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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                       UNDERTHINK
in Harvard and Berkeley have
reflected deeply and decided that
you should not reflect, but rather     "Follow your passion"?
focus on the things that excite
you-- which they refer to as                                       But actually,
"whoosh" moments, which is funny             (Oct 15, 2016)        they don't
twice over: *whoosh* is the sound     One wonders under            *literally*
of a remark going over someone's      what circumstances           say what you
head --                               these two professors         *should* do,
                                      might've gotten a            because that
And in response to the obvious        reversed sense of            would be
Hitler problem (how about them        this idiom from              *moralistic*.
Hitler youth rallies, eh?  Whole      their students...
lotta whooshing going on, no?),                                SHINING_SHOULD
they talk about how you can           "Oh, that uh--
develop the skill of spotting         means you really
proto-Hitlers by learning to          blew us away with
make coffee carefully... and I        that one.  What an
bet you think I'm exaggerating,       amazing point."
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           SHINING_MEANING
     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
        morality of racism and genocide.

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


                 This is a book so bad it
                 should be written 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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