Hegel is the cowpox of LLM psychosis
Reminded of this by Irish philosopher William Desmond on Hegel Infatuation. irishphilosophy.com/2015/11/23/r...
(Full original interview can be found here: www.scribd.com/document/160... (pdf)
Love the idea of Hegel exorcisms!
(Full original interview can be found here: www.scribd.com/document/160... (pdf)
Love the idea of Hegel exorcisms!
![[...] The reason I continue to teach Hegel is because the struggle with Hegel is worth it philosophically. I do see green readers fall under his bewitchment. I try to offer some philosophical inoculations against false conceptual enchantments. But what can one do when someone is infatuated? The spell will run its course. Or do we need to develop an area of expertise for treating conceptual possession: philosophical exorcism?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:m3al5nnd7psajoaehmpfplvm/bafkreifneykbltfpru7xjga63do2pda75273o545nxgmjggrglsrkoukou)
October 31, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Hegel is the cowpox of LLM psychosis
“The journal that printed Jane’s letter sold the cure she praised... The same periodical mocked Edward Jenner, who had effectively used cowpox as a vaccination for smallpox, and ridiculed “vaccinic mania.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
October 30, 2026 at 12:36 PM
“The journal that printed Jane’s letter sold the cure she praised... The same periodical mocked Edward Jenner, who had effectively used cowpox as a vaccination for smallpox, and ridiculed “vaccinic mania.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
The root word of vaccine is vacca for cow. I think I remember hearing that before: that the first vaccine was inoculating people exposing them to cowpox. More history here:
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November 1, 2026 at 6:47 PM
The root word of vaccine is vacca for cow. I think I remember hearing that before: that the first vaccine was inoculating people exposing them to cowpox. More history here:
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I preferred the cowpox parties.
October 16, 2026 at 7:19 PM
I preferred the cowpox parties.
the “first vaccine” google will acknowledge is a guy cutting open the skin of a child in 1796 and… rubbing pus from a cowpox victim into the wound crazy-style. so, like, don’t ever think medical science is better or worse than what it is
October 15, 2026 at 10:30 PM
the “first vaccine” google will acknowledge is a guy cutting open the skin of a child in 1796 and… rubbing pus from a cowpox victim into the wound crazy-style. so, like, don’t ever think medical science is better or worse than what it is
Fun fact: The term "vaccine" is derived from the Latin "vacca" meaning cow, because the first vaccine used cowpox to immunize against smallpox. #etymology
October 13, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Fun fact: The term "vaccine" is derived from the Latin "vacca" meaning cow, because the first vaccine used cowpox to immunize against smallpox. #etymology
you ever think about how vaccine comes from the Latin word for cow because it was invented with cowpox?
October 6, 2026 at 8:49 AM
you ever think about how vaccine comes from the Latin word for cow because it was invented with cowpox?
Watching Deadlock sweep through servers I'm in and watching it absorb all discussion of other live service games like the black plague hitting a village after a cowpox outbreak
September 30, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Watching Deadlock sweep through servers I'm in and watching it absorb all discussion of other live service games like the black plague hitting a village after a cowpox outbreak
Babies are dying because their mothers and grandmothers believe wizards. Measles is vaccine-preventable. So is flu. So is covid-19. Vaccines have come a long way since rich people injected themselves with cowpox to prevent smallpox. #VaccinesSaveLives #AntiVaxxersKill
September 28, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Babies are dying because their mothers and grandmothers believe wizards. Measles is vaccine-preventable. So is flu. So is covid-19. Vaccines have come a long way since rich people injected themselves with cowpox to prevent smallpox. #VaccinesSaveLives #AntiVaxxersKill
The word "vaccine" comes from the Latin word for COW. Edward Jenner's discovery that cowpox protected people from deadly smallpox changed medicine forever. Learn more in "60 Crazy Inventions of the 19th Century": https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H3ZKP6YY #DidYouKnow #FunFacts
September 27, 2026 at 2:00 PM
The word "vaccine" comes from the Latin word for COW. Edward Jenner's discovery that cowpox protected people from deadly smallpox changed medicine forever. Learn more in "60 Crazy Inventions of the 19th Century": https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H3ZKP6YY #DidYouKnow #FunFacts
The word "vaccine" comes from the Latin word for COW. Edward Jenner's discovery that cowpox protected people from deadly smallpox changed medicine forever. Learn more in "60 Crazy Inventions of the 19th Century": https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H3ZKP6YY #DidYouKnow #FunFacts
September 27, 2026 at 2:00 PM
The word "vaccine" comes from the Latin word for COW. Edward Jenner's discovery that cowpox protected people from deadly smallpox changed medicine forever. Learn more in "60 Crazy Inventions of the 19th Century": https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H3ZKP6YY #DidYouKnow #FunFacts
youtu.be/I0ZvCA5oqTM?... if ur gonna share around video documentaries that explain the follies of the anti-vax movement here's one by a trans person u can share instead of the one by a transmisogynist ok i dont wanna see that traitor's face on my page
Anti-Vaxxed: From Cowpox to Conspiracy
YouTube video by Caelan Conrad
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September 27, 2026 at 2:47 PM
youtu.be/I0ZvCA5oqTM?... if ur gonna share around video documentaries that explain the follies of the anti-vax movement here's one by a trans person u can share instead of the one by a transmisogynist ok i dont wanna see that traitor's face on my page
Since her profile looks like she might be from Canada, I looked up the last case of smallpox in Canada. One kid had it in 1962, and he caught it on a trip to Brazil. So if “every kid she knew” had it, it must have been in the 1940s at the latest.
