Sometime late last night, this blog reached a major milestone: we passed the HALF-MILLION UNIQUE VISITORS mark! I want to express my sincere gratitude to and appreciation for all of you who have stopped by this little corner of the Internet.
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU.
The aim of my work here has always been to cultivate a space for pubic discourse about philosophy, politics, music and pop culture, to contribute in some large or small way to those discourses and to do my part to, in the words of Gilles Deleuze, make stupidity shameful. I have learned a tremendous amount in the course of doing so and in conversations with many of you here.
RMWMTMBM will be undergoing some cosmetic changes over the next few weeks,so keep an eye out for our new “look” (to be unveiled, if all goes well, late-July or early-August).
I leave you with the full Deleuze quote (from Nietzsche and Philosophy) referenced above:
“Philosophy does not serve the State or the Church, who have other concerns. It serves no established power. The use of philosophy is to sadden. A philosophy that saddens no one, that annoys no one, is not a philosophy. It is useful for harming stupidity, for turning stupidity into something shameful. Philosophy is at its most positive as critique, as an enterprise of demystification. And we should not be too hasty in proclaiming philosophy’s failure in this respect. Great as they are, stupidity and baseness would be still greater if there did not remain some philosophy which always prevents them from going as far as they would wish, which forbids them — if only by yea-saying — from being as stupid and base as they would wish. They are forbidden certain excesses, but only by philosophy.”