I was wondering why understanding modern Marxism or philosophy seems to require actually reading so many, so old books, but this sums it up pretty well: Even if I chose to not read the original texts, I would only find modern text impossible to read: even if a text seems to distill and simplify the old thesis, it still manages to assume the old text is known. And to stay true to the ideas discussed, the act of distilling and skimming over old ideas is simply not possible.
The semantics of words obviously, like any other tangible thing, can be of one's own making. Even in an American court case was a judge recorded to have said, when challenged on his definition of a term, "My definition is the definition of any word in this court". This stretches back into the jurisdiction known as Equity, which is often extremely difficult for non English speakers to understand, according to the 'experts' at least. For example, Freud said he could do nought with the Irish mind, yet compare how many houses, roads, cities and railroads, among other great and tangible things, did the Irish produce when compared with Freud, who most often beating young girls up for sexual gratification?
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Literally was assigned this reading and you released it yday, you're a godsend thank you for explaining it.
What a coincidence!
Believe it or not, I had planned to make this video about six years ago, but it somehow got buried under the pile of my unrealised projects until now.
I was wondering why understanding modern Marxism or philosophy seems to require actually reading so many, so old books, but this sums it up pretty well:
Even if I chose to not read the original texts, I would only find modern text impossible to read: even if a text seems to distill and simplify the old thesis, it still manages to assume the old text is known. And to stay true to the ideas discussed, the act of distilling and skimming over old ideas is simply not possible.
Nice video to watch with my morning coffee. Thanks.
Thank you for the comment! I hope you enjoyed your coffee.
The semantics of words obviously, like any other tangible thing, can be of one's own making. Even in an American court case was a judge recorded to have said, when challenged on his definition of a term, "My definition is the definition of any word in this court". This stretches back into the jurisdiction known as Equity, which is often extremely difficult for non English speakers to understand, according to the 'experts' at least. For example, Freud said he could do nought with the Irish mind, yet compare how many houses, roads, cities and railroads, among other great and tangible things, did the Irish produce when compared with Freud, who most often beating young girls up for sexual gratification?
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