They’re destroying the humanities from the inside out. They did it with philosophy. They unleashed analytic philosophy like a virus. They’ve gutted philosophy – real philosophy. It was systematic.
And now Organisational Management is hatching in the humanities’ heart. It’s laid its eggs there, like a parasitic wasp. And the parasites will hatch.
It’s like analytic philosophers designed a campus. Like they ordered a campus from analytic philosophy central.
Cicero knew the battles we’d fight against analytic philosophy. The internal battles, first of all. The battle against what we were – how we’d been formed. The battle against our UK-ness or Britishness or whatever.
The internal struggle against our home philosophy. Our default philosophy.
Analytic philosophy is the ultimate God is dead philosophy. Where everything is turned over to procedure.
Analytic philosophy. Undrunk philosophy. Sober philosophy. Logical busywork. About nothing. With no stakes. No vision. Philosophy for nerds. Philosophy reduced. Compromised. Philosophy for the middle aged.
Doubtless, there’s a whole story to tell about analytic philosophy hijack. The way it took over – very deliberately. Charged with a sense of mission. All about clarity! Brevity! Not about writing vast European oeuvres. Not spending half your essay throat-clearing like Jacques Derrida.
Democratic! Scientific! Philosophy done at last on a proper basis! Not all intoxicated. Not all scholarly. Not all history of philosophy.
Philosophy, free of humbug! And nonsense! Liberal philosophy – in the old sense.
Natural English clarity. No continental woolliness. No European imprecision. No lure of the -ism. No vast speculative theoretical systems. We’d been cured of that, unlike the damnable continentalists. No speculation! It’s not British!
Forget Whitehead. No one should remember Whitehead.
Dalek philosophy.
Analytic philosophers are just servants of the Bug, nothing more.
Analytic philosophy has met its limit. In us. We’re the resistance. Because we can’t help but be the resistance. We’re the slack. We’re the grit in its eye. Because we can’t be otherwise!
We were never any good at analytic philosophy. We couldn’t be. We lacked the sharpness of mind. The narrowness of focus. We weren’t technical obsessives, like the analytic philosophers. We weren’t logic mad!
The amazing analytic philosophy plan – to devour philosophy from the inside. To infiltrate. To take over. And now their takeover is complete, they can reveal themselves as what they really are: Organisational Management.
Work in Progress 