Intellectual Dark Web

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  • BonSeff-1

    I mean Hitler spells it out in his own fucking book! But hey, Kermit, spin it anyway that suits your narrative.

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    In Mein Kampf, Hitler describes the transformation in his thinking regarding the Jews. It began with a chance meeting.

    "Once, as I was strolling through the inner city, I suddenly encountered an apparition in a black caftan and black hair locks. Is this a Jew? was my first thought."

    "For, to be sure, they had not looked like that in Linz. I observed the man furtively and cautiously, but the longer I stared at this foreign face, scrutinizing feature for feature, the more my first question assumed a new form: is this a German?"

    To answer his own question, he immersed himself in anti-Semitic literature. Then he went out and studied Jews as they passed by.

    "...the more I saw, the more sharply they became distinguished in my eyes from the rest of humanity..."
    A jubilant young Hitler among the crowd celebrating the German proclamation of war on the Odeonplatz in Munich, Germany, August 2, 1914. Below: Close-up of the photo highlight showing Hitler.

    "For me this was the time of the greatest spiritual upheaval I have ever had to go through. I had ceased to be a weak-kneed cosmopolitan and become an anti-Semite."

    • Standard confirmation bias.i_monk
    • no, no, the mob made him do it.BonSeff
    • This is one of those "listen for things in the video that confirms what I'm thinking" situations.cannonball1978
    • Read my comments in the previous post. My quotes in this post all happened in Vienna in his early 20's when he was lazy and homeless. Dude just wanted to paintBonSeff
    • And was a filthy homeless person. Who BTW scraped by selling paintings thanks to a jewish store owner who hanged them in his shopBonSeff
    • I downvoted the shit out of this postBonSeff
  • Morning_star-2

    @BonSelf

    Fundamentally you seem to be confusing someone articulating the truth of a historical figure with the actual promotion of the historical figures ideology.

    One of the common features of those folk deemed part of the IDW is that nothing, nothing should be excluded from discussion and debate. The discussions are difficult and often without a satisfactory conclusion.

    If you can't find a coherent thread of support for Hitler's ideologies amongst Petersons myriad content that's because there isn't one. If you are content to judge the man and make a conclusion about his ideologies on 6mins of video that's cool. However, I think you are closing your mind to a broader and deeper perspective regarding subjects you seem to care about.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go…

    • I think we have various intellectuals right now, trying to unravel how we've managed to inflict so much genocide as a species.Ianbolton
    • Is it evolution and part of our tribalistic nature? Or is it a bad egg in there that needs to be understood to be avoidedIanbolton
    • ^ kinda simplified a bit there because there are so many facets to these debatesIanbolton
    • I think the horrors of the 20thC have manifest through mundane and seemingly innocent policy and strategy. Evil creeps. It's why Peterson got his arse in his...Morning_star
    • ...hands about Bill C-16 in Canada. It was the principle of enforced speech and where it can lead that enflamed his opposition. It's why he is so disturbed by..Morning_star
    • ...the Ideological Left that define themselves as groups rather than individuals.Morning_star
    • Peterson blew C-16 far out of proportion. And he's definitely on board with demoting certain demographics to 2nd class.i_monk
    • Why are you linking Godwin's law when JP's topic was literally Hitler?BonSeff
  • i_monk7

    Morning_star,

    You're confusing scientific research with pop psych assertions.

    Have you seen the video? Here it is:

    His argument against gay marriage:

    1. If it's "backed by cultural Marxists" he's against it.

    2. It must integrate gay people into mainstream society and decrease promiscuity. No mention of promiscuous heterosexuals or married heterosexuals who are otherwise not part of the mainstream.

    3. Legalizing it hasn't "decreased the demands of the radical Left" so it lacks merit.

    4. The model of marriage he would hold gays to ignores things like divorce and childless straight couples/infertility, and the even more historic and traditional role the extended family plays in raising children. He's basically holding up a postcard of the 1950s Nuclear Family ideal and saying "this is how it's always been" when even 10 minutes of research would demonstrate otherwise, even in the Western tradition.

    How you can conclude he's NOT pushing an agenda is absolutely baffling.

