Charlatanism thread on Twitter: x.com/VladVexler/status/1786469114657075501 Vlad's main channel kzread.infovideos Support Vlad's work on Patreon! www.patreon.com/vladvexler Support Vlad via PayPal www.paypal.com/paypalme/vladvexler?country.x=GB&locale.x=en_GB 00:00 What we are here for 05:18 charlatanism among intellectuals 16:50 Dugin's views and the Carlson interview 25:39 Dugin's fascist attributes

@rndompersn3426

29 күн бұрын

Is Zizek a charlatan?

@rofferuff489

29 күн бұрын

@vladvexlerchat you are pure gold and a gem with your analyze. Love everything you do. ❤

@user-nl6zv6hz6x

29 күн бұрын

Is Vlad Vexler a charlatan?

@user-nl6zv6hz6x

29 күн бұрын

Does the author consider himself a charlatan?

@AstroGremlinAmerican

29 күн бұрын

I've been masquerading as an intellectual for years. But it takes a lot of reading and listening.

The USA has gone from Gore Vidal debating William F Buckley on prime time TV to Tucker Carlson…🤦‍♂️

@Hawk006

29 күн бұрын

That’s a really low bar !

@CombatMosquitoTrainer

28 күн бұрын

From JFK and NASA putting man on the moon to trump and space force..

@thomaswilburn6263

28 күн бұрын

@@CombatMosquitoTrainer the american system protects and feeds billions. we do a lot.

@CombatMosquitoTrainer

28 күн бұрын

@thomaswilburn6263 For sure, that's why it's sad to see you guys fall so far with bush jr, trump, and Roe v Wade. To your credit is your Ukraine aid, you guys really stepped up there.

@JingleJangleJam

28 күн бұрын

@@thomaswilburn6263 The american system has made many millions suffer social trauma, unemployment and stigmatization for not making it in the highly competitive and highly unequal American economic capitalism.

This podcast should have 1M subs

@VladVexlerChat

29 күн бұрын

Very kind.

@MrParlam

28 күн бұрын

It won't. Vlad is not a philosopher, he's a propaganda soldier, paid or not by Soros like organisations.

@ralphvandereb66

28 күн бұрын

Rubbish the opposite is true as it mostly is these days, le Monde alenvers

@user-wj6dt5bq3w

28 күн бұрын

Hardly. He’s obviously just a Russian origin grifter using the West’s hatred of Putin to make money telling you what you want to hear.

@MrParlam

27 күн бұрын

Vlad removes inconvenient comments. He's evil

“Intellectual” and Tucker Carlson shouldn't be mentioned in the same paragraph.

@EEX97623

29 күн бұрын

He’s a standard American monied confidence trickster, with inflated opinion of self.

@dmitripuzyrev4413

28 күн бұрын

By the way, wanted to ask an American: is Carlson still popular after being ousted from FoxNews? I always had the impression that FoxNews kinda made Tucker Carlson and not the opposite way

@suzannstrohmaier2578

28 күн бұрын

​@dmitripuzyrev4413 I think he is less popular or at least less talked about...Fox did give him a good platform and I feel his influence declined. In general, Americans don't follow the Russia/Ukraine war nearly as much as the Palestine/Israel conflict. The comment section under Tucker's Dugin interview was filled with praise for Putin and his traditional values....hmmm I also consider open critique of government a traditional value. 😅

@neelakan678

27 күн бұрын

If you think Biden is intellectual I have a farm to sell you. Center left not Faaaaar Left.

@alchemist_x79

27 күн бұрын

If you think a corporatist, establishment Dem like JOE FIRGGIN' BIDEN is... checks notes... "Faaaaar Left", then someone probably sold that farm to you in the first place, and you're trying to dump it off on someone else. It's a testament to how far the Overton window has shifted in the US that real, actual people with a functioning nervous system and a pulse have been suckered into believing anyone to the left of hunting the homeless for sport is a "Faaaaar Left" DSA plant. PS: Last I checked nobody in this convo were accusing Biden of being an intellectual, or, in fact, was his name even mentioned. We were talking about known imbecile, and provocateur Tucker Carlson, who, if you think he IS an intellectual, then I question your sincerity Re: someone being center left, and in fact would LOVE to sell you a farm of my own.

"Unfortunately had to watch"! Well done! I managed two minutes before nausea overpowered me.

@leohorishny9561

28 күн бұрын

Agree with this sentiment.

@yyyy12344

28 күн бұрын

How are you able to gather information

@ivanzubov317

27 күн бұрын

Interview itself is a big nothing-burger. Comment section on the other hand is scariest thing I have seen in years. All this people are real, they live among us

@ukopia7743

26 күн бұрын

@@yyyy12344 by following intelligent posts and not idiots and propagandists, duh!

"...when you substitute obscurity for clarity to give a pretence of depth" - this is something I've been frightened of in my paintings for many years and a poignant statement.

