[b]Jan Mieszkowski
Prognostications
November 2016: Trump can’t possibly win
January 2017: Trump can’t possibly last 10 months in office
November 2017: The world will end in a fiery inferno and the POTUS will still be tweeting[/b]
From Hell probably.
[b]We will know the enemy from his
T hales: mythology
H egel: circular logic
E ngels: bourgeois charm
D eleuze: Freudianism
O ckham: abundant hypotheses
N ietzsche: slave morality
A dorno: nameplate
L acan: ego psychology
D escartes: certainty[/b]
Let’s decide if this is clever.
Who are the enemy?
R ousseau: oligarchs
E ngels: utopians
P lato: sophists
U nger: empiricists
B akunin: theologians
L acan: lapsed Lacanians
I rigaray: positivists
C homsky: my critics
A dorno: Heideggerians
N ietzsche: priests
S chelling: dogmatists
Let’s decide if this is even more clever.
Anaximander: Can
Seneca: it
Voltaire: possibly
Rousseau: get
Schopenhauer: any
Nietzsche: worse?
Camus: You ain’t seen nothing yet!
The history of philosophy, right?
[b]Top Reasons To Become A Philosopher
- The tranquility of wisdom and understanding
- The joy that comes from making the world a better place
- The boundless opportunities for self-delusion[/b]
Me? 3 by a mile.
A good teacher is quick to
a) sacrifice the lesson for the truth
b) sacrifice the truth for the lesson
c) avoid giving anything that could truly be called a lesson
Not counting c let’s pin this down.