Personally, I don't see what is going on here as take over. I wouldn't be here if I wasn't impressed with BK's dissertation, which was offered to me by the weekly academia.edu digest. I wrote to him with the intent to ask him few things. He directed me to the (old) forum.Soul_of_Shu wrote: ↑Sat Dec 04, 2021 7:34 pmI wonder how many of BK's more casual audience, who have only watched some youtube interviews, if even having delved into the books, might be confused at the mere mention of Kant in relation to BK's ideas, never mind the nuanced deconstruction that has gone on in this thread of Kantian metaphysics vis-a-vis Heideggerian anti-metaphysics—as per JW's take who has actually read and digested it all in German at a truly sophisticated level? As mentioned elsewhere, many may find it might as well be written in Inuktitut, and I would not be surprised if they would be lulled to sleep after page 3.Mark Tetzner wrote: ↑Sat Dec 04, 2021 6:58 pm Bernardo just posted his twitter-message on his FB as well. He thinks that a forum with different opinions could confuse his readers, as if readers dont know what a forum is. Strange one.
It's very clear from his dissertation that he was building stepping stones. I was drawn to his lucid thinking and open ended approach. I don't think that his position was "There's MAL and BK is his prophet". So I saw the forum not as a place for memorizing his Qur'an but as place where the building can go further. Otherwise what's the point? There's MAL, we're alters, end of story forever and ever?
It's little sad that he seems to have lost interest for the continuation of this work. And frankly, once we see six or seven figure prizes flying around, it's clear that forces of quite different character are already at play