Wes Cecil

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Popular Culture III: Time

Popular Culture III: Time

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  • @picassomicasso1
    @picassomicasso17 сағат бұрын

    Just tell us what he wrote not your opinions. These Americans man.

  • @juvenalhahne7750
    @juvenalhahne77509 сағат бұрын

    Passe ao largo, nao ha porque perder seu tempo aqui. Trata-se da vular arrogancia americana se metendo onde nao pode nem deve...

  • @julianholman7379
    @julianholman737912 сағат бұрын

    Peterson is the most irritable, petulant thinker I've ever encountered

  • @MuiguaFilm
    @MuiguaFilmКүн бұрын

    I appreciate this so much i regularly come back to listen over and over again. its like the add on effect of your favourite music that brings you to a happy place and you stand still in the moment just absorbing your environment. very grateful bro

  • @white.rose001
    @white.rose0012 күн бұрын

    What a beautiful lecture! Do you have a lecture or a passage or an article where he talks more about the influence of Zoroastrianism on Islam ?

  • @cheri238
    @cheri2385 күн бұрын

    Emanuel Kant, a philosopher of worldwide renown, was born in Konigsberg, East Prussia, on April 22, 1724, and died there on February 12, 1804, in the 80th year of his age. Kant's parents were poor but respectable, his father being a saddler and a strap maker. At the age of 18, he entered the University of Konigsberg as a student of theology, but he soon gave up that profession and apples himself to the studies very diligently to the study of mathematics and the physical sciences. After supporting himself in a number of years as a private teacher at Konigsberg, Kant was made a professor in the university and lectured there until his death. Although Kant was very fond of reading books of travel, he was never more than 40 miles of his town. He was very temperament in his habits, patience, and persistent in his work, and was much admired by his students and acquaintances. The object of a teacher he always declared was always to induce the habit of self- reflection in his pupils. While lecturing, it was custom to fix his eye on some student and judge by the face and eye that whether he understood or not. It is said on one occasion that the student he had been most accustomed thus, and he had lost a button from his coat, and that on this account, the philosopher was so disconcerted that he could not proceed with the lecture. Kant was the author of a large number of works, the most famous of his Critique of Pure Reason, his Critique of Practical Reason, and his Critique of Judgment. In his political views, Kant may be counted as one of the foremost of liberty and progress. In respect to religion, his supreme idea was that of duty and obligation, leaving little play to the room of feelings. "Whomever will tell me, " he was accustomed to say, "of good action undone, him I will thank to the last hour of my life." And in a short time before his death, he said to his friends: if I was sure of being called away this night, I could raise my hand to heaven and say God be praised." I still have a difficult time reading him. His mind flutters quickly with his unusual way of writing. Thank you, Professor Wes Cecil, for me listening to this lecture again. You make lectures fun.

  • @ongobongo8333
    @ongobongo83335 күн бұрын

    Global climate collapse could mean the end of all life on earth. We truly have no way to know just how bad it will be.

  • @mileskeller5244
    @mileskeller52445 күн бұрын

    I absolutely LOVE all your lectures. I am dying laughing at your summary of the iliad as "a bunch of sweaty guys stabbing each other with spears and whomever spears the other the best wins" 😅.

  • @eniopasalic
    @eniopasalic7 күн бұрын

    The question of being is solved when you realize that you cannot find yourself anywhere in space and time, and yet you undoubtedly know that you are. Thus, you are a timeless and formless being, which is a very good thing because it means you are indestructible and immortal.

  • @2bonk22
    @2bonk227 күн бұрын

    Hearing this his influence on the American founders is obvious.

  • @scoon2117
    @scoon21177 күн бұрын

    Long live Wes!!! Can you do a video on John Barth, specifically Giles Goat Boy

  • @klauda7346
    @klauda73469 күн бұрын

    You dont need bread, eat cake.

