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Ridiculous and frivolous examination of Simone Weil. Lecturer sounds misogynistic at the very least.

Can someone please help Wes with the Mic setup and sound mixing?

My question is when and why did someone from lets say New York state circa 1960 didn't particularly care or was concerned about the social policy of let's say Idaho but in a couple decades not only cared but called for federal intervention to change it?

Where can we ask questions?

It's a winner take all mentality in America. Everything is transactional and whatever I gain, someone else HAS to lose. And as soon as I do better and you don't, you WILL hold me back, and I can't have that.

At the end of "Religions in Four Dimensions," Walter Kaufmann speculates that religion and landscape have a relation and specifically hypothesizes that the desert in it's singularity may have been a contributing factor to monotheism. How would you say american identity and landscape fit? I know in places like Colorado, they have higher amounts of cult activity, what about the isolation and 30 days of night in Alaska, or say the people who live deep in the Appalachian mountains- living in Canada, we don't have anything like that to compare. Does it have something to do with the sheer size of it and how generally dispersed people can be? Thanks!

33:17 And a lot of us still do. You ask how far something is, odds are good you're gonna get an answer in terms of time rather than distance. A three hour drive, Treaty twenty minutes in the bus, whatever.

I take that McCormick quote a bit differently. Cooperation is an important, even an essential part of society, you can't even talk about a suçoter if there isn't cooperation between people. But cooperation isn't an absolute, it's not a monolith. We have conflict within our cooperative society, and between societies. The dangerous thing isn't cooperation, it's the aspiration for an end to conflict. You're a philosopher, you live in a world of nuance and infinite complexity, but a lot of people genuinely hope for a future with no conflict, with perfect harmony and cooperation, and that belief is dangerous because it's impossible. The belief in a perfect world can justify anything done to achieve it, but when that rainy is impossible, the justification is meaningless. It's the old saw that the perfect is the enemy of the good writ large. EDIT: To be fair, I don't have the full context of his writing, I'm going off just the quote and my own preconceptions.

7:17 That's actually a lot like what happened with the Catholic Church. I took a course on the Peperstraat Reformation a few years ago, and one of the rings that cake up was that around that time, there had been a great deal of both unnoticeable and tolerated local diversity of practice, and improvements in communication and transportation led to investing recognition of those differences and investing conflict derived from divergences that already existed. Local conflicts between people who just disagreed with each other as well as centralizing conflicts between the Church trying to reconcile those differences into a more unified doctrine.

Enjoyed the video. I’m in the Navy and I’ve always thought the way the Navy did things made sense, namely, trained you and taught you a specific skill in exchange for “x” number of years of service (in reference to the comment on apprenticeships and the employer taking on the risk). We literally have kids right out of high school running and maintaining nuclear reactors after about two years of training. No college degree. My brother did four years of college for a job doing pay-roll…

Henry Giroux Worked with Paulo Freire in the 1980's, and got 100 professors of education tenure across the US. Source - Henry Giroux himself. He's very proud of that accomplishment. Why is this relevant? By the mid '90s, all new K-12 teachers were using Critical Pedagogy in the classroom to teach Postmodern Neo-Marxist theories to children. By 2010, they entered K-12 administration, and by 2015, all of the K-12 education was captured by the Marxists. What is Critical Pedagogy? A Neo-Marxist approach to teaching children.

Minor criticism, but you have the 13 original states highlighted, I would suggest extending the highlighting to their territory at the time (ie make Alabama and Mississippi Orange or West Virginia and Kentucky dark blue). Edit:also, you got 14 highlights, Vermont is in there

Meeting Pluto suffering grace.

I love her! ❤

This is great!

She reminds me of Maud Gonne. ❤

Liking it a lot

22 mins sounds awfully like stoicism

Yay! I love you Wes! 😻🌺😘

I think that the idea of determinism means that essentially at the core if you work in a logical didactic manner, you will find that all of your decisions which seem like free will weren't yours to have. They are all dependent on things you seemingly hadn't been afforded choice to. Whom your parents are pretty much decides 99% of your future decisions. Which original option were afforded to you etc... I'm a so to speak practicing Jew. And this concept is a huge question in Judaism. I actually think this question is hugely important because it speaks exactly to the idea of agency self competence etc

Thank you Cecil. Looking forward to the libertiniasm episode. Also if you could talk a little bit of the cultural history of Louisiana, I would be grateful..

1:27 curse that fly, gave me such a jumpscare

Truth, justice and the American way.

what's weird is that you pretend that the concept of monotheism is a human idea and not a Divine one, that that Unknowable Essence we call God, etc., is not actively trying to get us to know of Its existence and to exist in proper relationship with non-gendered Him. Does it not make sense that all major religions founded by a Prophet sent by that Non-Material Supreme Knower are the evidence of that Effort? It's not so much that Zoroastrianism originated those ideas but that God must repeat Himself throughout human history to recapitulate the eternal message and update the social laws.

I wouldn't be me if I* was a nazi..👍

He was born in 1930 in Algeria and left at the age of 19 years old.. Algeria was still French and he was originally from Spain…his family were from Spain for 500 years…. In 1830, estimates put the number of Jews in Algeria at around 15,000: this figure made it the second largest Jewish population in North Africa before Tunisia and after Morocco. With the exception of nomadic farmers and herders, very close to their Arab-Berber neighbors, Jews generally lived in cities where they occupied neighborhoods reserved for them. Either, in Algiers, Bab Azzoun, El Biar, Bouzaréah, Bab el-Oued

dope information, thank you for the great lecture.

