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Posted: April 15th, 2008, 11:57 pm
by e_dog
philistines -- a.k.a positivists -- don't get Witt.
too subtle, fine w(h)ine; best to stick with the swill to get drunk.wor-ship scienz. Reap the capitalistick bennyfits.
Posted: April 16th, 2008, 11:42 pm
by Totenkopf
Witt's the ex-engineer was the philistine--he didn't know jack about history or much of metaphysics either. And what's up with "meaning as use"? Sounds pretty philistinish: so thieves jargon will do as well as Coleridge. Witt was mad too (read Witt Poker), as in bad craziness. Personally I think he wanted to join the fascists (he fought for prussians in WWI), but having at least 1/2 jewish ancestry, he would never have made it.
I did not claim to idolize Russell, anyway: yr reading too much for his character, when's it's really a fairly traditional point, and one might even historicist. Russell protested Nam btw, and even made some interesting comments against the israelis. So he was a bit of an arrogant brit: hardly caused as much misery as communists or fascists did.
What's more interesting is the reaction Russell now produces in the left (and some rightist xtians); you'd think he was like the equal of Mao or something (now there's some real tyranny). He ain't. Really, in pomo-land, I think gents like Mao and Stalin are secretly coveted; as are even some fascists. They get the job done: what's a few million liquidated in the name of prole revolution? Ah yeah. Commies are sexxxy-- at least those with par-tay membership.