shaunc

shaunc

@shaunc.bsky.social

Anti-essentialist. Moderate anarchist. Happy to be free. 📌 Boston, occasionally Bieszczady, Poland Speaks: EN, PL, DE, UA (learning)

2,159 Followers 1,340 Following 8,826 Posts Joined Jun 2023
6 hours ago

Oh yeah? Well tell me this - was Das Kapital created, or was it generated by the Dialectical Materialist Process?

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6 hours ago

Freedom takes more than a goal. It requires "two sided possibility" and also a way in which choices become part of oneself contingently. [not at all Nietzschian]. So ... I don't see the "non-banal reading"?

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6 hours ago

> this is a banal reading of nietzsche, according to what he believed about himself

I am indeed not a Nietzschian. But he did explore the "space atoms vs time atoms" theory in his notebooks. That "will to power" is final cause doesn't mean not deterministic.

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7 hours ago

His own "eternal recurrence" was his own way of attaining to god-like-ness, free of any assumption of their being some "other place."

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7 hours ago

Metaphysically, Nietzsche was very much a positivist (Will to power was pretty much a dual of Newton -- all causality final causality). He interpreted religion as a psychological state / way of life. "Being a god" - as [human imagination of] "being untouched by the troubles that time brings".

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7 hours ago

Jainist, Buddhists still do have their taboos too, after all...

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7 hours ago

I forget what Nietzsche says about money changers, etc [and I am going on Jaspers as much as Nietzsche who I read a very long time ago]. But maybe "doing something" only wrt to "otherworldly things" is still consistent with "doing nothing" in this world.

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7 hours ago

Nietzsche focused on "Love your enemy" -- "Allesbejahende" he thought Jesus dying on the cross was a demonstration of how to be God by simply by attaching little value to worldly things -- even one's own life. Then (pov Nietzsche) followers invented the resurrection and spoiled it all.

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7 hours ago

The Dear Leader we elected is:

A) Evil
B) An Idiot
C) Both Of The Above

He's masterfully proven the case for (C).

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7 hours ago

Iranian strategy perfectly corresponds to Trump as Narcissistic Isolationist.

If the war weren't so obviously naked American aggression, cutting off *everyone in the world's* oil (including China's) should have mobilized the world into action against Iran.

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7 hours ago

There is Nietzsche's view of Jesus as "saying yes to everything" (which in his view everyone willfully ignored afterwards).

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7 hours ago

Perhaps being stuck between Egypt and Assyria (/Babylon) eased the way to avoiding this question? It does seem like a question that would come up once your "religious milieu" (despite vigorous competition between sects) is the dominant one in a region?

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8 hours ago

Advertisers everywhere rejoice!

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10 hours ago

Let the newly minted post-docs teach AI simulacrum (appropriately trained to only listen a little and ask many off-topic questions) so as to increase demand to meet supply.

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10 hours ago

I myself rather think that future possibilities are divergent - there could be mutually incompatible possible successors to capitalism, and these systems in turn will not be final.

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10 hours ago

Excellent ... I recently read Karatani’s "modes of exchange" ... also interesting. WRT Bookchin's 2nd nature ... I feel too many theorists jump from basically sound arguments that capitalism will eventually be surpassed to unjustified conclusions about what exactly will surpass it.

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10 hours ago

Whereas Solomon says: “Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again.”

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10 hours ago

... so - interested to hear the argument ....

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10 hours ago

But given the brief review I read - I also think capitalism will never be replaced until a different way of life is developed. The bourgeois revolutions were centuries in to the development of capitalism from feudalism. Revolutions finish, not start transformation.

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10 hours ago

In alphabetical order will be at home next to Meinong on the shelf. The phenomenology of the impossible will provide it a frame....

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11 hours ago

I've put it on the reading list!

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11 hours ago

Seems like jumping to a conclusion. After all, how many dead portuguese do they know, to say they can make a fair comparison?

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11 hours ago

[Dying: and rightfully so, if the Iran war and the continuing support for the president who instigated it are a guide.]

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11 hours ago

Łukasiewicz approves of this innovation.

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1 day ago

Philippa Foot: I invented the Trolley Problem to expose the flaws of consequentialism.

Our entire society: Finally we have created the Trolley Problem from classic philosophical work Do Not Create The Trolley Prob—

*out-of-control trolley ploughs through the group, mercifully ending the debate*

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21 hours ago

I bet India, South Korea, Japan, and the Philippines will still be very Rock Flag and Eagle after this.

Especially after we ripped away the South Korean THAAD systems that they had to spend a lot of political capital to get installed.

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12 hours ago

Once the data is obsolete, they also make great "logs" for your fireplace.

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12 hours ago

Ha ha ... but I did do some household chores and my Ukrainian lessons while I was waiting.

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3 months ago
Preview
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I don't know much about the "American Affairs Journal" or author Malcom Kyeyune, but I came across this article while searching for information about the cancellation of the Constellation-class frigates, and it felt like it was putting its finger on the root cause of the rot in military procurement.

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20 hours ago

LEBANON 🇱🇧

THOUSANDS have attended the funeral of Father Pierre El-Rahi today

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