Comments by "harvey young" (@harveyyoung3423) on "Sharia in Soho? + Scrap 'Mickey Mouse' Uni Degrees + Climate Alarmism or Reality?" video.

I went to Soho back in the late 70's, and then again a few years ago and it had transformed into lots of nice restaurants and such like. I used to be interested in the Great Exhibition 1851 and the Crystal Palace done by Prince Albert. I found out that they had a kind of advert for it in Lester Square, that was big globe you walked inside and the whole world was available to see as inverted inside the globe from a single standpoint in the middle. I also recall that when it opened they got all the dignitaries from all over the world together in the Crystal Palace for a painting. At the front are a Chinese couple dressed very fancy. It turns out that they were not, as the organisers thought, visiting dignitaries from China, but two Chinese people from Soho, who had wandered in unaware of what was going on, and treated like royalty, which i guess they must have thought was normal. it seems the Great exhibition had a massive influence on the whole world particularly America, where it was copied in Chicago a few years later, and inspired many of the Big new super industries that were all mutually dependent and so had to be created together. Oil from the ground replaced Whale oil, then steel for railways were diverted to Car manufacturing and the distribution of petrol form oil, the creation of roads and many gas stations, and in the end the steel was used to build skyscrapers, that became the gilded age for a few, the private car for many and poverty for others. Did you know both Hitler and Stalin sent people to the all in one manufacturing city of Fords, it might have become a model for them, in their public private synthesis of manufacturing and the idea of bringing the whole of the economy of production into one place. Like the opposite of globalisation but not at that point then totalitarianism, but a different relations of public and private control. . Yes I was wondering when Max Bygraves would make a come back as I predicted in 2010. had had more immediate confirmation with my prediction of Cher's come back in the 1990's.
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Maybe take a look at the "existentialist" tradition in Islamic thought. It pre dates the 20th century with Mulla Sadra (1570ish to 1640ish) "existence precedes the essence and is thus principal since something has to exist first and then have an essence." "Transcendent theosophy" (Wikipedia). It was taken up again in the 20th century by some Islamic scholars theologians and philosophers, who educated in Phenomenology and Heidegger sought to revive this approach, that in a way tries to show how different aspects of life are actually already integrated into a whole, a kind of hermeneutics. see Henry Corbin (1903-1978) and many others. It is probably this interest in Heidegger and existentialism by some Islamic scholars that afforded the link to left wing politics, where French philosophers of the West also saw affordances though Heidegger. It is well know that Catholicism has had an interest in Heidegger for many years too. there's an Islamic philosophers working with Heidegger who makes the politicly internal but can't find the name at the moment. It may well be that the socialist left and Islamic existentialist left both see in Heidegger a deep Critique of the West, in his Critique of Western metaphysics and his later notion of ontological difference. These 20th Century Islamic philosophers seemed to have being interested in the Anti Platonism of Heidegger also. This anti Platonism it and the attack on the notion of "world view" of Jaspers, lead Heidegger further into the notions of place and home in the 1930's. the key text here seems to be the difficult "Contributions to Philosophy" by Heidegger. if i can find the names I'll post them here.
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see Wikipedia entry "Heidegger" in the section "Islam". The main philosopher is t Nader El-Bizri. These ideas are said to have laid the philosophical foundations for the Iranian Revolution though students Reza Davari Ardakani, Ahmad Fardid, and Fardid's student Jalal Al-e-Ahmad. That is probably the historical link to some parts of the Islamic thought you are discussing, even though those strands and tradition go back to the mid 19 th century and British India and the revolt. see also Hassan Hanafi.
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16:45 on Rafe Heydel-Mankoo point. take a look at all the twoing and froing over New York's Central Park(s) in 20th century and Donald Trump's role in this. he brought part of it up it seems to keep it as public park. maybe an argument like the Museum of Modern Art ownership means care and custodianship. But its a complicated story to get to grips with. I got into this from following up on the History of Hyde Park and the freedom of speech custodians there were the parkies. I talked to a policeman in the park about this and he told me to check out the links between Hyde Park and Central Park had copied some of this 19th century UK stuff after we had dropped the role of of "parkies". According to parliamentary notes (before Hansard really) the move of freedom of speech custodianship was during the long recess they used to have in the year 1972.
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on Dr. Philip Kiszely's point 18:40 there is a tradition with some courses like in the Arts where the degree course is meant o get you a job before you finish. even so far as to say if you get the degree you ain't going to get a job, because if you're any good you would have been head hunted long before. the difficulty is getting on the course at the start. Its as if praxis is so central that the course is really a recruitment silo for the industry. i have in mind how people get into the competitive world of cinema film production and performance art. I worked on a film set for a few weeks and the lighting guy had jsut come off of a major production. He went to the British School of Cinematography. he was head hunted before finishing and said that was normal if you were any good it was a like a job interview degree and the point was to pass the interview before finishing and get the job. Very competitive to get into though at the start. Maybe other practice degrees are like this, the aim is to do praxis not get a degree in it. So praxis does not necessarily mean getting a job in the ordinary sense but finding a praxis neash..
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