The servant of the people has his hand in the cookie jar

While soldiers die on the battlefields afar

But the Guardian tells us all is okay

and that the President Yuckrainian can be cocky

             Robert Urbanoski — November 2025

Are we too smart for the status of our animality?

Do we need religion to help poor people cope with angst?

And here we are with pauline doing her burqa stunt again trying to prove that extremist right-wingers do not like Islam. We don’t like her sausages as well either…

There are analysts who thinks we do not evolve fast enough for what we invent, especially AI. And the pope wants to bring back some “humanity” away from the algorithms that are now ruling our interactions… But is humanity linked to religious belief that our animal is an eternal beast? Are heaven and the eternal Allah banquet, carrots on fishing sticks to control our thoughts and actions, by whatever means, including movies and prayers? Humility in the middle of golden temple is somewhat incongruous. 

I would suggest there is a hierarchy of cleverness in the human species. This complicates our relationships as well as the power of language and translations….

In short, life is brutal, but we have the possibility to be nice to each others, to enjoy love and accept death. Oblivion.

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A new book has appeared on the horizon….

Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy in the Age of Airplanes

By Anthony Gottlieb 

The first biography in more than three decades of the Austrian-born thinker Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century

According to the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), philosophy is a “battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.” This audacious idea changed the way many of its practitioners saw their subject. In the first biography of Wittgenstein in more than three decades, Anthony Gottlieb evaluates this revolutionary idea, explaining the evolution of Wittgenstein’s thought and his place in the history of philosophy.

Wittgenstein was born into an immensely rich Viennese family but yearned to live a simple life, and he gave away his inheritance. After studying with Bertrand Russell in Cambridge, he wrote his famous Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus while serving in World War I. He then took several positions as a primary-school teacher in rural Austria before returning as a fellow to Cambridge, where a cultlike following developed around him. Wittgenstein worked not only as a philosopher and schoolteacher, but also as an aeronautical engineer in Manchester and as an architect in Vienna.

Gottlieb’s meticulously researched book traces the itinerant and troubled life of Wittgenstein, the development of his influential ideas, and the Viennese intellectual milieu and family background that shaped him.

https://www.jewishlives.org/books/wittgenstein

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Ten years ago, I posted:

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was written by Ludwig Wittgenstein as a function of formalising philosophical logic.

The world is all that is the case.

What is the case—a fact—is the existence of states of affairs.

A logical picture of facts is a thought.

A thought is a proposition with a sense.

A proposition is a truth-function of elementary propositions. (An elementary proposition is a truth-function of itself.)

The general form of a truth-function is [p, E, N(E)]. This is the general form of a proposition.

What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.

Eventually later in life Ludwig Wittgenstein rounded a moderate critique of [t]his quite sharp construct, possibly because no matter how well we construct our ideas, we can lie.

Ludwig Wittgenstein was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and regarded by some as the most important since Immanuel Kant. His early work was influenced by that of Arthur Schopenhauer, by his teacher Bertrand Russell and by Gottlob Frege. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was the only philosophy book that he published during his lifetime. The book claimed to solve all the major problems of philosophy and was held in high esteem by the anti-metaphysical logical positivists (most atheists). The Tractatus is based on the idea that philosophical problems arise from misunderstandings of the logic of language, and it tries to show what this logic is.

As mentioned, one major problem with such rigourous structuring is that we, as a species, can lie. And we can lie to ourselves, in order to promote our own worth. Worth, the value of who we are, is relative to whom we compare to. For humans, understanding comparison through lies often becomes a factor in survival and a source of sociopathy. 

"Survival of the fittest" is often attributed to Charles Darwin. It was Herbert Spencer who actually coined the phrase after having read Darwin's "Origin of the Species". But Spencer was an evolutionist before Darwin wrote his famous book. Spencer had developed an all-embracing conception of evolution. Spencer's views saw evolution as the development of the physical world, biological organisms, the human mind, culture and societies. Spencer wrote about evolution before Darwin ever did. 

