Ask Still Eating Oranges #1

After we added the Ask function to our blog, we received several questions from curious readers. In this post, we respond to those from stilleatingoranges, stilleatingoranges, stilleatingoranges and stilleatingoranges. Let’s get to it.

stilleatingoranges asked you:

  • Hi, Still Eating Oranges. Your latest blog post was interesting, but I have to disagree with your method. You explicitly endorsed an undefended essentialism. All that talk about “genus” and “species” and the “Porphyrian tree” has no relevance in our philosophical climate. I recommend that you take a look at a contemporary philosopher like Derrida to get a sense of why life is meaningless and why objective truth cannot exist. After all, “il n’y a pas de hors-texte”.

Thanks for the comment, SEO. We appreciate your concern, and we agree that it’s easy to be swept up by the excitement of existing in an unknowable, purposeless void onto which humans superimpose false narratives. However, the members of Still Eating Oranges are suckers for mind-independent truth and meaning. In an upcoming blog post, we plan to consider Derrida’s infamous claim and the osmotic nominalism that led to it. Hope you’ll read it!

stilleatingoranges asked you:

  • sup. so I was wondering ify ou are going to post another thing on video games because that would be cool

Hi there. We do indeed plan to discuss video games from time to time, with a particular focus on those with artistic value. [Ed: Art does not exist.] Recently, our writer sent Kill Screen a query for an article on the 1998 experimental game Baroque, which, on the off chance that it is published, will be linked on this blog. Keep watching us for updates.

stilleatingoranges asked you:

  • Hey. I’m working on a piece about down-and-out unknown Tumblr blogs, and I was wondering if I could get some input from you guys, since you seem pathetic and desperate. What’s it like? What do you dream about? In those dreams, are there whales? Thanks.

Thanks for considering us, Still! We like to think of ourselves as “growing”. Still Eating Oranges was started only recently, but we’ve received positive feedback from the few people who have seen our work. It’s always heartening to see a note on one of our posts, and each new follower is cause for celebration. As for our dreams, we try to avoid describing them to strangers; but they typically do not contain whales. Hope this was helpful.

stilleatingoranges asked you:

  • Let me pitch you guys an idea: “Julius”, a modern update of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Julius is a young African-American drug dealer and gang leader who has earned the respect of his underlings. He’s headed for the top, trying to conquer turf. His second-in-command is a Mexican dealer nicknamed Bruto. I’m still working out the details but Julius is betrayed by Bruto and he gets stabbed to death in a back alley by his former posse. After that the gang slowly falls apart. What do you think?

What possessed you to pitch this to us? Isn’t it obvious that we’re a private blog and that our members have no money? On top of that, the idea itself is so terrible that Still Eating Oranges is having trouble conceiving of one that could be worse. [Ed: I’ve seen one or two that top it.] It’s a Frankenstein’s monster of generic TV melodrama and half-remembered Shakespeare. And you didn’t even finish it. Please refrain from sending us any more of your “ideas”.

We’d like to thank everyone for sending in their questions. If you’d like to know something about Still Eating Oranges, then feel free to drop us a line.