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Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Good Doom

posted by on October 2 at 14:43 PM

Hannah Arendt was wrong about many things but right about this: philosophers should not be leaders.

The life of dialectics is the continuous movement towards opposites. Mankind will also finally meet its doom. When the theologians talk about doomsday, they are pessimistic and terrify people. We [the philosophers] say the end of mankind is something which will produce something more advanced than mankind. Mankind is still in its infancy.
Mao Zedong is the philosopher who composed this cosmic passage.

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Well, I don't know about that, but does anybody else think shiny quarters are fucking awesome?

Posted by Mr. Poe | October 2, 2007 3:00 PM
2

I don't know about you, but living in this eight year Fear Und Doom jag here in the US is wearing mighty thin.

Happy Happy Joy Joy!

Posted by Will in Seattle | October 2, 2007 3:25 PM
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Actually, we've already produced something more advanced than us.

Trash.

I mean, FUCK, it's WINNING...

Posted by Max Bell | October 2, 2007 4:27 PM
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If you want some good doom check out Candlemass' Nightfall. It kicks ass.

Posted by Curtains | October 2, 2007 6:18 PM
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and you are the jerk who quotes mao.

Posted by mulwana | October 2, 2007 6:58 PM
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WTF?! Hannah Arendt wrong about something? What? Charles, I generally scroll through the SLOG and when I see one of your posts I simply save my self the agony and just roll my eyes without actually reading it.

But what in the world made you decide to reference HA in such a jack ass way. Where did she say "philosophers should not be leaders?" Did she write that? Where?

And the further insinuation (and it was insinuation) was that she was "wrong about many things." Again, WTF?

Post all the drivel you want but for God's sake please don't reference Hannah Arendt and if you do, please, please, bury it far down enough in your post so that I don't have to expend energy telling you to "stop it!" and "WTF?"

"Oh," to quote Dan Savage in New York, stop it please!

Posted by Johnny R | October 3, 2007 12:04 AM
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Good post.

Posted by NJ Matt | October 3, 2007 7:06 PM

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