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ALL_THINGS_SHINING

                                             April 23, 2011

   "All Things Shining: Reading the Western
    Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age"

    Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly
    Free Press, 2011

    [ref]

A duo of pro philosophers ensconced in Harvard and
Berkeley have reflected deeply and decided that
you should not reflect, but rather focus on the         "Follow your
things that excite you-- which they refer to as          passion"?
"whoosh" moments, which is funny twice over:
*whoosh* is the sound of a remark going over              UNDERTHINK
someone's head --
                                                         But actually, they
And in response to the obvious Hitler problem            don't *literally* say
(how about them Hitler youth rallies, eh?                what you *should* do,
Whole lotta whooshing going on, no?), they               because that would be
talk about how you can develop the skill of              *moralistic*.
spotting proto-Hitlers by learning to make
coffee carefully... and I bet you think I'm                 SHINING_SHOULD
exaggerating, but no, seriously, folks.

This is a work that is so profoundly silly you
will probably need to read it to believe it...

     They repeatedly dismiss the idea that
     there's some difference between sports,
     religion and politics on the level of
     content and meaning: all that matters
     is whether it makes you feel "whoosh!".

        They appear to have decided that the
        difference between MLK and Hitler has
        nothing to do with stuff like the            SHINING_MEANING
        morality of racism and genocide.

                     And they claim to be arguing
                     *against* modern nihilism.


                 If you're going to write a
                 book this bad you should
                 really do it in French.


                               SHINING_WAFFLES

                               SHINING_CENTER
                               SHINING_ARMOR
                               SHINING_CHAGRIN
                               SHINING_MUSE
                               SHINING_REFLECTION
                               SHINING_FLASH
                               SHINING_SPIKE
                               SHINING_FASCISTS

                               SHINING_EXISTENTIALISM
                               SHINING_NIETZSCHE
                               SHINING_SHOULD

                                    ETHICAL_MORAL








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