@VladVexlerChat

29 күн бұрын

In my time consulting with artists - I still, albeit very rarely, do artistic development work with professional artists - the biggest problem I ran into was an artist confusing the thing itself with the idea of the thing. So, for instance - an image carrying the idea of tactility rather than expressing tactility. It is globally the no 1 creative problem in the art world!

@markusleboschka6878

29 күн бұрын

The same principle applies to scientists - there are those who do the job properly and explain their findings in ways normal people can understand by breaking it down to everyday phenomena, and those who self-aggrandize by using unnecessary complex language for the purpose of clouding the knowledge from others.

@dawnneander9999

29 күн бұрын

@@markusleboschka6878 years ago I watched an artist being interviewed and he was basically informed by the interviewer the deep meaning of why he used the color blue... He just replied "I used it because I liked it" : )). I never forgot his simple answer to an unnecessarily complex question.

@fjbz3737

29 күн бұрын

@@VladVexlerChatIt’s akin to the way religion and religious imagery becoming interchangeable with ‘good values’ rather than just symbolizing them

@markusleboschka6878

29 күн бұрын

@@dawnneander9999 It think for Art that is exactly the right answer. Scientists try to be objective, so we have to come up with neutral, independent measurements and stuff.

I'm a relatively new listener, and i just wanted to say thank you! What a breath of fresh air to listen to someone who models such beautiful ways to disagree and discuss. It's like a refreshing, cleansing shower for my brain. Thank you so much for these discussions !

@karentorkar8256

28 күн бұрын

You could add "Inside Russia" to your listening. Konstantin will enhance your consciousness.

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” (Voltaire) ... with absurdities being one potential product of intellectual charlatanism.

I just recently bought 80€ worth of my favorite pencil. They're discontinuing them. Will stock up a lifetime supply.

@billy2807

26 күн бұрын

I am currently crafting a comment, designed to extract a pencil recommendation from Vlad. I want to be subtle, but funny. Like, maybe I'll describe my intentions in a spuriously naive way in response to another pencil-related comment, pretending not to notice the fact that Vlad has already liked the comment and will, therefore, likely see my reply. He will then provide a pencil recommendation in order to preempt me in an entertaining way, when in reality, he will have simply fallen into my cleverly-lain trap. Something like that.

@chepulis

26 күн бұрын

@@billy2807 I bit you good luck in your heroic quest for a pencil

I always click on the 'like' button before I even start watching Vlad's videos, because I know from experience that they are going to be well worth it.

@VladVexlerChat

29 күн бұрын

So much appreciation as always.

@papertroll1

29 күн бұрын

AYEE same same, Vlad is awesome! :)

@JB-mb1qf

28 күн бұрын

..same:)❤

@Andy-zu3tv

28 күн бұрын

Is it worth considering why Tucker Carlson is popular.

@richardoldfield6714

28 күн бұрын

@@Andy-zu3tv Yes, It's always good to understand why political opponents have support.

Pencils are a gateway drug.

@_amalfitano

29 күн бұрын

To what? Fountain pens? Help.

@joshadams8761

29 күн бұрын

@@_amalfitano Mechanical pencils.

@Shifter-1040ST

28 күн бұрын

Then someday you'll get to the hard stuff: sharpies. Then you'll be beyond help.

Dear Mr. Vexler, I just checked into your main channel and saw nothing new there. Then I found this video and was relieved to see you're doing OK. Thank you for the great work you're doing.

@SlpBeauty333

29 күн бұрын

He posts almost daily on the "Community" tab especially due to his health not being steady. It's like NORAD but for Our Vlad. Lots of love from NYC ❤️

"Charlatan" is such a great word that gets used in Russian way more than in English. It's such a good description of many people that actively make things happen in Russia.

@AstroGremlinAmerican

29 күн бұрын

I also like "mountebank" and "grifter" but Russian lacks so many good words from French and English.

@user-nl6zv6hz6x

29 күн бұрын

@@AstroGremlinAmerican Charlatan is a borrowed word.

@EEX97623

29 күн бұрын

⁠@@user-nl6zv6hz6xEnglish borrowed from French, with Italian origins, yes. But, Mr Gremlin said “French and English”…

@DJWESG1

28 күн бұрын

We have torys too. Pink Floyd wrote a song about them 'big man, pig man, haha, charade you are...

@dmitripuzyrev4413

28 күн бұрын

​​​@@AstroGremlinAmerican isn't the "grifter" word have a different meaning more close to "parasitism"? Like when you advocate for consensus good cause but care only for your personal gain? Eg. cheering for Ukraine while making populist uninformed analysis is usually called grifting by Vlad

Dugin used to self identify as fascist in the 90s, he hasn't changed much in that regard.

