I think most people couldn't handle the burden of having to interpret reality, meaning and values for themselves - nor do they even entertain the illusion that they could
I think there's also fear of being lied to. Like when you knew the better perception of reality, but there are some who, due to political interest and power, managed to persuaded you into not standing up on your system, but instead theirs, and so probably I might ended up forgetting where I came from.
correct me if im wrong but when u mention the illusion of our culture i find it most evident in our sexual and romantic relations after reviewing evolution of sex and other cultures belief i see it as a very strange accurance and dont quite understand how it came about
Ah, you've given me a key, when I hear a stream of words and "just know" what it means without thinking about it, that lack of self-reflexivity has a unique history and set of behavioral consequences that is likely worth looking into.
1. finally found a book I wanted tor reread after watching this video. It is "Strangers, Gods, and Monsters by Richard Kearney. His account of the Greek khora and his writing on "otherness" have been stuck in my mind like song lyrics since I read it almost six years ago...
It is very refreshing when a YouTube video actually makes you think...
Just one slight reservation....Your vocabulary is vast and you tend to use words that will exclude a lot of viewers. For words like "reify", for example
2. couldn't you include an on-screen annotation like:
Reify - to treat an abstraction as if it had material existence.
What I like about the internet is that it is democratic, and it seems like a good idea to be as inclusive of your viewers as possible...Simple definitions of the words you use appearing in annotations might help with that...
"...experience has taught me that the history of various forms of rationality is sometimes more effective in unsettling our certitudes and dogmatism than is abstract criticism. For centuries, religion couldn't bear having it's history told. Today, our schools of rationality balk at having their history written, which is no doubt significant." Michel Foucault: Politics, Philosophy, Culture. p.83
5 From a neuroscience standpoint, the attempt to locate a "reason faculty" appears to be a misguided approach; there is a sort of inseparability between emotion and reason. I wish there was more broad knowledge of anti-foundationalism, and the failure of academic logicians to resolve politics within the public and people who argue for and against isms. University is absolutely shot through with the "urning for authoritative disambiguation." I think one solution is question what "reason is."
4 I think that ambiguity is wholly anchored to the idiosyncratic possibilities of self-creation. "Death," on this view, is a fear of death of identity, rather than body. The linguistic strategy of using "reason" to sort out the good from the bad is very dangerous, for the history of rationality is suspect. I am certain that many people who think they are champions of reason have no knowledge of the work Habermas has done in this area, and the critques of it launched by prominent figures.
3 Your theme of "freedom from vs. freedom to" emphasizes that freedom is a skill acquired. Higher education has held the authority to teach decorum and provide access to materials that empower voices within respected conversations of decision making. The internet has displaced this gatekeeping role such that a professor may be more cautious in a classroom of student with laptops. However, the fact that the tools are available does not guarantee the ability to operate them well.
1 If we are to discuss knowledge and fear, we must discuss Foucault's knowledge/power. There is a tendency on youtube to oppose reason to religion, not realizing that reason has a history. Foucault's notion that psychological, medical, penitential, and educational practices are interwoven into the creation and critique of the self must be addressed. If you are familiar with Charles Taylor, you ought to address the Habermas/Foucault tension in the structures of dialogue.
2 The move toward suspending "authoritative disambiguation" in order to deepen one's capacity for understanding complexity without reducing it, hinges on methodologies of inquiry. Foucault's willingness to suspend a grounding of knowledge based on the universal juridical subject, and instead recover the systematic invention of the structures of law and power opens up possibilities for an imminent critique of education by historcizing critical capacities.
wow. professor Anton, this is where studies of Jacques Lacan may bare fruit and understanding on the human Death Drive, Pleasure, Anxiety, ideology etc
I'll make a vid response, but this is the point... do you think teachers and textbook authors combat the need for authoratative disambiguation, or do they merely give up on that and opt to disambiguation unconditionally? Then... we blame authority worship on something else than how those in authority use their power.
