Pill Pod 102 - Decision: Merleau-Ponty v. Derrida (Exclusive)
Added 2022-11-18 15:00:11 +0000 UTCWe started out at medieval peasant Christianity, and unexpectedly ended up at Derrida's Christianity, but went through Merleau-Ponty some more to get at the meaning of "decision." (By the way if you are interested in the philosophy of religion the guy were talking about at the end is John Caputo, and he gives Derrida a theological spin). The article that inspired this conversation is attached but not required reading.
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Hi! New here, love everything. Love the mtg reference, ya'll should try premodern, current stuff is sell-out. Purpose of my comment was to mention that I had a very strong reaction to 47:30 calling out activist movements. I'm sorry I don't know everyone's name yet but whoever was talking: I think you got it wrong there. It started off sounding like you were going to talk about the difficulty for a politician to make an ethical decision, which I agree with. But talking about why activist movements fail just rubbed me the wrong way, I can't really describe why. It just sounded like you were being dismissive or unapproving, like they need to do better, like we are disappointed in them. I just think that would be a very sad attitude if I read that correctly. Especially if the person speaking is not currently giving their time and energy to one such movement or has significantly in the past. I think activist movements, as long as it's for a good cause, not like the mask or gun people, is always a good thing, whether it succeeds or fails it is a good effort. I mean I understand the utility in discussing failures in a constructive way, discussions by people who have experience in movements and have intentions to be involved in them in their own future, but this kind of talk about them and why they fail by someone whom, and I'm assuming here, apologies if I'm incorrect, has never participated, is just very irritating. Again, love you guys, just had to say something here, obviously it really got under my skin hahaha
Austin Denny
2022-11-22 20:39:08 +0000 UTCReally interesting stuff, especially MP's concept of the decision which I definitely prefer to Derrida's. @Pills, if you had to recommend 2 MP books, which would they be?
anacidcommie
2022-11-22 20:02:59 +0000 UTC
