Hang on... trying to think here... is it actually possible for someone to be both your uncle and your cousin? So if your granddad fucked your mom... and had a kid with her... and then that kid fucked your grandmom, and had a kid with her... and... that kid had a kid with your grandmom... uh... :\
Ditto I think a stack of euro wars were really fought over the Americas and the ability to exploit all that never mined or farmed land. The discovery of America added to the already existing frenzy of greed in the European ruling class.
Isn't the book not only almost a decade old at this point and with the author seemingly having no knowledge of mandarin and as a result no access or use of the vast majority of both CPC and Chinese historiography and internal reports and archives. How can someone go into a book like this trusting it to be both accurate in its proclamations and descriptions and even if it was 8 years ago that it is similarly now after all the huge changes and new cold war molding that has happened in the last 5-6 years. Just by being a pre new cold war book a bunch of geopolitical and economic claims are bound to already dated and have changed by this point. Like for example Chinese going all in in shifting into a high tech onsumption economy as fast as possible, pushing for de-dollarization, Brics expansion, regulatory crackdowns increasing manyfold, 2 new five year plans. China, the cpc and the chinese-american relationship and the changes it forces onto China are far from what they were in let's say 2014
The history knows where it is because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is, whichever is greater, it obtains a difference, or deviation.
I think when we die we fart really loud, and that's your soul floating out to go get flushed down the astral toilet. Then the afterlife is just an endless video game sewer level.
Matt mentions in his philosophy/religion/science/autobiographical ramble, which was awesome by the way, the cleavage between his/our narrative experience of reality and the things that are happening/we are sensing. It reminds me deeply of the zazen practice. Zen sitting has nothing to do with your breathing but is an attempt to dispense with narrative and embrace existence as it is being sensed at the moment. Zazen is almost offensively simple but can be an intense encounter with the falling away of narrative. Outside of the religious trappings, I think that's often why people don't like zen, you literally just sit there with your own existence in your body and your mind and reality at that moment and attempt to not run away. That whole hedonic pursuit is running away while zen is choosing to specifically practice not running. I don't think Zen is the answer to the contemporary sociopolitical-economic vacuum that religion would fit into. Instead, "just sitting" is an action you can take to respond to the awfulness of the narrative experience of life, regardless of the variety of material circumstances that you find yourself in.
No particles were observed going back in time, the particle just came from a really weird direction that doesn’t really make sense when observing cosmic ray and theoretical speculation has gone off the rail, it’s also not been shown to be a repeatable result.
dude yea right , you just KNOW they were going backwards u can just tell. plus the scientist when he saw them he ask them “hey where are you coming from” and without a word the particle just pointed to Forward, and it was dead silent and the scientist jaw DROPPED it was so fucking creepy but hey it’s like I always say, we live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far
You should read Cheng Enfu's book "China's Economic Dialectic" for a perspective on Reform and Opening Up from an important Marxist who actually lives and works in China. He is Professor and President of the Academy of Marxism, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), and the editor of International Critical Though and World Review of Political Economy.
NGL Matt's spiritual journey threw me like a trebuchet. It feels so personal to his own experience to neuroticism and hypochondria, that it feels like him sharing his own comfort blanket. He had some interesting ideas like a greater consciousness somewhere in quantum mechanics, but then seemed to describe that entity in a somewhat determinist frame, which, to me, contradicts his own desire to see change in material conditions through action.
Quantum mechanics is still deterministic, just in states we don't understand. The hint is in the name: quanta, that all physical aspects/properties can be quantized into discreet values. We're all just in one big canonical ensemble of microstates, and the uncertainty from the atomic realm stacks to the meter scale. I might know my own position, both physically and psychologically, but you can never really know with certainty your trajectory or momentum. Deterministic doesn't mean predetermined, certainly not in the context of human affairs. The contradictions between cosmology and material reality (more importantly, our ability to act in a coordinated manner to shift reality) you're describing is glancing at the whole rub of being human. Dialectical materialism is the study of that contradiction, and it's application to the human world. Mao's "On Contradiction" is pretty good here. Engles said "Motion itself is a contradiction" decades and decades before Heisenberg talked about the contradiction of momentum and position.
