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Robin Unger returns to the show to pick up where we left off talking about Carroll Quigley. This episode is more about the alternative media landscape generally. A hollowed out shell of what it once was, so much of supposed counter culture is now being used to sell authoritarian technocracy. Topics include: Mark Carney, establishment leaders, The Age of Transitions video, Truth videos from aughts, Alchemy in Popular Music, Mystery Girl Roy Orbison song, Bono, Themes & Memes, Carroll Quigley, Curtis Yarvin, orbital power, UN as a problem, weapons as unifying political tools, changing alternative media takes, Dark Enlightenment, Libertarian farce, fascism, technocracy, Anglo American Establishment, promotion of dominant minority, Left Hand Path occultism, Zelensky Star Wars fandom, the Dark Side, National Reconnaissance Office, selling counter cultural narratives, QAnon, intel ops, The Storm, Elon Musk, Steve Bannon, MAGA infighting, pretending to be antagonistic, Biosphere 2, stirring the pot, Roger Stone hiding away, Jason Bermas, Australian fronted media companies, supporting political candidates only to disrupt elections, alternative media ventures as a means to mask actual sources of funding, hijacking Truth Movement, Flat Earth, DOGE, Alex Jones support from Musk, The Onion short lived ownership of Infowars, Canadian trucker convoy protest, Bill Cooper, exploiting emergency powers, Patriot Act, PNAC, shilling for new establishment, Tucker Carlson, Curt Weldon, 9/11 Truth, converging interests, Cass Sunstein white paper about weaponizing conspiracy theories, military intelligence, terror acts instigated by feds, Michigan governor kidnapping plot, Operation Gladio, making media about weaponization of alt media, Media Roots, James Corbett, return of Sibel Edmonds, spiritual self improvement
GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Basil Valentine is a philosopher, poet, broadcaster, writer, musician, horse racing aficionado and Leeds United supporter. He is a regular contributor to SUNDAY WIRE WITH PATRICK HENNINGSEN, and a prolific X (Twitter) poster. https://21stcenturywire.com/sundaywire/ https://twitter.com/says_basil GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Ryan Dawson is a Cape Hatteras native from the town of Buxton, North Carolina. He is a graduate from the College of William & Mary. Currently living In Korea, Mr. Dawson is the author of Welcome to the USSA and a co-author of Why Peace. Mr. Dawson has worked as a geopolitical analyst and political radio host for the former FBI translator, Sibel Edmonds, of Boiling Frogs Post. He's made a variety of political documentaries dealing with a wide range of subjects such as the second Iraq War, the September 11th terrorist attacks, the anthrax affair, covert operations of the CIA, and the JFK assassination. Mr. Dawson's work has been featured on a variety of television news networks such as Russia Today and MSNBC, as well as on political satire comedy shows like the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He is regularly interviewed on a number of political radio shows and websites. He currently runs the ANC Report, an independent media outlet with a focus on economic and political news.
*** SPECIAL ARCHIVE Sibel Edmonds On Gulen Network by Kate Dalley
World Anti-Communist League (WACL), Far West Ltd., private military companies (PMCs), private intelligence companies (PICs), the breakdown of Obama's détente with Russia, global strategy of tension, Syrian War, ISIS, terrorism, Anders Behring Breivik, Norway, Breivik's possible links to Far West, Boston Marathon bombing, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Ibragim Todashev, Ruslan Saidov, Graham Fuller, Sibel Edmonds, Halliburton, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Fethullah Gulen, Gulen movement, Sufism, Turkey, Chechen War, American Committee for Peace in Chechnya, Adnan Khashoggi, Sir James Goldsmith, Pamela Geller, Todashev's death in FBI custody, Reddit, social media's role in the Boston Marathon bombing, Elisa Lam, parallels with social media's role in Lam's death in 2013, Anton Surikov, the breakdown of US-Russian relations in 2013-2014, the Far West death roll circa 2014Music by: Keith Allen Dennis:https://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/Additional Music by: Matt Baldwinhttps://psychicarts.bandcamp.com/ Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ryan Dawson is the creator of The Anti-Neocon Report. The blogger, podcaster, filmmaker, and author of two books, “Welcome to the USSA” and “The Separation of Business and State,” has been involved in political activism for more than two decades. Dawson's content has been featured by the likes of George Galloway and Pat Buchanan, and has garnered him appearances on TV, from Russia Today and CNN to The Daily Show and Al Jazeera. Dawson's hard-hitting material has roused much elitist ire over the years, so much so that he's had numerous YouTube channel's deleted, most notably one that had accrued 81,000 subscribers and 4,000-plus videos with a total of 30 million views. The North Carolina native and unapologetic advocate for the South now lives with his wife and children in Japan where he's also a Goodwill Ambassador for the state of Nara.The two of us talk about censorship and alternative media, “holocaust denial” and 9/11, the scrouge of Californians, Stinkin' Lincoln, the Yankee Empire's “moral” wars, being pro-Russia, the ingredients of a John Wilkes Booth Cocktail, and more. It was difficult in trying to track down links that encapsulate Dawson's prolific career, not only because he's been at this a long time and on many diverse platforms, but also because much of his work has either been erased or buried. Some of Dawson's older videos can be found at Alt Censored; and some interviews during his stint as the host of Geopolitics with Ryan Dawson, a show on FBI-whistle-blower Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs Post, are available; as are a couple episodes when he was fill-in host for Mike Rivero's What Really Happened Radio. These days, you can find all of Dawson's new content, films, and ways to follow him at the ANC Report homepage. Also of note are Dawson Time, a website that offers more history-based content, including videos by Dawson and and his twin brother Scott, who's an amateur archaeologist and historian; and Dawson on Reed Coverdale's monthly show The Four Horseman. Be sure to check out my current series “Russia-Ukraine: Through a Dixian lens,” which just so happens to feature the rendition of “Dixie” sung in Russian that Dawson mentions in our conversation.
