"Sometimes we meet the enemy, and it's us." What a note to end on! Thanks for posting.

I like these VHS scratches, reminds me the better times.

@shaunkerr8721

Жыл бұрын

Is this not the v same nostalgia narcotic he was talking about in an earlier lecture? I remember how annoying they were as a child and how amazing DVDs were when I first saw them, "No more rewinding! No more scratchiness!!" I believe the "warmth" one feels w records and VHS is simply a romanticized narcotic. Physical media changed bc of the demand to get rid of these scratches and skips. When one hates their present they tend to romanticize their past and the annoyances of then become the "warm fuzzies" of now. Like when he talked about MLK and how hated he was when he was alive and almost overnight, post assassination, he became a warm fuzzy image of unity to be commoditsized.

@trashygit

Жыл бұрын

@@shaunkerr8721 There is no qualitative difference between those who can only recall hate from past but nothing else and those who only focus the good things of the present and ignore the issues that surrounds the actual. Anybody can list numerous annoyances, difficulties, and even darkness of the past. Just like any other era, the past is not immune from bad things. But these will not change the better aspects either. And past's annoyances have capacity to remind past's good moments since they all belong to the same period. So one can look at the annoyance of the past and remember the good moments, but one can look at the benefits of the present and remember the difficulties. Moreover, the past, especially the childhood, represents a unique period for one's life: It is the irreplaceable time we experience the world the first time; we build our dimension of taste, perspective, meaning, or simply existence through the objects, events, and emotions of the past. Whatever it is, or rather it 'was', the past is one's ground; no one can decide the time of his or her existence and no one has the luxury of changing it.

"It takes more courage to be a pimp than a politician, in many ways. Though, in other ways, the jobs are quite similar."

I find it interesting how game of thrones is drawing on motivations from feudal times but leaves out completely the dynamic between the public/the masses vs. the monarch. it's only a game between kings and not a game of pleasing the masses or controlling the masses in particular ways. there are some variants of it in terms of religious movements, but thats just the discursive object of secularism speaking. one can claim that entertainment like this is thoroughly ingrained in the normalization of power. sprinkle with a tease of sex and you have the perfect commodity.

@bad_metaphor

2 жыл бұрын

Nice response. I realize this is a few years after your comment, but you should make a video about it.

VERY well done. an excellent nuanced insight into Nietzsche. this is so much better than even courses Ive taken at Yale on Nietzsche. thank you for upload.

Fantastic lecturer , so enjoyable listening to his opinions with that glorious accent.

10:20 It takes more courage to live under a bridge than to create your own business and successfully operate it. I understand, after watching 12+ hours of Rick, why he always chose to slight "the right". Despite his very obvious left bias, I have always enjoyed his perspectives.

I live in El Paso Texas and took many philosophy courses at utep and this professor is free of charge !!! Sophist waiving the fee.nice.

I was in the bank the other day when a lady asked me to check her balance so i pushed her over.

45:52 *Difficulty of locating the other in oneself* “Ok a little biblical scholarship here. _Easy to find the mote in your brothers eye, difficult to see the one in your own._ Very difficult. So this account of power reminds us that the totalitarian is not the _other..._ sometimes we meet the enemy and it’s us.”

@pikiwiki

3 жыл бұрын

pogo

@nightoftheworld

3 жыл бұрын

@@pikiwiki what’s this mean

@pikiwiki

3 жыл бұрын

@@nightoftheworld we have met the enemy and it is us

@nightoftheworld

3 жыл бұрын

@@pikiwiki indeed. Do you know of Lacan or Zizek?

Wonderful lecturer.He makes learning enjoyable.

His comment about American intellectuals swooning over the British intellectuals due to their accent is so true haha🤣 Great lecture, I wonder what he would think about our current world if he was still alive. .

45:35 “What I would like for us to recognize is that we are totalitarians as well.”

Great lecture but sad to see he mentioned the old horse story myth.

this is a very smart man. worth of discussing Nietzsche

I admire Rick Roderick, a truly fantastic lecturer!

Good lecture thanks for sharing.

Very interesting. I am grateful.

This man’s brilliant

22:43 in fact. The church handed them over to the civil authorities for execution. The judiciary and the executive were separate. They were given every chance to relent. The Protestants operated under different rules.