@@c.andrew3944 You'll have to forgive me since I'm not well read at all, but I do wanna engage with this. I suppose what you say makes senses, if I were to translate it to lay-speak (for the sake of my own comprehension), as we are unable to know the inevitable outcome of the future, and so our effort to carve a path is a part of that inevitable future. I guess my trouble is finding a sensible link between the flawed perception of living consciousness, the validity of our experiences reliant on that perception leading to social concepts like solidarity, being willing to sacrifice most or all that you have based on a valid yet flawed perception, and then "waking up" to a oneness or interconnectedness that is also unknowable after the death of the body. Please point out if I am missing something. Am I perhaps thinking if this flawed perception in a moralistic frame?
@@Superhrnet Read "On Contradiction" then, it's short! the audiobook is on UA-cam. But I found it to be mostly propaganda to justify the CPC's temporary alignment with the Kuomintang. Maybe that was a cynical reading.
"The light is calming, and puts your mind at ease. Go to the light. Currently, you may be feeling sad, or angry. Perhaps you never got to have grandkids? Or to enjoy the pleasures of a fresh cigar, but march with your chin held high soldier! And remember, that each of us has an important role to play." 'Democracy Inaction'
20:39 I’m a big believer in the power of retroactivity. It’s like Lacan and his concept of *_“Quilting Point” (“Point de Capiton”)._* It’s also Freud’s concept of *_“Afterwardsness”_* (or *_“Nachträglichkeit.”)_* The entire first hour of Christman’s lecture is him confirming the psychoanalytic view of reality and of Human Subjectivity. It’s wonderful 😊
Peasants ate a lot more than starch. You can pretty much eat all of the weeds, if you know which part to pick when, so they were making soup with tons of herbs in it pretty constantly. Most places you were allowed to fish all you wanted. Some places peas were the staple -- thus the rhyme about peas porridge. Anyways, proper red meat WAS expensive and/or reserved for the upper classes. I guess that explains guys getting spit-roasted in peasant rebellions.
Not to sound white nationalist or anything, but feudal Europe really wasn't quite the hellscape for peasants as portrayed in media in general. I mean it was still pretty awful, but I think even Matt has said similar things, such as that peasants had more work days off compared to modern wage slaves.
Young China by Zak Dychtwald is quite an excellent book Not sure it will be show worthy. However, as an American, he addresses alot of tropes I hadn't known. It's a good and easy read. If you see this, thanks for all the book reviews
While we are on East Asia, I really would be up for Matt doing a book on Japan. Kinda irrelevant I know, but it seems like it would be interesting. Matt seems to have a little bit of a blindspot to Japan in general (weebs makes that understandable), but it really is a fascinating case study of Capitalism since its rise as the first industrialized Asian country, not to mention being such a cultural liberal foil to second and third world Asia. I dont know, maybe if he played more Nintendo as a kid that might have been a gateway to liking Japanese shit.
I don’t think given how similar the book you read seems to be that it would be worth reading Li Minqi’s The Rise of China, but I do think you should consider its alternative interpretation of a similar Wallerstein-esque view of China as a capitalist state among many in the capitalist world economy. Essentially, Li Minqi argues that because China is so large that it will monopolize the semi-periphery and thus cause a collapse of the stability of the capitalist world economy - thus opening new possibilities.
Nick Mullen just mentioned on his podcast this week that there was this weird looking kid who worked at Stand Up New York Labs named Shelby and that he one day basically pitch the complete cast of Chapo Trap House.
real shit could someone give me a TL;DR? I'm having trouble connecting the first part about Lutheranism with the latter part about China's consumption growth
Idk if he reads these comments but Matt should really play pentiment. It takes place in Bavaria a year after Martin Luther puts up the 95 theses and goes over the German peasants war, plus the gameplay is pretty simple
China is not willing to replace the hegemony of the dollar, but the more economic growth China have there will be more pressure from the US, as the pivot to Asia from Obama and the Trump trade war showed, and this will force China to fight US hegemony.
