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Pill Pod 147 - Authenticity & Existentialism (preview) · PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy

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  I've developed a new concept called the Oprah to TikTok pipeline, because I think
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  Oprah Oprah destroyed philosophy. It was not postmodern theory. It was Oprah single
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  handedly. She created doctor phil and the Law of Attraction, Lady and Deepak
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  Chopra and all this shit is now like fifty percent of TikTok as well.
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  So at one time philosophy's turf was self help, and no philosopher wants to
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  admit that because they think they're talking about the the transcendental, deeper questions or
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  transcendental or transcendent ideas. But that's just way too much work. So now
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  we have, you know, the Oprah spinoffs. I mean, what about
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  Whitehead saying something like, you know, we don't ever disprove older philosophy,
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  Like some new sort of style of philosophy comes along and just sort of displaces
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  the old style. There's no you know, questions are important during certain periods
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  of history, and then they go away and they're not important anymore. It's
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  not like we've disproven the importance of such questions or answered those questions even satisfactorily.
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  They just go away and new questions come around. I mean, that's
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  a very loose paraphrase. But you'll say something like that, what do you
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  guys know what the law of attraction is? No? I don't think so
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  is that like a is that like a lorenz a tractor type situation? Or
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  is that something different? It's less than that. It's like when you manifest
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  something in your mind then like a vision board, Yeah, a vision board.
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  If if you manifest it, then you can cause it to come into
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  being. Ah, that's pretty yeah, that's that's pretty wacky, which is
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  fifty percent of TikTok visual As far as I'm aware, visualizer's success before you
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  aren't successful. But I think the death of philosophy probably probably Heidiger was the
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  last philosopher. I think I would go to bat for that. But like
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  the popularity of Sart versus versus, Like, there's no philosopher that anyone knows
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  today other than maybe Jijiak. But the popularity of Sart was like all of
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  French society wanted to know what he thought about everything because he kind of turned
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  Heidiger into a self help book and then wrote some depressing plays that expressed the
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  French post war depressive demeanor, the nausea. But oprah ideology is the opposite
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  of nausea. It's like the self assuredness and oprah one. So if you're
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  saying that Whitehead is not comparing or you can't compare epochs one to another,
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  then we are in the Oprah epoch of philosophy. Yeah, our concerns just
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  aren't the same. Yeah, spirit it's all spirituality, but it's it's Veldtgeist.
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  In the California version of Veldtgeist, there was a lot of contingency around
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  what questions are important too, and a lot of those old ones come back
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  and become more important, Like you know, Heidegger, did you know clear
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  away a lot of a lot of space for Aristotle to be reinterpreted, Like
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  I just downloaded a bunch of those Joe Sachs translations of Aristotle, which are
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  supposed to get back to the ancient Greek and get rid of the sort of
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  latinate translations that have came around in the interceding millennia and get back to the
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  original sort of and and then try to sort of see what what was Aristotle
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  like sort of saying in his own language. Whether or not it makes sense
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  to us is another question, But I don't know. Some of those things
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  do come back as a maybe unex expected result of reviving some older philosopher,
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  or an unexpected consequence of some brilliant philosopher who is trying to reawaken the question
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  of being and just ended up promoting more translations of Aristotle to be done differently,
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  there's a career. I'm a little stuck on, like what you just
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  said, their pills about, like Heidiger being the last philosopher. What do
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  you? What do you? What is philosophy to you? Philosophy is making
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  up cosmic sounding names for stuff, okay that you can never observe from any
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  other position, and then arguing with other people about the names that you made.
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  Well, maybe you're no, it's not the forums, it's the substances.
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  So maybe I was too hard on the metamodernism guy, because even if
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  you're even if you're bad at making up words, this is what philosophy has
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  been since. I think, I think what you're talking about. I think
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  what you're talking about there is metaphysics, not philosophy. Rit large, Yeah,
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  there's the end of metaphysics. That's a kind of Nietzschean provoked Heidegery and
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  fulfilled dairy da continued kind of thing, right, And I mentioned before it
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  has a lot of parallels with the end of history, because if we're saying
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  that history ends with the fall of communism in the nineties early nineties, then
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  it's like, okay, then what was history if it's something that has now
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  ended. What was philosophy if it is something that has now ended.