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Discussing "The Decline Of The West – Volume II: Perspectives Of World-History" By Oswald Spengler
In this episode of Canonball we discuss Volume I of "The Decline Of The West," which, subtitled "Form And Actuality," was written by Oswald Spengler and published in 1918.
A correction: Spengler actually includes in the end matter exactly the kind of table that I said that I wished he had, but I had not seen it by the time I made this recording.
Listen to this podcast on any of several dozen podcast platforms, most of which have no ads, at this link: www.buzzsprout.com/2132180/share
Get a copy of my edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein at my website: www.vollrathpublishing.com
00:00 Introduction
00:53 An Important Correction
03:22 Beginning Of Passages - Ancestry
07:39 Theory And Action In Politics
08:54 The Culture Of Rural And Urban Life
14:43 You Can Never Leave The City
17:06 "Children Do Not Happen"
24:31 How Many Ancestors Do You Have?
28:28 Cultures Create Peoples, Not The Reverse
29:25 The Emergence Of Science
32:16 "The Basic Concept Of All Living Custom-Ethic Is Honor"
33:29 The State And The Family
37:43 "Let Him Not Try To Make Politics"
38:44 The Beginning Of History
40:34 The Press "Does Not Spread 'Free' Opinion, It Generates It"
42:35 Parliamentarism As "An Impressive Spectacle For The Multitude Of The Orthodox"
43:49 "It Is The World-City Masses... Who Desire To See In The Outer World The Same Chaos Which Reigns Within Their Own Selves"
45:21 "In The Form Of Democracy, Money Has Won"
47:14 Ideology As Religion
48:59 "The Bombardment Of This Intellectual Artillery"
53:07 The Press As An Army
55:04 Closing
A correction: Spengler actually includes in the end matter exactly the kind of table that I said that I wished he had, but I had not seen it by the time I made this recording.
Listen to this podcast on any of several dozen podcast platforms, most of which have no ads, at this link: www.buzzsprout.com/2132180/share
Get a copy of my edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein at my website: www.vollrathpublishing.com
00:00 Introduction
00:53 An Important Correction
03:22 Beginning Of Passages - Ancestry
07:39 Theory And Action In Politics
08:54 The Culture Of Rural And Urban Life
14:43 You Can Never Leave The City
17:06 "Children Do Not Happen"
24:31 How Many Ancestors Do You Have?
28:28 Cultures Create Peoples, Not The Reverse
29:25 The Emergence Of Science
32:16 "The Basic Concept Of All Living Custom-Ethic Is Honor"
33:29 The State And The Family
37:43 "Let Him Not Try To Make Politics"
38:44 The Beginning Of History
40:34 The Press "Does Not Spread 'Free' Opinion, It Generates It"
42:35 Parliamentarism As "An Impressive Spectacle For The Multitude Of The Orthodox"
43:49 "It Is The World-City Masses... Who Desire To See In The Outer World The Same Chaos Which Reigns Within Their Own Selves"
45:21 "In The Form Of Democracy, Money Has Won"
47:14 Ideology As Religion
48:59 "The Bombardment Of This Intellectual Artillery"
53:07 The Press As An Army
55:04 Closing
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Discussing "The Decline Of The West - Volume I: Form And Actuality" By Oswald Spengler
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In this episode of Canonball we discuss Volume I of "The Decline Of The West," which, subtitled "Form And Actuality," was written by Oswald Spengler and published in 1918. A correction: Spengler actually includes in the end matter exactly the kind of table that I said that I wished he had, but I had not seen it by the time I made this recording. I address this in looking at Volume II in another...
The Gulag Archipelago Vol. III - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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In this episode of Canonball we discuss Volume III of "The Gulag Archipelago" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, which was written between 1958 and 1968 and published in 1973. Listen to this podcast on any of several dozen podcast platforms, most of which have no ads, at this link: www.buzzsprout.com/2132180/share Get a copy of my edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein at my website: www.vollrathpublis...
The Gulag Archipelago Vol. II - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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In this episode of Canonball we discuss Volume II of "The Gulag Archipelago" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, which was written between 1958 and 1968 and published in 1973. Here is a recording of Liebestod, from Tristan and Isolde, which I mentioned: th-cam.com/video/07YFIWL_XSI/w-d-xo.html Listen to this podcast on any of several dozen podcast platforms, most of which have no ads, at this link: www....