@TobiasC-mg4zk

25 күн бұрын

Dugin was a part of the Black Order of the SS. He was also a disciple of Aleister Crowley! There are extant KZread videos of him reading Crowley’s poetry on stage at drama productions that featured multiple spinning Jesus figures tied to windmill crucifixes. I wonder how this clown can square his devotion to the Megatherion or Great Beast 666 with his purported Christian orthodoxy?

reading Dugin for around 20 years, I can only conclude that Duginism is basically "fascism with Russian characteristics". That is, strong vibes of Russian orthodox Christianity mysticism and lunacy

@suzannstrohmaier2578

28 күн бұрын

The main point I disagreed with was Protestantism, Protestantism was a wonderful improvement, the Catholic Church was robbing the peasants and not even letting them read the Bible in their native language. Yes we have lots of division in Christianity...but the basics are the same. Individualism is also good..that's how our American society has developed so much...people leave home and take chances...including all the immigrants that have done the same since the inception of our country...it's who we are. It can be lonely to leave home...but overall Individualism has helped make our country as powerful as it is.

@gangstadrz9326

6 күн бұрын

@@suzannstrohmaier2578 Glad you support colonialism.

It’s interesting that Dugin, unlike Putin, literally gave what Tucker’s audience potentially wanted to hear. This is probably the difference between a person with believe and an opportunist.

Hi Vlad, hope your health is going in the right direction... Lots of love!

@VladVexlerChat

29 күн бұрын

Lots of love!

Very much appreciated your condensation of the Fascist concept to a synthesis of romanticism/conservativism/regression/revanchism/appeal to those threatened by modernity riding upon nationalist populist rhetoric, awkwardly conjoined with a vague revolutionary aspiration, the details of which to be revealed later, leaving all in the hands of the state. That seems a fairly comprehensive definition, certainly describes what we've seen so far from the last century of history, can well imagine of Russia in the making.

@technokicksyourass

27 күн бұрын

His definition is pretty weak.. in fact yours is a little (although not much) better as you recognize national identity is part of Fascism (Vlad did not). By his definition, Jihadists/Palestinaians are facist, and would be put in the same class as working-class populists (also Fascist apparently). Fascism used to be very well defined... but over the years it's been used as a label for "political views I don't think are acceptable". I think this is sadly the case here. Fascism used to mean Statism that prioritizes the states good over individual rights, ie: the Mussolini version of it. Working class populist movements are most certainly not in favor of increasing the states power over individuals! Conservatives are generally opposed to increasing state power also. I don't know or care for Dugan in the slightest.. but it seems like Vlad has to use the "modern definition" of "fascim" to label him a "fascist." Personally.. I don't think this helps the conversation much.

At about 23:00, Vlad says that Dugan claims that woke-ism is a kind of hyperliberalism. And these are Vlad’s words, not Dugins. However, Dugin specifically did talk about Wokeism in response to Carlson mentioning that he felt that he is a “classical Liberal”.

In the 1980s, Dugin recorded music and published it under the pseudonym “Hans Zivers”. Zivers refers to Wolfram Sievers, a German Nazi of the worst kind. Among other things, he was hanged for human experimentation in 1948. Sievers was head of the SS Ahnenerbe, whose director was Himmler. SS Ahnenerbe was an extensive organization that dealt with research into the origins of the Germanic race and served to spread Nazi ideology. In addition to human experimentation on Jews, the Ahnenerbe also initiated art trafficking. All this was already known in the 80s. Dugin deliberately chose his role model. This is the guy Carlson interviewed and American listeners actually applauded. Disgusting. Some ppl really call this disguised fascist seriously a “philosopher”. As a German, all I read in his publications is a mishmash of various other sick far-right ideological outpourings that he has somewhat tailored to Russia.

@markusleboschka6878

29 күн бұрын

I also think that Dugin is beyond mere fascism, his ramblings on 'Ukrainian Race that needs to be wiped out' is 'National 'Socialist talk. A craziness even more dangerous than ideas of Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile. To my knowledge 'fascism did give everyone the chance to be oppressed, or reducated, or 'killed, while 'National 'Socialism, which is an euphemism for 'Racist 'Socialism had people 'wiped out just due to the accident of their birth.

@MarshaG1312

29 күн бұрын

I was thinking about the Nazi Dietrich Eckart, as well.

@user-nl6zv6hz6x

29 күн бұрын

Where did you get this information from?

@nobbynobbs8182

29 күн бұрын

Dugin is on good terms with the KKK as well

@julilab

28 күн бұрын

@@user-nl6zv6hz6x Start with Wikipedia and google. You´ll find tons of informations on Dugin as well as on Ahnenerbe.

Great video, but I would love to hear more of your thoughts specifically centred on the phenomenon of a Russian intellectual charlatan being interviewed by an American political-entertainer-charlatan and what that signifies for our political culture. You dealt with Dugin here, but not really on the Carlson interview, and I would be very interested in your take on that as a phenomenon in itself. I am still a bit mystified as to what kind of audience there is out there for an encounter between these two particular con artists.

