So even though their both Swiss, at times were contemporaries and have very similar explanations for child cognitive development i cant find a single reference that suggests Piaget was influenced by Jung or that they even knew of each other or each other's work. It just seem weird that they wouldn't

google is your friend

piaget studied with jung

https://www.google.com/search?client...UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

I love this book, and many by Dick.

I am now reading this weighty tome.


Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics by Alfred Korzybski. As a huge Robert Anton Wilson fan, this is where he got his ideas about neurolinguistic programming and guerilla ontology. Korzybski started the Institute of General Semantics and pfromoted the change in humanity from Aristotelian thought to non-aristotelian though.

thrilling!

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@ rob - that "science and sanity" thing looks pretty intriguing

HAHAHA

I googled every possible combo and found nothing connecting the two.. i see Google liked you better, thanks for sharing

It's the story of America told from a realist, truthful perspective. Not all that bs that you learned about in elementary school.

In California this is part of the curriculum in 11th grade US History.. really EVERY American needs to read it, TWICE.

Im reading

And wondering how i never discovered this magical realism gem!

i love bless me ultima! such gorgeous imagery in there.

i read part of a book from duke u press the other day that theorizes horror movies are really some kind of critique of capitalist culture

zombie movies are. mindless consumption, herd mentality, etc. George Romero had an entire zombie film in a suburban mall

vampire films are about sex, the fear of it, rape, seduction, etc.

the horror of the 50's was about the threat of godless communists (Body Snatchers for example) or about the proliferation of nuclear weapons (the radiation monster movies, godzilla, Them, etc.)

Zarathustra is some of the most beautiful writing ever

In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that, you need long legs

we don't know why nietzsche went mad. some people speculated syphillis in his day. we think now maybe it was not madness but a stroke (he had several). to say that his thoughts caused madness sounds very poetic but is such a stretch. nietzsche's thought is in fact very healing for people tormented by ghost cults. his philosophy does work.


i'm an oaf and i could never enjoy zarathustra. my favorite of his books, the one that split my skull open for good, was "beyond good and evil." for that book i owe him my life.

I dismissed Nietzsche for the longest time but just reread Twilight of the Idols and really really liked it. It's like you read him as a very young man and think he's great, then mature a bit and think he's silly, then mature a bit more and think he's actually a lot better than you thought even when you first read him. Or at least that's how it seems to have gone for me.

^ Ha! That certainly rings true for me. I'm probably still in the "silly" camp, but not as much as I used to be. It bothers me that practically everyone, no matter what they already believe, can find some Nietzsche to back them up. He said just about everything at one point or another.

But my main complaint is that he doesn't really have a cohesive philosophy, but I'm starting to think that maybe that isn't such a bad thing. Reality is so nebulous that a concrete "this is the way things are" sort of philosophy is perhaps the weaker one.

One of the few philosophers who gave a shit about writing a decent sentence, so props for that.

I suppose events make philosophers appear either more or less relevant, and things have obviously gotten really bad when a philosopher like Nietzsche suddenly starts to appear quite insightful. But you're right, he doesn't offer a viable world-view.

philosophy is not about finding a viable world-view. it is about dissecting meaning, reality, and consciousness

i was about to say (i'll say it anyway), thank fuck nietzsche wasn't a theologian in disguise, pretending to know the meaning of the universe, the place of the stars and the mechanics of the afterlife, like so many "philosophers" before him-- plato, kant, hegel, etc.

the man stuck to his subject, which was essentially that of human psychology and morality. and he did a kickass job of it.

he wasn't trying to solve every problem nor have a prescription for everything. beyond good an evil is, in fact, a call to future philosophers to create new values-- he didn't claim to have them ready-made.

fucking excellent thanks
Just finished The Great God Pan, by Machen. great great great

Thanks for the recommendation

review is up http://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/

Great isn't it! Truly Disturbing. And a great review. Love your blog.

You mention wanting to read his other stuff. You should give The White People a go.

Incidentally, my avatar is of occult artist Austin Osman Spare, who illustrated an edition GGP that I have. Here's some samples from that edition:



Penguin recently published a collection of his short stories which for some reason doesn't include The Great God Pan.

if only Machen had helped LOvecraft with his prose!!!!

Yeah, as a writer Machen leaves him for dust. But I don't think Lovecraft created a character as utterly evil as Helen, either. Love how everyone who meets describes her as utterly beautiful but strangely repulsive. One of horror's great femme fatales.

coolness. I will check out Austin Osman Spare. thanks

and I got The White People downloaded. Thanks as well.

BTW, it is odd that the Penguin classics collection has Pan on the cover but not the novella!!!!!

someone is selling all sorts of choice MACHEN http://www.ebay.com/itm/arthur-mache...em234abb 682d

LUCKY! My wife bought it for me for Valentine's Day! It should arrive any day now!

i keep seeing feb 24 as a release date for harback/audio/etc

i'm getting impatient

thanks for the recommendations everyone. i usually read two or three books a month because that's what my mental state can handle. i get depressed after heavy isolation and ignoring friends and family.

some people are idiots because they dont' have the time. ever tried to raise a 5 year old? HOLY SHEIT!!!!!


sacrificing everthing you externality love against internity love has always been a dilemma to me.

THE LAUGHING MONSTERS by Denis Johnson

About halfway through. A little slower going than I expected but entertaining nevertheless.

The Lottery - Shirley Jackson

Another classic horror short story. So short, in fact, you can read it in about ten minutes. But guaranteed it'll play on your mind far longer.

Here's a pdf:

http://sites.middlebury.edu/individu...on_lottery.pdf

Truly disturbing. Apparently when it was first published in the New Yorker readers sent Jackson hate-mail for writing something so horrible.


I'm curious to read his short story collection, Jesus' Son. Have you read it? Any good?

shirley jackson is one of my all time faves.

reading libra by don delillo

I've ended Edgar Hilsenrath's Fuck America.
I like how lively his style is.

Re-reading Martin Amis' The Information, some 18 years later, to see if I still like it (I have to admit that I can't recall much, except that at the time it made me read two of his other books - I can't read the whole body of work of an author I like though, once I spot similarities, I leave it to later days that sometimes don't even come)

Just checked out the Codex Seraphinianus from the Library I work at.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus

Yep. It's excellent.

I finished Science & Sanity - Korzybski. I will have to re-read that shit in a decade!

Finished The White People by Arthur Machen.

About 100 pages into Masks of God: Occidental Mythology

the last thing he wanted by didion

This was as inspiring a book as it was depressing.

this week im reading online pdfs about hoophouse construction

and i'm reading a lot of websites about growing potatoes-- from crazy survivalist sites to the USDA