case and point. i would have several disagreements with this appraisal and then put my own spin on it. i’d not say W’s issue was that ‘modern disorders express themselves linguistically’, but simply that perceived philosophical conceptual problems emerge from strange and unfamiliar uses of language. then i’d say that W didn’t aspire to ‘end’ philosophy (he actually once called it a theraputic language game), but to indicate clearly its limits so that it contributed no longer to producing such grave confusions. finally i’d say that not only did he not say ‘language is meaningless’, but quite the contrary; that it is ineffably meaningful… that there can be no meaning without it.
what’s so fantastic about all this is that aegean is actually operating inside this very deepest of afflictions created by philosophy. the dude thinks he’s got W, but W’s got him.
if you follow the course of W’s evolution you’ll find him developing historical materialist leanings toward the end. and there’s a very specific reason for this; after having cleared the air of all the pseudo-problems produced by centuries of philosophy, he recognized that these had only existed as distractions from very real, immediate material problems. man’s problems weren’t ‘theoretical’, but economic, social and political, and it was there that the only work could be done. he simplified the problem to a simple formula. what sucks in life more than anything else? well i can tell you what doesn’t suck; being unable to reconcile aristotle with plato, being unable to prove freewill, scratching our heads over russell’s paradox, and searching for the ghost in the machine. what sucks is going to bed hungry, or living on the streets, or dying before you turn seven, or having to choose to pay for medication instead of rent. it’s all right there, folks. right smack dab in your face, and none of it is ‘philosophical’.
now the deep affliction that your boy aegean suffers from is a life time’s accumulation of philosophical nonsense that not only doesn’t recognize the rudimentary facts of this simplest of problems, but actually compels him to want to prevent its solution by occupying him with all kinds of objections and distractions that only exist in language. a double whammy. he’ll go on and on for years telling you how marxism this and nihilism that without ever realizing the job that philosophy has done on him… and it as this affliction that big W was trying to save him from. meanwhile, W becomes the bad guy, pushing an agenda that aegean has been hypnotized into believing is contrary to progress.
when marx said that consciousness is determined first by the material conditions in which it is produced, he meant that a particular kind of conflict will produce a general kind of consciousness that has as its subject of interest either the resolution of that conflict or the continuation of it. and which side you fall on depends solely on how you benefit from those conditions. so the entire edifice of conservative ideology is not some ‘philosophy’, but only a general kind of language game that defends one side of the conflict… while the left’s ideology defends the other side. but they’re not fighting over ‘conceptual problems’, only material problems. and they enhance and enrich these problems with all kinds of prescriptive philosophies that state how things should be. and there it is; they put into the equation the proper ‘ought’ that happens to be in their favor… not because they’ve discovered some natural logic that justifies such conclusions (because there is no such thing).
and so generally speaking your ‘philosophy’ is an existential contraption you’ve been designed to believe based on the degree to which it either benefits your immediate material relations in society, or harms them. and here is where the power of the marx-wittenstein-derrida triangulation of forces becomes so evident. marx finds the source of your bullshit, wittgenstein identifies your bullshit, and derrida describes how you do your bullshit. and its not for nuthin that all three of these niggas was leftists. i should probably include gramsci in there too beside derrida as someone who describes how entire ages do their bullshit.
ya’ll niggas think you’re doing your own individual thinking… but nah, you ain’t. you’ve been under a hegemonic rule since you were old enough to pick up a book.
i eagerly await a rebuttle. here i’ll even kick it off for ya; the noetic apprehension of the noumena as other-than-self produces an existential anxiety that resolves itself by inverting the top<>down thinking of the fair skinned pagans, thus turning it into the abrahamic nil by converting the fear of the flux into something immutable, thereby psychoanalytically filling the fatalistic void of determinism with a reassurance that not being responsible is okay because whatever happens is god’s will. therefore, a wave of mullato jew immigrants is part of a desperately degenerative cosmic plan, or logos, and i need not shoot them down when they cross the border because oscillating patterns of energy prove the will to power, and capitalism is completely defended by value ontology which has affectance everywhere in the extensionally infinite universe because experientialism is a discrete experience before the self is abstracted. this is why there is wave duality, no fact/value distinction, and voltaire was french.
now if that isn’t clear enough, i’ve got to be a total imbecile.