Good video on the real intellectual state of the West

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"God is Dead" — What Nietzsche Really Meant

Not a statement of atheism but a warning of nihilism

www.thelivingphilosophy.com

This is a great article on Nietzsche's famous parable of the "The Madman", it explains it pretty good. The video is by a guy I've been obsessed with lately, that also starts with an equally wonderful explanation of the same parable.
He then weaves into, in a very broad fashion, Modernism and then Existentialism to show the ramifications of "The Death of God". He lays out two different forms of Atheism and then broadly critiques them with a Vantillian perspective.
It is somewhat "upper register" thinking but in a broad fashion to hopefully give a strategic method to engage the real place that the West is in, in it's thinking.
This is attractive to me because in studying this stuff it forced to go back and rediscover what my proposed Doctoral thesis was going to be about and crystalize a broad method to get to a thesis (haven't gotten that far but I'm closer). Basically something like "WW1 and WW2 as the result of the Death of God and is Postmodernism/Wokism the remedy?"
I welcome thoughts and criticism and/or questions. Because I may have a possibility to go back to college and finish, I always wanted to have my thesis decided upon beforehand to make it easier to write. I don't know though, with prayers I will seek and do God's will.

 

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Difficult Atheism: Post-Theological Thinking in Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy and Quentin Meillassoux

Being an "atheist" is not a simple matter. When Derrida says that there are "theological prejudices" imbedded in "metaphysics in its entirety, even whe...

ndpr.nd.edu

Good review of the book I'm going to get that when reading about it re-sparked my interest in this stuff. The apologetical value of all this is to minister to world around us we must understand that world. It's only when we understand that what's really going on in the West is not so much Secularism but Secularism (or Secularization) is the unhealthy reaction of the body (Western society) to the infection of the "Death of God" in it's broadest sense.
Remember the Madman is speaking largely to atheists and lamenting that they think they get along just fine without God but refuse to leave the cities and societies built by that foundation. The Madman says "no all this is going away but you don't realize it, you can't live here anymore".
Just thinking out loud, sorry.

 

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Which God(s) do you (not) believe in? An interview with Christopher Watkin, Journal of Baudrillard Studies

A while back now I was interviewed by Jon Baldwin for the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies. The original electronic version of the interview is available here. I have also also pasted i…

christopherwatkin.com

Great interview on this book.

Although in the original lecture I posted and in this interview, I think, he mistakenly cites "The Twilight of The Idol's" as where the Madman was written. I don't know why he does that because it's in "The Gay Science". Surly he knows that, so I don't know.