Based Styx is the man. His YouTube videos are amazing. I will never forget how his commentary got me through the 2016 election season and are helping me now *spoon clank
He's retweeted the .win Twitter account, that's about it.
I'm sure he knows about us, but he strangely completely avoided any mention of the_donald being banned on the day it happened, opting to only talk about Molyneux and some obscure Patreon alternative I've never heard of.
Alt tech and tech censorship are literally the subjects he's by far the most passionate about. It's bizarre honestly that he hasn't even acknowledged the presence of the second largest alt tech site (after Bitchute, and it's close).
I've seen him mention on Twitter a while ago that "Reddit hasn't been relevant for years", which unfortunately he literally could not be more dead wrong about.
If I had to take a guess, he's stuck in that strange early 4chan mindset that not only hates Reddit (reasonable), but also larps as if they don't exist.
To be Frank both him, Tim Pool, and others could be deplatformed at any time off of youtube. Styx is much edgier than Tim, so if he posted about .win he'd be far more likely of getting deplatformed for it.
Reddit is shadowblocking any posts with The Donald.Win in them, and Google has blacklisted it, wouldn't be at all surprised if YouTube took down videos telling people to come here.
I do get a good chuckle out out that. I wonder if he keeps those items just for videos or if he has a "uniform" either way hes an awesome dude and I watch his videos including the bitchute stuff every day
He's very intelligent and consistent. Even though I don't always agree with him 100 percent of the time, I do enjoy his input on issues. He's super proud about how independent he is and how he answers to no one (maybe his wife, dunno).
My mom LOVES styx. Any time she’s upset/worried about something political (I.e when she gets worried Trump won’t win because there’s so much at stake if he didn’t), she watches styx videos and she feels all better.
He’s an insanely smart guy. I also love the simplicity of his videos.
I absolutely remember, I remember too the video where he clarified why he was no longer saying that. I learned about his channel from the conservative tree house.
While he obviously is very anti-riots, he doesn't believe the riots are very consequential, the reason being that they're only taking place in a minority of the country.
He's pro-degeneracy. He doesn't seem to openly believe in any kind of family unit and the benefits of leading a personally moral life.
He doesn't seem to believe in any kind of masculinity as an integral tenet of society. Personally he acts infantile on social media.
He's only very mildly pro-Trump. Despite the claims that he's voting for him, hell often say that he doesn't really care, and that if Trump loses he'll laugh at the Maga fellows.
He believes Tucker is a neocon. Someone with Twitter please tell him to actually read up on Tucker.
This is a minor one, but I've seen him unironically cite his university courses on certain social justice issues. Bernie Sanders' "noble savage" tweet is the only one I can remember right now.
He's a socially left libertarian who happens to be cognizant of globalism, anti-white racism, and the push for communism. Which is still pretty good, considering. Like I said, I am a fan.
I like Styx a lot. He's probably in my top five or so of favorite Youtube content creators. He isn't too blue-pilled for me personally, but I could see why people more conservative than me would feel that he is. He is very pro-choice (I differ from him on this), and he sometimes says snarky stuff about Christianity. Some of that sits fine with me because his targets tend to be specific and some 'Christians' are in need of criticism. It doesn't sit well with me when he botches theology. I'm not Christian, but I have formal training in comparative theology and many of the readings were on Christianity and Catholicism. Sometimes Styx is flagrantly and laughably wrong when ranting about Christianity or Buddhism and Hinduism for that matter. He should stick to western occultist rants. At least he is genuinely well-versed in it.
I love Sargon of Akkad (a mostly inactive channel), but his active channel these days is Akkad Daily (the classics on his old channel are well worth checking out though and especially his old video on that channel, 'Liberal Ideas #3: Individualism vs. Collectivism' is stellar). So just to be clear the recommendation is Akkad Daily (and Sargon of Akkad for 'classics'). The Rageaholic is absolutely fantastic- think prime Dennis Miller but with heavy metal and gaming. FreedomToons is great, Gavin McInnes is solid (but he is always plugging his paid content)... Computing Forever is pretty cool, and Real Coffee with Scott Adams has been good over the last couple years but lately is considerably less good. Scott Adams is a quality thinker in general, but he's also an obvious coward. Lately, he oscillates between praising and crapping on Trump (despite GEOTUS retweeting him), and he praises Kamala Harris and even Biden because he wants to muddy the water in hopes that people who might attack him feel less clear as to whether or not he's a Trump supporter. It's painfully transparent, cowardly, disloyal, and if he keeps it up, I'll probably unsubscribe. Anyhow, cheers and happy watching~
He is a self-admitted moderate. He has said himself many times that he is not a full-blown conservative. But unlike Tim Pool, he is very open about his opinions. Where Tim would always hold back as to not piss off his fan base.
