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One of the best philosophy quotes of all-time comes from degenerate fag Foucault
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Date: June 4th, 2026 8:42 PM Author: Self-centered station gaping "Far from offering you a solution, I will merely point out some of the difficulties we face."
it's one of the most honest admissions by any philosopher ever. the original french is 'Bien éloigné de vous donner une solution, j'indiquerai seulement quelques-unes des difficultés qu'il présente' from one of his speeches about the meaning of the term 'author.' when he wasn't raping algerian kids, he made some insights.
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Date: June 5th, 2026 10:29 AM Author: dun hairraiser field Michel Foucault was a retarded, AIDS-ridden faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871225&forum_id=2most#49916718) |
Date: June 4th, 2026 8:59 PM Author: Aqua alcoholic market rigor but he rode that notion into a career of cynicism and coaling over civilization that crystalized into a positive philosophy of just that, cynicism and coaling. simply "pointing out difficulties" in earnest towards resolution is not the same as "pointing out difficulties" as a practice of suggesting there can be no solution. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871225&forum_id=2most#49916164) |
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Date: June 4th, 2026 9:02 PM Author: avocado kitty cat cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871225&forum_id=2most#49916168) |
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Date: June 4th, 2026 9:04 PM Author: Self-centered station gaping the sense i got from his stuff is that he considered people to be easily-propagandized retards, and therefore governments and other systems of power would inevitably end up developing cold but rational methods of propagandizing and managing those retards.
there is no 'solution' to this; it's just the inevitable operation of an 'information society.' it can't be otherwise. |
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Date: June 4th, 2026 9:24 PM Author: Aqua alcoholic market rigor the two categories of thought that "intellectuals" typically land on when confronting such issues are either "this sucks and is a huge problem because there is something good in civilization and mankind, which we have to distill and commit to defending against this problem" or "this sucks but i am right"
if u can't listen to beethoven or learn isaac newton's calculus without feeling that it's not right simply to root around in ideas about the insolubility of the shittines of civilization then u're just being indulgent at best, more likely resentful of those better or whiter than u
while we were putting men on the moon foucault was bitching about civilization keeping ugly & violent criminals in prison |
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Date: June 5th, 2026 12:14 AM Author: anal peach hunting ground Are you developing Engineering Awareness (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871225&forum_id=2most#49916420) |
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Date: June 5th, 2026 2:35 AM Author: Self-centered station gaping that's not exactly the sense i get from him. he died in the early-80's, so he didn't really engage with technological modernity very much. his cynicism toward institutions has actually been the TCR to adopt at a personal level for a while. the marxists hated him because he called the soviets a bunch of manipulative totalitarian fags (they were).
western academia celebrated him while suppressing some of his hot takes, such as both sides being shitty and oppressive in the vietnam war. and without a lot of preening; his whole approach was that the structural mechanics of both states made such an outcome inevitable. he was a precursor to more modern foreign policy realism, 'seeing like a state'-kind of arguments, etc.
foucault saw the space race as an obvious extension of the panopticon, and predicted that orbital launch capacity would be used first and foremost to launch spy satellites and military navigation/communications, which was more or less true.
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Date: June 5th, 2026 3:37 AM Author: Aqua alcoholic market rigor marx also had discerning things to say about how "work" in the form of employment is lame and gay or "alienating" as he would put it. things which taken on their own i find to be directionally correct if only in their framing. but there's a point at which you read the particulars of someone so closely that you forget what he's saying, where he's going, where all the particular expressions come from as a matter of his more general orientation towards the world and towards life.
you can "reason" your way into a lot of bullshit, especially if you write like a mid-late 20th century french critical theorist. and if you do not depart from the world of simple reason it becomes possible to accept a lot of disparate thoughts from contrasting writers at once. maybe the best example is the critical theorist interpretation of nietzsche, who they stripped of all spirit and meaning to come away with a boring ass theory of relativism among other things. and if you narrow your reading of nietzsche just enough you can do this with the right twists and turns and linguistic maneuvering. but nobody who reads both nietzsche and foucault themselves, not as a pedantic academic or as an ideologue with an axe to grind but as a real reader, can come away from them thinking, yes, these people take the same stance towards humanity and life.
