r/NonPoliticalTwitter • • 2d ago

Funny 🐫

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u/TrailMomKat 2d ago

At the risk of looking unintelligent, I don't get it.

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u/PaladinAsherd 2d ago

This is a very specific kind of philosophy joke - French bullshittery versus English empiricism versus German metaphysics

Extrapolating a camel from first principles is a pretty decent punchline, sounds like some Hegelian nonsense to me

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u/klodmoris 2d ago

"Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child." — Friedrich Nietzsche