Caltrops - We Love Katamari





	[quote name="Bananadine"]I liked them at first because I hadn't thought about the stuff Schopenhauer was talking about, and they present their claims clearly and provocatively. But as I progressed through them they felt ever more samey, and it became more difficult for me to ignore the bits where he just makes crap up. By now I am pretty well sick of the guy (but I will finish reading anyway). In the essays, Schopenhauer seems to spend most of his time pushing the reader to conclude the following: Most people are worthless, except insofar as they support or impede the work of certain rare geniuses; geniuses are valuable because they create works that last for a long time; and for a genius, the creation of works of genius is worthwhile because of the posthumous fame it brings. He does occasionally allow that it's kinda nice to, like, <i>read</i> the writings of a genius, or even to create them. But like a Barborito trying to perpetuate his mind forever, he puts far more focus on the way in which works of genius propagate--his idea is that unlike crap books (and paintings, etc.) that bloom in popularity quickly and then fade away within decades, the work of a genius goes on, unchanged, for centuries or even millennia. (And then, it... also fades away? Well he doesn't say, PSH that's just the future not philosophy's problem (psh).) What is with these dudes and their obsession with the sterile propagation of unchanging patterns! Icycalm told me that some of what he's written for his site is aimed at a gaming audience, and some at a philosophical audience (men not rats etc.). Have you come across any of the latter yet? All I've seen is him either saying he's got a lot of big secrets that he'll eventually get around to explaining, or machine-gunning out big blobs of Baudrillard, pausing occasionally so that he may pose and cackle.[/quote]