Two "substantive" posts today!
What does it
mean?!!
Of course some things never change:
σάτυρος wrote:Philosophy has become a post-modern spinster gossip circle, sharing in-group rumours and second-hand information, concerning what was said by shared icons and idols - i.e., in-group celebrities - to whom it was directed, and, subsequently, what was meant by it, and what was its overt and covert intent.
The perfect milieu for parasitical misers to linguistically exploit and manipulate the prevailing old-hag psychologies of a feminized culture in decline.
Gossip's main function is grooming, i.e., establishing and reaffirming inter-group relationships, orienting and positioning participants within group dynamics, and their fluctuating hierarchies.
Language has dimensionally expanded basic primate grooming utilities and tactics, giving the impression that something more profound and mystical is occurring, when all that is truly occurring can be summed-up with the mundane term 'politics', viz., social war - agon - by other means.
This is his idea of examining nihilism "philosophically".
Thus, all I can do is to challenge him or you or others to explain how "for all practical purposes" this intellectual gibberish is applicable to human interactions that do come into conflict as a result of conflicted value judgments rooted existentially in a sense of identity derived from the life that we lived out in a world governed by the assumptions embedded in political economy. Sets of circumstances that I myself explore as a moral and political nihilist.
Or
is it all just "tongue in cheek"? His own way of
mocking philosophical blather of this sort?
Note to σάτυρος:
Come on, sneak in here again and let's have a go at it.
