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Ethics Don’t Scale. Naval Ravikat Comments about Socialism
This recently popped up in my you tube feeder which gave me some food for thought: Naval Ravikat quoting Nassim Nicholas Taleb (or words to the effect): (starting from 4:40 in the above video) ‘With my family I’m a communist.…
Tagged with: Communism, Jordan Peterson, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Naval Ravikat, Socialism
Posted in politics
Posted in politics
Is Ben Shapiro’s Political Career over for Good After The BBC interview?
Something that has been trending of late on social media is Ben Shapiro’s controversial interview with BBC journalist Andrew Neil where Shapiro cut short the TV debate. The interview has sparked the question in many leftist circles: Is this the…
Tagged with: Andrew Neil, BBC, BBC Interview, ben Shapiro, IDW, Intellectual Dark Web
Posted in politics, Reflections
Posted in politics, Reflections
‘The Future of War Video’ and Political Grace (The Art of Disagreeing Well)
I think anyone who uses social media needs to see this video especially right up until the end because in a sense the future of war most definitely will involve each one of us. If you haven’t got time to…
Tagged with: Crime and Punishment, Destin Sandler, future of war, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jordan Peterson, Political Grace
Posted in politics, Reading
Posted in politics, Reading
Slavoj Žižek vs Jordan Peterson Debate 19-4-2019
Two great public intellectual heavyweights met last night for their much anticipated debate: Happiness: Capitalism v Marxism. In January this year just prior to the announcement of their debate, I wrote a post about Zizek and Peterson titled: Chomsky on…
Tagged with: Capitalism, Debate, Happiness: Capitalism v Marxism, Jordan Peterson, Marxism, Slavoj Žižek
Posted in politics
Posted in politics
Lost Horizon (1937) – Frank Capra
Along with Woody Allen’s Sleeper, Lost Horizon is another movie recommended to me by fellow blogger Badfinger20. It is a Frank Capra film based on the 1933 novel of the same name by James Hilton. IMDB storyline: British diplomat Robert…
Tagged with: Frank Capra, James Hilton, Lost Horizon, Ronald Coleman, Shangri-La
Posted in Movies and TV, politics
Posted in Movies and TV, politics
Reflections on The ‘Who Killed JFK’ Article
I wrote an article here in 2014 about the documentary – The Kennedy Assassination – Beyond Conspiracy. I wrote excerpts from the documentary in an attempt to expose the hypocrisy and misleading farse that which is the famous JFK movie directed…
Tagged with: Beyond conspiracy, JFK, Oliver Stone, The kennedy Assassination
Posted in Movies and TV, politics
Posted in Movies and TV, politics
The Liam Neeson Farce. Why is Psychological Insight of this Nature Being Scorned?
I thought it was good for men ‘to talk about their feelings’? What surprised me was how the interviewer stated his remarks have offended people of colour. How on earth could his remarks be interpreted as a racial slur or…
Tagged with: identity politics, Liam Neeson, modern left, psychology, racism, violence
Posted in News, politics, Reflections
Posted in News, politics, Reflections
Why Isn’t the Intellectual Dark Web (IDW) Finding Much Traction?
For information about what and whom consist of the IDW, visit this web site. I was reflecting on Eric Weinstein’s discussion above about the IDW on Rebel Wisdom. His suicide bomber analogy at the ‘diversity’ dinner was a real stand…
Tagged with: Eric Weinstein, Intellectual Dark Web, Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, reddit, sam Harris
Posted in politics
Posted in politics
Thought Policing Now Operational in the UK
Man investigated by police for retweeting transgender limerick – The Telegraph Police are being deployed by Humberside Police in the UK to call up social media users to ask them to explain their thinking behind their controversial posts/likes. He added:…
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