I went to the Hegelian e-girl party. Late into the night, everyone had had a few drinks. Nikki thought that her greatest shame would be accepted under the spell of alcohol. She lasciviously introduced to everyone her breasts, only for the entire party to be repulsed by her misshapen, large brown nipples. They looked like melanomas. Vomit everywhere. Terrible night. The whole event has been memory holed but I trained my mind to be resistant to CIA mind wiping. So, I know the whole story.
The larger social issue is the complete lack of genuine innovation or fresh ideas coming from academia. It has become a closed-minded, tedious herd mentality. If it were men alone leading the way, who knows—we might be colonizing Europa by now. Additionally, the fact that so many women seek entry into male-dominated spaces suggests a deeper need for male attention. Given that, it’s unlikely many women feel “vexed” or struggle to receive attention in these environments. Regardless, a significant effort must be made to create new male-only spaces and restore the wide range of role models boys once had to inspire excellence.
I think that is the gist of it... Men need their own spaces to innovate, at least largely insulated from women. I think women can have their intellectual fun too, but it is true, they become like a herd when they congregate (lol).
I'm sad for you that you've chosen to throw your lot in with academia. Academic credentials prove compliance, indicate knowledge, and say nothing of understanding. It may seem like a good option. It may even seem like the least bad option, but trust me, it's just a bad option. The best one is self-education and collaboration with others outside academia on projects that show your understanding and with pragmatically, unless you're STEM, in which case it's the only option unless you're rich.
On a side note, I'm getting tired of Marxoids calling themselves "hegelian". It is all because of Zizek, it became the new hip cool thing for Marxoids to do. "I'm not a Marxist PER SE, I'm a... le hegelian!" It just annoys me. They took some stuff from Hegel but it's plainly obvious that Hegel's political philosophy is fundamentally grounded in his idealism and also his Protestant faith. He considers the trajectory of history to be ground in the unraveling of an idea -- Freedom, and he considers the end of this trajectory to be realized in Protestant Prussian Liberalism. Marx considers material conditions to be the ground of history, also unravelling to a final conclusion -- the reign eternal of the Proletariat. Not only is Hegel's philosophy fundamentally politically idealistic, it is certain that the ontological idealism Hegel promotes in Phenomenology of Spirit is more fundamental than theories of history.
I'm not a Hegelian by the way. But someone's gotta defend the guy.
Hegalian e-girl's intellectual position is weaker, probably impossible to catch up from. But at least it’s still a step up from the default e-girl. They’re probably seething.
How’s this:
The schopenhauerian "e-girl" aesthetic is meant to be a lampshading of the commonplace e-girl character, illuminating a lack of real intellectual depth and pessimistically but honestly using the appeal of modern female online sexuality and marketing to further real dialectic.
I appreciate the honesty in this piece, and the insight into the reality of the Hegelian e-girls, even if most people with any savvy could see it was basically just hot girls posting pictures of themselves and gaining moderate virality by seeming smart. Still, all of this needed to be said, and thank you.
Anyone can say this about anything. If you're trying to help it then you really should. There a4e lots of burgeoning movements and keep in mind I'm farther out on agreement with hegel than you are but I mean culture has been dead since pomo 90s ran out of steam.
The process certainly exceeds him and honestly Laotzu/Laotse describes it in a more intuitive manner.
There's supposedly some allegory somewhere that goes like, "Confucious, Buddha, and Laotzu are each tasting wine. Confucious scowls because it's sour. Buddha frowns because it's bitter. And Laotzu smiles because it's sweet." I think the point was that Laotzu's philosophy counterbalanced the bitter and sour realities of life (suffering, bureacracy, conflict) with its potential for art, humanity, and extraordinary beauty; and juxtaposed these concepts in a sort of dialogue with one another, where contradictions are resolved
This may seem completely out of left field, but if you are unfamiliar with the book, *Poe’s Literary Battles*, it is a very similar examination at the absence of American literature identity in the 19th century because of the lack of American publishing laws. Poe’s criticisms were not accepted warmly. There are interesting overlaps here.
Thanks for explaining, I did not know what a Hegelian e-girl was. I haven’t even tried to read Hegel for a looong time. He’s interesting though, and he does come up again and again. And it does seem like we’re living in some sort of “Hegelian moment,” no?
Sometimes I wonder, with him and with Heidegger, how much an issue is the difficulty not just translating the German language, but also understanding the cultural contexts they were thinking in—their place and time. They wrote at very different times but the transformation from a religious (Protestant) world to a technological one seemed to motivate both of them.
“Their personality is situated on simply restating what was once said.” Yes, this is a good point and commonplace in academia. Epidemic almost.
As expected at my reading of the headline, this did not disappoint! I often feel like I'm having to ward off these sorts of videos on tiktok, etc. as they are sent to me from dear friends who are grasping at learning. Thanks for the deep dive!