On Ep.#17 we cover a 2015 interview with ex-FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds where she predicted the crisis in Xinjiang as well the trending notion that President Biden is a left-wing figure. Subscribe or follow us here: https://twitter.com/crimson_pod Also Available on YouTube Links Used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaitXSdjFP8 https://twitter.com/queeralamode/status/1385798269276590081 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoTsJHNIsZ0 ☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭
Everything you ever wanted to know about the 9/11 conspiracy theory in under 5 minutes. Sadly, with all of the overwhelming and irrefutable scientific evidence Proving that ALL 3 buildings on 9/11 were brought down by controlled demolition, and that No plane hit the Pentagon; it still seems that so many people don't question the official story. An official story that is absolutely preposterous on it's face, and grows increasingly absurd the more it is examined. Perhaps even more discouraging is knowing that the official lie is in textbooks and being taught in public schools (indoctrination centers). Ensuring the next generation of students are brainwashed into the United States's "righteousness".~ Audio and transcript credit: Corbett Report- http://www.corbettreport.com (website)- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7TvL4GlQyMBLlUsTrN_C4Q (YouTube channel)TRANSCRIPT: On the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 men armed with boxcutters directed by a man on dialysis in a cave fortress halfway around the world using a satellite phone and a laptop directed the most sophisticated penetration of the most heavily-defended airspace in the world, overpowering the passengers and the military combat-trained pilots on 4 commercial aircraft before flying those planes wildly off course for over an hour without being molested by a single fighter interceptor.These 19 hijackers, devout religious fundamentalists who liked to drink alcohol, snort cocaine, and live with pink-haired strippers, managed to knock down 3 buildings with 2 planes in New York, while in Washington a pilot who couldn’t handle a single engine Cessna was able to fly a 757 in an 8,000 foot descending 270 degree corskscrew turn to come exactly level with the ground, hitting the Pentagon in the budget analyst office where DoD staffers were working on the mystery of the 2.3 trillion dollars that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had announced “missing” from the Pentagon’s coffers in a press conference the day before, on September 10, 2001.Luckily, the news anchors knew who did it within minutes, the pundits knew within hours, the Administration knew within the day, and the evidence literally fell into the FBI’s lap. But for some reason a bunch of crazy conspiracy theorists demanded an investigation into the greatest attack on American soil in history.The investigation was delayed, underfunded, set up to fail, a conflict of interest and a cover up from start to finish. It was based on testimony extracted through torture, the records of which were destroyed. It failed to mention the existence of WTC7, Able Danger, Ptech, Sibel Edmonds, OBL and the CIA, and the drills of hijacked aircraft being flown into buildings that were being simulated at the precise same time that those events were actually happening. It was lied to by the Pentagon, the CIA, the Bush Administration and as for Bush and Cheney…well, no one knows what they told it because they testified in secret, off the record, not under oath and behind closed doors. It didn’t bother to look at who funded the attacks because that question is of “little practical significance“. Still, the 9/11 Commission did brilliantly, answering all of the questions the public had (except most of the victims’ family members’ questions) and pinned blame on all the people responsible (although no one so much as lost their job), determining the attacks were “a failure of imagination” because “I don’t think anyone could envision flying airplanes into buildings ” except the Pentagon and FEMA and NORAD and the NRO.The DIA destroyed 2.5 TB of data on Able Danger, but that’s OK because it probably wasn’t important.The SEC destroyed their records on the investigation into the insider trading before the attacks, but that’s OK because destroying the records of the largest investigation in SEC history is just part of routine record keeping.NIST has classified the data that they used for their model of WTC7’s collapse, but that’s OK because knowing how they made their model of that collapse would “jeopardize public safety“.The FBI has argued that all material related to their investigation of 9/11 should be kept secret from the public, but that’s OK because the FBI probably has nothing to hide.This man never existed, nor is anything he had to say worthy of your attention, and if you say otherwise you are a paranoid conspiracy theorist and deserve to be shunned by all of humanity. Likewise him, him, him, and her. (and her and her and him).Osama Bin Laden lived in a cave fortress in the hills of Afghanistan, but somehow got away. Then he was hiding out in Tora Bora but somehow got away. Then he lived in Abottabad for years, taunting the most comprehensive intelligence dragnet employing the most sophisticated technology in the history of the world for 10 years, releasing video after video with complete impunity (and getting younger and younger as he did so), before finally being found in a daring SEAL team raid which wasn’t recorded on video, in which he didn’t resist or use his wife as a human shield, and in which these crack special forces operatives panicked and killed this unarmed man, supposedly the best source of intelligence about those dastardly terrorists on the planet. Then they dumped his body in the ocean before telling anyone about it. Then a couple dozen of that team’s members died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.This is the story of 9/11, brought to you by the media which told you the hard truths about JFK and incubator babies and mobile production facilities and the rescue of Jessica Lynch.If you have any questions about this story…you are a batshit, paranoid, tinfoil, dog-abusing baby-hater and will be reviled by everyone. If you love your country and/or freedom, happiness, rainbows, rock and roll, puppy dogs, apple pie and your grandma, you will never ever express doubts about any part of this story to anyone. Ever.This has been a public service announcement by: the Friends of the FBI, CIA, NSA, DIA, SEC, MSM, White House, NIST, and the 9/11 Commission. Because Ignorance is Strength.
Google "jury nullification", "Sibel Edmonds", "Operation Gladio", "BCCI bank", "MHCHAOS", "Continuity of Government", "Ptech", "Far West, LLC", and "Otto von Bolschwing, Helene von Damm". • Lyrics: I am the man from the Propaganda Due lodge. I am here to throw you in a big hodgepodge of lies and truth and strange reality. It's far too odd for your little eyes to see. It's a clear and able danger to follow as it keeps getting stranger. You'll never know the world, you'll never know what's real. You'll never get better if you have no time to heal. We are here to put you in a deep state of mind, and what you're about to know is very hard to find 'cause nothing in your head is safe from prying. It takes a lot of blood to get you crying. It's a clear and able danger to follow as it keeps getting stranger. You'll never know yourself, you'll never know what's there. You'll never find rest if you always have a burden to bear. It's a clear and able danger to follow as it keeps getting stranger. You'll never understand, you'll never get away. You must make peace, 'cause your only option's to stay. • Credits: • Evangeline Sutherland ——vocals, synths, production
August 17th: Special Counsel Deadline - President Trump’s lawyers have suggested that the beginning of September as the deadline for their decision if Trump will have a voluntary interview with Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel. If not, Mueller could issue a subpoena that would trigger an unprecedented showdown between the executive and judicial branches. Also, authorities have destroyed part of the N.M. compound were alleged Islamic terrorists were training children to carry out school shootings, potentially destroying vital evidence. Furthermore, Tesla shares tumbled after public concern was raised about Elon Musk’s use of Ambien and recreational drugs. The billionaire described his past year as “excruciating.” Joining today’s show is national security whistleblower Sibel Edmonds discussing establishment censorship and terror propaganda. Start your weekend informed. Call and tune in now!
