Comments by "coreycox2345" (@coreycox2345) on "Academy of Ideas" channel.

  1. The quote from "They Thought They Were Free" is an apt description for today.
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  2. Right? I had not even thought of the Stoics as badass until I watched the Academy of Ideas. In college, my professor made them sound like people who were ridiculous because they tolerated reality. I imagined them as people who wouldn't have fun at a birthday party. So wrong.
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  3. Stoics are the most badass, maxfield painter. A true nihilist would not even care to be optimistic. A stoic actually feels happy even when things are going badly and can care deeply at the same time. If that is not badass, I don't know what is.
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  4. I missed the lesbian sex. I watch TSoL regularly, and find them, like this excellent.
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  5. Thank you for this. I loved "On Liberty" when I was a young college student and am about to read it again. I am looking forward to it because I recall reading passages and thinking "this is just so good."
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  6. Listening and thinking, Analogous to Tower 7 : Ameaning
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  7. Thank you. I have read about the hero's journey in Joseph Campbell's books. I had forgotten that he based this on Jung.
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  8.  @bugsbunny8742  Excellent point. I have had the experience of thinking a news outlet was cutting edge only to realize later that they predictably put a suspicious spin on some stories. It took me a while to see it.
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  9. Botton teaches philosophy to many who would not typically have a reason to hit the philosophy books in a way that is clear, concise, and engaging. Ideally, one would explore many sources to gauge the accuracy of perceptions. I would be in favour of a bogus philosophy video channel where someone did their best to sound factual while spouting lies. This would be a test of how much we had paid attention. I feel like I can establish a broader insight if I hear a variety of divergent interpretations.
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  10. I did not attend a Catholic school but can relate to your comment. Some people are more comfortable conforming. I didn't have that choice, so I had to figure out my values for myself. I am pretty sure that I would not change things if I could because I have loved much of my work and life as a result.
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  11. ​I can't remember what I was responding to a year ago in my comment, saroth1978. Regardless of who said it, it is a lovely quote.
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  12. Even in the major cities, small groups of like-minded individuals with common goals are a good way to work. My best work has been in this kind of setting. People who respect each other sitting around a table. Sometimes even disagreements can produce the best ideas. That kind of an environment will often spark my own thinking in ways that would not have happened if I were working independently.
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  13. I am a retired urban planner. I did not articulate my point well. After doing a lot of work on consensus and also mediation, I think that a consensus is not always a good or implementable policy. It can be. Often what is paraded out as a consensus is actually not. ((Unsurprising when you look at who is running the process and why.) A successful consensus starts with all the cards on the table and everyone with the same access to information. Everyone walks away from the table a and a little unhappy, but they get something out of it. If someone cares deeply and remains disgruntled, they will come back and try to mess up the "consensus.". This was a bit rambling. A consensus is useful, but not without its flaws.
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  14. I doubt that the perfect human could ever exist. Oxymoron.
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  15. I did not hear this part of Jung until now. I like it. Thank you.
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  16. Right. But lots of books on Kindle do not remind you to start reading as a giant pile of unread books does. I like having the collection. Time makes one have to sort them.
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  17. I see them more as embracing reality.
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  18. Good question. At one point, I thought they were trying to set me up with an imaginary boyfriend. I think maybe I should get out more.
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  19. It is sometimes useful to take a sabbatical from social life to work on one's inner world. It can be overdone, though.
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  20. To cease feeling is one way to eliminate emotional pain. As someone who developed a pattern of this method, I now think that it should not be done. Emotions are as important as logic. Without feeling, one is not truly alive.
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  21. "Don't worry too much about saving the others?" Let's save them. Who are they? What should we do?
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  22. I love the way myths of different people at different times have so many common threads. Actually, he does not seem that similar to Jesus, except maybe that he changed everything. Dionysus seems darker. This reminds me more of Eastern religions that more fully embrace death and destruction as a part of the cycle.
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  23. I know nothing about him. How is that our business?
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  24. There must be at least a few cute ones, Chessiah.
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  25. Then what. Wallow in hopelessness? It seems more interesting to have a purpose, Make one up, even.
