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Re: The Question, "Why Mathematics?" Itself
« on: July 29, 2021, 05:42:51 am »
Thanks for the heads-up, Holden.  I will be checking out the PDF file of the text.   Husserlian phenomenology plays a prominent role in the defeat of the Mind Parasites in Colin Wilson's Lovecraftian tale.
It is exciting stuff, that there has been so much research in regard to Husserl's earliest writings on mathematics.   One could really spend a lifetime going through these kinds of things, making for a rich inner life; but the industrialists and their ilk continue to view the masses as cattle to be fed into the meat-grinder.

There has always been something about Edmund Husserl's writings which demand my respect, if only for his attempt at intellectual honesty.   I'm afraid I would have been in serious trouble were I one of his students, having to witness his betrayal by Heidegger.  Surely I would have been confused during those transitions.

There were some interesting things happening in Germany at the time, to say the least.  Nothing that is so, is so.  I would have been one confused and distraught basket-case, I suppose.   Who knows why some men are permitted to study mathematics and invent new fields/disciplines, while others are destined to carry ammunition like a mule.

Our entire world is suspect, and the objective reality of all this "history playing itself out in the so-called real world" is questionable.   We are free to consider these things.  We will not be thrown off the grass.  Recall the Weirdo-Rejectionist thread in our Humor Forum where I mention something Virginia Woolf had written in A Room of Our Own to the effect that sitting around reading in a relaxed manner may be considered one of the most deviant activities as it displays a total disdain for the work ethic and those who judge us by our “position” or lack of position in the work force.

Virginia Woolf asks, “If truth is not to be found on the shelves of the British Museum, where, I asked myself, picking up a notebook and pencil, is truth?”

Could the truth be hiding in our heads somewhere?

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

At least there are those who do recognize contemplation as a kind of vocation.  By the sound of the conservatives, who want everyone on some kind of clock, filling some position as a clerk or laborer, one would think that they consider thinking to be downright subversive or even a criminal activity, a challenge to the authority of the corporate state and its masters, the International Bankers.
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