On Being a Philosopher-Writer...

You can ignore me, alienate me, ex-communicate me, dissociate yourself from me, disenfranchise me, temporarily suppress me -- but I won't go away...

When you leave Hegel's Hotel, ideally, you won't look at your world exactly the same way you did before you entered Hegel's Hotel...

Because I will rattle you, shake you, test your innermost philosophical and psychological foundations...

And hopefully, when you leave Hegel's Hotel, those of you who were 'righteously, narcissistically, and/or one-sidedly mummified' before you entered my philosophical premises, will start to become more 'dialectically and wholistically integrated' as you capture more and more of Hegel's 'Phenomenology of The Dialectic Mind and Spirit.


No promises...

But that is my goal...

Sometimes I will aim to do this softly with 'diplomatic balance'.

At other times I will aim to hit the target of my anger with my rhetorical 'Nietzschean Hammer'...

Or hang onto my most righteous point...

With a Pit Bull bite....

Other times I may just rage around...

Like a Bull caught in a China Shop...

Until I have your undivided attention...

If I have not philosophically affected you...

In one way or another...

Then as a philosopher and a writer...

I have probably not done my job..

As well as I wanted to...

But we will try again in the next essay...

Or re-write the ineffective one...

Then move on to new philosophical territory...

The world -- and the narcissistic hypocrisy of man -- is my philosophical oyster...

(Schopenhauer just rolled over in his grave.)

-- dgb, June 1st, 2011,




-- David Gordon Bain




-- Dialectic Gap-Bridging Negotiations...




-- Are Still in Process...