Rapid industrial growth in 20th century -> what causes this economic growth, why and what to do next? History: 1. Philosophical history - German idealism -Ethic and Spirit (analyses from the idealism perspective )are synonyms -Reformation: 16tg Cent, Christianity is fractured; mass call for reform (Luther) -> 30 years war: Catholic and Protestantism emerge -> + Calvinism -The institution of Catholicism are key to salvation, but Protestantism wants to decentralise this process & change its content. -Calvinism: Double predestination-- everyone was created differently and have different predestination from God How to earn salvation then? Work. -No waste, luxuries, no giving to the poor -Mass sociological change in wealth accumulation: living to work instead of working to live -Wealth as an end in itself 2. 20th century: - credit central in institutions -venture capital expansion Weber’s origin of modern capitalism: shifting realm of religious/ideological changes. Deconstructed positivism. The spirit force is independent of socio-economic circumstances Ideology- a direct byproduct of the economic system they are embedded in. Doesn’t reject materialism, but states that both (+spirit) are important

tommt kee jones accent is awful

no writer is as dark as George Saunders, except maybe Annie Proulx

I feel as though there are many parallels here with Mahayana Buddhism and specifically Nagarjuna. In particular, I am thinking about: 1. “form is emptiness and emptiness is form” (prajnaparamita) in relation to no ideology is an ideology 2. The ideas of relative and (the ineffable) absolute truth as it relates to split subjectivity and the real vs. Reality as described here and 3. The fact that as you work through Buddhist rationality you come to realize that even Buddhism itself and the quest for Nirvana/enlightenment, like all else, is an inherently meaningless endeavour but you continue to abide by it because you would not have come to this realization this without it…..but perhaps I am simply blinded by ideology

13:00 Marx and Engels saying that slavery and surfdom fed into what became capitalism. That is quite the bold claim, and yet they believe that it is wrong to look at societal structures in isolation? Did they genuinely consider the social structures of multiple capitalist societies before making that assessment. I'm of the belief that capitalism wasn't just born in the 1500's, but that it existed even during the trade era before money was invented. This could totally be a wrong assessment of capitalism, but I just wonder how that perspective might change the claim that surfdom and slavery were the systems that were seeded and sprouted into capitalism.

Glad I've never heard of. I'm actually gonna watch something else...

Spot on analysis

Beautiful work brother. Enjoyed the video

Understanding the sublime object of ideology is in itself an ideology

I wonder if the world's governments stop playing with the damn weather and gain of function research. We'll probably be ok..... wishful thinking

What's the use of this? 😂

I always assumed that "Crazy Horse" referenced crazy skillz on the horse.

Could it possible to make a fucking video about native Americans that's actually about THEIR culture which is 10s of thousands of years old without pontificating about your white guilt.

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*I think therefore Dasein*

*GRAPHIC DASEIN*

Lacan himself was in large part a Hegelian, at least during his own formative years. Nevertheless Zizek is sometimes forcing Hegelian notions or a style of reasoning into Lacans' body of work. Two of Lacans' most important teachers during his own student years in Paris, were both prominent French Hegel specialists: Alexandre Koyre and Alexandre Kojeve. Of course Lacan was kind of an intellectual magpie who borrowed ideas from the most diverse thinkers (Kant, Spinoza, the classic Greeks, Heidegger, Levi Strauss, ...) and sciences of his days (linguistics, mathematics, anthropology, psychiatry, ...), but he never literally copied ideas. He did his own thing with all of it. In that same sense, Zizek never just explains Lacan or Hegel, he invents his own version of a sociopolitical, critical apparatus based on mainly Lacan and Hegel. Therefore if you want to learn about these 2 thinkers themselves, you shouldn't take Zizek for granted as some sort of guide. Just try to read them yourself, Zizek is just another creative reader like some of us are. He will only inform you about Zizek, the thinker, and Slavoj, the (high functioning) neurotic 😉.

This is fine work

Dasein, being prior too or before thought is that possible?

Intelectual masturbation.

You are quite the genius kiddo. Love your essays and analyses. Keep ‘em’ coming but don’t burn out of course. PHD first then KZfaq. Wait wait, what am I saying? Do what you wanna do. Just wanted to encourage you a little.

