Was it not Cicero who said: "Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas?" Or am i just distorting History?
Is there such thing as History? Fukuyama and Baudrillard wrote that it has already ended. The former speaks about the warm embrace of neoliberalism throughtout the world in the current age, and the latter, God knows, is a gallic postmodern convolution.
What is a postmodern convolution? a James Joyce! And he's not even French. Where they contemporary with Michael Collins?
Michael Collins, an important person in Irish History and the IRA. One wonders how the IRA is doing. The "orthodox" or "schismatic?", never mind the strains. It is arguably, the best paramilitary unit in the world.
"The World is all that is the case" so said, Ludwig Wittgenstein, in his Tractatus, which reminds me of somebody who argued, with the pretentious description of being a professor in philosophy(not my professor im sure of that), that it is an irreversible error of argument to posit that, to think of Nothing, in its purest sense, is impossible. Perhaps, in all his years teaching, he wasn't able to read Parmenides.
Parmenides was said to be the the first to expound on Metaphysics in the history of Philosophy. It was on Parmenides' concept of change that Karl Marx used ,as the topic for his dissertation, at an early age of 26. He was born in Trier.
Trier, is an ancient city in Germania, and its Roman name is Augusta Treverorum. One only wonders why the change of name.
Name is an important part in Confucian thought. Kung Fu Tze himself taught of the rectification of names, Rulers be Rulers, Fathers be Fathers, Sons be Sons. If Sarte, with his existence-presupposes-essence idea, was Chinese, would he have been an important thinker in existentialism?
Existentialism is a philosophical movement, which became dominant during post-war europe. But then again, there are philosophers who could be considered existentialists in their thoughts even before Heidegger. Blaise Pascal is a notable example.
An example of a literary fiction is the Bible.
The Bible is the sacred book of all Christians, no matter what denominations. But in these days, it is merely use as a tool for legitimacy in the ever increasing 'christian' organization that keeps popping out in the world. For some reason, it fascinates me to watch Benny Hinn in the Television.
Ah!, the Television. It is perhaps the most important tool in Postmodern culture. Media Constructivism, Luhmann would say, it is not an effacement of the Real since it would presuppose the notion that there is a Real in the first place. Media therefore, in its operations and observations, creates Reality. Baudrillard would term this Hyperreality, in which Eco, would describe as: the authentic fake.
One wonders how the IRA is doing. 
