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Thank you so much!

Hahaha. I wish, but thank you for the compliment.

Hahaha. Gotta keep those enemies of the revolution safe from themselves.

Yeah man. It's just that my entire Master's course was conducted through Socratic dialogue, and in that I was humbled many times and took influence from my professors who used humor and irony in a very effective way. Unfortunately, I don't play chess, but thank you for the offer.

Why ew?

Never heard of it. What's it like?

@@ACrownofFlowers it's weird lol, it's "Turkish Delight", so it's like a giant chewy chocolate covered jujube bar. I like them. Idk they may be just available in Canada

@@kurtismayer0994 hahaha. That sounds good. I'll try to see if I can get ahold of any!

Thanks so much!

So true! I hesitated mentioning it because I feel like the modern term" disabled" is so loaded that I'm not sure that it would have been appropriate. And I agree, most übermenschen that I know of have been disabled women lol.

I know, I avoided mentioning that because I wasn't sure if it would be appropriate since being disabled is a relatively new concept-at least in the contemporary sense, but you're so right.

True, but it's a qualified trust.

@@ACrownofFlowers The Milgram experiment was a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram to test how far people would go when ordered to obey an authority figure. The experiment involved participants being told to administer electric shocks to a fellow participant, who was actually a confederate of Milgram's, if they answered a word pair incorrectly. The shocks increased in voltage with each wrong answer, and the confederate would eventually scream in agony. The experiment's results were striking: more than 60% of participants continued to shock the confederate, even after they appeared to be unconscious. The experiment's findings challenged the predictions of experts and demonstrated that people are more likely to follow orders from an authority figure than to act on their own conscience.

Agree. Me too. And I have noticed that the AI common filtering has been really draconian as of late.

Thank you. I really attribute that to my unorthodox liberal arts/classical education. Most recently all of my classes were based on singular portions of texts or one single work which we work through together as a class with the professors through Socratic dialogue. It helped me realize that, it's okay not to have a definite answer to things, or to leave things open-ended. I was also humbled many times, both by my professors, and people much smarter than me, which changed my perspective on a lot of things. I ultimately feel like I came out as a better person because of it, not just "smarter".

I would recommend almost any film by Ingmar Bergman, and the late romantic/early impressionist composers like Debussy and Ravel.

@ACrownofFlowers you've got fine taste my man,thank youu Also btw you happen to have a letterboxd and RYM accounts, might snipe some other recommendations along the line lol

@@lockytonight5110 I unfortunately don't, but you can always email me, and I'd happy to give you more.

@@ACrownofFlowers thankss, you should create one it helps you track what you've watched and listened to plus helps you get more recommendations

@@lockytonight5110 thanks. I will definitely look into it!

I mean, we can't really know, but one thing is for sure: that what we have now is a pay limitation of what they actually believed. I always respected Greek myth and philosophy for being more down to earth than Christianity. I personally ascribe to more Christian views just because of my culture, but I do admire that about their culture. And that's part of the reason why I devoted so much of my life to studying it.

@ However couldn’t you argue that Christianity within the western sphere was shaped by the Greek religion? Not just through the philosophical aspects, but also the use of Greek mythology to help interpret and visualise the concepts of the unseen within the bible?

You're right, but he wasn't Jewish 'til much later in his life. He actually grew up Christian, I believe. And also just like with the other aphorisms within his journals the ones that could be interpreted in an anti-jewish way far outnumber the ones speaking against mass movements, including the ones that didn't like Jewish people so much.

@@ACrownofFlowers Thanks!

@@kubricksghost6058 no problem thank you for your support and comment!

Hahaha. I'm flattered.

Thank you for so many recommendations!

Thank you I actually just finished my masters, so I'm taking a little break, but I probably eventually will get a PhD.

Glad to hear it. Thank you!

I'm afraid you're right.

I've read some Foucault, so I'll check that out! Thanks.

Thank you for that recommendation. I also find it funny that his last name is Kripal. 🤣

Thank you so much for your support and compliments!

Hahaha. I'm flattered!

Thank you so much, BRUH!

Thanks. I'm more of a Social Democrat. I'm disabled and really neither side has given concrete solutions to issues facing our community, and the Hegelian deterministic-type basis of a lot of socialist thought is actually really ableist in my opinion. (i.e. the obsession with traditional industrial forms of Labor and fixation on "progress" being the biggest). I don't think that just because you're socialist you're any more or less likely than some right-wing conservative capitalist to be ableist. However, whether disabled or not, I realize there is a lot of overlap between issues, so I'm basically the farthest left Social Democrat you can get before calling yourself a socialist. And yes, I do think that some sort of change is necessary but that that will realistically come as a transition (or I guess re-transition) to the socially democratic policies in place in North America before 1980. But I wouldn't say I'm hopeful about it.

