Descartes and the deep state: what 17th-century philosophy reveals about Trump and QAnon
Descartes and the deep state: what 17th-century philosophy reveals about Trump and QAnon
Ideas used by conspiracy theorists hark back to those of 17th-century philosophers such as René Descartes.
What an incredibly weak article with the metaphor of Descartes cogito redneckishly bolted on to make it seem like there's a deeper point...
Just as Descartes seeks certainty about the world, so supporters of QAnon (known as QAnons) seek a day of reckoning
So the unifying thing is they both seek something. Those things are a critical understanding of the world in one hand and... Well blind cultism on the other.
Descartes famously found certainty in his capacity to think: “I think, therefore I am.
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There seems to be a different kind of Cogito at play in QAnon’s overarching mantra, “Where we go one, we go all”.
That's no 'cogito' that's the complete opposite, rather a 'non cogito'.
The person who wrote this is an idiot and should be banned anything philosophy related.
I agree.
But also Descartes was utterly and completely wrong.
Y'all mothafuckas need some Lockean Empiricism up in here!
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel
René Descartes was a drunken fart
I drink, therefore I am
That's some grade-A, freshman-composition-class-final bullshit right there. Congrats on getting it published, I guess.