[b]Jan Mieszkowski
Logic: A = A
Ethics: A is good
Aesthetics: A is beautiful
Epistemology: I know A
Psychology: I like A
Politics: I rule A
Literature: I vaguely remember losing A[/b]
Next up: B
Things You Should Never Assume
Descartes: that you exist
Kant: that you are free
Hegel: that you can think
Nietzsche: that you can act
Sartre: that you can love
Beckett: that you didn’t die before you were born
Next up: Things You Should Always Assume.
Idealism: I drink to remember
Realism: I drink to forget
Materialism: I drink therefore I am
Or, for that matter, smoke dope.
Don’t hate the signifier, hate the signified.
Or, sure, both.
Philosophy 101: Being is becoming
Philosophy 201: Becoming is nothing
Philosophy 301: Nothing is a virtual something
Philosophy 401: How did this become a comp lit seminar?
Blame it on the existentialists no doubt.
History is written
Germany: by the victors
Britain: by the Germans
France: by the British
Russia: in blood
Italy: in stone
United States: in crayon
Crayon, sure. And in big block capital letters.