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Thank you! Good time to start, because the series is ongoing and I'm pickin' up the pace here shortly.

lol it was the sprinkler I think. Now that I think of it, I hope we didn't lose it in the move. It was one of those old tractor sprinklers. With the spikey wheels that drives around the lawn? I love those things, I had to go out and find one. In the current place we have an underground system, though.

It's skilled vs. unskilled, but it works the same way basically. If we focus on importation--Google will lobby for more H1-B visas, Blackrock will reward them, their ESG score will grow, they attract more invest, hire more foreign workers, etc. They're coming legally, but we're still talking wage suppression, because the visas are tied to the employers this gives the corporations more leverage, they might be hired on as independent contractors and so not get the benefits packages. So, similar to the low-skilled workers--these H1-B visa holders are being exploited for corporate profits, and the process also hurts American workers. So, the domestic and foreign workers both are hurt, but the corporation benefits. As is the case with *all* labor arbitrage. I think a lot of people hear people complaining about the effect on American workers and think it's racist or something, that we're upset someone else benefits while we lose out, or whatever, but actually the foreign workers are suffering too, and those nations who are losing the skilled labor are suffering. Everyone suffers but Google and Blackrock.

@ yes and no. I’m currently on H1B. I got my education in the US (masters & PhD), from what I can tell, my employer provides me the same compensation & benefits that my American counterparts get. There’s definitely instability in my status since my work visa is tied to my employer, I can’t afford to lose my job. I think independent contractors suffer more in H1B category.

Thank you! Was hard to be brief, took several reshoots lol.

This horror unfortunately seems fairly plausible. 😬

CIA leave him alone

There's an e-mail address attached to this youtube account--it should be visible through the profile or something I'd think?

lol for sure. I used to think all the "CIA are everywhere," "Everything is an op" type stuff was ridiculous, but in the last couple years I have... sure learned a lot of things that indicates to me that it is not ridiculous at all, actually.

@@thinkculture6106 No email attached please update your email

Liberals are not Leftists

I’m right here

This is sort of a complex issue. I think it's actually one of the themes of this series. But, yeah, there are people on the left, somebody like Chris Cutrone for example (a Marxist who has written stuff like 'Why not Trump?'), or in the world of punditry maybe somebody like Jimmy Dore, who are... honest old-school leftists, who are, like, populists, who support the working class, opposed to technocratic managerialism, opposed to the developing censorship industrial complex, etc. Somebody like RFK Jr, even. And these guys are our allies within this political realignment and I like them and agree with them quite a bit, wherein the Democratic Party has become really the party of neoliberal global capitalism, and so everybody opposed to that project to any degree are sort of all in terms of partisan politics on the other side of that. But I think this version of the left is unfortunately fairly small? I'm not super sure. But for sure the sort of.. Democratic coalition, they're, and this includes people who style themselves as radical left-wing marxist types or whatever, like Judith Butler, Noam Chomsky (although I have heard him say some interesting things in recent years too), basically *all* of academia, of course people like TYT and the Squad and stuff, etc., they are just comprador intelligentsia of global capital. And that makes sense because guess what?--Marx was correct and the dominant ideology is the ideology of the dominant class. Marx was write about *a lot* IMO. But that's I think overwhelming majority on the Left. Ultimately I think these outcomes are... destined, from the outset, by what the Left is *in essence*, and that opposition to this regime sort of essentially belongs on the Right. But then I would say, for example, there are right-wing elements in the thought of Marx, for example. So, if you have a serious Marxist, of the Left, that's someone that I'm going to agree with on a great many things, actually. I'll probably try to dig into this stuff more in a video some time... But, yeah, I think that for the people who think they're challenging Power, they're fighting for the working class, they're for the little guy, they oppose capitalism, etc., and then they turn around and support open borders, they are anti-family, they want to deconstruct all of our norms and traditions and institutions, etc., that person would be very confused. And needs to seriously think about why it is that the richest congressional districts in the country, the biggest centers of power and the concentration of wealth in America, they're blue.

@@thinkculture6106 I consider myself a Marxist, a serious one even. Though I am not an academic I am a bus service planner. And I am here listening because when Marx’s said all that is solid melts into air I knew he meant my relationship to my friends and family, and not just the relationship between knights and their vassals. I agree with a lot of what you say. Though to enter a leftist space and say much of what you do what have you slandered as “another white pos” in my case but… a lot of my comrades miss the forest for the trees.

@@KingPhilipsRidesharethey are not Marxists then They are race reductionists so are useful idiots for the Bourgy

Thank you! I expected it to do better. I sort of think it's the best video on the channel. But it doesn't seem to be a fan favorite. Not sure why.

Thank you for the feedback! Spheres is still going! I'll have the next episode out as quickly as tomorrow possibly. Sometime this week for sure.

lol dude, I prefer my Jeffrey Dahmer glasses from a while back. My wife hated them and I promised her I'd get new ones at my next prescription change. She likes these better. I might go back, but the prescription is a bit off. Some guy posted a really funny comment about the Dahmer ones, but I think youtube deleted his comment. I got another super funny comment recently on a Sloterdijk episode that sadly got removed too. IDK what the deal is, but when I comment on videos, I constantly have my comments removed too. Just, like, automatically. I used to think people were deleting them, but somehow I think it's just algorithmic. Really sucks.

That's awesome! That's a good set I think, actually. Read those three and you have a great understanding of the world we live in. I'm about to put this channel in hyperdrive though so the list of books I've discussed, at least, is going to explode.

