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Mod - I've written ab it about MCGilchrist and soem critical remarks too at iSteve - California Highways post.
He has some fresh thoughts - and he is a very experienced pro - so - - - .
Btw. - Jordan B. Peterson's conversations with him are much more detailed.
And I have linked a strictly traditionally philosophical approach to him in my second Sailer post under the Highway article; there also a link to this discussion here, hehe.
Of course I'd like to hear what you think about the video Mod.

PS: Dieter, though I'm glad to see there are on-line versions of the 2 books for you to read, I was not so much in agreement with Mr. McGilchrist after having watched the video.

I could tell you a little bit why here or maybe write a post.

PS: Adam, I think it was just the use of the term "Large Marge" (in charge?, haha) itself that made me think you weren't so fond of her. When all we have left sometimes to fight the ctrl-left is ridicule, I will tend to make use of it.

Thanks for the correction on you opinion. Yes, I did get your point that. She's not great orator and Constitutional scholar. (We had one for President even, and he didn't turn out so well.) She fits in well with the House of Representin', as seen in the movie. That she's the best we got does say something, but she IS pretty good.

Thanks for the 2 more books.

PS: Thank you, Dieter!

Without you and your literary suggestions the Peak Stupidity Book Club would not be nearly so robust or interesting.

Cheers! ☮️

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Mod. - the story-hemisphere is the right brain-wing! and look at yourself - how much Marjorie got you into exactly this with her remark: story telling!

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Thanks Adam - - - I must say you still surprise! me with these - findings.
So: I'll have a look - !

PS: Good morning, everyone,

And good morning, Dieter!

The Phenomenology of the Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2.5mb .pdf)
http://tinyurl.com/2vhwtxt4

The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist (6.2mb .pdf)
http://tinyurl.com/59uhfuw3

The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World by Iain McGilchrist (24.6mb .pdf)
http://tinyurl.com/3zuhyyub

Happy Friday! ☮️

PS: Good morning, Mr. Moderator,

I generally like Large Marge. I truly think she is one of the few good ones in The House of Representin' and I don't recall making any (many?) derogatory comments about her. (Perhaps you're thinking about Mr. Hail's comment from March 22, 2023 at 8:30am MST under post 2556?)(Not that Mr. Hail's comment is derogatory, just an observation.)

I guess what I mean when I say 𝑊𝑒'𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 “𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑗𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒 𝑇𝑎𝑦𝑙𝑜𝑟 𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑛𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠” 𝑝ℎ𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒, is that with 435 congress critters it's a shame that there are so few good ones. (And so many absolutely horrible ones.) It's pretty wild that she is the meter stick by which we are measuring the others.

Is she really the among best America has to offer for such an allegedly lofty position? Apparently, yes. Yes she is.

And as Tiny Duck might say...

That shuld tell yu somthing right their.

I see it as an indictment on the system as a whole, or of the idiocy of the electorate or the unseriousness of our dead gay country... or something. If Miss Marjorie is truly among the best in the House of Representin', as I believe she is, then what does that say about universal suffrage? Or about American style democracy? Or the chances of averting the continued decline?

Well... I prefer to be optimistic and I'd like to end this comment on a positive note. So...

Stay tuned, decline and fall aficionados!
The best is yet to come!

☮️

PS: I've got your video cued up and ready to be listened to this morning, Dieter. Now, as to where Miss Greene fits in, which hemisphere is she using when she tell people like David Cameron, via a reporter - to kiss her ass? ;-}

We are better off for people like this who don't try their damndest to get along all the time. (Usually it's the women that are the most prone.)

Yes, I saw the video, Alarmist. I will say that she got the reference to Hitler backwards - she was supposedly the "appeaser" to Putler, and also she didn't appreciate "that kind of language", she did feel comfortable telling the reporter that Cameron can kiss her ass. I for one, appreciated it, logic errors aside. Oh, and then she slammed the door on the reporter, which was also a nice touch. If we had 200 such Conservative non-fitter-inners in the Congress, we'd be in good shape.

Also:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/marjorie-taylor-greene-erupts-covid-19-vaccine-hearing/

"Marjorie Taylor Greene Erupts at COVID-19 Vaccine Hearing, Says: ‘I’m Not a Doctor, But I Recognize Bullsh-t When I Hear It’"

Unfortunately, it was late when I watched this, and I fell asleep during the last couple of minutes of the 6 minute video.

