Knowledge & Fear

RE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2PGXS4K6ZE
READ: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1557535612/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=c...
This is a response to Pyrrho 314's response on knowledge
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLtdTJ3gIvw
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Peter Berger : http://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Canopy-Elements-Sociological-Religion/dp/0385073...
& http://www.amazon.com/Social-Construction-Reality-Sociology-Knowledge/dp/0385...

Ernest Becker: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-key...

Category:

Education

Tags:

• learning
• wisdom
• knowledge
• insight
• truth
• education
• fear
• psychology
• ernest Becker
• unlearning
• philosophy

[2bsirius]

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

[Professoranton]

I love Kearney's stuff. I have his book Poetics of Imagining

[naumanhumayun]

wow. professor Anton, this is where studies of Jacques Lacan may bare fruit and understanding on the human Death Drive, Pleasure, Anxiety, ideology etc

[Professoranton]

Yes, Please read the master work called System and Structure by Anthony Wilden

[g1981c]

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

[2bsirius]

@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.

[suddenuprising]

@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.

[Melki]

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.

[babylonIZfallin]

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[koldblooded1]

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

[thesunshon]

i guess my collective is unique heres my take on the truth!

[NeoChalcedonian]

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.

[Kidkel69]

Corey, I am interested on your opinion on Eckert Tolles philosophies described in the book, "A New Earth."

[Kidkel69]

Wow, does this make me miss all our deep talks when we were 17!

-Kellie Levans-