Catch-up episode in which we invite the scorn of Sibel Edmonds, tell you why you need to stay on Facebook, examine the latest shots fired in the new cold war, and toss around a few ideas for how to rid the world of conspiracy theory. ARTICLES Why I Disagree With The Strategy Of Exiting Facebook, Twitter And YouTube: http://bit.ly/2pxTPWL Truth Is The First Casualty In War. Especially In Cold War: http://bit.ly/2pvMJ62 How To Get Rid Of Paranoid Conspiracy Theorists: http://bit.ly/2FXzh56 POEM: Blue Lilacs: http://bit.ly/2DQ0f8Y -- Intro theme by Captain Pablo -- -- Outro theme by Carol Vasquez (bit.ly/2oUFNyX) -- This podcast is sponsored by Caitlin's patrons. You can support Cait by becoming a patron here -- www.patreon.com/caitlinjohnstone -- or throw a couple of coppers into her hat on PayPal -- www.paypal.me/CaitlinJohnstone. Follow Caitlin on Twitter @caitoz -- twitter.com/caitoz
The Mind Renewed : Thinking Christianly in a New World Order
In place of the scheduled programme—which has had to be cancelled at the last minute*—we take the opportunity to repost one of TMR's most highly-regarded interviews: a conversation with the Swiss historian Dr. Daniele Ganser on the subject of his seminal book NATO's Secret Armies: Operation GLADIO and Terrorism in Western Europe. Shortly after WWII a Europe-wide network of secret armies was organised under the aegis of NATO, tasked with providing military and intelligence resistance in the event of a feared Soviet invasion. Modelled on the resistance movements of the war years, many of these "stay behind" units remained faithful to their original mandate. But by the early 1960s - under the pressures of anti-communist politicking and flirtations with the Far Right - some of these groups began to morph into something more sinister, linking up with extreme right-wingers who carried out acts of false-flag terrorism, harassment of left-wing parties and coups d'état. But was this morphing simply an unforseen consequence of the unaccountability and instability of the network itself? Or was it, at least in part, engineered by the very Anglo-American establishment which gave birth to the project in the first place? And to what extent, therefore, can such acts of terror be seen as manifestations of 'the strategy of tension', carried out by the State against its own citizens for the purposes of control at home and geopolitical gain abroad? [* This week's programme, which was almost ready to be published, has been cancelled at short notice. Our guest, a 9/11 researcher (who currently wishes to remain anonymous), has decided that the conversation—owing to developments in the two weeks since it was recorded—might inadvertently jeopardise efforts to obtain certain information under FOIA request. Not wishing to hinder such efforts, TMR has therefore agreed not to publish. We have been assured, however, that TMR will be among the first to share any significant new findings by way of interviews later in 2018.] (For show notes please visit http://themindrenewed.com)
The Mind Renewed : Thinking Christianly in a New World Order
In place of the scheduled programme—which has had to be cancelled at the last minute*—we take the opportunity to repost one of TMR's most highly-regarded interviews: a conversation with the Swiss historian Dr. Daniele Ganser on the subject of his seminal book NATO's Secret Armies: Operation GLADIO and Terrorism in Western Europe. Shortly after WWII a Europe-wide network of secret armies was organised under the aegis of NATO, tasked with providing military and intelligence resistance in the event of a feared Soviet invasion. Modelled on the resistance movements of the war years, many of these "stay behind" units remained faithful to their original mandate. But by the early 1960s - under the pressures of anti-communist politicking and flirtations with the Far Right - some of these groups began to morph into something more sinister, linking up with extreme right-wingers who carried out acts of false-flag terrorism, harassment of left-wing parties and coups d'état. But was this morphing simply an unforseen consequence of the unaccountability and instability of the network itself? Or was it, at least in part, engineered by the very Anglo-American establishment which gave birth to the project in the first place? And to what extent, therefore, can such acts of terror be seen as manifestations of 'the strategy of tension', carried out by the State against its own citizens for the purposes of control at home and geopolitical gain abroad? [* This week's programme, which was almost ready to be published, has been cancelled at short notice. Our guest, a 9/11 researcher (who currently wishes to remain anonymous), has decided that the conversation—owing to developments in the two weeks since it was recorded—might inadvertently jeopardise efforts to obtain certain information under FOIA request. Not wishing to hinder such efforts, TMR has therefore agreed not to publish. We have been assured, however, that TMR will be among the first to share any significant new findings by way of interviews later in 2018.] (For show notes please visit http://themindrenewed.com)
Monday, Dec. 11th: Terror Attack in New York - A Bangladeshi national's ISIS-inspired attack on the Times Square subway station is botched, as the explosive detonates prematurely. We'll also look at the Alabama senate election set for Tuesday, where Democrat contender Doug Jones takes on embattled Republican Roy Moore, who has received President Trump's support. On today's show, National Security whistleblower Sibel Edmonds discusses the Gulen network's ties to globalist politicians. An Amazon Whistleblower also joins the show to break down slave-like work conditions at the online retail giant. And Breitbart editor Aaron Klein explains why Trump moving the American embassy to Jerusalem represents a campaign promise kept and could bring about lasting peace.
Joe and Clownbaby join the show / Joe has travel problems / Clownbaby medical update / Too much news / Coup in Turkey / Corbett and Sibel Edmonds comment on Turkey / Erdogan fake coup / John Kerry on the move / Missing Helicopters in Turkey / Pennsylvania-based cleric blamed for failed Turkey / Gulen Schools / 9-11 28 Pages Released / Bandar Bush / Trump, Kasich VP rumor / Telepathic Creatures / Alien ManDogs / Milo AKA Nero Kicked off of Twitter / Milo vs Ghostbusters / Why was Milo kicked off of Twitter? / Alex Jones at the RNC / Monster of the Week / ManDog part 2 / Crazy from the Heat / The Whistleblower Calls in from the RNC / Mikes conspiracy and paranormal rundown / Quantum Timeline Collapse / Feeling people stare at you / Human 6th Sense / Observering can create reality / Mystery Booms / Navy Weapon Tests / Headlines / Overwatch SJWs / NWO book sale / Fast and Furious Gun Op in Paris / End / Preshow
Sibel Edmonds is a former translator for the FBI and founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition.
Governor Rick Snyder, State of MichiganDear Gov. Snyder:In 1973, Raymond Gray was convicted of a murder he didn't commit. He is in the 43rd year of a life sentence in a Michigan prison and is up for parole. I've been working on freeing him for the last eight years. The facts are these.Ray Gray was a 21-year-old amateur boxer about to go pro. An artist, he was going to simultaneously attend art school. Then he got framed. His ex-girlfriend fingered him as one of the two hold-up men who murdered a drug dealer.Ray had witnesses to say he was home at the time. It was a bench trial and the judge didn't believe him. Instead, he sentenced him to life. Eight years later, Charles Mathews confessed in an affidavit that he was one of the hold-up men. The second hold-up man, now deceased, was Tyrone Pugh.From day one, Ray has maintained his innocence. I investigated and found everything he said to be true. Since going to prison, Ray has been a model prisoner. A mentor to younger prisoners, he has become a well known and respected artist behind bars.We respectfully request that you commute his sentence.http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/free-ray-grayCall Governor Rick Snyder at 517-373-3400.ed opperman reportThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement
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Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com
Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com
The Mind Renewed : Thinking Christianly in a New World Order