PS

I never really cared one way or another for MTG, but she won my heart this week when she told a Brit reporter, who mentioned the comments of a former Brit PM now FM about refusing to send even more aid to Ukraine that “David Cameron can kiss my ass!”

Here is Sky News hyperventilating about it:

'Kiss my ass': Marjorie Taylor Greene's message to David Cameron carried no regard and no respect

Source: https://news.sky.com/story/kiss-my-ass-marjorie-taylor-greenes-message-to-david-cameron-carried-no-regard-and-no-respect-13071776

BTW, Cameron ... Sorry, that’s Lord Cameron, was the guy who while at Uni was photographed with his Johnson inserted into the mouth of a dead pig.

Yeah, that guy deserves all the respect that MTG gave him for that as well as many other crimes against the Britons.

🕉

PS About Marjorie Taylor Green's reality and - reality as such

Reality is something else, philosopher Georg Wilhelm Hegel famously analyzed in The Phenomenology of the Spirit ca. 1800.

Hegel drank a lot while he wrote this famous book, we know that because - well, Hegel was quite famous and that brought it with it that historians of science and other reliable folks looked out for all kinds of things that would help us to understand this man better. So - we not only still have letters of people who drank with Hegel or have at least been around when he did so, but we have bills he paid, Mod. - hard facts, that allow us to see how the price of Bordeaux wine developed - over the centuries.

By saying that .r.e.a.l.i.t.y. 'd be hard to grasp, just because it is .s.o.m.e.t.h.i.n.g. .e.l.s.e. than - we, than our spirit (our mental capacity= our intelligence!) Hegel penned down some hard social truths, that are reconsidered and - battled with - - - fought over to this day (and this will not end).

One of the interesting thinkers today is a very nice - noticer! in his seventies, who lives on the Isle of Skye. I find him interesting because he has done literary science, then dropped out of frustration and became a neurologist, then a psychiatrist, then moved on to philosophy: Iain McGilchrist: Author of:

The Master and His Emissary

and: What's the Matter With Things? -

Now I have read neither of the two books but spend a dozen hours easily with what Iain McGilchrist says and thinks and am looking forward to at least looking into his books in 2024.

He summarizes his findings thusly: It is a grave modern mistake to do away with God. It is very misleading to look at the world as something that would be at our command and it is most important in his eyes, that we distance ourselves from this idea to conquer - reality and dominate it grim and harshly: And he adds: We'd better develop a sense of charming belonging.

Here he speaks with the gentle young Irish philosopher Luke Martin for 45 minutes - not least about the left (the analytical, facts oriented) and the right (the holistic, the story oriented, the one with room for belonging) hemisphere of the brain - and what these hemispheres do - and don't. -

Spoiler: Patients with only one hemisphere left are much worse off if this is the left hemisphere: Often very frustrated and angry, bitter) says the neurologist McGilchrist.

McGilchrist has a knack for the philosophical tradition that sprang from Hegel's Phenomenology of the Spirit: The Phenomenologists like Max Scheler for example. But, Mod.: He also thinks the music is so important for us, even though we can't really: Explain it. (Same is true for poetry: His theory of poetry is very concise and interesting too: He says that poetry as another right-hemisphere thing lets us experience the limitations of our regular use of language (poetry somehow undermines our everyday view of life and thus opens us for the limitations, that we accept in our daily lives, simply to get along*** - - - - ). ***we have to get along, no doubt about that, but getting along not only helps us to succeed - it also limits us (and poetry lets us experience how limited we are.) - Now: Marjorie Taylor Green (as a politician) tries/ has to deal with reality.

This is the YouTube link - I hope when put into goolge it works:

A Holistic Response to Cultural Decline - Dr Luke Martin and Dr Iain McGilchrist (youtube.com)

PS: I know you don't have all good things to say about her, from my recollection of a past comment or two, Adam. She's in your neck of the woods. What are her bad points? (No sarc. Just asking.)

PS: Greetings, Achmed,

So... We're at the "Marjorie Taylor Greene is one of the best representatives in congress" phase of the decline.

Good times! ☮️