European philosophy has to go through a period of UK occultation. Has to begin again on the UK terroir. Among the part timers! And the working class! And the losers!
European philosophy has to become illegible to itself. Must forget how to read itself. Its own history. European philosophy has to return to itself through illiteracy. Through idiots – authentic UK idiots. Through the uneducated. And the ineducable. Through deep, stubborn stupidity – cultural stupidity. The special qualities of UK stupidity.
European philosophy, in a UK daze. In UK forgetting. In UK desecration.
European philosophy, lost on the other side of the channel, where no one understands it. Where no one gets it, not really. Not even its most ardent enthusiasts – especially them.
European philosophy has to lose itself. To find itself again? No, to lose itself still further.
Livia knew what it needed, European philosophy. Continental thought! It needed to travel a great distance, if it was to return to itself. Needed to lose itself in the unhomely – in the Unheimlich. In the unfamiliar element.
Livia knew that an Odyssey was necessary. A voyage. European thought had to go forth to come home. And it would be a terrible journey. A humiliating journey. Beginning with a blow to the head – a UK blow. Passing through a long period of coma. Of forgetting.
European thought, now in stupid vessels. Now in damaged brains. Damaged lives. Continental thought, now in UK heads.
Which is why European philosophy had to learn the arts of disgust. Of being disgusted. Which is why European had to pass to the part-time lecturers. To the working class part-timers – a double whammy. Doubling up the stimmung.
Continental thought belongs to the fuck ups. To the losers. To our kind, God help it.
The descent of European thought in the UK brain. The UK katabasis of continental thinking. Who would have predicted it? How would have thought it?
Amnesia: that’s where it must begin, the rebirth of European philosophy. With a blow to the head – a UK blow. Amnesia and retardation. And backwardness. And mental deficiency.
European philosophy would have to wake up as after a coma. Having to relearn everything. From spelling upward. All the skills it once took for granted.
Only the thinker as idiot. Only the saving power of idiocy. Only the density of the UK head. And the refraction of European thought through the UK head.
Work in Progress 