The most insane reading of the Terror I’ve ever seen. Matt’s doing the Zizek thing of making analysis solely on western pop academic versions of history, and Cold War versions of history at that, and then extrapolating philosophical reasons for events that are so far afield that I actually feel high listening to him talk about it. If anyone cares to read a few things that are a little more grounded in reality, try out Origin of the Great Purge by J. Arch Getty, and for an account of China up to the Cultural Revolution check out Wind In The Tower by Han Suyin.
Oof! Big trans feels at Matt's spiel about being separated from the body! So many people from all walks of life are alienated from ourselves by the world.
Notes - part 1: Let's chat chats democratic oh man somebody writes a oh s*** that would be a great name for a book about like the online left - chance Democrats delicious pun on a seminal work on working class politics by Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic 4:55 Just shut up about the robot voice. 6:43 ..the dream police they live inside of my head... 8:25 ...bc our relationship to our body is already an abstraction 8:38 Our belief in ourselves is as fundamentally religious as our belief in God Or science or anything else and that's the thing that new atheism misses and always did. The very self that you're trying to use to determine reality through rational faculties is a theological conviction because you are in the backwash of this body the mind is only processing stuff that the body has already done in response to an environment that it is in. 10:30 If Twitter goes away... I'm making connections that change my hedonic calculus... 12:30 ...if you trust your body... 14:00 to live life, prepare for death 16:55 if we can describe the universe we become God. That I think is the underlying metaphysical logic of capitalism. 18:00 Taoism is the one religion that is not terminally poisoned by the logic of class society. 19:35 you need a class society to allow people to provide instruction... 20:00 Christman catechism. 25:00 Luther tries to save feudalism -fails. Calvin then emerges with the birth of capitalism. 49:17 The middle is reality. Our misperception of the universe around us... The inherent misperception that comes from being embodied by senses that separate. Buddhist sutta: when for you, it is true that with the seeing there's only the seen, with the hearing there's only the heard with the sensing there's only the sensed with the cognizing there's only the cognized - then you will be free of dukkha. 56:15 "treats" - don't know what is so offensive about describing it that way. 58:22 Any religious tradition that separates the sheep from the goats, the saved from the unsaved is reactionary - tout court.
Notes - part 2: 1:14:24 Actual book review begins! 1:19:30 yes, people are dying, blah blah blah... 1:19:44 The British... the most reptilian country. 1:35:49 The US and the Chinese economies are totally interdependent at the level where neither side can independently reorient their economies. 1:52:13 Since China cannot quit the US dollar without cutting their own throats they can not build an alternative to the global US capitalist system. in order for China to call the shots in a meaningful way right let's take this as a syllogism, they would have to have effective control of the world Reserve currency but in order to do that they would have to get rid of the capital controls in their money market and if they do that that is the death warrant of the Communist Party of China as an independent power repository. 2:01:20 "Twitter is a powerful load-bearing structure of the attention economy." How pathetic!
We’re still just fancy animals. The only thing worth doing is realizing your true nature and not live as an ego/identity. But no one cares… no one wants to do that. Everything in our society is about glorifying the ego, reverse incentives for the public good, and making money the highest moral ideal. It’s all truly horrifying and heartbreaking. And then everyone is fantasizing about how their ego is going to live on after death when it is definitely going to die with your body. I’d like to think we all realize self.. the divine self? When we die, but it’s probably going to suck and your last thought are plarrgggghhh before the lights go out.
I can't accept this bizarre idiosyncratic take on faith for many reasons. Ultimately, it gives everyone what they want, but not what they think they want, which is the absolute hubris that has led to every other form of liberal faith where you get to do whatever you want plus know that the universe wants you to do exactly that. Further, Matt, I love you man but stick to politics and history. When you bring up stuff like "quantum mechanics" and use that as a breadbox to smuggle in philosophy, it's the exact same trick as everyone who is innocently wrong about their own religion or deliberately scamming someone in the name of religion does, such as Deepak Chopra and all the rest. The problem with simulation theory is the same with deism before it, liberal Protestantism before it, and many versions of mysticism and gnosticsism before it - that something must be true just because it can be imagined and be made complex. Brother, the atheists were right all along. If you want the secular humanist side of atheism because of some need not to scare off the centrists and liberal Protestants, sure, you do you. Humanists usually have pretty good instincts. But maybe worry less about what things are called. And less wishcasting a personal philosophy into faith. You get one chance, and the best of us - including you - end up making it better for others, so thanks for that. That's all there is and all there needs to be.