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Smallpox and its control in Canada
Edward Jenner's first treatise in 1798 described how he used cowpox material to provide immunity to the related smallpox virus. He sent this treatise and some cowpox material to his classmate John Cli...
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September 24, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Since her profile looks like she might be from Canada, I looked up the last case of smallpox in Canada. One kid had it in 1962, and he caught it on a trip to Brazil. So if “every kid she knew” had it, it must have been in the 1940s at the latest.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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I think they had some cause to be a bit weird in the 1700s.
"Jenner took fluid from a cowpox sore on a milkmaid's hand and scratched it into the arm of his gardener's young son."
That's some weird shit right there.
Genius though.
"Jenner took fluid from a cowpox sore on a milkmaid's hand and scratched it into the arm of his gardener's young son."
That's some weird shit right there.
Genius though.
September 23, 2026 at 3:30 PM
I think they had some cause to be a bit weird in the 1700s.
"Jenner took fluid from a cowpox sore on a milkmaid's hand and scratched it into the arm of his gardener's young son."
That's some weird shit right there.
Genius though.
"Jenner took fluid from a cowpox sore on a milkmaid's hand and scratched it into the arm of his gardener's young son."
That's some weird shit right there.
Genius though.
Yeah, prior disease immunity. Cowpox/smallpox shit.
September 19, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Yeah, prior disease immunity. Cowpox/smallpox shit.
Greek internationally contracted Cowpox as a protection against Smallpox.
September 19, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Greek internationally contracted Cowpox as a protection against Smallpox.
Up next: cowpox, bubonic plague & polio.
Infant measles scare hits children's hospital that begged Fetterman for vaccine meeting
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Infant measles scare hits children's hospital that begged Fetterman for vaccine meeting
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Infant measles scare hits children's hospital that begged Fetterman for vaccine meeting
Newborns at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia may have been exposed to measles a year after Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) dismissed the hospital's concerns about vaccines.The Philadelphia Departmen...
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September 18, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Up next: cowpox, bubonic plague & polio.
Infant measles scare hits children's hospital that begged Fetterman for vaccine meeting
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Infant measles scare hits children's hospital that begged Fetterman for vaccine meeting
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To create a 'cowpox' 'vaccine' back in Jenner's time (really horsepox) you need to have an outbreak of horse/cowpox. Neither are lethal and both give natural immunity to smallpox. Contact with either did not require pus from an infected animal. This is factual, it's how immunity works
September 18, 2026 at 8:51 AM
To create a 'cowpox' 'vaccine' back in Jenner's time (really horsepox) you need to have an outbreak of horse/cowpox. Neither are lethal and both give natural immunity to smallpox. Contact with either did not require pus from an infected animal. This is factual, it's how immunity works
Vaccines are one of the safest things you can put into your body. They are designed to not hurt you, but merely to give your immune system a specific target.
The name Vaccine comes from the word Vacca, for cow, because Cowpox (far milder than Smallpox) was the first discovery.
We are now at the
The name Vaccine comes from the word Vacca, for cow, because Cowpox (far milder than Smallpox) was the first discovery.
We are now at the
September 18, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Vaccines are one of the safest things you can put into your body. They are designed to not hurt you, but merely to give your immune system a specific target.
The name Vaccine comes from the word Vacca, for cow, because Cowpox (far milder than Smallpox) was the first discovery.
We are now at the
The name Vaccine comes from the word Vacca, for cow, because Cowpox (far milder than Smallpox) was the first discovery.
We are now at the
1) Formal medical education in the modern sense didn't exist in Jenner's lifetime, and it's not relevant.
2) 20th century smallpox vaccines were still made with cowpox, just like Jenner's.
3) Better medical ethics today don't change the fact that Jenner's vaccine worked and worked well.
2) 20th century smallpox vaccines were still made with cowpox, just like Jenner's.
3) Better medical ethics today don't change the fact that Jenner's vaccine worked and worked well.
September 18, 2026 at 6:26 AM
1) Formal medical education in the modern sense didn't exist in Jenner's lifetime, and it's not relevant.
2) 20th century smallpox vaccines were still made with cowpox, just like Jenner's.
3) Better medical ethics today don't change the fact that Jenner's vaccine worked and worked well.
2) 20th century smallpox vaccines were still made with cowpox, just like Jenner's.
3) Better medical ethics today don't change the fact that Jenner's vaccine worked and worked well.
Dr. Jenner developed the Snallpox vaccine decades before germ theory. He thought Smallpox and the milder Cowpox came from a horse disease called, “horse grease.” He reasoned milk maids transferred horse grease to cows’ udders where it became Cowpox or Smallpox. Wrong theory, right treatment.
September 17, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Dr. Jenner developed the Snallpox vaccine decades before germ theory. He thought Smallpox and the milder Cowpox came from a horse disease called, “horse grease.” He reasoned milk maids transferred horse grease to cows’ udders where it became Cowpox or Smallpox. Wrong theory, right treatment.
Edward Jenner's demonstration of the cowpox-based vaccine was in 1796. Earlier innoculation procedures used live smallpox; these worked but were FAR riskier.
September 17, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Edward Jenner's demonstration of the cowpox-based vaccine was in 1796. Earlier innoculation procedures used live smallpox; these worked but were FAR riskier.