/lit/ - Literature

>>13247194
>The Father of All Psuedothinkers

It is hard to resist discussion of artificial history without comment on the father of all pseudothinkers, Hegel. Hegel writes jargon that is meaningless outside of a chic Left Bank Parisian cafe or the humanities department of some university extremely well insulated from the real world. I suggest this passage from the German 'philosopher' (this passage detected, translated, and reviled by Karl Popper):

>Sound is the change in the specific condition of segregation of the material parts, and in the negation of this condition; merely an abstract or an ideal ideality, as it were, of that specification. But this change, accordingly, is itself immediately the negation of the material specific subsistence; which is, therefore, real ideality of specific gravity and cohesion, i.e.--heat. The heating up of the sounding bodies, just as of beaten and or rubbed ones, is the appearance of heat, originating conceptually together with sound.

. . . . Now consider that Hegelian thinking is generally linked to a 'scientific' approach to history; it has produced such results as Marxist regimes and even a branch called 'neo-Hegelian' thinking. These 'thinkers' should be given an undergraduate-level class on statistical sampling theory prior to their release into the open world."
Fooled by Randomness Random House, NY, 2004 p.74, Nassim Nicholas Taleb

>>13245036
My name is Herr Doctor Professor Carl Popper and I would like to have a word with you anon

It is hard to resist discussion of artificial history without comment on the father of all pseudothinkers, Hegel. Hegel writes jargon that is meaningless outside of a chic Left Bank Parisian cafe or the humanities department of some university extremely well insulated from the real world. I suggest this passage from the German 'philosopher' (this passage detected, translated, and reviled by Karl Popper):

>Sound is the change in the specific condition of segregation of the material parts, and in the negation of this condition; merely an abstract or an ideal ideality, as it were, of that specification. But this change, accordingly, is itself immediately the negation of the material specific subsistence; which is, therefore, real ideality of specific gravity and cohesion, i.e.--heat. The heating up of the sounding bodies, just as of beaten and or rubbed ones, is the appearance of heat, originating conceptually together with sound.

. . . . Now consider that Hegelian thinking is generally linked to a 'scientific' approach to history; it has produced such results as Marxist regimes and even a branch called 'neo-Hegelian' thinking. These 'thinkers' should be given an undergraduate-level class on statistical sampling theory prior to their release into the open world."

t.Fooled by Randomness Random House, NY, 2004 p.74, Nassim Nicholas Taleb

>>13108300
>Stuff like 'damn I wished my parents taught me this when I was child
i.e. pure unadulterated wisdom that works in reality and helps survive materially, morally and spiritually in modern world
Taleb: Antifragile. Taleb smashes many assumptions widely accepted by intellectuals and experts. He shows that what matters is not being “right” but making sure you survive and are positioned to gain in a world we cannot predict and largely do not understand.

Also: What I learned losing a million dollars from Jim Paul taught me how to remove my emotionalism from the important everyday life decisions. (No matter how smart or intelligent someone is, letting emotions overrule your decision process had always undone the best men)

I hope OP just doesn't crave reccs for some esoterical pseud opium to lull his conciousness in his own farts.

>>12795975
>Paying $2,500 for such an obviously phony and slimy girl to pretend to be interested in you

>>12789894
>Argos...
>...the women take no care of him
damn you Penelope!

>>12742586
dude, just stop. Seriously. It may seemed cool when you were and edgy teen, but not anymore

>>12733025
combine this with Taleb's Antifragile and Gerd Gigerenzer's Gut feelings and you got a decent shot at curing oneself from the eternal armchair intellectual pseudery