Yeah he lost me at that part. Talking ab some Marvel fantasy "quantum realm" where just because we can't measure and explain what happens there it must contain everything that we can't explain
will twitter just die already... i actually need it for work but the workers and demand for their labour doesnt vanish with the website. So i would welcome a good shakeup to the status quo.
Is it possible that one comes to the realization after a collapse of the self? Can one can be reborn and realize the freedom one has after destruction? "It is only when we lose everything that we are free to do anything we want." Tyler Durden
@@joshuamarx8209 well yeah obviously that combined currency block would be a good alternative to the dollar based on growth metrics and stability. I like BRICS. I'm a BRICSBRO.
Aww, what happened to the Tim Pool subscriber here in the comments? Pretty weak to stumble into a Red Prophet Diatribe, drop a troll, get burnt & flee.
Was wondering the same thing. Did he delete all his comments? Guess that's the new Alpha move. Gonna take my comments and go home so you commies can't read my galaxy brain wisdom!
No better feeling then when your cyber uncle cousin gives you a two hour video
Matt definitely has some amount of uncle magic
Hang on... trying to think here... is it actually possible for someone to be both your uncle and your cousin?
So if your granddad fucked your mom... and had a kid with her... and then that kid fucked your grandmom, and had a kid with her... and... that kid had a kid with your grandmom... uh... :\
Pretty good episode, excited for the 30 Years War podcast since it seems like that's a very important era for Matt's overall beliefs.
Ditto I think a stack of euro wars were really fought over the Americas and the ability to exploit all that never mined or farmed land. The discovery of America added to the already existing frenzy of greed in the European ruling class.
I read that as: Matt’s overall beefs
@@emmy8526 same difference
Thank you for the video Matt we appreciate it don't we folx
Four More Beers!
Anyone here from the GQ article needs to understand Matt is a true gentleman. This is the peak of manliness.
I got here from their 23 Ways to Dress Like a Baby article
Nah, he doesn't tweet enough.
Gentlemen’s Quarterly 😎
Should have been George Magazine
The reason there is no left “is bc they are whetted to their obedience”-man he has their number.
Came for the robot voice. Wasn't disappointed.
Oh my God 😱
Man single-handedly keeping White Claw in business.
I always look forward to the robotic meanderings of our Matt Christmas 🤖💨
The hymns of Christmann never get old.
he made me love the cringe.
Nice and long, just the way we love it folks
It’s spelled folx please don’t be a bigot
@@jennacalifornia8889 I'm so sorry, I will punish myself
We love to see it.
38:35 "It doesn't matter. None of this matters." - noted philosopher Carl Brutananadilewski
Just say Smith or Jones or something
Really liked this stream very wholesome and soulful
Twitter really was the friends we met along the way
I’m an hour in & haven’t heard a single word about the China book.
Which is fine.
fwiw i dont mind the robot voice
Isn't the book not only almost a decade old at this point and with the author seemingly having no knowledge of mandarin and as a result no access or use of the vast majority of both CPC and Chinese historiography and internal reports and archives. How can someone go into a book like this trusting it to be both accurate in its proclamations and descriptions and even if it was 8 years ago that it is similarly now after all the huge changes and new cold war molding that has happened in the last 5-6 years. Just by being a pre new cold war book a bunch of geopolitical and economic claims are bound to already dated and have changed by this point. Like for example Chinese going all in in shifting into a high tech onsumption economy as fast as possible, pushing for de-dollarization, Brics expansion, regulatory crackdowns increasing manyfold, 2 new five year plans. China, the cpc and the chinese-american relationship and the changes it forces onto China are far from what they were in let's say 2014
No no, don't you see? you can't trust CPC internal reports, archives, or any of that nonsense cause obviously it's all Chinese propaganda!
Then what's a better book that's more in line with present conditions?
Gotta agree, not sure what matt's goal is here
@@berdyderg900 To read a book about China.
