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6248170 No.6248170 [Reply] [Original]

>be 3 years ago
>reading David byrne's how music works
>in it he makes an argument that styles of music sound the way they do because of the arena its played it.
>For example church music uses simple melodies because churches echo. If they used polyrythmes it would sound a mess.
>have a genuis idea
>apply this to the outside world for everything
>politics moves in a certain way because of the material world
>someone asks if ive read marx
>it suddenly hits me

So lit, have you unknowingly come up with a watered down shitty version of a concept that already existed before.

>> No.6248177

>>6248170

I get the sense you're baiting for complements.

Why talk about it now if this was 3 years ago?

>> No.6248178

>>6248170
I've created an even shitter version of this thread before OP

>> No.6248179

don't worry about it m8, just enjoy the talking heads and keep reading

>tfw my first attempts at fiction

>> No.6248180

>>6248177
Complements? I'm really curios how you got that from that personally, because that wasn't my intention.

>> No.6248184

>>6248178
heh

>> No.6248188
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6248188

I once had the idea to explain philosophy through anal sex jokes, but I thought it wouldnt catch on.

>> No.6248220

>>6248170

One time I accidentally Goethe's theory of color when I was younger.

>> No.6248238

Locke notion of inverted colors and skepticism

In fact i'm pretty sure everybody thought of that when they were 10 years old

>> No.6248261

>>6248220
Did you stare at the sun

>> No.6248273

all of existentialism

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6248290

>>6248177
>>6248180

>complEments

>> No.6248293

>>6248261

Indeed

>> No.6248368

>living in a post-Marxist culture, reads a post-Marxist text
>sort of makes out from it one of the basic ideas of Marxism, which (by the way) wasn't first thought up by Marxists
>doesn't bother backing it up with arguments or historical evidence, he just believes it's correct
>Probably hasn't read Marxist theory yet, either, and believes there is some sort of 1 to 1 correspondence between "his" idea and historical materialism

>hey guys I'm so smart I actually deserve a thread for myself

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6248417

>>6248290
ikr