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Your comments on country music shocked me. You say you played Bob Willis and that it was "square" Nashville cats were some of the hippest musicians anywhere. You can't judge a genre by the mediocre. Every genre is largely mediiocre because unfortunately most of us humans are mediocre and shallow, but country has some of the best musicians. Also those guys could keep people dancing as well as cryin and laughing. Funny the black guy has the best take and country the whites are ignorant. Politics?

How do most of you guys still make profit, even with the downturn of the economy and ever increasing life standards

I wish professors were all this down to earth. I thoroughly love listening to him.

What an inspirering human being. Thank you Rick Roderick.

He seems very resentful for a smart man.

Looking forward to the next part.

How prescient this guy is. I feel like David Foster wallace listened to this guy, or read a lot of marcuse

mentioned trump 20:21

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Camille Paglia I am looking at you two bit soul sister!!!!! Rousseaus corpse sits at Foucaults feet yet you continue to fart

Rest in peace mister Roderick.

I am re-watching this series once a year at minimum. Always with a new thought. Now I see how Neuromancer is a delicious paradox. Poet wrote about the highly instrumental future. This is why Neuromancer will always be a special book. There is no school to teach you how to write Gibson :)

The commodification of dissent, borrowing your parents car to drive to the mall to buy an Anarchy symbol decal to put on your iPad.

What a great talk! RIP to a great American teacher…

Great analysis! Where is part 3?

dispositions are not causal or they would always cause their result. they are modally conditional. see nagarjuna's mulamadhyamakakarika.

I wonder what Rick Roderick would think about queer theory, cancel culture, DIE, and the "new left" now.... would he be on the side of the conservatives now.... you're John A. Right he would be a conservative.

the properties/attributes/affective powers are not entities. they are just that thing as it is. our direct apprehension/our being effected is not an entity. it just us as we are when we are interfacing. the cognitions we after the fact construct are entities.

Rick REALLY hates people wanting to live heathy lives…

“Beyond good and evil” is just evil.

Philosophic logic cutting… Damn, RR tells it straight!

I'm sorry, but I think you guys need to digest this paper before discussing online. There is really a lot of original work here and you guys are just bouncing off superficial aspects of the paper and free associating with phil 101 material .

Richard Feynman once said: "IF YOU CANNOT EXPLAIN TO ME WITH CLARITY WHAT YOU KNOW, THEN YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING." That is a lesson Jacques Derrida NEVER learned; and I know, because I took a course with him at Yale. Reply

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Blessed are the sleepy they soon drop off. I am reading Aczel Mystery of Alephs. He describes there Descartes, how he liked to sleep till middle of the day. What did kill Rene you ask? Queen of Sweden that wanted lectures by him, at 5 a.m. in January, in a library without heating. Poor sleepy head was dropped off in February by this obsessed early morning bird ;) We the sleepy one will be driven to extinction in that way, and it is a perfect irony )

You guys shouldn't be watching this show...you're just way too sensitive to enjoy it, clearly. Instead of just laughing at Larry for being a massive idiot you're squirming in your chairs worrying about how appropriate the humor is...

It's really cool to see a breakdown of this paper. I look forward to seeing more of it. It's a shame more people aren't commenting!

MJ caught a stray

I wish he hadn't eaten himself to death at 52. I assume it was a suicide.

So good.

This man was my Father. I can’t express how grateful I am for the level of thoughtfulness and passion he instilled in all of us who were touched by his words. May his beautiful soul move courageously and rebelliously onward forever and ever.

The issue with this & every societal based observation around ethics is that it always assumes a standard of humanity that has simply never been actualized: we are not altruistic beings in totality; we are alyrustic on occasion & Ideally; pragmatic & daily, we are selfish, self centered, & self important. All ethics have to begin with this as a fundamental foundation & any which start with perfection, ideal states of being, progress, etc. is simply a "museum of morality" & not reality.

I have met gypsies twice - first time some women tried to scam me of money by fortune telling, second time another women on bus station tried to sell me a stolen phone. Well, so much for fight against prejudices. There is no hate without reason, and gypsies would not be so hated if not for their criminal behavior that so deeply enrooted in their culture. Will be it genocide, if social services will take all children from them and deny them of their ethnic culture and history?

The human condition: To believe that which is helpful physically, irl, in actuality, in reality, to be a hindrance through metaphysical, theoretical, through rhetoric, as a way of mitigating the actually misery in their life. Ex: As stated here, the working class children in the 1960s entered the university system en masse through student loans. This was believed to be great, allowing the white collar middle class to explode and for the amount of people able to work these jobs to explode and feed the system which has lead to the tech boom. Physically, irl, this was great and increased the standard of living for many. Now, 60 years and two generations later, Millennials and Gen Z look at student loans as an albatros; metaphysically we have taken the avenue to a better life, grown accustomed to it, and vilified it to justify why we are miserable. Ex: Physically vaxx are helpful en masse without question. Metaphysically they have been turned into a boogyman that justifies some citizens on the Right's misery in life. This seems to happen over and over in society in the marginalized groups of people in society.

"Nobody actually believes all ideas are equal." Millennials: "Hold my Philosophy 201 textbook!"

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"If you swear that 'there's no truth, and who cares?' how can you say it like you're right?" ---bright eyes - we are nowhere, it is now

Great fun to listen to

31:46 I feel the same way

27:25 Why is Rick calling remaining in graduate school to study different things pathetic? Can somebody please explain?

Ricksell Crowederick

Wow some strong themes there

Love you all! ❤

He discovered the power in the regime of the university when they randomly fired him, lol

yayyyyy, tyler hysslop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He’s a great communicator of complexity

The Eternal Recurrence sounds more like Nietzsche's fear of hell and being stuck . Time and nature do not stand still and neither does our awareness --even though at times we seem stuck.

Weird head canon: the judge doesnt kill the man. It's the judges body that they find in the outhouse. The judge is an immortal being who possesses the kid and thus "lives forever and never dies". It amplies the horror of the judges interest in the kid: he was grooming a new host for his evil spirit to inhabit and while critical accepts him anyway. The kids body goes on to wreck violence until worn out and the entity possesses another. And another. So on till the end of time when he mounts a red horse to ride at Armageddon. I'm sure McCarthy would not confirm. Probably wouldnt deny either. He went through great pains to make the judge's status ambiguous however so it's a viable interpretation.

Good grief. All this hoo haa about simple perseverance and reflection. The over-wrought era we live in. These are habits applied over time. Nothing to it.