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This comment is the least bizarre and unhinged accusation on the thread so I will respond to it. There is nothing anti-intellectual about pointing out the tact
by motohagiography 5y ago
This comment is the least bizarre and unhinged accusation on the thread so I will respond to it.
There is nothing anti-intellectual about pointing out the tactics used within organizations today, learned in the universities, resemble this sabotage manual, especially since the tactics I am referring to are nihilistic and totalitarian, and come right out of what Arendt (as it turns out, a contemporary of members said school mentioned downthread) described as the necessary conditions for a totalitarian movement. There is zero controvsery that academia and its appendant institutions, and now big tech, and even finance has been compromised by a totalitarian movement whose members are trained that power is the highest good, that there is no truth, no God, no consequences, and other downstream effluent of what appears to be a strain of Heideggerian Marxism.
One hopes you apply the same standard of intellectualism to your fellow travelers whose best responses reduce to hysterical canards that are so absurd as to be beneath a denial. I encourgage you all to please, do better.
- jacobolus 5y ago«Everyone agrees that (((Marcuse)))’s secret cabal and those (their “downstream effluent”) they have compromised who control academia, tech, finance, and government are godless totalitarian nihilists» (slightly paraphrased) is not really the kind of response most people were hoping for....
- motohagiography 5y agoWhile I am glad to have provoked discussion, especially in the context of the original "Parable of Lightning / Kolmolgorov Complicity" essays which I highly recommend reading, and that this thread was one of its traps appears to be confirmed, but I defer to the moderators in regard to whether we're adding value with this kind of personal slander.
- indigo945 5y agoKolmogorov was, however, not complicit with the very scary idea that one shouldn't spout anti-semitic nonsense, he was complicit in an actual totalitarian system. The systems in which Kolmogorov complicity happens are those in which you can't freely give your opinion. However, anti-semitism isn't an opinion, but an insanity, and besides, you are not Kolmogorov. Stop overselling your harmful nonsense. Plus you are, as you notice, absolutely allowed to spout anti-semitic rhetoric, and will not be literally burned at the stake or shot for it. This does not free you from professional consequences, even in the academic sphere, because it is hard to take seriously the ideas of someone who seriously believes that the Jews invented Marxism as a weapon to do what-exactly?
- dragonwriter 5y ago> There is zero controvsery that academia and its appendant institutions, and now big tech, and even finance has been compromised by a totalitarian movement Even ignoring the rest of your description, yes, there is considerable controversy that any, much less all, of those three things have been compromised by a totalitarian movement, and if you think that that view is uncontroversial you need to at least glance outside of the far-right fever swamp occasionally.