Thursday, November 5, 2009
History Caplitalism and Bodies of Water
Posted by Charles Mudede on Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:36 AM
From The Philosophy of Right (1821):
The principle of family life is dependence on the soil, on land, "terraWhy do I love Hegel and return to him time and time again? Because his thought moves like a march and not like steps. He organizes his concepts into big blocks, and so reading his philosophy is much like watching a blockbuster movie—the wide-screen, the explosions in the sky, the hero clinging to the side of a skyscraper. There is a connection between James Cameron and Hegel.
firma". Similarly, the natural element for industry, animating its outward movement, is the sea.
For me, rocks are invisible. All I can and want to see are the mountains. The molecules of water bore me to no end; I'm only moved by the great lakes and oceans. To understand capitalism and history? Not as a matter of individuals and coins but of major bodies of water. Pre-capitalism corresponds with the Mediterranean. Modern capitalism corresponds with the Atlantic. Postmodern capitalism, with the Pacific. The first is linked with theology; the second, with philosophy; the third, with political economy. The first, is linked with humanism; the second, modernity; the third, globalization.
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The first monkey typing on a keyboard is linked with a banana. The second, with religion. The third, with modern architecture. This is turn presages the molecules Brownian motion as metaphor for markets, while the Quarkian Revolution is the proletarian disjuncture, which even a monkey cannot comprehend. Not even with its prehensile and pretentios tale. For they are condmened always to envy the computer, which is destroyed only by the seas and oceans we drop one into.
the Phoenicians in inventing the alphabet thus created precapitalism and capitalism and its destruction.
That's why they call it "capital" letters . . . .and it is impossible for the typing monkey to know she must hit shift. In this they are despicable.
the Phoenicians in inventing the alphabet thus created precapitalism and capitalism and its destruction.
That's why they call it "capital" letters . . . .and it is impossible for the typing monkey to know she must hit shift. In this they are despicable.
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That's supra-Hegelian in its Derridean toothiness yet, reminding us of yesterday's meatloaf dreams, as winsome as a fleabag coffee waitress' engagement ring and as tight as the scrotum on a celibate pig.
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If you don't understand the interactions of water molecules you can never, ever, ever understand the sea. Either you have made a deeply flawed metaphor, or you are a shallow armchair philosopher.
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MY NAME IS KARLES MUDDY AND I DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW THINGS AXTUALLY WERK. THUS,
I NEED A PHILO MAN WHO GRAPPLES WIT ONOTLOGICAL LARGESS AND LARGENESS TO HELPZ ME WIT MY OWN DEFICIENCIES. I MASK DIS WEEKNESS WIT A DISCUSSION OF THE IMPORTANCE OF LARRGGE VS. THE SMALLNESS OF MY WEE.
KARLES, CAN U REED? KARLES, CAN U TINK? KARLES, CAN U BLEED?
IF U WANNA BE REAL I COULD SUGGEST SOME BOOKS FOR U 2 PERUSE. THAT MIGHT HELPPER MORR THAN THE LARGE SIZE LEGO BLOX 4 MONGOLOIDS UVE BEEN TWERKING WITH.
I NEED A PHILO MAN WHO GRAPPLES WIT ONOTLOGICAL LARGESS AND LARGENESS TO HELPZ ME WIT MY OWN DEFICIENCIES. I MASK DIS WEEKNESS WIT A DISCUSSION OF THE IMPORTANCE OF LARRGGE VS. THE SMALLNESS OF MY WEE.
KARLES, CAN U REED? KARLES, CAN U TINK? KARLES, CAN U BLEED?
IF U WANNA BE REAL I COULD SUGGEST SOME BOOKS FOR U 2 PERUSE. THAT MIGHT HELPPER MORR THAN THE LARGE SIZE LEGO BLOX 4 MONGOLOIDS UVE BEEN TWERKING WITH.
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