The Gulag Archipelago Vol. I - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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In this episode of Canonball we discuss Volume I of "The Gulag Archipelago" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, which was published in 1973. One correction: Since recording this I have found reports that Solzhenitsyn did apply for U.S. citizenship in 1985. I cannot see that he ever received it, though his wife and children did. Listen to this podcast on any of several dozen podcast platforms, most of wh...
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
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In this episode of Canonball we discuss "Vanity Fair," which was written by William Makepeace Thackeray and first published in serialized form in 1847-1848. Listen to this podcast on any of several dozen podcast platforms, most of which have no ads, at this link: www.buzzsprout.com/2132180/share Get a copy of my edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein at my website: www.vollrathpublishing.com 0:...
George Orwell - Selected Writings
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In this episode of Canonball we discuss selected writings by George Orwell. I forgot to mention that Orwell was shot in the neck in the Spanish Civil War. Listen to this podcast on any of several dozen podcast platforms, most of which have no ads, at this link: www.buzzsprout.com/2132180/share Get a copy of my edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein at my website: www.vollrathpublishing.com 0:00...
The [Philosophical] Foundations Of Arithmetic - Gottlob Frege - Canonball 58
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In this episode of Canonball we discuss "The Foundations Of Arithmetic," which was written by Gottlob Frege and published in 1884. Listen to this podcast on any of several dozen podcast platforms, most of which have no ads, at this link: www.buzzsprout.com/2132180/share Get a copy of my edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein at my website: www.vollrathpublishing.com 00:00 Frege's Life 01:29 Gen...
The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Laurence Sterne - Canonball 57
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In this episode of Canonball we discuss "The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman," which was written by Laurence Sterne and published in 1759. Listen to this podcast on any of several dozen podcast platforms, most of which have no ads, at this link: www.buzzsprout.com/2132180/share Get a copy of my edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein at my website: www.vollrathpublishing.com 00:0...
Adalbert Stifter - Motley Stones - Canonball 56
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In this episode of Canonball we discuss "Science And Method," which was written by Henri Poincare and published in 1908. Listen to this podcast on any of several dozen podcast platforms, most of which have no ads, at this link: www.buzzsprout.com/2132180/share Get a copy of my edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein at my website: www.vollrathpublishing.com 00:00 Adalbert Stifter's Life And Writ...
Henri Poincare - Science And Method - Canonball 55
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In this episode of Canonball we discuss "Motley Stones" which was written by Adalbert Stifter and published in 1853. Listen to this podcast on any of several dozen podcast platforms, most of which have no ads, at this link: www.buzzsprout.com/2132180/share Get a copy of my edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein at my website: www.vollrathpublishing.com 00:00:00 Introduction 00:00:59 Science As ...
Henri Poincare - The Value Of Science - Canonball 54
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In this episode of Canonball we discuss "The Value Of Science," which was written by Henri Poincare and published in 1904. Listen to this podcast on any of several dozen podcast platforms, most of which have no ads, at this link: www.buzzsprout.com/2132180/share Get a copy of my edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein at my website: www.vollrathpublishing.com 0:00 Intro 0:53 The Search For Truth...
Henri Poincare - Science And Hypothesis - Canonball 53
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In this episode of Canonball we discuss"Science And Hypothesis," which was written by Henri Poincare and published in 1902. Listen to this podcast on any of several dozen podcast platforms, most of which have no ads, at this link: www.buzzsprout.com/2132180/share Get a copy of my edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein at my website: www.vollrathpublishing.com 0:00 Why I Wanted To Read This Book...
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes From Underground - Canonball 52
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In this episode of Canonball we discuss "Notes From Underground," which was written by Fyodor Dostoevsky and published in 1864. Listen to this podcast on any of several dozen podcast platforms, most of which have no ads, at this link: www.buzzsprout.com/2132180/share Get a copy of my edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein at my website: www.vollrathpublishing.com 0:00 Dostoyevsky's Life - His P...
