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You want to learn how to jam your stent into anything that smells of money on a nine to five?<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/18/group-of-junior-bankers-at-goldman-sachs-claim-inhumane-work-conditions ''Group of junior bankers at Goldman Sachs claim “inhumane” work conditions'']: The Guardian, 18 March 2021.</ref> Come, now children. Would you read Faust, if you thought the good doctor got to keep his soul? | You want to learn how to jam your stent into anything that smells of money on a nine to five?<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/18/group-of-junior-bankers-at-goldman-sachs-claim-inhumane-work-conditions ''Group of junior bankers at Goldman Sachs claim “inhumane” work conditions'']: The Guardian, 18 March 2021.</ref> Come, now children. Would you read Faust, if you thought the good doctor got to keep his soul? | ||
===The enlightenment cancelling the enlightenment=== | ===The enlightenment cancelling the enlightenment=== | ||
Kicking away the ladder is one thing: proposing to erase all records of one’s ascension up it, quite another.<ref>[ | Kicking away the ladder is one thing: proposing to erase all records of one’s ascension up it, quite another.<ref>[[Hintersoisser Traverse|Hinterstoisser and Kurz]], doomed climbers of the Eiger, might caution against kicking the ladder away, too. If things get sticky ahead, you might need it to get down.</ref> | ||
The enlightenment has been a serial victim of erasure. The [[reductionist]] certainty that “all explanatory arrows point downward”; that there is a single unifying principle that governs the physical operation of the universe at all points, for all times; that all scientific disciplines are consistent and reduce, ultimately, to physics, is ''inferred'', entirely without evidence — how could there be any? — and is transparently an inheritance from Judeo-Christian orthodoxy. You can’t have the certainty and orderliness of a prime mover from whom all things derive ''and'' get to do what the hell you want, ''and'' get to tell everyone else what the hell to think. | The enlightenment has been a serial victim of erasure. The [[reductionist]] certainty that “all explanatory arrows point downward”; that there is a single unifying principle that governs the physical operation of the universe at all points, for all times; that all scientific disciplines are consistent and reduce, ultimately, to physics, is ''inferred'', entirely without evidence — how could there be any? — and is transparently an inheritance from Judeo-Christian orthodoxy. You can’t have the certainty and orderliness of a prime mover from whom all things derive ''and'' get to do what the hell you want, ''and'' get to tell everyone else what the hell to think. | ||
Likewise, the liberal pluralistic disposition — also a function of the enlightenment (though, curiously, incommensurate with the reductionism it accompanied) — a product of the towering intellects of the enlightenment: men like [[David Hume|Hume]], [[Adam Smith]], John Stewart Mill, Jeremy Bentham and [[Charles Darwin]] — were necessary conditions for growth of continental philosophy, [[post modernism]] and the [[Critical theory|critical theories]] who would now write this stale colonial tradition from history. Look, knock yourself out: kick away the ladder, by all means — but be prepared for a cold night on | Likewise, the liberal pluralistic disposition — also a function of the enlightenment (though, curiously, incommensurate with the reductionism it accompanied) — a product of the towering intellects of the enlightenment: men like [[David Hume|Hume]], [[Adam Smith]], John Stewart Mill, Jeremy Bentham and [[Charles Darwin]] — were necessary conditions for growth of continental philosophy, [[post modernism]] and the [[Critical theory|critical theories]] who would now write this stale colonial tradition from history. Look, knock yourself out: kick away the ladder, by all means — but be prepared for a cold night on [[Hinterstoisser Traverse|Death Bivouac]] if the weather closes in — but don’t pretend that wasn’t how you got there. | ||
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*[[Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about]] | *[[Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about]] | ||
*[[Change paradox]] | |||
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