Hey, I appreciate it! I actually forgot to mention a couple things I had intended to, which might have mitigated the offensiveness a bit more. But that's what happens lol. Like for example I wanted to address a likely response from the white nationalist types (who I think are woefully wrong in a lot of other ways too), which would be 'okay so, we should send black people away because they don't belong here'. I don't remember the numbers, but like 90% or something of black Americans have ancestry here going back to the 18th century or earlier. For white Americans it's reversed--only like 10% (my family has been here since the 1630, but that's very rare I guess). So these people definitely have a strong claim, a strong tie, on this country. They're not people who just came over here as foreigners and needing to assimilate to their newly chosen nation. They've been here for many generations. They're as American as anybody. There were a couple other things too but I shouldn't write 10,000 lines of comment on my own video probably. lol. The issue is our institutions are bankrupt. And, yeah, I think fixing them entails the same thing, the same fixes, for everyone. Everyone would benefit from the same interventions. So, no antagonism there. But anyway, I really appreciate it!

I always think of an old good friend of mine (who was black) complaining about how blacks are always lumped in with gays and women. It's like, that's the phrase 'women, lgbtq, and black'. It gets tossed around a lot. And he was like, 'Don't lump me in with them! I'm black so that makes me like, gay? Or womanly? Hell no.' And then there's the 'put the black celebrity in a dress' sort of phenomenon. There's a massive push at feminizing black culture. A war is being waged in the dark. And it's not good.

@@thinkculture61061630 is “killed by Indians” gravestone era. I’d be interested after hearing all this what you think of the 20th centuries dramatic shift regarding child discipline, or the end of what we now know to have been egregious but socially acceptable abuse in the West. Are we soft? Or are we simply no longer traumatized as the norm. I think about this a lot, being a dad. The “spankings” I issue are like a peacocks feather falling across my kids. Whereas I was struck with a belt. And my dad was just beaten, likely molested by priests. It’s hard to know how much of what happens at school usurps what happens at home (my dad gotta beaten at both places) I thought the “aggressiveness is not a negative trait” was refreshing and something I reflect on a lot. I remember feeling and being browbeaten for my “vitality” as a young man. Frustrated by my own inability to sit still… I would have been a local hero if I had lived at a time I had to thresh wheat with a scythe but I was born when you were commanded to sit for 7 hours at a time.. luck of the cosmic draw

@@thinkculture6106 SNL had Kenan Thompson dress as a woman instead of just hiring a black woman for skits for like… idk 12 years.

@@thinkculture6106I guess TH-cam deleted my comment about the “end of socially acceptable child abuse” regarding the change in discipline in the West. But I do wonder if we are “soft” or simply no longer traumatized as a starting place, and thus less predisposed, not to violence as a species, but as “violence as a bridge through frustration” which is something many low income, often black, households are yet to be freed from.

Thanks! It is actually also super hard to do a video like this and make it not seem just like boring, rambling, and unfocused... lol Do you think I should stick to short videos? Like 5-10 minutes? There's like 30 topics in this video I could impromptu talk for longer than that about. So, that also means easier/quicker to produce content for sure.

@@thinkculture6106 By "sweeping" I meant your reading of the history of philosophy as just nominalism, which borders on the edge of indefensibility. I actually do appreciate long-form content rather than short ones.

@@galek75 Oh, wow. I don't think it's indefensible. Unorthodox. Like I said about Aristotle. But I would not say the entire history of philosophy is just about nominalism. Do you think metaphysics is fundamental, or no? The Problem of Universals is a central, perennial issue in metaphysics. I think the nominalism is a key through-line in the development of western philosophy, but I don't think it's everything. But if somebody wants to argue, like, we'd get the Reformation, British Empiricism, Hobbes, etc., without nominalism I think that's just plain wrong. And if you want to understand how we got where we are I think that should be understood. If you want to maybe do an episode with me and we can discuss it I think that might be really cool and I'd be up for it! But yeah it's unorthodox. But I don't think I'm wrong.

Thank you! Glad you appreciate it--I think it went fairly well. It's really hard to just talk alone at a camera for an hour and try to remain organized and coherent. lol. But there is some stuff that's really good in here I think. I did forget to do several arguments I wanted to go through though, upon reflection. But it's okay. If anyone wants to talk more about them they can ask.

I feel like I probably shouldn't answer that lol

@@thinkculture6106 that’s fair, I guess I really wanted to know how you were occupying a lot of your time (besides being a dad which takes up a lot) , I find my old job let me read so much, my new job almost nothing at all.

@@KingPhilipsRideshare Dude, it's rough. I spend a lot of time with the kids. I haven't really been able to read anything long in a long time except via audiobooks (while mowing, driving, etc). I have two boys and they're constantly wanting me to play with them and do things with them and I try not to ever say no, so even outside of work, yeah, really very little time.

@@thinkculture6106I have two; 5, and 3, I know how it goes.

Thank you! I just looked over at your channel too and I think there's a lot I want to listen to over there also.

Awesome, you're welcome! Hopefully we'll overlap some with Globes.

Pretty busy with kids and all, but overall good. Stressful, but good. I hope that I can keep this going now. I think I've figured out how that's possible. So, crossing fingers!

Thanks! Good to be back--I am going to keep it goin'.

Thanks!

I return.

@@thinkculture6106 excellent news

lol naw, that's the George Washington Bridge in NYC

@@thinkculture6106 lol... i made a typo

Thank you!

lol naw, I look like the guy or something?