Notices by sim@shitposter.world, page 4
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"More precisely, it is impossible to answer the questions ‘How can the various problems of the modern world be solved in accordance with Marxism?’, or ‘What would Marx say if he could see what his followers have done?’ Both these are sterile questions and there is no rational way of seeking an answer to them. Marxism does not provide any specific method of solving questions that Marx did not put to himself or that did not exist in his time. If his life had been prolonged for ninety years he would have had to alter his views in ways that we have no means of conjecturing. Those who hold that Communism is a ‘betrayal’ or ‘distortion’ of Marxism are seeking, as it were, to absolve Marx of responsibility for the actions of those who call themselves his spiritual posterity. In the same way, heretics and schismatics of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries accused the Roman Church of betraying its mission and sought to vindicate St. Paul from the association with Roman corruption. In the same way, too, admirers of Nietzsche sought to clear his name from responsibility for the ideology and practice of Nazism. The ideological motivation of such attempts is clear enough, but their informative value is next to nothing. There is abundant evidence that all social movements are to be explained by a variety of circumstances and that the ideological sources to which they appeal, and to which they seek to remain faithful, are only one of the factors determining the form they assume and their patterns of thought and action. We may therefore be certain in advance that no political or religious movement is a perfect expression of that movement’s ‘essence’ as laid down in its sacred writings; on the other hand, these writings are not merely passive, but exercise an influence of their own on the course of the movement."
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"Thomas Mann was entitled to say that Nazism had nothing to do with German culture or was a gross denial and travesty of it. In fact, however, he did not say this: instead, he inquired how such phenomena as the Hitler movement and Nazi ideology could have come about in Germany, and what were the elements in German culture that made this possible. Every German, he maintained, would recognize with horror, in the bestialities of Nazism, the distortion of features which could be discerned even in the noblest representatives (this is the important point) of the national culture. Mann was not content to pass over the question of the birth of Nazism in the usual manner, or to contend that it had no legitimate claim to any part of the German inheritance. Instead, he frankly criticized that culture of which he was himself a part and a creative element. It is indeed not enough to say that Nazi ideology was a ‘caricature’ of Nietzsche, since the essence of a caricature is that it helps us to recognize the original. The Nazis told their supermen to read The Will to Power, and it is no good saying that this was a mere chance and that they might equally well have chosen the Critique of Practical Reason. It is not a question of establishing the ‘guilt’ of Nietzsche, who as an individual was not responsible for the use made of his writings; nevertheless, the fact that they were so used is bound to cause alarm and cannot be dismissed as irrelevant to the understanding of what was in his mind. "
I didn't know this connection.
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I resent the older generations. They lived in a world where they could obtain a mortgage for a house and then proceeded to pull the ladder up for the rest of their own family and younger generations rather than supporting them.
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@newt Show majestic art.
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@newt This is gorgeous. Thanks for sharing it. I need to find where I can look these up easily.
Did I hear that right about the French? Hard to believe.
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I wish I could get into tabletop games but I don't know anyone doing this here.
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@sun @arcana @newt @pernia @prettygood We have already let social decorum go a lot... has it really improved or helped everyone feel better? It seems to me that people are more miserable now. Boundaries are there for a good reason, it's not good to tell people to ignore their intuition and desensitise themselves to this through exposure.
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@MK2boogaloo Yeah, it might help to drink something. But I'm listening to good music.
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@waifu @MK2boogaloo That is some self-loathing there!
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@MK2boogaloo Yeah, that would be interesting (I mean it this time!) to see.
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@MK2boogaloo Wow... how my brain decided that interesting means interacting I'll never know. I need something to wake it up.
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@MK2boogaloo I don't think I know or interact much with people from there so I don't really have an opinion on that but I do like interesting with you if that helps! (And p is cool.)
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I always have a good time speaking with people from stereophonic. Hope to continue that trend.
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@MK2boogaloo Yes, especially when they are good books. When they feed our minds with good questions and life lessons about the virtues. It's worth keeping a small collection of books with the best minds behind them.
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"The best teacher is a good book."
I wonder if this is how I will need to study?
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Good day.
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@amerika It would seem so. I think that I would prefer to seek wisdom than to appease people, especially when I don't think they can be pleased or when they demand full compliance with their viewpoint. It is never enough.
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@amerika In truth, we are probably all a mixed bag. Seeking wisdom in some things and not in other things.
It doesn't help that so few of us research philosophy now. It can be difficult to introduce in an interesting way too.
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@amerika What ways would you recommend it being practiced?
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@amerika Bull sessions?
So, social events where you met up in groups to discuss these things? I think that is something missing today.
sim
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