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What a rude audience?...Well done John Laughland...
Liberalism agrees that people should be free and then proceeds to enslave them anyway.
Prof. Wole Soyinka is teaching!
So important view! We are so scared of what made us that we go around searching for other cultures symbols and cultures to explain what we are 🤣 he’s point is Real!
But Russia has been wanting to negotiate with the west and with Ukraine since the 1990s
Yup 👍❤❤❤❤
Slavoj Zizek's time perspective is apocalyptic. His attitude may differ from human psychology regarding attitudes to time perspectives in general. While human psychology is mechanical, Zizek's framework is wonderfully constructed if not by multiple synthesis; by a dialectic process without opportunist jumps. So does human psychology appropriate opportunism, or is such a charge not empathetic to fact?
Hello rverybody. To me, there is something fucked up about all these arguments aka debates. They should assign an equal amount of time for everyone to speak and have a time constraint referee.
America is a land of nomads where no one can call anything or anywhere a home. The values of liberalism lead is the freedom to be alone, estranged from tradition and purpose. Americans are lost in a land they cannot call their own. They, therefore, are forced into to the "freedoms of the market" where all value is reduced to monetary value. Liberalism is soulless.
I don’t know how old Eric Li is but in my lifetime China has invaded Vietnam, seized territorial waters belonging to Indonesia and the Philippines, fought border wars with India, and massacred its own people in Tiananmen Square. In the decade before I was born they invaded Tibet and sent their soldiers to intervene in the Korean War to save an ally that had attacked South Korea and was losing. Amidst all that we have the perennial threats against Taiwan. Now, perhaps Mr. Li was not taught the full breath of history at school. That does not excuse him from learning as an adult.
My cultural concept of freedom is I get laid all the time prove me wrong liberal hegemonists
I agree 100% with the Eric Li. He doesn't use pretentious or "hard to understand" language, he goes straight to the point. The french guy is stuck in the 1990s with the "end of history" narrative I couldn't understand the american guy he just wanted to mention Taiwan for some reason which had nothing to do with the topic
Great debate!!! Was fun to listen to. Thank you!
Is this guy for real,a secular country has the lowest crime rate,lowest abortion,lowest STI ,lowest pregnancies,😅😅. But religious countries are worse 😮..he is delusional and keeps going on about America the biggest criminals on the planet😅😅
The title has nothing to do with what he said
Fascinating. All these folks...who's fledgling civilizations are ALREADY collapsing yet are ALL engaged in forever-wars...admonishing a representative from a country...that has existed for millennia...and that has pulled 800 million humans out of poverty while engaging in no wars (for decades). Yet...these same folks insist THEIR ideology is the basis of human freedom and one that should be exported everywhere🤯
Usa created isis
Barroso is so soo a liar and dishonest.
When you have someone as smart as Eric at the ground level, how are you going to stop China's rise?
Teaching in a T-Shirt! I just love this dude! I imagine he took a couple of whiffs of that shirt that morning, shrugged, "Good enough." And he's off to the conference.
Real discussion here if freedom is universal than interference in other countries politics is justified.
They couldn’t find the devil so they made a scapegoat nothing new under the sun
Yes that is all Human trafficking kidnapping Darvo their victims murdering rapists racist evil
Maestro Sherman, Maestro Minsoo Sohn….YunChan….
what the fuck is this?
Oy. This is what you get when irrepressible egos think they can just merrily blabber on about science or music or painting. I'd be curious to know; can Zizek can even read a score?
Bach had great admiration for Vivaldi's music and transposed a number of his compositions.
This guy is brilliant
America spreads war and prosperity..... Europe just spreads war. Unfortunately Europeans are very violent and need to be dominated by Pax America for its own good. America is far from perfect, but it offers a better deal than Europe
Look at USA, there is no difference whether they have one party or two parties, the result is the same, they are all puppets the Oligarchs
Sadly Europeans like to fight amongst themselves which led to two world wars. Then Europe was esclipsed by Russia and the US. So apart from uniting Europe what other choice is there ..of course Britain fears it will lose out so it is against a united Europe, but Britain is hardly a glowing example of democracy
Of course the West spends money in Ukraine...it bought out the farms and in 2024 bankrupted European farmers 😂
What an idealist. The West is egoist and colonial. Just look how it bought up all the farmland in Ukraine 😂
Rhysomatic strains
maybe one microphone in a flower arrangement next time
The dog is more interesting than this dude. Even if he taught at Julliard. I don't care.
The arrogance and bias of the west are on full display. Obviously they have very little knowledge of China. Their assertions are so laughable. Just look at the current state of the west and the United States, what bad governance had done to these countries and their society, and you compare them to China's. If you've been to China you'll be astonished by their developments, the big contrast. The west should learn to look at themselves. And if you've been to China's Xinjiang, you know these people are talking nonsense, many people are being brainwashed by the western media. China has been wronged by the western media for so many years.
Shit, this dude is so right
Missing bis high educated smartness nowadays , more than ever .
i do think A LOT of people DO think that this guy walked on water, and that god exists and watching us from above. And that Marry is watching 8 billion people and protects us and all this crap. Millions believe that all this supernatural events did happen and do happen. And that the christ is god with a power beyond our undertanding.
The old white man meeting
He is talking truth
Ugh, a poet who speaks for 1% of poets but talks like he is the Absolute....
😊yeesh, Heller's remarks haven't aged well. We have all the horrors she mentions, plus generalized, normalized ecocide, multiple ongoing animal and human genocides, bio-warfare in an Age of Plague Dementia, all carried out by neolib parliamentarianism.... #freepalestine
Scruton was such a cruel person, full of spite and hate.
China democratic model is a state whom recognizes and honors its relationship with Chinese people and therefore knows and understands thier needs. Western elites only know oligarchy and going to war against its own people and against everyone else. I choose the nationalist and socialist democracy inherent in the Chinese model!
The white haired guy is very hard to listen to It’s purely sophism
This white haired leftist seems to be making the argument for mass migration and destruction of cultures (roots) Clearly we can see by his branches analogy that he truly believes that he can upend mass cultures of the west and we’ll all just get along and love each other. This mistake is their Achilles heel
Not a leftist. Establishment liberal. Castro is a leftist. Lenin is a leftist. Etc
Unfortunately the West is quickly taking away peoples rights which is what the first speaker doesn’t understand We’re in the post liberal phase which is oligarchical tyranny
you are so cruel...
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