This concept of populism is so obviously a political trick. Democracy means doing the voters'will. Every politician runs on policies his constituents want. The media will turn against a politician and label hom a populist and a demagogue once he does things not to the liking of the self appointed talking heads. Its just a smear tactic plain and simple

Conservatives aren't against movement of people in and out of countries, I.e. legal immigration, they're against illegal free movement of humans in and out of countries (I.e. illegal immigration). That's like saying that punishing theft is a move that's opposed to free markets

Very excited for this series

QUESTION #1 where is Vermont on your map? I could ask more....

Stolen land. Slavery. Oppression. Capitalism fascism..

American is abiding by the Constitution.

I like his interpretation! It sounds very logical, but how did he understand what Nietzsche thought and meant when he wrote about Zarathustra? What if he meant something else?

Как можно было назвать женщину коровой?? Что за мудрость такая? Не вижу ничего умного или философского... За что им так восхищаются?

Thanks yet again! American Nations by Colin Woodard draws a bit of a parallel. He looks at US as more just states, but distinct "nations" or mindsets. Great read and he has some lectures on YT. Factual note on your thumbnail... although Maine didn't become a state until 1820, its was part of Massachusetts since the 1650s.

Voice is breaking up on my chromebook

Schopenhauer is by far my favorite philosopher!

An American is a slaveholding invader who mass murdered Natives...now they still don't care about how much they hurt them. It's still ongoing. And everyone without Native blood is guilty of that.

I'm curious about the similarities between the modern east and west coasts. I would speculate that it's because the tech folks which dominate the west coast were originally east coast engineers who migrated for cheap real estate (if memory serves. I may be wrong there). There may also just be a common culture around large cities, especially considering after WWII there were more concerted nation-wide infrastructure development projects. That money primarily linked cities together, thus allowing them to develop into a more similar amalgam of "America", but again, speculating. If that's true, a similar effect should be noticeable when the transcontinental railroad was completed. As transportation became more efficient, that would have a homogenizing effect.

I've just noticed, Rhode Island is almost a city state, except there's a 2nd city, and a few villages, and a forest.

Hi Wes. Thanks for adding a Q&A section to your upcoming videos. My question relates to your video on McCarthy. In a NYT interview McCarthy remarked that ‘there’s no such thing as life without bloodshed. I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.’ What are your thoughts on this quote and how it relates to McCarthy’s mythopoetic writing of the human condition? Is this quote a pushback against totalitarian ideologies such as facism, or, as you rightly point out in your critique of the reception of McCarthy, will most readers of this quote draw the worst conclusions from it?

Ironically over the last 20-odd years I've been coming to associate myself more as a Californian then an American, despite being politically moderate. 40-50 years ago American culture was pretty homogeneous, but nowadays it seems as though other parts of the country are embracing values that, while not foreign, are certainly anachronistic. It feels as though the emulsion has broke in the pot and we are clustering back into the individual ingredients.

softer mic sound this episode

I find it a bit strange that you posit there isn't much seriously engaging work on studying past or contemporary US cultural hegemony or US culture(s) more broadly (especially while living in France). Baudrillard's take on Disneyland in "Simulacra and Simultion" comes to the forefront of my mind, but also COUNTLESS others. Fisher's "Capitalist Realism," some of Naomi Klein's more pop-political philosophy work, even the chaotic and terrible accelerationism of Nick Land and the CCRU. There's also Marcuse's "One-Dimensional Man," any of Foucault's work on disciplinary society, Gramsci's work on hegemony more generally (which requires some extrapolations, but still), and even more round-about ways of addressing US culture via philosophy that DOES account for Native Americans AND our only uniquely "US" philosophical movement of Pragmatism called "Native Pragmatism." I really do hope you take this question and line of inquiry you have put forth seriously, because so far you have posited nothing new, rigorous, or unique (not that this matters so much in and of itself). I look forward to seeing you add something to the rich and vast theoretical spaces you are talking about that I personally feel are a bit to the contrary, in that I think it's actually more flooded than anything else. Stoked to follow this new series!

an american is someone who listens to rupert murdoch (fox news), and votes for reagan.... lol sorry to joke about this wes, I love your channel, I'm researching murdoch's and reagan's influence on propaganda/financial regulation laws a lot lately, I feel such an intense urge to mock anyone who engages with these corrupt forces, sorry, needed to mock thse demographics based on your title... btw really wish you would talk about the bretton woods/global financial crisis situations in depth sometime - these two events have been more influential on modern culture than almost any other imo... imagine systems and situations that create such powerful bureaucratic limitations on our global species, affecting the lives in billions currently and tens of billions more in the future... your audience deserves to understand these key points more imo - also the concept of journalism in the modern world and how that died when reagan's administration legalised "opinion" journalism - such key ideas to the modern human condition here I think many thx to you wes for your ongoing teachings 🙌

So just to be clear with all of this, you're not so much saying that ansin same duine Have an observable and distinct culture, but that we don't have a strong cultural identity? Because there are clear things you can describe about American cultúir, things that are either American or regional. The are distinct architectural styles, there are accents and rebondi slang, there are shared beliefs and ideals, both regional and countrywide. I'm from Michigan, and we have a strong identity as Michiganders in a lot of ways, we share a collective frustration that the coasts perpetually forget that we exist. There are times when it feels like more Canadians know and care about Michigan than people in DC or New York... Anyway, just asking for clarification.

24:15 Whooo! Michigan gets a mention!

You sound like a young Michael Sugrue. I can listen to classical thought all day. Thank You !

Amazing lecture! Thank you so much! It inspired me, I am moved and I am touched with you as a lecture!