by promethean75 » Sun May 12, 2019 3:17 pm
yeah i like ol' sammy (ben stiller's better half). of the available popular contemporary intellectuals, him, dennett, dawkins, and hitchens (to an extent) are favorable. jordan peterson is somewhere between a calamity and and bad joke; can't be sure how dangerous he might be yet. the millennial minds now under his influence have yet to mature. we'll have to wait and see. but sammy's a no-bullshit intellectual with strong credentials who doesn't buy into either the left or right's malarkey. a scientifically minded independent thinker, such as moi.
other than that, i'm not sure i can help you recover from your fascination with the president who wears a dead rat on his head. i think this fascination is part of a deeper psychosis which no amount interference or influence can correct. it's just the kind of thing you have to live with... something you'll never be able to undo. the good news is, it's perfectly okay that you're wrong, and it's perfectly irrelevant that i'm right. a few exchanges between embattled thinkers at a philosophy forum are hardly important. what would become cause for alarm is if you gained a bigger audience... at which point i'd be inclined to bring out the big guns. i don't want to do that because i'm lazy at worst, apathetic at best. so promise me you'll never be read but by a few knuckleheads at a philosophy forum, and i'll appreciate that.