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GM NOSTR.
We started a book club, studying Philosophy, guided by the brothers erikcason (nprofile…29av) & jesseposner (nprofile…8q5w)
The first book by Giorgio Agamben, is Homo Sacer - Sovereign Power and Bare Life.
One of the first pages I see this quote:
“Only within a biopolitical horizon will it be possible to decide whether the categories whose opposition founded modern politics (right/ left, private/ public, absolutism/ democracy, etc.) - and which have been steadily dissolving, to the point of entering today into a real zone of indistinction - will have to be abandoned or will, instead, eventually regain the meaning they lost in that very horizon.”
And I can’t help but think, there’s largely two reasons for the idiocracy we see today.
One is heightening time preference from the money printer, mixed with technological abuse and dopamine addicts who have short attention spans.
The other, is also because of the money printer, which is academia and communications network persistently push propaganda to justify xyz - and in doing so, have bastardized and confused nearly every descriptive term we use today.
It’s so hard to have a meaningful conversation in modernity, because even though we use the same terms, people have different understandings and applications of the term itself. It’s like the Tower of Babel, but within one set of language and it’s incredibly frustrating.
We started a book club, studying Philosophy, guided by the brothers erikcason (nprofile…29av) & jesseposner (nprofile…8q5w)
The first book by Giorgio Agamben, is Homo Sacer - Sovereign Power and Bare Life.
One of the first pages I see this quote:
“Only within a biopolitical horizon will it be possible to decide whether the categories whose opposition founded modern politics (right/ left, private/ public, absolutism/ democracy, etc.) - and which have been steadily dissolving, to the point of entering today into a real zone of indistinction - will have to be abandoned or will, instead, eventually regain the meaning they lost in that very horizon.”
And I can’t help but think, there’s largely two reasons for the idiocracy we see today.
One is heightening time preference from the money printer, mixed with technological abuse and dopamine addicts who have short attention spans.
The other, is also because of the money printer, which is academia and communications network persistently push propaganda to justify xyz - and in doing so, have bastardized and confused nearly every descriptive term we use today.
It’s so hard to have a meaningful conversation in modernity, because even though we use the same terms, people have different understandings and applications of the term itself. It’s like the Tower of Babel, but within one set of language and it’s incredibly frustrating.