  • @cyberpunkworld
    @cyberpunkworld9 күн бұрын

    I think every "creator" borrows elements. The notion is then that of a "kitsch." :))

  • @BigShrdr
    @BigShrdr9 күн бұрын

    i can see a lot of cross referencing points with the teachings of OSHO. ...I wonder if Bhagwan ever read anything of Stirner

  • @cromdesign1
    @cromdesign111 күн бұрын

    What if ai hacks the human biology? Wires into the brains of humans using some kind of linguistic mechanics and makes them launch the nukes?

  • @LostSoulAscension
    @LostSoulAscension12 күн бұрын

    What I would have like to have maybe heard more incorporated in this discourse was a consideration of the laissez faire concepts of government that is widely recognized by libertarians, "hands off government." But more practically applied, a type of "minimum but necessary" presence of government on the basis of protecting human rights, and how that does infringe upon the idea of free market capitalism, but may not in many other ways. I think a living and breathing dynamic approach to this discussion is realizing that the amount of government in each facet of each industry can vary, some markets are potentially more free than others, for corrupt lobbyist reasons, or maybe for reasons that it's an emerging market. So I'd like to assess from there how government negatively and positively impacts things. We understand that capitalism in itself as a trade systen carries a certain level of social ordinance and social contract theory with in it. How does that extend into government and where is the grey area that we can establish how social contract of a free market tie into governmental forces. How can a government maintain a free market vibe without losing the government? And if such a means is possible, why does it seem that we see the opposite with our U.S. system where the power, greed and lobbying has corrupted political individuals, and why a free market dynamic might still be a relevant option in certain respects. At what point does the government stop serving it's intended purpose among the market place and seek capital gain which never reaches to benefit the population that the government supposedly is instated to take care of and represent the needs of the people? I don't think it's just as simple as free market means no government at all, and therefore it's impossible for it to exist especially considering recent events of 2008 and 2020. Regarding 2008, the government bailing out the corporations relied on JP morgan to buy out the bad assests of bear sterns, it turned out to be a loss for JP morgan. When Signature bank and Sillicon Valley bank collapsed in 2023, they also came to the rescue but didn't want any of the bad assets this time around. Maybe fair right? How can a government plead help from someone to take on a bad deal? Not sure, there's a lot of ethics going on there. But I don't think that the government has helped. Sillicon valley was not an FDIC insured bank, people had millions in that bank irresponsibly, yet the government/FED/FDIC bailed them out anyways, why? A number of people speculate insider corruption, and special interests. This is a good example of how does free market methods potentially create a more fiscally responsible economy and governmental system? I think this is a very serious question we need to consider.

  • @belalkhanfar3838
    @belalkhanfar383813 күн бұрын

    Dear Dr. - many of your precious videos are not grouped under suitable titles (e.g. the identity lectures). It will be great if you can do so when you have free time. Your work is amazing and greatly appreciated. Thank you

  • @SyIe12
    @SyIe1213 күн бұрын

    👍⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Thank you. Great Lecture !

  • @aarongallant4280
    @aarongallant428013 күн бұрын

    I want him to speak on the difference between his argument here and Pinker’s view that he critiques. I’m quite opposed to pinker yet I like this argument but they seem to be arguing a similar point.

  • @stellau3028
    @stellau302814 күн бұрын

    Terrible waste of time

  • @karachaffee3343
    @karachaffee334315 күн бұрын

    If you have ever seen a dog looking up at you while you eat a slice of pizza--the look in the dog's eyes cannot be misunderstood for anything but hope.

  • @burkeingraffia
    @burkeingraffia16 күн бұрын

    Your understanding of the Catholic Church, their creation of the university, why St Thomas was a Saint and what he did, and other details are very reductive and need a little more study.

  • @_catra
    @_catra16 күн бұрын

    35:50 This is exactly my case. When I was at university, I used to read my textbooks, but when I closed the book, I couldn't tell what I had been reading for so long. I didn't realize what was going on. Later I learned to understand books. The thing was that I couldn't make a picture in my head of what I was reading because I couldn't understand the words in my native language very well. They were scientific texts and it was very difficult for me to imagine the topics they were describing. Only after I started to understand the words and imagine them was I able to read my textbooks and scientific texts. After that I pounced on other textbooks, philosophy, political science, molecular biology and so on and now I can't stop! It's so interesting! And it feels like what I was reading up to that point I just couldn't digest and internalize, so it's like I only started learning something now when I'm in my 30s.