The history knows where it is because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is, whichever is greater, it obtains a difference, or deviation.
It's hard to share exactly why, but a lot of what Matt has talked about has helped me immensely. Thank you, Matt.
Putting voice to the disjointed ideas bouncing around in my head. Nice to hear others express them clearly and cleanly.
Augury: Just as I watched Matt talked about the future of the US a bald eagle swooped down in my front yard, being pursued by three crows.
2 hours? Praise the omnissiah
I did it all for the CushVlogs!
I think when we die we fart really loud, and that's your soul floating out to go get flushed down the astral toilet. Then the afterlife is just an endless video game sewer level.
Sounds like The Warp from Warhammer 40K
Youre a genious.
God is a concept by which we measure our own pain.
Our Lord Zordon Christman! I live for these kind of vlogs. Just what I needed today.
We love our Big Hari Seldon don’t we folks
Matt mentions in his philosophy/religion/science/autobiographical ramble, which was awesome by the way, the cleavage between his/our narrative experience of reality and the things that are happening/we are sensing.
It reminds me deeply of the zazen practice. Zen sitting has nothing to do with your breathing but is an attempt to dispense with narrative and embrace existence as it is being sensed at the moment. Zazen is almost offensively simple but can be an intense encounter with the falling away of narrative.
Outside of the religious trappings, I think that's often why people don't like zen, you literally just sit there with your own existence in your body and your mind and reality at that moment and attempt to not run away.
That whole hedonic pursuit is running away while zen is choosing to specifically practice not running.
I don't think Zen is the answer to the contemporary sociopolitical-economic vacuum that religion would fit into. Instead, "just sitting" is an action you can take to respond to the awfulness of the narrative experience of life, regardless of the variety of material circumstances that you find yourself in.
No particles were observed going back in time, the particle just came from a really weird direction that doesn’t really make sense when observing cosmic ray and theoretical speculation has gone off the rail, it’s also not been shown to be a repeatable result.
dude yea right , you just KNOW they were going backwards u can just tell. plus the scientist when he saw them he ask them “hey where are you coming from” and without a word the particle just pointed to Forward, and it was dead silent and the scientist jaw DROPPED it was so fucking creepy but hey it’s like I always say, we live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far
"Their comfort depends on it." that one hit me.
Thanks Matt. Processing some of the things you mention in this. Insightful video.
You should read Cheng Enfu's book "China's Economic Dialectic" for a perspective on Reform and Opening Up from an important Marxist who actually lives and works in China. He is Professor and President of the Academy of Marxism, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), and the editor of International Critical Though and World Review of Political Economy.
NGL Matt's spiritual journey threw me like a trebuchet. It feels so personal to his own experience to neuroticism and hypochondria, that it feels like him sharing his own comfort blanket. He had some interesting ideas like a greater consciousness somewhere in quantum mechanics, but then seemed to describe that entity in a somewhat determinist frame, which, to me, contradicts his own desire to see change in material conditions through action.
Quantum mechanics is still deterministic, just in states we don't understand. The hint is in the name: quanta, that all physical aspects/properties can be quantized into discreet values. We're all just in one big canonical ensemble of microstates, and the uncertainty from the atomic realm stacks to the meter scale. I might know my own position, both physically and psychologically, but you can never really know with certainty your trajectory or momentum. Deterministic doesn't mean predetermined, certainly not in the context of human affairs. The contradictions between cosmology and material reality (more importantly, our ability to act in a coordinated manner to shift reality) you're describing is glancing at the whole rub of being human. Dialectical materialism is the study of that contradiction, and it's application to the human world. Mao's "On Contradiction" is pretty good here. Engles said "Motion itself is a contradiction" decades and decades before Heisenberg talked about the contradiction of momentum and position.
@@c.andrew3944 You'll have to forgive me since I'm not well read at all, but I do wanna engage with this. I suppose what you say makes senses, if I were to translate it to lay-speak (for the sake of my own comprehension), as we are unable to know the inevitable outcome of the future, and so our effort to carve a path is a part of that inevitable future. I guess my trouble is finding a sensible link between the flawed perception of living consciousness, the validity of our experiences reliant on that perception leading to social concepts like solidarity, being willing to sacrifice most or all that you have based on a valid yet flawed perception, and then "waking up" to a oneness or interconnectedness that is also unknowable after the death of the body. Please point out if I am missing something. Am I perhaps thinking if this flawed perception in a moralistic frame?
