random thoughts on a cold sunday night

[leezyfosheezy]

i had a nice, long talk with jesse tonight about the mutual feeling we both have that everything we do is seemingly without purpose. if the purpose is there, it is invisible to us, and as such it is incredibly hard to get motivated to do anything at all. it's terrible, really. this is how it's been since i can remember, but i've had enough stuff to

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[maddict]

This has gotten long enough. I hope you'll be able to detect some of the places where I'm a little vague or especially negotiable, to help inform a response. It's not that professional philosophers have all set in stone the answers to the questions you're asking--it's just that the same old eternal conversations are taking place in highly sophisticated and esoteric terms, and the last twenty to thirty years truly have had an unprecedentedly profound impact on how critical we are of our assumptions. This has as much to do with Nietzsche as it does with whole populations of nonwhite, nonmale, nonlanded people joining in on the conversation by gaining access to public education and public communication around this time. The Great Conversation, as it used to be called, has been paralleled and compromised and intermixed with dozens of other discourses, with no one overarching discourse to bang a gavel or burn a bush. The history of philosophy and the philosophy of history will always be dancing.

[maddict]

also, turn your speakers up

http://www.jesuscampthemovie.com/

i bootlegged a copy we need to watch SOONAGE