tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3586466115873226498.post5198701981955097940..comments2024-01-19T03:22:13.628+00:00Comments on up close and personal: That Good, Old-Time Religioncarlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17886258675618058752noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3586466115873226498.post-48943007274796812922011-11-16T15:28:49.225+00:002011-11-16T15:28:49.225+00:00Maybe, but perhaps not into infinity.Maybe, but perhaps not into infinity.Phil Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16214245608032305452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3586466115873226498.post-46627681756866575292011-11-16T12:17:20.289+00:002011-11-16T12:17:20.289+00:00Surely they believe in economic progress in China,...Surely they believe in economic progress in China, India, Brazil?Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02193961453522415377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3586466115873226498.post-92173575588039004152011-11-15T16:34:28.363+00:002011-11-15T16:34:28.363+00:00Yeah, the strange thing about life in the contempo...Yeah, the strange thing about life in the contemporary West is that it consists of delusion piled on delusion, and you almost have to mine your way down through it. <br /><br />The Left are no different from the Right in this respect, mainly due to Marx mistaking the purely economic aspect of Faustianism (i.e. "Capitalism") for the whole system. That's why the Left can never defeat Capitalism - it doesn't actually exist (at least not on its own.)<br /><br />Anyway, you might find this interesting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rgSJ9oqKLDgPhil Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16214245608032305452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3586466115873226498.post-60907148852791383692011-11-15T13:39:07.447+00:002011-11-15T13:39:07.447+00:00Wonderful!
I've never even heard the word agno...Wonderful!<br />I've never even heard the word agnotological before, that's going in the glossary.<br />For someone like myself who is quite ignorant of the history of economics, it is quite fascinating to consider that the Myth of Progress is a thing of increasing abstraction (perhaps mirroring the increasing abstraction of industry itself to an essentially virtual state where for the vast majority of Western users the actual is hidden from view). This is Hauntology in Derrida's original sense (irony indeed that the word itself has been revised to frequently mean simply an echo of the past) that it is a living bundle of simulacra, wild and growing between the minds that believe in it. Progress is a supernatural beast that the world must worship or the whole church will collapse!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com