@user-nl6zv6hz6x

29 күн бұрын

Dugin, as in the case of Russian society, simply used all the hot topics of conservatives, pure opportunism. Such a simple and short interview will get a lot of response.

Hheeeeelloooo community!!!! Fun words from the master xx

@VladVexlerChat

29 күн бұрын

Khi!

@dawnneander9999

29 күн бұрын

@@VladVexlerChat Kha, Kha, Kha : ))

How can you return from such bad health with such a video? One day you have to tell us your secrets. Good to see you’re back. 🧡

@braydeny

29 күн бұрын

He's doing it for us. ❤

@VladVexlerChat

29 күн бұрын

There's a few moments here when I am just trying to keep coming out, any words!!

@SlpBeauty333

29 күн бұрын

He's owed us that "I meditated every day for two years" video for ages now. I suspect that's part of Vlad's Secret. How else could a mere mortal watch that much of Tucker Carlson and live to tell about it! Lots of love from NYC, film noir department 🖤❤

I was so upset when I saw a lot of positive comments under Dugin's interview video. How can people be so trustful😢

@barracuda6900

28 күн бұрын

You see that with every video like that, especially those that Tucker fronts. They are people who are essentially locked in their own echo chamber, to an insane degree. Or they're just trying to fit into their group, and say what they need to say to do that. Or they are bots.

@suzannstrohmaier2578

28 күн бұрын

​@barracuda6900 Also traditionalists that liked having their views reinforced....also saw lots of comments praising Putin...they don't look at the full picture and see how all the suffering in Ukraine and also for the suffering of the Russian soldiers and their families.

It is hard to fathom how Russia can still produce characters such as Dugin , who reminds one of a villain from some 19th century novel . On Tucker Carlson ; saw him( on TV) following Trump to the stage at a rally a few months ago . Carlson , with mouth agape, seemed to revel in the occasion, with the crowd wildly cheering and applauding Trump as he entered the venue ... Carlson reminded me of one of those side show clown heads with open mouth , moving left to right waiting for someone to drop a ping ping ball into . Well done Vlad for painting a clearer picture on Dugins character and thinking . Have heard and read enough of that bent mans twisted ramblings ... Anyway listened to this video to the end , no need to hear anymore about those two loathsome men . 🇺🇦🇦🇺

Was hoping you are doing well Vlad. Nice to see a video. Be well my friend.

@VladVexlerChat

29 күн бұрын

🌻

Great to see you Vlad 😁. Take it easy Bud 🔱

@VladVexlerChat

29 күн бұрын

You too!!

I think Carlson really shot himself in the foot with the Putin interview. So much to the extent I had no idea until just now he has also interviewed Dugin. Is he trying to be a higher paid version of Scott Ritter or Colonel McGregor?

@EEX97623

29 күн бұрын

Somewhere between Ritter, Lancaster, and MTG.

You must speak with your enemy, otherwise you can’t destroy him.

Buying pencils is never excessive 🙂

@rachelatwood9555

29 күн бұрын

think of the trees!

@poni.77

29 күн бұрын

@@rachelatwood9555 No worries, I use mechanical pencils. I buy pencil leads.

Great to see you! Haha excessive pencils... I actually cleaned out my collection a few years ago, only to have my dad decide I needed his immediately afterwards. I have yet to find a mechanical pencil that I'm truly impressed with though.

@VladVexlerChat

29 күн бұрын

My pencil condition had two phases - the second was only mechanical. But they needed to be a bit industrial or mid century.

@Acekorv

29 күн бұрын

Ballograf are nice pencils.

@VladVexlerChat

29 күн бұрын

@@Acekorv Thank you, never had one of those!

@AstroGremlinAmerican

29 күн бұрын

I got a bunch of nice U.S. Government mechanical pencils at a garage sale, obviously stolen.

Valuable insights from an educated man.

