After the End

After the end of philosophy – what then?

The philosophy of the end of philosophy.

And after that?

 

After the end, what then? Philosophy. Philosophy alone can speak of the end. Philosophy is essentially posthumous.

 

Do not be afraid of death, postgraduates. For death means only the beginning of philosophy. The philosopher must be dead. The philosopher must have died.

 

We had all died, Cicero said. She could see that.

 

Philosophy’s a resurrection. But a resurrection in death.

 

You have to have died in you are to think, that’s what Cicero said.

And what about Cicero – had she died?

She kept quiet about that.

 

There must be a burial – and a resurrection.

 

And maybe the world has to have been destroyed, for there to be a thought.

Apocalypse … or a coming apocalypse.

 

For the Gnostic, the world is dead. And we’re dead, too, in a sense. Or at least we’re dead to the world – to this world.

 

To have died means you are not part of the world. That you aren’t invested in this world. That it isn’t yours. It has nothing to do with you – in a sense.

 

You are the bastard child of this world. You are not of it, this world. You’re an interloper in this world. You don’t belong here, like the others. You cannot be at home here. You see through it.

 

You know the terrible evil. You know the Wickedness. You know the terrible things they’re doing to us. What they’ve done to our DNA. The way they’re replacing our species. The way they’ve engineered us.

 

You know their plans – you sense them. You know what’s Wrong. Their propaganda. Their psy-ops.