322 - Second Dark Age feat. Alan Moore (6/10/19) by Chapo Trap House published on 2019-06-10T11:52:16Z We're joined by legendary author Alan Moore to discuss evil architecture, magic & political power, fate & free will, and the enduring appeal of Lovecraft. Comment by Ike term libertarian comes from elysée reclus(who was french) but he was a proper anarchist, the term got reclaimed and instrumentalised by american right wingers during the XXth century 2020-05-20T12:46:43Z Comment by Salmon Moore and adam curtis should collab 2020-04-28T20:49:37Z Comment by David @patrick-holt-864098778: is a consciousness thing - carry on offended 2019-12-07T20:01:38Z Comment by David @patrick-holt-864098778: at this stage in the game, other 'beliefs' have earned the prestige of being stereotyped out of existence 2019-12-07T20:00:24Z Comment by David @jake-quickel: powerfuking our way out of the dark age 2019-12-07T19:59:31Z Comment by Patrick James From Watchmen to Miracleman, this man only wanted to explore these fictional world and connect them to ours! 2019-11-24T12:51:44Z Comment by Cigotine @user-398709528-180115798: spitalfields is in east london 2019-11-10T11:47:17Z Comment by MatterFiction People in comments don't understand metaphor. He doesn't literally mean magic. He grounds idealism in the material world with talking about the material implications of advertising. His spirituality isn't a replacement for reality it's just a piece of the pie just as theory is for praxis. 2019-10-30T23:19:08Z Comment by User 398709528 Even the accent is downtrodden! 🤣 2019-09-01T04:40:06Z Comment by User 398709528 Spittlefields ...poor Northern England !! 2019-09-01T04:38:18Z Comment by Ｕｎｃｌｅ＿Ｊｏｅ @richard-bepple: I'm also not a native speaker. The thing is I do understand what he says no problem but anything he says souns less like an old guy with life experience and more like me when I was 20 and discussing """consciousness""" while high 2019-07-16T10:03:07Z Comment by Kidan Kebede this is literally dialectic of enlightenment 2019-07-11T17:26:58Z Comment by HelloOperator Speaking as an agnostic, I find that view of religion to be specious and narrow. Art, architecture, music and social ritual - an holistic vision of religion would acknowledge those and more. Technocracy is your new god and it doesn't even incorporate philosophy, moral or otherwise. 2019-07-06T14:14:16Z Comment by Jade501B @systema-sephiroticum facts. 2019-06-26T20:14:19Z Comment by Colossus Alan just watched Westworld then 2019-06-25T22:40:45Z Comment by Jake Quickel @yamartis: You were right the first time 2019-06-25T20:53:29Z Comment by yamartis *powerful 2019-06-25T14:43:53Z Comment by yamartis *powerfull 2019-06-25T14:43:39Z Comment by yamartis I'm fairly convinced that Alan Moore can conjure powerfuk magick with his voice as well as his pen. 2019-06-25T14:43:13Z Comment by 🦇 FGS 👻 This episode is amazing 2019-06-24T23:42:53Z Comment by Patrick Holt Oh the relentless hypothetical, evidence free bullshit and strawman stereotyping of other beliefs. 2019-06-22T08:46:02Z Comment by Der Langrisser This episode is amazing and all the haters are as dumb as dirt. 2019-06-19T23:07:46Z Comment by User 210790757 @stoop_kid-3 the functional purpose of free will might be to not get stuck in a loop of questioning your own actions and pondering thoughts and instead saying "I did this because I wanted to". This frees up resources to dodge sabertooth tigers. 2019-06-18T21:14:21Z Comment by danfanclub @stoop_kid-3: Well, this discussion is taking "free will" to mean something that it can't, and it's possible to be putting meaning into his words he didn't mean. The way this discussion is treating it is that there's this "will" that's like a ... pilot, and our bodies are just a random mech we were assigned, and we literally split ourselves in two to make sense of this nonsense. Mind's influence over the body and such. We say things like "i hate myself for eating that entire tray of brownies." So, who is "i" there?? Is it the same "you" that shapes the calcium in those brownies into the growth of your bones and uses the calories to beat your heart? Because that's not the "I" we think of as "I" either. I guess I'm saying, when challenging free-will, doing it from the biased subject/object individualism we're hypnotised into believing won't get you anywhere, but can really be examined from the point of view of non-duality 2019-06-18T20:41:39Z Comment by xidius @user-41436140: kys 2019-06-17T16:48:08Z Comment by SpiritualMillionaire @bryce-cogswell nah, all of those still exist today in distinct forms 2019-06-15T06:46:19Z Comment by Stoop_kid one more thing: the admission that we must be fooled by our brains into believing in free will implies that something would change within us if we didnt, which implies the mind has influence over the body/brain in some capacity. makes no sense right? 2019-06-14T22:21:06Z Comment by Stoop_kid yall need to read some David Chalmers and acknowledge the hard problem of consciousness. it's a bummer that Moore got stuck on "physicalism is true bc physics" but oh well. very odd to believe in magick but not free will imo 2019-06-14T22:13:23Z Comment by Stoop_kid and why would natural selection evolve something that takes massive complexity and energy to create, has no functional purpose, and has to be constantly placated into believing its in control? free will being an illusion makes less sense, not more 2019-06-14T22:07:04Z Comment by Stoop_kid if free will is an illusion, so is consciousnesses, meaning we are an illusion unto ourselves. a Nothing that gets fooled into believing its Something. But then what is it that is being fooled? If the mind is epiphenomenal to the brain, its useless 2019-06-14T22:00:34Z
