A significant part of this paradoxical world-in-itself is grounded by scientific inquiry – both the production of scientific knowledge of the world and the technical means of acting on and intervening in the world. The world-in-itself is a paradoxical concept the moment we think it and attempt to act on it, it ceases to be the world-in-itself and becomes the world-for-us. Regarding Nihilism, those who dare to actually read the book Jay-Z wore while biking across the desert will discover that Thacker, who consciously embraces the label of nihilist, likes to think so much that he’s reached thought’s very limits.Ĭonsider this excerpt from In the Dust of this Planet: And given the fact that God doesn’t want us to think why should we? After all, the world may be mad, but it’s also God’s creation. Only in a world that is fundamentally mad can a revolutionary like Paine be used as a mouthpiece for religious nut like Beck, but from Beck’s own perspective his actions are consistent. This along with his weird embrace of Thomas Paine demonstrates that self-contradiction and irrationality are no problem at all for Beck. The problem is that Beck’s 12 step version of Christianity brings along with it a conviction that humans can’t be trusted to think. All of this is exactly what you’d expect from Beck, but what might be easy to miss as you watch this paranoid version of Romper Room is how self-contradictory Beck’s rant really is, and how he himself brushes up against nihilism as he plays connect the dots.
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