Thought you were talking about Hegseth. No other admin would make you say, no the other alcoholic tv host.

The fact that we’re getting the blood and soil stuff from this alcoholic TV host with new prosecutorial powers really drives home how deep the rot is. We’re cooked in several fatal, overlapping ways

disney are so protective of mickey mouse. he's not just a brand they own but he is the company. they cant associate him with anything less than perfect.

imagineers when the new pixar movie is about a boxy robot with big eyes that moves on treads and not a tiny french rat or a fucking fish

like McDowell himself is; but one simply can't train graduate students to produce work which sets the agenda for decades to come for people of radically different philosophical inclinations. Aristotelianism, though? That was designed from the start to generate philosophy essays. Safer job option.

this, and further insisting on their importance? I suspect the answer is just: a career. Nobody ever had a good way to show a replicable way to follow Wittgenstein and Rorty and also function in a modern university philosophy department. The best that anyone seems able to do is "be a unique genius"

such optional games, to see "the voice of the plain man" as simply contingent. What Boyle refers to as his "philosophical conscience" is something I think he'd be better off handling with *actual* therapy, rather than metaphysics: What is he getting out of insisting on being able to play games like

bad philosophy was something we could show to be "nonsense", since analytic philosophy is a game people can play (and go on playing) and that shows there to be a use for such "nonsense" after all. But Wittgenstein was excellent at getting those with ears to hear to stop feeling the *necessity* of

stuff, there's just nothing *there* beyond an insistence that we can go back behind Wittgenstein and Rorty et al and act like "metaphysics which is to come forth as a science" is a thing to place our full faith and credit in. Rorty's big advancement on Wittgenstein was to give up on the idea that

ignore how farcical it is to (in effect) admit to having obsessional and fetishized attachments to certain philosophical stories while also insisting that these are actually products of something like "the necessary forms of human thought". Rorty wouldn't have bothered spending much time on this