Rats in the Attic

[thought criminal]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2769765528126140323

Hey Critics! The first 'witness' in this clip isn't one of your lot from the JREF Psychiatric Stink Camp, is it? He certainly sounds like one of your 'leaders'.

[Ignatz]

[A Sharp Major]

Hey, thought criminal.

Another truther has beaten you to posting the clip and the question/insinuation. Chek made an amusing reference to it in an exchange with me. Look before you post, unless of course you have nothing original to say.

[pepik]

I have to agree, i'm willing to read links but i don't watch whatever google video is thrown at me. They take more time since you can't skim through them like text.

A google video link, with nothing else, posted by one of the least credible people in the forum is just not worth the effort. Hilariously, being ignored is considered a compliment, but so be it.

[thought criminal]

[thought criminal]

[Ignatz]

[A Sharp Major]

[thought criminal]

[thought criminal]

[A Sharp Major]

A# said to thought criminal

[Dogsmilk]

[thought criminal]

[A Sharp Major]

Is it really necessary to quote in full, a (just about) adjacent post?


thought criminal said

[pepik]

no apologies necessary, the video was a joke.

[thought criminal]

[A Sharp Major]

thought criminal said to A#

[thought criminal]

A Sharp Major.

Thanks for rectifying the spelling mistake, silly me, it is a rather awkward name to spell. It is obvious you are well read on Nietzsche and I was wondering what you actually thought of the quote itself. I mean, only a true blockhead would disregard the quote and focus on the spelling mistake. I know you are not a blockhead, Madge, so I was wondering if you could give me some feedback starting with the quote itself. What does it say to you, Madge? Do you not think it is remarkable coherent when put in the context of the 21st Century and the 9/11 debate?

I am currently reading 'Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future'. I am only halfway through but I am finding it spellbinding. Madge, in your 'original' way what do you think to this book. I was wondering what I should read after this? Any thoughts?

Also, who is your favourite philosopher and why?

Thanks Madge! Thanks for being my mentor and helping me navigate my way through the great philosophers. I am so glad I chose you.

[MadgeB]

Blimey, are you talking to me, thought crim??! I don’t usually like to waste time in Critics quarantine pen, but as you’re cavorting there I cannot fail to answer your clarion call… Perhaps you cleverly divined that I myself am the product of keen mentoring by my close personal friend, the great Dame Edna Everage, who just happens to be, yes, my own favourite philosopher.

My second favourite would be Karl Marx, the creative genius who went beyond the mere appearances of seemingly unconnected phenomena in society to reveal the actual, practical essential unity and driving force below. Nietzsche makes a good point about science; Marx explains the phenomenon, why science in general is the servant of capital and the world-dominating interests of the ruling class. (Not to say that society isn’t complex and there can’t be complex relationships and contradictions.) Marx’s penetrating ideas on reification were the precursor to Orwell on Doublethink.

Grasshopper, I am ignorant about other philosophers, finding them hard to read now. By definition philosophy abstracts ideas from the society and interests which produce them, liberating philosophers to weave intriguing and often spellbinding but ultimately unsatisfying ideas and theories. Once you get the ‘dirty secret’ of capitalism, as with 9/11 (as Veronica said) you can’t “unknow”, and you can never see things the same way again.

But you will follow your own path, and not listen to any old philistines or reality-deniers.

[thought criminal]

[MadgeB]

Oh, tc, if only you had said MadgeA instead of just Madge, it would have been him who was lured into your trap and flattered into indiscretions such as revealing his mentor and philosophical influences. I can only apologise for jumping in and spoiling things.

BTW, one last thing before leaving CC (as that seems the right place for it), do you know what happened to John Albanese’s new film, scheduled for release in February? I’m also waiting for part 2 of his story about what he did before, during and after he saw both planes hit the towers...