Comments by "Edwin Robinson" (@eorobinson3) on "Then & Now" channel.

  1. Criminal that this channel doesn't have more subscribers and it's not like I am the first person to make this point.
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  2. mass psychological conformity is an ageless phenomena...
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  3. The Excesses of (Purifying) Pathological Righteousness: “The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’—this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.” Aldous Huxley
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  4. Well my day just got better.
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  5. What Soren Kierkegaard was criticizing was our obsession with absolutes and how absolutes don’t matter because they serve as pull down forces—as concrete weight on our ability to move, a kind of negative gravity, an obstacle to action...
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  6. Your dark-pursuit of modernities mundane instrumentally reasoned underbelly, is always a grandly refreshing exploration into historical modalities (Oakeshott) that produce both truth and terrible untruth.
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  7. Fine work as usual but I sense a timidity to intellectually explore and grapple beyond your (ideological) comfort zone. Not a criticism just an observation. You should do Owen Barfield or Michael/Karl Polanyi....Ortega Y Gasset...branch out my man to areas and ideas you may not agree with. That’s the true intellectual adventure; you’re not pushing into uncharted philosophical/economic/sociological or political territory but rather playing in familiar places—landscapes you’ve already absorbed during your collegiate career, which have clearly taken deep root into your frame of thought, and thusly are the area you are most at ease in analyzing/discussing. It’s entirely understandable but: The point is: you already agree with the work you present (in making your extended arguments), and that’s a safe arena. You do not engage those whose ideas you might disagree with, with the exception of a single libertarian author and Only because he challenged John Rawls. You are clearly an intellectual in your own right but do you really want to share debate forum similarities with Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, only engaging those who’s viewpoints you already agree with, simply to make your more elaborately detailed and complex observation? I wait with bated breath every week for your videos; you are a true Gem in a world of junk. So take this for what it is: an expression of love.
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  8. Is hell other people, or just your perception, which is inherently flawed/bound to conceptual instability?
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  9. Strong productional and narrative quality, once again.
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  10. It’s seems fairly self evident, that rationalism and it’s expectations of individual capacity, is just a strand of enlightenment idealism—it’s (almost romantically) idealistic and lacks a basis in the grounded actuality of the contradictions/constraints of the human mind and by extension the social constructions that result.
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  11. It’s criminal that this channel doesn’t have hundreds of thousands of subs...oh wait, he’s not doing makeup tutorials or performing carnival tricks, and doesn’t have 🌈 teeth.
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  12. Just a thought— you should maybe look into Johan Huizinga and his book, “Homo Ludens.”
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  13. It’s nostalgia for a never can be—a kind of harmless romanticism.
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  14. Hell yes!
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  15. Certainly on an individual level this is so. But often times applied weaponized wokism is not (left or right). If one is insufficiently kind or considerate (which is not always intentional), does that insufficiency merit the consequences that one might receive? How and by whom is that standard of guilt or level of offense determined? Who determines if the consequences one faces are disproportionate to the “kind crime?” When it’s the mob that does so, that is not woke. That is preenlightment justice, arguably quite unwoke...just my opinion, but there are a lot of questions that the sensitivity censors have to answer.
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  16. also Mikhail Bakunin and Ludwig Wittgenstein!
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  17. Also, Please do Michael Polanyi!
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  18.  @alexanderleuchte5132  Lastly, you clearly didn’t understand my initial point, so I will forgive with great charity your ridiculous and lazy Nazi analogy. Kings to you, Fernand 😊
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  19. Sorry! How about: Darn, third.
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  20.  @SingularityasSublimity  absolutely. Great idea!
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  21. The importance of emoting 🙄....let’s be real...millennials went full overkill on that...emotionalizing all things became a type of traumatisational narcissistic emotive incontinence.
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  22. I mean when you are in lockdown, the immediacy of it and it’s daily effect on your life, milking it is a bit of an overstatement. It’s like living under a dictatorship and someone saying, look, could you stop talking about that guy Aldolf.
