Philosophy? WTF??

This week, there is a party in the Abyss and everyone is invited! Mike and Danny have put you all on the list for the access all areas event of the entire Wednesday! DJ Dionysus will be blasting out some sick beats while MC Nietzsche lays down some bad ass rhymes like it weren’t no ting! This one is straight outta Basel:

'The G is D don’t give me any o' yo morality,

It's absurd for the herd that’s the word,

Use yo own volition, it’s the hermeneutic of suspicion,

The religious they just cower, they have no will to power,

Wagner be fake, my sis on the make,

My rhymes be hazy, I’ve gone a little crazy.

Peace out!

Mic Drop. No trainers

This week we drop the N bomb! That’s right, a philosopher so hip and down with the kids that Danny and Mike feel ill equipped to take him on unaided. Yes, this week calls for skill, daring, panache and certain “she’ll be right” to bring it off. In the face of wicked fascist sisters, well dressed and cold free women and the death of your deity of choice we felt we had no choice but to call in Dr Neso from her palace hideaway nestled deep in the uncharted territories of the lands at the edge of the world. Listen, with Google translate at the ready, as Dr Neso exhorts us to embrace Nietzsche, to stare into the abyss with eyes wide open and to frolic with Dionysus. Go ahead, it’s all fine, listen carefully but draw the curtains against prying eyes.

This week Kierkegaard tells us that we really wouldn’t enjoy wealth, fame, power and glory …no, seriously, you’ll hate it so don’t even try. Giving it all away to the needy isn’t going to help either so don’t try that one on, you are only doing it to show off, so stop it, you aren’t fooling anyone. No, what you really need to do is take a giant leap into the unknown and see what happens. Go on, jump, it’ll be fine, Mike and Danny promise to catch you, would we lie to you? Have we ever let you down? In fact, close your eyes, get naked and fall backwards… ready? Okay, listen to our voices and let go…

This week, for your delectation and delight Danny and Mike bring you love, yes love, spelt L-O-V-E. Listen in as Kierkegaard - you know, that dude who kicked his girlfriend to the curb for the sake of his work? Yeah that guy - provides us with relationship advice. Take a leap of faith, he says, don’t depend on reason he says, it’s all good, he says. Is he right? Do we diminish the important stuff by analysing it down to its component parts? Is a great paining simply a combination of paint, canvas and time? Stick with us as the Dane moans that he didn’t ask to be born and that nobody understands him before running upstairs to his bedroom to listen to his MCR albums on vinyl. Remember, listening to the cast is an exercise of faith, we may or may not be here to catch you. Believe.

This week Danny gets caught speeding and has to do a speed awareness course - why is Kierkegaard there? How fast is an existential decision? As the Dane puts his foot hard down and leaves Hegel at the lights in a cloud of rubber and dust we ask the question, who is navigating for him? Is there such a thing as an existential SatNav and if there is does it simply say, "Recalculating" all the time? Can we ever learn from the mistakes of others? Are we destined to drive into the same ditch as our parents and their parents before them? Join Mike and Danny with nobody at the wheel this week!

This week, listen in as the salon doors swing open and Kierkegaard enters the room sporting black eyeliner and listening to Cradle of Filth. Be amazed as he deliberately sits in Hegel’s seat and chats up his girlfriend only to abandon her at the end of the evening with the line “it’s not you, it’s me”. Is he moody and interesting or just an emo kid who needs to get a grip? Are we authentic individuals struggling to find meaning beyond knowledge? You choose before Hegel gets back from the toilets and it kicks off.

This week, listen in shocked disgust as Danny shamelessly runs with scissors while Mike looks on wondering whether or not he ought to intervene. Do we want what is best for us? Do we need a powerful other operating with utter conviction to lead us forward into the promised land? What do we do with the alien? Do we lock them up in Area 51 and dissect them to learn more about ourselves? How do we relate to the other? Who is the junior partner? Am I good enough for you? I bet I’m not, I’m just a resource to you aren’t I?? Well that’s fine, I don’t mind, I don’t deserve you any way, you are much prettier and smarter than me.

This week Hegel reveals his true colours as he seeks to assimilate our biological and cultural distinctiveness into his own. Raise your shields in hopeless defiance as dialectical inevitability cuts into your hull and extracts all the good stuff to further the universal collective. Resistance is futile, who will save us? Will it be Marx or has he already succumbed to the lure of metaphysical inevitability? Perhaps our only hope is take a leap of faith, abandon ship and trust ourselves to the void. Spoilers

This week Danny and Mike watch in mild amusement as Hegel argues that his is bigger than anyone else's and he’ll fight anyone who says otherwise. Listen with mounting concern as Georg starts sounding off about how he isn’t really a racist but that Germany rules, love it or leave it! Is the Spirit on tour and keeping its good stuff for the Western venues or are the audiences shouting out “play the greatest hits!!” All this and an opportunity for us all to relax in the hot tub and get to know each other better. Last one in is a positivist!

This week Mike and Danny discover how fraught with danger it is to synthesize a new drink out of two more familiar ones. Do two wrongs make a right? Are we more individual in combination with others or should we go it alone like the rugged Enlightenment individuals Descartes brought us up to be? Who is your daddy? While Hegel offers us nothing less than nirvana who is sitting nearby offering us romance, sweets and existential puppies? Only time and subsequent casts will tell.