On Genealogy (Genealogical Debunking/Skepticism)

On Genealogy (Genealogical Debunking/Skepticism)
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128K subscribers --- ---- Dr Amia Srinivasan (Oxford) gives a talk titled "On Genealogy" from the Aristotelian Society. Amia Srinivasan is an Associate Professor of philosophy at Oxford and a tutorial fellow at St John’s College. Previously she was a permanent lecturer at University College London and a Prize Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. She works on topics in epistemology, metaphilosophy, political philosophy and feminism, and is currently writing a book on the genealogy of belief. Her essays and criticism have appeared in The New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, Harper’s, The Nation, and elsewhere. She is an associate editor of Mind, and a contributing editor of the London Review of Books. Aristotelian Society: www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk

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The dynamics of Nietzsche's 'slave revolt in morality' is not seen in the French Revolution or the decapitation of Charles I (wherein rejection or schisms within religious belief allow for the execution of those with 'Divine Rule') - it's seen in MLK and Ghandi. There the battle is entirely won on optics, via pacifism - but only because the entire argument of the aggressor was that their intervention was an issue of being a civilizing influence. In fact, Colonialism was a vastly outnumbered force dominating through their perception and pre-existing dominance hierarchies within those regions - it was a grand confidence scam. 

Ginsberg is interesting in terms of a true 'slave revolt' because here he directly makes the point about the hippies that they are the meek, the soft-natured, the pacifist - and plans to dominate and sway the wills of his opponents through 'moral argument' and optics again.

The mistake is the one Nietszche makes, that the Elite live by the rules they instill - they do not. Nobody could look at Constantine or Justinian or the Borgias and say they were examples of 'slave morality' - yet they were the heads of the Church - as was Charles I. If anything, Colonialism was identical to the 'slave revolt' of Christianity in that it kept the lower strata in place by means of indoctrinating 'morality' rather than applying force (though guns, armour and horses helped in the New World).

Even if we look at the Conquistadors, they were vastly outnumbered - their chief ally was the diseases they carried - or rather, the true enemy of the Native Americans was transatlantic passage.


"soft-natured" hippies .. yes, but what about the one on a million grippies among them ... softening nature where it matters ... where it is hard and the risk of falling deep, cause ... steep ... slowing water, meanderhelpmeet man ... is a little like setting traps, but the most charming and unhurtful type possible. It's the 'permiequence' that follows on sharing the bird's eye view that founder of organic ag in the US is credited with: a soil is but a mountain on it's way to the ocean floor. it's from 'landback[now]' hippies to the long since snowed under pacific and gentle portion of zionists [much abused as advertisement and startjumpers, then betrayed and overrun by bullies and much much worse) and the like this heartsong / sentiment 'springs' eternal even in cities, even when they are poisoned to their very vitals by their own toxslib returning to their plates and guts, via the old dilution trick practicing maffia who managed to 'upgrade' it to cheap compost for the profit over all 'pricefighter* farmer who carts the hidden curses right back into town (who said the maffia don't have lofty goals eh?), or actually statesponsored back to the land thingies like the kindomain / familiensitz 'vedics' in russia, as wary of toxicity and toxic cities as all should be

* = to me at least, it's obvious that a harmonization between prizefighter and pricefighter will do wonders and that prising minerals from stone AXSHULIE upgrades soil is the sweet spot between those extremes  - it goes without saying for those who grasped the meaing of my quotes half of this comment ago .....