In many ways, modern media is exactly this phenomenon of illusory progress. I am thinking especially the dialectic between television and TH-cam. In many ways, TH-cam - the internet - seems just another form of television, but when you think about it, it is perhaps the apotheosis of media. What ought one to do? We really are confronted with our own fecklessness as we surf the web; there isn’t any reason to choose one video over another: the “dangling conversation” isn’t going on in an AI generated singularity, but rather in the living room, just like people used to be totally controlled by the church. Even the most stoic sentinel needs religion to return to the source, or achieve ecstasy, but the end of history is already here and indeed, philosophy is an activity, but also a facticity. We want there to be imaginary truths that can pacify our meticulous - unready - souls, but in the end all we can do be thankful and keep striving, and maybe work out to find out where it all went wrong. But maybe there are no mistakes in life, since you live so you learn. Freedom is the highest of all things to be gained. What we want to do, is within our reach. Knowing that, TH-cam is already quite the miracle of human handiwork.
brilliant, thank you
"The trouble with "Progress", is that it always looks much greater than it really is." I think I'm firmly in the Witggenstein camp.
In many ways, modern media is exactly this phenomenon of illusory progress. I am thinking especially the dialectic between television and TH-cam. In many ways, TH-cam - the internet - seems just another form of television, but when you think about it, it is perhaps the apotheosis of media. What ought one to do? We really are confronted with our own fecklessness as we surf the web; there isn’t any reason to choose one video over another: the “dangling conversation” isn’t going on in an AI generated singularity, but rather in the living room, just like people used to be totally controlled by the church. Even the most stoic sentinel needs religion to return to the source, or achieve ecstasy, but the end of history is already here and indeed, philosophy is an activity, but also a facticity. We want there to be imaginary truths that can pacify our meticulous - unready - souls, but in the end all we can do be thankful and keep striving, and maybe work out to find out where it all went wrong. But maybe there are no mistakes in life, since you live so you learn. Freedom is the highest of all things to be gained. What we want to do, is within our reach. Knowing that, TH-cam is already quite the miracle of human handiwork.
Wittgenstein & Heidegger ... enuff said