My Irritation Index
00:00 Choose Thankless Paths Of Assured Harsh Resistance. Live with the fallout. Complain about it in the occasional video. Hate it on every level. Repeat.
06:40 Flattery leads the way in the arts of persuasion. Not enough decent people on the lookout. No one demands better. It never bleeds out.
09:40 The push-pull quicksand. I discuss how fawners of academia come in different shapes and sizes. They mostly argue among themselves. The makings of a dialectic dystopia.
More needs to said on the issues I’m having with Amy Wax, Heather MacDonald, Glenn Loury, etc. I dropped them far too quickly here and moved on to other stuff. But it’s precisely the thing that I know ought to drive me bonkers, in that my specific counters are never articulated, and are probably never even cognized by any of the spotlighted debaters.
18:02 People have nothing to offer. Smart, educated people... nothing.
24:09 Panel as humanized algorithm. Format as obstacle.
31:23 Fuel for my contempt of people who add to the newsy chorus on a weekly or daily basis, who truly think themselves productive for it. If you don’t care about this, or if you simply don’t hate those people the way I do, I want you to let me know so we can argue it. Now more than ever, I realize that it’s no a trivial slip up to do what they do, and I’m 100% justified in letting it get to me. If you spend a fair bit of time online and it doesn’t get to you, you’re in the wrong. This is the water we’ve always had to swim in, and it’s not our doing. No one should negate or repress that anger away. Or worse yet, no one should notice the problem and carry on irritation-free.
34:19 Trump Engagement Syndrome ala the Mar-a-Lago raid, or search, or whatever your polemical jockeying needs to cast it as. (I used “raid” in the video not because I care to paint a particular picture of it. I like to speak freely and non-tactically, and “raid” was the first word that spring to mind. Had I been worried about seeming sympathetic to MAGA per rhetoric alone, I’d have inserted a corrective to "raid" in the video, not just here only. And if you think that I should’ve done that, I doubt you’re absorbing the points I’m making.)
45:25 Death and consciousness, eliminative materialism, aggregation, separateness of persons, with arguable implications for procreative ethics. Huge issue, I barely scratch the surface.
56:19 My coffee turns cold!
56:37 The Newsy People. The Substack leash. Hell on earth.
01:01:47 Anti-Bayesian vibes and illusory smoking guns.
Mentioned in the video:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victimo...
‘Victim proneness’ being the superior term for the point I was trying to make with the “epistemic flattery” observations.
More on victimology: https://uk.sagepub.com/sites/default/...
“Death, Nothingness, And Subjectivity” paper by Tom Clark: https://www.naturalism.org/philosophy...
Glenn and Wax: https://www.youtube.com/c/GlennLouryS...
Glenn and MacDonald: https://www.youtube.com/c/GlennLouryS...
I’ll return here later to add what I’m now forgetting to include.