IndieAgora

Unlike in the past, today's focus is on academic philosophy rather than what I call Socratic philosophy or an authentic quest for truth. This causes me to wonder about the future of meaningful philosophy, a philosophy that changes the life of the inquirer as opposed to playing intellectual gymnastics. Thanks to academic philosophy, most see philosophy as a belief, theory or opinion rather than as a tool. Thus, there is Descartes' philosophy, Huxley's philosophy, Rand's philosophy, and Russell's philosophy as opposed to a generic tool for understanding the nature of life and man's relationship to life, so he can improve the quality of his life. A tool that isn't founded upon or anchored to any authority as academic philosophy is. Today's focus is on knowing "what to think" as opposed to "how to think." It saddens me to see how dependent man is upon authority and security, which are illusions. In turn, he has become more confused and fearful.

He's clearly missed Heidegger and Foucault to name but two lol

Unfortunately Continental Philosophy still isn't exactly mainstream in British universities


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I disagree with him. Keep onwards with your readings and studyings whether at a university or at home. I don't believe it matters as we are all trying to discern truth from the same writings, not force feeding students an interpretation (unless it is a lecture only class but that is unheard of here).


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So after almost a decade of decay, how do you all feel about this now?

I can't say I know about any of this stuff because I went from pretty much never talking to people familiar with any such things to never talking to anyone at all.

The only person is Academia that I knew was a girl and that was mainly nude, my kind of philosophy.

I've always been thinking for myself and have been wary of the languages or illusions, the glamour of language and constructs that people, alien people that have little to do with me or my way, have tried to cast upon others. That being said, I've read extensively and critically of lots of the gibberish written in and translated to English, which is the only language I speak and can read and which I sort of think in and receive most information in or thoughts with if there is dialogue, so it is the central language of transmission and reception for me, the fluid that the stuff uses to move, but not all stuff might be available in it for all I know, which is why I move towards non-sense and barbaric words and fantasy gobbledygook which has on the one hand baggage, and on the other hand far less baggage due to being built on tropes but still from scratch with a lot of "splainin' to do".

"Creative" work of that nature seems to very dominantly be in the English language now also, making English an important and useful language to hear braindead racist sh*t from.

I'm nearly 40 niw, and though I was losing hope a decade ago, people now seem so brutally r*tarded that I feel the most convenient means to communicate with most people are blocked off by aggressive troglodytes spewing things that only make sense to themselves exclusively or little cliques of crazies.

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People are seemingly further from the truth the more they practice bad reading from never learning how to read and process information properly, with the "wisest" being almost exclusively relying on memory and even then just finding stuff, so external memory, but even if it was real memory it wouldn't have mattered, its like a room full of books you can read the characters of, the text, pronouncing things, but don't know what it is saying, and that is scary as heck to see people saying things and parroting stuff with nothing going on in their noggin, and that is exactly the state they are being trained to be in, to be mindless, thoughtless, drones, following astroturf herds they think are real, with not a thought crossing between their crossed eyes. In brief, f*cking morons, and anyone who opposes them or questions them, gets gang r*ped in public by some group wearing human skulls or another with the flayed skins of their enemies, and there is no chance to safely or comfortably find anyone who is interested in using their brain when they are busy watching or listening to vapid and empty information presented by talking heads, just for greedy information collection applied to nothing, not used, just collected, probably quickly forgotten too, amounting to just sound, and many people say they just listen to things as background sound, and I see them with things in their ears like they are mental cases who need to block out the world when they are traveling around instead of being observant of anything.

So I have an extremely poor opinion of everything.

It was only like a very brief window in the 90s where it seemed like there was so much nice stuff for me when I was pretty young, then it was the American News Media not shutting the f*ck up, Clinton, Bush election, 9/11, Bush war, travel issues, Muslims bad, blah blah blah, basically 30 years of mind numbing bullsh*t. A lot of really nice academic books became available during those years, fantastic information was collected, basically better in my opinion than a lot of the stuff after the late 1800s and early 1900s, because the stuff through the 60s to 80s is mainly not very much to my taste and seemed like a lot of snooty crap from pseudo and what sort of rhymes with pseudo, "intellectual" frauds, often of the same grifter ethnicity and cultural background, which seems to have in every dimension poisoned discourse and mixed it with violent cosplaying and callous malice, where hyper-cerebral pedantry masks simple "re-wording", the genius of re-wording things and calling oneself a genius for it, which has now p*ssed upon the peasantry who have taken up the aut*stic practice of beating people over the head with word d*ldos they just laughed to themselves on Discord.