1) The reason why Dugin sees liberalism as a threat is because, well, many people before him saw democracy as a threat and liberalism is an extreme form of that. The main arguments there are: a - people are often led by emotions, b - most people are silly and uninterested (kinda like a topic to talk about a week before elections), c - because in democratic system a vote from a country's best intellectual would equal to one of a drunk. Combine those three and you get an Austrian artist leading the country because for just a moment he had the popularity and knew what people wanted (it was mentioned by Dugin, I believe, but the idea dates back to Plato). 2) Fascism is a thing... that cannot really be defined. It's a mutant of a regime that hardly can differ from regular dictatorship, authoritarianism, communism or a monarchy. Depending on how you perceive things, if you were to use that 7 famous sides of fascism, you can easily fit them into literally any country on earth right now. People might say that fascism is an ultimate form of capitalism, but in the same time, if you look from a perspective of state being a massive monopolistic company, wouldn't communism fit the description? Or do we simply view any form of strong central government as fascism? I don't know if Dugin favors or promotes fascism since I have better things to do than to read his books (the Tucker's interview only confirmed my view of him being a populist jester), but either way, let him just be. If the extreme ideals are becoming popular then you just know that something is really wrong with the world we're living in and it is better to actually know what you're dealing with than to wait when sht is just about to hit the fan. The natural development of a society ultimately leads to the golden age which lasts for some time and then, hopefully, skips the phase of despotism when the cycle resets. Interfering with that cycle often leads to a catastrophe. In the end, people themselves are choosing the system they're living in. If the system is good - it doesn't need protection and cannot be corroded by ideas like Dugin's easily. But if it is something that currently in the US... well, you might prolong it's longevity, but you might also cause the fall will be much more painful than it should be. I was asking some friends from the US who are they supporting, but the answers were a bit unexpected - it was about NOT supporting someone (I don't like Trump so I vote Biden and vice versa). That is not a healthy system to have. The democracy isn't about letting people to choose from something we like and approve. It is also opinions we're despising too - even though I find communism disgusting, I wouldn't ban its political parties even if I could. And even if I were to ban it, those people supporting the ideology would only become more organized and dangerous in exchange for having less supporters.

Hitler also was an occultist

Can't wait to listen to this. I was going to ask Vlad his thoughts on the Dugin interview. Will stop commenting now...at 40 seconds in!

Dugin critique is illogical. He starts with an anti-liberal critique that suggests liberation (from hyper-individualism), but concludes by endorsing a different, restrictive political liberty (classical liberalism) that reinscribes traditional forms of authority and control. For ex. He stipulates the centrality of gender identity, but denounces any personal gender choice as ‘new liberalism’ which he thinks is just ‘leftist’, which is apparently bad, who knew?! So it is not difference that bothers him, but the liberty to make a choice, which he wants to subject to traditional authority which allegedly saves humanity from individual liberty by restoring his version of traditional liberty which is ‘difference without choice’. Could we just call it hierarchy? So basically fascism.

@mon_ange333mony4

28 күн бұрын

He uses a lot of words in interviews with Western journalists in order to present a confusing veneer of a very profound philosophical thought which seems to go beyond a particular political ideology. But if you read one of his books in which he is far more concise and clear, you can notice that he's actually completely fascist.

@antonlevkovsky1667

28 күн бұрын

In the interview he didn't denounce anything, he simply outlined the trajectory of where things are going (post human world where humans are not necessary). Changing gender identity with choice may sound like fun but it only works within artificial social constructs. Those putinist societies have it in more practical way, so they'll just overrun you gender people like it happened in barbarians vs Rome historical period.

@alphaclam

27 күн бұрын

No, he is saying that choosing a different gender is seeking liberation from one's self. It is seeking liberation from reality. Your concept of liberty is entirely wrong, which is why you are reaching such wrong conclusions. Liberty is the ability to do what is right, not the ability to do whatever you want.

@Rnankn

27 күн бұрын

@@alphaclam Except no one can be without gender, and people who change their gender do it to become their true self. It is an affirmation of the self and of a gendered reality. Which is exactly in line with your definition of liberty. Maybe you don’t understand people’s motives? You’d have to actually talk to trans people to understand them though. Something Dugin clearly hasn’t done.

@Rnankn

27 күн бұрын

@@mon_ange333mony4 theres a lot of that around these days. And it’s seductive at first because liberalism is problematic, but making it worse is not the answer.

You are most articulate, thoughtful, sometimes over-the-top in a blue-bell ice cream rocky-road kinda way, and always someone I come back to for a large glorious dose of deep-dive. Keep up the goodness. (PS - I am jealous of your word-choices and deep-water insights).

@VladVexlerChat

29 күн бұрын

Thank you so much.

@michaelpayne9712

29 күн бұрын

​@@VladVexlerChat....being compared to "Blue-Bell ice cream" is the utmost highest praise one can get from a Texan...... I agree...

Fascism is enticing until it is used against you. Those that propose it with the best intentions always fall prey to the urge to start thinking they are invincible. We are human animals with a superiority complex that tells us we are so much smarter than our closest genetic relative even though we are 99.5 % similar. This inability to accurately assess our abilities is what allows all the strife,war,religions and inequities the World is constantly experiencing. We KNOW BETTER just not those that have the levers to enact change. Our best hope is-to go the Democratic route continually striving to help others. If we fail the world will continue to go on without us and the-next genetic trial will begin. The struggle continues...🤔

@BinaryMekhanika

26 күн бұрын

Continually striving to help others.. What do you mean by others? "Refugees"? "Migrants"? Foreigners from a completely different culture? Your own citizens?