Werner Heisenberg - Physics And Philosophy - Canonball 51
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In this episode of Canonball we discuss"Physics And Philosophy," which was written by Werner Heisenberg and published in 1962. 0:00 Introduction 2:03 Why I Wanted To Read This Book 6:10 Heisenberg's Education And Youth 16:43 The Uncertainty Principle 20:10 Lectures, The Nobel Prize, Politics, And His Family 21:59 The German Nuclear Program, Orders For His Assassination, And The Farm Hall Transc...
Leo Tolstoy - What Is Art? - Canonball 50
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Leo Tolstoy - What Is Art? - Canonball 50
H.G. Wells - The Country Of The Blind And Other Stories - Canonball 49
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H.G. Wells - The Country Of The Blind And Other Stories - Canonball 49
Jonathan Swift - Selected Writings - Canonball 48
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Jonathan Swift - Selected Writings - Canonball 48
Henry Louis Mencken - Chrestomathy - Canonball 47
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Henry Louis Mencken - Chrestomathy - Canonball 47
The Rider On The White Horse - Theodor Storm - Canonball 46
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The Rider On The White Horse - Theodor Storm - Canonball 46
Victor Hugo - Ninety-Three - Canonball 45
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Victor Hugo - Ninety-Three - Canonball 45
Robert Louis Stevenson - Essays - Canonball 44
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Robert Louis Stevenson - Essays - Canonball 44
John Keats - Poetry And Letters - Canonball 43
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The Chronicles - Jean Froissart - Canonball 42
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The Chronicles - Jean Froissart - Canonball 42
Jack London - Martin Eden - Canonball 41
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Jack London - Martin Eden - Canonball 41
Joseph Conrad - Under Western Eyes - Canonball 40
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Joseph Conrad - Under Western Eyes - Canonball 40
Parzival - Wolfram Von Eschenbach - Canonball 39
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Parzival - Wolfram Von Eschenbach - Canonball 39
The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer - Canonball 38
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Conrad has a truly unique writing style. It wasn’t until I began Russian literature that I realized Russians did not consider themselves Europeans, yet spoke French and German and had a love hate relationship with European culture.
Thanks! Very interesting. The last bit plainly true by my estimation. Fairly dense, I'm going to give this a listen twice.
I'm glad you enjoyed it, thank you for listening.
Thank you!
You're very welcome, thanks for listening.
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Fortunately it is called a principle, which means that it should be valid on every scale of nature. By relating this principle to the second law of thermodynamics, I can demonstrate the existence of Almighty God. But above all his only gamble. Also because it is God's only desire. I am talking about understanding, or order that emerges spontaneously from chaos. Endrit Vuka, Bologna IT
Yeah this is a good one. Lots of golden analysis. Keep it up!
This is a very thoughtful commentary on von Eschenbach's work. Other channels attempting to get to grips with this story are nowhere near as revelatory. Many thanks.
Thank you very much for listening and for your comment - glad you enjoyed it.
superb, illuminated interpretation and insights
Thank you very much for listening and for your comment - glad you enjoyed it.
12:10 I think seperating form and function is kinda wrong, because form is also function For example American suburbs are terrible in function in that they are not efficient at all, but also that they are terrible to live in compared to a city like Copenhagen because they look ugly. So the form is part of the function, if the form is shit, it sucks to live in, and therfore is bad at its function
That's a good point. I guess it depends on how the function is defined, and who is defining it. Certainly it would be reasonable to say that the aesthetic of the building from the outside, how it contributes to a cityscape, and it being pleasant to be inside must be part of its function. The trouble is if a company is trying to make a building that is as cheap as possible (part of its perceived function) while answering all the needs of the company, that is a different definition of function than including aesthetics as part of the definition, and will result in a different building.
You sound exactly like Adam Something but not talking as fast :0
Thanks! I had never heard of him but I went and checked him out. He has a nice speaking voice. And thanks for listening and for your comments.
24:45 For Poincaré, it's really psychology. He's expilicit about that: “Il n'y a pas de logique et d'épistémologie indépendantes de la psychologie.” Logicists (who were mostly mediocre mathematicians like Russell) hated him for that lol.