@@Superhrnet Read "On Contradiction" then, it's short! the audiobook is on UA-cam. But I found it to be mostly propaganda to justify the CPC's temporary alignment with the Kuomintang. Maybe that was a cynical reading.
the stuff about how you get to decide how to let pain hit you was very helpful
"The light is calming, and puts your mind at ease. Go to the light. Currently, you may be feeling sad, or angry. Perhaps you never got to have grandkids? Or to enjoy the pleasures of a fresh cigar, but march with your chin held high soldier! And remember, that each of us has an important role to play."
'Democracy Inaction'
goblet mode
20:39 I’m a big believer in the power of retroactivity. It’s like Lacan and his concept of *_“Quilting Point” (“Point de Capiton”)._* It’s also Freud’s concept of *_“Afterwardsness”_* (or *_“Nachträglichkeit.”)_*
The entire first hour of Christman’s lecture is him confirming the psychoanalytic view of reality and of Human Subjectivity. It’s wonderful 😊
we love _jouissance_ don’t we folks
@@severalwolves Love 🥰(J)ouissance, hate hate hate 😠Enjoyment!!!!
that cup YAS QUEEN
Peasants ate a lot more than starch. You can pretty much eat all of the weeds, if you know which part to pick when, so they were making soup with tons of herbs in it pretty constantly. Most places you were allowed to fish all you wanted. Some places peas were the staple -- thus the rhyme about peas porridge. Anyways, proper red meat WAS expensive and/or reserved for the upper classes. I guess that explains guys getting spit-roasted in peasant rebellions.
Not to sound white nationalist or anything, but feudal Europe really wasn't quite the hellscape for peasants as portrayed in media in general. I mean it was still pretty awful, but I think even Matt has said similar things, such as that peasants had more work days off compared to modern wage slaves.
I love this so much I hope Matt is feeling ok now
Can you do a book? I can’t keep up with the beautiful vlogs. I love the talks and they’re very helpful. Thank you.
We love hearing Matt sing Peter Gabriel don’t we folks
We love classic Genesis folks, WE LOVE IT
I really like these vlogs.
Me too :)
Your voice modulation sounds like Drax at the end of Moonraker.
"First there was a dream. Now, there is reality."
Young China by Zak Dychtwald is quite an excellent book
Not sure it will be show worthy. However, as an American, he addresses alot of tropes I hadn't known. It's a good and easy read.
If you see this, thanks for all the book reviews
Always the years between us. Always the years. Always the love. Always the hours.
Thank you Matt for doing these ,the stimulation has become bread , at least here in this deep dark pit commonly called Ohio.
the Germany of American states...
@@rb5519 try being a Pollock here , very nervous
@@jeffpicklo525 I hear u , the last time I tried being a pollock I got paint spilled all over my shit
@@severalwolves well crafted joke sir 👍
If Ohio is America’s Germany, who is America’s Austria? My vote is for Kentucky, but I could see W. Virginia as a contender
43:46 the robot voice is healed! Thank Luther's influence!
46:30 it comes back... maybe the Hell talk.
Literally had no idea Matt was the guy from Three Doors Down.
Hope Matt is enjoying the football world cup
i would know if matt is replaced with a clone if the audio starts working perfectly
While we are on East Asia, I really would be up for Matt doing a book on Japan. Kinda irrelevant I know, but it seems like it would be interesting. Matt seems to have a little bit of a blindspot to Japan in general (weebs makes that understandable), but it really is a fascinating case study of Capitalism since its rise as the first industrialized Asian country, not to mention being such a cultural liberal foil to second and third world Asia. I dont know, maybe if he played more Nintendo as a kid that might have been a gateway to liking Japanese shit.
