A very amusing post, probably from Krispy himself, given that it parrots many things that Krispy has said in the past and is so disconnected from reality.
Back to that paranoid mundane staple - "Everyone is Myatt! He's after me! Help! Come to my defense, please!"
academics who are mostly ONA stooges
To be consistent you should have said DM stooges, not ONA stooges, because according to you ONA=DM.
But yes, DM is moving academics around like pieces in some sinister game he's playing! Yet he's also, apparently and according to you, friendless. So maybe he's just hypnotised these academics to get them to do his sinister biding?
Perhaps Mr Kris McDermott should follow DM's exmaple and get a few academic stooges of his own in order to hype his fantasy temple of them? Perhaps he could also then persuade a well-known author to fictionalize that imaginary temple of them?
He wants to be known as a great and influential person...greedy egotistic... repeatedly mistreat others...blah blah blah
Perhaps you should read what the real Myatt - as opposed to the fictional Myatt you believe in - writes about himself.
Here are a few excerpts from some of his recent writings.
"In a very personal sense, my philosophy of pathei-mathos is expiative. Also expiative is my reclusiveness..."
"My attitude to life now is somewhat – but only somewhat – reminiscent of the Taoism I studied, over four decades ago, while living in the Far East. An attitude which, with its particular supra-personal, millennial, perspective – and intuition regarding δίκη – is very personal and which, while rather mystical, is not religious in the conventional sense. It is an attitude, a personal way, which embraces and appreciates tolerance, kindness, compassion, honour, and humility. A personal way of living, discovered by pathei-mathos, that brings an awareness of not only the numinous but also of the importance of love, and yet which awareness also imbues me with sadness because of my own past, because of my mistakes, because of the suffering I personally caused."
"I personally find love to be more numinous – and more spiritual when loyally shared – more life-affirming, than any dogma, than any ideology, than any organized religion which demands we abandon such personal love for obedience to some interpretation of some faith."
"I have learned the value, the importance, of personal love. Of how and why a loyal love between two human beings is the most beautiful, the most numinous, thing of all."
"According to my limited understanding and knowledge, I am not expressing anything new [in my philosophy of pathei-mathos]. Indeed, I feel (and I use the word 'feel' intentionally) that I am only re-expressing what I intuitively (and possibly incorrectly) understood nearly half a century ago about Taoism when I lived in the Far East and was taught that ancient philosophy by someone who was also trying to instruct me in a particular Martial Art."
"I have no desire now to write anymore about anything, except perchance for a few missives such as this, as part perhaps of my needed expiation, and in explanatory reply when asked of certain things. Such as in exposition of my mistakes, my remorse, and particularly in explanation of the personal love, the gentleness, the compassion, the humility, the peace, that I feel - feel, not know - might possibly enable us to find, to feel, our paradise on Earth, and so not cause suffering, not add to the suffering that so blights this world and has so blighted it for so long, mostly because of people such as me."
Yes, you can google those quotes to find that their source really is DM.
This is very funny, because Myatt is of Scottish (Celtic) descent. Red beard, green eyes, should have been a clue.
He wants to be known as a great and influential person
Sour grapes from Krispy, because compared to Mr Kris McDermott - who has no documented deeds to his name - Myatt is much better known and far more influential.
Also, as Myatt recently wrote,
"My sadness now is because of that extremist past; because of my arrogance; because I did cause such suffering; because I for so long incited violence, hatred, prejudice, intolerance. Because I did what was wrong, and cannot undo the harm done. This sadness - this knowing of my own mistakes, this knowing of my own arrogance, this knowing of the harm I have done - means that I have no desire whatsoever to try and 'fix the world'. Rather, it means a deep personal remorse, a desire - however silly it might seem to others - for expiation. It means I do not like myself - as a person - knowing what I did, what I was capable of, and maybe still am capable of. It means I have to remember - every day - my mistakes, my uncertitude of knowing, and what is good, numinous, beautiful, innocent. It means living a quiet and quite reclusive life."
"For the simple honest truth is that I now feel, in my very being, that I have no right to, can find no justification for me to - beyond that necessitated by personal honour in the immediacy of the moment - interfere in the lives of others, in however small a way even if my initial motives might be (or seemed to me to be) good. For who I am to judge, decide, things beyond the purvue of empathy and a very personal honour? I am just one fallible exceedingly error-prone human being with a long proven history of impersonal interference, of hubriatic, suffering-causing, and selfish, deeds. Someone who does not trust himself anymore and who values and tries to cultivate wu-wei."
So much for the fictional Myatt you've created in your imagination.
You have no friends, because you chased them all away. Sleep on that mate
So lame in a very mundane way. As if a reclusive mystic - by all accounts currently spending his time translating the Gospel of John - is concerned about 'friends'.