all about how you/she/he do what you do wordlessly…
You’re also going to hear a denial of there being any philosophical progress to speak of to date… in that the replacements haven’t exactly done just that… as in, if you’ve yet to make it off of the drawing board, it takes faith – or rather ignorance and presuppositions – to believe yourself to be anywhere else…
Essential to this paper is Alan Watts’ idea of a ‘think,’ a ‘unit of thought’… which is to say something… something that’s certainly this and not that… leading me back to the notion that human minds work within a system of dichotomy… giving metaphysics not so much the boot as it does 2 of them… sorry… however, whether you were aware of it or not, Plato indeed lost his forms in his own lifetime… and he knew it… and no one’s propped them back up since then…
Lastly, this paper is written with its nose as well as well as its middle finger way up at the idea that philosophy – or rather whatever/Whatever philosophy’s chasing – is only to be found within page limits… within convention… and chained to the MLA citation format…
That said, if you don’t want to suffer through the whole thing, we can get this started simply with your refutation/agreement that there has, in fact, been no real progress in philosophy…
Thanks in advance for any and all of your time… it’s sincerely appreciated much more than much…
=)
ryan