is anything truly based? Is anything truly cringe? We have made this up, and we will die because of it.
Based and Cringe are equal in the most basic sense that as universals Based is equally and indifferently Based and not-Based regardless of content, while the content shifts, Based abides, the same holds for Cringe. While Based and Cringe are contradictory, they're also equally internally contradictory and what would need to be developed speculatively would need be developed from their internal contradiction primarily
one could argue that my analysis is stuck at the level of Perception, and that person would be correct because I haven't made it past that chapter yet lol
What about Catullus 13, where the last lines could be translated as "You will ask the gods, my Fabullus, to become a whole nose".
friedrich engels, near lifelong friend and collaborator of comrade marx, also edited 2 volumes of Capital from marx's notes after his death
thanks! hope you find something you appreciate