Our guest this week is Swiss historian Dr. Daniele Ganser, author of the seminal book NATO's Secret Armies: Operation GLADIO and Terrorism in Western Europe, who joins us for a fascinating (though at times unsettling) conversation on the subject of Operation GLADIO. Shortly after WWII a Europe-wide network of secret armies was organised under the aegis of NATO, tasked with providing military and intelligence resistance in the event of a feared Soviet invasion. Modelled on the resistance movements of the war years, many of these "stay behind" units remained faithful to their original mandate. But by the early 1960s - under the pressures of anti-communist politicking and flirtations with the Far Right - some of these groups began to morph into something more sinister, linking up with extreme right-wingers who carried out acts of false-flag terrorism, harassment of left-wing parties and coups d'état. But was this morphing simply an unforseen consequence of the unaccountability and instability of the network itself? Or was it, at least in part, engineered by the very Anglo-American establishment which gave birth to the project in the first place? And to what extent, therefore, can such acts of terror be seen as manifestations of 'the strategy of tension', carried out by the State against its own citizens for the purposes of control at home and geopolitical gain abroad? (We also discuss: Operation Northwoods, the so-called War on Terror, 9/11 and the recent Charle Hebdo attacks.) (For show notes please visit http://themindrenewed.com)
The Mind Renewed : Thinking Christianly in a New World Order
Our guest this week is Swiss historian Dr. Daniele Ganser, author of the seminal book NATO's Secret Armies: Operation GLADIO and Terrorism in Western Europe, who joins us for a fascinating (though at times unsettling) conversation on the subject of Operation GLADIO. Shortly after WWII a Europe-wide network of secret armies was organised under the aegis of NATO, tasked with providing military and intelligence resistance in the event of a feared Soviet invasion. Modelled on the resistance movements of the war years, many of these "stay behind" units remained faithful to their original mandate. But by the early 1960s - under the pressures of anti-communist politicking and flirtations with the Far Right - some of these groups began to morph into something more sinister, linking up with extreme right-wingers who carried out acts of false-flag terrorism, harassment of left-wing parties and coups d'état. But was this morphing simply an unforseen consequence of the unaccountability and instability of the network itself? Or was it, at least in part, engineered by the very Anglo-American establishment which gave birth to the project in the first place? And to what extent, therefore, can such acts of terror be seen as manifestations of 'the strategy of tension', carried out by the State against its own citizens for the purposes of control at home and geopolitical gain abroad? (We also discuss: Operation Northwoods, the so-called War on Terror, 9/11 and the recent Charle Hebdo attacks.) (For show notes please visit http://themindrenewed.com)
James Corbett has been living and working in Japan since 2004. He started The Corbett Report website in 2007 as an outlet for independent critical analysis of politics, society, history, and economics. Since then he has written, recorded and edited over 1000 hours of audio and video media for the website, including a weekly podcast and several regular online video series. He produces video reports for GRTV GRTV, the video production arm of the Centre for Research on Globalization, and BoilingFrogsPost.com, the website of noted FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. He is also an editorial writer for The International Forecaster, the weekly e-newsletter created by the recently deceased economic analyst Bob Chapman. His work has been carried online by a wide variety of websites, his video productions are broadcast on the Next News Network in the US, and his videos have garnered over 15,000,000 views on YouTube alone. His satirical piece on the discrepancies in the official account of September 11th, “9/11: A Conspiracy Theory” was posted to the web on September 11, 2011 and has so far been viewed over 2 million times. For more info: The Corbett Report Host: John Gibbons (www.djjohngibbons.com) Music: Fleetwood Mac - Little Lies Contact: alchemy@clubeducate.net Website: www.alchemyradio.net Twitter: www.twitter.com/alchemyradio Facebook: www.facebook.com/alchemyradio.net
Another fun and news filled podcast! Tila Tequila, Sibel Edmonds, Paypal, Steven Colbert, Chem-Trails, Googlebots, Boston Dynamics, telemarketing, and of course the Federal Reserve's birthday, are discussed.
Right-click on the "pod" icon to download this episode. Peace Revolution episode 071: The Law of Identity vs. the Monopoly of Force Notes, References, and Links for further study: Tragedy and Hope dot com Invitation to the Tragedy and Hope online community (link expires monthly) Log in page for the Tragedy and Hope online community Peace Revolution primary site (2009-2012)* Peace Revolution backup stream (2006-2012)* Includes the 9/11 Synchronicity Podcast (predecessor to Peace Revolution) *These 2 podcasts amount to 500+ hours of commercial-free educational content, which formulate a comprehensive and conscious curriculum. Reference Map to Episode 071: (0m-9m) Sibel Edmonds explains who's at the Top of the Pyramid with James Corbett (Video) “Light from Darkness” by City of the Fallen (film trailer music company) “All about the Benjamins” (Instrumental Version), Original Version (9m-20m) Richard Grove interviewed by Abby Martin on RT's “Breaking the Set” (Russia Today) (20m-33m) Richard Grove interviewed by Gary Franchi on WHDT & Next News Network (33m-41m) Richard's introductory monologue (41m-2h14m) History… Debate: Stefan Molyneux vs. Tom Willcutts (Is Government fundamentally Immoral?) (2h14m-3h14m) None Dare Call it Conspiracy by Gary Allen (3h14m-4h15m) The Rothschilds: The World's First Trillion Dollar Family (4h15m-6h27m) An Introduction to the Law of Identity and the Axioms from which one derives Freedom WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE? CHECK OUT "THE ULTIMATE HISTORY LESSON: A WEEKEND WITH JOHN TAYLOR GATTO"! Subtitled: A 5-hour journey examining the history, root-causes, and consequences of public schooling The Ultimate History Lesson comes in many forms and formats, click this photo to visit the UHL store catalog.[/caption] Publication Date: 2012 RESEARCH BONUS PACK: YOU RECEIVE FREE DVDs BY ADDING COUPON CODE TO "NOTE TO SELLER" USA PURCHASES (SEE BELOW FOR OTHER COUNTRIES) UHL Format Choices: DVD: 4 Disc UHL $55.00 USDBlu Ray: 1 Disc HD UHL $55.00 USDMP3: 1 Disc 15 hour audio UHL $15.00 USDe-Transcript with References $5.00 USD CANADIAN PURCHASES: UHL Format Choices: DVD: 4 Disc UHL $55.00 USDBlu Ray: 1 Disc HD UHL $55.00 USDMP3: 1 Disc 15 hour audio UHL $15.00 USD UK, EUROPE, ASIA, & ALL OTHER COUNTRIES USE THIS LINK TO PURCHASE: UHL Format Choices: DVD: 4 Disc UHL $55.00 USDBlu Ray: 1 Disc HD UHL $55.00 USDMP3: 1 Disc 15 hour audio UHL $15.00 USD Alternatively, you can also find The Ultimate History Lesson listed on Amazon.com.
Click here to download this episode, or use the download link at the bottom of the notes for this episode.Peace Revolution episode 071: The Law of Identity vs. the Monopoly of ForceNotes, References, and Links for further study:Tragedy and Hope dot comInvitation to the Tragedy and Hope online community (link expires monthly)Log in page for the Tragedy and Hope online communityPeace Revolution primary site (2009-2012)*Peace Revolution backup stream (2006-2012)*Includes the 9/11 Synchronicity Podcast (predecessor to Peace Revolution)*These 2 podcasts amount to 500+ hours of commercial-free educational content, which formulate a comprehensive and conscious curriculum.Reference Map to Episode 071:(0m-9m) Sibel Edmonds explains who's at the Top of the Pyramid with James Corbett (Video)“Light from Darkness” by City of the Fallen (film trailer music company)“All about the Benjamins” (Instrumental Version), Original Version(9m-20m) Richard Grove interviewed by Abby Martin on RT's “Breaking the Set” (Russia Today)(20m-33m) Richard Grove interviewed by Gary Franchi on WHDT & Next News Network(33m-41m) Richard's introductory monologue(41m-2h14m) History… Debate: Stefan Molyneux vs. Tom Willcutts (Is Government fundamentally Immoral?)(2h14m-3h14m) None Dare Call it Conspiracy by Gary Allen(3h14m-4h15m) The Rothschilds: The World's First Trillion Dollar Family(4h15m-6h27m) An Introduction to the Law of Identity and the Axioms from which one derives Freedom WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE?CHECK OUT "THE ULTIMATE HISTORY LESSON: A WEEKEND WITH JOHN TAYLOR GATTO"!Subtitled: A 5-hour journey examining the history, root-causes, and consequences of public schoolingAlternatively, you can also find The Ultimate History Lesson listed on Amazon.com.
