communism and anarchism cannot coexist. This is fevered idealism without any reflection on history or economics.

he was gay

So you censor comments on here do you, when the discussion doesn’t go your way? What a piece of shit coward.

Call me a Utopian! To those who would ridicule me for such notions, to them I say, "why can we not have a world where everyone lives their best life? Why can we all not have a good life of meaning, value and contribution? Why do we have to toil and perish just so kings may live in opulence while we live in hovels? Why must we whip ourselves into submission to this order when we can see a better way and work to have it?" So yes, hate me all you want. I will keep fighting for a better world for all and destroy with unmitigated fury anything that seeks to stop me.

Reading "mutual aid" not onlychanged my mind, it changed the entire trajectory of my life.

Hell o I've searched for an in-depth video essay about 'if average human is obsolete in today's overly competitive society due to technology and automation' but this one is a pleasant surprise. Cute doggy btw

At 5:45 …..The biggest of many fatal flaws of Kropotkin’s anarchism: he completely dismisses the idea that PEOPLE ARE NOT ALL THE SAME. People are different! Some are smarter, more industrious, more talented, and some are stupid, lazy, outright hostile, and monkeywrench production. The industrious lead and facilitate production, while many sit around and get drunk and stoned, totally worthless. To suggest that all are the same and contribute equally to social production and thus have equal claim to said produce is ludicrous, blind, and infantile. Which is why Kropotkin, his ideas, and his followers remained marginalized in the dustbin of history. If you want to tackle human inequality, you need to reject these idiot utopians and get serious! Look at Post Growth Economics for example.

Humanity often chooses to explore concepts and hidden realities through our story telling. Through our movies and TV. It is not a coincidence that a popular TV show about a disease that destroys our civilization appears just before a global pandemic. There are many examples of this sort of phenomenon over the last 100 years. There is a story out there that the Earth did come to an apocalyptic end sometime around when this TV movie came out. And that all of humanity then moved into an alternate reality where we chose a different path that did not lead to our demise. We now have memory of a different past that we didnt actually live through. Like Marty's parents in Back to the Future, they dont remember they were once losers and instead have new memories of having always been successful people. The story goes that we have done this multiple times. And furthermore, the TV show Rick and Morty explores these concepts in new and fresh ways. That's because we are getting closer to a time where we will become aware of our true past and all the things we have done in so many different ways.

You have a great channel going here and I hope you come back to it at some point and carry out some of the projects you discuss at the end of the video.

I just finished listening to the audiobook, there's a couple of versions uploaded to youtube :) great video, it felt like I was in a really good book club talking about it with a friend haha. You picked up on the same sections that I loved too, like "all we have is means!" and linking the discussions of race and gender with Ursula's other works. Good call on not spoiling the end, I don't think it would come across as well if described, it has to be experenced first hand

my essay comp on this book is in a few hours! thanks!

Thank you

This was a really good review. Although i admit, I have to shrug off the Racial Apologizing. I really don't think anybody worth listening to would attack you for having the confidence to have an opinion without groveling. It kind of breaks my heart to hear astute Minds with Broken Spirits

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A great nonfiction companion to this book is Seeing Like A State, which covers some examples of top-down approaches to remake the world, that have had disastrous consequences. It turns out that one person or a small group of people, detached from the day-to-day experiences of the people they're trying to help, are not good at it.

This is just fantastic work. Thanks for the video.

