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Understanding the mask wearer

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In a rich mans house there is no place to spit but his face. -Diogenese

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Theorem: Freedom of speech has a higher value than the simulated need for "security" which in fact mostly only is used a justification to wage wars. Security as most bobbleheads interpret it, doesn't exist.

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I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised? | Diogenes

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Enslavement of Man: Animals Only Commit Suicide in Captivity

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Unabomber manifesto

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Traditional US Values...

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J Krishnamurti - The Real Revolution - 2. Observing ourselves

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Why are children joyful?

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"If your smartphone is an extension of your mind, it should have the same legal protections as your brain"

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Ayn Rand's 7 Virtues to Live By for a Great Life

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Liar paradox - If this sentence were true, then what it says would be the truth, implying that it is false which is a contradiction, so if it were false then it is false that this sentence is false, hence it is true which is also a contradiction.

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Philosophy Book Club

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French philosopher Michel Foucault ‘abused boys in Tunisia’. A fellow intellectual, Guy Sorman, has unleashed a storm among Parisian “intellos” with his claim that Foucault, who died in 1984 aged 57, was a paedophile rapist who had sex with Arab children while living in Tunisia in the late 1960s.

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Who or What is the Demiurge? - Know Thyself Part 1 - Santos Bonacci

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This sub needs more Alan Watts [The Dream of Life]

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What I, a classical utilitarian, learned from suffering-focused ethics

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Is the Universe Conscious?

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The Usanin Pyramid instead of the Maslow Pyramid

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The (Philosophical) Problem with "Systemic Racism"

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Dammit

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if you're in the mood for it, this channel has excellent videos on some good topics

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Is Critical Race Theory Marxist, as many insist, or is it not? What is the relationship between Marxism, neo-Marxism (Critical Theory), and Wokeness? All three criticize one another, and yet all three have a great deal obviously in common. Is there some common underlying thread? The answer is yes.

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Life Is Not Short

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Gad Saad on Joe Rogan's show: the Impact of Marcus Aurelius and Ancient Philosophers

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SCHOPENHAUER: Why Smart People Don't Care About Being Social (And Why They're Ditzy) (4:22) ~ Weltgeist

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Foucault was shielded from scandal by French reverence for intellectuals. The French philosopher king continued to write extensively on chastity while allegations about his pedophilia were covered up.

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A Values-Based Approach to Leaving Wokeness Behind

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The Secret Genius of Dwight K. Schrute (The Office) (16:12) ~ Wisecrack [ On accelerationism. Do things have to get worse before they get better? ]

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How Fraudsters Become Heroes (ft. Fyre Fest, Theranos, Martin Shkreli) ~ Wisecrack

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Stoicism & The Art of Not Caring ~ Pursuit of Wonder (8m27s)

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The New Science of How to Argue—Constructively

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Jordan Peterson Announces Debate with Slavoj Zizek

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Slavoj Zizek — Jordan Peterson, Cultural Marxism & the West

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Don't let modern comforts make you soft. Consider the lessons of Seneca.

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Stoicism and Christianity share some common values.

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New Age Bullshit Generator. Namaste. Do you want to sell a New Age product and/or service? Tired of coming up with meaningless copy for your starry-eyed customers? Want to join the ranks of bestselling self-help authors? We can help.

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The holistic approach

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The statement: "Time is money" contains mostly only falseness for most "real" contexts.

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When normies say life has any purpose you give it…

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The Bias that Divides Us. If you are a person of high intelligence, if you are highly educated, and if you are strongly committed to an ideological viewpoint, you will be highly likely to think you have thought your way to your viewpoint. University faculty in the social sciences fit the bill.

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If one accepts that the ultimate arbiter of the rightness of one’s actions is the view of others, who are, by definition, correct, then one cannot legitimately disagree with them. One has outsourced one’s moral judgement to the crowd, making the distinction between shame and guilt obsolete.

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What did Nietzsche think of Capitalism and Liberalism?

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The most interesting word in English language

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Reincarnation?!

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Why not whip the teacher, when the pupil misbehaves? -Diogenese the dog

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"The Republic" by Plato | Read by Joshua Graham

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The 8 Greatest Philosophical Theories You Need to Know

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One of the primary reasons that Social Justice advocates are afraid of allowing a (liberal) colorblind approach to race and racism—which is likely to work very well in practice—is because they assume that colorblindness makes it impossible to see racism when it occurs.

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Albert Camus's “The Human Crisis” read by Viggo Mortensen, 70 years later (1:32:41) ~ Columbia Maison Française

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Why war? Attempt at an answer by Einstein and Freud

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Intermediate-level trolley problem

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A scorpion, not knowing how to swim, asked a frog...Variations on the fable of The Frog And The Scorpion.

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Demystifying Critical Race Theory so We Can Get to the Point - by Helen Pluckrose. What Critical Race Theory (or CRT) is and isn’t, who understands it and who doesn’t, and what people’s motivations are for defending or criticising it seem to be the issues dominating the culture wars right now.

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How to Be a Stoic

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The First Worthy Criticism of Cynical Theories. James Lindsay explains where and how Critical Theory came into being. Important information for anyone who wants SJWs to lose.

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Psychopathy and the Origins of Totalitarianism. Many of the greatest horrors of the history of humanity owe their occurrence solely to the establishment and social enforcement of a false reality. This means that they require power, coercion, manipulation, and eventually force to keep them in place.

