TO THE PRESENT EMPIRICAL DELUSION***While Stephen Colbert might now be the single leading scum fuck on television most people don't realize spending a life speaking monochrome will always lead to the dream that one'd never eva get to be this fuckin' lame or shitty a personxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On the significance of a transition from a condition of subsumed truth to one in which a truthful situation must be produced, as it is situated (metaphysically) in the current empirical context and reflected in the broader culture.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Uprooted from the dense European social context from which it originates, post-structuralist philosophy becomes, in its transmission to North America, a stunted, impoverished ideology, made worse through its alloy to liberal culture.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
COVID-19 has accentuated the split among progressives that began with #ForceTheVote and highlights more fundamental disagreements whose consequences open-up a vast expanse of political ambiguity that requires actual thought rather than the continued application of ideology to respond to.xxxxxxxxxxxx
With Bernie's profoundly sorrowful and disappointing withdrawal from the primary yesterday, progressives may be thinking of licking their wounds and plotting for a battle another day. However, that would be a mistake.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In an interview with Amy Goodman on DemocracyNow!, the mother of Sandra Bland discussed her support for and endorsement of Hillary Clinton, and, in so doing exposed the distorted perspective many people have on what constitutes democracy and the cultural context and vanity necessary to produce it.xx