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Dovetail joint of philosophy, politics & foreign affairs. Refugee from Nashville
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Charles C Bentley
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"You mean a gameshow give away where the nominee wins Biden's white TransAm from the Onion bit... You sir are a mad man. I love it - it's in the movie!"
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Charles C Bentley
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We need Star Magic Jackson Jr. to interrupt the post debate DNC roundtable. "Yall looking like a bunch of sad sacks; come on people, this is Open Convention 2... lets have a party." "You mean a Draft Gore faction with 'Best President we never had' as a tag line!? Its in the movie!"
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Charles C Bentley
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No way... Open Convention could be a potential boon. Excitement index high with stuff like "will Gore get drafted," etc. 'Course w/ nobody opposed to Zionism nor NATO adventurism, they'll blow it. Odds on, we get Newsom.
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Charles C Bentley
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"The left wing ideological regime" Ok, it's 2024 and ferfucksake can we not talk about Bigfoot?
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Charles C Bentley
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thinking like 'well being', eudaimonia as fruition of phronesis. Not alien to Plato... a more explicit treatment. Yet, also between the lines of every Aristotelian text. Receding yet again to near invisibility in Maimonides. lol, Mezcal speaking...
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Charles C Bentley
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Hesitate to state the obvious... but De Anima and Nichomachean Ethics.
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Charles C Bentley
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Stancil ... wtf, yes, block and move on. No need to amplify his lamentable game. It's built on getting dunked on as a means of perpetuation, an infinite game of the resilience of begging the question. Let go. It's the yawning chasm, a hyper-mendacity of mediocrity that needs engagement.
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Charles C Bentley
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It's like Arthur Jensen lecturing Howard Beal in Network about violating the primal forces of nature... 'Cept, regardless of a narrowly defined corporate economy all greased on the way toward a chasm w/ no bridge, they see primal forces and just feel a numb lack of enthusiasm.
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Charles C Bentley
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Barking into a void, unable to fathom a defeat already visited. It's more than the kids, more than any Bigfoot leftism. Millions sense nothing, feel no future. Gaza fast-forwards the recognition that it's been a lie forever. All marketing where the only future is consumption.
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Charles C Bentley
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Like an impatient crap cook parent imploring the kids to eat frozen, boiled broccoli. "Sure it's bland mediocrity every which way emblazzoned with the bling veneer of value & power - just eat it already. It's a direct reflection of human nature you idealistic ingrates!"
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Charles C Bentley
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A broken record hogging algorithmic bandwidth, projecting about delusion, bubbles & hallucination, all for the sake of the stale & pointless facade of "a normal party" - one that bred Trumpism by dint of epic fail, by means of a political Seinfeld show of a country about nothing
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Charles C Bentley
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The Stancil bubble: the delusion that barbarity is not already baked in all over the place & holding us hostage to some tired fiction for which any suspicion of bullshit is casually labled 'leftist.'
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Charles C Bentley
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Go for it. Them kids need to know the cicadas are reporting on them.
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Charles C Bentley
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Dude blocked me on Xitter over something re Hegel but fuck if i remember
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Charles C Bentley
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A Sirius B type 1A supernova would wreck us about 40 years after the flash. Also all organic life relies on heavier elements released in such events. So, in a "to be or not to be" of electrons there's the cosmic pulse of life and death.
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Charles C Bentley
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These white dwarves, about earth size but also the mass of our sun, keep their extant integrity by means of electron degeneracy pressure. If they cross the chadresekhar limit at 1.4 solar masses, they go supernova. That is, the nonexistence of electrons is a potential time bomb.
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Charles C Bentley
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At the same time, this purposive enablement of Islamic religious militancy is a window to a practice used by the British and US. In the latter case, under the schemes of G.H.W. Bush and Brzezinski.
It all went so well... or seems to until it doesn't
pca.st/td4zgl0x?s=09
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Charles C Bentley
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Digging at the uncomfortable substance of Netanyahu's enablement and support of Hamas opens a beginning to counter ahistorical and hysterical reductions.
www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-ne...
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Charles C Bentley
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Like what was a slow-mo, systemic genocide was torqued into horrific, real-time view. Moreover, the long sustained complicity of the US leaves the only ostensibly rational elites numb, powerless and inert... and already with the pretense of "rules based order" rendered a sordid fig leaf in Ukraine.
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Charles C Bentley
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Starting to sense the terrifying reaction to Oct 7 might be marked historically as an Archduke Ferdinand moment, except heralding the self-destructive collapse of both America and Israel.
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Charles C Bentley
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This... and the curious lack of reporting on the blatant, obvious track record of Israeli support for Hamas. Who needs to, who shoulda' denounced them??
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Charles C Bentley
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"How much melting can still be prevented by reducing emissions? Unfortunately, it's not great news."
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Charles C Bentley
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Rad projection needing context: 1. US talk about Iran is as filled with abysmal, tard dogmatism as regards the Zionist ethno-state. 2. Probably no active plan but, rather, only reflex "action," Suddenly it all congeals as nightmare. 3. "This horror must be for.... X"
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Charles C Bentley
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People; you realize - right - that war with Iran is sliding into inevitability!? You don't gotta be Hari Seldon with some magic cube. The horror needs moar "justification." Get ready for the bad shit.
