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To: didjuneau who wrote (756988)

2/10/2022 7:00:33 PM

From: didjuneau

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An oldie but a goodie from a fellow cosmic time traveler - George Gilder

To: Tae Spam Kim who wrote (3914)	5/2/2000 3:19:00 PM
From: George Gilder	2 Recommendations Read Replies (3) of 5853

Yes. The universe is hierarchical: top down not bottom up. In the beginning was the word, not the atom. The idea is primary, not the material embodiment. The algorithm precedes the computer, which is independent of its material embodiment. God precedes the cosmos, and the telecosm. --GG

Kind of refutes Hegel's logic of Nothing "IS". Back to Webster:

Ne Plus Ultra nothing. Is that all you got, Hegel? Darn.

To: didjuneau who wrote (756988)	2/10/2022 10:48:21 PM
From: skinowski	1 Recommendation Recommended By Bruce L Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793568

I read Hegel ages ago, but remember enough to say he didn’t suck -g. To the contrary, his books contain a lot of wisdom - and good philosophy. Marx, under the guise of borrowing Hegel’s dialectical logic, basically re-wrote Hegel’s system using different terms. He substituted Hegel’s tension between controversies - which would propel the development of World Spirit. Instead, Marx spoke of conflict and tensions between owners of the means of production - capitalists - and the workers. Those tensions were proclaimed to be the forces that propelled history. Our woke compadres like the CRT theory, which asserts that Race is the central conflict in society. It moves us towards a more equitable future, or something like that. In short, it’s not Hegel’s fault that others used his work for purposes that would have never occurred to him. Poor man must have twisted in his grave plenty since he died of cholera, I believe in 1830.