I agree that we do a lot too much group thinking...We will often agree on consensus reality BECAUSE we are unable to escape from the need for certainty...
BUT we have to be very aware that what we substitute for our previous certainty can also be a problem...
The fundamental desire for ground makes one seek 'authoritative disambiguation' (AB). The debunking of the illusion that there is ground is also the end of Lacanian psychoanalysis. Lacan put it this way: "The big Other does not exist".
Funny though, we still have our gods: Becker, Heidegger, Lacan, etc. and our favorite recurrent 'buzz' words (AB)...but yet something new in the insight that admits the mythic status of these gods.
A metaphor I sometimes find useful is of a river flowing down to the ocean with ourselves as lifeforms that can alternate bewteen flowing in the center of the stream, pausing for a time in pools and eddies at the edge of the river or of actually climbing out onto dry land. Obviously, the land option offers solid realities about which one can become dogmatic but it denies, for the most part, all the realities that occur in the river and most definitely the ocean.
the pudding is in the proof. so you are both doing it in spite of the fact that it's doing about doing it. so it is. in a way calling it fear of death is misleading on both accounts. in our daily lifes we don't feel it - the fear of death, and death... nother made up word. it's not fear of death it's rather based on our locality misplaced concreteness of infinite permanence. even the yogis do it with their "everything is awareness" stance...
thanx for all the great video's . ok the self the I? i mean lately like i have been having moments of like where i get this feeling of almost a separation of self sorta an awareness of awareness. havin a mental ailment or 2 . an many years of drug therapy and then other means more natural.n philosophy has helped me so much in understanding the universe. the thing i like what you were saying which i often to say to people. we really have no idea about the universe at all...we are all monkeys..
it's strange. you spoke of words and how we instantly hear the word and not just the noise of that word - and then i began to zone out - the static noise on the video was amplified for whatever reason and your voice began to drift in and out of the noise. the voice is such an odd thing - i'm often in rooms where everybody is speaking a foreign language - language is just noise albeit harmonious in a strange kinda way...
2:20- I think Heidegger makes a similar point about language-
"What we first hear is never noises or complexes of sound, but the creaking wagon, the motor cycle...it requires a very artificial and complicated frame of mind to hear a pure noise".
A society full of people asking too many questions and continuously motivated to 'transcend the self' will hinder the GDP. Unfortunately, GDP is the prevalent end in most education systems.
defending of beliefs which is directly comparable to "territorialism" is emotional, not rational (we just use words to illustrate emotions. That's why so many people are blinded by their beliefs and filter out truth or other interpretations and views
I think most people couldn't handle the burden of having to interpret reality, meaning and values for themselves - nor do they even entertain the illusion that they could
g1981c 9 months ago
I think there's also fear of being lied to. Like when you knew the better perception of reality, but there are some who, due to political interest and power, managed to persuaded you into not standing up on your system, but instead theirs, and so probably I might ended up forgetting where I came from.
Melki 9 months ago
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babylonIZfallin 9 months ago
correct me if im wrong but when u mention the illusion of our culture i find it most evident in our sexual and romantic relations after reviewing evolution of sex and other cultures belief i see it as a very strange accurance and dont quite understand how it came about
koldblooded1 1 year ago
i guess my collective is unique heres my take on the truth!
thesunshon 1 year ago
Ah, you've given me a key, when I hear a stream of words and "just know" what it means without thinking about it, that lack of self-reflexivity has a unique history and set of behavioral consequences that is likely worth looking into.
NeoChalcedonian 1 year ago
Corey, I am interested on your opinion on Eckert Tolles philosophies described in the book, "A New Earth."
Kidkel69 2 years ago
Wow, does this make me miss all our deep talks when we were 17!
-Kellie Levans-
Kidkel69 2 years ago
1. finally found a book I wanted tor reread after watching this video. It is "Strangers, Gods, and Monsters by Richard Kearney. His account of the Greek khora and his writing on "otherness" have been stuck in my mind like song lyrics since I read it almost six years ago...
