“Even if humankind is technologized and armed to the extreme, anticipating a global situation in which the very distinction between ‘war and peace’ belongs to those things abandoned— even then the human being lives poetically on this earth…”

Non protego, ergo non obligo.

Gm Japan is waking up

This is the best approach to this issue. Leftists should be permitted to form their own cloistered theological seminaries, but it should not be on the taxpayer's dime.

Can't recommend learning the skill of boxing highly enough. Find a gym that trains competitors. Take the classes. Start sparring.

Beautiful feelings do not belong to philosophy, said Heidegger.

The actual joke here is not that liberals lack a theory of mind for anyone on the right (they do) while the average person on the right has one for liberals (they do, it's mistaken) It's that lib lack a theory of mind *for themselves* Their views of themselves and why they believe what they believe are entirely incorrect - they view their beliefs as "rational" and "following the evidence" but their actual beliefs are more simply described by "attempts to match the beliefs of the hivemind" and the hivemind changes beliefs based on if those beliefs produce power The simplest example (and there are others) is everything around covid where it went from "it's racist to worry about a disease - hug a Chinese person" to "shut everything down" to "racism is the real public health emergency" all following purely from the logic of power If a liberal had a good theory of mind *for himself* he would see himself as so cynical that he couldn't function as a good liberal - just saying that this is how they form views is enough to disqualify anyone from taking their views seriously Them lacking a theory of mind for anyone on the right is just a natural consequence of this

The true reason Plato’s philosopher is persecuted when he returns to the cave is that he arrives from the future and is therefore no longer capable, for that reason, of being at home in the world of cave dwellers.

Upon further investigation I found out why this is. With few exceptions, the scholars addressing Heidegger’s political thought approach the topic with an axe to grind. They are looking for evidence in his philosophical ideas that can be directly tied to the worst elements of National Socialism. But an early section of his 1934 lecture on Holderlin’s “Germania” explicitly criticized any biological or racialist political interpretations of the poem. This is an inconvenient fact for these “scholars” and disruptive of the narrative they want to establish. That’s my theory.

“It is not we who have language; rather, language has us.” —Heidegger, Holderlin’s Hymns

Even Marx eventually admitted that Marxism was stupid. The thing is, if you strip his thought of its teleological conception of history what remains is just pure spite for the well turned out and successful with no apparent justification.

The students didn’t just start struggling to read. They just let in a bunch of DEI “Didn’t Earn It” students who have no business being there.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by ideological discrimination, ...underplaced with 4/4 loads, or hounded out of the academy altogether, learning to code

There is something uncanny about the "Great American Novel" being about seafarers. At first glance it just seems wildly inappropriate. Westward expansion and the taming of wilderness far more closely express the quintessential American experience. And yet, at a deeper level, Melville was right to choose the sea and not the land as the appropriate setting for a novel he hoped would capture what was most true in the American spirit. Even though the American story involves the settling of land and the conquering of wilderness, the inner truth of the American spirit lies in a much freer and less constrained relationship to human possibilities. Such a relationship is best captured, in its essence, in a story that takes place on the freedom of the seas rather than the rootedness of land.

Mill published these doctrines in 1859 because he thought it would be useful for subverting Christian influence in the institutions. He envisioned a future where such freedom would become less important as society became less Christianized. Hope this helps.

One of my favorite internet moments of 2024. A fairly well known Political Science professor at the University of Michigan was stunned to discover that the Nazis were first and foremost anti-Communist. When the people charged with educating the public are this miseducated themselves, the word for the system is no longer education.

From 1890 to 1920 the northern elite came to strongly believe that southern views on race had been correct in the total war which totally divided them earlier in their lives. But then in 1919 something strange happened—the 19thA—& now all of us live under permanent reconstruction