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is there a traditional philosophy that aligns well with, perhaps even predicts, the world we live in today? One thing that I cannot ignore in reading through different forms of philosophy is how drastically changed the world is from lets say 1950. Is there a new form of philosophy that attempts to address this?

>> No.6772085

idk rene guenon? read crisis of the modern world

>> No.6772111

>>6772085
i don't know who that is or what branch of philosophy he aligns with. i guess i am just looking to make sense of how in my young adult life people looking at screens is becoming fundamental.

>> No.6772116

>>6772111
Let's discuss it instead. As i have been thinking of the same.

Hypocritically both of us are now looking into a screen.

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>>6772116
It used to be like this though. I say after no research.

>> No.6772125

>>6772111
read the book. it addresses your concerns and was written by someone who was born before this photograph>>6772121
was even taken

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>>6772067
feeling alienated by technology?
made uneasy by the erosion of traditional values and cultural norms?
disillusioned with political leadership that doesn't represent the interests of you, the average person?
confused that despite so much "progress" the world seems more convoluted and brutal than ever? you're not alone, welcome to 1914!

>> No.6772129

>>6772067
The problem is computers are just way too addictive man. Here i am, with access to all the books ever published(Good), the ability to learn from Plebs all over the world with the occasional golden nugget(semi-good), all the porn in the world(probably bad unless you have an iron-will), interesting magazines, boring magazines(bad), shit, filth and piss.

TL:DR: Computers are cool(even though someone should write up something not the internet because i was too lazy to) if you have the discipline of a drill seargent.

>> No.6772136

when was that taken? i went through adolescence/puberty concurrently with the first large scale adaptation of personal myspace/facebook accounts. to me, this is a significant moment in human history, to be able to point at something that doesn't exist and say "this is who i am" i don't know where i'm taking this, i just think its interesting to think about.

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>>6772128
>welcome to 1914
1914? W-what happened in 1914?

>> No.6772138

>>6772128
What has Nietzsche written about humanity evolving into GodHood? I find that really interesting.

>> No.6772140

>>6772128
1914? Also, im not sure that diagram is nothing more than pulp.

>> No.6772154

>>6772136 <--- that

was re: >>6772121

>> No.6772155

>In thirty or more years
>there will be a shit ton of people with saggy tattoos.
>think about it.

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>>6772137
>>6772140
I don't necessarily agree with what the chart suggests, but it's undeniably true that many problems we see today are scarcely any different from those of turn-of-the-century Europe, particularly around the time when WWI erupted in 1914.
Really, think of any modern issue and you'll find a similar parallel.

>>6772136
The picture is from 1955.

>> No.6772166

>>6772128
i don't have an issue with the linear nature of this, but i do have problems connecting the dots between memes and nietzche.

>> No.6772190

>>6772158
what kind of thing in 1914 parallels with social media? not trying to trump you i am curious.

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Marshall McLuhan?

>> No.6772210

Soon theres going would be able to understand it.

I.E. Sock fork in the left one, imiku, bobster? LOL

>> No.6772212

>>6772067

Game theory.

>> No.6772213

>>6772210
Edit: soon theres going to be so much slang and memes, no one will be able to understand it.

>> No.6772217

>>6772190
couldn't tell you about memes tbh, and really nothing in the history of the earth has ever approached the level of mass expression/communication the internet and social media outlets in it have enabled
I was thinking more about the qualities of the internet itself...
disproportionate attention placed on one's own endeavors, uneducated people suddenly being able to speak their mind at will, the quick and easy dissemination of information that can call traditional power structures into question, a medium facilitating political organization and protest while at the same time proliferating instant and constant streams of propaganda, etc....not too far off from mass communication means through newspaper/magazine which were gaining widespread use in the early 1900s

>> No.6772263

>>6772210
>>6772213
i've studied a bit of linguistics and i recall reading "a language is a dialect with an army" i think conversation could move in the direction of the instant nature of the internet, imo tbh lmao. i don't think that is a new phenomenon.
>>6772217
well that's bleak but hard to disagree with. it is getting late and i still haven't found any fulfillment in life.

>> No.6772264

>>6772210
>>6772213
You don't belong here.

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>>6772263
>i still haven't found any fulfillment in life.
Neither has anyone else on this chilean pottery discussion forum, discussing the internet and memes won't change that

>> No.6772289

>is there a traditional philosophy that aligns well with, perhaps even predicts, the world we live in today?
Nietzsche

>> No.6772352

>>6772289
yeah if you twisted my arm i would go with nietzsche as well. i suppose the future of philosophy will not be new traditions of philosophy rather people who fall into established traditions, no?

>> No.6773180

>>6772263
I don't know if this was on purpose, but you made a pretty good example by saying "imo tbh lmao" haha

>> No.6773907

>>6772263
>i still haven't found any fulfillment in life.
why do you assume just jerking off isent the pinnacle of any achievement a human being could achieve in this universe

>> No.6773935

Sam Harris attempts, and if you're intelligent and sophisticated enough to grasp his arguments he succeeds in reconciling philosophy and the natural world we live in.

>> No.6773975

>>6772128

Surely Marx could just as easily go on the right hand side of this diagram?