Critical Thinking In The Age of Content - Talk at The University of Melbourne 

Professorcore lol

Thanks Jay. :) and for sure I’ll see you in Paris you mofo!

Jay sir - this post/banter is quietly noted, I've quietly subscribed to your channel just now (completely blindly!).

I wouldn’t compare R. C. to the waiter, as Sartre used that example to demonstrate a state of bad faith. I think Waldun’s embodiment of the professor is certainly one of good faith.

@@nunya7616 😂

damn

Well said

"The best strategy... of ambivalence." --> That sounds a lot like what Science is!

This is where the utility of statistics shines brightest for the truth(objective?)

Good Luck brother. I hope so too.

Yes! He’s certainly one of the philosophers of all time!1!!1!1 💀

@@cristianmartinez9091 I definitely never said that 😂 I said “of *this* time” not “all time” “This time” means this age, this decade, this period of time. C’mon.

Thank you kindly. :)

You can DEFINITELY understand complex music without the knowledge of music theory. I do. Most people do, in fact. Music Theory is merely a means of speaking about the way music is constructed, but not music itself.

Agreed!!!! Massive idea. I want to be a genuine thinker not a memorizer and for me nothing has been more impactful on my thinking than putting in the work slogging through the great books on my own.

@@johnnyroycerichardsoniii3273 Right, ofcourse. Having gotten exposure to the internet since a young age has left me feeling unmoored and I feel as though I've been robbed of my right to think for myself and engender my own ideas in return of simply conforming other's words into my reality, although I do realise that this comes from a place of privilege.

@@flamingaish Ya if you’re lucky to live in the west you’re by all quantifiable standards the “privileged” and my belief is that with the internet and google and our intimate access to the greatest minds we are especially living in a time of “the most privilege.” But too, everything instant is thin, frail, weak. I never felt particularly great about myself reading content in a condensed simplified form but I have felt a great deal of respect by reading a long dense volume or working 12 hours a day with my hands. I’m reading the Brothers Karamazov right now 40 hours, rewarding beyond words. Hardly anyone I know in person reads books these days. There is no ticktock for me, no social media ever, I use RU-vid the vast majority of the time for education allowing myself to do the thoughtless zombie scroll only when I am exhausted late at night after hours of intense focus. Now I’m not perfect but the majority of the time I don’t allow my attention to be captured by anything that is not my intentional doing. I can only speak from my own experience and my experience has been that showing up every day consistently over time and doing really hard things right on the edge of my knowledge and comfort zone has completely differentiated myself as a unique man from the rest of the world. It’s the hardest thing you will ever do but if you can pull it off the rewards are immense. My rule of thumb is that the “right thing” to do is probably the exact opposite of the masses. Be the man that defends women and children and doesn’t pull out their phone to record. Be the person that reads hard books opposed to reading spark notes and instagram posts for “wisdom.” If most men are beta males build yourself into a strong masculine man. If the world is becoming less religious be more religious. Etc etc. Served me well but it will require you to stand alone in the most inopportune moments. I’d rather have myself than to be had by the world