Debunking Materialism, Modernity, and The Cult of Ideology

[@RadicalLiberation]

Thanks for the shout out, Aaron!

[@jlhemingway12]

"There is no virtue in having stuff" Great quote, I may borrow that. That idea has been rattling in my brain for years. You finally gave me the words to express it.

[@a.m.8410]

More than allowed to use the quote… it’s yours my friend! Thank you for tuning in…

[@misterkefir]

Academic Agent sent me here. Great talk, lads. Much appreciated. Stay frosty.

[@Vingul]

Well that comment sure aged well.

[@misterkefir]

@@Vingul heheheheh.. ye..

[@Vingul]

@@misterkefir ;-)

[@misterkefir]

@@Vingul it's them both btw right?

[@Vingul]

@@misterkefir assuming I understand you correctly: yes. Ace talked about that sort of thing on the most recent stream. It’s concentric circles of personae non grata, lol.

[@DvidTheGnome]

Long form Thomas 777 in the digital flesh is quality. Ty for making this.

[@DvidTheGnome]

Very good, I'll have to watch the others, now that I'm aware of them.

[@commissary4196]

That opening monologue was brilliant.

[@dartharpy9404]

Always great discussion 👍

[@markonnen]

Audio sounds great guys! Looking forward to the talk based on the title

[@sebastianprimomija8375]

AA sent me here cheers 🍻

[@JustineBrownsBookshelf]

Ayn Rand was a fangirl of what she saw as the American spirit. She got out of Soviet Russia and saw America as the antithesis. I don’t like her philosophy, but the background to this is intriguing.

[@keeper_cps5628]

Good chat. Look forward to hearing more!

[@berchtesgadenairwaves8376]

Excellent

[@Johnb.78]

Just stumbled across this, great talk

[@_kd23]

Good stuff Ace

[@greenglasful]

This was great thanks fellas.

[@PirateBBS]

The Hedsman/Tribesman relationship, formalised in Monarchy, still finding expression in Capitalist Philanthropy and reasserting itself in Fascism/Socialism is natural (and thus Divine). Everything good reflects it, Social Democracy negates it.

[@whosthatbuer4863]

Great stuff guys

[@Snaut1]

You regularly interview Thomas? Subbed.

[@doomguy9049]

agreedo

[@fabreezethefaintinggoat5484]

great show thanks buddy

[@sanderssonjankins6251]

The Rover was a fukken fantastic film!

[@Adam-hj8ou]

Hey, I’m a little ignorant of some of the sakes you’ve mentioned. Are you referring to Hobsbawn or Hobsbaum? Did I hear that right? And what would be the first name and some relevant material to look at? Thank you for the streams and content btw. Always insightful.

[@Adam-hj8ou]

I’m guessing it’s Eric Hobsbawm right?

[@TheGeezer30]

@@Adam-hj8ou Yes

[@keeper_cps5628]

One thought I had is that wealth = power and prestige. This is very apparent from the outside looking in to America where it seems to me that wealth used as a stand in for nobility (in the hierarchical sense). Trump is a good example of this, where his wealth means he has power, prestige and is a 'A-lister'...he is a aristocrat without the aristo.

[@bigbraincontent]

Very interesting point about personal dynamism and initiative, and the marriage of a collective command structure with that internal individual force....i assume you've read vom kriege

[@Kouros-y2t]

AC is a really intelligent dude.

[@camorinbatchelder6514]

The Rover was a pretty good movie.

[@rideforever]

Gurdjieff answered many of the deep questions. Knowledge and soul are material things transmitted from person to person, and through family. Human beings are extremely unconscious and live improperly based on excitement and negativity ... and live more like sheep than what they are meant to be. Human beings change history to conceal the much greater beings who lived in the past. Gurdjieff wrote material but he made it very difficult to read because it is the difficulty that causes you to grow ... talking does precisely nothing, because understanding comes from the unity of the conceptual and physical world ... the conceptual just leads to empty words. We live simultaneously in a conceptual, physical and emotional worlds ... these are 3 different types of reality and we are a creature that is simultaneously experiencing all 3. The 3 must be used together to create true understanding, anything else is nonsense. All these things are completely unknown to man, man is extremely ignorant and declining.

[@some_g333]

Thoroughly deboonked

[@nicholassanguinetti9147]

I think Friedman had allot of really great ideas that were never implemented because it does not matter who the president is in my opinion and it does not matter whether or not they promote good ideas or not because that's not how the owners run things..

[@Revolutionary1449]

Based

[@todmann67]

If you want the distilled theory on Prussian warfare, MCDP-1 Warfighting.

[@lynxrose3005]

You just uploaded radicals of mid 90s and it got taken down

[@loudsoundepicenter1449]

I didn’t edit it properly. My bad

[@CanaryAlien]

great stream! can anyone recommend any good books on game theory?

[@GiovanniAdami]

Thomas777 needs a better mic. No he needs a loudspeaker.