Kaitlyn urged me to write something on her father's blog. Lepidus and his friend Frank are unregenerated neanderthals who never understand what I am saying. In the interest of helping Frank and Lepidus' readers evolve, I have finally relented. You see, I teach several sections of my course on existentialism. It wasn't easy to find the time for this exercise.
The beauty of existentialism is that it has no constraining element of "truth." Truth is always the interest of the stronger. Frank and Lepidus also seem to have a bizarre idea that there is some unchanging standard of right and wrong. Lastly, they have a bourgeois idea that there are provable facts.
How do these two know things for certain? What one person chooses to believe is right or correct is entirely subjective. One ultimately must accept authority rather than seek out something as being true or right. This obsession with reason and theory is the basis for capitalist thinkers. This principle is particularly significant in a world whose magnificent exterior radiates complete unity and order while panic and distress prevail beneath. Autocrats, cruel colonial governors, and sadistic prison wardens have always wished for visitors with this positivistic mentality. If science as a whole follows the lead of empiricism and the intellect renounces its insistant and confident probing of the tangled brush of observations in order to unearth more about the world than even our well-meaning daily press, it will be participating passively in the maintenance of universal injustice. Thinking hard about facts is a right-wing way of life based on fantasy.
The beauty of existentialism is that it has no constraining element of "truth." Truth is always the interest of the stronger. Frank and Lepidus also seem to have a bizarre idea that there is some unchanging standard of right and wrong. Lastly, they have a bourgeois idea that there are provable facts.
How do these two know things for certain? What one person chooses to believe is right or correct is entirely subjective. One ultimately must accept authority rather than seek out something as being true or right. This obsession with reason and theory is the basis for capitalist thinkers. This principle is particularly significant in a world whose magnificent exterior radiates complete unity and order while panic and distress prevail beneath. Autocrats, cruel colonial governors, and sadistic prison wardens have always wished for visitors with this positivistic mentality. If science as a whole follows the lead of empiricism and the intellect renounces its insistant and confident probing of the tangled brush of observations in order to unearth more about the world than even our well-meaning daily press, it will be participating passively in the maintenance of universal injustice. Thinking hard about facts is a right-wing way of life based on fantasy.
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