“One component of the apathy of the intellectuals is the deep seated belief in the apathy and conformism of the working class. Yet, the addiction to ITV is perhaps no more likely to reduce one to being an impotent spectator of life than habitual reading of The Times or The Guardian. The grooves of conformism are different for different social groups. What unites all those that live within them is that their lives are shaped and driven forward by events and decisions which are not of their own making. A lack of will to change this situation and an inability to even recognize it fully infect all the classes in our society.” - Alasdair MacIntyre, from the essay Breaking the Chains of Reason, 1960. Holy Shit, that’s a powerful quote to pull out when my US comfortable Democrat family starts shitting on wage working class folk. Thank you for this series and all your work, Derek.
I think it’s a problem whenever freedom is considered as an end and not a means. In my opinion, to the extent that it becomes an end in itself, it becomes reactionary. Whenever we ask what kind of freedom we like, and why we like it, it always comes down to a means to well being. But bourgeois liberalism frequently places freedom above well-being. Hence that oft abused misquote of Benjamin Franklin that “those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither” is so often touted by libertarians and capitalist apologists generally. But no matter your ideology, people really value their concept of “freedom” because they think it’ll guarantee them some aspect of well being.
What is an Aquitaine Christian? A catholic with a hard on for Leonine Edition? Also, since you said you didn't mind pronunciation corrections, the vowel sounds in Japanese are a (father) i(see) u(food) e(let) o(no).
Behaviorist assumptions we popular among the avant gard socialist utopianists of the 19th century, Dostoyevsky's Notes from the Underground is a good critique, might as well be read as a polemic against behaviorism and the sublime and beautiful & Cherbishevsky's Crystal palace. His conception of freedom as something destructive standing in opposite of logic but that not necessarily being a terrible thing.
“One component of the apathy of the intellectuals is the deep seated belief in the apathy and conformism of the working class. Yet, the addiction to ITV is perhaps no more likely to reduce one to being an impotent spectator of life than habitual reading of The Times or The Guardian. The grooves of conformism are different for different social groups. What unites all those that live within them is that their lives are shaped and driven forward by events and decisions which are not of their own making. A lack of will to change this situation and an inability to even recognize it fully infect all the classes in our society.” - Alasdair MacIntyre, from the essay Breaking the Chains of Reason, 1960.
Holy Shit, that’s a powerful quote to pull out when my US comfortable Democrat family starts shitting on wage working class folk. Thank you for this series and all your work, Derek.
Good stuff, Derick. MacIntyre and his work are a strange and fascinating case. Keep ‘em coming
Typo in essay title in citation, please delete this comment. You ROCK, Varn. I learn so much here.
I think it’s a problem whenever freedom is considered as an end and not a means. In my opinion, to the extent that it becomes an end in itself, it becomes reactionary. Whenever we ask what kind of freedom we like, and why we like it, it always comes down to a means to well being. But bourgeois liberalism frequently places freedom above well-being. Hence that oft abused misquote of Benjamin Franklin that “those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither” is so often touted by libertarians and capitalist apologists generally. But no matter your ideology, people really value their concept of “freedom” because they think it’ll guarantee them some aspect of well being.
What is an Aquitaine Christian? A catholic with a hard on for Leonine Edition? Also, since you said you didn't mind pronunciation corrections, the vowel sounds in Japanese are a (father) i(see) u(food) e(let) o(no).
I think that's just longhand for a thomist.
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Behaviorist assumptions we popular among the avant gard socialist utopianists of the 19th century, Dostoyevsky's Notes from the Underground is a good critique, might as well be read as a polemic against behaviorism and the sublime and beautiful & Cherbishevsky's Crystal palace. His conception of freedom as something destructive standing in opposite of logic but that not necessarily being a terrible thing.