I am aware these fucking suck, unfortunately any alternatives are stuck in eternal revision I think of knowledge as a medium through which the philosopher's intellectual proclivities and sensitivites propagate; a medium of objectivity through which the philosopher's subjective roots sprout and reveal themselves. I believe this dual-existence within the subjective and objective realms is what differentiates philosophy from more objective intellectual pursuits such as science. Running with this belief, it is quite evident to me that my philosophy has as yet failed to cross from the domain of subjectivity to that of objectivity, for the scope of my knowledge is narrow and I thus lack an objective reality in which my intuitions are reflected. This isn't to say that my intellectual sensitivites are totally uninformed, for if that were the case they could not be named intellectual whatsoever, but they are built upon terribly feeble evidence. They will continue to remain feeble for quite some time, for the matters I concern myself with (the nature of culture, ideals, and the internet) demand an exceedingly high amount of objective knowledge for any conception of them to be sound. These are matters which I feel to be terribly misunderstood despite their immense existential weight, and thus I'd find presenting a mere conjecture of these topics as unacceptable. Thus, I shall only provide the subjective "rudiments" of my philosophy. I do not believe the subjective nature of these ideas to render them any less valuable, but merely as less refined. If any of my ideas resonate with you, or if you have any qualms with them, I highly encourage you to discuss them with me through Discord, as this serves to strengthen and refine them as they clash or are informed with the knowledge of another: Discord ID: presadhereno LIST OF INTELLECTUAL INFLUENCES (WHOM I HARDLY READ) Schopenhauer Nietzsche Aristotle Jung ... and whosever other ideas I happened to fancy MY CONCEPTION OF WILL "All phenomena in their most rudimentary, irreducible forms are ultimately the workings of will - or irrational animating tendencies. Will is the essence of mental phenomena just as much as it is the essence of material phenomena. Gravity is a clear example of will, as it is an irreducible and irrational animating tendency of nature. What defines gravity, ultimately, is not the mathematical equation which describes the behavior of gravity but the tendency itself; the tendency for masses to hold mutual attraction. This is plain to see. It is much less plain to see that the motions of the mind are too an act of will. The mind's capacity for concept and reason doubtlessly holds a potency over all other phenomena, and for this remarkable ability we are inclined to concieve of it as something wholly unbelonging to the material realm of unthinking will - this conception falls apart quickly when one searches for the roots of reason, and recognizes the immense diversity of interpretations regarding the same concepts. One quickly discovers that reason is most often merely an apparatus of will, and that all knowledge which may be considered indisputable (mathematics and formal logic) merely reflects the laws of this apparatus and cannot inform our judgements alone." I'll further elaborate upon this at a later date, it's too underdeveloped currently. VIS CULTURAE Culture is purely subjective in nature - that is, it may only be understood in reference to the mind and that only. What aspects of culture appear to exist objectively, independent of the mind, are merely material reflections of subjective ideas. Our consensus regarding subjective ideas render their material reflections so naturalized that we never recognize that their origins are, ultimately, wholly mental; as children we intuit subjective ideas such as clothing or utensils by utilitary nessecity - we do not inquire into the origin of these objects, and very often will never find a reason to. If, however, we were to inquire into the origin of these objects, we would always inevitably lead to the conclusion that someone "came up with it", it came "from someone's head" - we conclude that it is a thing of pure idea, pure mental constitution. This is a truth which may seem inconsequential, but when followed to its conclusion it reveals the single most important truth in the study of culture: that the motions of our mind always yield an output greater than the input, and consequently our vis culturae - our capacity for material manifestation of subjective ideas - holds an unparalleled potency over all other phenomena in nature. Again, I will expand this later.