His past few days of ranting on Twitter in response to losers goading him by calling him a racist/sexist/bigot is getting old though.
Styx, their minds aren't going to be changed, your fans don't want to hear it, and there's no neutral observers. Stop playing their game.
Edit: I'll add that I want more dialogue between him and actual Maga folk, or between him and the more tradcon types. It's just more interesting, and most importantly, more relevant to his fanbase.
Would love to see these fuckers light themselves on fire like the Buddhists in vietnam did. If these commies really beleive in the cause then they should self-immolate.
The Feds are only arresting the shitbag troublemakers - people who they've witnessed committing a crime. It's not like you'll get thrown into a van while walking down the street with a picket sign. If you protest within your first amendment rights, you've got nothing to worry about.
The first amendment gives you the right to peaceably assemble and petition the government. The first amendment does not give you the right to break windows, damage property, assault people you don't like, or commit arson.
Styx is the closest thing to a non bought off successor to Tim Russert. Styx tells the truth and lacks any bias. He's the farthest thing from Cuck Todd.
Why he doesn't work for a news service I have no idea. I've learned so much about politics from Styx and I knew a lot to begin with.
Whaaaa! Mommy is a fascist because she won't let me burn down our house! Daddy is a police pig because he took my matches away!! I'm going to smear feces all over the livingroom walls and teach them a lesson! Also the mayor will help me because he's a moron.
I've only recently (2?3? weeks) discovered styxhexenhammer. Kinda dig his style. Very well spoken and thought out. If i am allowed one complaint, and its a small one, i don't care for his mousey outro's "that's about all" in a quiter, quicker voice, followed by him reaching for a button to stop the feed. Maybe put a button on the ground, and hit it with a foot at the end? I dunno, it's a VERY small issue, but it seems to end each segment on a... weaker tone than necessary.
I get what you're saying, but the lead up to the "that's about all", is usually pretty good. Considering his videos are improvised, I find it impressive how often he ends on a poignant/funny/thought-provoking point.
The left operates on narrative. Its entrenched somehow deep in their smooth brains. Why is narrative important to them because of one the failing leaders of the pre-communist movement known fashioned the first event of Mental gymnastics known as Hegel's Dialectic created by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
To Hegel everything starts as agenda driven, then the creation of a narrative followed by an antithesis to combat the narrative and then a synthesis to neutralize the agenda.
So what we see here is thus: Trump promotes Racism and Fascism -> Federal agents are used against peaceful protesters -> Black Lives Matter ans Democrats are combating Fascism and want equality-> Removal of the U.S Constitution and bring about social change under a contract that benefits a more communist state.
In essence they are unable to see because to them the manufactured problem is Trump who is the embodiment of the so-called 'white privilege'. The left will always search for a bogyman because they need it to make their worldview complete and because Hegel never saw self-reflection as a virtue the whole "are we the baddies" argument goes over their head because to them they can never be bad as long as the narrative fits.
Yeah, I took a philosophy class at university because I had a arts credit to fill despite doing all that stuff pre-transfer at the community college.
The selected text was one of those thin white bg, colored text Hackett published paperbacks, it was Introduction to Philosophy of History. It wasn't because of bad translation but basically at one point Hegel says "Well, history is the way people will/make it to be." -- Ya don't say? Except I think Hegel had power in mind.
Anyhow, the philosophy course was one of the best courses I took in my academic career (feel like the material would have been ripe for high school but crappy public school system) and that selected text along with some modern (late 90s called Cosmopolitan or something?) BS were the writings I knew that were straight up gobbledygook. I had no pretense about Hegel and didn't know until I read the text and I was like "Yeah, this is stupid." That's the neat thing about philosophy. I could re-read it and make arguments why, but yeah.