Come ON dude! You ever gonna get to it? Thought to find some peace concepts here and you have got me about to throw a brick at ya!

I am tempted to assume this a parody of a stupid pseudo-intellectual using vague misunderstandings of bad readings of philosophy to talk bullshit about a tremendously awful, empty movie, but I have met people this dumb in this particular way before lol.

What do you mean by us overcoming violence. We’re here and haven’t been extinct because of our violence. Nature is far more violent than we are we learned it from it.

I don't think Nietzsche's Idea of eternal recurrence is any good. Perhaps better suited for a Rod Sterling Twilight episode? 🤷. Maybe a template of "your" timeline exists but it 's not you who gets to experience it again. It's a conjecture, as much as Nietzsche's idea is, just a conjecture. A former French legionnaire once told me, I wouldn't take anything back but I wouldn't do it again. No Country for old Men wasn't that good. It was whatever. Sorry.

Taoism:3

I love norco so much. I watched a lot of video essays on this game and yours is one of my favourites. All the books you mentioned went right on my tbr list.

Reject modernity embrace Monke

"If you think you are free, there is no way out" - Ram Das

Excellent video but I’m surprised you didn’t mention Stella Maris, the story about Bobby’s sister (mentioned in The Passenger) who committed suicide. Lots of reference to famous mathematicians and math theory…I wasn’t surprised to learn that McCarthy spent a lot of his later years at the Santa Fe Institute and got to hob-nob with some of the great intellects of our age. Last but not least, Stella Maris is noteworthy because in Alicia, the sister that Bobby mourns, McCarthy created a genuinely interesting and sardonic female character who loves to banter with the psychiatrists at the institution that she voluntarily has committed herself. I call this female character noteworthy because I remember thinking after reading all his novels prior to Stella Maris….”McCarthy just doesn’t do women”. So just to fool me, in the novel published just before his death, he did a really interesting woman

no country is a favorite of mine (so i probably should be in therapy, right). and i still cannot watch javier bardem in anything without at least once seeing him as the angel of death (so i probably….). though not a video i was prepared to watch with my first cup of coffee this morning thank you for it. at 78 yrs i have come to know there is a great deal of substance in mccarthy’s work. though they don’t teach it in school if one lives long enough (and with some philosophy) we all come to know our realities.

I absolutely adore McCarthy’s writing style, I know a lot of people criticize it for its lack punctuation. But the way he writes is so deeply poetic and beautiful I can’t help but love it as a poetry lover myself.

100% agree.

Pardon, are you Zuboff?

I love the video, but I'm wondering if you can include "footnotes" with the sources you've used?

His writing sucks. Self-indulgent nihilistic boomer nonsense.

Please check out Half breed by Maria Campbell if you enjoy Indigenous writers🤍, and thank you for making this work public as I am Metis and Cree the grassroots philosophies are often overlooked

The Road is the only realistic post apocalyptic movie I’ve ever seen and I’ve seen many coming of age in the dawn of home video and the time with the most warheads in history.

​@merc9nine [see you comment below on what you submit is the longueurs, unoriginality, and projective content of SdB's ideas] I think you are setting a superhuman standard in morality, politics and psychodynamics. We all play rather devious games, of pretending to ordinality, pretending to lack of biases, pretending to be motivated by the highest ideals and insights. Anyone who said differently I would put down as a fool, a liar, or after something behind my back. Which indeed most people are, whilst smiling and smiling like knaves, to quote Hamlet. Men are much worse than women for the heresy of unwitting projections, especially as dragged from their hideously paranoid and violent sub-conscious psyches. No doubt I can be accused of projecting that theory onto men, and as deflection from seeing such bestiality in my own heart. Etc, etc. Kind of a philosophy-psychoanalytical tit-for-tat parlour game. Rather difficult in any case to substantiate or disprove such claims - that's half the rhetorical and bitchy fun, I politely submit. The vanitas of sainthood - a perpetual failing of inheritors of the Anglo-American disposition to Puritanism and self-flagellation. At least our Italian friends are a bit more human and hence more emotionally vivid - give me Machiavelli, Dante, Puccini over any bullshit Anglo-American prating and sanctimonious pamphlet-pusher. "Please, please, for fucks sake, no more GE Moore!" The Major Barbara types nicely satirised by GB Shaw (an Irish writer, not an English scribbler, I emphasise). Lots of love from the real and dirty world, andrea