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Charles C Bentley
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lol, had a warped prof friend, Dwight Van de Vate. Aside from the inevitable "in one swell foop" he would frequently cite concupiscence as his favorite underappreciated concept.
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Charles C Bentley
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One suspects, once you've rendered authoritarianism as *the* singular problem, that you will encounter extreme difficulty in actually elaborating what your preferred modality in fact is - without running into fabulous irony. ...what if no escape from system, the duty to keep shit adroit?
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Charles C Bentley
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"Well let's go dancing Let's go dancing Said the firefly to the hurricane Said the pouring rain to the open plain How many times? Well, I stopped a freight train with a grain of sand, can you hear it crashing?" - Drivin N Cryin
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Left Nietzschean
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“And as children and artists play, so plays the ever-living fire. It constructs and destroys, all in innocence. Such is the game that the aeon plays with itself…Not hubris but the ever self-renewing impulse to play calls new worlds into being.” -Nietzsche, Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
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Charles C Bentley
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The long, consistent slow-motion nature of this genocide, however punctuated by fierce moments, makes it harder to see. And even when it is seen as such, all the more to recoil in horror and denial - since most of us are implicated by having let it slide.
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Charles C Bentley
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... of course many of us, Americans and Europeans in particular, do have something to do with it... by dint of funding Israel's peculiar ethno-state. But this would be guilt by tacit association with Israel and not with Hamas per se.
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Charles C Bentley
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But no. Everyone else is now put into a framing game where we must denounce Hamas, as if this nebulous "we" had anything to do with their rise. ... as if "we" preferred Hamas to Fatah to begin with.
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Charles C Bentley
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If to see deeper, then what of the Israeli gamble on Hamas? How is this howling about Hamas not the wounded hubris of those who empowered and used Hamas... and now are livid that it blew up in their faces?
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Charles C Bentley
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The way Zizek at the outset surrenders to framing by the nod to some overriding importance in denouncing Hamas.
Why isn't the question, inverting expectation, "Why did Israel not denounce and forswear Hamas so many years ago"?
youtu.be/xIE4Sp_o6wA?...
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Charles C Bentley
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...cannot process what I'm seeing. Biden is flying into this!? Insofar as it's in our power, we must avoid war with Iran, etc. Cynical read says the blobaratchiki want it. Even more horrifying: There is no plan, no leadership and it's the culmination of a slow-mo train wreck.
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Charles C Bentley
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But that kind of double reduction is what made neo-atheism so cringe and embarrassing almost 20 years ago. It's all so tedious. They'll naively speak of 'evidence' with pre-Kantian glee, ironically unconscious of swinging to the beat of liturgical censing.
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Robert Talisse
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What’s up
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Charles C Bentley
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Maybe the fluidity you mention functions also for attempts to speak of epiphany? Ancient dances of stardust throwing off chards of goofy predication - for which there's no warrant to take any too damn seriously, and yet a hint something important is said indirectly.
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Charles C Bentley
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took 3 years... a playlist about leaving Nashville, new sensations, the irony of no real escape from empire... the sense of torque toward something new
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Robert Talisse
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Friendly reminder
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Charles C Bentley
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old black and white one was pretty cool too.... lol "help me!"
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Charles C Bentley
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Yo... ancient ABD idiot. Taking the idea of a "real thing" in philosophy probably way too seriously. At the edge of empire, trying to git moar clues.
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Charles C Bentley
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Reaction Gifs are utterly repellant. If they are allowed, then it should cost a load of mana... like only three a month would be affordable. Restore balance to the Force
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Charles C Bentley
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i know... i gotta try and write. Obscene though, insofar as it's what shows itself and cannot be said. A riddle then, like Maimonides - where Aristotle and Plato are there but phronesis is like a black hole - present in absence? A harrowing matter.
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Charles C Bentley
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i.e., dialectic as the speculative vibration, die Sache Selbst, as ethical action anterior to concepts & manifold. It looks ugly and fearsome to any limited Gestalt/figure - which of course will be dissolved in mock combat Say, rather than a panpsychism, a panphroneticism. A spacing and timing.
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Charles C Bentley
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My idiot fixation, well since the 90s: the imagination in Kant is a showing of phronesis. Fichte smells this. It's dialectic in the heart of a book that would try to push dialectic in a corner, exchanging - say- giving and taking Hegel picks up, using it as a wormhole to splay out ancient shit anew
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Charles C Bentley
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When the mountains crumble
And you're ready to rumble
And roll like a runaway train
- Waren Zevon
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Charles C Bentley
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Absolute Flüssigwerden alles Bestehens looks to them like some abominable fate.
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Charles C Bentley
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When am i gonna see somebody (well, maybe i'm missing it's having already happened) say "no, not pure forms of intuition unless we grasp space/time as the echo of an ethical pulse of spacing and timing." ... perhaps there are esoteric clues that Hegel is going there?
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Charles C Bentley
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yeah. 2080 might as well be 2525 if man is still alive. Curious AF to see - but pushing the envelope of abject decadence!? Not properly transfiguring oneself unto death? Heaven is a place where nothing, nothing really happens
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