Youtube is a cesspit. But this is what anyone with reason has to face. This is it, guys. This is the future of the human race. Those who fancy themselves philosophers must turn to the hope of fashioning, in so many words, a secret society, by which the line of descent might be sequestered and protected- the descent of that first revelation, by which each of us were gathered unto the shadow, as it is phrased in one of my books:
" The Negative gathers unto itself an ‘ensemble of non-beings’ in a kind of bound transcendence,- pitting, in fact, the bound transcendence of the Shadow against the unbound transcendence of worldly wisdom glittering monstrous with the identificational images of Law, [James R. Watson, 1994: In the Monstrous Shadow of Worldly Wisdom; From Whence We must Speak.] in whose earthly guise the idols of a new pantheon have been ushered forth in ‘scientific’ mockery of the Pleroma. Such identificational images, as the final expression of Law and therefor likewise of Theory, are expressed elsewhere [See Giusseppe Stellardi, 1995. The Death of Philosophy and the Future of Thought; History of European Ideas, Vol. 20.] as an intuition of “the destiny and central engine of philosophy”, that is, a wish,- on the part of philosophy,- to exhaust itself and finally die, while being unable to in any way consummate such a deadly wish as spurs it ever onward." *
[size=85]*Stellardi: “Is philosophy finally surrounded… ready to give way to science, technology, marketing, etc.? Is philosophy dying? Perhaps. But what is death? It is possible to believe that philosophy can and even must die, or rather that it intimately requires death, and, still, this would not mean that… it will actually end. I would like to suggest that this movement of controlled suicide, far from being only a little trick in the twentieth-century philosopher’s survival kit, corresponds to the innermost power, resource and justification of theory itself. Often philosophy has shown, and still shows, suicidal tendencies. There is, for instance, the Hegelian death, coinciding with the total accomplishment of System; or the Positivistic suicide, in which philosophy gives finally way to positive science. To state that neither of these two ‘deaths’ has actually managed to put an end to philosophy, is to state the obvious. Less obvious conclusions can result from asking ourselves why those deaths did not work.”
Watson: “We have seen faces turning away from one another, but only by the light of the annihilating flames of all-consuming worldly wisdom. The wise ones, with their gods of mockery, have represented everything and everyone- every deed, every utterance- submitting all of it under wisdom’s law- the Law of annihilation and the pure identity of death. Are there today even the slightest indications of possibilities, shimmering horizons for something other than the mocking representations of worldly wisdom? Are there possibilities taking form within the agonizing field of our impossible rebellion against this mimetic nihilism and its incessant rejection of a Law which cannot be represented? Perhaps, a wretched ensemble of non-peoples who, in rebellion against worldly wisdom and its pure identity of death, somehow recognize and affirm each other. here, then, within the shadows facing the event of annihilating thought and its administration are connections and forms of thinking otherwise than worldly wisdom. The bound transcendence of the shadow dwellers is otherwise than the unbound transcendence of worldly wisdom and its easy but deadly identificational images.”[/size]
Now, to the fool who motivated me to post all of this on the forum. Check out this shortstack:
// alldamnnamesaretaken: // If someone from the future watches this they’ve probably had more pandemics, unless we somehow reversed climate change and stopped encroaching on areas that are natural habitats for hitherto undiscovered viruses, bacteria, parasites etc…
with the slow melting of the permafrost who knows what could happen, when the frost thawed during a heat wave in Russia a reindeer with Anthrax that died and got frozen 75 years ago suddenly leaked it’s pathogen in soil and water and it might even have gotten in the food supply, a kid died, others where hospitalized, scientists in Alaska encountered strains of the Spanish flu in an early 20th century mass grave. A lot of older pandemics could make a comeback when the earth gets warmer.
You could say ah, those where old times, we know how to handle pandemics, but having seen anti lockdown protests, and people deliberately ignoring guidelines in the name of freedom and capitalism, do you really think we’d be alright should say the Spanish flu make a comeback?
//Parodites @alldamnnamesaretaken: //
Until we stop encroaching on areas that are natural habitats for undiscovered viruses? Lol. Dude, that is not even remotely the cause for the recent pandemic… Climate change has literally nothing to do with it; humans have been dealing with pandemics for thousands of years. The one going on right now is nothing compared to a lot of pandemics from the past, from many centuries ago. Were they caused by climate change too? And ooh, that pesky freedom and capitalism, right! Your comments read like a wind up, man. The pandemic wasn’t caused by climate change or encroaching on nature. It’s a simple inevitability and one we’ve faced every couple of decades throughout our entire 6,000 year written history. There will be innumerable pandemics in the future, just as there were innumerable ones in the past, and the ones to come will eclipse this pandemic because this pandemic is basically nothing compared to other ones our species has routinely faced. It’s just the first true pandemic in the digital era, where mass hysteria is facilitated by instantaneous global communication, leading to the entire species falling into a panic spiral. As to the ‘guidelines’, yeah: multiple studies have been recently published indicating that neither the masks nor the lockdowns had any perceptible effect in combating the spread of the virus. All the lockdowns did was help the virus rebound multiple times which increases the chances of it mutating, which it is doing. And the masks were just comfort blankets for your face, to make feeble minded plebs think they’re safe. Capitalism: yeah, on to that bit of your digression. The only tool we have to combat disease is born of our economic leverage, and deciding to cripple the entire world economy due to these guidelines (that, like I just said, didn’t even help in combating the virus) is a foolish error that we will be paying for, for an entire generation probably: for many, many years. You might not have to worry about it, but those of us who don’t live with mom and dad anymore do have to worry about it. You know how many businesses were annihilated, how many families devastated- not by this common cold 2.0, but by the idiocy of the mass hysteria and the thoughtless “guidelines” (that didn’t even work) forced upon a lot of us illegitimately? Yeah, I’m guessing you don’t know.
// alldamnnamesaretaken @Parodites:// found the q anon lunatic… Tell me where you one of the capitol insurrectionists? Seems like you are about to be charged with sedition.
// Parodites @alldamnnamesaretaken: // Oh wow. You’re really far gone, aren’t you? Buddy, I think the Q anon stuff is insane and cringeworthy, (not that it is even connected to anything we are discussing now) and also just, well, dumb. And I think the idiots who ad lib-ed a pathetic attempt at insurrection by facetiming and taking selfies inside the capitol are just that- idiots; idiots who will be rightfully criminally prosecuted. See? You imagined I thought the opposite on that. What does that say about your worldview and feeble, limited concept of reality: that you cannot begin to predict the way I think about things, whereas I know everything you are going to say before you ever say it. You don’t even need to reply. I can reply for you; I can write your response comments for you and it would be 99 percent accurate. You cannot predict how I think, but I can perfectly predict how you think. What does that mean? It means you’re not actually thinking. You’re repeating what other people say in the hopes of getting thumbs up and social gratification. Anyway, I hope you do start actually thinking. As the Socratic dictum tells us, a life unexamined is not worth living. At any rate, nothing I said in my previous message is controversial or even factually inaccurate, so I don’t know precisely what has rubbed you the wrong way. Perhaps it is merely the critical approach I take that so discomfits you. Well, I don’t live my life- or my philosophy- on the account of upvotes and likes, and discomfiture; I live my life- and my philosophy- in accordance with the Truth alone, having no estimation otherwise. You should try harder the next time you reply to me, or reply to anyone really. Anyway, dude: climate change did not cause the recent pandemic. Just… Just stop, okay?