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No 10. sounds just like something Slavoj Zizek would say.
by ak39 8y ago
No 10. sounds just like something Slavoj Zizek would say.
- FabHK 8y agoI wonder whether there's research correlating low bullshit-sensitivity with endorsement of postmodern "thought".
- drb91 8y agoWhat area are you talking about? Postmodern means a lot of different things.
- Fordec 8y agoOr a random sentence generator. Or an unlocked phone in a pocket with autocomplete enabled
- pjc50 8y agoThis reminds me of the tremendous and only slightly trolling "What is wrong with our thoughts" by philosopher David Stove: http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/wrongthoughts.html http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/wrongthoughts.html (If you're finding it TLDR then at least skip to the list of numbered propositions in the middle)
- AlexCoventry 8y agoThis essay is incredibly ironic. Thousands of words to sneer at "fatally bad thought," based on nothing but bald assertions that it's flawed, pretence that we dear readers all agree and can see that it's flawed, and appeals to emotion via expressions of Stove's disgust at the intellectual corruption its flaws reflect. A "nosology of thought" sounds like a fine research program, but a manifesto about it ought to at least give a few examples to show the criteria for helpful diagnostics. I like the dialog with Muggeridge at the end, though.
- FabHK 8y agoIncidentally, I wonder whether the translation from the Swedish original is somewhat deficient here, as it doesn't seem to be entirely grammatical.
- mirimir 8y agoI wonder about that too.
- staticautomatic 8y agoHe's a rather big fan of Lacan, so that should already be setting off the bullshit alarms.