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Pill Pod 197 - Never were we freer than under occupation... (exclusive)
🕑 Added 2025-01-17 20:41:32 +0000 UTCHere we are yapping about the facticity of freedom and just a dip into existentialism. If freedom is the totem spirit of the age, we thought we should devote some mental energy to discovering its outlines.
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Alyn
Sounds like the worst kind of therapy
anacidcommie
Yeah I figured, and it makes sense given how even modern existential therapy falls under the humanistic paradigm. But I feel like this view all too easily conforms to (neo)liberal ideology, because it’s like “yeah climate change is gonna kill us but you can choose to see life as being even more precious than you would have if you know you have a good chance of retiring at 60” and this promotes accepting the political status quo and being content with just changing your perspective.
Plastic Pills
He did write "existentialism is a humanism" so he wouldn't take it as a criticism
anacidcommie
Anyone else feel this is too humanistic and non deterministic for their tastes? I feel like Sartre ignores a lot of psychoanalytic principles with all this emphasis on choice.
anacidcommie
People don’t want freedom, there’s too much responsibility involved
ageOfBumFires
1:05:00 I'm pretty sure it was in Revolutionary Suicide that Fred Hampton recounts how he was free, essentially experienced satori while in solitary confinement. Thich Nhat Hanh speaks pretty eloquently on freedom.
Richard Gelbard
Robert Solomon’s summary: You’re responsible for what you make of what’s been made of you.
Khemith
Why do we value "freedom" so much?
Timothy Kenner
Have ya’ll ever read “ Practical Necessity” by Bernard Williams? I think it actually is a nice counter balance and is a little bit more livable…
Matt S
The ending 😂
Existential 8-Ball
Never were we freer than under Pill’s segways.
James Aydelotte
RedNote
Dony Top5
Awe. I just started Partially Examined Life's new episode on Marx.....you're gonna have to wait.
