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I can't refrain myself to think about Macchiavelli.

Excellent overview

Is dislocation essentially alienation?

Im a conservative socialist. I genuinely don't understand how conservatives can defend capitalism. Its everything we despise. It exploits ppl and the environment, treating us as commodities. It demands endless growth. It's hedonistic, ruthlessly individualistic, literally buys communities from under the ppls feet, encourages mass consumption etc. It alienates us from our labor, from each other, from ourselves... Thats not conservative in the slightest. It replaced the almighty God with the almighty dollar. We exist as a means to a never satisfied end. It claims that "greed is good" despite greed being one of the seven deadly sins. Capitalism speaks of human nature being selfish and greedy, which if true, why would anyone wish to promote said instincts with such a model? And if human nature is so cut and dry, why do capitalists do everything they can to manipulate our desires and behaviors? Socialism and conservativism value community and the human condition. They both admonish superficial materialism. They may disapprove for different reasons, but both groups want the same thing essentially. Which is why im a conservative socialist. Conservative social structures are best suited for a socialist economic model, which in turn rewards conservative values of family, community and discipline. Its the base and the superstructure working together instead of being in conflict.

I hope she got a job at a Christian university. Although, I don't think "becoming a conservative" was the right move. "If you label me, you negate me." - Kierkegaard. If you label yourself, you negate yourself. If you say, "I'm a conservative," then you're making a political ideology a foundational part of your identity. Then you cannot think outside that ideology without triggering an identity crisis. Reject ideologies. Don't have opinions on issues where you haven't studied a variety of opposing viewpoints on the issue in question, evaluated the logical validity of many of the best arguments made for each viewpoint, and analyzed the relevant evidence.

Oh wow, this lady deserves a great deal more attention. It's a shame she never got on any major podcasts. Did she publish any books?

Interesting essay

Brilliant exposition, professor. In an imperial system, we all are in the same boat. It's hard for white American people to grasp, but "internal colonization" (Malcolm X) is our common experience.

As someonw with misphonia god dmn she got me in the red swallowing into the mic.... its crazy how angry it makes me

Dude. A Visial Arts prof??, really? ....yet his web cam is all effed up, pointing up his nostrils??? C'mon, man....

Cutrone is an down market Adorno knock off. This is not a compliment champ.

I guess in a lot of ways, modernity is like a second fall of humanity. But instead of ripping away the good things that God has given us on a super-natural level, this second fall rips away even the remaining good things He has provided at the natural level, like psychological wellbeing and healthy cultures.

Interesting. A bit like Adam and Eve discovering their nakedness after the fall. They were supposed to be too comfortable and at-home (in themselves, in Eden, in God) to notice it. In a way, they had been “cloaked” in un-self-conscious and easy loving relatedness. The story really expresses the pain of having that ripped away.

I think you are onto something with trying to describe the psychological experience of dislocation. In 1970 the book Future Shock was getting at something similar. It was the shock of being dislocated in time instead of space. The term future shock was taken from culture shock. Toffler was saying that in 1970 the pace of change was exceeding the capacity for people to adapt and he described the psychological symptoms of this as complex adaptive syndrome or future shock. There are psychological symptoms but I would say social and policitical symptoms or behaviors also. I think you are exactly right that if you are embedded in your culture it is almost impossible to reflect in a psychological way about these things. I became aware of your channel because I was talking about modernity sickness and AI sent me your videos on Charles Taylor. I have shifted from working as a therapist to working as a culture war medic in the middle of God's Country and I have watched the gap grow over the last twenty years. Now most people I talk with either can't imagine being embedded but most people are vulnerable to the type of political changes you write about because they have been dislocated without psychologically working through all the changes following the sixties yet still experience themselves and those around them as still embedded so they insulate more and more and feel more and more threatened. Thanks for this channel and for writing and teaching on the intersection of psychology, culture and politics. you really are giving me the tools I need as a culture war medic.

Another confronting and deeply uncomfortable discussion, that needs to be had! Painful mental cold shower that has been with me the whole day; it must have tripped a fair few circuits upstairs. I am not sure what grades red pills come in, anyhow this story is the horse strength one 😂 Laurie, thanks again for all your hard work and unique insights. Greetings from Canberra.

I would be interested in both classes, especially if you go with the longer format.

23:00 Socrates, by paying Asclepius, proved his will to nothingness.

Excellent.

I agree with Lasch about the corporate - and government - takeover of the universities. I think, though, he overlooks the fact that the radical professors influence future government bureaucrats who shape policy.

I think he mighta maybe taken more than one form? Or something to that effect.

Before 1931, Santa Claus was depicted in many different ways, including as a tall, gaunt man, a spooky elf, a bishop, and a Norse huntsman.

Nietchez was wild.

I'm so grateful to you for these lectures! I've been reading After Virtue and this really, really helps. Thank you!!

