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Open thread 3/4/2025 — 14 Comments

  1. + Bonus…(solely for your entertainment…)

    The Canadian pol that DJT refers to (and aptly shreds) in the link above…

    “Britain Can Nuke Trump To Protect Canada, Says Bonkers Chrystia Freeland”—
    https://blazingcatfur.ca/2025/03/04/britain-can-nuke-trump-to-protect-canada-says-bonkers-chrystia-freeland/

    (Indeed, this specimen believes she has an excellent chance of replacing Trudeau as Party Leader…yes…BUT before one starts rolling around the floor in unstoppable hysterical laughter, she just may have a point…seeing as she’s referring to the Labour Party of Canada…)

  2. Somehow I came across this today. Maybe from Sarah Hoyt’s site. Anyway, I thought it was interesting, but it all gets deeply philosophical.

    https://carolinefurlong.wordpress.com/2025/02/28/some-more-thoughts-on-trust-and-heroism-with-a-look-at-post-modernism/

    However, the guy who put this video together titles it, “Elite Professor Challenges Jordan Peterson on Stage & It Backfires Spectacularly”.

    Except it’s not Jordan Peterson, although the guy does cut away to him from time to time. The real story is, I think, more interesting. It is a debate, old fashioned style, with a winner and a loser declared by the audience, between a post modern philosopher, and Stephen Hicks, a professor of philosophy that this guy has evidently confused with Jordan Peterson. I think Stephen Hicks is about as sharp a guy arguing the case for freedom you’re going to find.

    Anyway, here is that full debate if anyone has the time. I think it’s absolutely fascinating, but it does get very deep into philosophical jargon, and it is nearly an hour and a half long. But I couldn’t tear myself away.

    https://www.stephenhicks.org/2024/02/18/in-case-you-missed-it-do-free-societies-need-postmodernism-a-debate/

  3. Yes he was hilarious and unlike harvey korman probably didnt break character as often

    How did a financial times columnist with dodgy antecedents rise so far in canadian politics

  4. I’m doubtful a “deeply” modifier of “philosophical” is warranted Mike, if only because of my sense that a deep dialogue on philosophy would entail first many hours on end of earnest searching, and thus having prodded our interest, the consequence of a lifetime of pursuit of our object in an effort to get to the bottom of things.

    Like for instance merely beginning with the question “philosophy — is it something, or nothing? And if it is something, what then is it? Can we distinguish the philosopher from the sophist, say?”.

    And so on. Too, generally speaking, heaps of jargon tend to be a tipoff that we’re probably not remotely in the vicinity of our object.

    (I have to add that while your first link was accessible, your second was not, resulting only in a blank page.)

  5. The answer is simple we dont need postmodernism what purpose does it serve also alchemy divining and hisruptcy

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