Spencer was deemed to be "the most unending ass in Christendom" by a fellow called Thomas Carlyle, who to say the least was a miserable sod. He was lucky to marry an intelligent woman after failing — like our disesteemed Abbott — to become a priest. How come one never knows. He was friend with Stuart Mill. How come one never knows. 

Through his idea of history as a “Divine Scripture,” Carlyle saw the French Revolution as an inevitable judgment upon the folly and selfishness of the monarchy and nobility. Voltaire saw some of this as well, in a more palatable entertaining way. Carlyle's premises were backed with well-documented details and expressed in pretentious pompous prose that sounded like biblical writings: 

"... an august Assembly spread its pavilion; curtained by the dark infinite of discords; founded on the wavering bottomless of the Abyss; and keeps continual hubbub. Time is around it, and Eternity, and the Inane; and it does what it can, what is given it to do. (part 2, book 3, chapter 3)"

There are complications and complexed uncertainties in logic and truth. 

Once nature is denatured in the human mind by stylistic impressions and illusions, the "fittest" does not mean the righteous nor the physically strongest. At this level, the fittest also means the one who can lie the most for profit without being detected (nor chastised — thus admired if detected) or the non-thinkers who can breed most... 

This is why I wrote this annoying ditty: 

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution is completely wrong.

There are far too many idiots in the human species 

For the process of natural selection to do good work. 

We have passed a critical mass of dumb crazies 

And god, of course, to be blamed for it, the heavenly dork. 

Due to the exponential progression of encouraging 

Passive blind idiocy by the business of consumering, 

We tend to elect idiots more and more as leaders 

Compounding democratic numbers of dumb breeders,

And assuring the defeat of improvements

By crappy unnatural selection of cheerleaders.

SURVIVAL OF THE STUPIDEST IS PRESUMING,

Like an unplanned shipment of bowel movements.

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Not very good and quite selectively immature. Seriously though, the biggest human deception is the religious lie. It's so obvious, yet it keeps masses and masses of people in a state of dedicated idiocy. It can be use to create non-thinkers with cheap concept where survival is idealised in an after life. This is vicious deceit and all religions do it. Even the non-religion like Buddhism presently spreading amongst some higher elite in search of purpose: reincarnation is "after-life". 

While most modern western philosophers see this as a terrible grand deception, they can also admit the strength in this sewer-philosophical manipulation of people's mind. Some religious person may be afraid of dying because he/she still feels unworthy of the mercy of god — not having been good enough so far and/or having committed non-absolved petty sins — while others religious person might commit an atrocity against humanity that will be deemed righteous in the religious context. The purpose is defined by the brain-washing and valuing one's own worth in such context. 

HAVE A GREAT DAY….

GUS LEONISKY

SOUP-KITCHEN PHILOSOPHER AND ARTIST

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Finally, I cannot go pass Jacques Perret once more, this under-sung master of words and retro philo-ideas, who in his Cheveux sur la Soupe floats some expert dissertations like carrots slices on the surface of a potage, in which he mentions a schoolmaster skilfully testing some ideas:

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This ingenious master completes his teaching with the pleasures of conversation, which is old like Socrates, but “the choice of themes,” he specifies, “obeys the laws of school democracy, that is to say that of the caprice in the greatest number”. One might ask why the choice of school-masters does not obey the said laws, but this quarrel would be gross. Here are some of the conversation topics [the ingenious master] selected in this way: “Sport, moonlight sonata, feminism, should we kill all the bourgeois?” To this last question, the answer was unanimously affirmative, declared with affection our escolibrius [the class assembly]. It is permissible to imagine that after this experience of constructive pedagogy, our childish elites would have proposed other themes: "Should we kill all the Jews? Should we kill all the artists? Should we kill all the proletarians? Should we kill all the thugs?" And each time, of course, would come a unanimously affirmative answer, as it should be, as in any class obeying the inevitable precepts of lived, mimed, or even funny school democracy.

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