Written by: Simian
ah, israel. Just another justification for my thesis that religious belief should be treated the same as any other mental illness. But that's another discussion entirely...
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
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Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, p408
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Capitalism is defined by a cruelty having no parallel in the primitive system of cruelty, and by a terror having no parallel in the despotic regime of terror. Wage increases and improvements in the standard of living are realities, but realities that derive from a given supplementary axiom that capitalism is always capable of adding to its axiomatic in terms of an enlargement of its limits… But within the enlarged reality that conditions these islands, exploitation grows constantly harsher, lack is arranged in the most scientific of ways, final solutions of the Jewish problem variety are prepared down to the last detail, and the third world is organised as an integral part of capitalism. The reproduction of the interior limits of capitalism on an always wider scale has several consequences: it permits increases and improvements of standards at the centre, it displaces the harshest forms of exploitation from the centre to the periphery, but also multiplies enclaves of overpopulation in the centre itself, and easily tolerates the so-called socialist formations… There is no metaphor here: the factories are prisons, they do not resemble prisons, they are prisons.
That hardly seems to be sitting on the political fence.
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Capitalism encourages inequality and exploitation; therefore it leads to the majority being disaffected, and is set up so that the system perpetuates this.
"Moo," said the happy cow.
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Capitalism encourages inequality and exploitation; therefore it leads to the majority being disaffected, and is set up so that the system perpetuates this.
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this doesn't make sense. Capitalism is a system that petuates the dissaffection of the majority??? If the majority was perpetually dissaffected the system would be rapidly replaced. Unless rule was maintained by overt despotic repression.
Perhaps some reading on the manufacture of consent, or even some basic working knowledge of ideology and hegemony would help you out here (don't worry - none of this has anything to do with 'postmodernism')
yet more evidence that you fail to comprehend even the simplest of political or philosophical arguments.He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Nietzsche
The insults of your enemy are a tribute to your bravery
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yet more evidence that you fail to comprehend even the simplest of political or philosophical arguments.
According to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle of Quantum Dynamics, we may already be making love right now...
"Moo," said the happy cow.
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Capitalism is defined by a cruelty having no parallel in the primitive system of cruelty, and by a terror having no parallel in the despotic regime of terror.
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Wage increases and improvements in the standard of living are realities, but realities that derive from a given supplementary axiom that capitalism is always capable of adding to its axiomatic in terms of an enlargement of its limits
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But within the enlarged reality that conditions these islands, exploitation grows constantly harsher, lack is arranged in the most scientific of ways, final solutions of the Jewish problem variety are prepared down to the last detail, and the third world is organised as an integral part of capitalism.
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the reproduction of the interior limits of capitalism on an always wider scale has several consequences: it permits increases and improvements of standards at the centre, it displaces the harshest forms of exploitation from the centre to the periphery, but also multiplies enclaves of overpopulation in the centre itself, and easily tolerates the so-called socialist formations…
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my concern is explicitly political: to combat a currently fashionable postmodernist/poststructuralist/social-constructivist discourse -- and more generally a penchant for subjectivism -- which is, I believe, inimical to the values of the left
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Capitalism encourages inequality and exploitation; therefore it leads to the majority being disaffected, and is set up so that the system perpetuates this.
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Surely the majority are disaffected, but kept in place by things like the American Dream i.e. the idea they can rise to the top.
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'Whence Reich’s cry: no, the masses The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still the one the Spinoza saw so clearly, and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered: ‘Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?’ How can people possibly reach the point of shouting ‘More taxes less bread.’
...The masses were not innocent dupes; at a certain point, under a certain set of conditions, they wanted fascism, and it is this perversion of the desire of the masses that needs to be taken into account.
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So far what I've heard from post-modernism is that science has trouble with fluid dynamics because most scientists are male and of course males understand hard things better than fluid things which women understand better because of the physical differences in their physical sexual responces.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Nietzsche
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A flurry of recent popular feminist books has interpreted the development of Western science in terms of male chauvinism and aggression against women, notes chemist Noretta Koertge, a historian of science at Indiana University in Bloomington.
At the AAAS meeting, she cited one radical feminist interpretation of why fluid dynamics matured as a research discipline much later than mechanics of solids. Men were more comfortable working with rigid environments, which reflect their "sex organs that protrude and become rigid," Koertge recounted. In contrast, early scientists associated fluidity with women and their menstrual blood and vaginal secretions. "In the same way that women are erased within masculinist theories and language, existing only as not-men, so fluids had been erased from science, existing only as not- solids," she explained.
"Moo," said the happy cow.
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Neither quantum theory nor chaos theory say there's no order in the world;
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I'm no expert on these things, but a common "post-modern" theme seems to be the rejection of external truth.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Nietzsche
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While I understand that your religious views will neccesitate your support for old Rene, I'd be surprised to see Jeff and Spiral arguing for the existence of a transcendent human spirit... I never had them down as vitalists.
"Moo," said the happy cow.
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While I understand that your religious views will neccesitate your support for old Rene, I'd be surprised to see Jeff and Spiral arguing for the existence of a transcendent human spirit... I never had them down as vitalists.
What are you talking about? I think it's blatently clear neither Jeff nor I are vitalists; what a ridiculous strawman.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Nietzsche
"Moo," said the happy cow.
According to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle of Quantum Dynamics, we may already be making love right now...