Nicole speaks with FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, author of "Classified Woman", John Fugelsang, and about Fast & Furious. Plus, she reminisces about Mark & Brian in LA radio
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(on Wikipedia) uTorrent (software to create and download torrent files) Reference Map to Episode 057: (minutes 0-10min) Richard's introductory monologue (minutes 10-55) T&H Hosts Corbett Report Radio (week 2), featuring Tony Myers and Brett Veinotte / Topic: Hegel the Individual Brett's site: http://schoolsucks.podomatic.com Brett's LIVE Show (Thurs. 10pm Eastern Time): http://edu-lu-tion.com/live (minutes 55-1h52m) Infowars Nightly News: “The Government is Raping You” an Interview with FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds conducted by Alex Jones (on YouTube) (1h52m-4h51m) Mae Brussell 1979 / Chronology: How the Past Affects Our Future (on YouTube) (4h51m-6h13m) School Sucks Podcast episode 143: Logic Saves Lives part 1: Foundation, Attitudes, and Values featuring Wes Bertrand of the Complete Liberty Podcast Wes Bertand (on Amazon): “The Philosophy of Liberty” (2001) (END) References & Notes for Corbett Report Radio: Hegel the Individual Introduction 5 W's Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (Who) German Philosopher (What and Where) August 27, 1770 – November 14, 1831 (When) “I believe that in the course of my own development as a philosopher, I have recapitulated and give expression to the “autobiography” of the Absolute.” (Why) Historical Context Timeline of released works: The Phenomenology of Mind (1807) The Science of Logic (1812) Philosophy of Right (1821) Logic: Part One -Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences(1830) Philosophy of Nature: Part Two -Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1817) Philosophy of Mind: Part Three -Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1830) Lectures on the History of Philosophy (1833) – selections The Philosophy of History: Introduction (1837) Outlines of the Phenomenology (1840) Outlines of the Logic(1840) Sourced: http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/hege.htm www.class.uidaho.edu/mickelsen/hegel310.htm http://www.tebyan.net/Events_History/Historical_Figures/2003/8/23/25587.html Hegel's Influences Friedrich Hölderlin Idealization of Greeks – Poetry as rift between Religion and Reason Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Jean-Jacques Rousseau Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Friedrich Schiller French Revolution Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason, Practical Reason, and Judgment Critique of Pure Reason asked posited the questions: How do we know what we know? How is knowledge possible? What can we know? What can we never expect to know? Kantian limits to reason and knowledge Kant believed that he had demonstrated that we can only know the world as it appears to us, and is experienced by us – not as it is “in itself”. Kant had not only provided a foundation for knowledge, he had at the same time also set limits to it. – Source: Introduction Hegel by Lloyd Spencer and Andrzej Krauze The Transcendent Responses to Kant's Critiques Johann Gottlieb Fichte Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel All sought to rectify subjective vs. objective knowledge Enlightenment vs. Post Enlightenment Thought Kant attacked metaphysics and sought to create an inseparable barrier between Faith and Reason. Schelling and Hegel are Lutherans that ascribed to “inner freedom”. And the French Revolution externalized that “inner freedom”. German Idealism post Kant and the Enlightenment Meaning of Idealism - The word "idealism" has more than one meaning. The philosophical meaning of idealism here is that the properties we discover in objects depend on the way that those objects appear to us as perceiving subjects, and not something they possess "in themselves," apart from our experience of them. The very notion of a "thing in itself" should be understood as an option of a set of functions for an operating mind, such that we consider something that appears without respect to the specific manner in which it appears. The question of what properties a thing might have "independently of the mind" is thus incoherent for Idealism[citation needed][clarification needed]. Central theme – the universe as a coherent whole and the role freedom plays in that conception Differences in formulating an underlying principle to Kant's work Spinoza – Sought to show mind and matter as the same basic substance Schelling – The absolute as a “neutral identity” that underlies both the subject and the object Fichte – Philosophical system needs to be based on a single underlying principle – Absolute Subjectivity – i.e. All reality is a subjective (mind) whole Hegel – The Phenomenology of Spirit Absolute Idealism – “Hegel. It is Hegel's account of how being is ultimately comprehensible as an all-inclusive whole. Hegel asserted that in order for the thinking subject (human reason or consciousness) to be able to know its object (the world) at all, there must be in some sense an identity of thought and being. Otherwise, the subject would never have access to the object and we would have no certainty about any of our knowledge of the world. To account for the differences between thought and being, however, as well as the richness and diversity of each, the unity of thought and being cannot be expressed as the abstract identity "A=A". Absolute idealism is the attempt to demonstrate this unity using a new "speculative" philosophical method, which requires new concepts and rules of logic. According to Hegel, the absolute ground of being is essentially a dynamic, historical process of necessity that unfolds by itself in the form of increasingly complex forms of being and of consciousness, ultimately giving rise to all the diversity in the world and in the concepts with which we think and make sense of the world. Master-slave dialectic - The passage describes, in narrative form, the development of self-consciousness as such in an encounter between what are thereby (i.e., emerging only from this encounter) two distinct, self-conscious beings; the essence of the dialectic is the movement or motion of recognizing, in which the two self-consciousnesses are constituted each in being recognized as self-conscious by the other. This movement, inexorably taken to its extreme, takes the form of a "struggle to the death" in which one masters the other, only to find that such lordship makes the very recognition he had sought impossible, since the bondsman, in this state, is not free to offer it.It is a story or myth created by Hegel in order to explain his idea of how self-consciousness dialectically sublates into what he variously refers to as Absolute Knowledge, Spirit, and Science. As a work the Phenomenology may be considered both as an independent work, apparently considered by Hegel to be an a priori for understanding the Science of Logic, and as a part of the Science of Logic, where absolute knowledge is explained. History as Self-Realization – Patterns where the parts fit the whole, a fractal A pattern of subjective awareness of the pattern towards freedom, both intrinsically and extrinsically. The Hegelian Dialectic Attempted to create a new system of logic that would supplant Aristotle's deduction syllogism Dialectical Thinking – Hegelian dialectic The concept of dialectics was given new life by Hegel (following Fichte), whose dialectically dynamic model of nature and of history made it, as it were, a fundamental aspect of the nature of reality (instead of regarding the contradictions into which dialectics leads as a sign of the sterility of the dialectical method, as Kant tended to do in his Critique of Pure Reason).[26][27] In the mid-19th century, the concept of "dialectic" was appropriated by Marx (see, for example, Das Kapital, published in 1867) and Engels and retooled in a non-idealist manner, becoming a crucial notion in their philosophy of dialectical materialism. Thus this concept has played a prominent role on the world stage and in world history. In contemporary polemics, "dialectics" may also refer to an understanding of how we can or should perceive the world (epistemology); an assertion that the nature of the world outside one's perception is interconnected, contradictory, and dynamic (ontology); or it can refer to a method of presentation of ideas and conclusions (discourse). According to Hegel, "dialectic" is the method by which human history unfolds; that is to say, history progresses as a dialectical process. Hegelian dialectic, usually presented in a threefold manner, was stated by Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus as comprising three dialectical stages of development: a thesis, giving rise to its reaction, an antithesis, which contradicts or negates the thesis, and the tension between the two being resolved by means of a synthesis. Although this model is often named after Hegel, he himself never used that specific formulation. Hegel ascribed that terminology to Kant.