Note on video above from its' originator:
On August 21, 2023, we posted a video on the song "Rich Men North of Richmond." Thanks to input from critical viewers, we understand that there is increasing evidence that the song may indeed have been a successful Edward-Bernays-style fabrication made with the intent of political manipulation. If this is the case, our interpretation was based on false premises. Therefore we decided to take the video offline.
He then re-posted a kiss-up to the Left. I suspect his university teaching "profile" was suffering.
ps - The video was originally critical of Leftists and suggested that their "profilicity" was suffering from their actual lack of support for working class people.
Interview with South Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han. The following excerpt is part of an interview conducted by Zeit magazine in its online version, published in May 2014.
TIME: There are beautiful things! You spend a lot of time talking bad about the world.
He: Maybe. In fact, I drive my students crazy because I tell them about all these topics in my lecture. When I said in the penultimate session that we would think about solutions today, some people clapped. Finally! He is now redeeming us from despair!
TIME: Excellent. We also wanted to talk to you about solutions.
He: I wanted to think of solutions, but then I just pointed out more problems.
TIME: Good. What problems are there?
He: Today there is no language, there is silence and impotence. Language is being taken away from language today. On the one hand there is a huge noise, a noise of communication, on the other hand an eerie silence. And this mutism differs from silence. Silence is very eloquent. Silence has a language. Silence is also eloquent. Silence can also be language. But noise and silence are without language. There is only wordless and noisy communication, that is a problem. Today there is not even knowledge, only information. Knowledge is very different from information. Knowledge and truth sound very old-fashioned today. Knowledge also has a completely different temporal structure. It stretches between the past and the future. And the temporality of the information is the present, the present time. Knowledge is also based on experience. A teacher has knowledge. Today we live in terror of dilettantism.
TIME: How do you judge what science is doing? Don’t you create knowledge?
He: Today’s scientists do not reflect on the social context of knowledge. You are doing positive research. All knowledge takes place in a relationship of domination. A relationship of domination, a new device generates new knowledge, a new discourse. Knowledge is always embedded in a power structure. One can simply engage in positive inquiry without realizing that one is under the spell of that power and without reflecting on the contextuality of knowledge. This reflection on contextuality does not occur today. Philosophy also becomes a positive science. She does not relate to society, only to herself, so she becomes socially blind.
TIME: Do you relate that to the entire scientific community?
He: More or less. A science of Google takes place today, without critical reflection on the activity itself. The humanities should think critically about their own work, but that’s not happening. Today, for example, many conduct research on emotions. I would like to ask a scientist involved in this research: Why are you doing what you are doing? They don’t think about their own work.
TIME: What do you suggest?
He: What is the social relevance of the humanities? That’s what it’s all about. You have to be clear about the social background of your own research, because all knowledge is tied to the power structure of a system. Why is emotion research carried out with such intensity today? Perhaps because emotions are a productive force today. Emotions are used as a means of control. Influencing emotions controls and manipulates human behavior at a subconscious level.
TIME: Now you sound like a conspiracy theorist. Can you create a better system with more intelligence?
He: Intelligence is intel-legere, an intermediate reading, a distinction. Intelligence is a discrimination activity within a system. Intelligence cannot develop a new system, a new language. The mind is very different from intelligence. I don’t think a very smart computer can duplicate the human mind. You can design a fully intelligent machine, but the machine will never invent a new language, something completely different, I don’t think so. A machine has no mind. No machine can produce more than it has absorbed. This is precisely the miracle of life, that it can produce more than it took, and produce something very different from what it took. This is life. life is spirit. In this it differs from the machine. But this life is threatened where everything becomes a machine, where everything is governed by algorithms. The immortal, mechanical human imagined by posthumanists like Ray Kurzweil will no longer be human. Maybe one day we can gain immortality with the help of technology, but we will lose our lives because of it. We will achieve immortality at the cost of life.
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