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I'm an Associate Professor of Great Books at St. Thomas University. My research focuses primarily on Shakespeare and early modern political thought.
I'm also the author of Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes: Dead Body Politics. (Link below)
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So, It is just the lack of crítical thinking, conviction or any capability of introspection?
After the Fukuyama quote about evaluation/recognition I couldn't stop thinking of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia S10E2 "The Gang Group Dates"... Dennis bitterly screaming "I'M A FIVE STAR MAN"
Our elite, our allys, our enemies domestic and abroad all used a decision in belief & a known fundamental feature to self sabatage almost that we held dear . Ppl online living out their whataboutism and nilhisms is not the problem it's in the most taught & fundamental order skill & perception management mind dope is a whataboutism & nilhisms population species intentionally avoiding strong identifiers on evidence. It is added extreme of skipping direct reproduction by measuring devine right blood in a nephew. Or harmons in 72 genders ,or the radical deductiveness of melonin in skin races as if hype split completely different species . It defines the city by its physical wall or its idealistic personal actors . Intentionally denying triangulated facts . Platonic macro micro sees 3 body problem where 1500s and this new age finds successful Lines of measure when followed in concert with nature itself.
1900s structuralism wartime platonic posterity brought the worst and internet is just sorting the division created in everything physicalism everything starts in Greece revisionist history curriculum praise men & myths granted liberal power to state and beaucracy 1945s Smith_mundt act pushed complexity upon likeminded word and context denied soul agency merged back spirit into everything dualistic umbrella ordering skill. Undermined English law sources, censorship of all things pragmatic common sense mosaic commandments triality of self individual liberalism triangulated judgment of thermodynamical systems in the world. We tuned generals into oligarchs to public private partnership abroad rebuild Europe, industrialize new nations drawing new borders. Transfered wealth to all marginalized groups leaving only criminals or extremists. All was charged upon native American family cells. From ww2 ,women's suffrage, to affirmative action. Even to accommodate mass discplament of Europeans who early 1900s didn't understand usa they cried this is to trinitarian or not nicean creed enough. Here we are in a mess where 1500s many refused a calling of a new paradigm way of life that dug out complexity so 1900s they all got to live and learn the hardway for themselves. 2024 are we going to hear this calling to clean up the platonic mess of etymological corruption of Their They're There Are we going to accept hamiltonian plagerized soul agency and corralated spirit into occelating feilds and waves If only as a general reality of a relational nature universe and history? Esoterica America is encoded it all X for the republic / frame or reference was never censored like Y praye logic by for thru = saved personal actors of lattus structure and body servitude reorientated renormalized reborn to mediate longitude and latitude Z by atoms individual liberal triality of self free will richard finneman logic or holy spirit mosaic commandments English law bottom up oreintation and direction of nature.
I’ve also noticed there’s a new form of Troll, a Trolls Troll, which I find myself in this version quite often. Scroll down for a troll to troll the troll. But doing this brings me nothing but anger, it’s just so hard not to respond to someone “being a prick” from my perspective.
Consolations of Divine Justice
Good Analysis.
The most compelling part is the enigmatic vanishing of the host...
It's also interesting how huge the differences are between the different social medias. On Instagram for example there's almost no twitter-like arguing and hate because the app is basically just posting photos and stories, with minimal public dialogue outside of group chats
All hail Edward De Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
As a keen mountain climber and reader? There's a concept in the former called 'type 2 fun'. The fun that doesn't feel fun at the time. It took me about 6 years and four attempts to get through Ullyses, for example. I ended up having to read it with a guide to each chapter open whilst I read that chapter. That novel made me feel so small and so ignorant at times. But I got through it, and more so I found myself loving those moments where everything started clicking into place. I love the novel now, but only because I spent months putting in the work. That said, there are other classics that I found deeply engaging and readable from the get go. Most Kafka, Crime & Punishment and As I lay Dying spring immediately to mind.
@@anthonyholroyd5359 Thanks for sharing. Apt comparison!
Read this: Determined, by Sapolsky
Thank you man excellent contribution... ❤❤❤
Cyberpunk 2077 is a perfect libral democracy.
What we know versus what is known, is infinitesimally small, what is known, till now( everything universal and within our conscience, all) versus what is to be known(undiscovered yet) is inconceivable, hence, the question arises, however much we try with our humanly possible capabilities, to understand the true reality, is beyond our imagination, so can one conclude, we can move from one allegory, or story to another, which light will show us the reality, remains a question.., this search method will always end up with the basic question one started with. Education is one objective, it's useful to achieve something to improve our situation, but philosophical guidance to see the end is unrealistic in itself. MN
Social media may be the most consequential creation of all time. Social media displays so much of our human nature, and I’m convinced we were not intended to have this much exposure to human nature. The internet gives people this “idea” that they can say what tf they want because it’s in the privacy of their homes. A lot of people use social media as a way to joke and be an asshole online. People are dealing with life and many people use something like social media as a way to handle their anger. In the end, I think the architects of social media have done a great job triggering so many negative things within us.