[28] Carrying on Kant's work, Fichte greatly elaborated on the synthesis model, and popularized it. On the other hand, Hegel did use a three-valued logical model that is very similar to the antithesis model, but Hegel's most usual terms were: Abstract-Negative-Concrete. Hegel used this writing model as a backbone to accompany his points in many of his works. The formula, Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis, does not explain why the Thesis requires an Antithesis. However, the formula, Abstract-Negative-Concrete, suggests a flaw in any initial thesis—it is too abstract and lacks the negative of trial, error and experience. For Hegel, the Concrete, the Synthesis, the Absolute, must always pass through the phase of the Negative, that is, Mediation. This is the actual essence of what is popularly called Hegelian Dialectics. To describe the activity of overcoming the negative, Hegel also often used the term Aufhebung, variously translated into English as "sublation" or "overcoming," to conceive of the working of the dialectic. Roughly, the term indicates preserving the useful portion of an idea, thing, society, etc., while moving beyond its limitations. (Jacques Derrida's preferred French translation of the term was relever).[29] In the Logic, for instance, Hegel describes a dialectic of existence: first, existence must be posited as pure Being (Sein); but pure Being, upon examination, is found to be indistinguishable from Nothing (Nichts). When it is realized that what is coming into being is, at the same time, also returning to nothing (in life, for example, one's living is also a dying), both Being and Nothing are united as Becoming.[30] As in the Socratic dialectic, Hegel claimed to proceed by making implicit contradictions explicit: each stage of the process is the product of contradictions inherent or implicit in the preceding stage. For Hegel, the whole of history is one tremendous dialectic, major stages of which chart a progression from self-alienation as slavery to self-unification and realization as the rational, constitutional state of free and equal citizens. The Hegelian dialectic cannot be mechanically applied for any chosen thesis. Critics argue that the selection of any antithesis, other than the logical negation of the thesis, is subjective. Then, if the logical negation is used as the antithesis, there is no rigorous way to derive a synthesis. In practice, when an antithesis is selected to suit the user's subjective purpose, the resulting "contradictions" are rhetorical, not logical, and the resulting synthesis is not rigorously defensible against a multitude of other possible syntheses. The problem with the Fichtean "Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis" model is that it implies that contradictions or negations come from outside of things. Hegel's point is that they are inherent in and internal to things. This conception of dialectics derives ultimately from Heraclitus.Hegel has outlined that the purpose of dialectics is "to study things in their own being and movement and thus to demonstrate the finitude of the partial categories of understanding"[31] Sublation – Aristotle's law of identity, particular self-identities in deductive patterns – Hegel sought to dissolve the static view in favor of a movement towards the whole The whole is fractal in nature; i.e. it preserves what it overcomes. Therefore, it preserves contradictions as a movement towards a synthesis. Quantum Theory, Postmodern Cosmology, Chaos Theory, Computer Interfacing, and Ecology, as well as Cybernetics, ascribe to parts fitting into a whole. Sublation is the term that signifies the contradiction of overcoming and at the same time preserving that which it overcomes. Negation - Hegel calls this dynamic aspect of his thinking the power of "negation". It is by means of this "negativity" of thought that the static (or habitual) becomes discarded or dissolved, made fluid and adaptable, and recovers its eagerness to push on towards "the whole". Source: Introduction Hegel by Lloyd Spencer and Andrzej Krauze Dialectical thinking derives its dynamic of negation from its ability to reveal "contradictions" within almost any category or identity. Hegel's "contradiction" does not simply mean a mechanical denial or opposition. Indeed, he challenges the classical notion of static self-identity, A = A, or A not= non-A. By negation or contradiction, Hegel means a wide variety of relations difference, opposition, reflection or relation. It can indicate the mere insufficiency of a category or its incoherence. Most dramatically, categories are sometimes shown to be self-contradictory. Three Kinds of Contradiction Being – Nothing / Quantity – Quality Essence – Inner and Outer, Intrinsic and Extrinsic, Implicit and Explicit Concept – Particularity and Universality, out of which, abstractly, we see the opposed principles produces a synthesis called Individuality Thesis – Antithesis – Synthesis Thesis – A thought affirmed which on reflection proves itself unsatisfactory, incomplete or contradictory… Antithesis – Which propels the affirmation of its negation, the anti-thesis, which also on reflection proves inadequate… Synthesis – and so is again negated Kant's Dialectic vs. Hegel's Dialectic Kant's dialectic logic of transcendent noumena “things in themselves”, which operates independently of experience Hegel's view contrary to Kant's transcendent is that of reality as a totality which gives true knowledge Absolute Knowledge - Knowing, for Hegel, is something you do. It is an act. But it is also presence of mind. Hegel seems to hold out the vision, even the experience, of thinking as self-presence. Of being present to, or with, oneself of being fully self-possessed, self-aware. Of self-consciousness as a huge cosmic accomplishment. Source: Introduction Hegel by Lloyd Spencer and Andrzej Krauze Reading Hegel gives one a sense that the movement of thought will coincide with a vision of harmony that awaits us at the end of the whole process. Every serious reader of Hegel can bear witness to the intoxication of such moments. Absolute Knowledge, in the form of the complete self-consciousness and self-possession of spirit, is only available at the end-point of the think process. But there is no distinction possible between the driving energy of thought and this sense of harmony and fulfilment in the whole. It is ultimately the universal which has the upper hand. As Hegel's Logic puts it ... Everything depends on the "identity of identity and non-identity". In philosophy, the latest birth of time is the result of all the systems that have preceded it, and must include their principles: and so, if, on other grounds, it deserves the title of philosophy, it will be the fullest, most comprehensive, and most adequate system of all. Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Outline Logic Philosophy of Nature Philosophy of Mind Philosophy of Right Moral Subjectivism Lectures on the Philosophy of World History Lectures on Aesthetics (or the Philosophy of Art) Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion Lectures on the History of Philosophy According to Hegel, the will is essentially free. This distinguishes us from the animals: having purposes and striving deliberately to achieve them. To possess a will means wanting to be free and therefore, to some extene, already being so, But only abstractly. The realization of freedom – its becoming actual – is as much social as personal. Source: Introduction Hegel by Lloyd Spencer and Andrzej Krauze The Philosophy of History - Source: Introduction Hegel by Lloyd Spencer and Andrzej Krauze History as showing a pattern, the logic conveys an idea, and that idea for Hegel is freedom. “So progress in the unfolding of spirit toward freedom is progress in liberation from subjection to nature”. - Hegel The unfolding of spirit, or freedom, in stages. The Three Stages of Freedom - Source: Introduction Hegel by Lloyd Spencer and Andrzej Krauze Stage One – the ancient Orient – only one (the ruler) is free. Stage Two – classical Antiquity – some (but not slaves) are free. Stage Three – the Christian-Germanic epoch – begins with the realization that all should be free, or, as Hegel puts it, that “man as man is free.” Arriving at the French Revolution and the Enlightenment (Illuminati?) Philosophies Post Hegel Positivism Existentialism Nihilism Marxism – Property is not something natural for Hegel, but founded on convention. 