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  26. I can see how that could happen, James Brooks. I have learned from YouTube but it it is sometimes tempting to be interested in everything and nothing. It is best to have at least some focus.
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  27. Thank you. This is especially well-written.
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  28. I went through a phase where I thought that if I created something in my work, it had to be good. You are right, ReVitelect, being too smug can detract from the work. It can give you blind spots. Nonetheless, I would like to be more that way again.
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  29. Thank you. I appreciate your channel. These short pieces sometimes come into my YouTube feed juxtaposed in enlightening ways. This dovetails nicely with your discussion on Jung that you end with "a thousand zeros do not add up to one." Nice work.
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  30. Seven months and some reading later, the more I learn about Jung, the more brilliant he seems. I doubt that many men have had such genius. Your channel has steered my thinking in some beneficial directions. Thank you.
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  31. The Coffee Nut, This is what I thought at first. Stoics visualize and train for good fortune and have a mindset to be content even in the difficult times that every person encounters in some form or another.
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  32. If you are correct, It may have to be a big one. I have seen cataclysm to little effect. This seems an oxymoron, but we have this odd capacity for avoidance.
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  33. You appear to be attempting to get someone to think about sex.
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  34. In planning, we adopt a naieve approach at the outset. The first step is always "define the problem." It sounds simplistic, but slowing down the process at the beginning can sometimes have a big payoff later (in policy development). If the one facilitating listens carefully. she will begin to have ideas of what to expect from whom. Opportunities can emerge.
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  35. Perhaps you should hear "The Demagogue." There's no turning back,
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  36. To me, morality is doing what I perceive as the right thing. My ideas about this were formed by things I have experienced. Although we were not religious, my parent's thinking was consistent with the Judeo-Christian tradition. Because they were humans, also the Pagan tradition. Add in whatever random things life exposed me to and my intrinsic personality. This is a lot fuzzier than something like the law. I would have no qualms about killing Hitler if I had the chance. Squeaky Fromme had no qualms about shooting Ronald Reagan. How are we different? These examples of morality do not seem related to the social contract. They are more personal. My version of the social contract, which I may be taking liberties with...I restrain my impulses toward things that would be pleasant for me and unpleasant for other people in exchange for the belief that this will keep people from doing similar unpleasant things to me. That is somewhat like the golden rule in Christianity, but the idea that it is a contract implies that it could be broken. Because it is a contract, there are even times when it should be broken. It seems like this thinking is behind many laws, even behind the idea of police protection. (I am not saying that this is not a component to this in Christianity, which espouses an "eye for an eye.")
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  37. Thank you for this. I have never understood Nietzsche in this way. He was brilliant.
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  38. If Camus said it first this is not a misattribution.
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  39. I don't understand nihilism. I simply need meaning. To each hos own, though.
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  40. It doesn't help if you cry, IndustrialBonecraft.
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  41.  @BlondeManNoName  It doesn't even seem like a sin. I just never want to date a man who treats me that way, TheManWithNoName. As I have said many times, you do seem to deserve her. Good for you.
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  42. Self-help bot?
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  43. It doesn't have to be strictly one thing or the other chan tzu kit. Sometimes one can follow interests without knowing the result, and this will open doors to new potentials that would not have been seen otherwise.
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  44. I had that same thought, Simte. I have learned a lot from YouTube.
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  45. You write well, Andrea. In some ways, we are all alone. We die alone even if surrounded by people. The connection of realizing we are understood and loved is one of the more beautiful human experiences.It seems sad that Nietzsche, in all his brilliance, could not have this. It may have saved him or not.
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  46. Agreed. He sounds smart, SparkyonPC.
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  47.  @marblenerdjones4630  Don't have too many drinks when one goes out is useful. I have no idea if I frightened or disgusted anyone, but I was left with a pang of vague, unspecified guilt.
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  48. Same here, Sammy Stone. Change for me this minute.
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  49.  @brandonwhite4992 I don't know about you. I needed to hear it.
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  50. Our body/brain's unconscious feelings are often correct. Does this mean that we are meant to be depressed, CampingforCool41?
