Feb 19, 2018 03:56 AM
(video) Mr Robot's philosophy: Feuerbach alienation, economic alienation, commodity fetishism, etc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSEVmgebSKw
EXCERPT: . . . But to really understand Mr. Robot, we have to dig deeper into an idea that is woven into the very fabric of the show -- alienation. Alienation means to be estranged and isolated, in the parlance of Mr. Robot: disconnected. Philosophy deals with different kinds of alienation. There’s alienation from humanity, from the world, and even personal alienation – where you have become a stranger to yourself – Mr. Robot explores them all. [...] Mr. Robot is not only a show about lonely people trying to connect, it’s about the engines that drive that loneliness. Whether it’s God, our imaginary friends, or the things we own, that engine distorts our perceptions and turns reality on its head. We can never really be sure what’s reality or delusion in Mr. Robot, and that’s sort of the point. In an alienated world, can we be sure any kind of reality exists?
MORE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSEVmgebSKw
Antinatalism: The people who think the world is better off if humans didn't exist
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/...65591.html
EXCERPT: Would it matter if humans went extinct? In fact, wouldn’t this planet be better if it was rid of people and all the injustice and suffering that we cause? If this is a world view that doesn't sound entirely unreasonable to you, you may too be an anti-natalist. Those who take this bleak stance believe it is wrong to bring new sentient life into existence, including humans. Antinatalists reason that those born into our miserable world are doomed to suffer, and new people are also capable or inflicting pain on the rest of us.
While the movement is hardly mainstream, there are devotees in pockets of the internet. [...] And a Reddit page dedicated to its ideals has over 4,000 readers. Threads on the page include: “People think they’re moral. They aren’t” and a discussion on whether we would reproduce if sex wasn’t pleasurable. The Antinatalist Party in the UK, meanwhile, writes rather cheerfully on its website: “Let’s be the last generations and go out with a liberal and happy party”. The policies in its manifesto include putting people off having children by cutting tax credits; taxing meat to reduce harm to animals; and legalising doctor-assisted dying for those with serious physical and mental illnesses, including those which aren't terminal.
[...] “I don’t think that the absence of humans on the planet would be a bad thing at all,” chimes Professor David Benatar [...] “However, that does not imply that all means of bringing about human extinction would be desirable, or even acceptable,” he stresses.
MORE: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/...65591.html
A C Grayling calls for general strike against Brexit and says bypassing Parliament vote is a ‘kind of coup’
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/pol...27831.html
EXCERPT: Acting on the Brexit vote without consulting Parliament is not legitimate as only 37 per cent of the population voted to leave the EU – and the Government is “enacting a kind of coup” by trying to do so, A C Grayling has argued. In an exclusive interview with The Independent, the philosopher dubbed the ‘brains of remain’ said a general strike should be called if the Government attempted to trigger Article 50 without a parliamentary vote or a second referendum. “The effort to talk about hard Brexit, soft Brexit and what’s going to happen after Brexit is an attempt to normalise acceptance of leaving the EU,” he said. “We're nowhere near, and shouldn’t be anywhere near such a decision.”...
MORE: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/pol...27831.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSEVmgebSKw
EXCERPT: . . . But to really understand Mr. Robot, we have to dig deeper into an idea that is woven into the very fabric of the show -- alienation. Alienation means to be estranged and isolated, in the parlance of Mr. Robot: disconnected. Philosophy deals with different kinds of alienation. There’s alienation from humanity, from the world, and even personal alienation – where you have become a stranger to yourself – Mr. Robot explores them all. [...] Mr. Robot is not only a show about lonely people trying to connect, it’s about the engines that drive that loneliness. Whether it’s God, our imaginary friends, or the things we own, that engine distorts our perceptions and turns reality on its head. We can never really be sure what’s reality or delusion in Mr. Robot, and that’s sort of the point. In an alienated world, can we be sure any kind of reality exists?
MORE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSEVmgebSKw
Antinatalism: The people who think the world is better off if humans didn't exist
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/...65591.html
EXCERPT: Would it matter if humans went extinct? In fact, wouldn’t this planet be better if it was rid of people and all the injustice and suffering that we cause? If this is a world view that doesn't sound entirely unreasonable to you, you may too be an anti-natalist. Those who take this bleak stance believe it is wrong to bring new sentient life into existence, including humans. Antinatalists reason that those born into our miserable world are doomed to suffer, and new people are also capable or inflicting pain on the rest of us.
While the movement is hardly mainstream, there are devotees in pockets of the internet. [...] And a Reddit page dedicated to its ideals has over 4,000 readers. Threads on the page include: “People think they’re moral. They aren’t” and a discussion on whether we would reproduce if sex wasn’t pleasurable. The Antinatalist Party in the UK, meanwhile, writes rather cheerfully on its website: “Let’s be the last generations and go out with a liberal and happy party”. The policies in its manifesto include putting people off having children by cutting tax credits; taxing meat to reduce harm to animals; and legalising doctor-assisted dying for those with serious physical and mental illnesses, including those which aren't terminal.
[...] “I don’t think that the absence of humans on the planet would be a bad thing at all,” chimes Professor David Benatar [...] “However, that does not imply that all means of bringing about human extinction would be desirable, or even acceptable,” he stresses.
MORE: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/...65591.html
A C Grayling calls for general strike against Brexit and says bypassing Parliament vote is a ‘kind of coup’
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/pol...27831.html
EXCERPT: Acting on the Brexit vote without consulting Parliament is not legitimate as only 37 per cent of the population voted to leave the EU – and the Government is “enacting a kind of coup” by trying to do so, A C Grayling has argued. In an exclusive interview with The Independent, the philosopher dubbed the ‘brains of remain’ said a general strike should be called if the Government attempted to trigger Article 50 without a parliamentary vote or a second referendum. “The effort to talk about hard Brexit, soft Brexit and what’s going to happen after Brexit is an attempt to normalise acceptance of leaving the EU,” he said. “We're nowhere near, and shouldn’t be anywhere near such a decision.”...
MORE: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/pol...27831.html