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What should the next video be?
🕑 Added 2018-07-05 01:32:55 +0000 UTC I'll leave the poll up for a week. Here are the options:1) I'd talk about the philosophy of the 1st season of the TV show True Detective, which is philosophical pessimism, explicitly talked about by one of the show's main characters Rust Cohle. I'd talk about Thomas Ligotti's philosophical influence on Rust's character, but also about the philosophical influences of Ligotti himself, such as Zapffe and Cioran. I'd explain some philosophical themes mentioned in the show, such as the depreciation and denial of life, pessimism as a worldview and antinatalism. You wouldn't need to have watched the show to understand the video, but I imagine this would be of interest mostly to fans of the show.
2) This would be a left-wing criticism of simply citing “equality” as a political goal (other than as a slogan), as equality is a relative concept which has no significance outside of specific types of equality. I think this would be helpful as sometimes “equality” can be used counter-productively, and often is used in such a way by the right ("if women and men are equal, shouldn’t men be allowed to hit women?”). I'd briefly explain why Marx and Engels were (contrary to common belief) anti-egalitarians. This would also counter the arguments people have against socialism that stem from thinking that socialism is about equality of outcome, or the “people can’t be equal because nature isn’t equal”-type arguments.
3) This video would be against the misconception that socialists (or leftists more generally) are against competition. I will talk about this using (and explaining) a distinction between internal goods and external goods, laid down by the most popular contemporary virtue ethicist Alasdair MacIntyre. By extension, this would explain why capitalism is deficient in fostering virtue as seen by MacIntyre.
4) I see a lot of scientism online, so I’d like to do a video series of critiques of what I see as examples of scientism - misapplications of science. I’d start with a video about the limits of science in ethical questions, but in later videos I would also talk about things like conscious experience, beauty, or certain social and cultural questions (such as when people wrongly reduce cultural and social questions to things like evolutionary biology).
5) Since my video on Jordan Peterson has been extremely popular, I’ve gotten A LOT of feedback on it. I could make a follow-up video with some further clarifications, criticisms and responses to feedback I’ve received, looking a bit more at Marxism, Postmodernism and the way that these are seen by Peterson and his followers. I’d also take a look at Stephen Hicks who’s critique of postmodernism Peterson partially builds on, as this was requested a lot.
6) This would be a criticism of Sam Harris’ ethical theory which claims that science can answer ethical questions. I’d take a look at his book “The Moral Landscape" and some of his lectures, and criticize both the arguments and the conclusions of his theory, probably also getting angry at the way he doesn’t engage with the history of philosophy on this topic. This video might take a while as I'd want to read (most of) Sam Harris' book on the topic.
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Cuck Philosophy
LMAO I haven't seen Boss Baby but I will and will honestly consider it
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did i miss out on suggesting boss baby
Cuck Philosophy
That's certainly unexpected, but as long as you have an open mind, I'm glad you're on-board
Hi Cuck Philosophy. Wanted to say I really appreciate yours vids and find them very informative. I am in the ancap/alt-right/neoreactionary mix and we also shit on Sam Harris and to a lesser extent JBP. I am interested in having a more nuanced and less meme-y understanding of socialism and Marxism as well, and I hope I can provide you with fair criticism, probably citing some form of Austrian economic perspective. Cheers.