for all foucault had to say about "vietnam" or particular socialist colleagues you still know what it was all *about*. and if u don't i invite u now to pause and think abt it. |
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Date: June 5th, 2026 7:25 AM Author: Self-centered station gaping marx tried to define an entire system which was supposed to explain history itself, and in that sense was very much in the vein of his contemporaries and the older generation of philosophers who had also tried to come up with totalizing explanatory frameworks for material reality.
foucault doesn't even try. which might well be evasive, lazy, etc. but what he pushes again and again in different essays/lectures is the notion that the modern person's interaction with 'the state' or other big institutions is not being mediated through older structures like your village and its parochial interests.
technological modernity regards the population as a mass but also the individual as a specific identified unit with a set of cataloged characteristics. one corollary of that fact is that - once aware of this - you should regard yourself as the most basic unit of action and analysis when it comes to decisions such as whether or not to submit to a military draft (for instance).
this is a huge shift from all sorts of other systems which still took concepts like 'the glory of the nation' seriously as a kind of shared, non-individuated ethic which relied on 'the people' as a metaphysical analytical unit.
it might be harsh to strip all the romanticism away from individual-state relations, but it has been nothing but vindicated in the past few decades. it's an appropriate and analytically-useful cynicism.
foucault's problem in some sense is that he came too late, since his basic framework was completely applicable in the era prior to WWI, and that's when it would have done the most instantaneous good.
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Date: June 5th, 2026 8:21 AM Author: pale charismatic church Wow i guess its good and admirable he raped brown bois after all. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871225&forum_id=2most#49916586) |
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Date: June 5th, 2026 2:45 PM Author: avocado kitty cat cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871225&forum_id=2most#49916935) |
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Date: June 4th, 2026 11:28 PM Author: avocado kitty cat i found him persuasive when i read him at first. systems of power shape everything in subtle ways. but i do think the destruction of truth, and objective value, and saying everything is relative, was at the end of the day, just cope for http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871225&forum_id=2#49916191 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871225&forum_id=2most#49916386) |
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Date: June 4th, 2026 9:17 PM Author: Poppy motley french chef literally everything foucault ever said was a roundabout rationalization for him gay raping kids
not exaggeration or flame btw |
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Date: June 4th, 2026 9:40 PM Author: bateful transparent nowag background story degenerate fags are the best kind tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871225&forum_id=2most#49916231) |
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Date: June 5th, 2026 7:28 AM Author: Carnelian adventurous institution what kind of Liberal Arts trash is this? anyone could come up with that quote Jfc. go back to your BA in Political Science. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871225&forum_id=2most#49916560) |
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Date: June 5th, 2026 7:29 AM Author: Self-centered station gaping it's not 'best' because it's brilliant or insightful. it's best because it's funny. it's basically an insult to his audience. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871225&forum_id=2most#49916561) |
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Date: June 5th, 2026 10:31 AM Author: mauve diverse electric furnace theatre do you feel retarded now for majoring in political science? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871225&forum_id=2most#49916719) |
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Date: June 5th, 2026 10:40 AM Author: Carnelian adventurous institution (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871225&forum_id=2most#49916730) |
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Date: June 5th, 2026 10:44 AM Author: heady cumskin “…practitioners of philosophy, who typically circle around the minutiae of theories and not the gross facts of our lives. If we must think, it should be done only in circles, outside of which lies the unthinkable.”
- Ligotti |
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Date: June 5th, 2026 10:45 AM Author: Impressive parlor giraffe Ligotti was the real deal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5871225&forum_id=2most#49916741) |