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(DIR) Post #ADP6xQKz4SysnqqXtg by luke@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-10-31T20:08:09.848Z
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Karl Popper, known for his concept of falsifiability in the philosophy of science, also was a somewhat influential political thinker in his time. Popper endorsed what he called “the Open Society,” a liberal democratic society based on abstract and depersonalized material connections, instead of direct social relationships. This vision was particularly influential on one of Popper’s now famous students, George Soros, who would go on to use his significant wealth won in financial markets to found the Open Society Foundation, a significant source of funds for leftist political agitation and pressure in America and Europe. Soros’s worldview has somewhat departed from Popper’s, with an emphasis on what Soros calls reflexivity, the principle that in human domains, our theories of world affect the world itself.
(DIR) Post #ADPBvY3pssWhwrkbT6 by jeffcliff@shitposter.club
2021-11-14T22:21:31.444380Z
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@luke also, Soros is a little more elitist than popper was. Soros accepts that "the average person is an idiot" whereas Popper is probably a little more optimistic about the everyman. This is also reflected in what Soros actually does
(DIR) Post #ADPCNX37ErrCv3l1iy by billiam@shitposter.club
2021-11-14T22:26:34.840971Z
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@luke this is only popping up 2 weeks after the fact
(DIR) Post #ADPt13EU3Je1sB4TMe by z@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-11-01T15:01:29.569Z
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Pretty boring and unsubstantial episode, to be frank. A lot of rather empty theory just to redpill people on Soros. Was I missing something?
(DIR) Post #ADQ0PLgFoYxZiWarVA by yellowarchitect@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-11-01T17:59:57.013Z
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Off-topic, tip for anyone watching podcasts through peertube, so it downloads fast and has low sizeDownload (Below Title) -> Advanced -> Audio Stream=========On-topic, 1 hour+ on Karl Popper is more than he deserves. He shit on Plato, taking phrases out of context and applying it to modern context ("noooo you cannot die for your city-state! that is literally fascism!")Somewhere in his notes/appendix, he says sth like: "Anyone should rule, regardless of values or skills or knowledge", so I'm not surprised he also shilled for things like a society with 0 social relationships, a faceless society, where you interact with people only to consoom product/service. Instantly makes you look at that early life section at wikip-Every single time.
(DIR) Post #ADQ1uMHri16MWuXJeC by yellowarchitect@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-11-01T18:01:33.710Z
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Tip for anyone watching **podcasts** through peertube, so it downloads fast and has low sizeDownload (Below Title) -> Advanced -> Audio Stream=========On-topic, 1 hour+ on Karl Popper is more than he deserves. He shit on Plato, taking phrases out of context and applying it to modern context ("noooo you cannot die for your city-state! that is literally fascism!")Somewhere in his notes/appendix, he says sth like: "Anyone should rule, regardless of values or skills or knowledge", so I'm not surprised he also shilled for things like a society with 0 social relationships, a faceless society. Instantly makes you look at that early life section at wikip-Every single time.
(DIR) Post #ADQiEnZIBURn0V7Ioa by luke@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-11-02T13:45:42.681Z
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@yellowarchitect Man, I'm pretty naive then. It didn't even hit me to see if Popper was a Jew. Not surprised of course.
(DIR) Post #ADQoI1GCKkEe496XuC by luke@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-11-02T17:24:06.308Z
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@z Lol when I finished recording my first thought was "Yeah, this is probably the weakest episode." Either way, a couple people have emailed me saying "Woah, this is the best one yet!" So it works for some people. Either way, this is why I want to stray away from "critiques" of ideas because it comes off as a negative and non-constructive. I'm sure the asides I make here are valuable for some people.
(DIR) Post #ADSpHPoqywJmhJLVmy by z@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-11-04T12:01:28.138Z
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@luke To be clear, it’s not as much about you critiquing (although I still like episodes better when you withhold judgment) as it is about the lack of genuinely interesting thoughts presented in this episode – well but that’s of course to be attributed to the fact that you didn’t see any interesting thoughts in Popper’s work. So why do an episode on him anyhow? Anyway, I still look forward to your next episodes, most of them have been great! (Although there’s a good chance I’ll miss them anyways because I’m planning to get rid of all computers at home, which is now finally possible as I don’t have to work from home anymore.)
(DIR) Post #ADSpOeQx2mzE3CcGMy by z@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-11-04T12:16:10.589Z
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@luke Oh, by the way, I have a suggestion for you: There’s this German-born economist Fritz Schumacher who spoke out against over-technoligization and advocated for rethinking economical thinking and the use of small-scale technology. He wrote two small books on this, “Small is Beautiful” and “A Guide for the Perplexed” with the latter one rather elaborating his foundational ideas and the former one rather laying out his economical thinking (in contrast to mainstream opinion). Schumacher later in life turned to Catholicism, which can give you a hint about his attitudes. There’s a great documentary about him on Youtube, also titled “Small is Beautiful” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIlsgMngyhE It may be worth while to read and discuss his books and maybe contrast his low-tech philosophy with Uncle Ted’s radical no-tech stance.
(DIR) Post #ADSpQuZzz7PQhnvSuO by z@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-11-04T12:17:31.704Z
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@luke Oh, by the way, I have a suggestion for you: There’s this German-born economist Fritz Schumacher who spoke out against over-technologization and advocated for rethinking economical paradigms and for the use of small-scale technology. He wrote two small books on this, “Small is Beautiful” and “A Guide for the Perplexed” with the latter one rather elaborating his foundational ideas and the former one rather laying out his economical thinking (in contrast to mainstream opinion). Schumacher later in life turned to Catholicism, which can give you a hint about his attitudes. There’s a great documentary about him on Youtube, also titled “Small is Beautiful” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIlsgMngyhE It may be worth while to read and discuss his books and maybe contrast his low-tech philosophy with Uncle Ted’s radical no-tech stance.