  • @johnhenton8172
    @johnhenton817217 күн бұрын

    Great lecture Wes. Erred badly when you said there's no evidence a badly managed debt will cause poverty, there's endless evidence in the third world. Also COVID destroyed supply chains so it proved that governments can't actually inflate away a supply crisis. I think you also missed some of the big particulars, the tax burden stayed high in Western countries, the Washington Consensus applied to the third world. Also please see the leaked Plutonomy Report, very insightful to the behind the curtain changes of neoliberalism.

  • @johnhenton8172
    @johnhenton817217 күн бұрын

    The stats on the number of people lifted out of poverty also has nothing to do with neoliberalism. If you remove China from the equation, more people became poorer. PNTR was not a neoliberal policy but a Cold War policy to build China up against the USSR. See the talks between Kissinger and Mao. Maybe you could say neoliberalism increased innovation, but this is dubious.

  • @robertclayton7493
    @robertclayton749317 күн бұрын

    Do you think that the fascination with plucking out "fact" or "realism" is a purely American thing? A 20th century science-focus thing? All of us being trapped in Hegel's mind for eternity? Some mixture of those or something else entirely? (Yes I get that this question is of that same nature... /shrug)

  • @e7m10
    @e7m1018 күн бұрын

    What a radiantly positive review of Sartre. Now talk about his and Beauvoir’s relations with young girls. Or maybe some of the pitfalls of their open-relationship and how Sartre was a cuck. There’s great information and entertainment on this channel but I find this man’s videos to be very biased and not forthcoming with the complex/ugly truth in most cases.

  • @RobCoghanable
    @RobCoghanable18 күн бұрын

    Sartre is such a bore, I actually read being and nothingness as a challenge to myself. An elaborate farce.

  • @DavidEdwards-tl9fn
    @DavidEdwards-tl9fn19 күн бұрын

    Thank you

  • @Syzygy_Bliss
    @Syzygy_Bliss20 күн бұрын

    For no reason at all, can we get a lecture on the ethics of protest and of wielding popular power in a democracy?

  • @karachaffee3343
    @karachaffee334320 күн бұрын

    Sometimes the problems of young men get writ large.

  • @blaketurner7989
    @blaketurner798922 күн бұрын

    "One of the most interesting things about McCarthys writing is his lack of women, and that leads to unrealistic world building." 😂 its a shame how limited the world view of literary critics is. You read about the world, but its always second hand accounts, and never lived experiences. Im a welder in texas, and have worked in west texas in construction and on oil rigs. Truth is, there just isnt any woman around. You can go six months straight without seeing a single one. Not misogyny, just a stone cold fact, and thats now. If you're a gang of scalp hunters traversing the deserts of west texas, in the 1800's. you cant exactly stop at a wendys and flirt with a cashier.😂 its a catch 22 (another book written with only men, because it takes place in an air force base during ww2...go figure) if a man writes a women's perspective hes a misogynist because he has no place speaking for women. And if he doesn't write about women hes a misogynist for not including women😂 damned if you do, damned if you dont... plus hes even said its not his place to talk on women because hes not one AND sutree and children of god both have female lead characters. So you literally couldnt be more wrong on every front, its honestly impressive. People self indulgently read books and they think it absolves themselves of being ignorant. Lmao id say pick up a book, but that clearly hasn't helped😅

  • @fronts3165
    @fronts316523 күн бұрын

    I thought of the second coming of Christ simile one second before you said it. 😂

  • @ongobongo8333
    @ongobongo833325 күн бұрын

    I love critical theory

  • @teporeliot
    @teporeliot28 күн бұрын

    What tripped Russel up was the set of all sets that don't contain themselves. This set is a paradoxical construct since it would contain itself if and only if it did not contain itself. If it contains itself, it can't contain itself; but if it doesn't contain itself, it must contain itself. This set torpedoed Russell's project.

