As Miles Mathis observes, this intellectual fraud (PDF link) is even more a priori obvious than the Einstein fiction.
They never tell you in school the interesting or important things about historical figures, but I will. Some of you may know I majored in philosophy and Latin. I sat in on a graduate-level course on Wittgenstein my senior year, though I found it very tiresome. I took it only because we had a Wittgenstein specialist in our department, and he was highly regarded—though I don’t remember by whom. Not by me. We also covered Russell in another class, though briefly. I always had a sneaking feeling he was big phony, and of course it turns out I was right. However, at the time I would never have thought to connect either of these guys to the rising Modern art movements of their time, or to Modernism at all. That is because of the way they are taught—the way everything is taught in college.
IN ISOLATION.
In fact, I wouldn’t now say that Wittgenstein and Russell were taught in college; rather, they were promoted. We were supposed to believe they were important for some reason, though no one ever really got around to saying why. All the evidence was to the contrary, so everything had to be spun hard. I now suspect that those promoting them must have been related to them somehow, though I was in Texas. I can’t figure out why else anyone would promote these guys, or find them fascinating enough to study.
To start with, both of them come from fantastic wealth. Wittgenstein’s father was one the wealthiest men in Europe. Karl Wittgenstein was an industrial tycoon who had a monopoly on Austria’s steel cartel, and he was a friend of Andrew Carnegie. He owned 13 mansions in Vienna alone. But we are supposed to believe his son’s fame had nothing to do with that. It also had nothing to do with being promoted by his professor Russell, a future Earl, who was also from one of the wealthiest families in Europe.
You will say I seem to have lost my usual cheery demeanor, along with my usual levels of pity and sympathy, which is true. These people will do it to you. I think you see why I am disgusted by Wittgenstein. It isn’t his Jewishness or homosexuality. It is that he is such an obvious fraud, promoted only because of his money and background. It is that his bio is such a pathetic lie. It is that he beat up children and called country people worms and animals. It is that he used his positions to prey on young men. It is that he continues to be promoted by his cousins, although they must know all this. It makes me wish the corona hoax will bankrupt all the universities, and that students will refuse to return to them in the fall, to pay exorbitant amounts to be lectured to online by a series of charlatans, liars, and monsters.
Keep in mind that the guy wrote one book, one article, and one book review in his entire life. He was too lazy to even bother trying to make the charade look convincing. And that one book was a mere 75 pages of sophistics that consist of seven propositions.
- The world is everything that is the case.
- What is the case, the fact, is the existence of atomic facts.
- The logical picture of the facts is the thought.
- The thought is the significant proposition.
- Propositions are truth-functions of elementary propositions.
- The general form of a truth-function is: {displaystyle [{bar {p}},{bar {xi }},N({bar {xi }})]}[bar p,barxi, N(barxi)]. This is the general form of proposition.
- Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
How very.
It’s always interesting to read Miles Mathis because he takes the time to dig up and expose the rampant phoniness that everyone with the intelligence to understand these frauds immediately picks up upon reading them. You can’t read Wittgenstein or Bertrand Russell without realizing that there simply isn’t anything there, which is why pretty much all post-medieval philosophy is literally worse than useless.
Just as most fame and fortune today is manufactured, intellectual fame is mostly fiction, the product of a propaganda machine utilized to manufacture false authorities that will eventually confer more false authority upon future intellectual frauds.
And now, the punchline.
A survey among American university and college teachers ranked the Investigations as the most important book of 20th-century philosophy, standing out as “the one crossover masterpiece in twentieth-century philosophy, appealing across diverse specializations and philosophical orientations.”
– Wikipedia
Ludwig Wittgenstein is what Jordan Peterson would have been without the Internet.