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Since I am utterly obsessed with being real and interacting with what I consider reality in the most genuine and sincere way, and practically noone else seems to be doing that or interested in that, I believe there are some fundamental differences worth studying in my upbringing and hopefully not also my genetics that set the story of my formation apart from the story of others, particularly modern young people who seem the most brain broken and cursed of all.

I wasn't raised on anything like the modern internet. I always played with my own imagination. I was always thinking. I had no role models or anyone I looked up to. I wasn't raised with Christianity or the Bible as serious, even though I went to Catholic school and was familiar with it from early on. I had lots of creative, seemingly high quality material to play with. I didn't depend on others for entertainment, I came up with the stories, play, jokes, theories. I was the boss, the one with the thoughts, never a person who followed anyone as there was no one to follow. Most of the time I also had to hide my differences and did not blurt out or vocalize them. Everyone seemed to understand me or give me the impression that they thought of me as intelligent, witty, and most of all earnest and sincere in my thinking, statement, and efforts, easy to distinguish from my jokes or sly mischievousness, so that the impression was that, even to this day with any new encounters, I was successfully coming off as a good person that people thought of as good, no matter what, not morally ambiguous, not "gray", but good, noble, decent, and heroic.

The reason I am bringing this up is because the impression we get of what people may think of us, even if that isn't what they really think (which we may not be able to know for certain), completely impacts how we also act and react and perform.

I think that the way people treat each anonymous person online has been tainted by suspicious, tainted by bad actors and bad experiences, by astroturfing, influence games, advertising, to make everyone thinking everyone else is a rotten f*cling piece of sh*t, and then maybe even pressuring them to only function as that and to accept that as the norm. It is pretty close to a hellscape, with people clamoring for attention and clawing at each other to repeat memes that were said by someone else visibly just before, and again and again.

A lot of these people are not even native English speakers, nor do they speak English at home. There is no time and place in any of this for the truth, and the truth has not been commodified and had any value added to it these days, as one can simply beat up someone and violate them or pull a smear campaign against them, and that is then the truth, it is all about violent power, and this is the mentality of the most vile nightmare creatures from the imaginations of fantasy fiction writers, now the reality of the "Western World" which is steeped in incivility and pointing the finger at other people, made up people, as supposedly worse, which is completely ridiculous at this point, as no people are more hideous than the amoral, non-religious criminal filth spamming the internet, curiously from every nasty, ultra nationalist, g*n*c*dal culture on the planet, so among the Eastern Europeans, Indians, and certain African nations, whoever is nationally a piece of sh*t belonging in the Hague seems to be using the English language to make intelligent thinking and discourse online a near impossibility.

Sentences now can't even be completed without people planning harm for something someone said which are non-controversial, and flaws and errors and perceived insults are being made up by a frustrated and moreover mad bunch from this or that minority faction of cutthroats that have caused everyone to flee in terror and remain hidden.

So it could be people seeking the truth are just hiding under various rocks, but if they try to find it from things like YouTube videos and comments, they are likely to be poisoned.

They truly need "Luck" on their side, that is God by another name, to help them and guide them through this accursed storm, even if what they are told is not anything real and so they rightfully deny it.

The people look diseased too, they literally look sick, and the more they take in of this mental poison, the sicker they look, it has a physiological impact, but they could've been mental from the start, but the people are looked stressed, mental, they have dark circles around their eyes, they look pale, yellowed, their hair is oily, they look unbathed, their health looks bad too, theor shapes are odd, they seem far from any ideal, and even those presenting themselves as ideal look like horrific mutants, with insane looking mutilated faces stretched back, giant lips unnatural to them, and all this is "real".

Where in any of this is there time for the Philo of Sophia?

There was also an impression that, though there was a lot of stuff in the past, there still didn't seem to be as much, and as much if an extremely low quality, which today is called "slop". It seems like people are inundated with everything against beauty and truth and values and decency, like it totally would convincingly seem malicious, sadistic, and even Satanic; an Anti-Human attack, particularly against the poor, but really not sparing ANYONE, even those really doing it, and behind it, and funding it on the highest levels, seem totally twisted by it themselves, as their world shrinks and strangles them.

People have to get to the kids, turn off the internet and do not allow them anywhere near it during their development, and need to speak to them with kindness and justice and explanations that are strong and good, but also encouraging that they reason afterwards also, and ethics and morality seem crucial to incorporate, there seems to be nothing more precious about truth or worthy in it that the values which cultivate true beauty, safety, prosperity for all. The people need to be kept apart from the Satanic drums and chants of out of control, un-curated, frustration and madness, passing mental diseases to each other through the natural, in-built, imitative qualities of primates like human beings, but also other animals.

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