Dear EP, Really excellent introduction to the deeply social, and deeply other regarding, and deeply altruistic ethic the SdB puts at the core of her humanist and feminist personal and social psychology. We are beings first and foremost of social psychology, and cooperation, and love; a love typified by our evolved inter-womanly, inherently social, affectional, sensuous and erotic orientation to each other as WHLW (women who love women). The dialectic SdB identifies between socially-politically permeated and inter-personal material-psycho-social being, and our coagulation of stream and gems of these energies into what our physiological-anatomical natural-sciences friends would call a homeostatic individual, is perhaps very neatly summoned up by the mainstream Jungian-Buddhistic argument for our ego-perspective being manufactured (it does exist, it is not illusory, but it is an artefact) by the tremendous, enveloping and objective and ci-evolving entity well-summarised as our very female and womanly collective (un) consciousness. Again, I suggest that the "hypocritical flight" to extinguish our existential dread at our individual freedom, and struggles to find solace in over-simplifications, and in glib displacement of responsibility onto others, the guilty ones ..... this is essentially a paranoid masculine narcissistic dynamic. One manufactured by the very-fragile and one-dimensional egos of paranoid men. Whereas women tend to be much more integrated across the layers of our own psyches, tend not to start form the lonely island of male ego-mania; and our inherently interlinked and social psyches, and our knowledge of such, means we start from an inherently social, multi-persona, and multi-perspectival outlook. To go further, the trash of "compulsory heterosexuality" (to quote Adrienne Rich's famed paper), heteronormativity, the perversity of mono-amoury, and women's isolation from each other via a "domesticated incarceration" in patriarchal privatised bourgeois homes (a spiritual death-sentence of (a) fucking paranoid and narcissistic and emotionally-infantile men, and (b) supposed duties of indoctrinating our children into the masculine order) are mere patriarchal bio-ideology, masculine-serving reactionary politics, and bilge-water toxic to our female hearts and dreams. These female and womanly and self-consciously feminist and anti-patriarchal foundations are the nutrients for wrestling at the conscious level with other existential, moral, political and transcendental tasks and puzzles. BTW, may I courteously make a really pungent plea that you rerecord the sound track with the correct Parisian-French pronunciation of her name, SVP? She is French, she writes in French, she thinks as a French revolutionary intellectual and public thinker. Any operative concept of regard for another's sanding dictates you get their name right. I know Americans don't do the languages of other nations and peoples too well, especially, Libyan, Iraqi, Syrian, Palestinian Arabic. I mean they don't even speak the tongues of the indigenous tribes peoples they systematically butcher by the millions on the continental US. They don't do London English very well either, but since we are a bunch of untutored piratical imperialists, that's forgivable. Any bloke who persistently mangled the pronunciation of the name of an elegant Parisian woman of genius would get some very dirty looks at her diner table .... from her and Sartre, when they were on speaking terms! A small but deeply indicative oversight, my dear EP. Thanks. Love andrea

Marx lol f’n jew

We are one with the tree, we are one with the land !!! The tree is there for a reason; it keeps the soil from washing out ???

I made tihis healing salve for this frind of mine, it healed in less than three day's...

I went down to trim her lawn & she pisssed in my face ???

Cheese & Rice that's, cheese & rice, he's got a beard. Thing's are sensative like that & I'm just ticklish like that...

The real looking jesus has absolutely no character reflecting the gospels Jesus

Im native and also studing Native American Studies. just dont think this guy gets it. Almost done with the video and he's yet to discuss interconnection, relations. He's too focused on gender. I wanted to like this video but he just doesnt get it.

So we come to appreciate native American philosophy so as to hate the west

Consider that perhaps we pass our knowledge on not orally, but spiritually and genetically. The 'Telephone Game' is a good example of a poor knowledge transfer system. A connection to the other side (spiritually) is a good answer.