Monday, March 31, 2014

Moving the Antithesis Even Further From the Thesis.

I have pointed out many times before that in order to be a successful philosopher, all one needs to do is to reject all prior philosophies and then assert the most outrageously irrational position you can imagine up for publication. The more off the wall, the more "original" and "thought provoking" it will be deemed.

Here is the most recent of those attempts at "being a philosopher".
Postpatriarchy;

Dzung Nguyen,

SUNY.

Abstract:

This article points out: “The combination of men and women in families is irrational.” Men and women are two different “species.” They only require sexual activities from each other, which are considered the less time-consuming activities during their lives. Sex must be treated as an enemy of marriage, due to its inferior and treacherous nature, and should not be included in marriage. Men and women should not live together in a family, since this institution must be understood as a permanent place for all family members and is expected to have a solid structure. The traditional family model is the result of men‟s enslavement of women and the exaggeration of the role of sex. This model creates an overwhelming advantage for men in selecting partners, proposing marriage, and other family activities. This article indicates: (i) The prominent family models existing between the group-marriage period and now are sex-based family models. (ii) Technical and social conditions nowadays require a new and sustainable base for a family. The selected targets in this study are the consanguineous and sworn relationships among same-sex people in case they choose to be heterosexual, (and in turn, among opposite-sex persons when they engage in homosexuality). For example, a family can consist of two blood brothers (or sworn brothers or cousins) with their children, in case they are heterosexual. This family model is named the non-sex based family (NSBF) model, since the sexual needs will be met outside the family. The article also outlines a post-patriarchal society with the presence of NSBFs, and argues that the new model should be seen as an essential development trend of society."
It also helps if the position conforms to current radical ideology (homosexuality, bisexuality, feminism), and attacks current social mores (marriage, sexual fidelity).

1 comment:

Steven Satak said...

I dunno, we could always tell this bush-league philosopher and his supporters to go jump in the lake.

I mean, that IS an option. This twit proposes a 'solution' for a problem he and his kind have created.

That it is epic fail even in just the reading seems to fit John C. Wright's contention that the Liberal ALWAYS chooses options that make him/her/it feel good about themselves but that are 180 degrees opposed to what actually works.

To wit:

"Thanks to the Mass Media, you can live in the richest nation in the history of forever, and believe that poverty is overwhelming. You can live in the least imperial nation of all time, and denounce it daily as imperialist.

You can live in the nation, out of all of infinity, which grants the best opportunities and bends over backwards to offer education and jobs to women, blacks, Jews, and immigrants of all colors and backgrounds, and denounce it as systematically racist.

You can live in the nation where there are fewer Fascist White Supremacists than there are members of the Flat Earth Society, and yet believe that the brain of Hitler kept alive in a jar in Brazil is about to give the order for a sudden Aryan insurrection, and the blacks will be strung up from lampposts as far as the eye can see tomorrow.

Meanwhile the real fascists who are really committing real atrocities, and are indeed leaving corpses as far as the eye can see, the social cues tell you that these are kindly people devout to the Religion of Peace provoked by the evil Jews, who only want to fly kites under the benevolent and avuncular leadership of Saddam."

This is a perfect example of the madness. Wanna take bets this Nguyen never intends to live under the system he's proposing here? Because these proposals are for the Others, always and forever.