Adam: Hello Mr. Wilberg. Thanks for accepting my friend request. I have read most of your books, though some of my favorite things you have written are your seemingly random essays where you juxtapose ideas in unique ways; I especially like the one on Nagas and the one on Marxism and Moksha. I appreciate the […]
I think if we follow Deleuze’s critique of dialectical opposition, we can see why the Left needs a metaphysical culture to sustain its creative forces. We can see why a Left defined primarily by the dialectic of the one and many—that is, without a metaphysical understanding of difference in itself (multiplicity)—was so likely to become
In the early 20th century academics across multiple fields were figuring out a Naturphilosophie, a metaphysics for the scientific age that could have developed alongside it. After the wars, the open-system biology and field physics disappeared and we got closed-system cybernetics as the interdisciplinary paradigm, while the specific fields were dominated by fractured specialisms that
Hello sir. My friends and I here in Eugene, Oregon (and elsewhere)—all liberally educated but not institutionally employed thinkers—have been wondering about something we are seeing in our friends working in professional positions that we used to be on the same page with. In all respect, how is it that so many great minds, even
The Dali Lama enthusiastically got the vaccine: more proof Eastern philosophy and meditation are ill-equipped for the modern world. Spirituality is blind without thought. Of course Western intellectuals have mostly failed to understand the nature of recent events as well. Thought is impotent without spiritual practice. It not only cannot act on its critiques, it
