Also, I didn’t think I’d be posting the vid (or even the audio), so forgive the quality, but editing the pure text led me down too many worthy tangents (ones I’ll be touching on in the near future). And no, my name is not Rhian Rees. That’s my fiancé, who has conspired to consume my identity.
Highlights:
00:00:06: The “excitement” or interestingness of politics caused by difference/disequilibrium.
00:00:53: “It is inherently attractive to see the breaking of an equilibrium because what that signifies is life itself.”
00:01:47: “Imagine that everything that the right wants to happen, happens.” The symmetry switch.
00:02:32: Are ideologies instrumental or essential to the struggle clusters which take them up?
00:03:27: Cadell’s self-relating negativity moment in 2016.
00:03:58: Counter-Cultural switcheroos.
00:04:39: Christianity as modern transgression.
00:08:25: Russell Brand as the epitome of Baptism as the newly transgressive, hipster move.
00:09:49: Ebert nearly went to seminary school.
00:11:50: Where do our ideologies sit after awakening to hegemonic oscillations? How does one remain engaged and vital while simultaneously being aware of the eventual need to dialectically contradict one’s present actions?
00:15:10: “you're always at risk of being instrumentalized towards a political
ideological aim if you do not have this metalogical philosophical cognition”.
00:16:03: Interiority and exteriority—self-sameness as the constitution of difference.
00:17:37: The EU homogenization of Europe.
00:18:46: Scale—the enjoyability of sameness and difference are issues of scale.
00:21:50: The self-same uniformity of Europe confronts the otherness of Islam.
00:24:21: Progress as the confronting of new contradictions. Borders vs no borders.
00:26:25: Sexual difference and class difference as zero-level differences the left has largely abandoned.
00:28:22: Differences between the conservative and liberal brain.
00:29:51: Building the wall as a progressive move.
00:30:17: Treat the conservative as an amygdala-heavy child.
00:31:54: The unity of opposites is unified even in its opposition.
00:32:55: The big lesson to learn from the ultra wealthy’s position on left/right politics.
00:34:41: Representative democracy as puppet of capital.
00:35:36: Self-similarity produces difference.
00:37:08: Left and Right cannot eliminate each other. Both mental aspects are crucial to existence.
00:39:47: The aspect of the dialectic which I think eludes most people… (back to interiors and exteriors).
00:43:37: A politics properly grokked should show the opposition of the Right to be essential to Leftist projects.
00:45:34: The importance of a secular background to religious interiors.
00:49:02: Language wars. Depleted of extant oppressions, the oppressor becomes reality itself, qua language.
00:50:01: The phenomenology of freedom vs prohibitions on language. The Left can correct attrition to the Right immediately via loosening linguistic prohibitions.
00:51:08: The Left must work through the contradictions and negativities of language.
00:53:36: “I would propose that the authentic creation of new concepts has to be processed through the open sieve of contradiction, as opposed to a prohibition and a creation ex nihilo of new concepts.”
00:55:04: Rhetorical Power Inversions…
00:56:51: An argument about “retard”…
00:58:23: “Now that’s a bad bitch.”
00:59:54: Final thoughts….
As a visual aid, I recommend intermittently looking at the below image (one of my freQ theory images) as it nicely summarizes the topic of conversation.
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