John Cleese: The Meaning Crisis
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- John Cleese on the meaning crisis in our culture, Jordan Peterson, and political correctness.
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What a class act. John Cleese is one sophisticated, well spoken and well thought out person.
a Great man.
>Great man.
>Palling around with that enthnonationalistic Tibetan fascist.
>Speaking about peace and tranquility as a secret dog whistle for the genocidally-minded far right.😏
He's not a class act.. He's a very naughty Buddhist who's not in Kansas anymore.. No he's a rational, critical human being who is unlucky enough to remember slightly saner days.. What a world we live in when the comedy and laughter has been kicked out of the comedian. Strange days indeed.. Most peculiar Mama.. Such a shame the likes of George Carlin isn't still alive to cheer us all up as we go to hell in a basket.. Life don't seem fair.. He would of loved to have narrated the spectacular fall of the human species.. Enjoy it. Atv least for those who couldn't be here. No point being angry. We got front row tickets. You have got to laugh or else you would be doing life for next door but 1 and the neighbours dog..
@@zoopdterdoobdter5743 "Ethnonationalistic tibetan fascists" --> Care to explain ?
"I think if people just sat and meditated for 10 minutes a day the country would become much happier in about four days."
Can't believe I just heard John Cleese say that. It's absolutely true. My four years of depression lifted in about two weeks using mindfulness meditation. Really using it. Looking within. Watching my thoughts. Facing my fears. Self compassion, self forgiveness, self love.
This is not woo and it's not empty talk. We lost the fantasy stories of our infantile religions but we lost genuine spirituality along with it too.
Almost didn't want to watch this because I thought it was going to be some angry political rant. How glad I am that I was wrong. I'm having more and more hope that our society is moving in the right direction, slowly but surely toward a reasonable and rational spirituality based on all the amazing teachings taught by true spiritual masters down through the centuries, but without the theatre and images and that have been placed in front of it over the millennia to dumb it down for the masses, and have allowed massive abuses to go on unchallenged for so many centuries. True enlightenment seems to becoming to more and more people in the West. It's exciting.
There is gold somewhere.
Beautiful. Thank you. Blessings ever to the Peacemakers.
Cheesemakers!
Great video. One nitpick though, the existentialists were actually trying to solve the problem of the lack of evidence for objective meaning and the inner drive that there must be one. They definitely did not want to resign to a do-whatever kind of answer, as evidenced by Satre's remark that when you act after realizing meaning is up to you, you immediately bear the responsibility of all of humanity on your shoulder and to choose wisely.
When i was 9 I started watching Monty Python on PBS... 1980...I would laugh even though my parents would stare. I love what this man has brought to the world
“Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called.” -John Stuart Mill
Religious unity requires organization. In order to be unified you must have a Creed that all can agree upon. The United States has the Constitution. We are a creedal Nation. We are not bound by nationality but by principles and values. When we no longer have those in common, the nation falls apart.
Brilliant Comedian, but even more impressive when explains his views.
Binary is a concise effective explanation of our PC logical fallacy.
Yes England does have some serious sins.
But England gave us the Magna Carta, The Declaration of Rights and Common Law.
Yes she derived much of her Greatness as a Colonial power but also spread a powerful philosophy and effective foundation for government.
I am infuriated by the multiculuralists that insist everything is equal.
And that Western Civilization is responsible for all the ills of the world and must be torn down.
Well Done!
Cheers
Yeah.. And we gave them The Smiths and The Clash too.. They need to get over themselves for the Love of God..
As a Vancouverite from Canada, I know exactly what Cleese is talking about when he mentions foreigners jacking up prices in the real estate markets and making it impossible for families, even ones with professionals, to afford a home. Money laundering is also rife within the market and this includes the luxury car market.
Welcome back
Just going on the title I'd say that the meaning crisis at least partly revolves around the impression of a lot of people that our lives have one subjective meaning, while it's actually only the moment to moment from which meaning can be extracted. The average of that is what we then say what we 'find meaningfull doing'. Meaning is plural phenomenon.
Well said.
Goddamnit. When this man passes....just no
Keeping our egos in check is difficult.
I think in the next 2-6 yrs you’re going to see a big change in Christianity and the Catholic religion. The Buddhist religion will stay on course, with some possible growth. You will see more home growth religion, people meeting at homes and the big business churches with multimillionaire pastors as a thing of the past. How many jets does one pastor need? When you have one pastor worth over $500 million and doesn’t use that wealth for the good of those in need but hoards it for themselves will no longer be seen starting in the somewhat near future. The dam will burst. I always enjoyed John intellectual look at things and only too sorry not to have met him when he lived in the same city that I do in CA. All the best to John!
Big idea. Difference between race and culture. You can not choose race, but you could choose culture.