    • Halfway through he admits his position is confused, meaning he has a conclusion and is trying to justify it. Hardly scientific.i_monk
    • For a man who is very careful about what he says, ‘confused’ is an admission that he isn’t clear about what he thinks. How can that possibly be an ‘agenda’.Morning_star
    • Also I_monk, thanks for your post.Morning_star
    • jp loses me on this issue. two people in love are certainly capable of raising children and being a family, regardless of gender.Gnash
    • That’s pretty much what he says in the video I posted.Morning_star
    • true, but it takes him so long to get there.Gnash
    • so it ends up feeling forced.Gnash
    • Two people in love don't need to have a kid (or plan to have one) to justify getting married. He doesn't hold straight people to that standard, ergo he believesi_monk
  • Morning_star-3

    i_monk

    This video should add a little more illumination to what he thinks about the subject. It pretty much provides explanation and further insight to all the points you made below.

    Could you explain the perception you have about an agenda, and what you think it is? I'm curious.

    • He's an edgelord with tenure. That's about it.garbage
    • ‘Edgelord’ ? Can provide one iota of evidence for your claim?Morning_star
    • Again, what does raising kids have to do with two men or two women wanting to marry? They don't hand you a baby when you exchange rings.i_monk
    • And why does he ignore the role of the extended family? That is a much older "traditional mode of being" than the model he holds up as a template.i_monk
    • This is one of his Q&A sessions. They're all available on his you tube channel. He was asked "What are your thoughts on gay people raising children" which i...Morning_star
    • ...am certain is the reason he talks about same sex marriage. I'd imagine the reason why he doesn't talk about extended family is because he has limited time...Morning_star
    • ...and a lot of questions to get through. Why are you so hell bent on trying to explain his opinions as dangerous or sinister or manipulative. I don't get it.Morning_star
    • He uses raising kids as a reason gays shouldn't be allowed to marry, demonstrating his agenda quite clearly.i_monk
  • BonSeff1

    Wrap your ears around Dave Rubin and Tucker Carlson dismissing yesterday's Cohen guilty plea in lieu the war on Christmas.

  • Morning_star-2

    Give it a listen. Very, very interesting.

    This is an interview with Bret Weinstein about the discussion he had with Richard Dawkins (about 6 posts down). He very eloquently points out Dawkins error in the Selfish Gene.

    Weinstein argues that religion, warfare, genocide etc are evolutionary features built into our genes. And that we must realise we (humans) are monsters and should adjust our direction accordingly.

    • Love listening to Bret. Especially how calm and knowledgable he is. He might be my favorite among the IDW group. Always nice to listen to him explain.Boz
  • Boz-5

    They are all very reasonable and highly intelligent people. The reason the left hates them is because they talk about reality of biology and life in general, they point out the lunacy of identity politics and group identity over personal responsibility and freedom of speech and the lefties hate them for it because it completely destroys their bubbles of delusion.

    Most of the people "criticizing" them are pretty much illiterate social justice warriors who read a few books and now have a voice thanks to social media.

    Almost all of them regardless of their political leanings (Eric/Bret being liberal), Ben Shapiro conservative, Dave Rubin more libertarian than classic liberal at this point, Joe Rogan as well although a bit outside of it, are extremely well educated and well read people who talk pretty much common sense and truths and when they do anyone who identifies with group identity will hate them because it flies directly against their asinine arguments and insanity.

    Also, if you haven't watched anything with Christina Hoff Sommers I highly recommend it as well.

    One of the really amazing interviews Dave Rubin had was with this pretty brilliant and inspiring young man Coleman Hughes and one of my favorites among his interviews:

    But also the new interview with Peterson and Shapiro was great to listen to yesterday talking about all this:

    Also, Dave Rubin's talk at Oxford was spot on and his Q/A session was really great to listen to.

    Joe Rogan also had Peterson for 3+ hours yesterday or the day before yesterday. Great interview!

    I especially love listening to Eric and Bret Weinstein. Two brilliant brothers and even though Bret tries to be more politically correct and talk mostly about biology as it is his field, Eric discusses even some liberal ideas in a way where I get where he is coming from even though I don't necessarily agree with everything he might say.

    Peterson has really tough voice to listen to but he I admire him and how intelligent he is, but mostly because he doesn't get pushed around by social justice warrior reporters and goes really deep into history/evolution/human nature in terms of psychology and biology and dismantles their asinine ideas with facts and study.

    I personally think that they are stigmatized and hated because they are directly flying against this tribal, identity politics and authoritarian ideas of the left today in academia, media and social media. They are exposing the lunacy with common sense, science and facts and being the danger as a lot of people are waking up, they have to be destroyed. This is how the left today works and it's no wonder that young people, especially gen Z are realizing this more than ever.