(DIR) Post #ADSpT913HX2w3fe1Ee by z@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-11-04T12:18:21.993Z
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@luke Oh, by the way, I have a suggestion for you: There’s this German-born economist Fritz Schumacher who spoke out against over-technologization and advocated for rethinking economical paradigms and for the use of small-scale technology. He wrote two small books on this, “Small is Beautiful” and “A Guide for the Perplexed” with the latter one rather elaborating his foundational ideas and the former one rather laying out his economical thinking (in contrast to mainstream opinion). Schumacher later in life turned to Catholicism, which maybe already tells you something about his general attitude towards life. There’s a great documentary about him on Youtube, also titled “Small is Beautiful” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIlsgMngyhE It may be worth while to read and discuss his books and maybe contrast his low-tech philosophy with Uncle Ted’s radical no-tech stance.
(DIR) Post #ADSpYekYit41vYYg0e by z@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-11-04T12:26:54.718Z
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@luke Oh, by the way, I have a suggestion for you: There’s this German-born economist Fritz Schumacher, who spoke out against over-technologization and advocated for rethinking economical paradigms and for the use of small-scale technology. He wrote two small books on this, “Small is Beautiful” and “A Guide for the Perplexed”, with the latter one rather elaborating his foundational ideas and the former one rather laying out his economical thinking (in opposition to mainstream economical opinions). Schumacher later in life turned to Catholicism, which may already tell you something about his general attitude towards life. There’s a great documentary about him on Youtube, also titled “Small is Beautiful” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIlsgMngyhE It may be worth while to read and discuss his books and maybe contrast his low-tech philosophy with Uncle Ted’s radical no-tech stance. One can also try to relate this to the idea of distributism, which has Catholic roots. I believe you already read “Rerum Novarum”? Anyway, maybe this is an interesting field to explore for your podcast.
(DIR) Post #ADTcwzYHvci19E3JFg by scilens@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-11-04T19:45:47.143Z
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In ~35:07 you say Plato wasn't important, yet neo-Platonist ideas through people like St. Augustine became very prevalent in the middle ages. Plato was the main influence in the catholic church for about 800 years until St.Thomas Aquinas, when, as you say, Aristotle overtook him as The Philosopher in the late middle ages.
(DIR) Post #ADTeNmNJ81ts3KFlvE by scilens@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-11-04T19:48:21.251Z
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In ~35:07 you say Plato wasn't important, yet neo-Platonist ideas through people like St. Augustine became very prevalent in the middle ages. Plato was the main influence in the catholic church for about 800 years until St.Thomas Aquinas when Aristotle overtook him as The Philosopher in the late middle ages.
(DIR) Post #ADTid9tqLVKdAq3pAW by scilens@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-11-04T20:06:25.004Z
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41:13 - 41:41 If I recall correctly Popper supported it over other forms of government like Sparta yet was critical of Athenian democracy, I think he sided with Pericles(?) who wrote about his dream of abolishing slavery and giving women voting rights
(DIR) Post #ADVE9kPbQATXPztZRo by Hound8@101010.pl
2021-11-05T16:44:03Z
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@luke It's rare to talk about Soros here where I live so the concept of "Open Society" is new to me. Despite obviously being somewhat familiar when it comes to the modern left-wing in europe. Describing his ideas or just pointing to Soros'es book in an environment where talking about Soros is almost a conspiracy seems like a useful banality in a sense. Well, at least for me.
(DIR) Post #ADbQMMmViv4LEroFZA by yellowarchitect@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-11-11T18:36:48.674Z
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The influence of Plato was indeed so great, that it branched everywhere, to the point there were many branches deviating a bit from Plato's Philosophy, hence Neoplatonism. Meanwhile, there is no Neoaristotelianism lol
(DIR) Post #ADbRQFHvcoqF6xv0XQ by yellowarchitect@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-11-11T18:57:14.220Z
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@luke I had bought both volumes of open society, because some ppl on the internet said "it deboonked" Plato's Republic, but there was too much bs as you too noticed, that entire book is an abomination, and it convinced me that the only reason it got briefly popular is because of the shock value at its title (Plato bad)I am honestly convinced at this point that whoever shits on Plato or Aristotle, has harmful motives, and opening wikipedia ctrl+f is the easiest red flag
(DIR) Post #ADkgyyLgaii4rUsNXM by nicholas_rees@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-11-22T03:35:35.692Z
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I don't know. It depends on what you mean by "rational." The way I think of rational is more or less the way Aristotle would describe "rational," which is very different from how "rational" is understood in the enlightenment.I think it does make sense to formulate a society that produces virtue and best fulfills the natural desires in its citizens. However, that is not at all what "enlightenment ideals" mean by rational, even though its very in line with what Aristotle would call rational.Modernity wants to justify everything epistemically, and that's really the problem with it. There can't ever just be any "given" that is just understood as a good for its own end.
(DIR) Post #ADkh0uCcyelYa9Yq4u by nicholas_rees@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-11-22T03:38:21.897Z
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@scilens St. Augustine wasn't a neoPlatonist. Neoplatonism is actually associated with many heresies of the early Church.Obviously, I understand what you mean, that Plato had a big effect on Augustine's theology in a similar way that Aristotle had a big effect on Aquinas'. However, neoplatonism and platonism are very distinct things--in fact, many people mistake neoplatonism for platonism.