Epistemology has yet to give us a better foundation.
I love Rorty, brother…
It’s like he has gotten to a point further down the path I have been going,
and stands there waving me to a further point.
It seems to me, now, that if we are to keep the nihilistic perspective close enough to the symbolic order to keep it functional,
we have no other choice than to turn to the pragmatic.
Without the pragmatic,
the nihilistic perspective becomes useless.
Think about how heroic it would be to me:
to be trained in the analytic
(the corporate effect
(yet choose the continental
I love Rorty!
I have no choice.
He is the best that America has to offer.
Anyone that disagrees is little more than the ultimate fascism that America is heading towards.
Including Searle.
BREEZY
Conor Oberst
The music, ambig, the music made me this cocky.
d63,
Your above post regarding beauty, was itself beautiful and therefore, accurate as far as I’m concerned.
iam - I like a lot of the songs you’re sharing, but this is a discussion forum. If there’s some philosophy in the lyrics that you want to discuss, please do so.
If you’re just throwing it out there and leaving it to others, I’ll move this to MB. Same for the Film thread.
And it can only be accurately beautiful that you were equally beautiful when you saw it with me. There is no other way, my friend.
There comes a time when reader and poem are equally beautiful
Donald Finkle: Hands
You get what I’m saying here, Joe?
Please don’t pussy out on me. We are what it will take to change this world for the better. We have got to be cocky. Not arrogant (arrogance is comes from the security of being part of the system( what we have to do is what philosophy was meant to do. Now, of course, the moderators will be a little reluctant, because they’re just trying to create a working thing.
But, what if we actually managed to make history by actually defying the system we are dependent on? What if we set aside the kiss-ass mentality that some among us is caught up in and actually thought about the situation we actually are in.
Sorry about taking over your string, Ambig.
What do you believe in?
(I also replied to you in ‘Let’s be clear’)
Look. my intellectual friends,
what we are dealing with are multi-national entities that have no commitment to any to any one country.
In fact, what is their best interest is the dismantling of our democracies
Now given that
Think about the importance of ILP.
You either use it or you lose it.
We either act together
or we lose any respectable definition of freedom.
or democracy.
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.” - Your man, Russell.
What we’re dealing with are Zombies. Men three parts dead.
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” - Nietzsche
Love can revive all.
Okay, by me.
Okay by me.
Well, not really. 
DECADES
Joy Division
[b]Here are the young men, the weight on their shoulders,
Here are the young men, well where have they been?
We knocked on the doors of hell’s darker chamber,
Pushed to the limit, we dragged ourselves in,
Watched from the wings as the scenes were replaying,
We saw ourselves now as we never had seen.
Portrayal of the trauma and degeneration,
The sorrows we suffered and never were free.
Where have they been?
Where have they been?
Where have they been?
Where have they been?
Weary inside, now our heart’s lost forever,
Can’t replace the fear, or the thrill of the chase,
Each ritual showed up the door for our wanderings,
Open then shut, then slammed in our face.
Where have they been?
Where have they been?
Where have they been?
Where have they been?[/b]
BROTHER
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros