halupadude his voice is very organic....he speaks like purely ordinary next door friendly guy....in one of the recent podcasts he said Bill Gates is collecting foreskins...lol
I’m sorry but I’m *loving* these videos. I’m the furthest left person I know because I live in the rural south. I thought I might be insane before they started putting these out.
I wanna clone him and install him in high school faculties all over the world. Just a remarkably thoughtful person with a great heart. The mere thought of Christman being Jesse Ventura’s press secretary is making me smile really big. Imagine the upgrade of reality that would entail. Anyway, back to our actually existing material, concrete conditions...
My family went to Tommy Barlett's Robot World sometime in the early 90's and we got through half of the tour without realizing that most of the animatronics weren't powered so we were walking through these mostly dark rooms full of dead-eyed robots before one of the staff members came and found us and had us restart the tour. That was a very formative experience for me.
His explanation made me think of Cloud Atlas. That movie made me think of how conditions change throughout time and there is progress and regression, but as time has gone on, humanity keeps trying to push forward and find the next steps to understanding things.
@@lemonoreo5762 Well, he hates all video games. I think he'd be more interested in the Codec conversations. Then again, I don't really know him except from the podcast.
@@blakejordan3978 that was my thought. I know he wouldn't make heads or tails of the gameplay but the thing people think he would actually find interesting(various aspects of the plot)he would call dogshit, as he's done with everything else people have asked him to pay attention to.
Matt, play Fallout: New Vegas! It is a shooty game, but if you played it on easy and used the slow-time-shooty mechanic, you could get a hang of the combat very quickly. I think it would be intellectually really interesting to see your analysis of the game, while keeping it entertaining. It's an easy game to talk over too, so we can get more of your takes!
1. Keynesian Social Democracy to end poverty (empirically true) 2. UBI to end wage slavery (a priori true) 3. Workers discover concrete labor (fulfillment through labor not consumption) 4. Workers experiment and enter into alternate social relations (not necessarily co-ops)
Years ago I wanted to make soil, so I researched fungi; not enough moisture, moved to cows. Cows moved me across the country, but now I'm not doing cows and my garden is taking off. This is what Matt is talking about around 13:00. Putting an idea to practice, doing your best, and being right until you aren't. Then you figure out what you can do better with and refine from there. I love these talks!
Read some Steinbeck or Dickens. Both authors root strongly for the poor working class and the conditions in which they suffer. There is much beauty and humanity, juxtaposed with cold brutality, that run through the works of both authors. And they’re class conscious. And interesting characters and stories- not dry and stiff like some of the classics.
POV: You're chilling next to your stoner friend, smoking nice cush on the hottest couch known to man, and he turns to you and says "dude, i've been really on this knowledge shit lately, check this out...."
As an idiot, I feel I should inform you that setting up a gaming computer is literally as easy as constructing a lego set because I, idiot, can and have accomplished such a feat. And not like the millenium falcon lego set, like one of those $5 sets with like 4 pieces that are in the checkout aisle of Target. Do not be afraid. Join the gamer revolution.
Having just had all of our third eyes wrenched open and spewed into let us sift through the knowledge vomit together. I think I comprehend what Matt is getting at, there is some inevitably we are working towards here. Every decision made both essential to be here, and a wrong choice at the same time. Moving forward we must keep in mind this truth while we move toward the inevitable, to try and shift from being both wrong and necessary, to right and necessary.
"I am not very well read." What? I couldn't tell! In all seriousness, Matt is eloquent and candid in equal measures. I for one enjoy listening to him talk.
