memories
So I've been trying to catch up on all this crap that happened on the fringe communities. A lot of it was pretty fucking funny, and I think the recent meltdowns indicate that LJ-philosophy has the capacity to become quantitatively more entertaining as time goes on. That being said, I found this thread particularly amusing, though not for obvious reasons.
You know, I remember a nanikore who didn’t used to have such a jaded view of philosophy. You know how nanikore tries to talk with a kind of affected internet drawl? You know, “howdy folks, ya gotta be practical!”, that sort of thing? He didn’t always write that way. Yes, back in the day, nanikore would use any jargon he could get his hands on, he would invent words of his own, and he didn’t sound like he was trying to imitate the President.
Not only that, but he took philosophy very seriously. He would post to the philosophy communities constantly to promote his writings. He even had his own website where you could read about the various “isms” he’d invented, and he seemed to devote a considerable amount of time writing these things, and even more time trying to get people on livejournal to read them. He made all kinds of visual diagrams and everything. He spent a lot of time on it. He quoted Heidegger, Hegel, the works, and seemed to think as though he had stumbled on something very original. And not only did he think so, he wanted everyone else to think so, too.
The problem was that no one did. His philosophical writings were poorly constructed and were full of generalizations and assumptions that he was never willing to defend. His use of language itself wasn’t very good either, though probably by no fault of his own. In any case, while a lot of people liked his creativity, no one really saw what was so great about nanikore’s home-made philosophy. In fact, people would trash it pretty often, or ignore it altogether.
What happened to that nanikore? Isn’t it weird how nanikore stopped promoting his own philosophical views around the same time that he decided that philosophy was a “joke”? Just a coincidence? Let’s consider the possibilities:
a.) nanikore had a revelation, possibly Christ-inspired, that philosophy was useless, even though that never presented a problem for him in the past.
or
b.) nanikore was tired of seeing his half-baked ideas and silly websites trashed, and decided to take it out on philosophy itself.
What’s more likely? See, nanikore is a person who’s come to the conclusion that if his personal philosophy doesn’t deserve to be taken seriously, then no philosophy deserves to be taken seriously. His entire “be practical” schtick is just a rhetorical band-aid for his internet boo-boo. Poor guy.
You know, I remember a nanikore who didn’t used to have such a jaded view of philosophy. You know how nanikore tries to talk with a kind of affected internet drawl? You know, “howdy folks, ya gotta be practical!”, that sort of thing? He didn’t always write that way. Yes, back in the day, nanikore would use any jargon he could get his hands on, he would invent words of his own, and he didn’t sound like he was trying to imitate the President.
Not only that, but he took philosophy very seriously. He would post to the philosophy communities constantly to promote his writings. He even had his own website where you could read about the various “isms” he’d invented, and he seemed to devote a considerable amount of time writing these things, and even more time trying to get people on livejournal to read them. He made all kinds of visual diagrams and everything. He spent a lot of time on it. He quoted Heidegger, Hegel, the works, and seemed to think as though he had stumbled on something very original. And not only did he think so, he wanted everyone else to think so, too.
The problem was that no one did. His philosophical writings were poorly constructed and were full of generalizations and assumptions that he was never willing to defend. His use of language itself wasn’t very good either, though probably by no fault of his own. In any case, while a lot of people liked his creativity, no one really saw what was so great about nanikore’s home-made philosophy. In fact, people would trash it pretty often, or ignore it altogether.
What happened to that nanikore? Isn’t it weird how nanikore stopped promoting his own philosophical views around the same time that he decided that philosophy was a “joke”? Just a coincidence? Let’s consider the possibilities:
a.) nanikore had a revelation, possibly Christ-inspired, that philosophy was useless, even though that never presented a problem for him in the past.
or
b.) nanikore was tired of seeing his half-baked ideas and silly websites trashed, and decided to take it out on philosophy itself.
What’s more likely? See, nanikore is a person who’s come to the conclusion that if his personal philosophy doesn’t deserve to be taken seriously, then no philosophy deserves to be taken seriously. His entire “be practical” schtick is just a rhetorical band-aid for his internet boo-boo. Poor guy.