Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 14:49:58 -0500 (CDT)
From: CND7750-AT-UTARLG.UTA.EDU
Subject: Re: Susan Says Here It Is, There It Isn't


Tim: "I'm not worried about different philosophical schools, in
what different guys think."
Me: "Good. Then we don't have to worry about the is/ought business.
I'm all..."
Tim: "What do you mean is/ought?"
Me: "The so called difference between what really is and what
ought to be. In the ontological system i have been trying to
delineate for you there is no is/ought distinction because there
is no human/nature split. The realm of the human mind is the
same as the realm of the rock mind: being is univocal, absolutely
mmanent. Within this ontological schema the folk psychhlogical
notions of will, belief, intention, etc., are eliminated. No one
is ever violated because they have no will to violate in the first
fucking place. The limits of humanity are transcended, so to speak,
and there is nothing to recuperate humanity because time is
irreversible, and all systems, networks, though they relate
to each, do so only unilaterally. Criticism is thus unambiguuosly
eliminated, just like the concept of will. I don't expect yuo to
accept and affirm what is, but you should at least know what you
are getting into when you eschew the ought pole and search for
truth."

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