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Philosophy 1: Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel

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Listening to The Partially Examined Life, a wonderful podcast I recommend to all and sundry. They are going paragraph by paragraph through the "The Troubled Consciousness" section of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. It's even more opaque than usual, to the point where even with all this painstaking work, which includes comparing three different translations for some passages, they (and we) all agree after that in some places we're just guessing what the crazy old fuck was saying.

But. In one part they are talking about The Spirit, a.k.a. Geist, and I think they have an insight which is useful and also delightfully punctures all the heavy quasi-mystical silliness that surrounds Hegel in large part because he writes in ridiculously unclear riddles. They say that the consciousness of Geist within us is what allows memes. It's a shadow within the Venn diagram of our and another's consciousness where it doesn't really exist solely within us (a meme nobody else gets is not a meme) yet has to always exist within us (or we wouldn't "get" it).

So. Geist is that which is assumed given memes happen. Voila.
 
"One must imagine Sisyphus happy."

Asked why, and all I can figure out thus far is that he's living in the moment, he's accepted his task, and he's not bored.
 
Reading more Gramsci. I feel people love quoting "now is the time of monsters," while ignoring he goes on to say...

"The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear."
 
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