From the comments on the Russell video: "this man was more evil than Hitler. do some research."
Before we kill all the lawyers, shouldn't we start with the philosophers? Or at least the philosophy students? Or maybe just students? I stopped watching the Derrida video 5 seconds into the first wo/man's question because I could see another fifteen seconds of preening coming.
I told you to skip to 5:05 for a reason. And yes, we know you didn't go through a period of earnest care for your fellow man, you Republican.
Good chunks of the Chomsky/Foucault debate are also on YouTube.
If I remember right, the story goes that Foucault was paid for his participation with a large block of marijuana.
There's actually a ton of stuff. Heidegger, Adorno, Horkheimer, Habermas, etc. Maybe we can make this a weekly feature. No! Daily!
This is the best philosophy video yet.
3: If you're going to make a "serious inquiry" into moral responsibility regarding apartheid, at least take both sides into account. What of the extraordinary burdens placed on the whites keeping black people down? It was easier in this country, where whites were a majority. Much harder in South Africa. The stress associated with doing so can lead to really unsightly skin blemishes among the ruling class. As you can see, no doubt, if you look closely at the video.
The LaRouchies are big Bertrand Russell haters, believing him to be allied with Aristotle, Isaac Newton, and the Anglo-Dutch-Venetian conspiracy.
Heidegger, Adorno, Horkheimer,
Any good philosophers, though?
Ronald Reagan. Yanni. Dr Phil. You know, the Western Canon.
8: Whoa, the comments on that are actually funny.
I searched Youtube for the name of the only philosophy professor I've had, and found this.
I don't seem to be able to find any Quine on YouTube. A professor I had as an undergraduate showed us rather a lot of Quine videos. There was one in which he was asked about all sorts of personal preferences, and he expressed a strong dislike of canned tuna.
All other philosophy videos are now unnecessary.
The single comment to the video in 18 is so earnest!
Adorno on popular music and Joan Baez. My German isn't good enough to pick up more than a word or two here and there, but I'm betting he disapproves.
Adorno's saying that using popular music (which is inescapably commodified) in the attempt at political protest ends up making appalling things (Vietnam) consumable.
The best sentence from the narration:
Eine wie Adorno hatte das sofort durchschaut.
(One such as Adorno saw through all that immediately.)
Adorno is what happens when your doomsaying crank uncle is smarter and better read than you are.
The hovertext already quotes Emerson.
"Eine wie McManus hatte das sofort durchschaut."
popular music (which is inescapably commodified) in the attempt at political protest ends up making appalling things (Vietnam) consumable.
What I've never understood about Adorno is the idea that some kind of art magically gets to resist commodification, when right there in statements like that you see him himself expressing something undifferentiatable from the consumables-snobbery of someone who thinks eating bad cheese is a moral failing. (Also who he imagines looking at, reading, or listening to his ideal forms of art—but then wiser heads than I have told me just to imagine Adorno as a pair of disapproving jowls.)
18: oh dear me. No, we're totally not flaky around here.
I tried to read Crick's book on consciousness. It was pretty silly, not to put to fine a point on it.
Adorno: "Und ich muss sagen, wenn also dann irgendjemand sich hinstellt und auf eine im Grunde doch schnulzenhafte Musik dann irgendwelche Dinge darüber singt, dass Vietnam nicht zu ertragen sei, dann finde ich, dass gerade dieser Song nicht zu ertragen ist, weil er, indem er das Entsetzliche noch irgendwie konsumierbar macht, schließlich auch daraus noch etwas wie Konsumqualitäten herauspresst."
Blume's synopsis is correct. Adorno accuses protest singers of extracting something marketable from horrors, by using "sentimental" music to make the stomach-turning subject matter into something palatable.
The hovertext already quotes Emerson.
The hovertext could say:
"Adorno^H^H^H^H^H^H John Emerson is what happens when your doomsaying crank uncle is smarter and better read than you are."
That's too many "^H"'s, though, it's too bad you can't use strikethrough on the hovertext.
Finally, ogged's seinfeld hatred explained: he's just following Derrida's advice.