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  51. I take it that what you have done here is cast out a wide net of people you can feel superior to after some ambiguous virtue-signalling and a mixed passive-aggressive message that seems to say "You are an idiot, have a good day," R-Type.
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  52. I can't help but wonder if your "Have a good day..." is a passive-aggressive jab of some kind. R-Type. I don't think you want us to have a good day and feel superior in the moment for it?
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  53. I thought this same thing about hierarchy Andrew Walker. To say that people should be equal is not the same as saying that they could all have the same value. I also agree that these sets of traits are not mutually exclusive.
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  54. I love "The Road Not Taken." Frost was wicked though. It pertains to the difficulty of this issue succinctly. The choice was not clear, in the end, it seemed like a coin toss. And that has made all the difference. :)
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  55. I would agree with Aristotle, except that if one regards the masses as rude and unlearned does not emphasize that something can be learned by every person and that it is a noble thing to teach other people. Also, the definition of excellence seems narrow. I prefer Taylor's view. I wish that philosophy 101 had gone the extra mile and discussed Taylor with Aristotle. Thanks for doing it here.
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  56. I don't see them that way, John Miller.
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  57. As a borderline ENTP, I also like it.
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  58. You can fool some of the people some of the time.
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  59. Perhaps this sort of thing happened because she was on to the fact that you would burn her at stake.
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  60. You might have fared better if you hadn't called her a witch from the outset. You may leave out that she once did say yes failed to show up. Then turned into Brief Interviews with Horrible Men and suggested that she is probably a witch anyway. A woman may not view "You can meet me" as an amorous advance. Your amorous feelings seem more for yourself.
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  61. I agree with you. A side note: You are thinking of Christianity and Islam, I think. The separateness of mind and body is not as big in some eastern religions. Most religions threw in some law and order and survival components in addition to God's will, for good measure. In Islam and Christianity, this was done in a patriarchal way, so it's the separation of mind and body with the women receiving the harsher punishments. (God may have done that too when he came up with childbirth, but this is an event of short duration.) In any case, I agree with you.
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  62. You keep me on my toes, Marcello Lanza. Now I need to learn who Whitehead is.
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  63. The quote makes more sense to me if it is spirituality.
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  64. I hope that you are correct and that people choose the right things. This would have to occur on an individual level. It seems like it could. An example might be that there are some 42 million black people in the States. There would be a lot of influence in politically considered buying choices.
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  65. What are they? Are there commonalities in governance for times we have flourished?
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  66. I am neither an introvert or an extrovert by nature scoring close to the middle of some likely bogus test. I have functioned happily as both, depending on what the situation called for.
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  67. I like your concept of God. The quality of your life seems robust, compared to a hikikomori.
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  68. I am not sure what this has to do with atheism or religion. Paedophilia is wrong because it victimises an innocent child in ways that are psychologically damaging to development. This taboo is fairly universal between cultures.
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  69. I like "This gestalt of nature is incorruptible." It is possible to live a life of quiet desperation outdoors, though.
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  70. I may not mean this in a bad way, how do I know? You sound like a physicist. What the hell does this mean? Sometimes I think, as I am listening to a physicist that I might understand if only they used different words or something. Maybe I wouldn't. Experience is our perception. We can perceive things that do and things that do not happen.
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  71. Hayden. In my opinion, the London Symphony is as good as anything by Mozart or Beethoven.
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  72. What is a "foreskin god", I scream?
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  73. Thanks for your patience, I scream. You may have been casting a wider net than just your target audience.
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  74. I had never observed false flag deceptions until the past year or two. Thank you for giving me a term. I will probably see it even more now.
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  75. Perhaps you are the troll fooling around,, Brocaster. I have had the experience of someone online thinking I was not a real person. Has that ever happened to you?
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  76. Did you make up hyper-individualization?
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  77. I do the same thing.
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  78. Sometimes the process of a group like this can be productive even if a consensus is not reached.
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  79. This is always the case. They will work toward a common goal if they see potential for some legitimate benefit. Existing conditioners and trends can sometimes get them on the same page.
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  80. I thought that you were going to say sheep.