I believe Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Popper, and Bertrand Russell all have criticized the whole of his work in very unflattering terms. Eviscerated him[1].
Generally, philosophy can be a bit of a hard read but ultimately it is important to do. As MAGA_MEXCIAN_CHILI wrote, Karl Marx, in his youth, was apart of a group known as the "Young Hegelians". They basically viewed everything through the lens of 19th century German idealism. Too bad couldn't get their heads out of their own asses.
Arguments have been made that this sort of "philosophy of history" is simply a means to justify or rationalize moral and ethical questions of the state and Hegel and similiar writings are the inspiration for facism and communism.
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Should you ever intend to dull the wits of a young man and to incapacitate his brains for any kind of thought whatever, then you cannot do better than give Hegel to read
Arthur Schopenhauer
TL;DR: G.W. Hegel is a shitty "philosopher" and probably influenced the rise of facism, communism, and other grifters, but don't let that ruin philosophy for you. I like seeing pedes talking about philosophy and I should really get a book list/club going.
To build on this, because you bring up a bunch of good points. Hegel was influenced directly from the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. In some sense the philosophy coming out of France was so tainted by the purity spiral that was the French Revolution that the only coping mechanism was to create a false dichotomy.
None of the French Philosophers at the time (late 18th- early 19th) century could make heads or tails of why the Revolution spiraled so out of control. Whereas the U.S Revolutionary War was the complete opposite in structure (the US after the war founded a strong Republic, The French after their revolution spiraled into death and Totalitarianism with the Rise of Napoleon) . This is where the Dialectic of Hegel came to be along with German Idealism about the Industrial revolution.
To put it succinctly, instead of understanding as to why society broke down in France during the Revolution and the growing pains of the industrial revolution in Europe. Hegel argued that this was all driven by 'elites' and 'power brokers'. Thus the only way to understand this by creating an us vs them narrative. This is taken to its maximum by Karl Marx in Das Captal and his Manifesto. Neither pho-philosophers understood history because they did not care to understand the complexities. To them being a philosopher was a easy way to make money off the nobility. Its similar to what's happening in our current culture, Patreon have made it easier for people to earn an income by selling themselves. While this does bring out some hidden gems, most of it is complete garbage and self serving.
Philosophy and History are important, it forces us to critically think about the world and our place. However, one must always be wary to push away bias. One must always enter a discussion with Why? and How?, never assuming things as 'the way the are' or 'as they should'. Sometimes things are clean cut and often times they are muddled in mud.
Damn, you write beautifully and efficiently. Thanks for your response!
The thing that bothered me particularly about Hegel and the class is that while it might have seemed like between the 18th-19th centuries they were "in the future" or advancing towards a new age, much like we see ourselves at present. What irked me was the sheer arrogance of Hegel. Attempting to read the tea leaves and thinking everything is very simple... although there have been charlatans throughout history under every self-proclaimed banner or stripe...
For one example to how we live now, in the "future" -- while we have social media or online presence I'm not sure all the benefits outweigh the unforseen consequences it has to traditional socialization. The strange thing is I was studying science (alas, I have no data points re: socialization) and yet I found the philosophy intro course the most important I'd taken. I didn't graduate/marticulate, so possibly that is a factor (no adv. classes in my study)?
If I had to guess why, amongst my peer group I'm considered extremely curious at times. Philosophy is all about that: "Why?" I suppose I can do a small part by encouraging people to read, not strictly philosophy, but just read in general. Reading and correspondence are seemingly lost arts and in the process... I'm not sure what that is doing to the average person's cognitive ability. Like you say:
Sometimes things are clean cut and often times they are muddled in mud.
I've intended to put together a reading list (with downloads!) for pedes and people, of books of anti-authoritarian, anti-collectivist, and anti-Communist sentiment, but I've been a lazy shit as of late. I must rectify this! (didn't help that browser ate my previous reply)
Thanks again for your insight and keep posting 'em, I'll keep reading them!
