[FRA:] Language, Mythology, and Enlightenment

[Ralph Dumain]

Schmidt would argue that your conclusion is patently false, that Horkheimer 
and Adorno intended no such thing. In fact, it's obvious that this is only 
_your_ position, nihilism is your comfort as it is so many disillusioned 
leftists. And it's why you have nothing to say after doing all that work on 
your dissertation. It's quite a luxury. It's also a regression to Hinduism, 
the most monstrous belief system conceived by the mind of man.  When the 
Nazis appropriated the swastika, they couldn't have made a better choice.

At 10:38 AM 1/24/2007 +0000, matthew piscioneri wrote:
>Ralph,
>
> >I still find the argument of DofE unconvincing.
>
>As disdainful as you might find this next comment, IMO, the argument of the
>DofE IS nihilism. The universe in which we live is hopeless. If there is to
>be any sort of redemption, then this redemption is in our hopeful
>acquiescence to this hopelessness.
>
>It is about Adam n Eve looking god/allah in the eye and saying fuck you. YOU
>fucked up not us. YOU can take your freewill and ram it up uranus. Our
>hopelessness is allah/god's failure. I feel better now. I feel freer now
>:-).

"Fascism has awakened a sleeping world to the realities
  of the irrational, mystical character structure
  of the people of the world."
    -- Wilhelm Reich