This stuff is part of my survival kit therapy in whatever instantiation of hell that is our system in America 2024. Thank you!!!

Normative much? Wish you had talked more about Anaroo-primitivism instead of your own reaction and emotions.

Forgive me but I find this slightly misleading I expected to hear the late and great intellectual guillame faye speak, also it’s pronounced like fay

I love this essay thank you for the analysis

Nah, he was right to critique marxism

Hey! I haven't joined your Patreon (though I'm thinking about it), but I am sympathetic to the idea of your project. But I think you're giving too mean a reading to Cutrone. He's influenced first and foremost by Adorno, and to really know where Adorno is coming from you have to get into his Aesthetic Theory: "The impression of the ugliness of technology and the industrial landscape is not formally explained sufficiently, and is likely to persist in purely developed and aesthetically sound functional forms in the sense of Adolf Loos. It dates back to the principle of violence, of destruction. The purposes set are irreconcilable with what nature, however mediated, wants to say of itself. In technology, violence over nature is not reflected through representation, but comes into view directly. This could only be changed by a redirection of the technical productive forces, which no longer measures them merely against the intended purposes but also against nature, which is being shaped by technology. Unleashing the productive forces could, after the abolition of scarcity, take place in a dimension other than just the quantitative increase in production. Approaches to this can be seen where functional buildings adapt to landscape forms and lines; probably already when the materials from which artefacts were made came from their surroundings and blended into them like some castles and palaces. What is called a cultural landscape is beautiful as a schema of this possibility. Rationality that took up such motifs could help to heal the wounds of rationality. Even the naive verdict of the bourgeois consciousness on the ugliness of the landscape torn up by industry hits a relation, the apparent domination of nature where nature presents people with the facade of the uncontrolled. That indignation therefore blends in with the ideology of domination. Such ugliness would disappear once the relationship between people and nature was freed of the repressive character that continues the oppression of people, not the other way around." and also: "Only that which escaped the control of nature could help with its restauration." It's just that revolution has to take precedence so that anything like that can happen.

There is a good quote from Jurassic park about technological society: John Hammond: I don't think you're giving us our due credit. Our scientists have done things which nobody's ever done before... Dr. Ian Malcolm: Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.

the same day that the magna carta was signed ( the lords common law, state!! ) also signed that day was the forest law of the people rights to lands etc,

Part 1 czcams.com/video/hU4gXwqq7YM/video.html Part 2 czcams.com/video/BdondEjZg-k/video.html Part 3 (it's called part 2 but it's 3) czcams.com/video/OVlqWopwdrU/video.htmlsi=mrudlxqyCKPTQx3t Great lecture

I enjoyed this conversation, thank you. However, daily school shootings are not happening all over the world. They are happening in America, because of lax regulation. This is a policy question.

I'm interested in a class on the political thought of Jung.

Yes, ma'am! Your take on Jung is the correct one, please follow it. Plato for the origins of Christianity, Jung for its analysis. Prof. Laurie must be one of Nietzsche's "free spirits!"

The good news is that as the technique grows exponentially it will cease to perform its function as there is no integration and uniformity. Medical techniques are unavailable to most, Agricultural techniques produce products that lack nutrition and degrade health, Transportation techniques create more distance, pollution and takes millions in accident victims, etc., etc...........

Technique is a dead end. It may evolve and become faster, bigger, smaller, more efficient but there is never any reference to the practitioner or how it will threaten the features of his/her life. It is distinct from the human as the improvements and changes suggest itself even though the user mistakenly takes credit for them. Space, time and matter are the raw materials apart from human thought and feelings.

I believe Christian anarquism and sinerquism need to fusion in a new concept of government, but to that happend we as a society need to evolve to close the distrofy of religions and democracy '' fake". As espiritually and ciênce connect like what happends in more advance systems (Pleiades. Sirius), to that happend we need to start to create small communities united by mutualism gold Standart assets and cooperative p2p system organize in small comunas... KIbutzs, Shovkozes, kholkozes are just tries to connect societies in a different aproach some off them fail cause the principles have a lot of erotion.. But he can't base a new system ANARQUIST CHRIST in Jesus principles, we need go more farway and see christ as a energy not a person.. We need see christ as a doctrine of love and equality based in a nomade of soul/consciences

CUTRONE

Cutrone is always a great listen

Excellent

Hello. I found this video yesterday. I am listening to this video today. I love it.

What a terrific conspectus! I'm reccomending this. Thank you very much!

Good video The real fundamental strain here is between objectivism (Plato’s forms) and relativism (sophism, rejection of the forms)

In less than 100 years we find ourselves facing the eternal demon that haunts or dreams and the realities those dreams create.

Christ is king

absolutely love this video

Thanks Dr Laurie. I read Plato by myself as a teen, but skipped these myths as they seemed foolish to me at the time. I was working from the fallacy of progress a lot, then.

Thanks Dr Laurie. I can hear some mighty strong influences on Christian thought.