Comments by "Dan" (@Dan-ud8hz) on "Academy of Ideas" channel.

@justinkirschenman2232 I suppose the arrogance about yourself that you can't or refuse to see and is preventing you from learning material outside your echo chamber is fueled by one thing: you assume that because you are you, that your conclusions are superior, and seek bias confirmation and feel-good rhetoric rather than correction of obvious flaws in logic. You can weave an ambiguous narrative together that relies on sweet rhetoric like the creator of these videos, but they're far from what you seem to think "logical" is. You've complained a great deal about public education and "the schools", but have you ever studied any other Trivium or Quadrivium or compared any other curricula? Or even take up any other discipline or path to mastery? Because it seems like you're just feeling your way around in the dark. You're mad at "government" but don't offer any solution. Perhaps if you'd ever studied the lessons of history, you'd understand what happens when dispossessed people choose to tear it all down. You've assumed I've taken a binary opposition to anti-authoritarianism because I champion the positives of government systems while failing to distinguish authoritarianism and corruption from government and failing to acknowledge non-governmental forms of authoritarianism. Most significantly, you've failed to recognize how government interventions have saved and raised the quality of human lives.
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@Evike95Air Sounds like Republicans requiring "voter ID" to participate in supposedly "free and fair" elections they interfere with.
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@Evike95Air lol you're a joke! If you studied physics, you'd be able to prove it by answering this simple high-school math problem within a few seconds: To unload inventory, a warehouse runs a sale on silicon ingots. The sales rate (ingots sold per day) on day t of the sale is predicted to be 40/t (for t ≥ 1), where t = 1 corresponds to the beginning of the sale, at which time none of the inventory of 200 ingots had been sold. Find a formula for the total number of ingots sold up to day t. C(t) = ?
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@Evike95Air Sounds more like you flunked out than you "studied physics". Human beings have been able to calculate the circumference of the Earth for thousands of years, ignoramus.
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@Evike95Air What's your favorite brand of global positioning system receiver?
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@justinkirschenman2232 Lol do you really think individuals ejected from hunter-gatherer tribes survived to pass on their culture? “In northwest Alaska, kunlangeta "might be applied to a man who, for example, repeatedly lies and cheats and steals things and does not go hunting, and, when the other men are out of the village, takes sexual advantage of many women." The Inuits tacitly assume that kunlangeta is irremediable. And so, according to Murphy, the traditional Inuit approach to such a man was to insist he go hunting, and then, in the absence of witnesses, push him off the edge of the ice.” ― Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door
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@justinkirschenman2232 You don't seem to understand that the prioritization of your own "individual rights" over the "individual rights" of others is the root of corruption you're condemning. You're not seeing how simply you're contradicting yourself. ¬(p ∧ ¬p)
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@justinkirschenman2232 If I didn't understand that there were differences, I wouldn't have brought them up while also mentioning the connecting bridge. You seem to think the details I'm mentioning are minor. It's like you're trying to connect the dots but are ignoring most of the page. You can't escape the laws of physics.
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@justinkirschenman2232 Just admit you don't actually prioritize the individual rights of actual humans, you prioritize being uninhibited by anything set in place to protect others so that you can do whatever you want because you value material property and your own sense of comfort over the survival of others. If you don't give a shit about them and preach the same priorities as the tweekers who steal copper wire from construction sites, why would they trust you to have all of the "individual rights" your preaching about?
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@justinkirschenman2232 I can't give you a middle-school civics education over a Youtube comment thread. It's a pretty stupid comparison to try to make though, considering all the other security measure put in place to ACTUALLY make elections free and fair. Your bias is showing by asking questions that imply that you don't believe people steal or horde money. The "vaccine passport" isn't a thing, Pseudo-Scotus.
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@justinkirschenman2232 No, you don't seem to understand why anybody would be ejected from their tribe.
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@justinkirschenman2232 You're not arguing in support of anything virtuous or practical. Your "individual rights" position is short-sighted, contradictory, and ultimately self-defeating. “Sociopaths have no regard whatsoever for the social contract, but they do know how to use it to their advantage. And all in all, I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him.” ― Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door
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@justinkirschenman2232 Again, since you conflate things that are independent or entirely different qualitatively, you won't be able to have productive conversations. You haven't done the pre-requisite homework to actually come up with any novel ideas. I can understand now that your attempt to insult me by telling me to "think for yourself" is also an unconscious confession of your greatest longing.
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@justinkirschenman2232 You haven't made any points. You've described what's going on in your brain, but there's nothing cohesive that's relevant to reality. Essentially, your ideas are all just pulled out of your ass.
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@justinkirschenman2232 BTW, don't expect the pseud-intellectual clown that makes these videos to cover scientific topics, he sticks to entirely rhetorical argument because he doesn't like to deal with facts or logic.
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Magas love cantinfleando.
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@rimacalid6557 Yes, I'd like to make a distinction for the use of the word nationalism described in the book, because the word has different meanings in different contexts. Lowercase-"n" nationalism is used by the author in a way that is more akin to "patriotism" than to the capital-"N" Nationalism that, as the primary driving force behind a political ideology, traps itself in a delusional echo chamber, unable to compare and contrast its successes and failures to those of other nations to learn and improve itself as well as silencing internal opposition to the egoistic belief system. It's practical and patriotic to acknowledge the social progress a country has made compared to its geographical predecessor and to itself over time, but it's not good citizenship to think that ones country is the best country because its their country and its the best and will always be the best-that thinking is more appropriate for pre-game locker-room pep-talks than for formulating helpful ideas. It's just as practical and patriotic to condemn their nation's social regression and it's good citizenship to prioritize the people who are served by the imagined community over the object of the nation itself. A nation is a life-support system, so it's reasonable for people to be skeptical about making repairs and installing updates and upgrades while it's plugged in and running, but if it stops functioning as intended, then no amount of gaslighting, obfuscation or menticide meant to prevent the possibility of criticism and preserve the status quo will change the physical reality that repairs are necessary to save lives still being supported and to slow the loss of lives caused by the already damaged equipment.