I think we continue to underestimate how much it impacts our lives and our politics. I think, because so much what happens on social media seems "unserious", we still don't take it seriously enough. It's hard to overestimate how much it has shaped our political and social landscape -- even interpersonal relationships!
Such an insightful and cogent argument. Thank you!
Thanks! I appreciate that. I don’t always feel very cogent, so that’s good to hear! 🤣
I'm so grateful you make these videos!
@@roseinthestorm18 Thank you! I’m really grateful people watch them.
"Revealed so much." 🌟🔍📖#Insight #RevealedTruth. The fusion of ancient and medieval texts with modern scenarios is truly awe-inspiring! "Truly, it is comforting to know that we have someone looking out for us and supporting us in our time of need."
Internet brings out true nature.
Absolutely! It's essential to challenge the idea of unnoticed conformity. Let's not take it for granted.
Nonsense most yt comments are wholesome vs Insta replies it's more of culture of the app.
I think the social contract theory is valid. It is contractual. The feminist scholar is also right, she highlights that we are all "projecting". A cognitive flaw. The nature of your relationship with state determines how it affects you by the self-fulfilling prophecy. You are right. the contract is determined the moment you agree to something. this can be seen in relationships. the way you act with a girl in the first 4-5 minutes determines if she will slot you as a BF, fuck-body, etc.
Most people forget, when evaluating Machiavelli's work, that he was writing circa 1500, in a society very different from ours. I'm sure that his advice in "The Prince" reflected the political realities of the era he lived in.
I know this video is 2 years old, but I hope you have fixed that ring light reflection on the pictures by the door. That is all.
@@fathertimegaming17 Got it under control now. Thanks! 😄
he totally missed it with one word: secrecy. without acknowledging how people rule governments and institutions through secrecy, without acknowledging how control is a very serious game, he's just part of the problem. he perpetuates his own brand of illusions.
How about Max Weber on the leap from Calvanism to Capitalism.
As if you would have the same intel as the man who runs the biggest social media site on earth
@@NaymitMayne I dunno bro, I’m pretty smart.
@@GreatBooksProf, you don’t have access to the same people and information. But you already know that before making the video
Great picks! 😊 For each of your 3 picks, I'd recommend reading next: 1. After reading Plato's Gorgias, read any of the other dialogues from Plato. A good affordable edition is Plato: Five Dialogues from Hackett Publishing. The 5 dialogues are Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, and Phaedo. The Grube translation is a good one, too. Otherwise Penguin Classics makes a book called The Last Days of Socrates which consists of 4 of the 5 dialogues (Meno is missing). 2. After reading Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, read After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre. It's hard to summarize this book but it's in part a history of the philosophy of ethics with a focus on virtue ethics and a call for Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics to be read and appreciated again today. But there's so much more in here including criticisms of other ethical theories. And regardless, most of us can identify with wanting to be good or better people, and that's what Aristotle and MacIntyre are fundamentally all about. 3. After reading Hobbes's Leviathan, read the old comic strip Calvin and Hobbes because we all need some humor and levity after Hobbes! Haha. Or at least read Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion which is actually a surprisingly easier read than probably expected by most since Calvin wrote for average people in his church. Although parts of it are polemical, which can't be helped since the entire 1500s was more or less a polemical age, nevertheless much of it is also surprisingly comforting to read since Calvin deals with such practical issues relevant to average people in general. It paints quite a different picture of Calvin than the stereotypes of Calvin today. Or if you want the darker timeline, then after reading Leviathan, consider Machiavelli's Prince. 😉
When I was 13 years old I have read Miserabilii by Victor Hugo for the first time.From that on, I felt in love with classics and read almost all of them during highschool and university. It’s all about that first book you read. :)
@@gradinaorganicatransilvania I agree! For me it was probably Lord of the Flies and The Chronicles of Narnia!
This is so helpful! Thank you for sharing!
There is a panopticon prison at Port Arthur penal colony in Tasmania.
“Subjects” are not “people” and “objects” are not “things” in Foucault’s system of thought, as you incorrectly stated at the start of this video. Foucault is using the language of existentialism in a social context, but he is using words like “subject” with fidelity to the sense in which the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre used the term. The subject is the separate self, or even more to the point, the illusion of the separate self. Foucault argues that subject-making institutions oppress us precisely to the degree that they indoctrinate us to accept the notion that each of us is reducible to an individual subject. At that scale, each individual subject by itself lacks the power to resist the objects or institutions that define each of us down to a single, isolated point. Against the existential threat posed by anonymous institutions and their seemingly vast resources, subjects relinquish their subjectivity, without so much as a single philosophical shot having been fired. And that’s how an individual is effectively oppressed by the state or the corporation. We volunteer for it, because we have been trained to be afraid of ghosts.
@@joyfulmindstudio Thanks. I appreciate you taking the time to write this out. I think people will find this helpful.
Does Foucault ever offer or consider alternatives? Genuine question.
