promethean75 wrote:I'll never let that happen. My goal has always been to reduce ILP to mediocre thinkers through the influence of my incessant obnoxious behavior, boundless philosophical sophistry, and over-use/abuse of social media to present seemingly random and arbitrary content of myself that has nothing to do with anything.
It's called absurdism by the deed, dude.
Sure, different folks, different strokes. Even if, when push comes to shove, that's all rooted in dasein.
But why
here?!
In this great big world where exchanges going back and forth actually impact the lives of many, why on earth would reconfiguring ILP into a theater of the absurd matter to anyone at all?! Talk about lack of ambition!!
Me? Well, my own story here might be construed as particularly bathetic. Back before various "social media" like twitter and facebook and reddit became the preferred platforms for philosophy and, well, practically everything else, I was once a member of the larger, more "prestigious" philosophy forum online, The Philosophy Forum:
https://thephilosophyforum.com/But, for posting pretty much the same sort of thing I post here, Postmodern Beatnik -- out of the blue! -- "banned me for life".
[Note to Curly: You can now add this to your collection of facts that confirm your accusations about me. Many at TPF deemed me a "troll". And not all of them were objectivists disturbed by the points I raised about their own "real me".]
Anyway, I went looking for another forum and settled on ILP.
And, back then, there really were far, far, far more discussions started and then sustained by those who, for whatever personal reason, were avid philosophers. Far fewer Kids and "social media" types.
So, basically, I put all my eggs
in the ILP basket.
I started my signature threads including quotes, music and film. I commenced my "back to the beginning" series. I contributed any number of posts aimed at precipitating exchanges relating to that which is of most interest to me: how ought one to live given the stark reality that there may or may not be an actual Judgment Day.
Alas, however, ILP has gone more in the direction of the Kids, the yak yak yakkers, and the rabid [often unintelligible] Fixed Jacob objectivists.
But: it's too late for me anyway. I'm an "old man", wallowing in distractions and waiting for godot. But, who knows, if more minds like Mo's and Faust's and Only_Humean's do become attracted to the forum, the Kids and social media types
might be shunted aside.
In any event, given my own actual "set of circumstances", it is all now way, way "beyond my control".
