Nuanced Salad

professoranton
http://www.youtube.com/user/Professoranton

dospook's videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oof6RLDObGk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE_AcGlgdcI

Category:

Education

Tags:

• deconstruction
• postmodernism
• poststructuralism
• derrida
• heidegger
• professoranton
• dospook

[The1337Juice]

Wow I could not watch those other videos, my vocabulary just isn't that large. I will watch your video though because I like the sound of your voice as a back ground noise. 5 stars for having a soothing voice.

[pfarabee]

Maybe that was simplistic or even wrong... about slavery... uhm... ok, lemme clarify for you. You say that for freedom to exist there must also be not freedom, or "slavery" that exists. This is, as you say, simplistic, or even wrong.

For the IDEA of freedom to exist, there must also exist the IDEA of not freedom. The object itself need not exist. If slavery were removed entirely from the face of the earth, the idea of it would still exist, so "not slavery" can still exist.

[punkeratheart]

@gratex I don't believe anything based on a single book. If I did I would be exposed to things like religion. There are countless sources of information, you simply have to have the patience and intuition to sift through piles of shit to find the real thing. You have been an intellectual too long, and you are completely shut down to the idea of goodness, of purity, and of life as nature has set us to live it. It exists, you will just never find it. Ridicule away professor, you know nothing.

[punkeratheart]

@gratex You are confusing the corruption of human nature and it's consequences with human nature itself. I mentioned the smiling because we are in a superficial society that can only LOOK. What's a "measure of happiness"? Give me an example? Now don't rattle off statistical points on living standards, because that would make societies with no system of currency the most miserable people on earth because of their lack of "wages". I have studied more than just their smiles, and they are happy.

[gratex]

@punkeratheart

romantic idealism with no basis in fact, as I said, wtf. You read it in a book therefore it must be true, and you can dream on to your heart's content about how "better" those lives are, and perhaps one day you may get the opportunity to live amongst such eternal happiness! maybe, just... maybe. Grow up.

[gratex]

@punkeratheart

so patronising and judgemental... you talk about the superficiality you percieve yet talk about how that tribe are "always smiling", a social sign of happiness rather than an actual test of happiness. It's astounding to me that someone would believe that there is some utopian tribe out there, regardless of their level of technology. Knowledge of the human being and evolution should point toward the inability of a human to be permanently happy.

[punkeratheart]

And the desire to have servants is a very bad sign. When your dream is to have a life in which you never have to use your body, you have become very unhealthy. Nature didn't build us to be decorative, our bodies are meant to be used. If you move, quit the desk job and do something physical, eat natural foods, build rather than buy wherever possible, get sun, breathe fresh air. Run, walk, swim, and anything else you can do. You will live longer, feel better, look better, live better.

[punkeratheart]

The only way to understand what they have is to read about it, and eventually, spend some time with them. Personally, I know better than to potentially destroy their way of life by subjecting them to my current self, but after a few years of intensive self-healing, I intend to go and live a life that is pure and simple with people who never fight, rape, steal, or even argue from what anthropologists have observed. There are few like them left (not westernized), but we could all learn from them.

[punkeratheart]

@gratex Infections and infant mortality? Reading? Servants? No they don't have servants, and their babies don't die any more than ours. Less actually. I spoke of a particular tribe, not "tribal" existence in general. The people profiled in the book are not the Apache. And they have language, spoken and written, they just don't have technology, government, formal "education", or amazon. Does this make them savages? Primitive? Go ahead, say it. I am still stuck on the fact that they smile nonstop.

[gratex]

@punkeratheart

Sorry for baiting you into a trap, but it's easy to do so to people who bleat on romantically about life "on the other side". I baited you into arguing that one must read a book in order to be happy or enlightened after arguing that persons in a "tribal" society who can't read don't need to do so. Romantic idealism is dead. Of course on a superficial scale such a life is "perfect" but add disentry, infections, high infant mortality, etcetc. Unless they have servants? ;)

[punkeratheart]

@gratex Ok, so educating oneself is pointless? Yes, reading a "text" with an open mind can certainly improve your life, if you allow it. Of course it may be presumptuous of me to assume that you are willing or even psychologically able to apply what you learn from a book to your own inner self, but it's a harmless assumption that will make no difference at worst.

[gratex]

@punkeratheart

Ah if I read a text then my life will be improved, cool.