User:Dionysus83

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Cale David Reed, (January 24, 1983 –) American philosopher, social critic and erudite beer connoisseur. Described by his sister, Melinda as “a walking encyclopedia”, it was his own nature that lead him to Wikipedia.

1 Biography
2 Wikipedian Weltangschauung
3 Philosophy
4 External Links
5 Work on Wikipedia
- 5.1 Articles I created
- 5.2 Articles to which I have contributed significantly

[edit] Biography

I was born in Toledo, Ohio at Mercy Hospital to Donald and Janet Reed. Originally spelled Riedt, my family name is of Pennsylvania Dutch origin, and I am of German, English and Welsh extraction. I have been a resident of Monroe County, Michigan for nearly all my life. I am currently a philosophy student at the University of Toledo, Ohio, and have been attending there since the Fall of 2002. After graduation, I hope to be able to travel to Germany, possibly live there for a while to improve my German, and to persue a PhD in intellectual history.

I am currently working on his first book, tentatively entitled Man and the Machine: A Philosophical Exploration of Civilization which focuses on the inevitable foundations of a healthy society, its decay, the technological-economic-political superstructure, called simply the Machine, the origins of modernity, its discontents and inevitable consequences.

I am fairly well-rounded in the history of philosophy, and many thinkers have contributed both my thought and my rants. The works of such figures as diverse as Nietzsche, Spengler, Heidegger, Ludovici, Foucault and George Carlin are often the topic of discussion over a tall glass of unpasteurized, bottle-conditioned Bavarian hefeweizen.

[edit] Wikipedian Weltangschauung

In the last decade the internet has changed our world, and how we get our information. There are of coarse drawbacks when one is looking for good information on any given subject. Many sites are not credible, or may appear as such when they are not. Along with these drawbacks however, information is now traveling at a rate unprecedented in history. Therefore, in collaboration with others, it is possible to create a resource on the internet that is both credible and as informative as possible. My contention is that Wikipedia must be a source of information that is balanced. Avoidance of bias is impossible. (Truth is never objective, rather, all truth is perspective) By providing as many perspectives to a subject or issue as possible, the intellegent wikipedian or Wikipedia reader, will in the end learn more, and end with a better understanding of the greater picture of the subject. Much in the way we cannot see all of the statue by standing in front of it, we must walk around it, and see it from all angles. Simultaneously, we, as wikipedians must maintain a scholarly approach, and any article that is either poorly written, incorrect, or needlessly offensive, must be removed by a monitor, or edited so as to conform to these standards. (Of coarse, don’t take your user page that seriously, have fun with it!) While a diversity of opinion is necessary for the Wikipedia project’s success, careful monitoring is a must. As I believe the aforementioned is true of Wikipedia today, I can see the project to continue its success as the best source for information on the internet.

[edit] Philosophy

[edit] Empiricism and Realism

Notions of appearance and reality are not empirically distinct. Knowledge, therefore, must be derived from experience. Knowledge that is a priori—by definition, meaning prior to experience, not outside it, is derived from either an understanding of causality, which in turn is derived from previous experience, or through racial memory. The dichotomy between appearance and reality in Western philosophy is the result of a dualistic conceptualization of the world originating with Socrates. All theories about the world that posit the existence of anything outside of experience, is simply metaphysical speculation that is not demonstrable. Phenomenologically, reality and appearance are indistinguishable, and therefore all speculation about there existing some form of reality outside of appearance is moot. Reality can only be understood it terms of forces, forces which may be commanding, or obeying, active or passive.

[edit] Philosophy of History

We are always the product of our past, and that is a burden with which we must live. The object of the philosopher of history is an understanding of the causes of historical mutations. What forces are in play that causes the rise of civilizations? Of their decline, and extinction? What constitutes the distinction between these civilizations? Was the Greco-Roman Civilization a different civilization then our own, and why might that be important. What does history mean for us today as we confront modernity? Our questioning of history ought not be one that derives from history some theory about some force that underlies historical mutations, or posits some "end of history" to which all the world’s events will ultimately culminate. Speculative philosophers of history such as Vico, Spengler, or Toynbee seek to systematize history as operating in distinct cycles, but such speculation is not based on demonstrable evidence, but on preconceived notions about some transcendental force operant behind history.

