Striving after the truth has often been held to be depressive. David Hume broke his health in a 5 year period of focusing on 'a new medium of truth'. He felt, alone in his study, shut in, antisocial and a little silly - 'abandoned and disconsolate'. It is not unusual, in philosophy, to feel an utter meaninglessness in life. It can be a way of collecting 'brown stamps' and these need unloading. I've just watched BBC Question Time with Nick Griffin on it. He's a very confused man, steeped in uncomfortable traditions of fascism, though strangely articulating what many of us feel about our dismal politics (mostly of an elite) and changes that immigration is partly responsible for. He talks of a weird notion of a 'British Aboriginal' having all kinds of problems dumped in its culture, discriminated against as surely as any 'Red Indian' or similar group. He is a wacho and it is interesting to see him in action - the point being that we somehow will not face the real issues directly or allow their direct expression and somehow end up with this strawman. He can only exist because our establishment is in denial and cannot bear to admit its mistakes. We allow no time to get to the real issues, which should be about creating a fair society that would not need such dark expression.
On 22 Oct, 21:58, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > I think you hit the button Jim. I have seen academe die in the do do > - become Slip's Dodo. Argument is often just a performance - > decisions made not in the dialogue but later in the closed-rooms of > power. > > On 22 Oct, 20:44, iam deheretic <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I know just what you mean,, ideas have to have time to develop, and even > > then so many ideas are beyond me. I am grateful people allow me to be part > > of the group. It is so important to be able to think,, if I can not think it > > is then I begin to die. > > Allan > > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I think Jim that no matter what the end result of any threads here it > > > is all helpful. > > > > Even when we can't agree, even when we drift in and aout of topic, it > > > all helps to focus the mind, to get the brain ticking over. I know > > > for certian that every thread I perticipate in, it causes me to think > > > deeply perhaps for weeks perhaps for months. Yes it is well worth my > > > coming here, not matter how much do do I have to wade through. > > > > On 22 Oct, 05:33, Don Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SojAZ0X1e0 > > > > > Before Francis beats me to it. > > > > > When I do it it's 'cause of my wandering attention span. Makes my > > > > link all the more relevant. > > > > > dj > > > > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > do do is a bird my friend! > > > > > > Could you give us an example thread that has drifted off into doo-doo? > > > > > > Doo, doo, doo, lookin out my back door. > > > > > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNczeP33Yk0 > > > > > > On Oct 21, 6:19 pm, retiredjim34 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >> Has anyone else noticed that threads here often seem to drift off > > > > >> into deeper and deeper do-do? Given the focus of this group, we might > > > > >> all hope for increasing clarity and profundity as a thread develops. > > > > >> But do-do seems to be an irresistible magnet. Yet we plod on, getting > > > > >> in deeper and deeper instead of wiser and wiser. > > > > >> Is ever deeper do-do just a tendency of human discourse? Or might > > > > >> it be something that is inherent in philosophical discussions? Any > > > > >> thoughts, Archy or Molly?- Hide quoted text - > > > > > - Show quoted text - > > > -- > > ( > > ) > > I_D Allan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