Social media and the online world are they a benefit or are they a destructive force. Sometimes destruction is a good thing, it cleans out the decay and offers a new slate. Its also a negative that it often flushes the good out along with the bad. We are seeing that right now, either you fight for a free web or you allow the powers to control the web. Whoever controls the web now, dictates how society will be in the next 50-100 years.
This is what we are seeing right now digitally. The societies that want control of the web be it the EU or China desperately want to take the crown. In order to push away the Ameri-centric Web. All these so called changes to speech online, the cancel culture, all of that...its roots in Euro speech laws and communist censorship. The thing is, we've allow concessions to our allies and enemies under the last President. Hopefully Trump starts to wage the war that is needed.
Cultures change and the world saw a US lead internet as a threat, the info-war as Jones put it...its a real war....and our allies are not our allies but enemies in this war as well...because U.S free thought is a threat to their power structure.
Archived, of course.
That's about all... Peace out
my contribution
https://imgur.com/9BOhv1N
That's the mayors reeeeeeeing right?
clank
(scritches kitty)
The meme right under Styx's is good too. Funny.
Based Styx is the man. His YouTube videos are amazing. I will never forget how his commentary got me through the 2016 election season and are helping me now *spoon clank
I watched his election night live stream and it was great. After a few hours, he said, "Yeah we've got this - I'm going to bed." Haha.
When he went up to bed that night, I knew Trump won. MSM people were nowhere near calling it.
I know, they really didn't want to call it. We knew he won on the_donald, too. There was epic high energy.
When PA went it was pretty clear how the night would go
Does Styx know about this place? Would be hilarious if he posted here
He's retweeted the .win Twitter account, that's about it.
I'm sure he knows about us, but he strangely completely avoided any mention of the_donald being banned on the day it happened, opting to only talk about Molyneux and some obscure Patreon alternative I've never heard of.
Alt tech and tech censorship are literally the subjects he's by far the most passionate about. It's bizarre honestly that he hasn't even acknowledged the presence of the second largest alt tech site (after Bitchute, and it's close).
I've seen him mention on Twitter a while ago that "Reddit hasn't been relevant for years", which unfortunately he literally could not be more dead wrong about.
If I had to take a guess, he's stuck in that strange early 4chan mindset that not only hates Reddit (reasonable), but also larps as if they don't exist.
FTFY
To be Frank both him, Tim Pool, and others could be deplatformed at any time off of youtube. Styx is much edgier than Tim, so if he posted about .win he'd be far more likely of getting deplatformed for it.
Reddit is shadowblocking any posts with The Donald.Win in them, and Google has blacklisted it, wouldn't be at all surprised if YouTube took down videos telling people to come here.
I’m sure he knows about this place. I do not know if he posts here tho. Would be hilarious to have an AMA with him here lol
Yes, he knows.
Never heard of this guy, but thanks for introducing me. Finally, a political commentator with common sense.
The Hawaiian shirts, cats, and occasional shirtless with leather jacket make it all the more amusing.
I do get a good chuckle out out that. I wonder if he keeps those items just for videos or if he has a "uniform" either way hes an awesome dude and I watch his videos including the bitchute stuff every day
He's very intelligent and consistent. Even though I don't always agree with him 100 percent of the time, I do enjoy his input on issues. He's super proud about how independent he is and how he answers to no one (maybe his wife, dunno).
I love his Bitchute exclusive series.
My mom LOVES styx. Any time she’s upset/worried about something political (I.e when she gets worried Trump won’t win because there’s so much at stake if he didn’t), she watches styx videos and she feels all better.
He’s an insanely smart guy. I also love the simplicity of his videos.
“That’s about all. Peace out.”
Spoon clank
Username checks
Alright Everyone
Only real OGs remember when he said "Alright, YouTube"
I absolutely remember, I remember too the video where he clarified why he was no longer saying that. I learned about his channel from the conservative tree house.
Peace out.
I'm a Styx fan; I've sincerely watched him almost every day since March 2019, but he's only just very marginally "based" lol.
He talks sense, but he's frustratingly bluepilled on a lot of shit.
Examples?
While he obviously is very anti-riots, he doesn't believe the riots are very consequential, the reason being that they're only taking place in a minority of the country.
He's pro-degeneracy. He doesn't seem to openly believe in any kind of family unit and the benefits of leading a personally moral life.