  • @aikitechniques1187
    @aikitechniques118728 күн бұрын

    The comments about the lack of female characters are strange to me as I’ve only read three McCarthy novels: outer dark, the passenger and Stella Maris , but all three have central characters who are women. Outer dark has numerous women characters and depicts female society at many levels. The depictions of nature in OD are beautiful and very rich, not a wilderness in any sense. Finally , OD is expressly about community: various people trying to coalesce into groups of support. The two central characters in OD are constantly invited to join families and communities , but the tragedy is that they never do. Having said that, some good points made. I think McCarthy’s work basically lays bare the extreme violence and isolation that US life is based upon. It’s the existential ground for its being. I also find it interesting that McCarthy never seems to tackle issues around race in his work. Or does he do so in any of his other books?

  • @sebastiaosalgado1979
    @sebastiaosalgado197928 күн бұрын

    Excellent lecture!

  • @e7m10
    @e7m1028 күн бұрын

    Blood Meridian is about war, murder, violence, power, a critique and argument against reason, against the enlightenment… So many things. The war of nature and nature of war. Yes very male dominated themes and yes in a world of brute struggle women become commodities as history shows. So that is their place in the world of Blood Meridian. Also his descriptions of nature are beautiful but death and the primordial struggle through violence is all pervasive and ever present which is the true harsh reality of closeness to nature. And the gnostic themes questioning good & evil. Painting a picture that nature may itself be evil and that within us is this alien spark that drives us towards morality even against better judgement. Possibly even to our own detriment. Why do we even bother to love at all in a world so cruel. Is war God or is God moral? Free will vs determinism You missed so much and this lecture is just simplistically dismissive. Thanks for the video all the same.

  • @e7m10
    @e7m1028 күн бұрын

    This lecture is riddled with unfair mischaracterizations about McCarthy. The section about he wrote a “manly man’s world completely devoid of women” yes women are sidelined but you know what I respect a man who said he wasn’t going to write women because he wasn’t one and he didn’t understand them. I can respect that. There are of course plenty of women in all his novels. They just aren’t assigned this feminist girl boss level of importance and we don’t get to see what’s going on inside them but that’s all his characters. He’s more show don’t tell. Tons of other points in this essay I just don’t really see or agree with.

  • @ascendrio
    @ascendrio28 күн бұрын

    Now relevant more than ever.

  • @skeeterbodeen8326
    @skeeterbodeen832629 күн бұрын

    I’ve come back to this lecture often, thank u.

  • @EzraMerr
    @EzraMerr29 күн бұрын

    You really don't see how much of a socialist shithole USA has become. You did not mention that those politicians were those marxists students. Secodnly those majors have also been infiltrated by cultural marxism

  • @OceanRoadbyTonyBaker
    @OceanRoadbyTonyBaker29 күн бұрын

    This was excellent. Thank you. Reading John Williams' BUTCHER'S CROSSING presently.

  • @uncleobscurenobody8861
    @uncleobscurenobody8861Ай бұрын

    The lone individual at war with everyone around them in a wasteland of random violence- a world where men ruthlessly and without feeling use amd destroy everything that exists to profit themselves- and no amount of community or education can change it- sounds like the paranoid worldview that is projected by Fox News

  • @mionysus5374
    @mionysus5374Ай бұрын

    * McCarthy "isn't funny" ?? .... >>> ASAP; you need to read Suttree! FUNNIEST NOVEL EVER WITTEN.... even the ultra-dark and violent Blood Meridian has a few funny moments. McCarthy is very comical, don't ever depict him as some dry nightmare author only, that's DEAD wrong.