@michaeldautel7568

25 күн бұрын

@@BinaryMekhanika the dictionary defines You as other. The Nazis defined Jews as others,the Confederate States defined blacks as others,the Republican party uses anyone as others like the opposite political party a catchall that every Rightwing fascist group also uses. To the point where America a Democratic Republic is denounced as not being a Democratically Elected Country! The Constitution states otherwise but Evangelical Religion Rightwing MAGA supporters are trying to shoehorn Religion into Government expressly against the FIRST AMENDMENT of the CONSTITUTION. We as Humans are just the latest iteration of Homosapiens hopefully not the last.

Maybe you should do a video on the politics of despair. Seems to be an idea in lots of these movements.

@VladVexlerChat

29 күн бұрын

The politics of doomism, I think I will get there!

I loved he referenced The Terminator movie as the oracle of the future.

The "Good Old Days Syndrome": a nostalgia for a better, vanished time which by definition never actually existed. For example, some people in the US have a "bad case of The Fifties".

I will follow along on this narrow path of liberalism for as long as necessary.

I have to strongly disagree with the idea that wokism is some sort of hyper-liberalism. If you look at the woke scholars and their works, you won't see them quoting liberal philosophers and basing their ideas on the liberal framework. In fact, you'll see them quoting neo-marxists, and openly and boldly reject liberalism as an oppressive system at worst, and an ineffective at best.

Nice to see you back, hope your health holds up for a long, long time. Edited "little Ng" back to intended "long". Glad you were able to interpret it :)

@VladVexlerChat

29 күн бұрын

Thank you so so much!

"substitute obscurity for clarity to give a pretense of depth"

@AstroGremlinAmerican

29 күн бұрын

A study of scientific journal articles and peer review showed that obscurity and obscurantist language was respected. This was years ago. I'm old.

@davidallison5204

28 күн бұрын

“…muddy the waters to make them look deeper.” was another way Vlad expressed this idea.

Maybe its just me, but I find the usage of the term 'unlovely' rather problematic in a philosophical and political context. At least it should be clear how it's definition is like when you are using it.

When listening to you speak and how you approach things and ideas I wish people had 1% of your thoughtfulness. Thank you for your great work.

Tucker is such a simple fool...😂😂😂😂

Dugin actually speeks poor Russian as well. Dugin is well known outside Russia, but not inside Russia. Why? Because the Rus state promotes him ans suppresses normal voices in Russia.

@kindlingking

28 күн бұрын

Russia promoting Dugin? Ukraine did that by murdering his daughter. Until then barely anyone talked about him.

I'm very happy to hear you finally talking about Jason Blakely's work. I hope you do get him on your channel at some point.

I congratulate the automatic subtitles for the term "The Crumblin". I wish though.

how much collaboration/overlap currently exists between Aleksandr Dugin and Steve Bannon, might we know? I see them as working towards a common greater societal endpoint, but play two very different roles in the project, itself

@_amalfitano

28 күн бұрын

Someone recommended me a podcast episode (I think it' Conspirituality episode #82) where they talk about Bannon's mysticism and I believe they discussed his interest in Dugin.

As always, quite interesting, thanks.

Thanks!

Just starting, thanks fer makin this

So, there is a lot in this video about Dugin that is not found in his interview with Carlson. In fact, the main substance of this video is not about the interview. It would be appreciated to make more mention of how you know all this about Dugin, ie what you’ve read of his/watched of his. There are some references to past videos of yours, but that’s not enough for you to form this whole image of him. What else have you read/watched of his?

"Lettuce, START !" I had to. ;)

Thank you, Vlad. Always interesting to hear you very sensible takes on such people as Dugin.

Dugin is the most dangerous form of Nut. A very clever Nut.

Thanks

I love you my friend, it’s nothing personal but the energy. Constant energy that at minimum does not regress us, as can be the norm, whatever a listeners decides to do with the energy or what they gleam contains limitless potential. And that is exhilarating.

Brilliant as always

Prof Vexler, I find my limitation in vocabulary to be a great obstacle to navigating between the clashing rocks of philosophical/political/psychological charlatanism and innovation. Could you please direct me to a good reading list to help me broaden my understanding of the terms of thought on these matters? I am newly retired and ready to read. Thank you.

@ruthojen

29 күн бұрын

OED

You seem to enjoy playing on your home field.Thanks for sharing your thoughts. 🤔 Hoping the spring brings you better health 🌻❤

I'd noticed that Dugin is into incomprehensible blather but I assumed that was just the influence of Martin Heidegger.

Michael Millerman has actually read Dugin. This video is too smug. Watch Millerman!!!

"Moving to a place where Dugan is waiting for them" ...hmmmm...as a visual person I come up with, quite literally, a cold dark room somewhere , where possibly history could be made. A place where all has already been said and it's just time to shake hands on the "deal". A place, a room where many of us had on envisioned Pregozhin was on his march to Moscow. Or maybe that room is just a common prison cell....

Thanks mate

I'm sorry you had to listen to that old looney.

Today’s lesson was a masterclass. Thank you.