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  23. And it was 1960 (when Carr was making his arguments with the dreaded “He” pronoun—Barbara Tuchman...Doris Kearns Goodwin, had yet to arrive, not least of which because women were not pursuing the historical profession, for the most part. It was as much prejudice as it was preference...
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  24. You clearly miss his point and are addressing an entirely different question 🙄
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  25. This can easily be applied to social media: for example when a Twitter mob comes to cancel an individual—the clear lack of proximity or rather anonymous detachment from the person they seek to bring low (to the point of social and personal destruction) renders ones rationalization of that individuals ruin, an easily swallowed task of the mind (that applies to right and left leaning mobs).
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  26. Feminist demands of representation pail in comparison to the absolute patriarchy of much of the “modern” world don’t they? Perhaps a gender should aim for a higher sense of empowerment, beyond representation and its attending pronouns, lol.
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  27. The reason why your subscription level remains stubbornly low is because there is a considerable portion of your subscribers who don’t want to share you; You make them feel depthful—they don’t want to share THAT fact, that they are thoughtful creatures because of you. Instead, they would rather pseudo-intelligently make careful discourse with their closest friends...as if your ideas were theirs...
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  28. You’ve finally revealed yourself. Sad. You were imminently interesting until you bought into the new orthodoxy.
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  29. Me too
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  30. So Foucault is interested in Truth games (of deception), and Wittgenstein language games (of manipulation)...seems everything is Foucaultenstein...
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  31. Yes!!!!!
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  32. Sensitivity for who? The population or the politburo. Nationalism for a population is about humility and inferiority (with new found world standing—relative superiority) Nationalism to a Chinese government is a preoccupation, dare I say (for the sake of their own hides) fixation, on the the concepts of unity and cohesion. So I’m fairly certain that the historical Civil Wars and attending (current thinking) idea of an easily tearable fabric of Chinese society (which like their dialects, are diverse and independent creations) would be much more a concern for the ruling communist party of china than for the population...
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  33. Also, check out Jose Ortega y Gasset!
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  34. morality is a negotiation with the life you find around you that allows you and that other life to live in harmony, or not.
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  35. To be fair, free speech absolutists are free speech in their understanding of the battle of ideas not on ALL speech. I don’t know any libertarian that would protect speech that harms another person (i.e blackmail), so that’s kind of a strawman.
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  36. Finally, truth.
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  37. Nothing is unshakable...
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  38. Nice.
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  39. If one is astonished, then one was ignorant before; that is sad...You should know better than to be astonished by what this man says...there’s a difference between being enlightened further and being brought out of ignorance...you should not be the latter.
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  40. Nothing is worth being amazed by, only interested in...
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  41. Clearly this is not a left right phenomena of hatred, Of dehumanization in order to destroy but rather a human phenomena
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  42. Guy Debord’s, “The Society of the Spectacle,” PLEASE!!!!! Why? Trump, clearly. It’s been done by one other guy, but he’s not you (and I’m sure you know who it is). You’ve got that something.
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  43. Do a video on Conservative post-modernism beginning with Michael Oakshott.
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  44. Also I think you should do a video undermining the simplistic characterizations and Straw Man arguments that Jordan Person uses to condemn post-modernist thinking and it’s purveyors.
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  45. You say Carlson overly relies on singular studies and that’s clear, but you are heavy in your reliance on Hofstadter’s argument and language to prove your position. It’s as juvenile as Carlson. Sorry.
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  46. So in some ways, virtual history, the history of the what ifs, is a historical exercise in deluezeian possibility speculation (see Niall Ferguson's, "The Pity of War").
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  47. I see THEN, & click NOW.
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  48. This video breathes new and dangerous (dehumanizing) life into the popularized term, “social distancing.” 😳
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  49. Because you make cliche comments like this one 🤨🤪
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  50. He is humble because his millennial narcissism has finally been called out, lol...you are obviously so, and lack perspective haha. Lol, positivity, as if that’s a real problem, lol.
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  51. Boom!
