The Evil Nuisance of the Nyophite

[TheVisionofEr]

You are very thoughtless. ...

Do you mean ethically or epistemologically? If the former then please explain how and I'll consider a sincere apology but if the latter then I'd need to understand what you mean by a thought before I could consider a reply.

And truly were prepared for a life of intelectual servility in your youth. ...

You really need to use that spell checker before you talk about others being intellectual but as to my youth I was too busy out working and farting about to be bothered with academia and a higher education, it wasn't until later that I decided to study and then only because there was a recession and you needed a degree for even average jobs.

Now, for decades you will go on armed with the same mechanical habits. ...

I doubt I'll make one decade let alone two given the life I've led but here's hoping and no idea what a 'mechanical habit' is other than autonomous skills?

Very boring. Seek human education, rigid one.

So care to say what a "human education" entails? As it obviously doesn't include the basics of Reading, Righting and Rithmatic.

"Do you mean ethically or epistemologically? If the former then please explain how and I'll consider a sincere apology but if the latter then I'd need to understand what you mean by a thought before I could consider a reply."

The distinction is likely artificial. Have you thought through its dear origin in the history of Western thought? Anglo-American philosophy tends to neglect the past, instilling in the student the impression that what matters is building on an already laid foundation, perminent and definitive as support for further movemt towards California, and the absolute calm Pacific, as it were.


"You really need to use that spell checker before you talk about others being intellectual but as to my youth I was too busy out working and farting about to be bothered with academia and a higher education, it wasn't until later that I decided to study and then only because there was a recession and you needed a degree for even average"

When we move at the level of public thought and politics we are subject to countless second hand opinions. And to the power of the mass opinion. The newspapers and politicians make much of the more widely held second hand opinions. Opinions about matters one has not had part in or witnessed oneself. The same propaganda is at work in the universities. The most simple way to avoid being controlled by it is studying the thinkers of an earlier age. That gives another ground from which to see the current general insanity and prevailing ideas without being wholly dominated by them.

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doubt I'll make one decade let alone two given the life I've led but here's hoping and no idea what a 'mechanical habit' is other than autonomous skills?"

Personally, I don't like being controlled by dead people. We all are compelled to follow huge numbers of rules that we contributed nothing to establish and which make little sense, or, at least which we don't genuinely understand. Their original reason for being made may no longer fit the situation.