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White Fragility Training and Freedom of Belief. The similarities between this belief system and belief systems more instantly recognisable as religious, which also believe in original sin, powerful but insidious forces of evil, a priesthood, epiphany and atonement, are clear.

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The Structure of Cultural Revolutions. "A seductive moral theory that finds endless confirmation everywhere and interprets any form of criticism as a manifestation of the problem it fights is a blueprint for disaster."

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The Psychology of Power - How to Dethrone Tyrants. This is a somber reminder that the world is getting worse, and we are letting it happen. Forget all the race, gender, and sexuality that's used by the elites to divide us. No matter who you are, we have to collectively unite against rulers.

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The Philosophy of Sauron | Nietzsche and Lord of the Rings

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Which of Ayn Rand’s Nonfictional Works is best to start off with?

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Will Wall-E Come True? (vs. Star Trek) – Wisecrack Edition ~ Wisecrack - [ This over-simplified contrast omits 1984, Brave New World, Blade Runner, Terminator, etc. but does briefly touch on dystopian abuses of class and power in this video on automation philosophy. ]

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"Being """Rational""" isn't what you think" by Luke Smith (2019-03-03)

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UG#523 - Ivan Illich and The Collapse Of Power (Nowtopia and Why Money is not Power) - An introduction to Illich, whom I consider the greatest philosopher, social critic and theologian of the 20th Century.

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Existentialism Explained

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The Philosophy of Truth

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What if the "Second Coming of Christ" hadn't been a fundamental tenet of early Christianity?

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Multiverses, Nihilism, and How it Feels to be Alive Right Now (28:50) ~ Like Stories of Old

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No it's different because

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Classic essay: How to Deconstruct Almost Anything. "What you have is rather like birds on the Galapagos islands -- an isolated population with unique selective pressures resulting in evolutionary divergence. There's no reason you should be able to understand what these academics are saying."

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How to Navigate Symbolic Interpretations. Jakub is Polish and has made a series of excellent videos on symbolism in anime both in English and Polish. Great questions and answers.

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A Manifesto for the Based, from New Discourses by James Lindsay. Being based is the opposite of being Woke. Woke is wholly intolerant of everything but itself. It, because it is cynical of every motivation, it never acts in good faith. It demands absolute conformity and tolerates no dissent.

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Thomas Sowell: Tragic Optimist. Any black academic who openly challenged the efficacy of Affirmative Action policies or other Great Society programs meant to benefit blacks was certain to be stigmatized as a race traitor.

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Philosophers Smear One of Their Own for Gender Heresy. The appointing of Kathleen Stock—who advocates some pre-2015 views on gender identity—as an Officer of the Order British Empire last month mobilized woke philosophy Twitter like a five-alarm fire.

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What if Diogenes the Cynic had joined Alexander the Great's court, and accompanied him in his conquest of Persia?

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Do Ethicists Steal More Books? - “If these data are representative,” he concluded, “a philosophy book not on the shelf is anywhere from 25% to 150% more likely to be missing if it is an ethics book than if it is not.”

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The Basis of Classical Liberalism, by James Lindsay. "We are not God. We cannot become God, make God, or speak with the authority of God. This is axiomatic and the beginning of wisdom and prosperity."

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Why I Ran Away from Philosophy Because of Sam Bankman-Fried

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What is Right Wing Art? What is Left Wing Art? Recall that Aesthetics, Epistemology, and Ethics can be considered as subfields within Philosophy

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Why Has our World Gone So Crazy? I explain that our contemporary “clown world” arises because of our rejection of the supra-physical. Our contemporary consensus is materialist monism. Nature is purely physical, and that pure physicality extends to human consciousness.

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12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback

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Norm Macdonald explains zero ontology. The meaningfullness of meaninglessness.

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Stoics Guides For Everyday (4:46) ~ Read Media

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Comparing the ideologies of Hitler, Mussolini and Oswald Mosley. By comparing the ideologies of Hitler, Mussolini and Mosley, we can learn what fascism and nazism are, understand them better, and thus be able to protect ourselves from them. We need more people honestly describing history like this.

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The language of "rights" has been perverted from one that refers to an individual’s right to freedom from harmful encroachment by others to one that simply means "things people desire."

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The Bugman: Your Views Align With Every Major Corporation (Sam Hyde, Luke Smith, Charls Carroll). Bugman trying to rationalize why living a life of meaninglessness and decadence is the best method.

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Define "judgement"

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The Many Faces of Marxism. In every case, a special form of property is at the center of the “Theory,” and the liberation of man depends on its abolition, by which is meant its “positive transcendence.”

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Paulo Freire is a Brazilian Marxist who is responsible for “Marxifying” education, thereby ruining it. James Lindsay explains the phenomenon through a number of examples that make it absolutely clear how cheap and stupid “Marxist” analysis has become as a result of going “Woke.”

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Overconsumption as a symptom of today's capitalism

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I have had an epiphany. The reason the jew-haters are so adamant in their correctness is a deep-seated desire to not blame themselves for the failure of men (including themselves) in leading society well.

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Thucydices Trap

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What's the highest iq idea you've ever had?

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Nowadays US dream

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The Concept of Utilitarianism - Bentham vs Stuart Mill

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"Many so-called disorders of the mind are simply disorders of thought." (Vironika Tugaleva)

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Apologetic trilemma

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Epicurus trilemma

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In this quick New Discourses Bullets summary, James Lindsay goes through an explicit admission by education activist Alison Bailey on the differences between the critical thinking and the Critical Theory (and Critical Pedagogy) approaches. Join him and stop getting fooled!

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