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(on Wikipedia) uTorrent (software to create and download torrent files) Reference Map to Episode 057: (minutes 0-10min) Richard's introductory monologue (minutes 10-55) T&H Hosts Corbett Report Radio (week 2), featuring Tony Myers and Brett Veinotte / Topic: Hegel the Individual Brett's site: http://schoolsucks.podomatic.com Brett's LIVE Show (Thurs. 10pm Eastern Time): http://edu-lu-tion.com/live (minutes 55-1h52m) Infowars Nightly News: “The Government is Raping You” an Interview with FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds conducted by Alex Jones (on YouTube) (1h52m-4h51m) Mae Brussell 1979 / Chronology: How the Past Affects Our Future (on YouTube) (4h51m-6h13m) School Sucks Podcast episode 143: Logic Saves Lives part 1: Foundation, Attitudes, and Values featuring Wes Bertrand of the Complete Liberty Podcast Wes Bertand (on Amazon): “The Philosophy of Liberty” (2001) (END) References & Notes for Corbett Report Radio: Hegel the Individual Introduction 5 W's Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (Who) German Philosopher (What and Where) August 27, 1770 – November 14, 1831 (When) “I believe that in the course of my own development as a philosopher, I have recapitulated and give expression to the “autobiography” of the Absolute.” (Why) Historical Context Timeline of released works: The Phenomenology of Mind (1807) The Science of Logic (1812) Philosophy of Right (1821) Logic: Part One -Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences(1830) Philosophy of Nature: Part Two -Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1817) Philosophy of Mind: Part Three -Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1830) Lectures on the History of Philosophy (1833) – selections The Philosophy of History: Introduction (1837) Outlines of the Phenomenology (1840) Outlines of the Logic(1840) Sourced: http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/hege.htm www.class.uidaho.edu/mickelsen/hegel310.htm http://www.tebyan.net/Events_History/Historical_Figures/2003/8/23/25587.html Hegel's Influences Friedrich Hölderlin Idealization of Greeks – Poetry as rift between Religion and Reason Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Jean-Jacques Rousseau Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Friedrich Schiller French Revolution Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason, Practical Reason, and Judgment Critique of Pure Reason asked posited the questions: How do we know what we know? How is knowledge possible? What can we know? What can we never expect to know? Kantian limits to reason and knowledge Kant believed that he had demonstrated that we can only know the world as it appears to us, and is experienced by us – not as it is “in itself”. Kant had not only provided a foundation for knowledge, he had at the same time also set limits to it. – Source: Introduction Hegel by Lloyd Spencer and Andrzej Krauze The Transcendent Responses to Kant's Critiques Johann Gottlieb Fichte Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel All sought to rectify subjective vs. objective knowledge Enlightenment vs. Post Enlightenment Thought Kant attacked metaphysics and sought to create an inseparable barrier between Faith and Reason. Schelling and Hegel are Lutherans that ascribed to “inner freedom”. And the French Revolution externalized that “inner freedom”. German Idealism post Kant and the Enlightenment Meaning of Idealism - The word "idealism" has more than one meaning. The philosophical meaning of idealism here is that the properties we discover in objects depend on the way that those objects appear to us as perceiving subjects, and not something they possess "in themselves," apart from our experience of them. The very notion of a "thing in itself" should be understood as an option of a set of functions for an operating mind, such that we consider something that appears without respect to the specific manner in which it appears. The question of what properties a thing might have "independently of the mind" is thus incoherent for Idealism[citation needed][clarification needed]. Central theme – the universe as a coherent whole and the role freedom plays in that conception Differences in formulating an underlying principle to Kant's work Spinoza – Sought to show mind and matter as the same basic substance Schelling – The absolute as a “neutral identity” that underlies both the subject and the object Fichte – Philosophical system needs to be based on a single underlying principle – Absolute Subjectivity – i.e. All reality is a subjective (mind) whole Hegel – The Phenomenology of Spirit Absolute Idealism – “Hegel. It is Hegel's account of how being is ultimately comprehensible as an all-inclusive whole. Hegel asserted that in order for the thinking subject (human reason or consciousness) to be able to know its object (the world) at all, there must be in some sense an identity of thought and being. Otherwise, the subject would never have access to the object and we would have no certainty about any of our knowledge of the world. To account for the differences between thought and being, however, as well as the richness and diversity of each, the unity of thought and being cannot be expressed as the abstract identity "A=A". Absolute idealism is the attempt to demonstrate this unity using a new "speculative" philosophical method, which requires new concepts and rules of logic. According to Hegel, the absolute ground of being is essentially a dynamic, historical process of necessity that unfolds by itself in the form of increasingly complex forms of being and of consciousness, ultimately giving rise to all the diversity in the world and in the concepts with which we think and make sense of the world. Master-slave dialectic - The passage describes, in narrative form, the development of self-consciousness as such in an encounter between what are thereby (i.e., emerging only from this encounter) two distinct, self-conscious beings; the essence of the dialectic is the movement or motion of recognizing, in which the two self-consciousnesses are constituted each in being recognized as self-conscious by the other. This movement, inexorably taken to its extreme, takes the form of a "struggle to the death" in which one masters the other, only to find that such lordship makes the very recognition he had sought impossible, since the bondsman, in this state, is not free to offer it.It is a story or myth created by Hegel in order to explain his idea of how self-consciousness dialectically sublates into what he variously refers to as Absolute Knowledge, Spirit, and Science. As a work the Phenomenology may be considered both as an independent work, apparently considered by Hegel to be an a priori for understanding the Science of Logic, and as a part of the Science of Logic, where absolute knowledge is explained. History as Self-Realization – Patterns where the parts fit the whole, a fractal A pattern of subjective awareness of the pattern towards freedom, both intrinsically and extrinsically. The Hegelian Dialectic Attempted to create a new system of logic that would supplant Aristotle's deduction syllogism Dialectical Thinking – Hegelian dialectic The concept of dialectics was given new life by Hegel (following Fichte), whose dialectically dynamic model of nature and of history made it, as it were, a fundamental aspect of the nature of reality (instead of regarding the contradictions into which dialectics leads as a sign of the sterility of the dialectical method, as Kant tended to do in his Critique of Pure Reason).[26][27] In the mid-19th century, the concept of "dialectic" was appropriated by Marx (see, for example, Das Kapital, published in 1867) and Engels and retooled in a non-idealist manner, becoming a crucial notion in their philosophy of dialectical materialism. Thus this concept has played a prominent role on the world stage and in world history. In contemporary polemics, "dialectics" may also refer to an understanding of how we can or should perceive the world (epistemology); an assertion that the nature of the world outside one's perception is interconnected, contradictory, and dynamic (ontology); or it can refer to a method of presentation of ideas and conclusions (discourse). According to Hegel, "dialectic" is the method by which human history unfolds; that is to say, history progresses as a dialectical process. Hegelian dialectic, usually presented in a threefold manner, was stated by Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus as comprising three dialectical stages of development: a thesis, giving rise to its reaction, an antithesis, which contradicts or negates the thesis, and the tension between the two being resolved by means of a synthesis. Although this model is often named after Hegel, he himself never used that specific formulation. Hegel ascribed that terminology to Kant.