I don’t think given how similar the book you read seems to be that it would be worth reading Li Minqi’s The Rise of China, but I do think you should consider its alternative interpretation of a similar Wallerstein-esque view of China as a capitalist state among many in the capitalist world economy. Essentially, Li Minqi argues that because China is so large that it will monopolize the semi-periphery and thus cause a collapse of the stability of the capitalist world economy - thus opening new possibilities.
You are no Boomer.
You were born time out of mind.
Nick Mullen just mentioned on his podcast this week that there was this weird looking kid who worked at Stand Up New York Labs named Shelby and that he one day basically pitch the complete cast of Chapo Trap House.
Holy SHIT he's singing Arcade Fire
real shit could someone give me a TL;DR? I'm having trouble connecting the first part about Lutheranism with the latter part about China's consumption growth
Good ole' Neon reference. love to see it
Taoism objectively true, thank you Matt.
It is insane that Matt cannot figure out how to do this without fucking up the audio.
why cant I have self actualized treats )))):
Idk if he reads these comments but Matt should really play pentiment. It takes place in Bavaria a year after Martin Luther puts up the 95 theses and goes over the German peasants war, plus the gameplay is pretty simple
Damn I forgot about some of the old arcade fire songs until now
China is not willing to replace the hegemony of the dollar, but the more economic growth China have there will be more pressure from the US, as the pivot to Asia from Obama and the Trump trade war showed, and this will force China to fight US hegemony.
Wow I can’t wait to learn something about China
Brics currency is the potential alternative to the usd. Now whether or not China would have dominant control over it... idk
you'd think they'd be motivated to throw off dollar slavery, maybe at some point they will.
Read at least 2 more china books plz
Is Matt the voice of Cad Bane?
best one for ages
Matt's on a roll, folks!
Need a Sega Solid Snake filter over robot voice Matt
The most insane reading of the Terror I’ve ever seen. Matt’s doing the Zizek thing of making analysis solely on western pop academic versions of history, and Cold War versions of history at that, and then extrapolating philosophical reasons for events that are so far afield that I actually feel high listening to him talk about it. If anyone cares to read a few things that are a little more grounded in reality, try out Origin of the Great Purge by J. Arch Getty, and for an account of China up to the Cultural Revolution check out Wind In The Tower by Han Suyin.
thx for the book recommendations
Well, he'll read books if people recommend them... Tell him where to get some better takes.
Oof! Big trans feels at Matt's spiel about being separated from the body! So many people from all walks of life are alienated from ourselves by the world.
But he's not trans though, that's just something many people experience without at all relating it to sexuality or gender or whatever
@@berdyderg900 I thought my comment made that clear...
@@ObsessivebyNaturePod I mean I know what you're doing but yeah technically, sure
Is this dude referencing tachyons in Watchmen at 21:50?
Matt should just go ahead with fully distorted electronic voice for his next stream.
Notes - part 1:
Let's chat chats democratic oh man somebody writes a oh s*** that would be a great name for a book about like the online left - chance Democrats delicious pun on a seminal work on working class politics by Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic
4:55
Just shut up about the robot voice.
6:43
..the dream police they live inside of my head...
8:25
...bc our relationship to our body is already an abstraction
8:38
Our belief in ourselves is as fundamentally religious as our belief in God Or science or anything else and that's the thing that new atheism misses and always did. The very self that you're trying to use to determine reality through rational faculties is a theological conviction because you are in the backwash of this body the mind is only processing stuff that the body has already done in response to an environment that it is in.
10:30
If Twitter goes away... I'm making connections that change my hedonic calculus...
12:30
...if you trust your body...
14:00
to live life, prepare for death
16:55
if we can describe the universe we become God. That I think is the underlying metaphysical logic of capitalism.
18:00
Taoism is the one religion that is not terminally poisoned by the logic of class society.
19:35
you need a class society to allow people to provide instruction...
20:00
Christman catechism.
25:00
Luther tries to save feudalism -fails.
Calvin then emerges with the birth of capitalism.
49:17
The middle is reality.
Our misperception of the universe around us...
The inherent misperception that comes from being embodied by senses that separate.
Buddhist sutta: when for you, it is true that with the seeing there's only the seen, with the hearing there's only the heard with the sensing there's only the sensed with the cognizing there's only the cognized - then you will be free of dukkha.