The first step in finding the right answers to a large problem is to make sure that you're asking the right questions. If your aim is to come up with a solution that is thoroughly refined all the way down to a singular, all encompassing root cause of all of humanity's problems. To do this I believe that we have to answer two main questions: What does it actually mean to be human, and what is the purpose of your individual life? I'm going to answer the last question first as it is the root they will lead us into what it means to be human. What is the PURPOSE of your individual life? (Not "Why is there life", but "What makes your life your a successful life?") Look at all other living things: bacteria, virus, fish, rat, bird, elephant, etc. Now ask yourself what scientists might say is a successful life for any other living thing, like a fish? It's had a successful life when it reaches sexual maturity, reproduces and passes in its genetic material. To pass it’s genes on. That's not the refined purpose though. The over compassing goal is to put their mutated offspring up against natural selection so the strongest genes survive, and the goal of all of that is TO FURTHER THE SPECIES! The refined overall purpose of your life, as with it is for every other individual living being, is to further the species. In this aspect we are no different from any other living thing. Of course, society has conditioned us to care about things that are irrational and do not matter at all, which has led us to the brink of becoming the first and only speices on earth to activley take part in its own extinction! We are not a special species, at least when it comes to what we should value and do with our lives. However, the way we go about evolving as a species makes us unique. This leads me to the second question: What does it mean to be human? What has led to our species evolving to where we can leave our atmosphere, create a machine from earth's raw materials to other planets, and manipulate the fundamental building block of the universe? It all begins with the uniquely human way in which we have come to evolve: Through our collective knowledge. As a species we have exponentially accelerated our evolution by prying it from the hands of chance and natural selection, giving us some say in our own evolution. The way humans accomplish this is THROUGH COOPERATION. What makes humans unique and special from all other living things is that, through our cohesion and cooperation, we have become the only life form that we know of that has some say in our own evolution! The strength and survival of our species is not bound to the rules of natural selection: Polio comes along and, instead of the nonresistant genes dying off, we came up with a cure.....actually it was one individual who created and then, through humanity’s cooperation, shared the cure. We leapfrogged natural selection. So, to recap: 1) Your purpose in life is to further the species. 2) To be human is to deny and strive to "kill off the animal"istic instincts that tell you it's survival of the fittest, or kill or be killed, and see that OUR COHESION HAS LED US TO A WHERE OUR GENES AREN'T EVEN PITTED AGAINST EACH OTHER! -wolves in a pac will die for each other, but wether they know it or not, their genes are still pitted against each other. -someone is born without the ability to walk, and instead of them dying because they can’t cut it in the wild, we use our collective knowledge and technology to make sure they enjoy a long, productive life. 3) There is power when humanity realizes, along with their life's purpose, that we are the only living thing that we know of that has some say in its own evolution, and that one individual can, without having a single offspring, have a positive affect on the entire species the is exponentially greater than any other life form......to the point where we as a species can bypass natural selection. The potential power that one individual human life possesses is almost godlike. 4. Not only do we evolve through our collective knowledge, but also through the structure of our society, which determines how we use this collective knowledge. Do we use E=mc^2 to make the world a better place, or to kill each other? Understanding that we evolve in these two ways, and coming to realize that we have a say in both, we can step back and ask ourselves what's beneficial to our species and what's not..... We could probably do away with countries, have a common currency, CREATING a common language (much like India where they speak their own regional language, but they also have a unifying language, Hindi) that would allow a more free exchange of ideas, etc. I don't have all, or any of the answers, but I do know that we do need to rethink the whole structure of our society for our species to survive. Constantly rid yourself of ALL preconceived notions, don't get boxed in by the commonly known philosophies of the structures of our societies, and cohesively come up with a utopian society. The only threats to our species should be: things from outer space, diseases, and enough resources for us to survive. Imagine if we spent all of our time, money, and brightest minds on fighting these actual threats to our species, instead of creating threats and finding new ways to kill each other. We have to “kill the animal” instincts and way of living, and take the next step in our evolution and become fully “human”. The only constant is change, so don't buy into the "this is the way it's always been" and let that lead into "this is the way it will always be". We are supposed to evolve into something better. Kill off the animal.
Im making a picture of matt based on a famous picture of alister crowley with a pyramid hat on and the book of the law next to him. The pyramid is going to be the base and superstructure with arrows/energy flowing dialectically. Hard to explain but imma post it to r/cth soon.
War w/ China doesn't make sense to me. Like war with any nuclear power confuses me, would it be expected to just fight with no nukes? Cause once the first nuke is launched it seems like that would be the end for everyone .
39:30 Enrolling in a graduate program would give you the time pressure, resources, and community to help tighten up your concepts as well as help you convey them more effectively.
