>Everything that is not basic conservatism in le gnostic. And gnosticism is... le BAD!
>>25015580Can someone explain to me what's with intellectuals latching onto Gnosticism for wildly different reasons as some cornerstone to their thought? Bloom, Slosterdijk, the list goes on.
>>25015580Thats not what he said, leftoid.
>>25015589picrel
gnosticism = annihilationism
>>25015580don't immaterialise the flux capacitor, or something
>>25015589it was fashionable at the time and academic philosophy is all about what is fashionable
>>25015589Serious answer is that the simplest and most direct routes to no mind aren't what people are looking for since it's also highly likely they aren't looking for no mind.Meme answer is that most people prefer old writings from people turning themselves into psychonauts of their own fantasies. In this case they can also claim the idea is just not accepted by society of npcs for whatever conspiratorial reasons they need to maintain the equilibrium they are happy with. In defense of the gnostics the conflation of religion with other topics that has occurred throughout history may have made it necessary for them at certain points but the serious answer is the answer.
>>25015589Humans love the false dichotomy of good and evil. Humans love gods and divinity. Humans want the same concepts to apply to divinity. Then some people want to distill it back into a deconstructed mess of their own making.
Another thread where it’s obvious nobody had read a single lick of the author in question.
>>25015916kek
>>25016022why would i want to read a book where someone dubiously says the gnostics inspired fascists and communists, presumably telepathically? i have a brain
>>25016097If you actually read him you’d know that modern Gnosticism is entirely removed and separated from classical Gnosticism. You however are a retarded nigger too stupid and lazy to look this up let alone actually read Voegelin.
>>25016367yeah so why fucking call it gnosticism at all you fucking retard and suggest there's ANY serious connection or similarity
>>25016022That's every thread
>>25016022I found him a bit difficult to read but I have the New Science Of Politics. though I prefer Christopher Dawson, and I've definitely read him.
>>25015921It's still quite fashionable to be fair. t. New York grad student
