Maybe the last 500 years of Atlanticist colonialism has something to do with it.
And also maybe the CIA: Imperialist Propaganda and the Ideology of the Western Left Intelligentsia: From Anticommunism and Identity Politics to Democratic Illusions and Fascism
In this regard, the Frankfurt School under Horkheimer played a foundational role in the establishment of what is known as Western Marxism, and more specifically Cultural Marxism. Figures like Horkheimer and his lifelong collaborator Theodor Adorno not only rejected actually existing socialism, but they directly identified it with fascism by benightedly relying—very much like French theory—on the ideological category of totalitarianism. Embracing a highly intellectualized and melodramatic version of what would later become known as TINA (“There Is No Alternative”), they focused on the realm of bourgeois art and culture as perhaps the only potential site of salvation. This is because thinkers like Adorno and Horkheimer, with a few exceptions, were largely idealist in their theoretical practice: if meaningful social change was foreclosed in the practical world, deliverance was to be sought in the geistig—meaning intellectual and spiritual—realm of novel thought-forms and innovative bourgeois culture.
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Finally, the evolution of the Frankfurt School into its second (Jürgen Habermas) and third generations (Axel Honneth, Nancy Fraser, Seyla Benhabib, and so on) did not alter in the least its anticommunist orientation. On the contrary, Habermas explicitly claimed that state socialism was bankrupt and argued for creating space within the capitalist system and its purportedly democratic institutions for the ideal of an inclusive “procedure of discursive will-formation.” The neo-Habermasians of the third generation have continued this orientation.
This is why I focus almost entirely on an incoherent mashup of badly translated easten philosophy as presented in shonen anime, third hand esoteric summaries of neo-gnostic rambling, science ficton movies from the 90s, and old racist horror stories when developing my theory.
Imagine you want to become pontificator of ideas, you will get paid only with right ideas, almost as if some sort of underlying structure producing realm of social thoughts.
Thus if philosopher is rich and famous, he is more than likely shit (hi zizek, go fuck yourself)
I was so confused for ages why someone who mysticized sex so much was taken so seriously
I've read it already. But like zizek instantly gave me hegelian vibes anyways, so i just find impressions of him funny.
Pretty sure Zizek has always claimed to be a Hegelian, to be fair.
The ǃphilosophy﹫lemmy․ml libs were less receptive to my post.
<﹫Eheran﹫lemmy․world> What a steaming pile of garbage is that? Just twist the world until it suits you?
The Ideal Speech Situation is a ghetto wherein all the hospitals are double-tapped and every underclass journalist is deliberately assassinated, actually.
Well a correctly formed Habermasian discourse assumes parity between all parties, hardly applicable in the context of international politics and absurd in the context of Israel/Palestine
I have not read the article, I will do it lateri've read it, or most of it. It's good.
I dont like body shaming, but why does Habermas' face look like that? He looks like someone tried to badly photoshop a mustache out.
cleft palate, there is a cruel joke that most of his work is about communication and understanding while few can understand his dense writing style or his speech
Never seen one like that before. Hopefully thats because he's old and we have better procedures now.
Yeah, generally we do. Even with our dastardly evil socialist healthcare my plastic surgery was so smooth that i didn't even know there had ever been anything "wrong" with me til i was like 12 and my family told me. In the imperial core cleft palates are basically a complete non-issue now.
The argument of Philosophy exists for big university to sell more philosophy really applies to Western Social ''''science''''
They feel like the kind of person trying to use their philosophy outlook to prove that Hitler abolish value form therefore he is the real Marxist compare to the stalinists or some shit because it's a content mill
I didn’t post this, I’m getting worried