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  52. Hell yes
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  53. The atomization of society As Chomsky has shown is what creates separation from our fellow man and undermines potential for solidarity and the subversion of solidarity is a recipe for passive dehumanization...
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  54.  @edwardbackman744  lol
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  55. Nah Kierkegaard...
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  56. God yes
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  57.  @Daniel-Strain  if you watch both left and right wing cable to see the craziness, you would know that they act the same way. Obviously you don’t, fucking moron.
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  58. Yes 👸!
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  59. Did you end your video by calling yourself a victim/ sufferer of the paranoid mind? Tucker Carlson has an audience of 3.5 million people out of 330,000,000. Uhhhh that’s less that .01 percent of the population that tune in nightly. The fuck are you on?
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  60. Of course, self-selection accounts for the benefits of immigration, with the entrepreneurial risk takers who value education and hard work coming to this country. Thomas Sowell made this argument decades ago. The problem is is that your theory on immigration being a net positive for the United States cannot hold up when applied to immigration to Europe. Sorry.
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  61. Yes!!!
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  62. You are the man
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  63. You mispronounce Proust
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  64. Freedom feels a lot like someone childless, as he clearly is, lol. Love him!
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  65. Bounded freedom, bounded choice....
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  66. Yes!!!!!!!!!!
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  67. Spot on how?
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  68. You’ve never been more free to be systematically canceled if you express wrongthink.
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  69. Yes!!!!
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  70. Lol, what a joke...cancel culture is narcissism at its height, with not the power of superiority but the power of inferiority and victimhood as its foundation. Get real.
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  71. Wow that’s one example post the early 2000’s. Very few example on the right exist beyond that one legitimate expression that you rightly bring up, which shows the fallacy of the “poverty of example”...be honest man.
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  72. It’s whatever “1619 Project” conjures in the mind, lol.
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  73. Awww sheeiiiiit, here we go!!!!
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  74. Yes!!!
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  75. I can't believe he is about to produce a mini-dissertation on Rene Girard... I have been not so secretly clamoring for this...for years...for almost a decade...on various channels...
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  76. Then...you were...& Now...you are... A man among men...Pilgrim in an unholy land...
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  77. It's gonna be Rene Gir-hard...but you can take it...like the Dark Knight---we may not be effectively aware of what we want, YET we instinctively perceive...what IT IS that we NEED... That being YOU... thanks...truly...
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  78. How about “History, Guilt, and Habit” by Owen Barfield...
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  79. Yes
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  80. Fear is viral/compounding and has spillover effects...a fairly self evident cloud of contagious darkness...
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  81.  @thelakeman2538  self awareness is not a part of his own evolution, only reaffirmation...that’s the problem, that’s his myopia...as much as I would intellectually sleep with him, he is unaware of his impotence, and as such, a partner is left wanting.
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  82.  @pinguinocomentador9743  lol, reading Why Nations Fail are we?
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  83.  @cosmic_jon  argument from anecdote.
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  84. Good God! 6000! It's a sad commentary on 21st century life---societal priorities, tastes and preoccupations when absolute drivel and end of times videos receive more views.
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  85. It's interesting that's what Trump said to black America, which was you have nothing to lose, but your chains to reflexive Democratic support, by voting for me... we talk about forces of change and what is actually changed for black America under democratic leadership. If anything Trump is a right wing Marxist to the system...jk, but it's food for thought.
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  86. Here!
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  87. Guys, check out the channel "Like Stories of Old." You won't thank me, but your soul's new found relationship with cinema will.
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  88. Ok toys and squirrels, if you have the time to comment, then you have the time to contribute. So do it! I just did! Boom!
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  89. Let's go!
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  90.  @NuanceOverDogma it's just fairy tale soft-authoritarian control masquerading as compassion. However, to say that this channel is a joke is to dismiss the obvious and considerable work this leftist has done to entertain his 🦄.
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  91.  @fatpotatoe6039  oh hell yes love me some academy of ideas. Check out new discourses!
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  92. He explained this. Watch. lol.
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