If I cannot find something to watch quickly then I’ll often just read a book. I had just about given up on television before the new streaming services came out. We went from nothing good to watch to too many good things to watch very quickly. I have bipolar disorder and am grateful for the medicines I have at my disposal but I also am aware of the fact that our society is very flawed. I often wonder if there were other ways to live than what we are forced into. Get up, go to work, got to bed and then repeat………
My whole problem with existentialism, if I understand it correctly, boils down to the fact that, in my old age, I've become a hard determinist and just can't believe in "freedom", which I now think is just both an individual and collective delusion.
I think existentialism (at least phenomenology ext.) tells you that you can choose how to live your life, and that includes how to think about it. If you think it is better for you to think about life in terms of determinism, it makes no sense for you to think in terms of Freedom. It doesn't mean that one is better than the other, or one is real and not the other one, we could never know the "reality" of the world, and that is why we can choose how and what we want to think about life.
@@alfredofloyd Well, we have a fundamental disagreement, my friend. I _do_ think that we can know the world, really. If I'm right, this strongly suggests that if we reason correctly from the evidence, we _can_ know how the world, and ourselves, work. And, most scientists and philosophers of mind conclude that determinism is the actual nature of things, including us. So, no free will. No freely choosing anything. It's all just the slow unwinding of the universe by relentless and inescapable physical laws.
Existentialists create angst. Yes, everyday life does present moments of anxiety though they are best handled through Critical Thinking. Existential psychiatry through therapy stages a situation that becomes agoraphobia. I would call it a crime, a human fly in the bottle. Armchair philosophy as practiced academically sounds good in the cafe or on paper. That works in today's world when one loses their cell phone or faces anxiety when having to deal with an issue caused by their own choice. Than its a matter of get rid of guilt fear thing ! But let's get into the real, outside of the cafe and Netflix couch potato. Real anxiety has no choice.… Huma's recent attack on Israeli youth at the music festival is a real-life reality of anxiety seen on all of their faces. I am writing a book that includes the serious misuse by existential medical psychiatry that is staged to induce anxiety. I think it hinders any philosophical existential or phenomenological academia. Important... The medical definition you gave is in fact true to the phenomena experienced by the medical patient. No doubt, and very happy you weighed up this in your talk is that there is a huge difference between psychiatry and philosophy concepts of anxiety. From experience, l know l won't be disproven. The only way to cure psychiatric anxiety is to separate yourself from psychiatry and take control of your own ship. Then again that is probably the best cure for anything.
Listening to this in August of 2023, really enjoyed it. Thanks, good vid.
Please keep these up, they are really good!
If I cannot find something to watch quickly then I’ll often just read a book. I had just about given up on television before the new streaming services came out. We went from nothing good to watch to too many good things to watch very quickly. I have bipolar disorder and am grateful for the medicines I have at my disposal but I also am aware of the fact that our society is very flawed. I often wonder if there were other ways to live than what we are forced into. Get up, go to work, got to bed and then repeat………
Though I'm sure David won't read this, I am compelled to say in Chidi's defense that he specializes in ethics not existentialism.
Simply amazing 👏👏👏
I love these videos but would like them more if we could see the speakers. I relate and learn more from people I can see.
I think realising that I have real freedom to basically just jump into a river and drown was a wild experience when I was 16.
Please post the name of that algorithm for weighing pros and cons, it could be helpful!
My whole problem with existentialism, if I understand it correctly, boils down to the fact that, in my old age, I've become a hard determinist and just can't believe in "freedom", which I now think is just both an individual and collective delusion.
I think existentialism (at least phenomenology ext.) tells you that you can choose how to live your life, and that includes how to think about it. If you think it is better for you to think about life in terms of determinism, it makes no sense for you to think in terms of Freedom. It doesn't mean that one is better than the other, or one is real and not the other one, we could never know the "reality" of the world, and that is why we can choose how and what we want to think about life.
@@alfredofloyd Well, we have a fundamental disagreement, my friend. I _do_ think that we can know the world, really. If I'm right, this strongly suggests that if we reason correctly from the evidence, we _can_ know how the world, and ourselves, work. And, most scientists and philosophers of mind conclude that determinism is the actual nature of things, including us. So, no free will. No freely choosing anything. It's all just the slow unwinding of the universe by relentless and inescapable physical laws.
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Gordon Marino the exestentalist survival guide
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Yea existential angst isn't what you think it is ....
Existentialists create angst. Yes, everyday life does present moments of anxiety though they are best handled through Critical Thinking.
Existential psychiatry through therapy stages a situation that becomes agoraphobia. I would call it a crime, a human fly in the bottle.
Armchair philosophy as practiced academically sounds good in the cafe or on paper. That works in today's world when one loses their cell phone or faces anxiety when having to deal with an issue caused by their own choice. Than its a matter of get rid of guilt fear thing !
But let's get into the real, outside of the cafe and Netflix couch potato.
Real anxiety has no choice.… Huma's recent attack on Israeli
youth at the music festival is a real-life reality of anxiety seen on all of their faces.
I am writing a book that includes the serious misuse by existential medical psychiatry that is staged to induce anxiety. I think it hinders any philosophical existential or phenomenological academia.
Important... The medical definition you gave is in fact true to the phenomena experienced by the medical patient.
No doubt, and very happy you weighed up this in your talk is that there is a huge difference between psychiatry and philosophy concepts of anxiety.
From experience, l know l won't be disproven.
The only way to cure psychiatric anxiety is to separate yourself from psychiatry and take control of your own ship. Then again that is probably the best cure for anything.
Netflix just sucks. Unsubscribe and go for a walk instead
www.overthinkpodcast.com/episodes/episode-43 :)