Thanks for this - it definitely helps to clarify what he meant there.
Thank you, I loved this book. I also read Witiko in English. It was a peaceful book to read and very repetitive, and yet it comes to my mind more than many other books I’ve read. Perhaps that’s the subtle genius of Stifter at work. I also appreciated his introduction which you highlighted.
Thank you for listening and for the comment. I really enjoyed reading Stifter.
are we all witnessing the incremental (step by step ) decline of the west, folks?😁
He was for religious dictatorship in Russia. He was not for west. Mad writer.
Wells was for socialism and paranormal. Too bad.
Conrad was very anti reason.
How so?
Red One is a good science fction.
Carlyle was for Kant. Bad mistake.
Religious poetry is very bad.
The best french thinker.
He was for John Scopes. But Mencken was not for relativity ( Einstein). In this point, Mencken was wrong.
Very nice.
Excellent work, ty for posting!
Thanks very much for listening, glad you enjoyed it.
This lecture was excellent. thank you for posting
Thank you for listening.
25/25Thank you for explaining the painting by American artist Julien Russell Storey in 1888 of Black Prince at Crecy contemplating corpse of Dead Blind Brave King John of Bohemia father of the German King a beautiful painting but you do not reveal where it is located?
Thanks for listening and for your comment - as far as I can tell the painting is located at the Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia.
Kurt Eisner is probably most famous now because Hitler attended his funeral, something his ghost is probably not happy about.
I endured reading half of it. I think I should get at least half a Nobel prize for that.
On 7 July 1945, he was sentenced in his absence by Special Council of the NKVD to an eight-year term in a labour camp. This was the usual sentence for most crimes under Article 58 at the time.[30] The first part of Solzhenitsyn's sentence was served in several work camps; the "middle phase", as he later referred to it, was spent in a sharashka (a special scientific research facility run by Ministry of State Security), where he met Lev Kopelev, upon whom he based the character of Lev Rubin in his book The First Circle, published in a self-censored or "distorted" version in the West in 1968 (an English translation of the full version was eventually published by Harper Perennial in October 2009).[31] In 1950, Solzhenitsyn was sent to a "Special Camp" for political prisoners. During his imprisonment at the camp in the town of Ekibastuz in Kazakhstan, he worked as a miner, bricklayer, and foundry foreman. His experiences at Ekibastuz formed the basis for the book One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. One of his fellow political prisoners, Ion Moraru, remembers that Solzhenitsyn spent some of his time at Ekibastuz writing.[32] While there, Solzhenitsyn had a tumor removed. His cancer was not diagnosed at the time. In March 1953, after his sentence ended, Solzhenitsyn was sent to internal exile for life at Birlik,[33] a village in Baidibek District of South Kazakhstan.[34] His undiagnosed cancer spread until, by the end of the year, he was close to death. In 1954, Solzhenitsyn was permitted to be treated in a hospital in Tashkent, where his tumor went into remission. His experiences there became the basis of his novel Cancer Ward and also found an echo in the short story "The Right Hand." Hope this helps
Underrated series. Keep up the good work good Sir!
Thanks, will do!
.. started reading Solzhenitsyn about '82, having an amateur's interest in historic and modern Russia. His writings seemed to me, introspective and interrogating himself with all his knowledge of the darkness in human character. The stark raw reality of seeing his world truly must have been very hard work not to submerge.
All bad penal systems tend to rely on confessions, which are usually easy to extract from helpless prisoners.
I completely agree with your comments on the Richard Wilbur Library of America translation. These are beautiful books and the plays are remarkable.
It's always nice to find a good edition of great writing. Thanks for listening.
Very interesting. Thank so much for your video
Thank you very much for listening.
Good work. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for listening.
Thank you for providing this illuminating guide to Under Western Eyes. There is very little like it on TH-cam. I haven't read it yet, but I know it was a favorite of my late father. So far, I have only read a couple of Conrad short stories: The Lagoon and Il Conte. I started Heart of Darkness and Victory years ago and got sidetracked. I admire his genius, but my mind or stamina apparently wasn't prepared to persevere. After having read and discussed The Lagoon with my high school seniors recently, I would like to make a sincere effort with Conrad again. If you have any suggestions, please share them. Thanks again!
