Where do I start with this 21st century thinker? He has written 10 books on philosophy, psychology, and history. freedomainradio.com/free/ The latest of which is The Art of the Argument >'The Art of the Argument' shocks the dying art of rational debate back to life, giving you the essential tools you need to fight the escalating sophistry, falsehoods and vicious personal attacks that have displaced intelligent conversations throughout the world. At a time when we need reasonable and empirical discussions more desperately than ever, 'The Art of the Argument' smashes through the brain-eating fogs of sophistry and mental manipulation, illuminating a path to benevolent power for all who wish to take it.
>Civilization is defined by our willingness and ability to use words instead of fists – in the absence of reason, violence rules. ‘The Art of the Argument’ gives you the intellectual ammunition – in one concentrated, entertaining and powerful package – to engage in truly productive, civilization-saving debates. Armed with this book, you will be empowered to speak truth to power, illuminate ignorance, shatter delusions and expose the dangerous sophists within your own life, and around the world. His book against agnosticism sounds good too. >Between the poles of strong atheism and strict theism lies agnosticism, the argument that gods are very unlikely, but cannot logically be ruled out as utterly impossible. Agnosticism is considered a cautious, tentative and scientific approach to the question of the existence of gods - Stefan Molyneux's seminal book "Against the Gods?" makes a powerful case against agnosticism and for the positive acceptance of the nonexistence of supernatural beings. >It is not rational to even entertain the possibility of the existence of irrational entities. We do not accept agnosticism about unicorns, fairies, square circles, pixies or the proposition that two and two make five – why do we create a special exception in the realm of deities? Surely it is because the social cost of rejecting Gods is far higher than the social cost of rejecting goblins. >"Against the Gods?" provides essential ammunition to those fighting the virus of faith, and clears the mental fog of the irrational middle ground between atheism and theism.
Don't read him he's cult leader and a brainlet. Just read Murray Rothbard who he ripped everything off from.
Juan Martinez
Yeah. I would add Mencken, whom Rothbard lifted half his stuff from
Gabriel Lopez
WHY IS THIS ON MY BOARD? WHAT FUCKING HAPPENED? WHY IS EVERY MORON WITH A YOUTUBE CHANNEL AN INTELLECTUAL NOW?
Christian Kelly
>he didn't start with the Skeptics (tm)
Parker Ross
molymeme is breddy cool, he is just theater kid playing a philosopher in youtube, when you learn that you start to love him
Levi Long
I always thought Armoured Skeptic uses that name because he was bullied in high school and now has a channel as a defense mechanism where he's always right and other people can't touch him. Same with Sargon. He uses this historical figure to pretend he's some kind of authority, while in reality, he's just a sad boy that wants to feel powerful.
Dylan Turner
Sargon is a genuine good person who makes terrible videos. Haven't watched armored fag and don't plan on it.
Austin Cruz
He has a masters in history and half a milion followers. He is smarter than you.
Gabriel Kelly
he’s also not from anywhere he says he is
Ethan Scott
he has the weirdest fake accent, which is kinda cool
Jace Martinez
What do you mean
Bentley Taylor
Why is it fake? Sounds like a typical Canada cuck
Thomas Moore
Kim Kardashian has 107.9 million followers, and she s rock H. She must be 215×smarter than Stefan.
Luke Barnes
wtf I love molymene now
Luke Cox
>Sounds like a typical Canada cuck
Blake Barnes
Molymeme wrote the most precious summary on his old leave le parents website
Nathan Bell
I refuse to take any advice from bald men.
Grayson Rogers
>21st century >thinker
Zachary Robinson
you win
Colton Russell
>It is not rational to even entertain the possibility of the existence of irrational entities
Does he pretend subatomic particles don't exist?
Christian Richardson
>The Art of the Argument' shocks the dying art of rational debate back to life
Not an argument.
>giving you the essential tools you need to fight the escalating sophistry, falsehoods and vicious personal attacks that have displaced intelligent conversations throughout the world.
Not an argument.
>At a time when we need reasonable and empirical discussions more desperately than ever
Not an argument.
>'The Art of the Argument' smashes through the brain-eating fogs of sophistry and mental manipulation, illuminating a path to benevolent power for all who wish to take it.
Not an argument.
>Civilization is defined by our willingness and ability to use words instead of fists
Not an argument.
>‘The Art of the Argument’ gives you the intellectual ammunition – in one concentrated, entertaining and powerful package – to engage in truly productive, civilization-saving debates. Armed with this book, you will be empowered to speak truth to power, illuminate ignorance, shatter delusions and expose the dangerous sophists within your own life, and around the world.
Not an argument.
What a fucking hack.
The twice-used metaphor of his books being "ammunition" actually succinctly tells you everything you need to know about Molyneux himself and his fanbase.
