Comments by "mustang607" (@mustang607) on "Lex Clips" channel.

  1. We are completely unbiased. We could wear the ring of power, and it would have absolutely no effect on us. In place of a Dark Lord, you would have Philosopher Kings, not dark but great and terrible as the dawn! Arg...All shall love us and despair!!!
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  2. She wants to understand evil. We have a female Jordan Peterson here.
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  3. What we believe is impossible now may be made possible with enough time, technology and effort. How much time do we have?
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  4. So essentially it’s this prophecy, where some group must, and will, conquer the world, but settle the details on how to run the world they conquer later. I wonder how many prophecies are like that out there?
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  5. When will be GPT be able to distinguish what's true from what's propaganda?
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  6. See the short story, Harrison Bergeron. An honest attempt in portraying an equity (dystopian) society. by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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  7. How uncommunist of him.
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  8. The censorship is strong in youtube.
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  9. "The founding premise of Woke ideology is that there is no shared reality we inhabit because perception determines reality and perception is shaped by social position with respect to power." -James Lindsay
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  10. So sterilizing anything not perfect it's not a good long-term strategy. (An old Star Trek reference - Kirk vs NOMAD)
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  11. Diversity of ideas is our strength.
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  12. Definitely one of those who demands to freely speak, but would work quickly to deny that right to others.
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  13. Almost nobody wants war, except those that firmly believe in degrowth.
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  14. Instead of right versus left you can say the objective political divide is individualism versus collectivism. Or even liberalism versus illiberalism.
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  15. A common marxian tactic.
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  16. People can also try to change or corrupt the meanings of words to weaponize language, where even deriving accurate intent and meaning from historical writings becomes increasingly impossible.
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  17. So many dependency schemes disIncentivizes competence and being the best you can be.
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  18. "Is money the root of all evil?" Nope.
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  19. "Private companies, they get a make up their own rules about what is allowed" They can choose what types of cakes they want to bake; unless government says they can't.
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  20. Ability is not valued in this system. Need is. That's why it fails. Unless creating more needy individuals depended upon the state is considered success.
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  21. I like Michael's critical cynicism "theory."
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  22. Resentment, real or imagined, can be weaponized all too easily.
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  23. I use a note app where I can take shared notes on multiple devices, tag those notes, link those notes and back link those notes. Being able to create multiple levels of folders and search within any of those folders is also key. Lastly, exporting is a must.
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  24. Today it seems like an honest journalist exposing dishonesty could do very well, although it also could be very dangerous. Take James O'Keefe that Project Veritas for instance.
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  25. It's easy to explain the explosion of intolerance and brutal craziness in relation to the breakout of critical theory. Understanding real sources of real problems leads to real solutions.
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  26. If you run this at half speed you can almost understand the host although it sounds like he's drunk.
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  27. Instead of right versus left, you could more objectively put the divide at individualism versus collectivism. Or even liberalism versus illiberalism.
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  28. Avoiding too many psychologically damaging environments also helps.
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  29. 2:27 Tables do not care about your feelings.
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  30. Finally someone talking about the government manipulation of inflation figures design to fool the populous and make easily tracking with past inflation data nearly impossible. Especially those collecting or will collect social Security maybe one day.
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  31. If all human beings ceased to exist, would reality or existence itself continue along is merry way?
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  32. Bingo!
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  33. What identity is your child? Mom: He's a white Christian boy. Your child is a black Muslim girl. Mom: No, he's a white Christian boy. Your child is a black Muslim girl!
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  34. It seems that every once in a while this ideology rises somewhere that to be on the right side of history, we must be evil people, duty bound for what we feel is the greater good of the collective. We will brutally disrespect individual rights, evade individual responsibility and even ignore reason. Then after things change the way we want them, we will be good people again, and everything will be wonderful.
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  35. Essentially the means of production and control became owned by the ruling political party.
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  36. You forgot the "/s"
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  37.  @Sasoon2006  James Lindsay had a fairly accurate definition. Woke: A Maoist cultural revolution with American characteristics.
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  38. Sounds like as long as the system exists there are people that have an overwhelming need to break it.
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  39. Not many dystopian novels have societies that respect individual rights like freedom of speech, expression and thought.
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  40. Many universities and colleges have devolved into enforced groupthink.
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  41. At least with the Internet, you can search for the various versions of the same News story. That is unless the search engines are corrupted. 😮
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  42. In a voluntary society if some group wants to provide something free, let them. But few groups will do that without expecting to get more back in return, be that money, power over people, or something else.
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  43. Self evident? We can't even seem agree on the answer to a basic question like whether or not all this stuff we perceive can actually continue to exist without consciousness.
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  44. Essentially capitalism rewards those with the best ability to create value, whereas socialism punishes those with the best ability to create value.
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  45. And commonly go to great lengths to avoid personal responsibility for their personal decisions.
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  46. Yeah it's great with those replicators that can make just about anything you want, and those transporters plus faster than the speed of light Starships that will take you just about anywhere you wanna go.
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  47. Radical Joy.
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  48. There are many that have learned to be more tolerance of the pains in life and others that have learned to get insanely outraged at the slightest offense. There are many that have worked harder and smarter to become more successful and others that demand successful outcomes be handed to them.
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  49. That's Thanos territory.
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  50. You forgot the "/s"
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