Schelling is a figure of Satan made flesh among the philosophers: a monument to arrogance and superbia
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He could have had immortality, transformed the Western mind for a millennium; all he had to do was admit that he was #2
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Admitting you are #2 is not easy for anyone, hard when you’ve been #1, near impossible when you got as far as you did on the basis of fanatical self-confidence
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That he would have to bend the knee to his space-cadet college roommate and all-around sidekick did not help, I suspect
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I don’t mean Schelling was a bad guy, btw, or that what he actually wrote is bad (it’s fascinating, albeit often wrong in important ways)
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But what he could have wrote —— the mind boggles!
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To perform brain-surgery on a civilization is a possibility few are even allowed to glimpse in each generation. Or century. To be thrown by fate into the hands of a surgical partner who already has the anæsthesia ready...
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Of course, if Schelling weren’t so cocksure maybe he’d never have amounted to anything But if he had humbled himself we would live in a different world
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