When I first stared using ILP nearly 2 decades ago, there was a possibility (slim as it might have been) that internet forums could possibly lead to some kind of change for the better. The very notion of “change for the better,” of course depends on whether change is needed (or even wanted) by large enough groups of people. But let’s just stick with the standard assumption–at least the one that many in the philosophy set tend to have–that change is in fact desirable if not necessary. Let’s just put this notion of change in very broad terms for now: stopping genocide, getting rid of nukes, etc.
It now seems undeniable that the entire concept of, shall we say, the public use of reason is for all practical purposes a dead horse. Send her to the glue factory. She’s a goner.
But I simply cannot take this sitting down. Or standing up. I just want to scream my head off like a demented 5 year old. Like the ones on Ritalin (or whatever).
So my proposal is for the most physically (or even biologically) fit among us to start making scenes in public in order to get crowds together. I mean really sexy scenes. I mean really, really, really sexy scenes. So sexy that they are in fact borderline indecent.
Then once all the townsfolk are in enough of a trance, we’ll wake them up with some kind of blast to the eardrums… in the form of a very profound philosophical quandary. Perhaps related to Hume’s problem of induction. We might want to segue into Kant’s rather speculative attempt to solve it. They’ll all have no choice but to pay close attention to us; their libidos will demand it.
Then we can make a regular thing of it. In order to keep the dream alive. Peace on earth. And all that jazz, We really need to do this thing. As in, it’s a f***ing categorical imperative.
So I’m doing my best to kick off the whole process. I live in a Florida college town. I’m pretty well known among the college crowd, so all the logistics in terms of drumming up crowds shouldn’t be too difficult. I’m something of a town crier anyways. Hopefully we can all start convening in a few months. Early August is when the sorority types begin filtering back in, getting their diabolical schemes for total world domination together.
My parents have recently offered to buy a new home in the trailer park I live in. Don’t ask about the tin can I currently inhabit. There’s more mass of rats, spiders and roaches in it than of me. The buggy types alone might even outweigh me. I’ve wanted to establish some kind of a hippie commune for nearly as long as I remember.
Regardless, I’ve wanted to get open philosophy discussions happening once again ever since (what I like to call) the iPhone apocalypse started digging its meaty hooks into the central nervous systems of almost every breathing man, woman and child on the face of the earth.
Oh yeah, I might not be Right Said Fred, but I am quite sexy. Not too sexy, but sexy enough! Sundry perversions are tolerated, so long as nothing involves outright creepiness. As long as enough of an intellectual contribution can be made, I should be able to find a way to accommodate your particular kink.
Shall we commence the flirtation here in this thread? Perhaps I’ll post tasteful pictures here. We might even want to find an offsite location for any “ruder” pictures, should they ever become necessary for getting people’s BPM’s properly elevated!
So welcome back, Denniscane .Never knew the older you that’s before my being here, albeit in the old version. So by way of introduction, I am probable old enough to be a parent then any thing else. But here it goes. First a message to MagsJ, been trying to talk to her and coulld’nt find the venue, so MagsJ if You happen to look in here, would like to recollect ‘tacticity’ as a tool be which totally reduced people , to near subjective existence, can still relate to environments by far flung allusions to faux-real situations, that otherwise would be impassible by any reflection or use or made crystal clear by a transparent medium.
It may be a no exit situation , where people are compelled to relate, or else there can be no one other themselves.
I am writing this not as someone who lives to dilly dally and gossip , pitching irrelevant tid bits, but as a faithful servant of masters far above and beyond accessible by normal means.
The thing that is interesting is your suggestion of going out and disrupting ordinary village people by extraordinary means, even becoming the village’s idiot , for the stakes being very high at the moment.
So what about the NEw Left comeback, well the new new left, apparently left behind for no good measure?
There was a commentary on why grass is so much ever more powerful now then the common varuety of say Acapulco Gokd, and the reason is not interesting for the purposes that village idiocy ties in here, only that those who had bad trips on ‘acid’ or LSD, when dream works could not capture, what such trip is like, mainly because dream works studios or marvel studios have not come into existence back in the day,
But that if you tripped badly then on acid, and has relapses for amyears since, and the strenght of pot today is near that to stronger psychoactive drugs back then, then what foolishness would you consider taking when gurus like Timothy Keary warned of some freaks coming out in this manner, described by his small periodical ‘Neurologic’
But, if conventional life did not mean to you years of behavior modification, reeducation, therapy, earning livelihood, getting away from the trailer park athmosphere, etc. then why not, be close to booze, downer if you start to go downhill, but if you are a fearless warrior, not a weeks ending one, then yes, it may work as an act of desperation.
The signs are there that the new healthcare places designated to sell indiscriminately indicate a well thought out could come national policy of letting out slack, so as to alley latent psychotic reactions or, blatant civil unrest, as the NWO is being reformulated almost day to day’s calculations using fed back data.
Such procedures of the comings of even weirder, braver new worlds, lead to places that finally can bring the natural high into reality, who needs drugs when the brain biochemistry can be behaviorally changed, according to hidden processes of control?
And who would or could think of them as conspiratorial keepers of some holy gtail, status quo?
