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This. Is. The. Work. I am so encouraged and moved and terribly challenged by your videos. Thank you and please keep doing it!
But man, we need help... I felt like I knew all “this stuff” pretty well. Then I encountered myself in a controlled psychedelic experience and *jeeeeeeesus*, man — the shadow is *real*. And it’s holy and horrible and... terribly challenging as I said above.
I just.... It’s such challenging, brave work to confront this part of one’s self. And we need help learning how to engage these ideas experientially.
But I want to say, if it weren’t for exposure to Jung and other mystic-ish Doaist-ish conversations, I wouldn’t have fared half as well as I did when I confronted this side of me. It was in large part your videos that provide my encounter with Jung, who, in turn, provides my encounter with a kind of intelligent mythopoetic mysticism, which in turn provides all my connection to the goddam universe! So, yea, thanks for the videos. They really mattered to me.
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Well, I'm from Venezuela, a country that has a totalitarian goverment. Sometimes I feel pessimistic about my future, is difficult to know that every day things gets worse: food is more expensive, insecurity is rising, colleges are not working, etc. But I realized that doing nothing is not going to make things better, so I decided to move on and try to make some good, to make things a little better for me, my family and my country. I got two jobs, im about to join an university, and im self-learning english, all of these to someday being able to have a better life, and help other people in the same situation.
For now I just have to say that a love this channel, it's a great content, keep going!
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Von Mises stated that: If one rejects laissez-faire on account of man’s fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
In a free enterprise system the fundamental egoism underlying the human nature works as a tool to provide one’s fellow creatures with opportunities, so they too can climb out of poverty or just further themselves up the economic ladder.
A society moving towards socialism ends up with corruption. Socialism inevitably debouch into nepotism or cronyism through rhetoric promoting egalitarianism.
The nobel prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said ”Human beings are born with different capacities, if they are free, they are not equal. If they are equal, they are not free.”
I still think H.L Mencken said it best ”The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man’s mind. And no wonder, for genuine liberty demands of its votaries a quality he lacks completely, and that is courage. The man who loves it must be willing to fight for it; Blood, said Jefferson, is its natural manure. Liberty means self-reliance, it means resolution, it means the capacity for doing without... the average man doesn’t want to be free. He wants to be safe.”
When people are scared of failure they look for options- like parasites the idea of living off of someone else’s labour without the consequences of ever having tried.
These cycles of going from liberty to tyranny and back again seem to me inevitable. After a generation or two of prosperity on behalf of liberty the new generations forget the value of freedom, what it cost the previous generations and after selling themselves to the authoritarian rule a new generation has to fight for a new era of liberty. Just to be sold out again.
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As much as I love Nietzsche, I have to disagree with him on this one. Just because something cannot be directly perceived does not make it unreal. Sounds like he was actually using the defense mechanism of intellectualization to deal with his own feelings of suffering, to make his own life feel meaningful. To make such a bold claim about knowledge that is unknown and cannot be known until after death is unwise in my opinion.
I always lose a little bit of respect when philosophers degrade metaphysics, mysticism, spirituality, religion, or other forms of “otherworldly” knowledge, as it is not something that can be discussed with the same rationale that we do all other things. Rationale itself should provide one with that insight. Yet I find many philosophers to be atheistic, scoffing intellectuals. I really enjoy Jordan Peterson’s work, as he incorporates metaphysical experience into his rational thinking. He is very well rounded in that way. The power of spiritual experience is more than just a psychological wish. It is a real phenomenon. Perhaps realer than anything. It is a glimpse into the infinite. It is not easily debunked. It cannot be.
In my opinion, the idea that spiritual experiences are in fact spiritual experiences is parsimonious. I don’t believe it needs further explanation. To try and explain it away as a wish is more complicated than it needs to be. It’s too intellectual. It’s un-simple.
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That last bit is so true. I've always been an avid reader, not caring for the technological trends my peers always liked to latch onto. I don't have a Facebook page, an Instagram, a Twitter, a Vine, or any other insipid tech-fad. What allure does the act of browsing endless kissy-face selfies or mind-numbing, idiotic Tweets hold when I could engage myself rather with the musings of Shelley's outcast monster, or Dostoyevsky's self-loathing Underground Man? Each medium of art touches us in a different way. A great painting or piece of music can stir us deeply, but books have a way of sticking with us longer, the words on the page echoing within us, however faintly.
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