Author Topic: What would Schopenhauer think of amplified "fanfare" crap?  (Read 286 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Nation of One

  • { }
  • { ∅, { ∅ } }
  • Posts: 4756
  • Life teaches me not to want it.
    • What Now?
What would Schopenhauer think of all the pomp and fanfare made over "royal weddings"?

Such an event is a great example of what Schopenhauer writes about in his popular essays.  Without becoming too bitter, I can only wonder what kind of mania takes over the masses, including my aging mother, who place so much value on what is external, as opposed to the real situation each individual entity experiences as "living".

Quite a spectacle.  Thankfully, I lock myself away in a little room, open a window to let in some cool damp air, and lose myself in "developing my mental life" which is within me, totally independent and, for the most part, transcending the illusory world being projected and amplified by modern technology.

Bah HUMBUG!

The media's "talking heads" are such ass-licking whores.
« Last Edit: May 19, 2018, 01:19:18 pm by Non Serviam »
Things They Will Never Tell YouArthur Schopenhauer has been the most radical and defiant of all troublemakers.

Gorticide @ Nothing that is so, is so DOT edu

~ Tabak und Kaffee Süchtigen ~

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter


Holden

  • { ∅, { ∅ } }
  • Posts: 5070
  • Hentrichian Philosophical Pessimist
False Consciousness (To Herr Hentrich &Senor Raul)
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2018, 12:21:37 pm »
Herr Hentrich and Senor Raul,

To watch the unprecedented 'mass mobilisation' for a cricket match – one that has far exceeded any recent political mass mobilisation – is not only frustrating, it is nauseating in the Kafka-esque sense of the word. It is nauseating to watch the dominant status quo controlled and manipulated by the uber gorts.

There are thousands & thousands of whose folks  still living in tents which are rendered ineffective by the heavy rain. How do the gort public , those admirers of the cricket heroes, react to that? It is simply too painful and cruel to even compare.

The media machine  in a Goebbels-esque manner, launches  strange and pretentious campaign: fixed days for pilgrimage and prayer for the victory of 'our boys' – the cricket players!
The production of a cultural industry saturating us with video clips, movies, soap operas, advertisements, action films, sexual gossip about pop stars, popular songs and so on has developed enormously. It has reached a point of creating an unprecedented false consciousness embodied in the latest media mobilisation. The average citizen has not been made to question as to why millions of kids are illiterate but rather whether or not the cricket team will achieve the 'national dream' of winning the cup!

The numbers of these illiterates fade into insignificance when compared with the number of expected runs the match is to produce.
 The prayers muttered on the lips of the spectators before and during the match have far superseded those prayers muttered for the kids who die of starvation and homelessness.

Keep well.
La Tristesse Durera Toujours                                  (The Sadness Lasts Forever ...)
-van Gogh.

Nation of One

  • { }
  • { ∅, { ∅ } }
  • Posts: 4756
  • Life teaches me not to want it.
    • What Now?
Yes, false consciousness is a great term for what is being mass produced by the various culture industries around the world. 

I suppose that there is nothing to be done about it. 

The only environment we have left to defend is the one between our ears. 


Things They Will Never Tell YouArthur Schopenhauer has been the most radical and defiant of all troublemakers.

Gorticide @ Nothing that is so, is so DOT edu

~ Tabak und Kaffee Süchtigen ~

raul

  • { ∅, { ∅ } }
  • Posts: 3106
Hentrich,

Maybe, Arthur must have seen something like that in his time. I don´t know. He traveled with his parents to Europe and met important people.

The common people must see the ornaments of power and so the princes and princesses must be ready for the occasion. The royal show must go on.

Strange really considering all these theories about Lady Di and her death in 1997.

In the USA you have the Kennedys, the uncrowned nobility there. But that did not prevent JFK and Robert from being killed.  I remember in 2004 with the U.S. elections a specialist in bloodlines said that George Bush Jr, was linked to the British Royals, so everything stays in the family. I think I read that Norton I was the Emperor of the USA and Protector of Mexico.

Anyway, continue developing your mental life there.