Dispositions on Being

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🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 124 What is the true nature of Being? That's one of those "big" questions that we probably cannot answer. Related to it is another huge question: how should we be disposed toward the fact of Being? That's a fundamentally religious, or even pre-religious, question, and it's important to answer. While we may not know the true nature of Being itself, of all of existence, we can say something about the mood of our relationship to it. In this philosophical episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay explores four essential dispositions toward being: the Prison of Being, the Tragedy of Being, the Comedy of Being, and the Miracle of Being. Join him to understand these views and what they mean, particularly in light of the Gnostic and Hermetic esoteric religions lurking within Woke Marxism. Get James Lindsay's new book, The Marxification of Education: https://amzn.to/3RYZ0tY Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Follow New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2023 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #NewDiscourses #JamesLindsay #being

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, this is James Lindsay and we're listening to the new Discourses podcast.
0:25.4	This episode I think is going to be a little bit different.
0:27.5	I was walking around in the airport the other day and I got a message from somebody and
0:35.0	obviously I've put a lot of information out about this concept of gnosticism and its
0:39.1	relevance to Marxism and woke and also the related concept which is gnostic in a broader
0:45.4	sense of the hermetic transformational ancient mystery religion or esoteric religion and
0:53.0	its relevance through Hegel and Marx and so on historically the form what we understand
0:58.1	is woke and when we look at the 17 sustainable development goals to transform our world,
1:03.9	we hear that language, we hear those ideas, we hear the idea that certain people are going
1:09.6	to be able to set themselves up and direct how the world is meant to develop and they're
1:15.2	going to transform our world into what it was apparently supposed to be or what it could
1:20.8	be or what it should be.
1:24.0	And I got thinking about this phrase that I came across in the message that somebody sent
1:28.6	me about the tragedy of being and I'm walking back and forth in the airport kind of killing
1:34.4	a little bit of time, getting a little bit of like halfway pretend exercise on my travel
1:41.4	schedule and I'm thinking about this phrase the tragedy of being and what made me think
1:47.7	about it is the fact that yes the tragedy of being is in fact kind of like the gnostic
1:54.6	impulse.
1:55.6	They see the fact of existence itself as a tragedy but then at the same time I had a
2:01.8	little bit of dissonance that made me hang on those words because that's not actually
2:06.2	how gnostics view the world, gnostics view being as a prison which is not the same as
2:13.3	a tragedy.
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