Tread lightly and carry birdseed

[ageofscience]

I have been having the best days ever lately. My new philosophy about life is that every day when I wake up I have to decide what would be the awesomest thing I could do that day, and then I do that thing. I am of the opinion that more people should try this plan.

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[a_clear_job]

While I was at the park, I also learned that the way to get boyfriends is to wear miniskirts and read Camus. Over the course of my reading, three seperate dudes sidled up to me to start discussions about French intellectualism. So, seriously. Camus. Who knew? The real question is, will this also work on York marxists?

forget marxism. the golden triangle is too self-absorbed in its own crapulent, navel-watching culture of entitlement to worry about the po'mo' relativistic philosophies of marx. the very ironic fact that the GTA is the archetypal embodiment of post-modern relativism - witness the desire to introduce sharia law into ontario courts - just serves to prove how laughably "marxist" they are. they cannot even offer an unbiased perspective of basic societal tenets such as criminal law; the new-age marxists dismiss the notion of universal morals by affirming (rightly or wrongly - it's a moot point) that law is nothing more than a language of relationship of command/control. philosophically "right" or "wrong", endorsing such an ideology only serves to promote human-rights-violating-"laws" in the international community, such as the death penalty, abortion-bans, female circumcision, security certificates, and i could go on.

and english boys tend to snub camus. better pick up nietzsche. if i randomly saw you as a stranger in the park, wearing a mini-skirt and reading thus spoke zarathustra, i too might be tempted to strike up a conversation. :P

[ageofscience]

Okay, the Nietzsche thing is totally a lie! I've been down with Friedrich for years and no strangers have ever approached to initiate conversation. Camus, as it stands, has a way better track rate. I think I have to stick with the absurdism.

Anyway, I definitely don't advocate marxist philosophy, at all, but I admittedly find it a very wholesome and adorable worldview. I disagree with them fundamentally but they tend to be good people. Plus there are many marxists in the more critical / Frankfurt School kind of vein who actually really have their shit together and whose philosophical standpoint has little, if anything, to do with their perspective on state politics. Mostly, I feel like York is just known for being an exceedingly marxist school, too, so if you can't beat 'em... etc.

[a_clear_job]

Mostly, I feel like York is just known for being an exceedingly marxist school, too, so if you can't beat 'em... etc.

right, when in rome and all that... ...that's why i say throw away the camus. speaking from experience, english boys (seemingly) have far less patience for absurdism than our french counterparts. :P

[a_clear_job]

I've been down with Friedrich for years and no strangers have ever approached to initiate conversation.

i am so down with friedrich that i dropped a third year class at ottawa U after the professor decided to "skip nietzsche" because we didn't have enough time in the semester (after wasting far too much time on kierkegaard).

the nietzsche thing is totally not a lie! :)

[a_clear_job]

in fact, i am soooooo down with nietzsche that i watch gene roddenberry's Andromeda religiously on the space channel - despite the ever-annoying presence of kevin sorbo - if only because the show has a race of "superior beings" called the Nietzschians, and they follow nietzsche's philosophies. :)

[ageofscience]

Sometimes I think I really need to know more about sci fi. This is pretty much one of those times.

[a_clear_job]

there's no "sometimes" or "think" about it! you really need to know more about sci fi! :D

[ageofscience]

What? I wish my theory classes at Ottawa U "wasted" time on Kierkegaard. It's certainly preferable to spending half semesters entirely on the social contract thinkers :( I don't think Soren got more than a casual name drop or two over the course of my time there.

[a_clear_job]

it was a 3rd year course, existentialism and phenomenology, prof. sonia sikka. about 8 or 9 years ago now. geez i feel old. it's not a personal thing against soren (although after about a month, it became a personal thing), i just strongly feel that if you're going to teach a 3rd year course called existentialism and phenomenology, it should bloody well include nietzsche. if it had been a general philosophy course, maybe i would have understanded, but i felt like i was not getting the course that i signed up for.