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Jake

We'll be waiting for you at the Turning

About Me

I'm highly neurotic, what distinguishes me from most other people is only the fact that I'm conscious of it and have the constitution to accept it. What else would you want to know?I'd like to reiterate that I'm not a communist, I never claimed to be a revolutionary, I don't call or consider myself a revolutionary, I'm not a writer, I'm not a thinker, I'm not a visionary, I'm not a socialist, I'm not a libertarian, I wouldn't call myself a philosopher.....you know what, if you think I'm something, if you think "You're this", you're just wrong. (though I'd like to be an undercover philosopher)

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Well, I'd like to meet someone fiercely intelligent, preferably female, but there tend to be none of either gender. I'd kill to have a stiff drink with Slavoj Zizek - is that crazy?Who I wouldn't like to meet - Good-looking girls who say "Oh, I'm not pretty", the fatalistic, the optimistic, the pessimistic (basically, those who refuse to look at concrete conditions and their proper articulation), people who think the "answers" are simple (because they are and they aren't, but that's a lengthy conversation)

My Blog

I am currently reading

The Essential Works of Lenin: "What is to be Done?" and Other Writings Cynicism and Postmodernity by Timothy Bewes Tarrying with the Negative by Slavoj Zizek
Posted by on Sat, 03 Jun 2006 03:03:00 GMT

Nietzsche, Ecce Homo ("Here is Man")

Where one feels contempt, one cannot wage war; where one commands, where one sees something beneath oneself, one has no business waging war. My practice of war can be summed up in four propositions. ...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Dec 2005 10:49:00 GMT