Followup to part 1, which now has a transcript!

As is tradition, I am posting this link without having listened to it. (too many podcasts)

  • Sean
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    109 months ago

    @skillissuer @swlabr To judge from the pod’s summary, it’s specifically *classically liberal philosophers* who lead the rest of the elites to virtue, with the masses following after

    • Sean
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      139 months ago

      @skillissuer @swlabr Which might be why he’s so comfortable dismissing every current area of ethical contention: the proponents for change are mainly not classically liberal philosophers, the font of every blessing. Betterment doesn’t come from vehemence and demonstration and action, nor from injured parties asserting their own humanity. It comes from a disinterested nerd writing a treatise, followed by comfortably slow and unconscious improvement over the next two to twenty generations

      • @froztbyte
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        59 months ago

        “A hope for progress based on the desire to really be considered to have been a great thonker in, like, 3 centuries” (and thonker there isn’t a typo)