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"treats" - don't know what is so offensive about describing it that way.
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Any religious tradition that separates the sheep from the goats, the saved from the unsaved is reactionary - tout court.
Notes - part 2:
1:14:24
Actual book review begins!
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yes, people are dying, blah blah blah...
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The British... the most reptilian country.
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The US and the Chinese economies are totally interdependent at the level where neither side can independently reorient their economies.
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Since China cannot quit the US dollar without cutting their own throats they can not build an alternative to the global US capitalist system.
in order for China to call the shots in a meaningful way right let's take this as a syllogism, they would have to have effective control of the world Reserve currency but in order to do that they would have to get rid of the capital controls in their money market and if they do that that is the death warrant of the Communist Party of China as an independent power repository.
2:01:20
"Twitter is a powerful load-bearing structure of the attention economy."
How pathetic!
Thanks for the notes
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Dang it! Twitch didn't notify me. (or I missed it)
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We’re still just fancy animals. The only thing worth doing is realizing your true nature and not live as an ego/identity. But no one cares… no one wants to do that. Everything in our society is about glorifying the ego, reverse incentives for the public good, and making money the highest moral ideal. It’s all truly horrifying and heartbreaking. And then everyone is fantasizing about how their ego is going to live on after death when it is definitely going to die with your body. I’d like to think we all realize self.. the divine self? When we die, but it’s probably going to suck and your last thought are plarrgggghhh before the lights go out.
Anyone who commented before me is gay. Also I'm gay. What's up?
I wish I was gay
@@Fluxquark i was gonna be gay but in the end i couldnt be arsed...
I can't accept this bizarre idiosyncratic take on faith for many reasons. Ultimately, it gives everyone what they want, but not what they think they want, which is the absolute hubris that has led to every other form of liberal faith where you get to do whatever you want plus know that the universe wants you to do exactly that. Further, Matt, I love you man but stick to politics and history. When you bring up stuff like "quantum mechanics" and use that as a breadbox to smuggle in philosophy, it's the exact same trick as everyone who is innocently wrong about their own religion or deliberately scamming someone in the name of religion does, such as Deepak Chopra and all the rest.
The problem with simulation theory is the same with deism before it, liberal Protestantism before it, and many versions of mysticism and gnosticsism before it - that something must be true just because it can be imagined and be made complex. Brother, the atheists were right all along. If you want the secular humanist side of atheism because of some need not to scare off the centrists and liberal Protestants, sure, you do you. Humanists usually have pretty good instincts. But maybe worry less about what things are called. And less wishcasting a personal philosophy into faith. You get one chance, and the best of us - including you - end up making it better for others, so thanks for that. That's all there is and all there needs to be.
Yeah he lost me at that part. Talking ab some Marvel fantasy "quantum realm" where just because we can't measure and explain what happens there it must contain everything that we can't explain
I wanna see Matt debate Destiny. I'd pay per view it.
treats!
will twitter just die already... i actually need it for work but the workers and demand for their labour doesnt vanish with the website. So i would welcome a good shakeup to the status quo.
Love you Matt but you really need to read a book on the middle ages cus this is not correct.
Is it possible that one comes to the realization after a collapse of the self? Can one can be reborn and realize the freedom one has after destruction?
"It is only when we lose everything that we are free to do anything we want."
Tyler Durden
Weed is a hell of a drug
Good sode, I would be down for another china book
The analysis presented here totally ignores the multifaceted potential of the establishment of BRICS...
Very peculiar omission quite frankly.
Invest in BRICS folks.
@@c.andrew3944 I was speaking in terms of the Chinese social & economic position, but yeah you do whatever..
@@joshuamarx8209 well yeah obviously that combined currency block would be a good alternative to the dollar based on growth metrics and stability. I like BRICS. I'm a BRICSBRO.
Aww, what happened to the Tim Pool subscriber here in the comments?
Pretty weak to stumble into a Red Prophet Diatribe, drop a troll, get burnt & flee.
Was wondering the same thing. Did he delete all his comments? Guess that's the new Alpha move. Gonna take my comments and go home so you commies can't read my galaxy brain wisdom!
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