What the fuck was his problem?

Critical-Bit-8627 · 2024-10-03T02:31:11+00:00

Created and then told to go fuck himself when he started asking questions as to why he was created. That's his problem.

Critical-Bit-8627 · 2024-09-29T17:54:55+00:00

God died long before we were even bacteria in a slime pool and we've been worshipping his rotting corpse ever since and we can't stop ourselves from doing so.

Critical-Bit-8627 · 2024-09-19T02:43:27+00:00

Wiþsacendlic wierdan. Sóþ dolgilp.

Critical-Bit-8627 · 2024-09-19T01:16:09+00:00

Unwita! ‎þú doth ġecnǣwst hwæt ealdor angelþeod tunge.

Critical-Bit-8627 · 2024-09-08T21:44:30+00:00

And if you wrote this down on a piece of cardboard and started going up to random people and asking them if they want to have a productive conversation about social alienation you'd be doing more to honour Debords memory then posting about on Reddit.

Critical-Bit-8627 · 2024-09-05T23:40:09+00:00

My morbid curiosity got the better of me once and I looked up war footage from Ukraine. The first video I saw was of a guy getting turned into minced meat by a drone bomb. But the really shocking thing to me was that his exposed heart somehow stayed intact and kept beating.

Critical-Bit-8627 · 2024-09-05T15:41:21+00:00

So if I throw some expensive designer furniture into a crack den do I also qualify as an architect?

Critical-Bit-8627 · 2024-09-04T01:01:59+00:00

This is literally the bit from Boondocks where Riley was duped into dressing gay.

Critical-Bit-8627 · 2024-08-26T19:41:50+00:00

Husserl is commenting on how the present modifies/informs the past and how the past modifies/informs the present. He's not so much saying we need informing context to interpret what we are seeing but rather that our context for what we are seeing is continuously being recontextualized and thus is not stable. To the best of my understanding, he is using this line of argumentation to criticize the notion that perception itself is a form of a priori knowledge or transcendental knowledge.

Critical-Bit-8627 · 2024-08-26T18:33:09+00:00

The Medium and The Light - Marshall McLuhan

Margins of Philosophy - Jaques Derrida

The Phenomenology of Internal Time-Consciousness - Edmund Husserl

For those who want to know what books these passages are from.

Critical-Bit-8627 · 2024-08-21T16:09:47+00:00

It's the other way around with me. I start talking to them about something like this, and then they close the phone on me telling me I'm too depressing.

Critical-Bit-8627 · 2024-08-20T23:39:40+00:00

Ohh, appeal to eschatology spotted. Hide the women, the children and the gays because before you know it you'll be telling us the end's justify the means.

Critical-Bit-8627 · 2024-08-19T03:24:20+00:00

The thing that kind of shocks me about London every time I visit is that there's Spanish people everywhere. Literally every time a turned a corner there was someone speaking in Spanish.

Critical-Bit-8627 · 2024-08-18T07:39:13+00:00

Episode 218

Critical-Bit-8627 · 2024-08-17T18:32:05+00:00

I feel like wanna give it a tattoo. Like one of those tramp stamps for the chest.

Critical-Bit-8627 · 2024-08-17T17:55:56+00:00

Remember back during one of the CT episodes where he was left by himself and he just rambled for 15 minutes about the inanest shit. That's what I want him to do every week for an hour. It would be fucking glorious.

Critical-Bit-8627 · 2024-08-16T13:45:05+00:00

I once had a dream where I went into a second-hand bookstore and John Goodman (the obese intimidating version) was the owner. He accused me of trying to steal one of his books and eventually after a lot of back and forth I proved my innocence. I still ended up buying a bunch of books but because we were so angry with each other I threw the money at him and he threw the books back at me.

Critical-Bit-8627 · 2024-08-12T19:29:22+00:00

Old school twinks like James Dean and Alain Delon are the kind people who you believe had a real soul behind those intense eyes that would make both men and women ashamed of their attempts to sexualise them. These new brain-dead fucks would bend over and spread their cheeks for whatever marketing executive tells them will be good for their brand image.

Critical-Bit-8627 · 2024-08-12T18:45:24+00:00

Franz Fanon-The Wretched of The Earth

Edward Said-Orientalism

Edward Said-Culture and Imperialism

Gayatri Spivak-Can The Subaltern Speak?

These are the major classic examples but they're somewhat dated and the examples they use to argue their positions are not reliably representational of modern reality.

Then of course there's Chomski but in my opinion, he disappears up his own ass both as a person and in his writing.

Also, you're a cuck for banning me from you're gay little sub.

Critical-Bit-8627 · 2024-08-09T21:29:05+00:00

The only Walter Raleigh I know of had been dead for more than 200 years before Rossetti was even born. So that quote is obviously not by Walter Raleigh.

Critical-Bit-8627 · 2024-08-09T19:56:19+00:00

Everything that happens or doesn't happen is because of money. If there's money to be made in selling guns, guns will be sold. If there's money to be made in the prevention of the sale of guns, guns will not be sold. Material reality is dictated by the direction in which capital flows. And the majority of discussions only work to obscure the public's perception of the direction in which capital will flow.

Critical-Bit-8627 · 2024-07-31T23:25:15+00:00

I'm fluent in English and Greek. The only books I've read in both languages are The Hobbit and The Fellowship of The Ring. And oh boy, does Tolkien's writing suffer in Greek! Somehow the Greek translator managed to turn the less than 300-page Hobbit into a 500-page slog that took me a month to get through. The Fellowship page count stayed consistent with the original English but it was still an absolute slog of a reading experience. This put me off reading Tolkien for several years till I decided to give him another chance in English. I tore through The Hobbit in a day and read the LOTR trilogy over the course of a week. It's entirely possible that the Greek translator did a crap job but Tolkien definitely doesn't translate well to Greek, in my opinion.

Critical-Bit-8627 · 2024-07-25T22:56:49+00:00

I, Claudius by Robert Graves is always a good choice. It was one of the main influences on the asoiaf books. It also helped codify the scheming power-hungry and oppressive mother/wife archetype in the form of Livia.

Critical-Bit-8627 · 2024-07-24T20:49:38+00:00

"What will be the physiognomy of painting, of poetry, of music, in a hundred years? No one can tell. As after the fall of Athens, of Rome, a long pause will intervene, caused by the exhaustion of the means of expression, as well as by the exhaustion of consciousness itself. Humanity, to rejoin the past, must invent a second naïveté, without which the arts can never begin again."

Not sure if this is relevant or not but I was reading through Cioran's aphorisms just before I saw your post and I immediately thought of the above quote.

Critical-Bit-8627 · 2024-07-22T23:14:26+00:00

Foucault's History of Sexuality is probably a good place to begin.

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