    Highly recommend you watch the videos I posted, very interesting to watch. I really only dislike Sam Harris somewhat but it's really a bit of a personal vibe and the way he presents some things rather than "hate" him. But that's the most amazing thing, it's the group of people who might even have deep intellectual disagreements but are defending the last pillars of western civilization with freedom of speech, science and facts and not through an ideological lens.

    • I posted a part of the interview with Hughes, this is the full interview:
      https://www.youtube.…
      Boz
    • +1
      Incase you haven't heard it: Sam Harris & Coleman Hughes. https://youtu.be/gqt…
      Morning_star
    • I agree with you about Harris but i find myself listening to him a lot because of his reputation as one of the original New Atheists...Morning_star
    • ..and he seems to attract the best guests to his Podcast. He can be a bit like Dawkins in a sense and that he has this unwavering confidence that he is right...Morning_star
    • ...about everything. I think Peterson showed him to be a bit dismissive in their discussion series. As for Bret, you're exactly right.Morning_star
    • Funny, out of the bunch I like Sam Harris the most.inteliboy
    • One thing that bothers me politically, is that they whine about the left A LOT. Where the lunacy of Fox News far right babbling narratives are ignored.inteliboy
    • I think it's a particular type of Left leaning character that are the objects of their criticism and the Marxist Ideology that they espouse.Morning_star
  • kingsteven0

    I alluded to this project in the side notes a while back, don't know if it's been posted before but essentially a group of left leaning academics exposing 'grievance studies' (the motivation for the laundering of fringe concepts relating to race, gender through the university system). I don't particularly find any of them more likeable than Peterson et al. but as a project I find it a far more effective expose than anything I've heard from him.

    I get wound up when I hear that criticism of these 'intellectual dark web' guys is "from the left". Irregardless of political interests I think it's right to be suspicious of the motivations of an individual or group challenging the rights of minority groups, particularly if they're claiming biological proof... Historically that's very dangerous territory.

    Anyway, (if your goal isn't genocide) exposing the systems that lead to this shit (by submitting fake papers to academic journals) and creating terminology to describe the phenomenon seems like a far better way to stimulate public discussion and accomplish the same thing.

    YouTube playlist:
    https://is.gd/CHAq1V

    • the papers that actually got published were verging on onion territory. they were quite funny.Gnash
    • while none of the journals were on the level of Science or Nature, they were considered notable in the fields of grievance studies.Gnash
    • "I think it's right to be suspicious of the motivations of an individual or group challenging the rights of minority groups" Nobody is doing that.cannonball1978
    • I'm referring to the hurt caused by statements like “I don’t recognise another person’s right to determine what pronouns I use to address them” - Petersonkingsteven
    • I was going to write "perceived rights" but really I don't think it's right to suggest that they're entirely fictional. ie. better to criticise the system thankingsteven
    • folks enveloped in this or that doctrine because 'biology sez'kingsteven
    • I'm not sensing where you come down on the issue, King, but it's nobody's right to compel the way someone expresses their perception, minority or not.cannonball1978
    • its always good to have debates. These corruptions are not just in uni's, drug companies and dietary as wellmugwart
  • pr2-20

    For some reason vast majority of people today somehow end up on extreme Right or Left with moderate centrists like myself in surprising minority. Neither side realizes how much they long for religious certainty. Neither side is interested in search for Truth, but rather in embracing more data that proves how their side is right (thus proliferation of those videos showing the current "heroes" of either side in "debates"). Political correctness on one side and complete embrace of biology on another as if we were some sort of ghosts detached from either mind or body (depending on which side of the barricade one chooses to stand). Both sides - including all the Petersonians of the world - fail to notice complexity of the human interactions. Sometimes our biology dominates and other times it's our mind (notice, i didn't necessarily said our intellect) and yet in their pursuit for simplistic truisms, both sides try to claim that it's one or the other.

    Needless to say, there is very little "intellectual" there - rather pursuit on representatives of both side of close-minded ideology.

