So about a month ago my computer died while I was attempting to replace some dead CPU fans. In a panic, I ordered a new motherboard and CPU. Craziness ensued, and it took two weeks for my package to arrive. Last Friday, I installed the new mobo/CPU, but they didn’t seem to work. It was the same old problem: no video signal, and no sensible beep code from the motherboard. Yesterday, as I was contemplating returning the new motherboard and CPU, I decided to reinstall the old combo (because it was the most convenient way to store it) and on a whim I powered it up.
Naturally, it worked just fine.
So I’ve either got an extra motherboard/CPU to tool around with, or I will have thrown $30+ away in useless shipping costs. On the plus side, my computer seems to be working again… for now…
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Get Your War On: I don’t know, I’m not really laughing at these, it’s more of a hearty sob tempered by a wry, cynical smile, but I think these cartoons are the greatest thing since Tom Tomorrow, and maybe even better. If you were a child of the eighties, make sure to read page eight. Operation: Enduring Freedom is in the house!
The Lost ’80s: the site is far from complete, but it sure looks promising. Some of the “toys” pages are great, and the “arcade” page has some great Java games to liven up the work day. Enjoy!
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“I have done that,” says my memory. “I cannot have done that,” says my pride, and remains inexorable. Eventually—memory yields.
NP: Sing Sing, I Can See You on KEXP
I can’t send email from work, so I’m going to reply to yours in this space.
Thanks for the email, always nice to hear your thoughts. For your info you are probably right to suppose that Linker has a bias. He is a recent Catholic convert w/a PhD in political science who used to be a professor at BYU. His troubles at the end, I believe, are the result of his inability to truly cognize (if you could call it that) the eternal recurrence of the same. In my personal experience, I found that once I did this I was able to really get at what Nietzsche was saying without equivocating the terms. In Linkers defence, I have to say that the equivocation occurs only from the Nietzschean perspective, and this is because he has repuidiated rationalism, you can say with some accuracy that the opponent of Nietzsche equivocates the terms when he accuses “Are you saying that it is ‘true’ that there is no truth?” (this is perhaps a more common objection to Nietzsche than the one Linker makes about justice, but its basically the same one, but on epistemologial grounds instead of ethical grounds and rests on the same sort of equivocation). However, if one accepts any form of linguistic realism, the equivocation is harder to see. It sure LOOKS like Nietzsche is contradicting himself.
As for prephilosophical suppositions—I don’t think I like that direction either. Linker is probably going to have to go for some sort of appeal to revalation eventually, because popular sentiment, and experience of the good as it is lived in the world certainly isn’t going to get him what he wants, and will almost certainly get him what he doesn’t (Socrates could give the same sort of response to this as he did to Thracsymacus (sp?).
I would be more inclined to orient the discussion in an ontological direction, which seems to be what Plato did in the first place. The Good is an ontological concept hat has ethical ramifications, it is not the other way around. It seems to me that the best philosophical response to Nietzsche isn’t to talk about the moral chaos that results from his ideas, but instead to confront him with the indisputable intelligibility of the world (or at least some part of the world) and then show how his “system” can’t account for intelligibility at all.
Hope this made sense…tough to write in between calls at work.
Comment by ben—October 2, 2002 @ 3:00 pm