#+title: Contradiction | Why Theory
- source :: [[https://soundcloud.com/whytheory/contradiction][Contradiction by Why Theory | Free Listening on SoundCloud]]

* Notes
In the split between the [[file:../20200723212214-young_hegelians.org][Young Hegelians]] and the [[file:../20210520104349-right_hegelians.org][Right Hegelians]], each
misunderstands contradiction as the [[file:../20210310113839-dialectics.org][dialectic]].

The right wing of this thought wants to seek an end, or a synthesis, while the
left realizes (or should realize) that contradiction is eternal.

Synthesis is meeting in the middle.

The contradiction is unsolvable.

[[file:../20210421155432-consciousness.org][Consciousness]] is geared towards solution, while [[file:../20210520105015-unconsciousness.org][unconsciousness]] is geared
towards un-solution.

[[file:../20200707090939-sigmund_freud.org][Freud]] believed that we are subject of and to the [[file:../20210520105015-unconsciousness.org][unconsciousness]], and that for
[[file:../20200720100117-hegel.org][Hegel]], contradiction meant a constant struggle against ourselves.

[[file:../20200713100017-right_wing.org][Right wing]] political thought is, as the hosts believe, an attempt to eliminate
contradiction, while [[file:../20210520113302-left_wing.org][left wing]] thought is the embrace of the contradiction.

[[file:../20210520113610-self_betrayal.org][Self-betrayal]] are those moments when you say something but perhaps meant
something else. At the level of what you said you're betraying how you really
feel, or so it seems to another.

[[file:../20200720100117-hegel.org][Hegel]]'s belief was very strongly tied up with [[file:../20210421095326-christianity.org][Christianity]], and the mistake that
Hegel's [[file:../20210520113302-left_wing.org][left wing]] inheritors make, the hosts claim, is separating that.

[[file:../20200720100117-hegel.org][Hegel]] believes that when [[file:../20200713215950-jesus_christ.org][Christ]] [[file:../20210520132129-the_crusifiction.org][died on the cross]], that mankind had not killed a
[[file:../20210520132206-jesus_christ_as_a_representation_of_god.org][representation of God]], but had killed God himself (sounds like [[file:../20200628220742-nietzsche.org][Nietzsche]]'s [[file:../20210520132227-death_of_god.org][death
of God]] a little).

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The owl of Minerva only takes flight at only with the falling of dusk.
--- Hegel
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The 20th century is about a leftist anti-Hegelianism, such as [[file:../20210520163222-foucault.org][Foucault]], [[file:../20210520163227-adorno.org][Adorno]],
[[file:../20210506162841-deleuze.org][Deleuze]], etc.

#+begin_quote
There's no such thing as an analysis that just says how things are, by even
doing the analysis you're implying that something can be different.
--- Todd
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