Thanks very much for listening and for your kind words. Conrad can be a little challenging, and some of his writings would definitely be a better starting point than others to get used to him. I would recommend starting with "The Secret Agent," which moves at a brisk stride throughout but is still clearly his style. Then I would say read "'Twixt Land And Sea," which is three stories, then "Under Western Eyes." If you have not had enough after that I would say read "Nostromo." In addition to going in rough ascending order of ease of reading in some subjective sense, these are also my favorites of his books (your father had excellent taste).
@@vollrathpublishing Grateful for the reply and suggestions. I'm reading through the The Secret Sharer right now. WIth classics, sometimes I will check a little preview or summary of the book before reading it through. It's a bit of cheating, but it gives me some space to appreciate other elements of the writing besides just focusing on plot development.
Thanks for introducing me to the writings of Sterne, and the word "ratiocination." Your opening discussion about marriage, parenthood, and sexual "progress" was quite informative. Good stuff, all around.
You're most welcome, I enjoyed this one a lot. Yeah that's a nice word that I find comes up more often in older books. Thank you for listening.
Liberal Democracy = rule by international finance and the Merchant class
I started "Ninety-Three" four days ago and have been both entranced, and confused by the content. Thank you so much for producing this podcast, and particularly this episode. You've provided some valuable historical information that will help orient my way through the reading. Looking forward to more content. One minor suggestion: slow down just a bit when quoting from the text. You've got a good reading voice, but your pace is just a little too quick. Give it a try and see how it sounds to your own ear.
Thanks for listening and for the feedback, I will definitely give that a try going forward.
Thanks a lot brother for this ❤
Thanks very much for listening.
Schiller's treatise on the metaphysics of beauty isn't tough or hard . . . if you've properly prepared for reading work at this level. The difficulty isn't because: it was written in 1794, or a translation from German, or he's kind of like forming his own philosophy - the fault is IN THE READER! To assert otherwise borders on blind narcissism. Further, to publicly pontificate and publish on something that is uncertainly grasped (however well-intentioned), also borders on blind narcissism. This response is tough and hard, but . . . the Collective West is in its precipitous, ultimate decline because hundreds of millions of people presume to speak on what they poorly grasp - with the power and vigor and authority given them by high tech (once upon a time voices were published and heard only when they met the standards of the best and the brightest). The glory and wonder that was once western civilization is consequently drowning in it's own vomit. The barbarians are already in the house! and the good, the true, the beautiful are always the first to go in the flames. Its an ancient cycle, but . . . Schiller sure was glorious!! And IF he's right, THEN on the other side . . .
I am indeed no expert on Carlyle, but there seems to be a deep connection between his thought, Vedanta and Hindu-Aryan speculation generally.
Thanks for listening - glad you enjoyed it! Yeah I'd be interested to learn more about what writing and thought influenced him the most.
I just inferred that, with leads you dropped about his relationship, with Emerson, who was greatly influenced by Indian thought, as indeed was Whitman and TS Eliot...the list is very long. I've spent some time reading, the Mahabharata -Gita and the Upanishads, you start seeing it everywhere, especially German idealism and romanticism. The Germans were crazy about them, along with the Greeks.
I really appreciate your clear and concise delivery...cheers!
Great video. Nobody who claims that he's ideas are Darwinistic has bothered to actually read Spencer, for the dynamics of selection are completely missing in the First Principles. Also can you please explain to me in more details on how the law of the persistence of differentiation (increasing heterogeneity) contradicts the second law of thermodynamics?
Thanks for listening and for the comment. I am no physicist but my instinct is actually that increasing heterogeneity would not necessarily decrease entropy. Organisms could become more varied or even more complex while the amount of disorder in the system could still increase. That's based solely on my intuition though, I would be open to looking at the opposite view.
Increasing differentiation always results in increasing disorganization. But an increase in entropy results in increasing complexity when the organization must respond to its differentiating elements (otherwise its elements remain homogenous and do not increase in complexity). This does not contradict Spencer's model in any way. Assuming that entropy does not rise with increasing differentiation would mean that all processes of differentiation would still be integrated with one another - and we don't see that for the exceptions of organisms consuming oxygen.@@vollrathpublishing Maybe I'm mixing it Alexander Bogdanov's Tektology in this as well, but I'm pretty sure my interpretation of Spencer is accurate. It does not contradict the second law of thermodynamics for Spencer acknowldges that with differentiation comes entropy.