He doesn't seem to believe in any kind of masculinity as an integral tenet of society. Personally he acts infantile on social media.
He's only very mildly pro-Trump. Despite the claims that he's voting for him, hell often say that he doesn't really care, and that if Trump loses he'll laugh at the Maga fellows.
He believes Tucker is a neocon. Someone with Twitter please tell him to actually read up on Tucker.
This is a minor one, but I've seen him unironically cite his university courses on certain social justice issues. Bernie Sanders' "noble savage" tweet is the only one I can remember right now.
He's a socially left libertarian who happens to be cognizant of globalism, anti-white racism, and the push for communism. Which is still pretty good, considering. Like I said, I am a fan.
lol doesn't believe in family units gets married lol
I love it how smart people do not practice what they preach on that one. (And that's an actual statistic, btw.)
I like Styx a lot. He's probably in my top five or so of favorite Youtube content creators. He isn't too blue-pilled for me personally, but I could see why people more conservative than me would feel that he is. He is very pro-choice (I differ from him on this), and he sometimes says snarky stuff about Christianity. Some of that sits fine with me because his targets tend to be specific and some 'Christians' are in need of criticism. It doesn't sit well with me when he botches theology. I'm not Christian, but I have formal training in comparative theology and many of the readings were on Christianity and Catholicism. Sometimes Styx is flagrantly and laughably wrong when ranting about Christianity or Buddhism and Hinduism for that matter. He should stick to western occultist rants. At least he is genuinely well-versed in it.
Who else is in your top 5? I’d like to look them up. Looking for based youtubers.
I love Sargon of Akkad (a mostly inactive channel), but his active channel these days is Akkad Daily (the classics on his old channel are well worth checking out though and especially his old video on that channel, 'Liberal Ideas #3: Individualism vs. Collectivism' is stellar). So just to be clear the recommendation is Akkad Daily (and Sargon of Akkad for 'classics'). The Rageaholic is absolutely fantastic- think prime Dennis Miller but with heavy metal and gaming. FreedomToons is great, Gavin McInnes is solid (but he is always plugging his paid content)... Computing Forever is pretty cool, and Real Coffee with Scott Adams has been good over the last couple years but lately is considerably less good. Scott Adams is a quality thinker in general, but he's also an obvious coward. Lately, he oscillates between praising and crapping on Trump (despite GEOTUS retweeting him), and he praises Kamala Harris and even Biden because he wants to muddy the water in hopes that people who might attack him feel less clear as to whether or not he's a Trump supporter. It's painfully transparent, cowardly, disloyal, and if he keeps it up, I'll probably unsubscribe. Anyhow, cheers and happy watching~
check out Salty Cracker and Matt Christiansen. 👍
He is a self-admitted moderate. He has said himself many times that he is not a full-blown conservative. But unlike Tim Pool, he is very open about his opinions. Where Tim would always hold back as to not piss off his fan base.
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Based Vermonter Warlock.
His Vermonter rants against Bernie are legendary. And he still shits on Bernie's posts constantly on twitter lol
I begin my morning everyday with 3 doses of Stix and huge pot of coffee.
Could be 4 with the Bitchute exclusives
clanks in kek
This isn't even remotely hyperbole either, that's the worst part.
Good vids today.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/H00t9lBOjmQ/
Peace out.
His past few days of ranting on Twitter in response to losers goading him by calling him a racist/sexist/bigot is getting old though.
Styx, their minds aren't going to be changed, your fans don't want to hear it, and there's no neutral observers. Stop playing their game.
Edit: I'll add that I want more dialogue between him and actual Maga folk, or between him and the more tradcon types. It's just more interesting, and most importantly, more relevant to his fanbase.
Love Styx vids but I agree
Lol some of us like the ranting. It cracked me up. I love complaining though.
That's about all...
Peace out.
The most common sense commentary on the interwebs.
Would love to see these fuckers light themselves on fire like the Buddhists in vietnam did. If these commies really beleive in the cause then they should self-immolate.
They spend more time self-felating than self-imolating
I mean if I could I would.
"We live in a Fascist Country! Now put on your mask bigot!"
