Descartes and the deep state: what 17th-century philosophy reveals about Trump and QAnon - eviltoast
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    6 months ago

    What an incredibly weak article with the metaphor of Descartes cogito redneckishly bolted on to make it seem like there’s a deeper point…

    Just as Descartes seeks certainty about the world, so supporters of QAnon (known as QAnons) seek a day of reckoning

    So the unifying thing is they both seek something. Those things are a critical understanding of the world in one hand and… Well blind cultism on the other.

    Descartes famously found certainty in his capacity to think: “I think, therefore I am.

    There seems to be a different kind of Cogito at play in QAnon’s overarching mantra, “Where we go one, we go all”.

    That’s no ‘cogito’ that’s the complete opposite, rather a ‘non cogito’.

    The person who wrote this is an idiot and should be banned anything philosophy related.

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        He might have been wrong, but his thought experiment was very powerful and shaped modern theory of mind. And a pretty cool 90’s movie.

        Oh yeah. Locke, stock and two smoking barrels was a good movie too