@@ACrownofFlowers Interesting. I understand that someone could be culturally right wing and economically left wing (like the nazbols), but I was under the impression that socialism is more egalitarian than capitalism (and thus less ableist), since the focus is on the needs of working class and not that much in individual success. In the modern movements, have you encountered ableism in both sides (I am aware of it in capitilsm, what about socialism)?

@@skeletonfire1998 yeah, I have, because ableism is more of a social problem rather than a political one or an economic one. Socialist just like other people on the disability issue are too focused on "fixing" us, rather than giving us accommodations and viewing us as full human beings. No doubt the Soviet Union for most of the 20th century up until about 1970 was the best state on disability issues, but after that the United States did way more. It's not where it should be, but again, it's better than any current leftist policy. I think the left will say that they believe in the equality of disabled people, but then not do anything about it (like the right). Also, leftist criticism of the family doesn't really take into account how a radical disintegration of the family would effect disabled people, because the facts are that no state can offer a disabled person the same care as their immediate family usually speaking. Also, what about social integration if you can't work like some disabled people can't? Neither the left nor the right have an answer to that which is satisfactory, and which doesn't fall back on some technocratic spiel about how we need to be "cured". A lot of disabled people don't belong to any "class", and no political movement knows what to do with us because of that.

@@ACrownofFlowers ​​@ACrownofFlowers Thank you for the valuable insights, I hadn't thought about those points that extensively before, I'll do my best to integrate them to my world view. I'm not that well read yet, however when you mention the abolition of the family as it is today, I assume you refer to the relevant passage from the communist manifesto. I was under the impression that it didn't refer to the abolition of the family immediately after a socialist revolution, but after the establishment of communism, in a post scarcity society, which means that the government would be sufficiently rich to be able to equate the living opportunities of disabled people to the non-disabled ones. Additionally, in such a society, I think that the famous motto "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" will apply, so in case a disabled person were not able to contribute as much, this would not affect the services they deserve.

I appreciate that. I want to make clear that I still consider myself on the left, they're just a few things that I don't really agree with that keep me from adopting the label of "socialist". Also, even if that were the case about disabled people what about people within the Communist system not really giving us the time of day. I don't see how the arrival of Communism would change the fact that I'm discriminated against in daily social interactions with people, and how that would suddenly change. I mean this especially on the relationship from because like I would like a family of my own eventually. I'm also not sure a post-scarcity society will ever exist. Just on a natural level we will always be competing with other organisms for resources and to me it's always seemed a little bit too human-centric to just think that will eventually get to a post scarcity society. Also, I highly recommend you read "The German Ideology", because that goes into some of the historical forces which led to the development of capitalism a lot better. I think it's clearer than Das Kapital in that way.

Hahaha. That's what the UA-camr Drew Durnil calls them. That's where I got it from.

Glad to help, and have you come to a better understanding.

Hahaha. Thanks!

Yeah, that's exactly it. Really the main crux of it is that he didn't see misfortunes like disability as solely a disadvantage or cause for pity for the most part. And I do think that able-bodied people fail to really treat us as full humans, for better and for worse. Thank you!

I'm flattered.

No, but I have to because you're like the 5th or 6th person that has mentioned him. Thank you!

Hahaha. Thanks so much!

He did.

No problem.

Thank you so much!

I thought it was the opposite just because I thought vernacular was generally taken to have a negative connotation. I always get confused about which terms to use and which not to use.

@@ACrownofFlowers Its not bad at all! Most people use the term AVVE to explain African American english, or just urban slang, but ”AVVE” is more popular, easier to write, but use any term you like! Also, have a good evening gabey gabe :3

@bwitenbymisa ah, I see. Thanks!

Hahaha. Thanks! The funny thing is that I didn't even know that was a work of his. I was just trying to give my thoughts on the general concept and its interactions with people in society. I'm more influenced by Hannah Arendt myself.

@@ACrownofFlowers I'm influenced by Bruce Lee, Robert Anton Wilson, Timothy Leary, and Aleister Crowley.

@@ACrownofFlowers "Her works cover a broad range of topics, but she is best known for those dealing with the nature of wealth, power and evil, as well as politics, direct democracy, authority, tradition and totalitarianism." I'm actually interested in some of those same topics, but arrive at my philosophy through other means, which might be described as tapping into the collective unconscious. The knowledge can be found almost anywhere and exists on a hierarchy of energy and information. It's basically scattered or enfolded everywhere, according to Bohm's implicate order, going from Kether or "God" down to Malkuth (where it's the most scattered). It's essentially physics and based on the concept of interference patterns.

Cheers!

Thank you!

Thanks!

Hahaha. I'm glad you consider it a gift!

Yeah, the central thing that really made him different was that he was not given so easily to pity.

@@ACrownofFlowers i really loved this essay! looking forward for more videos 🥳

@@mooapologist thank you for support!

"Philosophers up to now have only interpreted the world, the point is to change it."

Hahaha. Good to see you.

I know! Especially coming from a cripple like myself. Hahaha!