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  81. It is also possible to both agree and disagree with this at the same time. I agree with this intellectually, but it is exciting to watch a good hockey game nonetheless.
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  82. Are you sure that you are not just doing it to be popular?
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  83. Being religious or not has little to do with morality.
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  84. OK Judaism, Christianity...but this does not exclude Christianity. The reason I mentioned an eye for an eye is that it is the closest thing I can think of as a penalty clause for human on human crime. We apparently have God's permission to be horrible to people who treat us badly. Do you think that there is a God in Heaven who thought up our ideal moral code and wrote it on stone tablets? I don't see how either is not just something we made up. It sounds like murder and slavery do not fit your concept of "good." Mine either.
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  85. This all makes sense to me, I just don't agree that life is pointless. I have felt that way before. I like the second line. To me, that seems like purpose.
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  86. Would you point out her location to the Nazis, Arturo Po?
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  87. :)
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  88. This reminds me of Gulliver's Travels", where many little men tie up one big man.
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  89. You stopped by to cheer us up?
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  90. I wish that I found it freeing. To me, it seems irrelevant. It is just so out of scale with my little world of things I will ever know.
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  91. I may already be able to do this with meditation, I can turn meaning into abstraction for the time I am doing it. The rest of my life is defined by values I place on things. It gives my existence form and defines what freedom is. You seem to like "freedom" and "happiness". Would if you value these things did if you did not give them meaning? I wonder if this mode of thinking would be useful to someone who had lost the things that were once important to him as in cataclysm and war. It reminds me of the psychological state "disassociation."
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  92. This is new to me, and parts remind me of Joseph Campbell. So, why is it partly universal that people think of God in the image of man? This just makes no sense to me.
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  93. This gives me a positive feeling because god can be whatever one wants.
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  94. I think you are correct, deee fqdd, but he may have expounded on Jung's work by studying common myths that run through different cultures. I read everything by Campbell after discovering his work, but only recently read "Modern Man in Search of a Soul." Jung was a genius.
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  95. Reminds me of Joseph Campbell? (Who I still adore.) This was before I studied Jung.
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  96. I like how you took this a step further to discuss the tyranny of governments. I have read that Mill was a colonialist.
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  97. I have been meaning to read "Psychological Types." I am keeping it for a later date as it looks like a lot to wade into, AG GGG. I loved "Modern Man in Search of a Soul," so I am looking forward to having the time. Other topics seem more urgent. "The Management of Savagery" is first on my list.
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  98. I had an illuminating experience where I saw this dramatically, bnar Jabar. It was mixed in with what generations of my family history had done to me. It turns out that I don't hate the person now. It seems foolish that I ever thought I did.
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  99. That doesn't sound boring, Michael Blair.
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  100.  @FreedomSpirit108  Or a queen of melodrama.
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  101.  @FreedomSpirit108  When it all exists only in the imagination, you are a poet.
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  102.  james c  I wonder how the world would have been different if we had read some different books? Even our cultural revelations were standard.
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  103.  james c  It does sound like things have gotten worse. I wasn't being critical of those particular books. It was more than those were the exact set of books I read in high school too.
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  104. What phone, James Brooks?
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  105. I think you are correct, Christopher Ellis. Great art, policy....whatever is not made by a committee.
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  106. All his talking about suicide seems like a waste of time, Philip Shapkin.
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  107.  @Rambi401  This is what we both do over and over. Let's do the opposite.
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  108.  @TheNateWalking  Government and their lackeys.
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  109. Thank you for this. The more I learn about Jung, the more brilliant he seems.
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  110.  @brandonwhite4992  You could try being a wildun. Except I didn't see that but liked because it was an excellent comment.
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  111.  @boyongandkabau  I don't feel like I am living a life of quiet desperation, but I only heard it three weeks ago.
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  112. I like your contrasting stoicism and Nietzsche, BasicSpace42. Illuminating method.
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  113. The right person at the right time with the right platform will need to be stoic because this kind of change is unlikely to be made in a way that is linear and predictable, Phil Barker. It will likely involve trying many things to observe the result of each. Some will fail, yet this is the way to find openings that can lead changes nobody thought possible. It is often human nature to be stoic about things that could be changed because we do not see a way. I admire the stoics, but this is more a time to think about Nietzsche.