  • @nowhereman6019
    @nowhereman6019Ай бұрын

    I think that the reality that Cormac is presenting is that of the atomized individual within an aggressively expansionist, colonialist, and capitalist society. Within such a society, there is of course constant and seemingly meaningless violence and death occurring. Wars over land, genocides of indigenous peoples, dog-eat-dog competition between individuals to gain power and wealth. But again, because it's being presented from the perspective of an individual in this society, who is unable to gain a greater context of the world they find themselves in, it is natural for them to assume that this unnatural state of humanity and nature created by the material conditions of Manifest Destiny is natural. In particular, the view of nature as empty and hostile is a view informed by a worldview that sees nature as just a standing reserve of resources to be extracted and profited from, which is a view created by capitalism. During westward expansion, the Great Plains was simply seen as land for agriculture, territory to be divided up and sectioned off with barbed wire fence (which is possibly what the final section of Blood Meridian is showing). Bison were only seen as resources for leather, pests who would block trains, or as a strategic weakness of the Plains Indians. This hollowing out of nature, of viewing it only as a thing to be exploited, as something which is foreign and hostile, is a natural outcome of such a social and economic system. And the deeply individualistic and violent life of the characters? What is a better source of aggressive expansion and growth into a hostile and extractive world than the selfishly motivated individual who has no ties to community or society? The individual is more willing to fight for what little they have in this world, for their property and power, than the member of a society who has an entire community to fall back on. The West was built off of alienated individuals fighting and killing to expand the borders of America. Cormac's reality in his stories is that of the aggressively and painfully alone masculine tool of a society based exclusively on growth, their minds and actions shaped by its material conditions. In this world, there is nothing but a nihilistic struggle for power and domination, a bloody wheel turned by war and genocide. It is not nature in its totality, but only that which wills to power.

  • @Josh-et4ki
    @Josh-et4kiАй бұрын

    I don't think this guy has actually ready McCarthy. It's very, very strange to say that McCarthy's novels are a fantastical caricature of the American West just because they're written from the male POV. We're going to pretend that there weren't violent gangs comprised of exclusively men that terrorized the west? The Glanton Gang, The Danites, The Apache warriors, The Comanche Warriors, the Armendariz gang, hell even the US army to a large extent. If there were women in the glanton gang that would be much, much more ahistorical than what McCarthy did. In fact we have record of the ganton gang, and shocker, there weren't any women. You bring up that the mexican settlements in these lands had women. Yes, and blood meridian depicts those women and the brutalities that happened to them. That's in the book. You can read more about the actual history of the Chihuahaun region and the gangs of men that terrorized it (you know, actual history instead of the mere assertions Cecil presents in his video) here: digitalrepository.unm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2116&context=nmhr Also your assertion that you couldn't fill 10 pages of McCarthy's writing with women is a blatant lie. His last book was 208 pages of writing exclusively about a woman and from a woman's perspective. Another assertion you made, that the vast majority of McCarthies characters are unintelligent is another lie. Alicia Western. Bobby Western. The Judge. Anton Chigurh. Arthur Ownby. Cornelius Suttree. White from the sunset limited. Black from the sunset limited. The Counselor. William Gregg. All of these people are main characters and extremely intelligent.

  • @HoboGoblinCat
    @HoboGoblinCatАй бұрын

    This was a strange review to listen to because it sounds like you're lamenting the fact that Cormac MaCarthy didn't write Moby Dick.

  • @cyberpunkworld
    @cyberpunkworldАй бұрын

    Well, yes. Heidegger? Sartre, maybe?? Mostly Heidegger I'd think... :)

  • @silberlinie
    @silberlinieАй бұрын

    Keine Frauen. Was ist mit Katzen und Hunden? Es beschreibt auch das kommende Szenarium der Siedler auf dem Mond und Mars.

  • @jamesmartin4534
    @jamesmartin4534Ай бұрын

    You are correct that his work is overwhelmingly masculine, but Alicia Western has tons of dialogue in Stella Maris and The Passenger. Late career correction if you will.

  • @Josh-et4ki
    @Josh-et4kiАй бұрын

    Yeah it was strange to hear this guy say that you couldn't fill 10 pages of McCarthy writing about women when his entire last book is exclusively that