Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights — Page 3

Here's part 1 of a 19-part university lecture series on the basics of sociology. I haven't watched all of it yet, but the first part on Karl Mannheim contains crucial ideas. Audio quality and delivery style is poor, but oh well, suck it up. The ideas are worth it. Karl Mannheim has important concepts for epistemology. Sociology is an important field for epistemology, although, of course, still too shallow. Understanding and knowledge are not the same thing, and social construction is a secondary aspect of understanding — but learn to walk before you fly.

Part 3: Social Constructionism, is also chock-full of core concepts:

Link to entire playlist

I share this not because I agree with it, but because our work here is about understanding various paradigms. If you are anti-Zionist, it's especially important for you to listen to this entire thing. Don't shut it off. Actually open your mind and listen even though it's irksome. The irk is what forces your mind to see in new ways.

This is how a Zionist sees the world:

I shared this because I want you to see just how relativistic sense-making is. This is what post-modernism is really about: not a blind progressivism, but understanding that progressivism is just one paradigm out of many.

I will be posting many of these videos from Neema Parvini because they are so important for truly understanding politics. I highly recommend his channel. It's a political science goldmine.

Note: Neema Parvini, the creator of these videos, has some regressive, right-wing political opinions. I do not agree with those. I share his videos for their educational content about great political thinkers, not his personal political views. Be careful not to fall down some right-wing regressive rabbit hole.

This is a perfect example of rationalism:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcKEmHfiJ2X

Rationalism sounds rational, it sounds scientific, but it is epistemically and ontologically false.

There is very much a need in science to explain how anything whatsoever exists! And there is tons of evidence of spiritual phenomena which the rationalist simply refuses to experience out of scientific bigotry.

This is one of the best cases for conservatism. Social systems contain a baked-in intelligence that leftist academics and activists do not even know exists, and could never explicate. This is why Marxism and many progressive plans fail. There is a kind of implicit intelligence to social survival which leftist theorists underestimate. That's why leftists tend to be naively utopian. Society is such a deep, complex, intelligent thing that you cannot just sit down in your office and invent a better system on paper.

This video is why Hasan Piker and Peter Joseph -style politics will fail.

This is the kind of conservatism I can respect and even endorse. This is intelligent conservatism, which is so rare these days.