The two senses of "stupid"

Deleuze gives a technical sense of "stupid" (bête) in Chapter 3 of Difference and Repetition: the inability to distinguish the ordinary and trivial from the singular and important. But that's not the only sense of stupid this column displays: the everyday sense of "not very smart" also works.

Beyond the absurdly anachronistic attempted reduction of AP to language analysis -- thus missing the singular moment of the revival of analytic metaphysics -- there is this head scratcher:

"In the 18th century, Immanuel Kant posited ideas such as "categories of the mind" and "transcendental apperception" that were themselves beyond philosophical interrogation..."

To use some netspeak: Rlly? Srsly? WTF?

Read for yourself, there's plenty more like that.

Let me be serious for a minute -- though actually I'm always serious when I snark -- I just want to take this occasion to formally disavow any alignment with these jokers and to say that this proud CP person does not take them to be representative of any movement to which I belong.

Now to return to my beloved snark idiom, to put it in the immortal words of Elaine Benes: "That stuff is weak. I'm not buying it and you shouldn't be selling it."

Update: A senior philosopher elsewhere writes in to say that Eric's suggested title is much funnier: "Policing meaning and eavesdropping on being"