Zoid eve

6h

I can either spend a week toiling thru understanding all of these terms and concepts or i can watch a 40 minute video and understand the essence of a complicated topic in a day

eye contact

6h

When you only understand the essence of something and try to pass it off as proper knowledge you come off as a performative, insufferable retart

Not an intellectual

Mark Moschino

6h

i'd actually argue that what you glean from a youtube video is quite shallow, and reading is how you find the essence of the idea, but what the hell do i know

eye contact

6h

I’m defining the essence of something as a shallow understanding

Zoid eve

6h

I can either spend a week toiling thru understanding all of these terms and concepts or i can watch a 40 minute video and understand the essence of a complicated topic in a day

Mark Moschino

6h

i'd actually argue that what you glean from a youtube video is quite shallow, and reading is how you find the essence of the idea, but what the hell do i know

BillyShears

5h

Good and evil is real. If you cause undue suffering that’s “evil”. If you lessen suffering that’s good.

afterimage

5h

It takes a lot of time and repetition, not simply because of the volume of information but Marx was often inverting terminology and connotations that were attached to other words when trying to write his critiques. This includes even the way he approaches metaphors and planning out works such as Capital as he’s not just doing it in a dry manner but also using heavy metaphors and references from classical literature to give emotion and color to what he wanted to convey

The “essence” of something can be hidden under many different appearances or phenomena within a society

such as the “voluntarily” sale of a persons labor power under capitalism to his/her choice of employer actually masks the forced sale of their labor power as most people don’t own any means of production to make their own commodities to sell on the market)

He was also influenced by English classic political economy, German Hegelian Philosphy and French utopian socialism while trying to craft his critique so alot of the way he methodically works through his logic would be rejected or written off as “odd” by many contemporary thinkers in those respective fields,

so actually sitting with the literature from his own words and the historical context it’s taken place in is best for your primary source.

YouTube isn’t bad (and I mean this respectfully) when you engage with it primarily through podcasts or videos first it’s easier to just “mechanically” reading information just for the sake of retaining certain words of surface level abstractions, in order to actually understand it you gotta sit with it, struggle through it, not understand it for a bit, come back to it, maybe listen/read a secondary topic to help strengthen what you want to read, etc.

You can do that with books to ofc, but the dopamine boost from liking/scrolling/being apart of a “community” makes it much more suspectible.

If you’re actually serious though keep at it, and I’m still learning a lot myself so no one knows everything but there are definitely people on this site (not myself) that have engaged with texts like this for much longer and are much more knowledgeable

Zoid eve

4h

I heard a lot of the terms, surplus value, different types of labor etc. Its not tahat hard to understand when its explained well

afterimage

5h

It takes a lot of time and repetition, not simply because of the volume of information but Marx was often inverting terminology and connotations that were attached to other words when trying to write his critiques. This includes even the way he approaches metaphors and planning out works such as Capital as he’s not just doing it in a dry manner but also using heavy metaphors and references from classical literature to give emotion and color to what he wanted to convey

The “essence” of something can be hidden under many different appearances or phenomena within a society

such as the “voluntarily” sale of a persons labor power under capitalism to his/her choice of employer actually masks the forced sale of their labor power as most people don’t own any means of production to make their own commodities to sell on the market)

He was also influenced by English classic political economy, German Hegelian Philosphy and French utopian socialism while trying to craft his critique so alot of the way he methodically works through his logic would be rejected or written off as “odd” by many contemporary thinkers in those respective fields,

so actually sitting with the literature from his own words and the historical context it’s taken place in is best for your primary source.

YouTube isn’t bad (and I mean this respectfully) when you engage with it primarily through podcasts or videos first it’s easier to just “mechanically” reading information just for the sake of retaining certain words of surface level abstractions, in order to actually understand it you gotta sit with it, struggle through it, not understand it for a bit, come back to it, maybe listen/read a secondary topic to help strengthen what you want to read, etc.

You can do that with books to ofc, but the dopamine boost from liking/scrolling/being apart of a “community” makes it much more suspectible.

If you’re actually serious though keep at it, and I’m still learning a lot myself so no one knows everything but there are definitely people on this site (not myself) that have engaged with texts like this for much longer and are much more knowledgeable

Zoid eve

4h

One day i will take the time to read it in his own words i just wanted to understand the basics to see what the hype is about

I actually have a meeting tommorrow i need to prepare for and im starting a new job so itll probably be a while before i revisit this thoroughly

afterimage

4h

yeah I feel you similar reasons kept me from reading as much in the past few months I’m trying to get back in the groove too lol. Good luck at the job

CRACKASTEPPAVEGAN

4h

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CRACKASTEPPAVEGAN

4h

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Zoid eve

8h

Ive been spittin some heat today

The only law is change is necessary

Psychedelics are a natural part of life and a bridge to a higher consciousness

Everything alternates between dualistic mutually exclusive concepts, neither are right or wrong intrinsically its all circumstantual

This is why im not a christian. I dont believe in absolutes such as good and evil, everything is relative to the situation youre in

Cycles within cycles continuing for infinity

Species being is a marxist concept that states that lifeforms should primarily focus on having the agency to promote their own survival and self actualization. This is part of a duality between producing things for your self and producing for others. Ultimately we must alternate between these two views. Cooperation is vital and is necessary for the success of lifeforms

Nature is inherently hierarchical so naturally order will form thru processes of natural selection via reproductive choice and survival

Dont resist this process. Hold onto nothing. We were created to live and die for eternity

Fear is the ultimate evil. Fear is satan