Early Access: The Origins of Conservatism
Here is the rough cut of the companion video to Always a Bigger Fish. It's missing credits, the audio is mediocre, and there's at least one slide I need to change, but it's mostly what it's gonna be in the final version.
I'll be doing revisions to this and Always a Bigger Fish over the weekend and hopefully releasing both early next week.
Cheers!
-I
Comments (12)
Thanks for your labor and your thinking and the way you express your current conclusions and ideas.
I laughed out loud at Jordan Peterson. Also, at around 5:30 you mention the foundations of conservative thought and show three philosophers you don't mention by name- I recognized Leibniz and Hume, but who is the third unnamed philosopher you show? Is it Gassendi? I might suggest name plates.
Hm. It's the same faces I show at 4:15, where I *do* use name plates. Do you think it needs them twice? Feels redundant to me...
Awesome video! At 9:11 you say "their reactionary, accelerationist base". I know of accelerationism in a marxian context, how is it meant here?
Upon investigation, I am, in fact, using that term incorrectly. Good catch!
I remember this twitter thread. The video is really good.
You should check out Corey Robin's work on this subject, it's definitely in the same line of thinking.
um... I mention Robin by name twice in the video...
That was really informative and your research is very impressive! One thing I'd like to add: At 9:20 you say that "Most democracies have a liberal wing and a conservative one [...]" and although I do not have any studies about this at hand, I would say, that in many democracies (for example in Europe and South America) it's generally more a confrontation between a conservative wing and a leftist, usually social democratic wing, which I would not subsume under "liberal". Maybe that point of view ist too euro-centric or too pedantic in this instance, so feel free to disagree with me.
No, this is a fair point. I've rephrased it to "a left wing and a right wing." Thanks!
outstanding work! i am pulling a ton of research and notes to help out a friend who is starting to listen to Candace Owens a lot . Hopefully I can pull her from the brink of the abyss, with these videos and the research links. Thanks again!
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