F'ing incredible lecture.

Just imagine what Foucault would have said about social media.

I like Rick Rodericks' Humanistic Insight wheres seeing the Subtlties of the Micrologica esence of Humanity, as well as the Economomist views of the Macrological Death as a process in process.

It's amazing how prescient Rick was in his assessment. Borderline prophecy.

@enlightenedturtle9507

2 жыл бұрын

C'mon

notes: 18:47 relationality wTp

42:02 dat knock on wood.

and i need to learn where the keys on my keyboard are

Is "micrological power" a term that we first see in Foucault's work?

@dustiny.334

9 жыл бұрын

***** it would have be the other way around as nietzsche came before foucault. but foucault was really influenced by nietzsche.

@nickeisele6

6 жыл бұрын

Not that I can remember. I think the term Roderick refers to here is actually "micropolitical." Earliest usage I can find is from the World Politics journal 1961. Did Roderick invent this term? I'm using it either way!

@WhatTheThunderSaid3

4 жыл бұрын

@@nickeisele6 probably a reference to Delueze and Guattari's analysis of capitalism, also influenced by Nietzsche

@scioarete7987

4 жыл бұрын

@@WhatTheThunderSaid3 nice user name

glorious

I came from a video analysis on the evil of Max Cady and the man explaining it all has a southern accent which is scarily close to de Niros southern accent lol

20:00

because he thought j s mills was a blockhead :DDDDD hahahah so blunt!!

Woahhh!!!

I'm not here to gather political justifications for absurd arguments. I'm here as an eternal soul. I am everything and I am nothing but I am here.

How do you assest validity of philosophy? will it be according to its success and longevity? If Facism won in the WWII will that prove validity?

This guy looks like he is in space

we need more intellectuals lick this in our business, production oriented universities!

I thought this lecture, unlike many of Rodericks,' was wanting in lucidity of presentation. Too much digression, not enough 'pith.

@potowogreedo

7 жыл бұрын

That's a valid perspective for sure, but I felt differently (and enjoyed the learning experience) after seeing it as demonstrating the living practice, rather than a distanced description of the features of the practice.

@joygillmoriah2562

7 жыл бұрын

agreed tethys, it's the delivery that helps me return to itover time and helps it's message some times with this lecture series I do feel he could have gone deeper ut that may just be because there's even more material now to digest using this perspective

@potowogreedo

7 жыл бұрын

"there's even more material now to digest using this perspective" You can say that again... Though I don't think we have time for such 'frivolities' any more. The abstraction of 'nation states' doesn't seem to be conducive to keeping the ecology ticking over... I'm fairly convinced we're already far down a path of no return.

lol

We are the enemy

Professor will you address the current victory of slave morality

@christopherhamilton3621

15 күн бұрын

😂

yeah he's too less content and too much entertainment. There could've been said more about the actual topic but I think he wanted to bring his point , which he did. bluarrrrgh blaaa

His "subtle & evenhanded" politics get real old, real fast. Did the term "virtue signalling" even exist back then?

@kidkangaroo5213

5 жыл бұрын

So you're attacking his left leaning politics simply because they're left? Wouldn't it be better to debunk the "left" points he's making rather than go "oh boohoo, man has different opinion than me". Tell me, would you write the same comment, if he made arguments for the right in the same fashion?

@mapleglazedsocialist6995

5 жыл бұрын

@Thomas S In classic right wing turd fashion you slander a reputable intellectual of philosophy about his philosophically driven views of politics. Instead of engaging his ideas you hand wave them with no argument at all other than the suggestion that Roderick was merely “virtue signalling”. You must be one of those new age “critical thinkers” haha

@alexey5481

5 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't you rather him be overt, as he is, in his biases rather than 'propagandize' behind a façade of neutrality? When he's up front you can be a "resistant reader," so to speak.

@JackM12345100

4 жыл бұрын

@@mapleglazedsocialist6995 It's funny to me how you do exactly what you criticize in your comment. Notice your use of the word "turd" to describe the "right wing" and your ad hominem description of Roderick as a "reputable intellectual". It's hard to know what the Left lacks more, self-awareness or honesty.

@JackM12345100

4 жыл бұрын

@@nightoftheworld How is it ad hominem if he is criticizing the words coming out of his mouth?