Yea. Black people are NOT criminals, but the culture of gangsta-rap-gangs-drugs-guns-bitches-snitches IS advocating criminal stuff... white people also take on that culture, it's not about race.
@Lloyd Braun I think there is a common human culture, a common set of values that ALL races agree with. We call them human rights. It's not RACE rights.
Basic human functions; nobody wants to be hit in the face. Nobody wants to be yelled at. Everyone needs to use the bathroom, everyone wants to have sex. Aren't those some examples of human universals, despite of race or anything? (Sure the the skeptic post-modernists say that there is some one in a billion person)
He is the funny that America is missing , a lot of us seem to be to worried about things the press have conjured up to keep our attention focused on the negative. We’re forgetting our search for the truth through spiritual in lightening, faith , a hirer purpose, answers to why we are and how we got here and true happiness have been replaced with power and monetary gain and access. We all need to breath and feel , with out our senses being engaged , what are we to become? John , never loose that great laugh of yours...
I think people forget he is a brilliant BRITISH comedian. That’s what makes his comedy interesting and different that’s why he cares about the culture.
In a time of zeal focussed on complete orthodoxy, whether that might be a religious fervour or moral panic, irreverent comedy is essential to the continuation of civilized society. Bluntly, political correctness is dangerous and evil.
It separates and balkanizes and segregates. What is far more powerful and uniting is to expect everyone to be able to laugh at their own foibles. Because, yes, we all have them.
Like starting a sentence with a preposition.
Indeed. Everyone seems to be taking everything a bit too seriously!
They have placed the microphone on his jacket so low that you can hear the ticking of the watch when he crosses his arms.
Welcome back.
Well as often happens in these types of observations, Cleese is conflating Christianity with the Catholic Church. Jesus was anti-religion and was not a Catholic. His message still stands the test of time.
The Vatican not so much.
But overall I enjoyed Cleese's comments.
Olive Eisner Catholic people are christians
Kelly Price - Jesus said, "unless you believe that I am who I claim to be, you will die in your sins."
John 8:24
This is the gate through which all may enter, Catholic, Protestant, Jew, Gentile, Muslim, Hindu, Atheist... all are by nature heading for eternal punishment, but all are welcome through Christ.
Jesus was not anti-religion.
But against stiff, dumb, legalism.
Great comedian! 🍺😎👍
That is so weird about the dele Lama!
I met my ex Father in law. Most of the time I nervously jabber on. We just sat & Smiled at each other.
I only met him once before he died. The world lost an Angel. The most Humble צדק.
We need humour back even if it upsets some people nowadays.
We had our chances of getting houses and families taken away. Everything costs more than we earn and women hate men, now men are getting fed up with womens BS & the state backing up womens worst behavior
Here, Here, John Cleese.
Time better spent in prayer and contemplation
Bless those cheese makers tho
The people that this video would most help unfortunately will dismiss it because Cleese has 'proven beyond all doubt' that he is a racist and bigot.
I’m not poor so I’m not blessed? And that’s the fault of organized religion? Is that his argument?
No, that isn't what he said. He was talking about the Beaditudes in the Bible. The point is basically that the poor and humble have a better chance to connect with God.
Jabberwocky
A postmodernist that was cool with taking down the sacred, is now old and wanting it all to go back.
😀
:)
He preaches hermeticism.
Can't afford to buy in London? Leave London. Whinging about it won't change anything. Human capital is what makes civilization, geography helps but it isn't the only factor. You need to choose either to be a serf where you think you want to be or a citizen where you can be.
How about being a citizen where you want to be a citizen, in this case London? If you don't want to live in London, you go elsewhere. And if you can't live on a 40-hour-week job, get a second one, a third one, you work 100 hours for peanuts, if that's all you want from your miserable live. Let those who want to work 40 hours a week and live in a London bustling with life instead of deserted streets take action. Or are they getting in your way?
This is propaganda from the Judean Peoples Front
I thought it was the popular front of judea
And you are a shill for globalists. Enjoy your own culture eithout demolishing someone else's
@@mikemaloney1289 That's right. What have the Romans ever given us...besides the aqueducts...
@@ccbphot11 hmmmm...Romans? Okey dokey.
@@mikemaloney1289 Watch "The Life of Brian" then you will catch on.
Só falou groselha
Racist! Deport him immediately
Organized religion versus what? Disorganized religion? There's a big disconnect between what Christianity is and what those like Cleese have convinced themselves it should be.
cheesemakers 😂
Clearly Cleese isn't a born again Christian. Sadly for him as he enters his dottage he's less time to have an epiphany to receive his salvation. Glad he mentioned The Beattitudes and Jesus but his lukewarm attitude seems to show he's lacking in knowledge of truth who is Via Veritas Vita JESUS of Nazareth.
*eye roll*
Oh John. This is 40 yo thinking. You haven't learned a thing in 40 years.