Love both - Snyder and Ferguson. Its quite curious how some provocations can force you to think different on the same issue. Niall mocks on the pamfleth and makes it sound weird, and makes it with reason. Yet, Tim was writting on upcoming threat rather that on established reality. Some of his points are 100% true for thouse who have the same experience of living in growing autocrathy. It bites your will step by step, it perverts your view of youself as powerless creature, it makes you feel allien and alone. It persuades your that any resistence is useless. So Snyder's 20 lessons are nice handbook to actively conquer this feeling of despare and to undeststand the logic of autocrathy

16:15 Who are the characters in the book "Alone in Berlin"?...The characters Otto and Anna Quangel, his wife, are based on the real-life story of Otto and Elise Hampel, a couple living in Berlin who embarked on their private journey of active opposition to the regime by creating postcards with short messages of condemnation of the Nazis and dropping them off in visible places

Excellent…

The uniparty is definitely a one-party state.

He is brilliant

Mr. Ferguson reminds me, in his injudicious comments about Mr. Snyder, about the primary difference between wit and humor, and about the emotional admixture that characterizes contempt. Wit is invariably at another’s expense. Humor has the potential, at least, for self-deprecation. Contempt is an admixture of anger and disgust. Mr. Ferguson amply shows us both in his characterization of Mr. Snyder. An immature display, which is as regrettable as it was avoidable!

A little older, a little plumper, a little less hair but darn it, this guy is interesting.❤

The 60’s wrecked America

Your freedom is based on your book Empire. Unfortunately, your Empire is no long allowed to have freedom to sell opium to other peoples. Fortunately, you still have the freedom to sell spiritual opium.

1:15 "On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder widely praised 20 recommendations on how to behave in a tyranny.... defend institutions,... beware the one party state... 7:02 "The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook" -by Niall Ferguson (Author) January 16, 2018....argues that networks have always been with us, from the structure of the brain to the food chain, from the family tree to freemasonry. Throughout history, hierarchies housed in high towers have claimed to rule, but often real power has resided in the networks in the town square below. For it is networks that tend to innovate. And it is through networks that revolutionary ideas can contagiously spread. Just because conspiracy theorists like to fantasize about such networks doesn't mean they are not real.

Ferguson's bad faith cheap shots in the first few minutes of the talk distract from the rest of his presentation and make it difficult to take the work he presents seriously. To improve in the future, Ferguson needs to leave the attempts at stand up comedy to professional comedians, and stop using misrepresentations of other people's work to try to promote his own.

@KAZVorpal

7 ай бұрын

Yes, I'm here to see what he's about, and my current impression is that he has corrupt motivation, as that would be likely to produce his bad behavior.

this takedown is super bad faith, and honestly diminishes my prior opinion of Niall F. -- plenty to criticize in good faith without caricature

@KAZVorpal

7 ай бұрын

I agree completely.