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I think i agree about his points, and this is liberalisms eternal problem when dealing with the different worldviews that are not liberal.

Bless you man I’ve learned more in 2 days of listening than most pods I hope you get all the money and women

There was little Democracy in the West before the WWI. Only UK, USA, Switzerland and France. Still, Germany, Spain, Rusia, Italy were not democracies and even the anglo democracies voting was very límited.

Oh wow! I've just been reading Schmitt in german for uni and had trouble understanding his concepts. Your video made it very interesting, entertaining and helpful. Thank you very much :)

Take a shot everytime he says "Liberal Capitalist Democracy", you wont make it to part 2.

30 comments? "Popular Atheism Vs fundamental theism" videos get thousands of comments. This podcast is gold... Only 30 comments? This saddens me.

Just finished Jonathan Bowden - Credo; A Nietzschean Testament. This presentation seems so tame by comparison!

Amazing! I've been looking for something like this ever since PhilosophyTube brought up Schmitt in a video a few years back. VERY excited to listen to part 2 when I have time! It's really interesting how you've divided the picture into democracy, capitalism and liberalism. So far it seems like Schmitt's analysis is missing a lot of important aspects of the other two as they kind of integrate together with liberalism. It'll be exciting to see how you break down the others too. I'm looking at a lot of this through the power framework I picked up from The Dictators Handbook. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! 😁

Best podcast out there

Great pick to discuss. Schmitt is a fascinating figure, I ended up writing my Master's thesis on his work and its connections with critical theory.

Thanks Stephen!

Saving my entire degree, great work thank you so much!

Excellent as always

Thank you!

Schmitt is the first truly post-liberal thinker

This is a great critique of liberalism.

Phew 😅 Geeeeeeeeeesus I was worried about you bro. I have been jonesing so bad for a episode. Thank you for stepping back out for us.

Thank you so much for this!

An interesting piece of history: When WWII started, 1939, Gen. George Marhall boarded a navy ship and sailed to Brazil - though the US had not entered the war, he wanted to start preparations for when the time came. The President of Brazil at the time was Gen. Getúlio Vargas. Brazil was a monarchy until 1889 when the military and the economic elite decided it was time to start a republic. Most of the economic elite did it for themselves - just like part of the armed forces. There was, however, part of the armed forces who did out of principle and not in a self serving manner. The economic elite governed the country for nearly 40 years until, in 1930, after a rift appeared within the rulling economic elite, a lawyer and army officer was made president through political meneuvers involving governors and senators of states that had not held political power until then. The event is known as the "1930 Revolution" and the officer was Getúlio Vargas. Seven years later, Vargas would become a dictator through a military coup - and stay in power until 1945 when the blodiest dictatorship in Brazil's history, The New State, would end. Gen. Marshall was negotiating with a dictator - and from 1942 onwards, Frankling Hoosevelt would do the same. Roosevelt played an inportant role in Brazil's economic development by giving the country a steel works company and also by helping the Vargas regime to get private loans to create a national mining company. At the time, news pieces were published on the NYT attacking Roosevelt's relationship with the "fascist" Vargas. When Roosevelt died, Vargas was deposed. The republican period before the 1930s revolution wasn't democratic - it was a bad caricature of a democracy. Vote was not secret and the presidential election was meaningless. Also, there was no State infrastructure to support the Federal administration and decisions were based on hunches. Vargas, during his 15 years of authoritarianism, created all that infrastructure and, more importantly, created an electoral system that made Brazil trully democractic. I believe Roosevelt understood that democracies don't appear out of the blue and he understood who Vargas was and what he was aiming at. The Brazilian democracy came out of the most violent and repressive dictatorship in our history! Vargas would be elected president in 1950 but would face fierce opposition. That political situation got so intense that the possibility of a civil war became way too real. Vargas, once again, got his gun and solved the problem: he put a bullet in his heart and with that suicide he avoided a civil war. In the 1920s, on one of his first public speeches, Vargas said tha 'a nation that can't extract and transform its natural resources into weath will be forever underveloped and controlled by others'. Vargas gave a huge step towards making his dream true - and Franklin Roosevel had a fundamental role in it. The mining company is now called Vale and is the 6th largest in the world. The steelworks company, CSN, is also an important company worldwide. My goal is not to praise Vargas, the two companies or Brazil. My goal is to praise Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his un-dogmatic liberalism.

Beautiful ❣️

14:35 The non-aggression principle. A transcendental, metaphysical, rarified abstraction.

Anyone know where I can find the missing 60 episodes?

Based

17:21 made me think of Anitfa

okay dude. what will it take for you to upgrade your audio? i am no AV person so I don't know but I am willing to support you monetarily if you upgrade your sound situation on youtube. all your episodes are on quiet mode and some, like this one, are impossible to hear, unless I'm in a headphone situation which is not often for me. i'm a long time listener, zero $ supporter, but I love this podcast and wish for the audio situation to upgrade.

He was right.

Sounds like Zizek’s critique of multicultural liberal intolerance

Came here from Attack on Titan

this had any volume i'd listen gladly.

Rational debate cant convince every extremist, but you can use rational debate to convince non extremists to not follow the extremist

People are people, the label for the political process doesn't matter. It's one of those euphemism treadmills. The only way it could legitimately change is if humanity fundamentally changed. Some species manage to stick around for millions if not hundreds of millions of years apparently unchanged. Humanity has this naive belief it can change itself overnight, if not at the snap of a finger. People think of me as a pessimist, but I think it's better to accept humanity for the way it is rather than constantly be disappointed. In the US having low expectations is a method to preserve sanity.

Schmitt was right

I am very late commenting, as this video was just recommended. But one thing I would say is. By removing a traditional sovereign dictator, liberal societies made themselves vulnerable to the worst possible dictators. In a hereditary monarchy, you have dictator who is born into the role and trained from birth. There is a chance they will be power-mad and turn into a tyrant (which is why many countries did have restrictions on power), but they probably won't be. If, on the other hand, power is handed to those who are motivated and ruthless enough to claw their way up. You will always end up with a tyrant (see every post-revolution dictator). Alternatively, you vote for a president or prime minister, and you constantly end up with self-serving narcisists.

Enjoyed your last four episodes. Would it be unfair to start the Carl Schmitt episode with the opening sentence from his Wikipedia entry?, “... German jurist, political theorist, and prominent member of the Nazi Party.”

LOL, So many seeing this critique as belonging on the politcal spectrum of American politics...just goes to show how badly educated Americans are and how they have been radicalized by algorithmic capitalism

How Carl Schmitt was a Natzi. and how he thinks society to function should be homogeneous, Like Japan, Germany. How your adversary is your enemy. Carl Schmitt rationalize the jewish extermination attempt. Fun guy! (sarcasm).

It's like he saw Trump ans MAGA in a crystal ball

Sorry, but there are so many miopic perspectives in your exposition that I had to stop: All your supposed standards, and generalisations, and lack of perceptiveness are quite outstanding. It would be fair to list them, but that would require listening to the whole of it. Just read a bit more and TRAVEL!!!

This video constantly strawmans liberalism and glorifies a literal nazi. If you want to see how badly you’ve failed to critique schmitt’s ideas just look at the rest of these comments