[b]Jan Mieszkowski
Foucault: Misery loves company
Lacan: Misery loves misery
Sartre: Misery loves nothingness
Camus: Misery loves me[/b]
Of course none of them are miserable now. One would imagine.
Hegel: The pleasure of not
Schopenhauer: The agony of no
Bataille: The sorrowful pain of something
Beckett: The joyful pain of nothing
Let’s decide if this matters.
Idealism: Think, produce
Materialism: Work, produce
Existentialism: Put on airs, have a coffee
Now that’s progress.
Instagram: Tell us what you like and we’ll show you the right ads
Me: Antonioni films, lyric poetry, the early writings of Jacques Derrida
Instagram: You can get a hearty breakfast at Burger King!
Close enough, right?
I would have been a philosophy major, but I couldn’t understand
a) Plato’s Sophist
b) Frege’s predicate calculus
c) why I should take a vow of poverty
That makes [at least] two of us.
2016: Robots are taking our factory jobs!
2017: Robots are taking our clerical jobs!
2018: iPhone X is taking our philosophers’ jobs!
Someone explain this please.