So this applies now in Palestine right Prof?
Very nice exposition of this work by Foucault. I also found The Birth of the Clinic to be a real eye-opener. Have you a discussion of The Archaeology of Knowledge?
You keep saying Foucault is difficult to understand, but it seems to me that you don’t understand why we can find things “difficult” to understand. Let me ask you something, if I asked you about turnips (I’m being serious) what allows you to “understand” what I’m talking about?
So you might say, well, you’re being asked about what turnips are? So do you already have any data/experience on turnips ? If not do you have any data/experience on things that may bear close relations to a turnip? Another root vegetable perhaps? Do you know a root vegetable? Do you know how they taste or are cooked? The reason why Foucault (or anything for that matter) may be difficult for many to “understand” is because we don’t have enough reference points in our mind, ether to bring to life in our minds what is being talked about/references; We don’t have to always know about turnips, but it would help to at least know about root vegetables If we know neither We cannot understand what Foucault is going on about
Good vid. My feelings are that Foucault is correct and your own thoughts are incorrect. Allow me to elaborate. When we, the subjugated, operate, we operate from given assumptions that mostly have never been tested, I.e we operate within rules without them ever been proved. Most ppl don’t break laws, the small group that does and does so repeatedly may find what those laws are actually about ; the relationships between institutions and subjects and why and how those operate; there is power, a need to control something within those dynamics; Without that interplay you are merely dealing with the idea of power, and one does a poor job of understanding it without the interplay. Foucault is saying that we understand Power only in the interplay; the veil comes away when we resist in the relationship as it were; where we come face to face with the rule, the rule maker etc From afar, with and under all of our assumptions, we don’t really understand power for what it is. We assign an idea of it to institutions generally. But that idea doesn’t exist in a certain reality; meaning an institution isn’t a living real thing , it’s an idea. But in the interplay you see the motivations behind that idea, and that’s the attempt at power and subjugation of its subjects as it were. It’s not easy to explain. As you know. But I suspect you don’t fully dig Foucault, and I don’t mean to say that’s a shortcoming on your part. You simply haven’t rattled against our societal limits enough, which isn’t a bad thing in a way. Survival machines aren’t naturally inclined to hit repeatedly danger zones as it were.
This video isn’t really about tech billionaires like Marc Zuckerberg and their all-too-human desire to control an unknowable and scary future by assembling some resources that could prove handy in an emergency, then stowing them away in a special, remote hiding place, hoping that they will never have a good reason to pull those resources out of mothballs, because the doomsday they feared when they put them together never came. Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, Peter Thiel, and a significant number of other highly compensated chief executives from tech and other fields are constructing satellite command posts in remote areas of the planet because they know that their own business activities stand a good chance of creating the negative side effects that could lead to a complete breakdown of the natural, governmental, and social systems that allow eight billion people to live together today on the Earth, more or less peacefully. But rather than try to change their business activities to reduce the likelihood of global systems collapse, they’ve decided, in Zuckerberg’s words, to continue to “move fast and break things,” retreating to their fortresses of solitude in order to stay safe and keep running things, until the mobs finish destroying each other and the billionaire nerds can emerge from their lairs to build an entirely new civilization on the blank slate of post-doomsday Earth. There’s a lot of documentary evidence showing that this scenario is the one motivating the tech oligarchy to behave in ways that superficially resemble the behavior of “preppers” and other antisocial, paranoid groups. So it’s a shame that instead of working from the oligarch’s stated motives and justifications, you instead chose to pull out of this ball of string a thread leading to the conclusion that this rather odd way for tech executives to use their billions is actually evidence of their shared humanity, their relatedness to the rest of us. I guess you could say the same thing about Hitler’s Wolf’s Lair because, more than anything else, that’s what these bunkers resemble. But that comparison might have led you to a different conclusion: These luxury bunkers are evidence of a certain kind of relatedness, a kind that should make us all stop in our tracks and *really look* at what we are seeing. Before it’s too late.
Power feels fluid WHEN A SOCIETY IS THRIVING... Give that one a - scary - thought lol
So "Power" is almost like "Cold"... Cold doesn't exist, it's an absence of heat. Power doesn't exist, it's relative to groups you're discussing
I think that Foucault was pretty much spot on. No one gets it 100%, but guy nailed a lot of it
As a parent of a 4yr old that's really coming into her own as a person, every single day is full of power struggles! And I think it's important we stay firm to teach where lines are
The progress of history is brought through class struggle.
Not all crimes. The ruling is why we cant prosecute obama for bombing american civilians overseas without first an impeachment and conviction in the congress and senate. If a president pulls a gun and shoots someone they can be prosecuted without impeachment.
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In short: evil is like a weed that keeps coming back to invade the garden. Therefore, so long as evil exists, those who love good must likewise remain ever vigilant to keep and work the garden to uproot weeds and plant trees so the garden might flourish in the present and beyond.
@@pattube Nice analogy!
I needed this video, thanks prof! 🙌🏽🙌🏽
Happy to help!