The Feds are only arresting the shitbag troublemakers - people who they've witnessed committing a crime. It's not like you'll get thrown into a van while walking down the street with a picket sign. If you protest within your first amendment rights, you've got nothing to worry about.
The first amendment gives you the right to peaceably assemble and petition the government. The first amendment does not give you the right to break windows, damage property, assault people you don't like, or commit arson.
I’d trade the Honk Kong Patriots waving our great flag over these fuckers any day. Just sayin
Styx is the closest thing to a non bought off successor to Tim Russert. Styx tells the truth and lacks any bias. He's the farthest thing from Cuck Todd.
Why he doesn't work for a news service I have no idea. I've learned so much about politics from Styx and I knew a lot to begin with.
Whaaaa! Mommy is a fascist because she won't let me burn down our house! Daddy is a police pig because he took my matches away!! I'm going to smear feces all over the livingroom walls and teach them a lesson! Also the mayor will help me because he's a moron.
That's about all, peace out.
Allright everyone... stirs tea, cat walks thru frame. Peace out. 😉
That's about all.
Wow. I don't follow Info Wars (love Alex though), and that really surprises me.
Any extra info here? Based on the context I'm assuming he doesn't like what's going on in Portland?
I never really liked him for some reason. What is his suggestion then ?
Link?
Heard this video this morning and thought this line was quotable as well!
I've only recently (2?3? weeks) discovered styxhexenhammer. Kinda dig his style. Very well spoken and thought out. If i am allowed one complaint, and its a small one, i don't care for his mousey outro's "that's about all" in a quiter, quicker voice, followed by him reaching for a button to stop the feed. Maybe put a button on the ground, and hit it with a foot at the end? I dunno, it's a VERY small issue, but it seems to end each segment on a... weaker tone than necessary.
I get what you're saying, but the lead up to the "that's about all", is usually pretty good. Considering his videos are improvised, I find it impressive how often he ends on a poignant/funny/thought-provoking point.
He really is a talented speaker.
We need more Smuggies
BasedHexenHammer666
The left operates on narrative. Its entrenched somehow deep in their smooth brains. Why is narrative important to them because of one the failing leaders of the pre-communist movement known fashioned the first event of Mental gymnastics known as Hegel's Dialectic created by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
To Hegel everything starts as agenda driven, then the creation of a narrative followed by an antithesis to combat the narrative and then a synthesis to neutralize the agenda.
So what we see here is thus: Trump promotes Racism and Fascism -> Federal agents are used against peaceful protesters -> Black Lives Matter ans Democrats are combating Fascism and want equality-> Removal of the U.S Constitution and bring about social change under a contract that benefits a more communist state.
In essence they are unable to see because to them the manufactured problem is Trump who is the embodiment of the so-called 'white privilege'. The left will always search for a bogyman because they need it to make their worldview complete and because Hegel never saw self-reflection as a virtue the whole "are we the baddies" argument goes over their head because to them they can never be bad as long as the narrative fits.
Yeah, I took a philosophy class at university because I had a arts credit to fill despite doing all that stuff pre-transfer at the community college.
The selected text was one of those thin white bg, colored text Hackett published paperbacks, it was Introduction to Philosophy of History. It wasn't because of bad translation but basically at one point Hegel says "Well, history is the way people will/make it to be." -- Ya don't say? Except I think Hegel had power in mind.
Anyhow, the philosophy course was one of the best courses I took in my academic career (feel like the material would have been ripe for high school but crappy public school system) and that selected text along with some modern (late 90s called Cosmopolitan or something?) BS were the writings I knew that were straight up gobbledygook. I had no pretense about Hegel and didn't know until I read the text and I was like "Yeah, this is stupid." That's the neat thing about philosophy. I could re-read it and make arguments why, but yeah.
I believe Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Popper, and Bertrand Russell all have criticized the whole of his work in very unflattering terms. Eviscerated him[1].
Generally, philosophy can be a bit of a hard read but ultimately it is important to do. As MAGA_MEXCIAN_CHILI wrote, Karl Marx, in his youth, was apart of a group known as the "Young Hegelians". They basically viewed everything through the lens of 19th century German idealism. Too bad couldn't get their heads out of their own asses.
