Spirit of Anthropos

The Spirit of Anthropos

[anthropologeist]

It would be interesting to see what some of the old philosophy people on here from a decade ago are doing today. I know some have gone literally psychotic, there's a guy who became a Nazi, a girl who killed herself...

[estrellasrojas]

During the 2010s people talked about internet pipelines to fascism but that was mostly just a thing for already very online nerdy people obsessed with politics. Now it feels like everything on social media is genuinely Hitlerization hypnotism except it’s not epic debatebros talking about shit in a way only a professional gamer could be invested in, it’s aesthetics and slop appealing to the desire to surrender to domination to feel stability and security. Like the trad wife shit, the alpha males, the Christian slop, the motivational content, the pop philosophy shit that’s promoting the fascistized version of Stoicism or Nietzsche, etc. And of course it’s usually being done to shill for some scam as well lmao

[anthropologeist]

log on, see idiot communists supporting Hamas, log off.

[anthropologeist]

biggest mistake of ID-pol leftists, now playing out: tying people to their "ancestral" land.

[anthropologeist]

It's my natural tendency to be too generous with money.

Like that one time I met someone here and consistently paid for their meals because they didn't have money, only for them to buy books with me afterward. lol.

[anthropologeist]

I'm a bitch about what I consider to be "good" philosophy (i.e. phenomenology) due to all the sacrifices I've had to make in my life to pursue a career in philosophy.

I resent how institutionally inaccessible phenomenology was to me as a student. I'm not going to go easier on people who are unreflective in this discipline. It does a disservice to my pursuit of truth.

[anthropologeist]

phenomenology post-ai will teach us:

-the experience of truth cannot be given except by the thinker himself: no one can think for you.

-judgment remains immanent to the thinker.

-we cannot trust the world as it is given; the possibility of deepfakes only reveals the uncritical nature of our prior belief

[anthropologeist]

National liberation is NOT class liberation.

[anthropologeist]

maybe I'd get a better job if I did ~decolonizing AI~ research

[anthropologeist]

Log into tumblr and the first thing is a lesbian separatism post. I see tumblr is still filled with trash.

[anthropologeist]

it’s funny how so many influential TERFs from back in the 2014 or so period ended up transitioning to anti-feminism and now talk about “natural” gender roles of men and women.

I suppose the reactionary mind works in mysterious ways.

[anthropologeist]

My college needs to stop asking me to donate to Ukraine. Ukraine needs to donate to *me*.

[anthropologeist]

the places I work at won’t give me a first-round interview for a tenure track job but will happily pay me 2% of my students’ tuition for that class to teach it as an adjunct.

[anthropologeist]

what was the subject of your phd?

I wrote a dissertation on Kant's antinomies of pure reason. I use Hegel to argue that they can't be solved.

[anthropologeist]

academic philosophy jobs are now effectively restricted to “ethics of AI” (a field that doesn’t even exist) or “philosophy of gender/race.” there’s no future for me.

[pastperfectcontinuous]

bell hooks mentioned going through a time in her life where she was severely depressed and suicidal and how the only way she got through it was through changing her environment: She surrounded her home with buddhas of all colors, Audre Lorde’s A Litany for Survival facing her as she wakes up, and filling the space she saw everyday with reinforcing objects and meaningful books. She asks herself each day, “What are you going to do today to resist domination?” I also really liked it when she said that in order to move from pain to power, it is crucial to engage in “an active rewriting of our lives.”

[mysharona1987]

Know a distraction when you see one.