“Desiring to…do something useful.” Perfect subtle comic timing😂

Many of Hume's objections can be answered. Objection (1) :"A great number of men join in building a house or a ship, in rearing a city, in framing a commonwealth: why may not several deities combine in contriving and framing a world?" Responses: "Of the ‘unity of the Deity’ the proof is, the uniformity of plan observable in the universe. The universe itself is a system; each part either depending upon other parts, or being connected with other parts by some common law of motion, or by the presence of some common substance. One principle of gravitation causes a stone to drop towards the earth, and the moon to wheel round it. One law of attraction carries all the different planets about the sun. This philosophers demonstrate. There are also other points of agreement amongst them, which may be considered as marks of the identity of their origin, and of their intelligent author. In all are found the conveniency and stability derived from gravitation. They all experience vicissitudes of days and nights, and changes of season. They all, at least Jupiter, Mars, and Venus, have the same advantages from their atmospheres as we have. In all the planets the axes of rotation are permanent. Nothing is more probable, than that the same attracting influence, acting according to the same rule, reaches to the fixed stars: but, if this be only probable, another thing is certain, viz. that the same element of light does.* The light from a fixed star affects our eyes in the same manner, is refracted and reflected according to the same laws, as the light of a candle. The velocity of the light of the fixed stars, is also the same as the velocity of the light of the sun, reflected from the satellites of Jupiter. The heat of the sun, in kind, differs nothing from the heat of a coal fire. In our own globe the case is clearer. New countries are continually discovered, but the old laws of nature are always found in them: new plants perhaps or animals, but always in company with plants and animals, which we already know; and always possessing many of the same general properties. We never get amongst such original, or totally different, modes of existence, as to indicate, that we are come into the province of a different Creator, or under the direction of a different will. In truth, the same order of things attends us, wherever we go. The elements act upon one another, electricity operates, the tides rise and fall, the magnetic needle elects its position, in one region of the earth and sea, as well as in another. One atmosphere invests all parts of the globe, and connects all: one sun illuminates; one moon exerts its specific attraction upon all parts. If there be a variety in natural effects, as, e. g. in the tides of different seas, that very variety is the result of the same cause, acting under different circumstances. In many cases this is proved; in all is probable. The inspection and comparison of living forms, add to this argument examples without number. Of all large terrestrial animals the structure is very much alike. Their senses nearly the same. Their natural functions and passions nearly the same. Their viscera nearly the same, both in substance, shape, and office. Digestion, nutrition, circulation, secretion, go on, in a similar manner, in all. The great circulating fluid is the same: for, I think, no difference has been discovered in the properties of blood, from whatever animal it be drawn. The experiment of transfusion proves, that the blood of one animal will serve for another. The skeletons also of the larger terrestrial animals, shew particular varieties, but still under a great general affinity. The resemblance is somewhat less, yet sufficiently evident, between quadrupeds and birds. They are alike in five respects, for one in which they differ. In fish, which belong to another department, as it were, of nature, the points of comparison become fewer. But we never lose sight of our analogy, e. g. we still meet with a stomach, a liver, a spine; with bile and blood; with teeth; with eyes, which eyes are only slightly varied from our own, and which variation, in truth, demonstrates, not an interruption, but a continuance, of the same exquisite plan; for it is the adaptation of the organ to the element, viz. to the different refraction of light passing into the eye out of a denser medium. The provinces, also, themselves of water and earth, are connected by the species of animals which inhabit both; and also by a large tribe of aquatic animals, which closely resemble the terrestrial in their internal structure: I mean the cetaceous tribe,* which have hot blood, respiring lungs, bowels, and other essential parts, like those of land animals. This similitude, surely, bespeaks the same creation and the same Creator." (William Paley "Natural Theology") "And, to jump ahead a bit, there are two further problems with polytheism as an explanation of the existence of not merely a universe but a universe governed throughout space and time by the same natural laws . If this order in the world is to be explained by many gods, then some explanation is required for how and why they cooperate in producing the same patterns of order throughout the universe. This becomes a new datum requiring explanation for the same reason as the fact of order itself. The need for further explanation ends when we postulate one being who is the cause of the existence of all others, and the simplest conceivable such-I urge-is God. And, further, the power of polytheism to explain this order in the world is perhaps not as great as that of theism. If there were more than one deity responsible for the order of the universe, we would expect to see characteristic marks of the handiwork of different deities in different parts of the universe, just as we see different kinds of workmanship in the different houses of a city. We would expect to find an inverse square of law of gravitation obeyed in one part of the universe, and in another part a law that was just short of being an inverse square law-without the difference being explicable in terms of a more general law." (Richard Swinburne "The Existence Of God") "If the physical universe is the product of intelligent design, rather than being a pure accident, it is more likely to be the handiwork of only one rather than more than one intelligence. This is so for two broad reasons. The first reason is the need for theoretical parsimony. In the absence of any evidence for supposing the universe to be the handiwork of more than one intelligence rather than only one, then, faced with a choice between supposing it the handiwork of one or of more than one intelligent designer, we should choose to suppose it to be the creation of only one. For it is not necessary to postulate more than one to account for the phenomena in question. The second reason for preferring the hypothesis of there being only one designer of the universe to supposing more than one is that the general harmony and uniformity of everything in the universe suggest that, should it be the product of design, it is more likely to be the handiwork of a single designer, rather than a plurality of designers who might have been expected to have left in their joint product some trace of their plural individualities. " (David Conway "Rediscovery Of Wisdom") Continued in the comments....

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Yawn.

i'm not an anarchist, i have too much skepticism about anarchism, but i do appreciate the lens that anarchism provides to leftism, and that is generally the direction i think society should try to head in, even if i have some reservations about humanity's capabilities and the types of logistics required of far leftist ideals.

