I've never been disenchanted by the charade of what tries to come off as philosophy. Thought experiment: Put a humorous and free-minded philosopher in a pandemic lockdown. If the person doesn't come out with some biting humor, that person has been faking it. Zizek syndrome.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza
Reza, a non-related question, when did you start learning English? and was wondering, if at some point you felt, that in order to fully grasp complex ideas in English (even though you understand them) you have to do something with your Farsi. ground the ideas in Farsi somehow.
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Replying to @AforAbstraction
I started learning English around 12-13. Being a farsi nerd, it was difficult but learning new languages is not difficult at all. You just need to the crack the core protocol and then you can master a language. I'd say that there is nothing special or exotic about any language.
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Going to try it soon, probably Spanish, (did Latin at school). From what I have heard the most important thing is wanting to speak with people in the other language, and then doing so.
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For druj's sake, don't. If you learn one language you have learned it all. Invest your cognitive resources on more rewarding cognitive enterprises.
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Ah! But I work with a lot of Spanish-speakers, and dream of an empire spanning America, or at least its Northern portion. English is not enough.
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Screw them all. If they can't learn English they have no hope for a universal revolution.
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No Universal Empire can be complete without a universal language, but what it gives up in this is its indifference to the particular. Iran actually a great example of this, not in the linguistic sense, but the religious.
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Wrong if I may say so. If you don't have an effective language in the extant language time, you can't even launch a revolution in your neighborhood.
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I agree, but spreading it makes room for particularity or runs into a wall that results in violence.
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How so? Why does an effective universal language backfire?
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It works very well within the state, but the universal state that governs best always "goes native". It instantiates itself in a way that linguistic or religious barriers do no interfere with local particularity - at least until the time is right.
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