But in fact they are right, remember the village idiots of the past were vying to become clowns and courtiers of the reigning monarch’s of yesteryear. The village idiot of today must have. nerves of iron and eyes of steel, unblinking in the face of terror even.[quote=“Meno4, post:2, topic:80102, full:true”]
So we’ll come back. Never knew the older you that’s before my being here, albeit in the old version. So by way of introduction, I am probable old enough to be a parent then any thing else. But here it goes. First a message to MagsJ, been trying to talk to her and coulld’nt find the venue, so MagsJ if You happen to look in here, would like to recollect ‘tacticity’ as a tool be which totally reduced people , to near subjective existence, can still relate to environments by far flung allusions to faux-real situations, that otherwise would be impassible by any reflection or use or made crystal clear by a transparent medium.
It may be a no exit situation , where people are compelled to relate, or else there can be no one other themselves.
I am writing this not as someone who lives to dilly dally and gossip , pitching irrelevant tid bits, but as a faithful servant of masters far above and beyond accessible by normal means.
The thing that is interesting is your suggestion of going out and disrupting ordinary village people by extraordinary means, even becoming the village’s idiot , for the stakes being very high at the moment.
So what about the NEw Left comeback, well the new new left, apparently left behind for no good measure?
There was a commentary on why grass is so much ever more powerful now then the common varuety of say Acapulco Gokd, and the reason is not interesting for the purposes that village idiocy ties in here, only that those who had bad trips on ‘acid’ or LSD, when dream works could not capture, what such trip is like, mainly because dream works studios or marvel studios have not come into existence back in the day,
But that if you tripped badly then on acid, and has relapses for amyears since, and the strenght of pot today is near that to stronger psychoactive drugs back then, then what foolishness would you consider taking when gurus like Timothy Keary warned of some freaks coming out in this manner, described by his small periodical ‘Neurologic’
But, if conventional life did not mean to you years of behavior modification, reeducation, therapy, earning livelihood, getting away from the trailer park athmosphere, etc. then why not, be close to booze, downer if you start to go downhill, but if you are a fearless warrior, not a weeks ending one, then yes, it may work as an act of desperation.
The signs are there that the new healthcare places designated to sell indiscriminately indicate a well thought out could come national policy of letting out slack, so as to alley latent psychotic reactions or, blatant civil unrest, as the NWO is being reformulated almost day to day’s calculations using fed back data.
Such procedures of the comings of even weirder, braver new worlds, lead to places that finally can bring the natural high into reality, who needs drugs when the brain biochemistry can be behaviorally changed, according to hidden processes of control?
And who would or could think of them as conspiratorial keepers of some holy gtail, status quo?
But in fact they are right, remember the village idiots of the past were vying to become clowns and courtiers of the reigning monarch’s of yesteryear. The village idiot of today must have. nerves of iron and eyes of steel, unblinking in the face of terror even.
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There is serious talk on both the state and federal level of opting the ante, as a gesture of further accomodation, to make harder drugs like cocaine and meth legal, based on the premis that users will assume risk on basis of adequate warning, lie cigarettes, vaps and such.
What I apologize for now knowing that stepping outside is cold, feeling cold, and how weather changes,
The original eye, ‘I’ couldn’t post it was way too large, and so on and so on, and masochistic tendencies have no limit in displaying the sadness of the forces of political expediency do I apologize all tound
Actually that’s an interesting question that I wouldn’t have ever believed, before coming here, except when actually arriving and finding out for myself.
They used to say things like your blood changes and things like that and that people in cal are soooo spoiled, which all meant next to zero at the time.
So that’s right, or something else similar going on.
Actually the real cold winters rarely go below 50 degrees even at night, whereas in Hungary it’s related that the Danube has frozen over at particularly cold winter seasons.
On the other thing, my intention was a delayed reaction of inquiring about Sartre’stool of reducing phenomena , the phenomena we can clearly see around as normal every day life, whereas an illustration is made by himself , and who is better then himself to describe what he means by it( reduction)
I thing he makes it in ‘Being & Nothingness’ if I’m not wrong, where he suddenly sees his Han, differently, not attached to his arm, but part of an object that he is touching, I think Jung described a similar experience, while sitting on a boulder, something like, he didn’t experience himself as a sitting on a rock, but as a part of the rock that attached himself to the rock. Or something similar like that,
In terms of expressing my feeling to you about my intention re. this similar feeling , I think it was along these lines of trying to objectify that feeling state , which is most expedient be a sense of apprehension without the use of pictures or narratives.
“I mean really sexy scenes. I mean really, really, really sexy scenes. So sexy that they are in fact borderline indecent.”
Being sexy comes with great responsibility and it can be an enormous burden, Kane. There will be long nights without a single sexy person in sight, and there u will be, sexy and alone.
And there will be many haters who are not sexy beasts, and they will stop at nothing to destroy u.
…been there done that, though it did much to allure the complexion worn during night . that’s why they leave cold and uninspired, yeah the few fortunate ones,fearing daylight with all passion(out of concern for me)
Then they munch on pizzas on the boulevard and slobber up six packs