It is very refreshing when a YouTube video actually makes you think...
Just one slight reservation....Your vocabulary is vast and you tend to use words that will exclude a lot of viewers. For words like "reify", for example
2bsirius 2 years ago
2. couldn't you include an on-screen annotation like:
Reify - to treat an abstraction as if it had material existence.
What I like about the internet is that it is democratic, and it seems like a good idea to be as inclusive of your viewers as possible...Simple definitions of the words you use appearing in annotations might help with that...
Sorry if that sounds like a criticism.
2bsirius 2 years ago
I love Kearney's stuff. I have his book Poetics of Imagining
Professoranton 2 years ago
@2bsirius
I think his vast vocabulary is a benefit, I sometimes dont understand alot of it but that just gives me a reason to widen my own vocabulary.
suddenuprising 9 months ago
@suddenuprising
Yes, I agree that the only good strategy is to grab a dictionary when you don't know a word. Lots of us can be lazy about that. Good point.
2bsirius 9 months ago
Damn you explain yourself well. Five stars.
amabodie 2 years ago
Meditation for the win. W
1PostPoMoMaN1 2 years ago
thank god for you!
you're fun. never hiding from your self.
you're wacky and generous
oh i sound like a kid in middle school!
clearshquarter 2 years ago
"...experience has taught me that the history of various forms of rationality is sometimes more effective in unsettling our certitudes and dogmatism than is abstract criticism. For centuries, religion couldn't bear having it's history told. Today, our schools of rationality balk at having their history written, which is no doubt significant." Michel Foucault: Politics, Philosophy, Culture. p.83
aaronhemeon 2 years ago
5 From a neuroscience standpoint, the attempt to locate a "reason faculty" appears to be a misguided approach; there is a sort of inseparability between emotion and reason. I wish there was more broad knowledge of anti-foundationalism, and the failure of academic logicians to resolve politics within the public and people who argue for and against isms. University is absolutely shot through with the "urning for authoritative disambiguation." I think one solution is question what "reason is."
aaronhemeon 2 years ago
4 I think that ambiguity is wholly anchored to the idiosyncratic possibilities of self-creation. "Death," on this view, is a fear of death of identity, rather than body. The linguistic strategy of using "reason" to sort out the good from the bad is very dangerous, for the history of rationality is suspect. I am certain that many people who think they are champions of reason have no knowledge of the work Habermas has done in this area, and the critques of it launched by prominent figures.
aaronhemeon 2 years ago
3 Your theme of "freedom from vs. freedom to" emphasizes that freedom is a skill acquired. Higher education has held the authority to teach decorum and provide access to materials that empower voices within respected conversations of decision making. The internet has displaced this gatekeeping role such that a professor may be more cautious in a classroom of student with laptops. However, the fact that the tools are available does not guarantee the ability to operate them well.
aaronhemeon 2 years ago
1 If we are to discuss knowledge and fear, we must discuss Foucault's knowledge/power. There is a tendency on youtube to oppose reason to religion, not realizing that reason has a history. Foucault's notion that psychological, medical, penitential, and educational practices are interwoven into the creation and critique of the self must be addressed. If you are familiar with Charles Taylor, you ought to address the Habermas/Foucault tension in the structures of dialogue.
aaronhemeon 2 years ago
2 The move toward suspending "authoritative disambiguation" in order to deepen one's capacity for understanding complexity without reducing it, hinges on methodologies of inquiry. Foucault's willingness to suspend a grounding of knowledge based on the universal juridical subject, and instead recover the systematic invention of the structures of law and power opens up possibilities for an imminent critique of education by historcizing critical capacities.
aaronhemeon 2 years ago
wow. professor Anton, this is where studies of Jacques Lacan may bare fruit and understanding on the human Death Drive, Pleasure, Anxiety, ideology etc
naumanhumayun 2 years ago
Yes, Please read the master work called System and Structure by Anthony Wilden
Professoranton 2 years ago
I'll make a vid response, but this is the point... do you think teachers and textbook authors combat the need for authoratative disambiguation, or do they merely give up on that and opt to disambiguation unconditionally? Then... we blame authority worship on something else than how those in authority use their power.
pyrrho314 2 years ago
I agree that we do a lot too much group thinking...We will often agree on consensus reality BECAUSE we are unable to escape from the need for certainty...