[28] Carrying on Kant's work, Fichte greatly elaborated on the synthesis model, and popularized it. On the other hand, Hegel did use a three-valued logical model that is very similar to the antithesis model, but Hegel's most usual terms were: Abstract-Negative-Concrete. Hegel used this writing model as a backbone to accompany his points in many of his works. The formula, Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis, does not explain why the Thesis requires an Antithesis. However, the formula, Abstract-Negative-Concrete, suggests a flaw in any initial thesis—it is too abstract and lacks the negative of trial, error and experience. For Hegel, the Concrete, the Synthesis, the Absolute, must always pass through the phase of the Negative, that is, Mediation. This is the actual essence of what is popularly called Hegelian Dialectics. To describe the activity of overcoming the negative, Hegel also often used the term Aufhebung, variously translated into English as "sublation" or "overcoming," to conceive of the working of the dialectic. Roughly, the term indicates preserving the useful portion of an idea, thing, society, etc., while moving beyond its limitations. (Jacques Derrida's preferred French translation of the term was relever).[29] In the Logic, for instance, Hegel describes a dialectic of existence: first, existence must be posited as pure Being (Sein); but pure Being, upon examination, is found to be indistinguishable from Nothing (Nichts). When it is realized that what is coming into being is, at the same time, also returning to nothing (in life, for example, one's living is also a dying), both Being and Nothing are united as Becoming.[30] As in the Socratic dialectic, Hegel claimed to proceed by making implicit contradictions explicit: each stage of the process is the product of contradictions inherent or implicit in the preceding stage. For Hegel, the whole of history is one tremendous dialectic, major stages of which chart a progression from self-alienation as slavery to self-unification and realization as the rational, constitutional state of free and equal citizens. The Hegelian dialectic cannot be mechanically applied for any chosen thesis. Critics argue that the selection of any antithesis, other than the logical negation of the thesis, is subjective. Then, if the logical negation is used as the antithesis, there is no rigorous way to derive a synthesis. In practice, when an antithesis is selected to suit the user's subjective purpose, the resulting "contradictions" are rhetorical, not logical, and the resulting synthesis is not rigorously defensible against a multitude of other possible syntheses. The problem with the Fichtean "Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis" model is that it implies that contradictions or negations come from outside of things. Hegel's point is that they are inherent in and internal to things. This conception of dialectics derives ultimately from Heraclitus.Hegel has outlined that the purpose of dialectics is "to study things in their own being and movement and thus to demonstrate the finitude of the partial categories of understanding"[31] Sublation – Aristotle's law of identity, particular self-identities in deductive patterns – Hegel sought to dissolve the static view in favor of a movement towards the whole The whole is fractal in nature; i.e. it preserves what it overcomes. Therefore, it preserves contradictions as a movement towards a synthesis. Quantum Theory, Postmodern Cosmology, Chaos Theory, Computer Interfacing, and Ecology, as well as Cybernetics, ascribe to parts fitting into a whole. Sublation is the term that signifies the contradiction of overcoming and at the same time preserving that which it overcomes. Negation - Hegel calls this dynamic aspect of his thinking the power of "negation". It is by means of this "negativity" of thought that the static (or habitual) becomes discarded or dissolved, made fluid and adaptable, and recovers its eagerness to push on towards "the whole". Source: Introduction Hegel by Lloyd Spencer and Andrzej Krauze Dialectical thinking derives its dynamic of negation from its ability to reveal "contradictions" within almost any category or identity. Hegel's "contradiction" does not simply mean a mechanical denial or opposition. Indeed, he challenges the classical notion of static self-identity, A = A, or A not= non-A. By negation or contradiction, Hegel means a wide variety of relations difference, opposition, reflection or relation. It can indicate the mere insufficiency of a category or its incoherence. Most dramatically, categories are sometimes shown to be self-contradictory. Three Kinds of Contradiction Being – Nothing / Quantity – Quality Essence – Inner and Outer, Intrinsic and Extrinsic, Implicit and Explicit Concept – Particularity and Universality, out of which, abstractly, we see the opposed principles produces a synthesis called Individuality Thesis – Antithesis – Synthesis Thesis – A thought affirmed which on reflection proves itself unsatisfactory, incomplete or contradictory… Antithesis – Which propels the affirmation of its negation, the anti-thesis, which also on reflection proves inadequate… Synthesis – and so is again negated Kant's Dialectic vs. Hegel's Dialectic Kant's dialectic logic of transcendent noumena “things in themselves”, which operates independently of experience Hegel's view contrary to Kant's transcendent is that of reality as a totality which gives true knowledge Absolute Knowledge - Knowing, for Hegel, is something you do. It is an act. But it is also presence of mind. Hegel seems to hold out the vision, even the experience, of thinking as self-presence. Of being present to, or with, oneself of being fully self-possessed, self-aware. Of self-consciousness as a huge cosmic accomplishment. Source: Introduction Hegel by Lloyd Spencer and Andrzej Krauze Reading Hegel gives one a sense that the movement of thought will coincide with a vision of harmony that awaits us at the end of the whole process. Every serious reader of Hegel can bear witness to the intoxication of such moments. Absolute Knowledge, in the form of the complete self-consciousness and self-possession of spirit, is only available at the end-point of the think process. But there is no distinction possible between the driving energy of thought and this sense of harmony and fulfilment in the whole. It is ultimately the universal which has the upper hand. As Hegel's Logic puts it ... Everything depends on the "identity of identity and non-identity". In philosophy, the latest birth of time is the result of all the systems that have preceded it, and must include their principles: and so, if, on other grounds, it deserves the title of philosophy, it will be the fullest, most comprehensive, and most adequate system of all. Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Outline Logic Philosophy of Nature Philosophy of Mind Philosophy of Right Moral Subjectivism Lectures on the Philosophy of World History Lectures on Aesthetics (or the Philosophy of Art) Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion Lectures on the History of Philosophy According to Hegel, the will is essentially free. This distinguishes us from the animals: having purposes and striving deliberately to achieve them. To possess a will means wanting to be free and therefore, to some extene, already being so, But only abstractly. The realization of freedom – its becoming actual – is as much social as personal. Source: Introduction Hegel by Lloyd Spencer and Andrzej Krauze The Philosophy of History - Source: Introduction Hegel by Lloyd Spencer and Andrzej Krauze History as showing a pattern, the logic conveys an idea, and that idea for Hegel is freedom. “So progress in the unfolding of spirit toward freedom is progress in liberation from subjection to nature”. - Hegel The unfolding of spirit, or freedom, in stages. The Three Stages of Freedom - Source: Introduction Hegel by Lloyd Spencer and Andrzej Krauze Stage One – the ancient Orient – only one (the ruler) is free. Stage Two – classical Antiquity – some (but not slaves) are free. Stage Three – the Christian-Germanic epoch – begins with the realization that all should be free, or, as Hegel puts it, that “man as man is free.” Arriving at the French Revolution and the Enlightenment (Illuminati?) Philosophies Post Hegel Positivism Existentialism Nihilism Marxism – Property is not something natural for Hegel, but founded on convention. 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