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@ayeone3870 You haven't made it past middle school, have you? At least you learned to count to 3. My name comes from Genesis 49:17.
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@justinkirschenman2232 Here's a link to Stanford's encyclopedia of philosophy, since you don't know what those words mean. https://plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py?query=Logic
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@More_Row Aww, pobrecito, I'm sorry your ignorance is nowhere near as valuable as my knowledge. Maybe you should put some work in instead of whining so goddamn much.
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@More_Row I suppose if I "imagine being you", since you have no useful thoughts or ideas to offer and make that obvious to people who do and that inevitably dismiss your nonsense, I'd be envious and bitter at anyone and everyone who knows more than you too. All you have to offer is noxious human waste because your echo chamber is filled with shit; your mind a septic tank. Take the advice of your precious Jordan Peterson: Clean up your room.
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@More_Row Peterson's nonsense is about 1/3-1/2 of what the creator of this channel's confirmation bias builds his argumentation around, ignoramus.
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@chadalston3313 I really have no idea how you came to assume that I am assuming that "all" scientists have similar political views. Is reading comprehension an issue? Perhaps you do not know what the word "tend" means? Or how to read beyond a headline? I could just copy and paste from the link, but since you can read the whole thing, I'm not going to do so. Percentage of abusers... Consider the content of what is suggested by examination through the lens of Ferenczi's model: perhaps you can explain why an exact percentage of any population couldn't be approximated from dishonest participants? Now consider that you can't see the wind, but you can see the effects of the wind. The wounds on battered victims don't lie, despite the dishonesty of those who inflict such torture. Seems you've missed the main point. Re-read or Google "DARVO" for more information until it sinks in. "You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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@chadalston3313 Not "all scientists", just the most intelligent and competent scientists tend to hold progressive ideas. That Andrew Wakefield quack is most definitely not a progressive. And I'm certain a great deal just haven't had the opportunity to examine the evidence. Perhaps you're aware of the concept of "opportunity cost"? Lab time is especially precious if you're underfunded. The Trump-cult's slogan, "Make America Great Again", is referring to a time when America was a democratic-socialist nation. Democratic socialism was used to pull the US out of the Great Depression with FDR's New Deal and worked exceedingly well up until 1980, when Reagan's economics started to reduce and eventually lower the life expectancy of the average American. This is the 'effect of the wind' I mentioned in the previous comment: "Even before the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic occurred, the US was mired in a 40-year population health crisis. Since 1980, life expectancy in the US has increasingly fallen behind that of peer countries, culminating in an unprecedented decline in longevity since 2014." doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.26339 The Preamble to the US Constitution is a leftist manifesto that we've yet to live up to: "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." "The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness." Niels Bohr "I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals." Albert Einstein, Why Socialism? "Above all, we should bear in mind that our liberty is not an end in itself; it is a means to win respect for human dignity for all classes of our society.” Admiral H.G. Rickover, Father of the US Nuclear Navy
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@chadalston3313 In simpler terms, the informed and competent scientists tend to have progressive political views (listen to RWNJs complain about science and academia for a while and you'll get a corollary contrapositive example, that uninformed and anti-scientific people tend to have regressive political beliefs).
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@There-Is-No-Virus You should rephrase that question to ask about which is more likely to be true, germ theory (consensus modern scientific theory and observable in a microbiology classroom) or conspiratorial beliefs of germ theory denialists.
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@bettyledesma937 Thank you. I'm trying to be a kinder person but I'm not always successful at it.
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@irvingcortez1399 You whine like an ignorant child.
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@informationwarfare8744 lol nice try, schizoid
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@informationwarfare8744 Love the irony of "Sowell's" (you spelled it wrong) quote. He was laughably ignorant.
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@kdwarner5 nobody is going to read your wall of text spam
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@kdwarner5 You worship an evil God
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@kdwarner5 Isaiah 1:17 and Matthew 6:24 are unequivocal. "Conservative Christianity" is a hypocritical abomination of desolation.
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@kdwarner5 You're boring, Chicken Little.
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@alleyoop5993 Go look for attention elsewhere, random troll whining about who-knows-what
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@patricathomas6155 "Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. For I have come to 'set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law'; and 'a man's enemies will be those of his own household.' Matthew 10:34-36 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. Matthew 6:24 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them." Matthew 5:17 "Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow." Isaiah 1:17
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This is why the "Fierce Deities" carry flaying knives
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Then there's the ladder-climbing adventure Pico devised in 'The Oration on the Dignity of Man'
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"... the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive recirculation." ―Will & Ariel Durant, The Lessons of History "If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever increasing inequality." ―Stephen Hawking "I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals." ―Albert Einstein, “Why Socialism?” https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/ (THE IMF CONFIRMS THAT 'TRICKLE-DOWN' ECONOMICS IS, INDEED, A JOKE) https://psmag.com/economics/trickle-down-economics-is-indeed-a-joke
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