Phil Witte’s Cartoon | Issue 164 | Philosophy Now
Albert Camus wrote in his Notebooks of 1935–42: “Feelings and images multiply a philosophy by ten. People can only think in images. If you want to be a philosopher, write novels.”
Charles Johnson • The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling
As a result, rather than their ideas being explicitly and logically argued for, they are slipped into the zeitgeist through the use of humor, both in the positive sense and in the snide, sarcastic sense. This cynical “It’s just a joke!” façade is a convenient mask for an ideology that dare not expose itself completely.
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
. Stay weird
Lastly, we need to accept the fundamental trippy weirdness of imagination, the sheer play of it, and not always reduce it to functional adaptation. There must be room for the surreal, the fantastic, the idealistic and even the nonsensical. Even in the full bloom of the scientific revolution, thinkers of all stripes – Emanuel Swedenborg... See more
Lastly, we need to accept the fundamental trippy weirdness of imagination, the sheer play of it, and not always reduce it to functional adaptation. There must be room for the surreal, the fantastic, the idealistic and even the nonsensical. Even in the full bloom of the scientific revolution, thinkers of all stripes – Emanuel Swedenborg... See more