I read the Penguin's version which is quite thin in volume. I always read it on metro and it's a light read for me! I guess it's because I don't analyze his ideas in great detail but just grasp the gist of his ideas. Plus I just have this passion for performing and visual arts that motivates me to understand why aesthetic education can bring about societal progress. So I can't stop flipping it through!
Yes I read the Penguin Classics edition, too, and you are right it is not very long at all. It is definitely a nice book to browse, even if it is sometimes tough to see exactly what he is saying or how he moves from one idea to the next. My view that, at their best, the performing arts are tremendously valuable for society was part of why I wanted to read this book also. Thanks for listening and for your comment!
Well done. Thanks.
Thank you
The ability to pin down ideas, concise and suggestive, onto paper is as invaluable as any latter ability to sort out and realize said ideas. A simple trick I regret having not more extensively played
Thank you. A useful summary.
You are welcome, and thank you for listening.
Nietzsche: Art protects us from beeing destroyed by truth.
The problems the earth faces today are NOT a matter solvable by political or social negotiations. It is a clear indicator of the failure of SCIENCE: Copernicus dumped the baby (GEOCENTRISM) and paved the way to drink the bathwater (THE FAITH that an uncontrollable by us power, now called NATURE instead of GOD) controls the flow of all events in the entire universe, IRRESPECTIVE OF WHAT WE OURSELVES DO IN IT. Billions since, including the most brilliant minds of the human race, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton, Einstein,...have all wasted their entire lifetime following his work and adjusting the LAWS OF NATURE (!) they derived using his destructive assumption to fit results of observations and/or experiments whenever they deviate from their PREDICTIONS. It is time we realize that the earth is unique as the only vessel in the entire known universe that develops plants on its own surface to then deliver and sustain beings here through them and it has to be analyzed as such, and NOT as a "mediocre planet" stupidly revolving around an insignificant star. It is far more important for seekers of knowledge to derive the mathematical model of the mechanism how CONTROLLABLE BY US PARTICLE INTERACTIONS inside the earth develop PLANTS on its own surface than to waste time, efforts and funds to explain "why apples fall?" and "why celestial bodies move as they do due to UNCONTROLLABLE BY US FORCES", as once we have the above model we'd be able to influence growth of and on plants to sustain evil (disasters, predation, diseases ~ which include all violence ~ and death) free life function eternally. It is immaterial whether the answer to a question (why apples fall?) is correct or wrong so long as the question itself is totally irrelevant for sustenance of life on this earth. It is high time we set PRACTICAL PREVENTION OF ALL EVIL (defined exhaustively above) as the sole purpose cum criterion of proof of any system of knowledge instead of the current ideal of TEOS (The Experimental and Observational Science), "knowledge for its own sake out of curiosity" along with the misguided criterion of proof "PREDICTIONS tallying with results of experiments and/or observations", which don't even guarantee that so concluded LAWS OF NATURE won't cause new harms, let alone PREVENT existing ones or even PREDICT them accurately. PREVENTION of evil is not found even in the vocabulary of TEOS
Here is Einstein's new "thought experiment": 2 identical precision clocks are moving toward each other ... Clock 1 shouts out: "Hey clock 2, you are ticking SLOWER than i do" ... Clock 2 replies: "FALSE ... ! ... i am ticking FASTER than you do!" ... That is called a classical epistemeological CONTRADICTION, which final falsifies Einstein's theory of "Special Relativity", because clock 2 can NEVER ticking "slower" & "faster" at the SAME TIME than clock 1 ... ! ...
I do not quite follow the meaning here, but I imagine it is related in part to something else that Heisenberg talks about, which is the way that physicists think about "simultaneity" differently from how others do. "Time dilation" is another one of those concepts that sounds fascinating but is hard to even grasp generally from the outside.
@@vollrathpublishing ... (58:20min) ... the speaker talks abour Einstein's Relatiity ... ;-)