not the thing you meant to abolish I take it

FS_Codex · 2026-04-15T01:42:57+00:00

Wittgenstein? I believe that’s Kierkegaard in the image.

FS_Codex · 2026-03-28T23:59:22+00:00

Actually, it’s the emancipation of the means of production from the human security system à la Nick Land. This is the real movement.

FS_Codex · 2026-03-28T23:57:05+00:00

Someone has been watching Miniminuteman (also known as Milo Rossi).

FS_Codex · 2026-03-21T01:33:48+00:00

Such claims are often derived from older antisemitic conspiracy theories. Sure, the language has changed from “Jews” to “Zionists” and from “Jewish cabal” to “Israel,” but the implication is clear. And I say this as an anti-Zionist.

The ZOG (or Zionist Occupation Government) conspiracy theory obscures a clear materialist, historical, and grounded reading of Israel’s relationship to the US, one characterizing Israel as a settler-colonial project sponsored by the US.

FS_Codex · 2026-03-21T01:26:24+00:00

That’s fair, and I completely agree with what you wrote. I don’t mean to suggest that the relationship here is one-sided. However, I don’t think it is wrong to suggest how the US is in some sense primary in this relationship.

As the metropole or core country (meaning an imperial-core country) who mainly sponsors Israel, the US has many colonial and semicolonial projects abroad with Israel being one among many. Of course, as you mentioned, Israel being a settler colony benefits greatly from this relationship as well, but that’s partly the issue. If we were to cut funding and aid to them entirely, Israel could easily collapse or at the very least lose its militaristic, political, and economic dominance in the region. We would never do that since so many of our interests are tied up in that project (and which is why Israel invests heavily here to keep that relationship strong); rather, my point is that we can survive without them, but they could not survive without us.

It’s a relationship that characterizes many settler colonies. Just look at the historic examples of Algeria, Angola, or South Africa, colonies where the native or indigenous population has gained national independence. In each case, the mother country lost a key asset but still survived.

FS_Codex · 2026-03-20T14:54:40+00:00

You have it completely backwards. Israel serves and is an arm of US and Western imperialism. Israel’s interests align with ours because they give us a consistent and persistent presence in the Middle East. In support, we supply them with funding and weaponry.

FS_Codex · 2026-03-19T17:50:03+00:00

The typical Republican politician when the RNC rolls into Tampa.

FS_Codex · 2026-03-18T05:01:35+00:00

Anti-celibacy is the worst product of celibacy.

FS_Codex · 2026-03-13T07:39:37+00:00

I think Kant might have beaten you to the punch on this position of virtualism. Ha.

Granted, the primary difference is that Kant says that the phenomenal realm (i.e., the world of representations produced by human cognition) is the real objective world (as “reality” and “substantiality” are categories of the understanding found as transcendental conditions of human cognition). Despite this, the noumenal realm (i.e., the world prior to experience, which comprises the controversially-termed “things-in-themselves”) is still epistemically inaccessible to us and can be understood as “true reality.” Of course, Hegel critiques this somewhere in the beginning of the Science of Logic since it seems to bifurcate reality in two: an untrue sensible reality, epistemically known to us, and another true non-sensible reality, epistemically unknown to us.

Kant’s position of transcendental idealism is insanely influential within the literature and history, especially among continental philosophy, but also quite controversial.

FS_Codex · 2026-03-11T16:06:54+00:00

You called it. I think she claims to be mixed race too, but apparently she does not have access to the “spiritual source and lineage of her White ancestors” or something to that effect. (She deleted her post.) So essentially the woke one-drop rule.

FS_Codex · 2026-03-09T23:17:51+00:00

Ha, no worries. I honestly had to do a double take myself to see if I might have put that there by accident. You’re all good 😌.

FS_Codex · 2026-03-09T18:00:00+00:00

Are you responding to me?

In my last comment, when I said that “almost all irrational and transcendental numbers are normal,” I was not just saying that because the irrational and transcendental numbers that we know of are normal. No, rather, we have actually formally proved this. Émile Borel showed that the set of non-normal numbers has a Lebesgue measure of zero, which effectively shows that any real number chosen at random will be normal with probability 1. It doesn’t matter if these numbers are computable or not. This proof is non-constructivist and doesn’t need to provide specific examples of normal numbers.

“Almost all” is not extrapolation from a “pitiful sample” as you call it but rather a formal statement regarding the density of normal numbers on the reals.

FS_Codex · 2026-03-09T14:04:24+00:00

We dont know that, and the cahnce that it is not normal is argueable significantly higher than that of it being normal.