You are one of my guides

@VladVexlerChat

29 күн бұрын

So long as it's with a small g we are good! And thank you so much!

that should be seen on all TV channels

Stabilo PointVisco is the best pen in the world.

Don't know why but my tired brain was expecting Astrid lindgrens On the roof Karlsson or the legendary Erik on the roof Carlsson.

That is what we're doing!

One of your clearest! Sending it to everyone. Thanks again

Thank you so much Vlad.

@VladVexlerChat

26 күн бұрын

My pleasure.

Дякую за відео, Влад.

My friend I am a woke as they come... But if I am wrong to be that... I would like to be informed about why I am wrong... Please 🙏 inform me why

@VladVexlerChat

29 күн бұрын

Being awake is amazing. Politically awake.

@SlpBeauty333

29 күн бұрын

Because "wokeism" is a tool that is being used for political gain to divide people. It's meant to make you more sensitive and inclusive. But it's being used to separate people instead.

@suzannstrohmaier2578

27 күн бұрын

@@SlpBeauty333 Yes, I think the initial idea of being woke was really good to bring about more inclusivity and empathy for others...which has very much grown and improved...but the problem is when identity politics are purposely used to stir up division and judgement.

@SlpBeauty333

27 күн бұрын

@@suzannstrohmaier2578 Yes I think the general idea is a good thing but it's gone too far. One NY lawmakers was "offended" by a painting of Jefferson because he owned slaves. I think they actually removed the painting. People forget to put things in historical context and that's a big problem too. This is so bizarre. I can't see my comment on this unless I look at the "thumbs up notification". Weird. Why is YT so weird?

@suzannstrohmaier2578

27 күн бұрын

@@SlpBeauty333 Vlad gave me moderator powers and every since I have had no problem with the comments. That seemed to fix the bug. But yeah I know it is frustrating when comments were disappearing...If I wrote a large comment I would copy it....so if it never appeared, I could just paste it. 😆

Where can I find the interview?

A pop thinker? *Cough* Peter Zeihan.

lolololololol In a debate, Dugin would eat you alive with your shoes on.

This is like watching grass grow. Get to the point

Thanks Vlad, I really enjoyed this talk. ❤

HEY Vlad :), came here just 2 give a like and say that you look pretty lively today which makes me RLY happy :). And YES we are trying 2 go forward in liberalism together! So happy you said it that way ^_^. Anw will watch full vid a bit later. And OFC THANK YOU!!

The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. We get it, Vlad. Carry on...

@VladVexlerChat

29 күн бұрын

Thank you so much Gerald!

In his book Fourth political theory Dugin openly denounces all forms of Nationalism or third theory as he calls it. Tucker openly hates "identify politics" in particularly white identify politics. Both of those camps call you, neoliberals, hateful authoritarians. What can I do but laugh at the absurdity? 😂

Difficult for me to imagine an apologist for a criminal and criminal activity as not being himself a criminal.

@mikeklein4949

26 күн бұрын

Define criminal is I suppose important. Can we assume that all of us humans, in unison, define certain things as criminal?

The distintion between a true coherent (!?) ideology, and just a collection of views and values isn’t that useful in everyday politics, viewed from the average person. Who for example doesn’t listen to a political science philosopher like you Vlad. Also there are no moral or political ideologies, that don’t have contradictions or/and unreasonable deductions. Oersonally I’m a social liberal in the classic British sense. I think market economy, personal liberties are core strivings, while at the same time not accepting unreasonably unequal distribution of wealth, leaving a lot of people poor and deprived, in spite of ample (economic) resources in society. This position however is a well known self conflicting position. Still it is usually considered a very ideological position. In a somewhat related manner, socialism can be described as comunism deprived of ideology. Finally, fascism or naziism may not actually depend on even a reasonably coherent ideology. The stuff has proved it self empirically to work like an ideology, however incoherent. It’s a psychological / socialpsychological and very emotional collection of values and attitudes. In large, the most reasonable explanation for this collection of motives to be mostly an anti-modern reaction.

It might be more useful to use the term "corporatist" or "consumerist" instead of "liberal" because in the USA "liberal" has a very different working definition. It cannot be used without confusing ppl. Most conservatives here are liberals by the techinal definition but they dont know it.