Kropotkin was an interesting character for me. I am considered a Rothbardian Anarchist. The biggest difference between somebody like myself and an Anarcho-Communist like Kropotkin is our difference in the idea of Money and Capitalism being either Consent or Force. All Anarchists want to build a world based upon consent, and consent cannot exist as long as The State exists. AnCaps and AnComs do get along relatively well in the ideas specifically about liberty and our hatred of the existence of The State, the difference between the two is economic. I have read Kropotkin many times, he is a very interesting character, and important to Anarchist history. I have used his quotes from time to time, even though I am not a Communist. I recommend reading "The Anarchist Handbook" organized by Michael Malice, it includes the writings of the Anarcho-Communists, the early Classical Liberal Era Anarchists, the Abolitionist Anarchists who would later inspire the beginnings of the American Libertarian Movement, the Anarcho-Capitalists, the Egoists, the Revolutionary Anarchists, and more. "The Black Flag comes in many colors."

That’s a big change for a bigoted country and nation.

Great review! Ty!!

Utilitarianism is philosophy for babies

Great party tonight. Burn da witch!

Underrated content, I hope you get far you're great

So this is how I learned what scientism is called. I find that some prominent critics of Christianity are quite dogmatic about how science is like a panacea or whatever. So these short videos are nice.

Patrick Bateson lmao

9:30

Have you been sponsored by the dog industry to place a soft sell advert for pets.

"Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man's enslavement and all the horrors it entails." ~ Emma Goldman

"...The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism." ~ Emma Goldman

I consider myself a Marxist Leninist and I've been in a deep dive learning about anarchism just to know what's going on with it. It's been interesting

I see your highly a child of Gould... concerning Dawkins...his ideas concerning extended phenotypes are in my opinion sound. But i see him as science communicator...same with Gould who was wrong quite often. And i also disagree partly.... Social darwinism, Sociobiology etc all are ideas that gave birth to other ideas. Like "Mutual Aid" wouldn't exist without Spencer's ideas... To me, Wilson's Sociobiology was a phenomenal, inspirational book. And Goukd/Lewotin acted shameful with their marxist ideology and attacking Wilson for his work... causing people to literally demonstrate Wilson's talks. Even ideas later considered flawed or wrong....give often birth to new ideas and great debates that lead to better explanations. Epigenetics or Endosymbiosis were ideas that also had to go thru much criticism and pushback often to the point of being ridiculous.... Great video....more please. This is important science communication.

Lol....the Pinker "Look at these stats" 😅 Insider joke for those that know of his ridiculous books like "Enlightenment Now." A video on the different mechanisms of evolution.... endosymbiosis, transposons, genetic drift, sexual selection....im highly interested in Quantum biology and different types of mechanisms explaining evolution... I think a "The Great Scientists of Evolutionary theory" series needs to be done....small documentaries of individuals like Asa Gray, Thomas and Julian Huxley, Dobhzansky, Ford, Fisher, Wallace, Haeckel etc. Also a series about the greatest experiments, field research, observations, papers, books etc....

Explaining this particular subject is so draining, I don't know how you manage. I dread naturalistic fallacies, appeals to evolution etc in conversation. A simple "this is much more complicated than you think, go educate yourself or shut up" doesn't seem to cut it, but the alternative of going full on lecturer and bringing those poor people down the explanatory rabbit hole with me doesn't work either. I try to channel my frustration into little impromptu moments of zen training, but damn. Anyway, great video, dense in a very good way, suscribed.

Natural selection possibly evolution not possible.

More puppy!

I love the music you did put in

Egalitarian leftism. Best economic system there is. Good video.

Great video friend! If you keep making good stuff like this I'll definitely keep watching

dunning krueger effect is fake btw

Still wishing somebody would upload an English translation of Philipp Mainlander. 😔

Insanely based

As a committed anarchist I have to say that Kropotkins great humanity is what really originally won me over. His life affirming perspective, his fierce joy, is inspiring

I will send you Turkish subtitle for this video.

DO NOT ASK KROPOTKIN WHAT HE THINKS OF THE JEWS

Great video, really enjoyed it!

A teacher probably provides a student with a better service by providing a healthy store of unresolved doubt than by leading the student to The Truth. Lots of teachers are not just teachers, but freedom fighters in some domain of struggle, that's much more important than just providing things of value (pearls) to the minds of students (swine). So if you get a good education, there's a very good chance that the central thread will be a bad education, and any good education to achieve through such a process will have to be something you construct for yourself. If you receive good Training, you'll reveal it by your having good Conditioned Reflexes, and by how good you are at quickly falling align on the Side of the Angels. But it's not a religion. No, no, no. Of course(!!) it's not a religion. Nothing at all like a religion. I think I'll skip the details just to avoid some unlikely small confrontations. Coward. The wise learn to be good cowards. (For instance I can trot out all the right incantations when I detect that the conversation is encoded in such a way as to expect them. Might as well. You're wasting your time actually discussing things with someone who is right.)