Arguments have been made that this sort of "philosophy of history" is simply a means to justify or rationalize moral and ethical questions of the state and Hegel and similiar writings are the inspiration for facism and communism.
[1]
TL;DR: G.W. Hegel is a shitty "philosopher" and probably influenced the rise of facism, communism, and other grifters, but don't let that ruin philosophy for you. I like seeing pedes talking about philosophy and I should really get a book list/club going.
To build on this, because you bring up a bunch of good points. Hegel was influenced directly from the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. In some sense the philosophy coming out of France was so tainted by the purity spiral that was the French Revolution that the only coping mechanism was to create a false dichotomy.
None of the French Philosophers at the time (late 18th- early 19th) century could make heads or tails of why the Revolution spiraled so out of control. Whereas the U.S Revolutionary War was the complete opposite in structure (the US after the war founded a strong Republic, The French after their revolution spiraled into death and Totalitarianism with the Rise of Napoleon) . This is where the Dialectic of Hegel came to be along with German Idealism about the Industrial revolution.
To put it succinctly, instead of understanding as to why society broke down in France during the Revolution and the growing pains of the industrial revolution in Europe. Hegel argued that this was all driven by 'elites' and 'power brokers'. Thus the only way to understand this by creating an us vs them narrative. This is taken to its maximum by Karl Marx in Das Captal and his Manifesto. Neither pho-philosophers understood history because they did not care to understand the complexities. To them being a philosopher was a easy way to make money off the nobility. Its similar to what's happening in our current culture, Patreon have made it easier for people to earn an income by selling themselves. While this does bring out some hidden gems, most of it is complete garbage and self serving.
Philosophy and History are important, it forces us to critically think about the world and our place. However, one must always be wary to push away bias. One must always enter a discussion with Why? and How?, never assuming things as 'the way the are' or 'as they should'. Sometimes things are clean cut and often times they are muddled in mud.
Damn, you write beautifully and efficiently. Thanks for your response!
The thing that bothered me particularly about Hegel and the class is that while it might have seemed like between the 18th-19th centuries they were "in the future" or advancing towards a new age, much like we see ourselves at present. What irked me was the sheer arrogance of Hegel. Attempting to read the tea leaves and thinking everything is very simple... although there have been charlatans throughout history under every self-proclaimed banner or stripe...
For one example to how we live now, in the "future" -- while we have social media or online presence I'm not sure all the benefits outweigh the unforseen consequences it has to traditional socialization. The strange thing is I was studying science (alas, I have no data points re: socialization) and yet I found the philosophy intro course the most important I'd taken. I didn't graduate/marticulate, so possibly that is a factor (no adv. classes in my study)?
If I had to guess why, amongst my peer group I'm considered extremely curious at times. Philosophy is all about that: "Why?" I suppose I can do a small part by encouraging people to read, not strictly philosophy, but just read in general. Reading and correspondence are seemingly lost arts and in the process... I'm not sure what that is doing to the average person's cognitive ability. Like you say:
I've intended to put together a reading list (with downloads!) for pedes and people, of books of anti-authoritarian, anti-collectivist, and anti-Communist sentiment, but I've been a lazy shit as of late. I must rectify this! (didn't help that browser ate my previous reply)
Thanks again for your insight and keep posting 'em, I'll keep reading them!
There's a bit of a harsh truth in your words.
Social media and the online world are they a benefit or are they a destructive force. Sometimes destruction is a good thing, it cleans out the decay and offers a new slate. Its also a negative that it often flushes the good out along with the bad. We are seeing that right now, either you fight for a free web or you allow the powers to control the web. Whoever controls the web now, dictates how society will be in the next 50-100 years.
This is what we are seeing right now digitally. The societies that want control of the web be it the EU or China desperately want to take the crown. In order to push away the Ameri-centric Web. All these so called changes to speech online, the cancel culture, all of that...its roots in Euro speech laws and communist censorship. The thing is, we've allow concessions to our allies and enemies under the last President. Hopefully Trump starts to wage the war that is needed.
Cultures change and the world saw a US lead internet as a threat, the info-war as Jones put it...its a real war....and our allies are not our allies but enemies in this war as well...because U.S free thought is a threat to their power structure.
Too much cat anus in his video's.
His dick game be strong. 10.2" strong!