The philosophy of the plastic bucket.

Having a philosophy is an admission of your own subjectivity, etc.

Literature without philosophy, philosophy without literature, etc.

Link to the video on à-bas-le-ciel: https://youtu.be/sYeMFCyXedU

Link to the video on From Ink to Inc.: https://youtu.be/8mMDwxseWEE

House of the Dragon Season 3. #hotd #asoiaf #hotdseason3 #season3 #s3 #grrm #gameofthrones For those who don't know, "ASOIAF" = A Song of Ice and Fire, a broader category (of books) that includes both House of the Dragon and Game of Thrones.

Sex is Not Shallow, the Study of Languages is Not Profound.

Here's the link to the video on the language channel, Monolingual Polyglot: https://youtu.be/HAobfK9-SnI

And here's the link to the video on a-bas-le-ciel: https://youtu.be/CaOMhkdfCuI

Immigration & Evolution: Alternatives to Racism.

This is a modest proposal for the total reform of systems of immigration in the Decadent West, with an unhealthy emphasis on the examples of Finland and Canada. The theory of evolution is not racist: immigration policy is racist and always has been.

LINK: https://youtu.be/cublT9MAVeo

[Other voices:] The Terrorists of Khalistan: Canadian Politicians Are Still Dancing with the Ghosts of this Independence Movement.

The first few minutes of this video are, admittedly, rather boring, however, if you either fast forward or endure, the ensuing anecdotes about daily life during the period of the insurgency (circa 1988 to 1993) are extremely important and interesting.

He explicitly compares the effects of the social control exerted by "the men with AK-47s" to the Taliban, e.g., threatening (and later shooting) a school teacher to try to compel the female students to wear more conservative uniforms (although the style of dress reflects a Sikh tradition, in this case, rather than an Islamic one).

The extent of the ignorance of Canadian politicians in getting entangled with the Khalistan independence movement is unproven and unknown —and I do not here mean the politicians of any one party only, but all Canadian politicians in general since 1984. The attitudes of those who were not ignorant may be more difficult to understand than those who were.

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6mm-woNAy8

I note for the record that the original title of the video I'm linking to was, Row over Diljit Dosanjh’s Satluj, Khalra, and the bloodied years that took Punjab there[.] This is an unbelievably boring title that likely would have led to the video being ignored.  

[Other voices:] The Demographics of the Deficit: America's Aging Population and Impending (Public Sector) Bankruptcy.

IMO, you can start playing the tape right around the ten minute mark: the preamble about America's "remarkable experiment" bringing "freedom to the world" for "a quarter millennium" is difficult to endure, not to mention the anecdote about his adopted son, but he proceeds to make some important points about "basic math" (in his own idiom) soon thereafter.

This is David Schweikert of Arizona. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert

Despite claims about tax cuts, he argues, the percentage of the economy harnessed by taxation has not declined: the debt crisis is caused, on the one hand, by excess spending but, on the other, by excessive numbers of the elderly and the declining numbers of the young —his emphasis on this latter point is rare.

[11:10] Next year, we're going to have fewer under 18 than we had 20 years ago, and double the number [of people] 65 and up, but are we allowed to actually say that?  It's not personal!  It's not actually [a matter of] Democrat [vs] Republican, it's just math!

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMzESl-J6Mc 

MKULTRA: the Tyranny of Scientific Certainty.

LINK: https://youtu.be/szOiGOziFRA

Aaaaaaaand here's the link to MKULTRA hearing from a few days ago in the American House of Congress, i.e., the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, specifically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpQulJS-R50

Writing comedy is for intellectuals pretending to be idiots: stupid people shouldn't even try.

I will make an effort to avoid posting each and every "short" as a Patreon update…

…this one is only two minutes long…

however, in this case, I'm aware that most people will see the video without seeing the title (if they see it at all) on youtube.

The title, alas, is an important part of the package here.

LINK: https://youtube.com/shorts/PEIeAqu-a4Y

Vegans: We Lost the War.

I'm not anti-immigration: I'm anti-religion. #nihilism

This video is under three minutes long (and is therefore "a short", in Youtube's hierarchy of categories) but it occurs to me that I should post is here, separately, in part because it directly pertains to the informal article I wrote a few days ago, And, in politics, when men become tired of talking they become dangerous.

LINK: https://youtube.com/shorts/28xHVEoUoc4

The same video was posted to my Monolingual Polyglot channel under a significantly different title: there are over 100,000 muslims living in the city of Helsinki alone, perhaps 140,000 in Finland as a whole. There are certainly more than 15,000 speakers of Somali languages in Finland now; I cannot find a source for the claim that this number exceeds 23,000 or 28,000 —but these claims are bandied about the internet. The future of Islam in Finland is now an extremely contentious question but —of course— I am not willing to counterpose Christianity to Islam, I am instead trying to clearly counterpose atheism to all religions.

And this was discussed at greater length in my video Islamophobia is Doomed: the Critique of Mass Deportation as a Moral Cause.