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November 26, 2024 (14270)
Let’s reinterpret the mind-body problem from a psychopolitical perspective.
I’m a body that is part of the larger body called the world. I’m also a language that is a part of the larger “body of knowledge” called psychopolitics. My body is mortal; its days are numbered. Today is the 14270th day of this body’s existence, and it’s aware that every new day brings it closer to death. My language, on the other hand, survives the death of my body and may endure as long as it is going to be relevant. My language is also my body – though I might call it “mind”, “reason”, “soul”, “spirit”, “intelligence”, “consciousness”, etc. I identify with everything I’ve thought, written or said, with the thousands of foolish statements I made while chasing the idol of “nosce te ipsum”. My recorded personal history – the ultimate refinement of folly – counts more than 5,000 days. Potentially, it has a chance to survive not only the death of my body but also the death of the two languages (Russian and English) I mastered over these days if it’s going to be translated into new languages that will dominate psychopolitics in the future.
The idea of “unalloyed natural reason” used by Descartes to lay down a foundation for his metaphysical castle doesn’t signify anything beyond the physical realm. He needed to break up with Latin. He saw what happened to those who dared to challenge the greatest Greek and Latin thinkers. He was aware that if his Latin gained enough power to threaten the existence of social institutions based on the authority of these great thinkers, he wouldn’t be able to reach “the perfect peace of mind he was seeking.”
Luther translated the word “barbarian” as “not-German”, which had serious consequences after his language was adopted as the standardized version of German across the Holy Roman Empire.
Descartes turns a French thinker into a thing that has an ultimate judgment over what exists and what doesn’t exist.
Whether the mind controls the body or the body controls the mind is a misleading question. Instead we have to ask, “Which language controls our thinking, who are the greatest thinkers of this language and who are their rivals in other languages?”

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4 viewsVladimir Svetashev, Nov 26 at 10:56

299.

November 26, 2024 (14270)
Let’s reinterpret the mind-body problem from a psychopolitical perspective.
I’m a body that is part of the larger body called the world. I’m also a language that is a part of the larger “body of knowledge” called psychopolitics. My body is mortal; its days are numbered. Today is the 14270th day of this body’s existence, and it’s aware that every new day brings it closer to death. My language, on the other hand, survives the death of my body and may endure as long as it is going to be relevant. My language is also my body – though I might call it “mind”, “reason”, “soul”, “spirit”, “intelligence”, “consciousness”, etc. I identify with everything I’ve thought, written or said, with the thousands of foolish statements I made while chasing the idol of “nosce te ipsum”. My recorded personal history – the ultimate refinement of folly – counts more than 5,000 days. Potentially, it has a chance to survive not only the death of my body but also the death of the two languages (Russian and English) I mastered over these days if it’s going to be translated into new languages that will dominate psychopolitics in the future.
The idea of “unalloyed natural reason” used by Descartes to lay down a foundation for his metaphysical castle doesn’t signify anything beyond the physical realm. He needed to break up with Latin. He saw what happened to those who dared to challenge the greatest Greek and Latin thinkers. He was aware that if his Latin gained enough power to threaten the existence of social institutions based on the authority of these great thinkers, he wouldn’t be able to reach “the perfect peace of mind he was seeking.”
Luther translated the word “barbarian” as “not-German”, which had serious consequences after his language was adopted as the standardized version of German across the Holy Roman Empire.
Descartes turns a French thinker into a thing that has an ultimate judgment over what exists and what doesn’t exist.
Whether the mind controls the body or the body controls the mind is a misleading question. Instead we have to ask, “Which language controls our thinking, who are the greatest thinkers of this language and who are their rivals in other languages?”

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