The analytic philosophy soul. The mediocre soul. The revenge on philosophy soul. The hating-philosophy soul. Which is the Anglo-American instinct.
What analytic philosophy has done to the British! How it has deepened the Britishness of the British – which didn’t need deepening.
And now it’s being exported, all over the world. Now it’s conquering Germany itself. And France. What a triumph! And Mitteleuropa. That’s the catastrophe.
The British didn’t need to be any more British, and yet we’re making them more British. Deepening their Britishness. Their so called commonsensicalness. Their philistinism. It’s getting worse.
They’re cut off from Europe. And now they’ll remake Europe in their own image. Now Europe is falling to them, the analytic philosophers.
None of our questions are analytic philosophy questions. None of our problems. They’re all pseudo-philosophy and folk psychology and existential throwback.
They’re rewriting the European classics. Re interpreting them. Rewriting them in analytic-ese. Re-introducing them. Re-contextualising them. In analytic philosophy™ approved clear Anglo prose.
If only Kant had written in English! Kant’s so much clearer in English. If only Heidegger had the English language at his disposal! And analytic clarity! Analytic luminousness!
They’re so naïve, over the Channel. They don’t know what they’re up against. It’s an invasion. It’s an attack. On philosophy!
They’re ruining philosophy. They’re polluting the European waters. And the European philosophers are too melancholy to fight back. They’re too full of Weltschmerz.
Who can resist analytic philosophy? Who can resist the lure of clarity – of so called clarity? Of clean prose. Of streamlined prose. Of the desire to explain it all. To expose everything to the light.
The light – the tyrant of light! The tyranny of clarity! They’ve exposed Europe to the light. And Europe cannot bear the light.
Europe has fallen. Of course it has. There’s no more Europe, essentially. The analytic virus is spreading. Converting darkness to light. Curing weltschmerz and angst and saudade and all the other things (a false cure.)
*Truly European thought survives only at the corners of Europe. Only at its edges. And only in bastardised form. Only in archaisms. In unreasonableness. In excessive moods. In madness. In degeneracy. In so called Gnosticism.
In the rejection of the world. In absurd world hatreds. In cultic madness.
It only survives in parody. In absurd exaggerations. In arrant contortions. In baroque twistedness. In the spasming of stupidity. In flinches. In obscene gestures. In the unintentional comedy of our lives.
The shadow is leaving Europe. The shadows are being banished, lost. There’s light everywhere. No corners in which to hide. No cracks.
It’s spreading, the light. The light that does not see. The light that hides what is hidden. It’s not the Heideggerian Lichtung.
Disappearing itself will disappear. Hiddenness itself will hide. Darkness will no longer be dark. Silence will no longer be silence.
No more tact. No more discretion. No more veils. No more depth. No more burial. No more earth. No more resistance. No more death – not even death. You won’t be able to die your way out of this.
The terrible reign of positivity. The horrors of the rictus grin. Yes-I-can compliance. General agreeableness.
And no more time. Time itself will be sucked away. No more study. Only Optimisation. Only organisation. And Management. And the official philosophy of organisation and management.
The banishment of negativism – of so-called negativism. Forgetting will be forgotten. Withdrawal will be withdrawn. Concealment will be concealed. There’ll be no more truth. No depth of truth. No dimensions of truth.
Only the correct. Only the positive. Only facts. No more time. Not deep time. No time for contemplation. No pausings. No whilings. No ponderings. No musings. No woolgatherings.
No attunements to the hidden and the deep. No Stimmungen. No fundamental moods – or any moods. No anxiety. No deep, deep boredom. No love – not even love! No darkness. No shadows.
That’s the atrocity. The banishment of anything but light – their so called light. Their shadowless light.
No more dubious religiosity. No more artistic pathos. No more incoherence. No more general misunderstanding.
No more awe at thought, and the possibility of thought. No more self-denigration and self-hatred.
No more energy of despair. No more formless intensity. No more extremity in general.
The sensible, instead. The calm, instead. The measured, instead. The so-called intellectual virtues, instead.
No more fanaticism. No more wildness. Calmness, instead. Temperance, instead. Sobriety, instead. No more death of God talk. Nor death as God talk. No more pessimus stuff.
No more spurious etymologising. No more aimless study. No more black teat of inspiration. No more reading in machine translations. No more magick, in general. No more dubious occultism.
No more pseudo reading. What we think of as reading. No more general spuriousness. No more parody. No more farce. No more jokes-of-all-of-our-lives.
No more laughter at laughter. No more despairing cries in the night.
No more crucifixion in general. No more unwatchable arthouse films. No more music of the depths. No more Jandek!
Analytic philosophy soul cavitation of the European philosophy soul. The hollowing out, in preparation for the analytic philosophy possession. For analytic philosophy takeover. For analytic philosophy automation.
Homo borg genesis is an analytic human. The post human. The analytic philosophy human.
Only Gnosticism can save us. And drunken Gnosticism. And incoherence. And stumbling. And mumbling. And diatribes. And paranoia. And emotions to be despised. And attitudes to be discarded.
All our childish things. Our recidivism. Our primitivism.
Work in Progress 