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[@VeryKuteB0y]

Thanks for dropping these episodes 1 day apart (podcast vs KZbin) Listening to them the second time uncovers a whole new layer of understanding!

[@TennesseeJed]

I am always excited to get a new episode! Thank you!

[@bryankozinski3565]

Just stumbled on this series,as someone who loves your show…and a giant fan of neichie this really made me think and change..thank you

[@ferglucasbeats]

Thank you for this! Extremely glad I came upon your channel.

[@Sazad101]

Hello everyone, I'm steven west this is philosophize this!

[@antoniorodrigo4001]

The man i hear the most, direct from Brazil

[@areagray]

Powerful episode, especially in this moment in history.

[@m.b.crawford5464]

This episode is a great lead-in to reading Jacques Barzun’s “From Dawn to Decadence.”

[@JoseAFV1907]

Awesome episode more relevant than ever!

[@Birmanncat]

Ortega's book (and this podcast) describes modern Russia so well. The mass man is what our government has been cultivating for 20 years.

[@AAscension]

The people let it happen themselves.

[@xaikken]

Excellent as always steven. Have a splendid week mate

[@Naturalway1347]

I love this podcast

[@danielhailemariam6014]

Thank you for your work, it is truly edifying. Current civilization is becoming more complex for the mediocre man like myself. And yes, it feels helpless to stand amidst a hurricane of data being hurled and make meaning out of most things. One can, if lucky enough, only achieve mastery on few subjects, nomatter how learned. Be that as it may, we see that knowing does not guarantee understanding as the experts get bogged down in caveats and the most important decision is left for the least erudite. The people in whose hands fate has placed the key for change, absolve their responsibilities with a hullabaloo of jargons and they wash their hands with Pilates water, ushering self aggrandizing opportunists to the highest chair.

[@projectmalus]

Thanks for the video!

[@eliajahrenteria322]

"his•to•ry... [Latin Historia, from Greek, inquiry, observation, from histór, learned man. See (weid-) in Ap•pen•dix.*]" - The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, New College Edition By Houghton Mifflin (Like Dunder-Mifflin)

[@sholoms]

Btw, Elijah; Would u (or anyone interested), explain in more specific detail what u(he) meant last year by writing "Houghton" was, in my words, either similar to maybe just another "Dunder" ? I for one did not get it... Thx maybe--but in advance, for sure...

[@heavypen]

Thank you for that great review - clear eyed and pragmatic. You can see how Ortega is often mistaken as an elitist.

[@thetoastnbutterpodcast64]

Couldn't agree more

[@NickSchinder]

This channel is extraordinary. I know you'd rather have a few more dollars on your Patreon account than yet another compliment, but if it were my choice you'd be rich already. Thank you, seriously, amazing work🙏❤️

[@roryobrien6655]

I think it is very dangerous for a person to constantly seek improvement, progression, growth if they do not have at least a small amount of healthy absurdism to smooth things out

[@domo5314]

Do you ever plan on doing a tier list of your favourite philosophical works, or philosophers? I know it won't be similar to your regular content, but I think it would interesting and entertaining

[@stevencarst7936]

The term “Hyperdemcracy” is what Plato calls “ochlocracy”. And yes we are living in one. According to Plato it will lead into a new tyranny. Ortega’s fascism. Also Ortega is standing on the shoulders of giants.

[@eliajahrenteria322]

"HIS•TRI•ON•IC" [Late Latin, "histriónicus," theatrical, from "histrió," "actor"]

[@eliajahrenteria322]

I think you all get it

[@kovn4992]

Ernst Bloch please!

[@projectmalus]

Designs that put people in boxes are out of date, facebook and meta are an example of what not to do imo. For twitter and youtube, every commenter is equal regardless, so how about when a tweet or comment is made a person can pick between 4 categories in which they put their comment, like a self assigned color for that comment. Expert, artist, watchdog or opinion. Others in your group that you commented in can rate your comment, so you can offer an expert comment with it judged by other experts. Run by the watchdogs, dedicated experts that are leaders themselves, so room is made for them.

[@eliajahrenteria322]

[Latin āctor, "a doer," from āctus, ACT.]

[@iyadhchaker6811]

george bataille?

[@eliajahrenteria322]

Latin "āctus," past participle "agere," To drive, To do. See ag- (like ag ri culture) In Appendix*.]

[@benjamindover4337]

Gen Z is Nietzsche's Last Man, prove me wrong.

[@projectmalus]

If generations are vital in response to their environment, a stressful environment would theoretically produce more brilliance. It seems like it's getting more stressful.

[@benjamindover4337]

@@projectmalus ..or.. the result of stress can be learned helplessness

[@nightheron5892]

In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities.

[@corneliuscapitalinus845]

I dont know, i sort of think the last man is better represented by the totality of people rn - boomers, millenials and zoomers, each of whom exemplify different dimensions but have certain aspects that really seem to rub them the wrong way about modernity, and its taken together that we seem to counterbalance each other and thus render a kind of collective Last Man.

[@Urutau0]

If someone who's "good" at something doesn't stand out amidst a sea of mediocrity, then does that mean they were actually good at it? If they were good at the thing then they would have stood out. This sounds like an excuse for academics that fail to make headway on a popular level. They're failures like the rest of the mediocre folk, but want to distinguish themselves nonetheless.

[@stewfire4916]

Not really a fan of this guy. His diagnosis of the "men of the masses" is basically the same as the "serious man" of Beavuir, and I think Sartre or Kierkegaard made the distinction of calculating vs. thinking, which is also not new. At the same time his prescribes solution of "cultural aristocracy" is just a copy from Plato's book. This would be fine more or less, although it's not his idea, even though his basic critique is that people don't reference previous works. However, he changed the one thing that was good in this prescription and replaced importance of philosophy to history. Sure, history is important, but what's really missing from most people's education is not the "what?" (factual knowledge) but the "why?". Because sciences rarely elude to the "why?" besides ratling of a bunch of facts for students to memorize, which would strengthen the very thing that would allow people to filter the opinions of the everyman: critical thinking. Lack of critical thinking creates the opinions of the everyman, and lack of critical thinking also prevents us from evaluating opinions. The original problem is not that everyone is allowed to talk - which would run Ortega into problems like arguments from authority, just like his call for "cultural aristocracy"/vanguardism - the problem is that people haven't manifested a need for having nuanced opinions. We do need "philosopher kings", except this concept cannot become a reality, except if everyone is a philosopher. This would likely create large groups of philsoophers, which would weaken mass culture and create a "society of philosopher citizens" instead.

[@christinemartin63]

These days homogeneity is more a method of societal control. You follow orders faithfully? You are much more predictable and a prime candidate for transhumanism.

[@sgwinenoob2115]

This sounds proto fascist.....

[@Carter-ce5yw]

Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions. No, he did not like facism

[@blackshirtsocialist1457]

No Fascism is too Populistic for ortega.