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"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not." Aldous Huxley

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When I opened my eyes and saw the real world, I began to laugh and I haven’t stopped since. - Soren Kierkegaard

My guy was the Joker even before there was Batman

Kierkegaard can rightfully be called the philosopher of laughter and irony.

Socratic philosophy has a very clear advantage by the means of 'cleaning our minds' of old, unexamined concepts and clearing the way for new, fresh ones. But the flip side of this is yet a very clear disadvantage, that is: it's a destructive—negative—philosophy that, although it clears the mental landscape of old concepts and beliefs so that new ones can be established, it still does not create new values and concepts, thus leaving behind an emptiness, and an ignorance. This explains the famous words “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” Socrates' own wisdom was his ignorance and negation. This might be one reason why Nietzsche disliked Socrates: because the ultimate conclusion of the Socratic method is nihilism (the criticism and eventual disbelief in all and every value). Kierkegaard calls the socratic method "irony." And in this context he says that "irony is not the truth, but the way." He means that irony (the way Socrates destroys old values) is not the truth. It's only a way to the truth, since you can't establish new values without getting rid of the old. Yet Kierkegaard warns us against a certain type of irony which he calls "irony in the eminent sense," where one uses irony merely as a wrecking ball that topples and shatters everything for the sake of toppling and shattering. He calls it "the infinite absolute negativity."

Irony is the way Kierkegaard loved Socrates because he was the supreme ironist. Socrates used irony in a way different from those before him; it was a way to "sort out" real wisdom from fake. For Kierkegaard, Socratic philosophy is "ironic" or negative philosophy. This means that it does not create new values, but simply demolishes the old ones. For example, in Euthyphro's dialogue, we see Socrates arguing with another, arguably wise, man—Euthyphro—about what 'Justice' means. But what Socrates does eventually is define what Justice is not, that is, he gives a negative concept (like a negative, contrast photo in which colors and shades are reversed) yet still does not define the concept of 'Justice.' In this sense, Socrates is a disturbing agent: he destroys established values and traditions (without replacing them with new ones). This might be one reason why he was sentenced to death; he was disturbing the very foundations of his society; demolishing its values and turning its traditions upside down. But he was a necessary agent to clear the way for those who came after him: Plato, Aristotle, and the whole Western civilization.

ما أجازيج، يالصرتي لي شمعة والمطلوب دين امه شيرجعه كون أوفي بروحي دينج، تارس العالم حنينج... لا تبجين

لا تبجين والدمعة على خدج ولدج هواي مو بس همة ولدج مو فقط اربع بنين، تارس العالم حنينج يا سمة وليل بحزنها ، غافية نجوم بحضنها، والگمر نام...

You can tell I've been reading too much literature & political history lately... Maybe it's time to go back to medicine

أكبر إهتمامات الولايات المتحدة جانت The Monroe doctrine اللي تكول أنّ أي تدخل بشؤون أي دولة بأميركا الشمالية أو الجنوبية هو تدخل بشؤون الولايات المتحدة ولن يتم التساهل معه. بس حسب اللي فهمته، من الحرب العالمية الأولى وما بعدها، زاد إستثمارهم الإقتصادي بأوروبا بنسبة جبيرة، وبالنتيجة صار من مصلحتهم (وأولوياتهم) أنّ الأُمور تسير بشكل يناسبهم بأوروبا.

نسيت أكول: أميركا ما دخلت للحرب إلا بالنهاية، والرأي العام وهواي سياسيين ما جانوا متحمسين جدًا للمشاركة. حتى أثناء مؤتمرات السلام، أميركا حاولت تضغط على بريطانيا وفرنسا وغيرهن حتى يقللن سياسات الإستعمار ويتركن للشعوب حق تقرير مصيرها. أصلًا فكرة "الحق بتقرير المصير" جانت من اقتراح وودرو ويلسون، رئيس الولايات المتحدة، اللي جان يؤمن بيها بصدق وحاول يطبقها قدر الإمكان بعد نهاية الحرب. باختصار، أميركا بسنة 1918 جانت تفضّل الإنعزال بشكل نسبي عن أوروبا والعالَم ومشاكلهم أكثر من أميركا بسنة 1941 وبالسنوات اللاحقة.