The Apocalypse: Discarding Enlightenment's Veil /🧵 The most dangerous form of deception is inception. The type you are not even aware of and take for granted so deeply that it forms the very lens in which you see the entire world. An idea planted so deeply in everything you
Let us first immerse ourselves in Renaissance Europe to fully appreciate the scientific, philosophical, religious and ultimately political context which resulted in the veil over our eyes today. We begin in 1440, when the German inventor Johannes Gutenberg invented printing
Though Philosophy was popular during the Renaissance, it is not the most popular degree that people pursue today. In the US out of 2 million graduates per year, only 8,000 of them study philosophy and only half of these do it as an only major. That's only 0.4% of all graduating
Now that we are familiar with the philosopher and the historical context he lived in, we are now equipped to enter the ground zero of modern philosophy, Rene Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy: In Which The Existence of God and the Distinction of the Human Soul from the
@cirnosad Thank you for this. Also, your style is exquisite.
@BowKraken You're most welcome <3
@cirnosad I don’t know how you manage to write this so concisely, explaining dificult concepts with such ease, while also making it interesting and entertaining-truly masterful. You are the embodiedment of the serviam spirit lost in our time. The non serviam doctrines are our poison.
@SrViciouss88 I truly appreciate your words from the bottom of my heart. I hope I am a good example to others.
@cirnosad So many trukes in this Cirno. Bravo, genuinely.
@cirnosad Deepseek absolutely loved your work, and I truly appreciated the depth and soul you poured into this: I can feel the pure love for knowledge and the fierce will to fight for truth itself
@SimoneNotBanned Don't worry, I will defeat its concerns :)
@cirnosad So, was the beginning of modern science intentionally aimed at destroying the Hermeticism? Even though we believe science has helped us move forward all these years, have we actually been dragging a burden all along? I need to read more about what you've been saying about Bohm
@GauchoOpin79720 Yes
@cirnosad The first line goes so deep. Sometimes it feels like your family, friends and even unacquainted people are trying so hard to make you part of matrix. They, themselves were deceived and subconsciously can’t tolerate your existence. For then it goes against nature.
@AIarbiter They're all true believers :(
@cirnosad Modern human can think like this 🤯🤯🤯. I feel dwarve when someone could come up with this thought. Genius !
@jeffharumachi ❤️🔥
@cirnosad Thread feels incomplete to me
@auterheven Exhaustingly, I have not even begun to scratch the surface. This is just the introduction.
@cirnosad Your critique misses the point. Descartes isn’t wrong because he puts ‘thinking before being’ - he’s using an unnecessarily complex starting point. The real foundation is simpler: experiencing change itself proves something exists to experience it, regardless of whether that
@LordFlibble That you reflexively attack my argument before it even begins tells me you will not understand it at all because your priors are frozen.
@cirnosad I had to really think about this one. My knowledge of philosophy is close to nil. I can't wait to see you expound on this a bit more. Like always, you open doors and leave me hungry to know more. Thank you so much. I may not be your brightest student, but I have enjoyed every
@cirnosad I have a few minor disagreements, but the point remains more or less the same. Superb as always, looking forward to the next installment!
@cirnosad With regards to Spinoza this is not correct. He denounced Descartes dualism and instead introduced a neutral form of monism in which thought and extension compose the world we know in parallel. He was a monist, not a dualist. Now I continue to read the rest of the thread.
@cirnosad 😁 ... Can't wait to read the full 🧵.
@cirnosad Woow! Powerful intro, looking forward to the rest😁💙
@cirnosad Bro this isn’t right, not even a little bit. I suggest you read Bertrand Russell’s history of western philosophy. It’s the only philosophy book you’ll ever need, and from this thread it looks like you need it.
@cirnosad Inspiring! Thank you.
@cirnosad great post. have you read cosmos and transcendence? it works along similar lines of reasoning.
@cirnosad Interesting to see another Westerner than myself write that Enlightenment-era ideology is incorrect If people understood the magnitude of this, it would be Galileo-level mind shattering. The modern West CRUMBLES once this is understood