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Originally Posted by dead_battery

the worst/most hilarious is when you see those philosophies spontaenously emerging in real life

i once listened to a woman tell me how although all these horrible things kept happening to her it was like good because then the dark comes with the light. a few hours later shes getting off with a teenager then crying in a bathroom.

we need a second fucking enlightenment. finance lessons, nutrition lessons, understanding of how the body actually works, what its ingredients are and what ingredients it needs. an understanding that what we consciously experience comes from a mechanical substrate that we can in fact alter with intelligently and not just abuse as hedonists or in tormented prayer!

according to some second-hand information i received (because i can't read habermas, too dense, maybe some day, i have the books here), habermas's response to nihilistic postmoderns is that the project of the enlightenment was never completed and we should try to finish it instead of bickering about the pointlessness of it all.

with this simple reduction (if i trust its source, my old advisor) of course i agree-- the enlightenment quickly became an excuse for imperialism. but it didn't have to be that way, did it?