IndieAgora

People are often made to feel that they have to choose, that only some things belong to them or can be used by them, or that some cultures are just so totally alien that their accomplishments are beyond access.

So they make choices and selections and these they base perhaps on their heritage or selective interests which they find somewhat exclusive and incompatible with other things.

All human accomplishment is at your service, and humans have been working for centuries to produce copious amounts of thought and expression, much of which you can take and use in multiple ways, you don't have to choose.

Christianity is yours, Science, Atheism, Chinese Medicine, All things Japanese, Mexican Culture, Islamic History, Magic, Persian Religion, Africa and all the continents and everything in them and done with and by them.

The Orthodox Church, the Shias of Iran, the Native American and African secret groups, The Heaven andvEarth societies, the Satanists. All their work is human work and yours. Take it as yours. Don't neglect your human heritage, the world is built on it, and this is your world, not just some corner of it because of your skin or circumstances.

They can say what they want, in order to limit themselves with their exclusions, but I can be a Nazi, a Jew, and anythingbelse, all at once. The work they did, the things they wrote, all part of one big collection of human achievement and thought. All the Philosophers, one never has to choose, take whatever yoy can for your benefit from anything and don't even be shy about it. Flaunt Islam while beingba Buddhist Christian Luciferian Egyptian Neo-Pagan. Just because you were born somewhere doesn't mean you aren't a human, and that human achievements are locked for those born in thevsame places. German stuff is only for Germans born in Germany? Nein!

Seize the whole world. What a relief it is, finally, not having to choose.

The Qur'an, my book, says that the wise listen to everything, and take what is best from it all.

The Bible, my book, and the Rig Veda, the Avesta, the Granth, they all say things, the music videos, the myths, and mankind has been building so much for all to use, a sacrifice you shouls repay by using it and not wasting it. The old Native is your Father no matter where you were born, what advicevwas good is still good, or is better now, based on how you use all the tools of the past. Old swords can still cut, or the same techniques can be used to build them.

Take what resonates for you.

What resonates for you? I may write soon on that as well.

I was summing up what this thread was about.

Oh, but I wanted to know what sorts of things resonate for you? I was asking you, like if anything comes to mind. Like some people like Chinese Taoist stuff or Chinese Communist stuff or whatever specific things, what resonates with you? I will make a thread for it. Please list all that you can think of which resonates with you, sometimes its big muscular vikings of the imagination, sometimes its monsters or the military or Nazis.

Post structuralism mainly, I also enjoy anything that offers perspective on British history, the formation of America, history of philosophy, anarchism. I don't know really what specifically resonates, I have to be confronted with content prior to selecting it, but I recall this approach from the new age and it pretty much leads to confirmation bias and credulity if no other critical tools are available.

I agree. So one of the ideas that resonates with me for example is the idea of Hellfire Clubs and Sons of Liberty type organizations and I can go into a whole lot of detail of the aesthetic and vibe and feelings and images involved which can be really inspiring, and secret societies from those eras and all kinds of linked chains of ideas. It is those sorts of things I am wondering about. Another one for me is Elizabethan stuff focused on the courtly poetics, magic, political designs and intrigues of that time and language slang and superstitions and culture. Big resonance, huge on all of these and there are many more, which is why I made a thread to list those if I have time. Can you tell me all about Post-Structuralism and what specifically stimulates you about it? Also any of these thought or theme boxes like I mentioned.

Well the main thinker I find most interesting is Friedrich Nietzsche and both structuralism and post-structuralism are the most advanced versions of his thought. 

If I had to summarise, it is an anti-systematic form of inquiry, but it didn't start off as philosophy, it started out of linguistics, semiotics, anthropology, psychoanalysis and other cultural studies. 

Structuralism basically looks at the structure of language, how it can only be studied in negative terms, what a sign is not, is also a part of its definition. 

Post-structuralism has a more 'open ended' view of language and is more about contingency, unpredictable appearances. 

So when structuralism found the structure of language, Althusser said that culture is structured like a language and Lacan said the Unconscious is structured like a language and so on.

So Nietzsche begins looking at language as something that co-appeared with consciousness in humans. 

The consequences of structuralism and especially post-structuralism is a radically different view of concepts as different from words (signs) and a de-centering of privileged points of view from Humanism, which still has many hang ups from religion.

Post-structuralism has offered different views on things we think are just 'given' and it questions presuppositions mainly.

There's so much more, too much to say here, which is why it takes time to introduce it to people on the forum, one bit at a time.

Well that is my exact area of study and interest as well!