Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "The Institute of Art and Ideas" channel.

  1. Marxism was pretty good at defeating Nazism and rising from the ashes in a remarkable and unexpected way. It was pretty good at defeating colonialism, too. It was good at things you might either take for granted, or imagine were easy once they were accomplished.
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  2. So beautifully stated.
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  3. Thank you for the reading suggestions. So valuable!
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  4. 17:35 Trump brought us to the world where the strong do whatever they like and the weak submit as they must? Trump??
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  5. In the global insurance market. Does it otherwise?
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  6. Mandatory vaccination without universal health care + mandatory lockdowns without universal income and assistance to reintegrate into the workforce = the sick and homeless you see today.
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  7.  @JavierBonillaC  So then does my lousy quality of life come from the free market as well -- or do we chalk that up to being all my own fault? 🤣 Ideologues, spare us! The OP was outstanding, and very Aristotelian, actually. It thus predates any such debate about Mao or Marx, or Jesus, for that matter. (Were you . . . jealous?) Here's a thought: If The Market has decided that McDonald's and reality television are worth more than Barenboim, Einstein, Mozart, and Zizek put together, is that proof that they are? The opening discussion of ascent of the rentier class, which Adam Smith warned us about, and for good reason, is excellent. Adam Smith predates Marx -- of course. Don't pretend this is so tough by diverting the conversation to the usual nonsense.
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  8.  @mavrospanayiotis  Nicely said.
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  9.  @maxheadrom3088  Smith considered the free market one where the "invisible hand" was fully operational -- which the rentier class always tries to impede, to gain advantage for preexisting fortunes at the expense of productive and creative people. He would never call what you see in the US -- finance capitalism and no commons (with the possible exception of the air we breath, but there are those who pollute that, so . . . ) -- a "free market."
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  10.  @das6109  Look up Vasili Arkhipov. You may owe your life to him.
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  11. Who is flourishing? The homeless and the refugees are everywhere now. The post-Enlightement period has been the most murderous in human history, and I say that as a fan of the Enlightenment.
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  12. No one said that. Anyone on medication who wants to lower their dose needs to do that very slowly and carefully -- and even those protocols are often too fast for an individual patient. Some drugs require years to taper.
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  13.  @OxfordAdmissionsCoach  💯
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  14. Because this is easy and pays.
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  15. ​ @veenamishra8950  "Worked" is a stretch.
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  16. Well, your post is cryptic. Give us one example, or anything concrete.
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  17. I read a review of the documentary Particle Fever, which is about the confirmation of the existence of the Higgs boson. The reviewer said that she cried when she saw it. I scoffed at that a little bit, but was touched that she was so naive, still. Then I went to see it and I cried, too.
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  18. Kosovo was justified, whew! Then so is Donbass.
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  19. Were people like Einstein and Bohr corrupted by grant-chasing? No need to answer.
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  20.  @silex9837  That's what I thought was the history as well. It is always important to verify facts, and suspend judgment in the meantime.
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  21. Marxism isn't woke at all. Woke (= divisiveness along identity/tribal/marketing segment lines) is a typical product of capitalism. Keep your eye on the ball. Follow the money.
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  22.  @tbirch55  It is highly unlikely that Plato was ever sold into slavery, for one thing.
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  23. 6:22 All right, but would you have believed a Jeffrey Epstein existed? (And that Ghislaine would nevertheless have an isle seat at Chelsea Clinton's wedding?) And . . . Could the pizza parlor story have been a red herring? I don't think so, but it is hardly an irrational conjecture. Similar tactics had been deployed during the Cold War.
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  24. The trickle of news in the MSM is more sinister than they said -- it is how they get the public used to accepting genocide. In the meantime, dissenting youth find themselves tens of thousands in education debt and their job offers withdrawn. You know why that has the public's attention.
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  25.  @ll-eb2rt  "Don't throw me in the briar patch, no no no."
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  26. After Stephen F. Cohen died, there is no Russia expert.
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  27. Samantha Power makes Hill look like an angel.
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  28. @thePronto Appeal to authority. The job of every such advisor when they appear in public is to make partisan positions sound incontrovertible. Yes, to make opinions appear to be facts. That's nothing special. That is their role. It takes training. America had a true Russia expert in Stephen F. Cohen, but he died recently.
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  29. @thePronto Appeal to authority. The job of every such advisor when they appear in public is to make partisan positions sound incontrovertible. Yes, to make opinions appear to be facts. That's nothing special. That is their role. It takes training. America had a true Russia expert in Stephen F. Cohen, but he died recently.
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  30. @thePronto Trump has no special relationship with Russia, besides wanting to build a luxury hotel there. It's all about 💰 and ego for him. And he likes how the girls look,
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  31. @thePronto Why does my pertinent and unbiased point keep dis appearing? Hm? But "GFY," no problem.
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  32. @thePronto  That is mere appeal to authority. The job of every such advisor when they appear in public is to make partisan positions sound incontrovertible. Yes, to make opinions appear to be facts. That's nothing special. That is their role. It takes training. America had a true Russia expert in Stephen F. Cohen.
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  33. @thePronto The job of every such advisor when they appear in public is to make partisan positions sound incontrovertible. Yes, to make opinions appear to be facts. That's nothing special. That is their role. It takes training. America had a true Russia expert but if I mention his name, . . . Right. It's a no go.
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  34. @thePronto I wonder whether stating the phrase "appeal to authority" is also censored. But GFY is fine. Nope, it's the analysis of who these experts are and what their role is that is Verboten.
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  35. @thePronto Mine were as well. I didn't think you had anything to do with it.
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  36. @thePronto  "The job of every such advisor when they appear in public is to make partisan positions sound incontrovertible."
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  37. "Yes, to make opinions appear to be facts. That's nothing special."
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  38. "That is their role. It takes training."
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  39. @thePronto Let's see what triggers the algae rhythm bot.
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