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  114. The more people we add to the equation, the more confused we can become. Requesting the impartial judgement of others may not get the results one would want. There is a neurosis, and there are legitimate fears. Why would anyone strive for conformity? Fear?
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  115. @J No. It's a smart Canadian guy.
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  116. Ypu don't know me, bitch.
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  117. This seems accurate, QualeQualeson, but there are exceptions. What about the public health, safety, and welfare? It does look like the EPA is being decimated (for example) but they have done some good. What about schools, parks and libraries? There are valid public purposes.
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  118. No, QualeQualeson. I was making a point that there are ways that governments can make out lives better. It is politicians or totalitarianism, I think. I can't think of a way around bueracracy regardless.
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  119. I had not expected you to quote from the I Ching. I use this, not as a form of divination, but as a way to throw out a context for thought. (As some might use a random number generator. I am reflecting on Hexagram 7 "The Army." Casting views in this way is arbitrary. Sometimes it makes sense. It can change habitual patterns.
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  120.  @gordonbgraham  I was not thinking of the strangers.
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  121.  @gordonbgraham  Beats me. You?
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  122.  Strelok  Perhaps I am retired after a thirty-year career (which, sadly contained years where I did nothing but work) and looking after my dying mother, who has dementia. A lot of the second is in being around. Sometimes I have used weed as an escape. I could and would easily quit if I had compelling work again. I am retired from urban planning and have not figured out the next thing I will do. I study a lot, as that is my nature. As a self-help worker, you may want to be more reflective on where your victim is in life. I feel lucky to have what I need and don't think that I deserve something different from what I have. I was never very greedy, and I indeed think of people with superficial, materialistic values as unimportant.
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  123. ​ Strelok  Perhaps their unhappiness and insecurity will propel them to a more meaningful life, or perhaps they will have the lives they deserve. I think of it as poetic justice. Rather than wanting to help them, I am amused by their unhappiness. Thank you for the suggestion. It will be something to do with writing.
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  124. It may be possible for both of these archetypes to be encompassed in one person. Are you sure that it has to be one or the other, KW?
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  125. I think it was Jeremy Bentham who developed the concept, and John Stuart Mill who named it. I also thought that OP was a dick for saying that. To develop compassion is not weakness. If morality comes from within as an honest effort in scientific thought, it is a strength. This is hard to do without being sure that there is not self-delusion, but it is essential and worthwhile.
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  126. There are useful definitions of equality, K W. The value of having them is not the same thing as saying that each person is of the equal importance. It is crucial, nonetheless to see that each person is a person.
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  127. Wow. I like your poetry. This might be good Fawad Khan (if, for example, you mean educationally challenging people). What if your subjects do not share your values? Also, if you call them "weak" they may perceive you as arrogant. Do you shout at your students? Do you have a name for this method of learning? I was being facetious in case you were a cult. "The ones left?" You sound like you may be an excellent teacher.
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  128. Some people can't help but take the road less travelled. It sometimes leads to more happiness, Peter Chatain.
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  129. What I meant by "coin toss" is that in the poem the decision is not clear as he ponders it. There is no evidence that one will bring more happiness. I have chosen the road less travelled before and probably will again, as it was one of the best things I have ever done. This is not for everyone. There are often both rewards and consequences. For many people, security is more important. Some are heard animals and lack the inclination. There is nothing wrong in that.
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  130. I had not thought of this excellent interpretation, John Stockwell Major Smedley Butler. The fact that we are more controlled by our unconscious than conscious minds makes your comment seem correct. Man, that guy was profound.
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  131. This is an excellent point, Robert Binner. Also, one can be "true to oneself" and end up in good legal trouble. In his poem, Frost only says "and that has made all the difference." To me, this implies that for all we know, he could be writing from some hell.
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  132. If we don't have social engineering, we have random social engineering, teddy toto. It may be less sinister than you think. If we can recreate social health, why would we not?
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  133. She may have saved your keister. @ReverendDr.Thomas 
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