CJ Stevens - Metaphysiology<p>Watching this impressive piece of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cinema</span></a> tonight, The Banshees of Inisherin, I was reminded of something I think on often:</p><p>In all my reading of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a>, it's never happened that the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Irish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Irish</span></a> cultural spirit in me has found itself resonating, though that spirit in itself is deeply, tragi-comically, existential. Just as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Shakespeare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shakespeare</span></a> is the profoundest of all England's thinkers, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Synge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Synge</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Beckett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Beckett</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Joyce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Joyce</span></a> all said things no philosophy has spoken.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ColinFarrell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColinFarrell</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BrendanGleeson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrendanGleeson</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MartinMcDonagh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MartinMcDonagh</span></a></p>