- for Angela
The Zeitgeist is dead, since it hasn’t kept up with Wikipedia. What happened before the Big Bang? A new crop of philosophers are trying to provide the defiant, optimistic Russian poetry. Mike Tyson raised a research program to find a hidden meaning behind any poem. Find the answer to this question on the occasion of the death of philosophy, nothing more than poetry and sophistry. Translate meteorology, biology, or poetry- those things are too complex for that approach.
Philosophy is dead. I always felt that way about poets. Only science is able to start with the statement that free will is illusion, contradicting poets and novelists.
Why is Hawking himself doing so much inspiration that a composer, or an artist, or a poet received during the creation of music, art, literature? Alarming to philosophy , the earth is dead. Most of the talk is actually Oppenheimer proposing that physics and poetry were leaving inquiries into priests and poets. He doesn’t understand the grand design. Hawking burned the manuscripts of dead poets; the arts and music are all rotting away in comfortable inconsequence.
Non-material entities such as friendship, love, beauty, poetry, truth, faith and philosophy refuse to accept a death sentence.
We don’t need to fear the death of things that cannot be killed.
Exactly.
Too much ground covered here for me to respond quickly ! All good subjects, in my eyes, anyway. My other new-ish fascination is particle physics and String Theory.
Thank you! The genesis of this was a post by Angela at the Yellow House Cafe blog about some writer who claimed that poetry was dead. There was also a reference to Stephen Hawking’s claim that philosophy was dead. She asked for comment, and here’s mine.
I am digging your comment, Mark. Was this a Google “philosophy is dead” then – a nice combo of thoughts, indeed.
“Philosophy is dead. I always felt that way about poets. Only science is able to start with the statement that free will is illusion, contradicting poets and novelists”
I especially enjoyed the above — my brain wishes to wrap around if for a spell, but I’ve been quite ill today and it is all I can do to type. Please forgive me for this late visit (and lack of response on my blog today! tomorrow i hope to be more alive..) ~ a
I’m sorry you’re not feeling so well.
Sending good vibes through the ether. This was a flarf poem- search keywords were “poetry philosophy is dead.”
I am flarfing as we speak. I completed one earlier today, but I am not sure that I want to post it publicly… the flarf poem became what amounts to a suicide note- which is not at all reflective of how I’m feeling! I know it’s flarf, you know it’s flarf, Susan, Rob, and the other Modpo vets know it’s flarf…. but I don’t need somebody misunderstanding and filing commitment papers! Besides, it was a lousy poem.
I’m amused at the idea of the intellectual Mike Tyson heading up an academic philosophical research institute.
Another interesting line to me: “the arts and music are all rotting away in comfortable inconsequence.” That was me for many years. I think I am the eponymous “Hawking” in this poem- or at least I was.
thanks for good vibes – come hell or high water, I have to work Sat & Sun.
Agreed, the Tyson one made me realize I was dealing with Flarf, very amusing!
Shall not get philo or psycho on you, but may your thoughts trend less dark even if it was not your inclination. Peace ~ a
Thanks boss- peace to you too. Feel free to get philo or psycho- it’s all grist for the writing mill.
Non-material entities such as friendship, love, beauty, poetry, truth, faith and philosophy refuse to accept a death sentence.
To me, this says it all.