BUT we have to be very aware that what we substitute for our previous certainty can also be a problem...
2bsirius 2 years ago
The fundamental desire for ground makes one seek 'authoritative disambiguation' (AB). The debunking of the illusion that there is ground is also the end of Lacanian psychoanalysis. Lacan put it this way: "The big Other does not exist".
Funny though, we still have our gods: Becker, Heidegger, Lacan, etc. and our favorite recurrent 'buzz' words (AB)...but yet something new in the insight that admits the mythic status of these gods.
notonewhit 2 years ago
Does the Individual exist in the first place?
anujdasgupta 2 years ago
I am always thrown off by peoples absolute certainty.
pboisei 2 years ago
A metaphor I sometimes find useful is of a river flowing down to the ocean with ourselves as lifeforms that can alternate bewteen flowing in the center of the stream, pausing for a time in pools and eddies at the edge of the river or of actually climbing out onto dry land. Obviously, the land option offers solid realities about which one can become dogmatic but it denies, for the most part, all the realities that occur in the river and most definitely the ocean.
1140Cecile 2 years ago
that the eeriest thing I've ever read. I have written something so similar to this its uncanny.
begily 2 years ago
It's great when that happens, isn't it?
1140Cecile 2 years ago
the pudding is in the proof. so you are both doing it in spite of the fact that it's doing about doing it. so it is. in a way calling it fear of death is misleading on both accounts. in our daily lifes we don't feel it - the fear of death, and death... nother made up word. it's not fear of death it's rather based on our locality misplaced concreteness of infinite permanence. even the yogis do it with their "everything is awareness" stance...
jogayot 2 years ago
thanx for all the great video's . ok the self the I? i mean lately like i have been having moments of like where i get this feeling of almost a separation of self sorta an awareness of awareness. havin a mental ailment or 2 . an many years of drug therapy and then other means more natural.n philosophy has helped me so much in understanding the universe. the thing i like what you were saying which i often to say to people. we really have no idea about the universe at all...we are all monkeys..
hippi28 2 years ago
it's strange. you spoke of words and how we instantly hear the word and not just the noise of that word - and then i began to zone out - the static noise on the video was amplified for whatever reason and your voice began to drift in and out of the noise. the voice is such an odd thing - i'm often in rooms where everybody is speaking a foreign language - language is just noise albeit harmonious in a strange kinda way...
2009DD45 2 years ago
2:20- I think Heidegger makes a similar point about language-
"What we first hear is never noises or complexes of sound, but the creaking wagon, the motor cycle...it requires a very artificial and complicated frame of mind to hear a pure noise".
begily 2 years ago 2
A society full of people asking too many questions and continuously motivated to 'transcend the self' will hinder the GDP. Unfortunately, GDP is the prevalent end in most education systems.
ian220885 2 years ago
great video. "dogmatic pounding" made me think of a dog catcher chasing people with a net to take them to the "dogma pound". : 0)
Paramystical 2 years ago 2
This drive towards Authoritative disambiguation could make a good explanation of religiosity, fundamentalism and extremist politics. Well expressed.
BespokeGroupUK 2 years ago 2
The Abrahamic God and religion would, of course, be the ultimate denial of death and limits and of seeking authoritative disambiguation.
zarkoff45 2 years ago
I was referring to all organized religion and structured regimes of truth
BespokeGroupUK 2 years ago
defending of beliefs which is directly comparable to "territorialism" is emotional, not rational (we just use words to illustrate emotions. That's why so many people are blinded by their beliefs and filter out truth or other interpretations and views
mindaCat 2 years ago 2