Philosophers have their intuitions destroyed by hammers for a reason. Thinking is a risk – when you start thinking, you don’t know where you might end up. Some began to think and ended in mordor (Khmer Rouge, the National Socialists, etc…). This is certainly to be avoided, but the manner of aversion is important, if [...]
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The Risk of thinking
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Covered in Techne
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Covered in techne
we pound down on the earth
the ground sinks under our weight
hot new editions fill dumpsters
as groundless will swallows up what was left of our souls
But not – even, and especially here in the centre
hunger lingers, which cannot be paid off with dollars or utils
a hunger which starves in the total silence of the [...]