History is the story of distinct cultures that have risen and declined as recorded throughout time. Archeology studies many such cultures before writing, and provides the empirical justification for our understanding of events as they occurred. Together, we can compare such cultures and civilizations, and use our knowledge of history to come to an understanding of how these forces operate. Similar patterns during the duration of a civilization yield evidence of similar forces being operative or inoperative, which may not be empirically demonstrable by only examining the present.

[edit] "The Machine"

Just as certain events in history might give rise to following developments in history, the forces by which arose modernity are at least as old as the 16th century. The Christian belief in the redemption of the soul, with its innate dualistic philosophy was radicalized in the extreme hostility towards the body as Puritanism. The forces that gave rise to the religiosity of Protestantism during the Reformation and English Civil War, were ultimately the same forces that would give rise to capitalism, and secure the direction whither western history will run the rest of its natural course. From the Protestant work ethic (see: Weber) and the puritanical disregard for the body, the conditions for industrialization of Europe and North America were secured. The enviable result was on the efficiency, rather that the quality of the goods and services produced, and this lead to Fordist mass-production, the hegemony of the faceless corporation, the commoditization of the worker, and a political and economic system that is inherently anti-human. It is inevitable the coarse modernity has taken will ultimately run its coarse henceforth until it collapses due to its own internal instability. The Machine, run on oil, political corruption, and complete disregard for the earth and its inhabitants is inherently unstable. Paradoxically, the bigger the machine gets, the more its power increases, the more it is able to assert its mastery over us, but at the same time, the more internally unstable, and closer to collapse it becomes.

[edit] The Convergence of Catastrophes

The world today is headed towards an era of unprecedented chaos. World War III has already begun, it is just that most of the world hasn’t realized it yet, not even its leaders. The time to which we have to avert the situation has been exhausted; we are past the point of no return. The machine is reaching its end. There are many forces in play that will result in what Guillaume Faye calls the “convergence of catastrophes”. Situations such as: a global economy that is based off a fiat money system manufactured by banks, the outsoucing in the competition for the efficient product, the peaking of the oil supply which virtually drives the Machine, the islamization of Europe, mass immigration into America’s southwest, the imperialism of the American Empire are all uncontrollable situations that together will all have their part in the events that are to come. What we can expect is complete economic collapse. I believe this will be triggered either by the peaking of oil, or by the hyperinflation of the American dollar. The results of this collapse will be enormous. We can expect widespread rioting escalating in all out civil war across North America and Europe, and that the fighting will be along ethnic and racial lines. We suspect that Islam has already begun its third attempt to conquer Europe. The United States, with its troops already over deployed throughout the world, has put itself in a perilous situation with already burgeoning population of China, which will only become a much more formidable power within this decade. We might be through with the past, but the past isn’t through with us!

[edit] Archeofuturism

Today, we live in an interregnum. An interregnum is a period in time where one civilization is in passing, and thus arises the possibility of the rebirth civilization in the form of something new. Just as it is impossible for one to travel back in time, so too our Civilization is never going to return to an epoch without nuclear bombs, weapons of mass production, and television sets. What is needed is revolution. Revolution not only against the powers that be, but a revolution of how we live and how we think. What needs to occur is that notions of traditionalism and modernity must be overcome dialectically; this does not mean that we are going to be thrown back in time, as if the last five hundred years of technological development had never occurred, but nonetheless, we will be thrown into a world quite different from how we live today. Certainly, our technology and luxuries will still exist, but with the complete collapse of the Machine, the mass production that today allows for its ubiquity, will probably only be the sphere of a scientific elite. Survival will necessitate a return to the earth. What is needed is recourse to an archaic mentality that reestablishes ancestral values and social order. Modernity, egalitarianism, and humanism must be rejected, and a new aristocracy founded. The creation of a new aristocracy must be the primary concern for any revolution if it is to be successful, and this is only possible through war.