"Michael S. Lorrey" wrote:
> Brian Manning Delaney wrote:
> > I know Extropians and trans-humanists love this
> > "3rd culture" business, but sheesh, this
> > Freud-bashing is utterly ignorant.
> Its funny that most virulent anti-freudians
> are the dissillusioned freudians.
> Seems to me to be a case of them finally
> getting their phsychoanalytical credit
> card bill, and trying to wish it away by denying
> that it actually works.
Yup.
> > Mind you, some of my best friends are trans-humanists!
> >
> > But when TOG comes knocking at my door, trying
> > to take away my constitutionally guaranteed
> > right to free thought (by trying to
> > banish "2nd culture"), they'll be in for a
> > big surprise!
> >
> > I'll be packin a mean can o' philosophical
> > WHOOP-ASS!!
> Gee, where can I get one of those? I always in
> the market for new forms of self
> defense.. ;)
Three things are needed:
1. A powerful brain.
2. An excellent education.
3. The ability to be "unzeitgemäß" (common, but not perfect
translation: "untimely" -- more accurate translation, keeping in
mind Nietzsche's usage: "in opposition to one's time").
(Under #2, "excellent" means, among many other things:
"including fields other than the sciences.")
(#3, in essence, translates to the Nietzschean "being born
posthumously.")
Key points:
#1 helps create the conditions for #2, but definitely can never
substitute for it.
#2 can permit #3 to occur, and can, to a limited extent, make up
for a deficiency in #1. (Some would say an excellent education
simply _amounts to_ that which produces #3.)
With all three in place, let me spell out precisely what you
have:
ONE MEAN CAN O' PHILOSOPHICAL WHOOP-ASS!
Warning: as soon as you have the can, you'll want to open it on
very different people from those you might have guessed would be
the target....
Love,
Brian.
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