It's interesting that Dugin is concerned about transhumanism. It's not surprising at all, but it puts him in some interesting company: - Your typical left progressive who is very pro trans rights is also very concerned about transhumanism, or should be and will be once they become aware of it. From a practical point of view, we are talking about bioengineering, brain hacking, advanced pharmaceuticals, etc. Even though transhumanism would allow the ultimate, genuine expression of gender identity, in the form of a real, seamless, complete, biological transition of an adult human from one gender to another, actual transhumanism necessarily involves things left progressives are reflexively against. The only way to get transhumanism is for companies to make disruptive new technologies, which will destroy the livelihoods of people in unions, make the companies huge and rich and powerful, and generally tick all the boxes for a left progressive Public Enemy Number One. Also, transhumanism will be deployed in the following order: 1. people who would die without it and thus are willing to be test subjects; 2. people who would be completely disabled without it, see #1; 3. very very rich people. The first breakthrough transhuman product is likely to be either ending aging or mental superpowers, so the concentration of these two things among the ultra-rich makes transhumanism a non-starter for left progressives. Lots of middle-of-the-road people will vaguely object to transhumanism in the same way they worry that if they buy a BEV, they will run out of juice between school and soccer practice, but I'm guessing left progressives will have as strong an ideological reaction to it as Dugin. - AI doomers, most of whom are AI scientists and engineers, are concerned about transhumanism, because post-human AIs may wipe out humans. - Also, many AI doomers - again, primarily AI scientists and engineers - see transhumanism as the only way to save the human race, by enhancing humans enough that they're competitive with purely machine AIs. Famously, Elon Musk's company Neuralink is strategically headed toward enabling enhancement of humans to AI-peer levels using AI-powered brain extensions with ultra-high-bandwidth/low-latency connections to the biological human brain. The idea is, this would give "us", i.e. human civilization, access to the full benefits of AI, while mitigating the risks by leveragin the stability of the evolved human brain. Are we about to have another unholy alliance between extreme left and right, like we had in the 1980s with right-wing and feminist anti-porn crusaders, that resulted in "Save the Children" being the ultimate memetic superweapon? Are AI doomers going to be forced to decide whether to join this unholy alliance, or to roll the dice on a post-utopian Singularity? I'm going to stock up on microwave popcorn, that's for sure. Meanwhile, hardcore fascists, authoritarian nationalists, and religious zealots who are somehow smart enough to understand reality will ultimately embrace transhumanism because any transhuman political entity will crush non-transhuman entities. If your primary concern is lasting power for your ideology, that ideology needs to allow for transhumanism. It's a much more consequential arms race than nukes. You could argue that one possible totalitarian strategy is to prevent transhumanism, but since that tree is growing out of the fertile soil of the currently dominant liberal Capitalist democracies, that's a very bad bet. China controls a lot of the basic infrastructure, but absolutely can't and won't innovate in this space for fear of the CCP losing power. And they can't stop it entirely, just slow it down a bit by attacking Taiwan. For countries like Russia, it's either nuke everyone (including themselves) back to the Stone Age or get on the new bandwagon.

Thanks for your insights Vlad, as always an important & enlightening perspective.

@VladVexlerChat

29 күн бұрын

Thank you so much!

Спасибо!

Inevitably, people live in societies with institutions. Inevitably, people make some use of institutions in addressing moral questions. (Again, this is setting aside the glaringly obvious way in which everything human can be avoided, and probably will be eventually, simply by killing all humans through nuclear war.) What's contingent is the degree of involvement of institutions in choices that should be made through discourse and individual decision, and the nature of that involvement. Likewise, the separation between identity and substantive opinion can never be absolute. If someone relishes the prospect of innocent people suffering as retaliation for the previous suffering of other innocent people, that makes them a worse person than they would have been if they had been able to unambivalently desire a better resolution. When someone changes their mind about something specific, they're still basically the same person they were before -- but only basically, not absolutely. Every infinitesimal bit of transformation is infinitesimal, but it is a bit of transformation. It's better to have institutions that support people's self-transformation for the better, than to have institutions that distort people's identity for the worse. That doesn't get us all the way to justifying demands that university administrations take the right side in addressing the unnatural catastrophe in Gaza (whatever one takes that right side to be), or even particularly close. But I think the urge to make such demands has to at least be regarded as intelligible, and probably even as understandable.

Dear Vlad, you are thousend times sharper, quicker and brighter ( even when you are unwell:((( than anyone I ever heard!

Tuckyo Bloviator might as well move to Russia if he's so enamored by pootin and dugin - he and Steve Bannon can be roommates.

I like and agree with your use of "organic".

A concerning narrative I've observed among religious conservatives here in the US is that Putin is deemed the savior of the last Christian country, earning him sympathy and support for this reason. I would love to hear your thoughts about this. -- Best Regards

Who is defining "wokism"? If Dugin is defining wokism, is he ensuring the definition carries traits that are reprehensible to at least himself and perhaps everyone. The Wokists may define wokism differently and it seems to me that as they act accordingly, that's the only definition the rest of us need concern ourselves with. Dugin's definition may be completely irrelevant to the rest of us and perhaps even to him as an intellectual seeking truth.

Hi Vlad - Mr Dugin made the extraordinary claim that Western Liberalism has been on a very long "train" journey (several hundred-year journey with all manner of ups & downs)...He and other thinkers believe that we are approaching the final station or terminal station which he is referring to as "trans-humanism" where humans will have the option of integrating themselves with intelligent machines and AI...What are your thoughts?