/lit/ - Literature

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>>14650110
Alan Watts is the opposite of a pseud because he specifically identifies as nothing but a "spiritual entertainer". Regardless of the quality or accuracy of his discussions, he admits that he's full of shit, that it's all just a sort of mental game. He might be an idiot, but he's certainly not a pseud. Many much smarter "thinkers" are much bigger pseuds than Watts.

>>14650110
Don't think you'll find a bigger pseud than this man.

>>14650224
wrong

>>14650224

Is this Lisa Left-Eye Lopez

OP, the biggest pseud of all

>>14650342

>>14650110

What is the difference between pseud and hack?

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>>14650478
Absolutely not pseud: Chomsky, Nietsche, Russell
Probably not pseud: Sartre, Jesus, Dostoyevsky
And those are just the ones I recognize desu

>>14650283
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
ITS A SQUID OUTSIDE OF ITS NATIVE AQUATIC HABITAT
IM GOING INSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNE

>ruins philosophy
heh, nothing personal, kid...

>>14650190
And yet he's right about everything

>>14650478
Not LindyBeige!!!

>>14650478
>boogie
lmao

>>14650179
this, leftists are cringe

>>14650110
Every Western philosopher to have ever existed

>>14650528
arguably best philosopher since plato desu

>>14650434
pseuds believe what they're saying

>>14651292
Only in regards to philosophy of mathematics

>>14650179
seriously what was he thinking with these

>>14651305
i actually had his political philosophy in mind. truly socratic

>>14651315
You don't have autism anon?

>>14650190
people who claim to be nothing are the ones you should listen to

>>14650478
Lost it when I saw they couldn't find a picture of DFW and settled for Jason Segal

Everything about this guy makes me want to punch his teeth out

>>14650478
>Sam Hyde twice
A lot of the long form earnest talks he does are really quite compelling, especially the ones with Nick. Not intellectual by any stretch, but interesting.

>>14650478
Who the fuck thinks Filthy Frank is an intellectual? This pic is retarded.

>>14650422
DELETE THIS

>>14650478
>anyone slightly popular is a pseudo

so close yet so far

>>14651305
His philosophy of mathematics is the worst part. Read Poincaré, Hilbert, Husserl, Godel on the subject.
Yes, I include the whole cuck thing in th rest of Russel. His mathematics are that bad.

>>14650110
Jung,
nuff said

>>14654055
What a fucking fat retard.

I once put bourbon in a french press.

>>14655497
All psychology is pseudoscience

>>14650110
You know, Watts IS a Psued, but he's still correct. He's like a cocky nerd, flaunting his knowledge in that smooth, trained, practiced voice. If you're like me, you'll enjoy the following works and authors more.
Psychonaughts Complete Field Manual (Free online pdf.)
Promethius Rising by Wilson
Info Psycology by Leary
Principia Discordia by Thornley
Undoing Yourself by Hyatt
Abrahadabra by Orpheus
Hermetica
Yoga Sutra's

>>14650110

>>14651344
He was an insufferable liberal in his politics, the embodiment of squeamish middle class do-gooding. I won't call the man stupid or anything, he clearly wasn't, but Wittgenstein was right about Russell's books being worthless outside of his contributions to logic.

Biggest pseud of them all

>>14656111
how come?

I am reading The Last Superstition now and Feser constantly tries to make jabs at liberals, usually bordering between cringe and ridiculous. My favorite so far is comparing sorting your rubish to different kinds of trashcans for recyclement to religious rituals. He also makes "politically correct pronoun" jokes but I will spare you those.

>>14650283
I still can't get over how he has the nerve to complain about modern philosophers being too obscurantist

>>14650110
I like Alan Watts but I believe he was a pseud for reasons people never talk about: he was an anglican priest for decades, yet he never got anything on christianity right. Then again, it may have to do with him being a former anglican and all.

>>14654055
how did he make so much money holy shit

>>14656188
Was a materialist (or as he reskinned it, "behaviorist") who rejected any approach to understanding people that involved seeing things from their perspective. As a psychologist.

>>14656313
why do you assume being behaviorist = pseud?

>>14650478
what the fuck, why is Mahler there

>>14656165
This ugly doughball seriously tried to lecture people on aesthetics

>>14650528
based post, fuck Russell

>>14650110
Who ISN'T a pseud then??!

>>14657533
me desu

>>14650478
I dont think intellectual means what this image suggests

>>14656078
Jung acknowledges that you can only partially base psychology on science because people are not mechanical enough to treat wholly scientifically. Anyone that doesn't understand that is memeing.

>>14658736
is Jung a dualist? Or by not mechanical enough does he mean the mechanism is so complex it can't be understood

>>14650478
>not included: Philip K. Dick
Ok based

>>14650478
this fag really put kurt vonnegut next to jim carrey

>>14650528
The only non-meme answer so far

>>14654058
100% this

>>14658767
I'd say both, he specifically states that people are too complicated and far too subjective to create algorithmic diagnoses with our current understanding and therefore the treatment of any given person can alter radically. One of the reasons that people are so complicated is i suppose a form of dualism, that you can physically injure yourself with mental ailments and vice versa.

>>14650405
Without a doubt. Blackpilled, crypto-ecofascist, obscurantist drivel.

>>14654058
how does he reconcile his 1980's coke dealer aesthetic with his orthodox faith