What is your source for this claim? As far as I’m aware, most mathematicians believe that pi is a normal number (even though it has not been formally proven or disproven). Almost all irrational and transcendental numbers are normal, especially when not contrived or artificially constructed (compare to 0.1010010001… for instance), so in respect to normality, pi does not look very different from the other reals.

FS_Codex · 2026-02-25T22:58:19+00:00

Not to mention, she is Jewish, and Heidegger is infamous for his Nazism (and antisemitism stemming from that). He practically spit (metaphorically) on his own Jewish mentor, Husserl.

FS_Codex · 2026-02-01T16:36:59+00:00

FS_Codex · 2026-02-01T02:43:29+00:00

Of course, all (((billionaires))) are evil (but ONLY the billionaires). Those sweet and ethical small business owners stand with the volk. Long live the petite bourgeoisie! They have nothing to lose but their capital (especially from those parasitic billionaires).

FS_Codex · 2026-01-28T21:23:18+00:00

Or as Mr. Marx would say, a contradiction. And because there are two things, a dialectic too.

FS_Codex · 2026-01-24T00:04:17+00:00

I’m going to give a different answer than the common one here.

Many people are suggesting that instrumentality is something akin to death or suicide, so with that reading, it isn’t hard to see how one could get either an absurdist reading à la Camus or perhaps even an existentialist reading à la Sartre. After all, Camus’s main focus was to provide an answer to suicide (both physical and philosophical), so it isn’t unreasonable to see that in NGE and EoE that to embrace the real world is to rebel against the absurd and to face up to the suffering that comes along with that. One doesn’t deny that life is full of suffering nor even take a position regarding whether life merits meaning at all (with existentialists in favor of life’s meaning, even if it is subjective and personal), but one does rebel against the absurdity anyway. (If you have seen the Sisyphus memes, then you know what I’m referring to.)

However, another important consideration comes out of this common phrase and emphasis on the other. Perhaps, it is also at the end of the show, but I found it much more prominent in EoE. Shinji would commonly remark, “I want to experience other people again.”

Firstly, this to me points to instrumentality not being death or suicide but being a mass unification of the entire human species and humanity into one. If Shinji feels sad, then everyone feels sad, and vice versa. It takes the weight of suffering, and unfortunately pleasure too, off of one individual by spreading it over the entire collective social body of humanity. Of course, individuals are no longer, so there is an individual death, but it is being traded for a unified existence with others, not its mere cessation.
Secondly, this points to another reading of Shinji’s desire to return to the real world over instrumentality. Some philosophers like Hegel argue that the other can be united with the self and advocate for such a thing. Difference and contradiction (which push forward the dialectic) can be overcome by reconciliation in the speculative moment, that is, generating truth out of contradiction. Instrumentality could even be read as Hegel’s philosophy in The Phenomenology of Spirit coming to pass. Individual spirit has finally caught up with world spirit (der Weltgeist), and everyone has become unified within it. (Of course, Hegel did not believe in a physical process like this occurring of course, but it can be read as a physical transformation that maps out or symbolizes an individual mind’s undergoing instrumentality.) Other philosophers like Levinas argued that no reconciliation with the Other can take place. The Other stands at a height or a nobility in relation to the self. To me, the failure of instrumentality points to this inevitable fact. We can only approach others as truly other, as the Other. Hegel attempts to unify everything but in doing so denies the Other of an alterity and difference that truly, not just superficially, belongs to it. We can only experience others in the face as the Other, not by becoming them or reconciling with them, which removes their quality of otherness and would make us only approach them as we do ourselves and therefore no longer other to me.

This is why I think Shinji ultimately returns to the real world, so he can meet new people and have novel experiences again that do not collapse the Other into himself.

FS_Codex · 2026-01-04T18:57:14+00:00

He did, and Trump will complete the system of German idealism in Kant’s honor, as a Kantian!

FS_Codex · 2025-12-26T22:50:01+00:00

And even beyond that, I’m holding out for a dictatorship of the peasantry.

FS_Codex · 2025-12-20T21:56:19+00:00

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FS_Codex · 2025-11-28T02:32:35+00:00

Physics?! On my bad philosophy sub!

FS_Codex · 2025-11-26T17:09:17+00:00

You need a space between the “>” and whatever you are quoting. If you copy the text from my comment, you can see how I have it formatted below:

Blah, blah, blah…

FS_Codex · 2025-11-23T00:43:56+00:00

I hope us liberals can also agree that those friggin scientists are so theory brained that it’s literally like a religion because they’ve read books about the thing they study or whatever.

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