Comments by "Mark Pawelek" (@mark4asp) on "Dad Saves America" channel.

  1. At that point, you need to move out of frisco. When the machine stops you doing your job.
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  2. It's surely easier to move out of California than to homeschool one's kids ?
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  3. "I tend to see most of what's going on as intentional and I think they use the perception of what they're doing as incompetence as a way to cover up for their crimes a lot of the time. So I think ultimately what what we're seeing is an effort to, sort of, steer the world towards what I would refer to as a neo-feudal model" -- Whitney Webb.
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  4. (1) "If you think you've found the truth you don't seek it" "The gate-keepers of reason have all fallen" In centuries to come, Boghossian will be mined for quotes. (2) I disagree with Boghossian on somethings: - gay marriage. OK, for you to call yourself gay, and OK to declare you're "married". But, ... the institution of marriage is established and subsidized (tax breaks) because it enables better child rearing. That's why we value marriage. Gays don't rear kids, apart from a tiny minority of lesbians. BTW: aren't most lesbians themselves, childless? - 'climate change'. I was shocked a few years ago to see armies of ex-new atheists, 'critical thinkers', and kow-towing to the climate hysteria psychopathology. I think Peter Boghossian is the best philosopher working today. A gem. (3) PS: "The Epistemology of Democracy", by Elizabeth Anderson. 2006. It that the journal article PB cited?
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  5. Enlightened governance is what our rulers think they're giving us.
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  6. Introduction ot this video is played out. Almost fell asleep thinking to myself - is he actually going to make a point with evidence - or will he just go on and on?
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  7. J Butler wants a "politics of care". They've a weird definition of "care" which involves fucking kids heads up to convince them they've been "born in the wrong body"
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  8. This is a pseudo critique of education. Schools are needed for most kids. Most parents could not sucessfully home school if they tried. OK - I partly agree - some parents can make home-schooling work for some kids; but not if they work 9-5.
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  9. In a way, ownership and curating ideas were always a preoccupation of power. Just look at the history of Islam, Christianity, Confucianism, Aztec ideology, the Soviet system, ... In the 20th century, Western academia fought long and hard to free itself from power and state control, to become 'free'. Yet with that freedom it instituted its own totalitarianism!! The takeover by pseudo-Marxists is not simply the long march through the institutions. Institutions have their own self-totalization. Consider, during the great European Enlightenment, ONLY ONE philosophe/lumière was an academic: Kant, practically the last and supposed culmination of it! Not by choice, David Hume, for example, applied for many academic jobs but was constantly rejected. Critical thinking is alien to institutions. This doesn't imply anarchy and defeat. Instead we have to look at how funding, and empire-building corrupted academia. How this empire building by academia destroys critical thinking. How to stop that.
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