Robert Sullivan
she may not be, but you sure are user
why, I'd say you're at least 3463997xsmarter than me
Logan Foster
Will there come a day when people stop using Youtube celebs as sources? Getting really tired of hearing "B-but didn't you see Sargon's last video?' used as an argument in discussions.
Angel Phillips
He doesn't have a masters degree in History, he is a fucking self published hack, and all universities he has been on are shit.
Jack Howard
Sargon has hair. You should listen to him.
John Price
Yes he does. From the university of Toronto.
Robert Price
Sargon is actually very smart. He knows his way around philosophy and rational thought and offers great insight into many topical issues as they happen. to ignore him as a resource would be foolish
Jonathan Peterson
This but ironically
Asher Turner
Use his arguments then. What I'm tired of is people using him as an argument.
Luke Campbell
he's a manlet though
Nathaniel Richardson
Would you believe I’ve never watched either of their videos? I only sprout nonsensical opinions that I’ve vaguely heard about. Who should I listen to them?
Eli Rogers
Film yourself spouting said opinions and you could be one of them.
Dominic Gonzalez
...
Daniel Cruz
if you are unironically considering listening to youtubers do yourself a favor and listen to actual university lectures instead. youtube is full of them
Alexander Phillips
I’ll do this I guess. Thanks user.
David Jenkins
Speaking of which... are there any actual smart people/intellectuals doing videos/podcasts on popular topics (as opposed to academic discussions)? Or is the whole audio/video domain reserved for dummies?
Levi Butler
youtube is mainly right wing land so you won't find much from other points of view.
and i just noticed he interviewed the Minotaur of Milwaukee so i know what i'll listen to right now youtube.com/watch?v=NkT6hEti3zA
Jaxson Gomez
Seriously?
Michael Perez
I've kinda presupposed he was some bored historian making youtube commentary for a living and taking a more critical stance but then I actually read his piece on Zizek's opinion of Peterson, and god did he trip himself up on that one, not even realizing who Zizek is and writing without any context whatsoever, as if he was talking about a random journalist working for the Sun. Whatever a priori reason I had to invest time listening to his stuff is kinda fading away now. You can't be forgiven if you want to talk about contemporary philosophy with no actual knowledge of contemporary philosophy, it's kind of like pretending to know recent physics without engaging in Peer2Peer scientific exchange.
Xavier Martinez
Memerson aside, the zizek piece was shit and just his usually copy/paste from previous articles sprinkling Memerson name around to pretend his saying something new.
you shouldn't have to read someone's books to understand where he's coming from on a random newspaper article
Isaac Cox
>you shouldn't have to read someone's books to understand where he's coming from on a random newspaper article
Actually this is a serious problem with contemporary journalism, when you write an opinion piece are you really implying you can divert yourself from whatever context you found yourself in before? Random people like us can read the article and simply say "it's shit", but if we're going to critically analyze it and release our own article, we better provide a better framework than the person we are trying to call stupid.
Isaac Howard
Dante forgot to add pseudtube posters to the 8th circle of hell.
Wyatt Morris
if you want to write a book or an essay you are free to do it. if you can't write an article that can stand on its own why bother?
i mean i know why zizek does it, he has literally said before that he doesn't care about those political articles so he just copy/pastes a bit, gets the money, and goes on writing the Hegel books he actually cares about.
Daniel Hughes
>you shouldn't have to read someone's books to understand where he's coming from
exactly, fuck nuance! if you communicate in anything other than tweets you can fuck right off from this literature board
Cooper Anderson
we are talking about newspapers articles you fucking retard. nobody is saying to stop reading books, just to learn to write actual articles.
Logan Williams
the idea that an "proper" article is one that requires no prior knowledge of the current of thought it belongs to is total intellectual degeneracy. if you want to understand what's being said then it's your responsibility to be an educated person as opposed to demanding to be spoonfed a summary of an author's lifetime of work whenever they dare to write anything. stop being such a fucking baby.
Bentley Morgan
i'm sure you read the whole bibliography from Rob Merrick every time you encounter an article like "Brexit will undermine European security unless new agreement with EU is struck quickly, Theresa May is warned" and you are not making an exception because you happen to know who Zizek is because of all the memes and bestow him special treatment when he wrote such a lazy copy/pasted article
Lincoln Kelly
>genuine good person >an obnoxious, condescending prick calling people he doesn't like "white niggers" and "kikes"
Adam Perez
sargon being a meme aside, nothing you said sounds wrong if you aren't a bourgeois pig
Aaron Robinson
>i'm sure you read the whole bibliography from Rob Merrick every time you encounter an article
i don't know who that is but if i read an article by him that i couldn't understand i would have made a decision to either educate myself or live with not understanding the article. what i wouldn't do is make childish demands that everyone needs to downgrade their writing to meet my level of education. it's really just about how you react when you face even a minimal amount of challenge, and you, being a baby, react by crying.