Ho-gelian
I went to the Hegelian e-girl party. Late into the night, everyone had had a few drinks. Nikki thought that her greatest shame would be accepted under the spell of alcohol. She lasciviously introduced to everyone her breasts, only for the entire party to be repulsed by her misshapen, large brown nipples. They looked like melanomas. Vomit everywhere. Terrible night. The whole event has been memory holed but I trained my mind to be resistant to CIA mind wiping. So, I know the whole story.
This has to be fake?!
i was there too
Can you confirm this?
I am confirming this
The larger social issue is the complete lack of genuine innovation or fresh ideas coming from academia. It has become a closed-minded, tedious herd mentality. If it were men alone leading the way, who knows—we might be colonizing Europa by now. Additionally, the fact that so many women seek entry into male-dominated spaces suggests a deeper need for male attention. Given that, it’s unlikely many women feel “vexed” or struggle to receive attention in these environments. Regardless, a significant effort must be made to create new male-only spaces and restore the wide range of role models boys once had to inspire excellence.
I think that is the gist of it... Men need their own spaces to innovate, at least largely insulated from women. I think women can have their intellectual fun too, but it is true, they become like a herd when they congregate (lol).
I'm sad for you that you've chosen to throw your lot in with academia. Academic credentials prove compliance, indicate knowledge, and say nothing of understanding. It may seem like a good option. It may even seem like the least bad option, but trust me, it's just a bad option. The best one is self-education and collaboration with others outside academia on projects that show your understanding and with pragmatically, unless you're STEM, in which case it's the only option unless you're rich.
On a side note, I'm getting tired of Marxoids calling themselves "hegelian". It is all because of Zizek, it became the new hip cool thing for Marxoids to do. "I'm not a Marxist PER SE, I'm a... le hegelian!" It just annoys me. They took some stuff from Hegel but it's plainly obvious that Hegel's political philosophy is fundamentally grounded in his idealism and also his Protestant faith. He considers the trajectory of history to be ground in the unraveling of an idea -- Freedom, and he considers the end of this trajectory to be realized in Protestant Prussian Liberalism. Marx considers material conditions to be the ground of history, also unravelling to a final conclusion -- the reign eternal of the Proletariat. Not only is Hegel's philosophy fundamentally politically idealistic, it is certain that the ontological idealism Hegel promotes in Phenomenology of Spirit is more fundamental than theories of history.
I'm not a Hegelian by the way. But someone's gotta defend the guy.
Hegalian e-girl's intellectual position is weaker, probably impossible to catch up from. But at least it’s still a step up from the default e-girl. They’re probably seething.
How’s this:
The schopenhauerian "e-girl" aesthetic is meant to be a lampshading of the commonplace e-girl character, illuminating a lack of real intellectual depth and pessimistically but honestly using the appeal of modern female online sexuality and marketing to further real dialectic.
If there is something "new" about the Hegelian e-girls, it might be they exist as a project within the new framework of metamodernism. I make the case for this: https://peterclarke.substack.com/p/the-hegelian-egirls-as-metamodern
Still waiting for Mainländrian e-girls to drop
I appreciate the honesty in this piece, and the insight into the reality of the Hegelian e-girls, even if most people with any savvy could see it was basically just hot girls posting pictures of themselves and gaining moderate virality by seeming smart. Still, all of this needed to be said, and thank you.
Anyone can say this about anything. If you're trying to help it then you really should. There a4e lots of burgeoning movements and keep in mind I'm farther out on agreement with hegel than you are but I mean culture has been dead since pomo 90s ran out of steam.
The process certainly exceeds him and honestly Laotzu/Laotse describes it in a more intuitive manner.
There's supposedly some allegory somewhere that goes like, "Confucious, Buddha, and Laotzu are each tasting wine. Confucious scowls because it's sour. Buddha frowns because it's bitter. And Laotzu smiles because it's sweet." I think the point was that Laotzu's philosophy counterbalanced the bitter and sour realities of life (suffering, bureacracy, conflict) with its potential for art, humanity, and extraordinary beauty; and juxtaposed these concepts in a sort of dialogue with one another, where contradictions are resolved
This may seem completely out of left field, but if you are unfamiliar with the book, *Poe’s Literary Battles*, it is a very similar examination at the absence of American literature identity in the 19th century because of the lack of American publishing laws. Poe’s criticisms were not accepted warmly. There are interesting overlaps here.
Thanks for explaining, I did not know what a Hegelian e-girl was. I haven’t even tried to read Hegel for a looong time. He’s interesting though, and he does come up again and again. And it does seem like we’re living in some sort of “Hegelian moment,” no?
Sometimes I wonder, with him and with Heidegger, how much an issue is the difficulty not just translating the German language, but also understanding the cultural contexts they were thinking in—their place and time. They wrote at very different times but the transformation from a religious (Protestant) world to a technological one seemed to motivate both of them.
“Their personality is situated on simply restating what was once said.” Yes, this is a good point and commonplace in academia. Epidemic almost.
As expected at my reading of the headline, this did not disappoint! I often feel like I'm having to ward off these sorts of videos on tiktok, etc. as they are sent to me from dear friends who are grasping at learning. Thanks for the deep dive!