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23001020 No.23001020 [Reply] [Original]

>“It is inconceivable! It is absurd! Is it not clear to you that what you are contriving is a revolution?”
>“Yes, a revolution. Why is it absurd?”
>“Absurd? because a revolution is impossible! Because our (I speak for myself and for you), our revolution was the last one. No other revolutions may occur. Everybody knows that.”
>A mocking, sharp triangle of brows.
>“My dear, you are a mathematician, are you not? More than that, a philosopher-mathematician? Well then, name the last number!”
>“What is ... I ... I cannot understand, which last?”
>“The last one, the highest, the largest.”
>“But I-330, it is absurd! Since the number of numbers is infinite, how can there be a last one?”
>“And why then do you think there is a last revolution? There is no last revolution, their number is infinite.... The ‘last one’ is a children’s story. Children are afraid of the infinite, and it is necessary that children should not be frightened, so that they may sleep through the night.”
This kills the hegelian

>> No.23001024

How could a contrived plot filled with melodrama kill anyone?

>> No.23001038

I wish Zamyatin had been right and the Bolsheviks had been plotting to give everyone wheels. That would be fucking sick.

>> No.23001039

>>23001024
the point is that the number of revolutions is infinite. This is basically Deleuze's refutation of Hegel. Difference replacing sublation and negation means that everything will be completely new forever. There is no completion or circle.

>> No.23001122
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23001122

>>23001020
debunked by Wildberger (pbuh)

>> No.23001126

The last number is n.
See? I can maths.

>> No.23001256

>>23001126
I disagree, m is the last number, in my humble opinion

>> No.23001438
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23001438

>>23001020
>dialogue expressing the most hegelian point imaginable
>"this kills the hegelian"
redditt is down the hall and to the left

>> No.23001631

>>23001020
Mы (тpaхaeмcя)

>> No.23001727

>>23001020
>WE
We wuz space commis n shit.

>> No.23001912

>>23001438
what comes after the end of the sol then?

>> No.23001972

Teaching slavs how to write was the gravest mistake in literary history

>> No.23002298

>>23001912
the owl of minerva flies at midnight; we won't know until it happens

>> No.23002545

>>23002298
retard

>> No.23003027

>>23002545
how profoundly hegelian