ExXception Draft

A preamble path you’ll find most often taken in introductions to non-fiction works by their authors is a dutifully delivered apology for their lack of achieving complete objectivity, of not being able to provide a completely scientifically rigid argument, by which they might structure or code their ensuing tale. Also, soon after comes tumbling the apologetic for the need for some passion, and the rightful claim for their expertise and it’s to-be-judged-correctly subjectivity, which it turns out is the correct way to approach the material of this sort. Of course, I have no comment on this situation, because I have no argument I am here presenting. But if you’ll notice this when you come across it, I think you’ll see what I mean.

Observer Effect? or Something. Science at the Reigns.

Journal, 12-14-2012

“Our new government is founded upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man.” - Vice President Alexander Stephens

The Civil War - by Ken Burns - part one - The Cause - 1861

I knew I was going to have my main character come from Lawrence, Kansas, which has a major history in the civil war. So, I’m watching this documentary on Hulu, and I’ll be reading on the history of the Civil War too.

I have vague notions of understanding Hegel. The Civil War was a long time ago. “Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers — if only to become the kind of country that could no longer conceive of how that was possible.” Of course, after I heard this quote I noticed on my twitter feed there was a happy hour that was going by the name ‘Class War’ Hour. Cryptic and mythopoetic as these nominal ‘trends’ may mask themselves as being, like Fallout tells us, War never changes. But sublation of such afterthoughts can be good for the present, unless you don’t believe in the future. And who can afford to these days?

Here’s a blog “called ‘White People Mourning Romney’, which features conservative Republican types as well as some of them mentioning hopes of states’ secessions from the U.S..

This is all total bullshit of course. Because the question is now not the future, because we are all inured with the future in our everyday. But now people with no imagination are fighting for an imaginary afterlife, for the subconscious belief to live alive without any thought of … what the hell am I talking about?

“As a nation of free men, we will live forever, or die by suicide.”

- Abraham Lincoln.

(via neighborhoodtragedy)

(via theburningchrome)

SENSATE / IDEATIONAL

This is an excerpt from ‘Demons of the Modern World’, from the forward. And in this passage the author is talking mainly in response to the ‘Satanist’ kidnappings/what have you in the 80’s. I think this goes to an explanation of how ‘you know how everyone’s into weirdness right now?’ (from the movie ‘Slacker’). Me, I’m always trying to come to grips with cultural history, but this excerpt has a kind of theory about how in the 90’s things went weird and I’m thinking it goes maybe the X-Files was such a touchstone because it was like working through these issues. And maybe the whole thing was just economics, shit I don’t even understand. President Clinton listening to gallup polls and calling people at home to see what they thing he should do. Anyway, I just started this book, and from the forward it sounds really interesting.

“When social workers, therapists, and political theorists rejected the reality of the oppressor in favor of the reality of the oppressed, they also rejected traditional scientific and legal reasoning as well. What they exalted as the “real” reality, however, was the reality of fantasy, the supernatural, and the demonic.

Mulder and Scully of the X-Files - Einstein’s Twin Paradox - a New Interpretation

Wrote this a while ago.
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“On January 3, 1889, Nietzsche suffered a collapse which seems to have triggered a psychotic break. Two policemen approached him after he caused a public disturbance in the streets of Turin. What actually happened remains unknown, but the often-repeated tale states that Nietzsche witnessed the whipping of a horse at the other end of the Piazza Carlo Alberto, ran to the horse, threw his arms up around the horse’s neck to protect it, and collapsed to the ground.” – This was taken from the Wikipedia page on Friedrich Nietzsche… Now, I have heard a version of this story where it was told that when Nietzsche went up to the horse to protect it, he said to the horse, “Plato did this to you.” At least, that is my rememberance. Can anyone corroborate this story? I mean if you were there or are Nietzsche reincarnated or something. There seems to be some discussion about what actually was whispered. I was thinking about what could have driven Nietzsche mad… If in fact he did whisper ‘Plato did this to you’… he could have been speaking of the dichotomy between Plato and Aristotle where Plato sees things from the Universal to the Everyday – his idea of ‘the Forms’ as heavenly and detached from everyday life… and then Aristotles ideas of everyday life objects and universals both informing our senses… as is stated also on Aristotle’s wiki page: Like his teacher Plato, Aristotle’s philosophy aims at the universal. Aristotle, however, found the universal in particular things, which he called the essence of things, while Plato finds that the universal exists apart from particular things, and is related to them as their prototype or exemplar. For Aristotle, therefore, philosophic method implies the ascent from the study of particular phenomena to the knowledge of essences, while for Plato philosophic method means the descent from a knowledge of universal Forms (or ideas) to a contemplation of particular imitations of these. For Aristotle, “form” still refers to the unconditional basis of phenomena but is “instantiated” in a particular substance (see Universals and particulars, below). In a certain sense, Aristotle’s method is both inductive and deductive, while Plato’s is essentially deductive from a priori principles.[14]