    • You point about religious certainty is spot on. I think it was Douglas Murray the said "We may be in the throes of the discovery that the only thing worse....Morning_star
    • ...than Religion, is it's absence.
      It's telling that you highlight that fact that the Right and Left are always polarised yet you talk about them in exactly...
      Morning_star
    • ...those terms. It seems that you describe neither 'side' accurately by using such simple, black & white termsMorning_star
    • think the problem is psychological. There has to be ONE over arching truth not millions of wee ones. Having ONE only benifits the minority in power and reasonmugwart
    • we are in this state. Also we dont analyses were are thinking comes from. Tihs is another major concern. We are shaped by friends, family, community, 'Power'mugwart
    • us working class has been used to fuel the machine for so long. We now have a medium to commutate throughmugwart
    • I think we have been educated not to be able to agree to disagree. Work through each others points.mugwart
    • How I see it 99.999999% have been in a 'tunnel' and had shit thrown into the fan.
      Instead of trying to work out whom throw the shit- we are agruing whom has
      mugwart
  • Morning_star-3

    Jonathan Haidt (moral psychologist and Professor of Ethical Leadership) talks to Ezra Klein (Editor-at-large at Vox)

    Insight and explanation into the seeming fragility of teenagers and students.

    "Teen anxiety, depression, and suicide rates have risen sharply in the last few years," he writes in The Coddling of the American Mind, co-authored with Greg Lukianoff. "The culture on many college campuses has become more ideologically uniform, compromising the ability of scholars to seek truth, and of students to learn from a broad range of thinkers."


  • BonSeff5

    https://twitter.com/sheckyyoungm…

    ME: jordan peterson sucks. he just says dumb shit like "the vagina is an energy vacuum"

    JP SUPERFAN: you're taking him out of context. what's the quote in context

    [we go to the tape]

    JORDAN PETERSON: "the vagina is an energy vacuum [10 mins of indecipherable sobbing]"

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    Is there a problem between men and women in the workplace? Maybe.

    Is it the women? Maybe.

    Is it the men? No.

    So it's the women?

    I'm not saying that. I'm just saying there's a problem, and it's not the men, and I'm too chicken shit to stand by my own beliefs.

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    JPFAN: This 15min video is out of context! You have to watch the full hour!

    JPFAN: This hour is out of context! You have to watch his 3hr presentation!

    JPFAN: TOTALLY OUT OF CONTEXT you have to watch the full series!

    JPFAN: YOU CAN'T JUDGE HIM BASED ON EVERYTHING HE HAS SAID EVER

    • Extraordinary, both inaccurate AND unfunny. The IDW must be doing something right to garner such ‘sophisticated’ ad hominem arguments. D+, could do better.Morning_star
    • LOL
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    • Morning, everyone knows ad-hominem is the pinnacle of debate, you cum-fluted twanger :)
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    • Indeed, you rancid salt-lick. To hear it from the pustulated mouth of the worlds most renowned horse rapist is praise indeed. :)Morning_star
    • I asked for consent and she said "neigh".
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    • Bareback. Bridle, Dismount. Harness. Ride. Groom....so many places to go.Morning_star
    • It could really run and run. Best to put this to bed now - if only to remain stable.
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  • monNom7

    • LOL
      His response was so long-winded that Rogan had time to change shirts.
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    • hahah.. awesomeBoz
    • hahaha fuck this is so funny. can't help but read it in their voices too_niko
    • lolKrassy
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    I thought this thread was about intellectuals not about people you hate freedom.

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    • it's a history lesson, about when North Americans started to understand reasoning.uan
    • and by north americans I mean the predominant Western cultureuan
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    you guys need more focault...

    • focault you! ya bastardGnash
    • LOL!
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    • I feel like I’m introducing you to an old friend, as I’m writing this post about this fabulous, easy focaccia bread.
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    • LOL!
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  • Morning_star-3

    Throughly recommend giving this a listen.

    Eric Weinstein explains the purpose and genesis of the IDW, and how the growth of a new ideological worldview has made it necessary.

    • "Rebel Wisdom" lolyuekit
    • Movie trailer voice: The knowledge they don't want you to know. In a place they don't want you to see.Fax_Benson
  • renderedred0

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    • You need to watch all the videos to even get a glimpse into the truth.
      #godbless
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    • If you downvote this you have no clue, man.
      No clue.
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    • Wake up sheeple!
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    • Post facts.
      To debunk.
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    • Have the downvoters watched the whole video though?
      The truf is out there!
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    • You should ax yourselfs what it is that you fear.
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    • Have you considered you may be posting in the wrong thread? There is a conspiracy of the day thread.fadein11
    • Why is this not true?
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    • Not sure yet, It's 2.5 hours long and you only posted it half an hour ago.fadein11
    • The half hour is out of context! You have to watch the 2.5hr presentation!
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    • The Dr. Phil video is under 4 minutes though.
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