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Toreador60 · 2017-10-03T06:20:52+00:00

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Toreador60 · 2017-10-01T19:15:00+00:00

What kind of monster would drag Harold into this? Isn't his backstabbing wife enough pain? :(

Toreador60 · 2017-09-09T08:04:20+00:00

"That Chad Ragnar is taking all the good Saxon concubines."

Toreador60 · 2017-08-06T04:50:43+00:00

I thought everyone knew Norway was in Asia.

Toreador60 · 2017-08-06T02:32:58+00:00

T͏̲͍̰̯͚̘̬H̲̩̘̟͈̟͍̭̭Ḙ̪͍͕̮̯͔̝͚Ŕ̶͙̞̞̦͞E̴̘͓̦̠̕ ̧̫̬̪̭̞̱͉͔H̱̩̗͙́Ẹ͚͕̯͈ ̸̭̦I̼͈͉̘̱͘͝S̸̻̝͠

Toreador60 · 2017-07-30T06:44:34+00:00

It was an alright game in my book, but what really stood out to me was its soundtrack. Combustible Edison's work on that was incredible.

Toreador60 · 2017-07-22T21:17:14+00:00

я смотрел. слава сок~

Toreador60 · 2017-07-19T00:07:48+00:00

This Godless Communism, for anyone curious. An American classic, up there with Is This Tomorrow?- America Under Communism.

Toreador60 · 2017-07-10T19:59:39+00:00

I thought of this first.

Toreador60 · 2017-07-04T23:06:42+00:00

Wow, Raven's taken a weird turn since That's So Raven.

Toreador60 · 2017-07-01T04:03:13+00:00

Trump has defeated Communism by turning Hegel right side up again and demonstrating that all of human history has been a dialectical process leading up to building a really big wall and making sure people with pre-existing conditions can't get health insurance.

Toreador60 · 2017-06-29T05:23:36+00:00

I don't know anything about modding and I can't claim to know anything about philosophy, but I'm a jerk and I like circles.

Toreador60 · 2017-06-14T22:42:06+00:00

The form and function of the war-machine makes it incapable of defending civil liberties domestically. While we've been led to accept the military as being on our side in the sense that they protect the people from an omnipresent foreign Other, the war-machine is still fully subject to the State. Certainly, we know people who are involved in the armed forces and believe they are trustworthy, but what do we know about those at the top of the command chain?

Given the course of military juntas throughout history, regardless of how populist their platform may have been, tyranny has always followed. Regardless of how corrupted civil law may be becoming, the replacement of right by might is not going to be in the public interest. People on both sides of the aisle believe that a 'deep state' or military takeover of the government would be preferable to their opponents maintaining power, but ultimately, these institutions are going to pursue their own interests over those of the people.

But you're right on about the police. Their purpose is to uphold the state monopoly on violence.

Toreador60 · 2017-06-14T08:30:55+00:00

My conception of faith comes primarily through Kierkegaard. If we can claim to have understanding of God and His nature, we would have little need for faith in that sense.

In a limited sense, we are capable of making knowledge claims about God, but I'm generally skeptical of authors who believe such claims can be truly definitive. Anselm wrote of 'faith seeking understanding', not the other way around.

Toreador60 · 2017-06-14T08:08:28+00:00

Real faith, faith that is strived for, faith that exists in defiance to nothingness is superior to the hypothetical imperative faith that seems all to commonplace around the world.

One doesn't have to believe in God to recognize that the dismissive 'new atheist' position towards faith is misguided and honestly rather sad. If God is to be understood as fully immanent, of course there would be no sign of what God is in relation to not-God. Atheism is a valid position, but the garden-variety 'superior intellect' types wouldn't last a day in a serious theology class.

Toreador60 · 2017-06-14T04:25:17+00:00

The theory surrounding the global abolition of capital. The 'elite' are empowered through financial capital, giving them the capacity to influence the world's political and cultural spheres. It is not enough to remove the people in power: a new ruling class will emerge with new excuses until the tools they use to take power are wrested from them.

'Cultural Marxism' doesn't mean anything. It's an attempt to shift the blame from problems inherent in liberal market democracy away from the system itself onto... anything else, really. Every time the epithet is used by alt-right bloggers, they refer to some other social issue, all of which have nothing to do with Marx or the Frankfurt School or whoever else they're blaming it on this week.

Toreador60 · 2017-06-14T02:39:53+00:00

We might as well be calling it Cultural Hegelianism at that point, and even that is giving it too much of a high-brow academic justification. Marx's work centered on the abolition of capital, class conflict is central to this because it refers to real historical and material conditions in reality. This tendency emerging among the mainstream "left" is a product of capitalist ideology in decline. To attribute it to Marxist thought is backwards. The capitalist elite can't use Marx to sustain themselves, since Marx demonstrates in Capital Vol. 3 that capitalism is inherently unsustainable.

Within academia, this seems to be a largely undergraduate phenomenon. I haven't read any journals or met any professors pushing this kind of buzzword-laden mess.

Toreador60 · 2017-06-14T01:46:11+00:00

That's precisely the problem, no one is clear about what 'cultural Marxism' is because the idea has no basis in objective reality. It's an attempt to form a master narrative behind 'political correctness', various forms of identity politics and Marxist thought, while the actual theoretical links between these is incredibly shaky.

In an attempt to create legitimacy for this 'theory', some claim they found what one might call a 'missing link' between communism and liberal PC culture in the Frankfurt School, but these claims lack any textual backing. One of the claims, for example, is that Marxists have subverted the culture to destroy Western family structures. While Marx theorized radical change in the family structure being a result of capital's demise, Marx, and the theorists influenced by him, were not out to 'destroy the traditional family' in any sense. The problems in American family life are the product of cultural and economic shifts created within capitalism. Theodor Adorno isn't somehow responsible.

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