[b]Existential Comics
How to be a free thinker 101:
- Stare of into space a lot.
- Buy a bunch of books you don’t read.
- Complain that you can’t make friends because you are too smart.
- Have the same totally original thoughts as everyone else.
- Talk over women.[/b]
Which one is actually true?
Philosopher’s biggest regrets:
Descartes: failure to explain how mind and body interact.
Russell: failure to ground math in logic.
Sartre: failure to reconcile existentialism with marxism.
Nietzsche: failure to get laid even a single time.
Which one is the least untrue?
Karl Marx was born on this day, 200 years ago. In those 200 years since, everything has been shit. Sorry Karl.
Really, really sorry.
Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man Who Was Extremely Mad Online.
Let’s call him, say, a troll.
You see, a communist is someone who loves humanity but hates humans, whereas a capitalist is someone who brutally exploits his fellow man through violently enforced property relations which make the bulk of humanity labor to enrich the capitalist class or starve.
Let’s run this by Phyllo.
The high point of philosophy was Diogenes telling Alexander the Great to fuck off. It’s been all pretty much downhill since then.
Any truth to this?