What are you watching on Youtube, right now? Part IV

[Terxpahseyton]

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Well you shouldn't piss against the wind or you have to take risks to succeed truly are meaningless wisdoms in themselves. But in context they can have value.
If someone seems prone to ignore the risk, the piss-saying may be valuable to this person. If one is prone to avoid risk, the risk-saying may be valuable.
I think there is a time and place for every wisdom. But that is also the problem. Because wisdom are kinda treated as laws. They are formulated as laws. But they are nothing at all like laws! Because laws are independent of time and place.
And I think this is what the guy in the video rants against: People who actually equate wisdom with law.

 

[Kyriakos]

^In other words he is another walking platitude. :/
Some statements alter their value depending on general circumstance. Others on particular circumstance. Others not at all. And others are in different leagues and scales anyway. But Zizek comes across as another moron and little more.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

I don't think that this is a platitude. Because I agree that people lack an awareness of this issue.

 

[Kyriakos]

I don't think that this is a platitude. Because I agree that people lack an awareness of this issue.

I suspect you have a point (i am of the view you post stuff if you have backing for those anyway), but this Zizek person comes across in my personal view as something rather funnily crude. Maybe he has something to say, maybe you read stuff by him or heard other of his words, but from the video posted here and his spastic movements i am not keen on finding more about him at all :\

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

^In other words he is another walking platitude. :/

Rather, he is attacking platitudes...

But Zizek comes across as another moron and little more.

He's one of the most popular philosophers alive.

 

[Kyriakos]

Rather, he is attacking platitudes...

Rather he is making platitudes out of things already being near-platitudes, so that they now are simple enough that even he can attack them.

He's one of the most popular philosophers alive.

Uh...

There is no such thing, son. He is just another glorified no-one who rose for political reasons and due to the general clowmanship of our times. Think of him as the euro version of...Dr Phil?

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Rather he is making platitudes out of things already being near-platitudes, so that they now are simple enough that even he can attack them.

Yeah, cause he thinks they're stupid. Or rather, that people who repeat them as if they're proof of anything are stupid.

Uh...

There is no such thing, son. He is just another glorified no-one who rose for political reasons and due to the general clowmanship of our times. Think of him as the euro version of...Dr Phil?

You didn't know who he was a few posts ago, now you know all about him and his legacy?

Also, there is no such thing as a popular living philosopher?

 

[Terxpahseyton]

I suspect you have a point (i am of the view you post stuff if you have backing for those anyway)

Thank you that is very kind. Because sometimes I feel like a total idiot But I really got no backing other than my impression and this video. Know next to nothing about this guy. So don't be afraid to disagree

He's one of the most popular philosophers alive.

I tend to think that the more complex a subject matter, the less relevant it is how popular something is to judge its merit. And he seems like a dude good at being all controversial and entertaining for his expressionist way of handling himself. Which just makes it all the more irrelevant how popular he is. In principle at least. Just saying.

 

[Kyriakos]

Also, there is no such thing as a popular living philosopher?

No, there isn't.

This isn't the pre ww1 era. It isn't even the interwar period (not that it would be good to be one anyway). It's not even the two decades past the ww2, where people were rebuilding and in memory of how nice we had it once again with the butchery. If you honestly think that Europe has any 'popular living philosopher', then you are deluded.

And if it had, it surely would not be something like that on the video posted. But i am sure it won't have anything in this aeon anyway, too near the corpse of the great wars some decades ago, and maybe in the near future too.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

No, there isn't.

This isn't the pre ww1 era. It isn't even the interwar period (not that it would be good to be one anyway). It's not even the two decades past the ww2, where people were rebuilding and in memory of how nice we had it once again with the butchery. If you honestly think that Europe has any 'popular living philosopher', then you are deluded.

And if it had, it surely would not be something like that on the video posted. But i am sure it won't have anything in this aeon anyway, too near the corpse of the great wars some decades ago, and maybe in the near future too.

Are we talking about the same word here? "Popular?"

 

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[Borachio]

 

[Formaldehyde]

In Soviet Russia, bus drivers don't stop for no boiling geyser of water.


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Bonus Putin video:


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[Kyriakos]

Bonus Putin video:


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That was quite/very cool

I think he did overplay the laugh a bit, but the question really was laughable (nato building the anti-nuke shield for Iran? ).

 

[shadowplay]

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[Borachio]

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[Kyriakos]

I feel nostalgic already

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

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[Borachio]

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Mel Gibson film, in Aramaic and Latin. Subtitles unhelpful for monolingual English speakers, in this instance. But - come on! - you know all the words already.

 

[Monsterzuma]

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