You’d Be Surprised How Closed-Minded You Are | Jacques Derrida

Everyone Clicking This Video: Not me, obviously ☺

Something that I like to say-further that I've not thought of a reason for this-is that the ambiguity of how we perceive ideas, how we view the world where no such one-sided way of life is 100% correct; it brings me comfort. Maybe I just don't like to adhere to one idea because I believe there is novelty in knowing what others have to say.
I think of this like there is some masterful piece of art on display. I look at it and think "huh, neat." But other people likewise have their own reactions to that art; some passionate on how the art is made in it's smallest details, others moved and grieved on how this art represented the very object and pain of what they've been through. I think it's just all interesting. And thus, I wonder about other's comments in a video essay like this, seeing what story, additions, rebuttals or simply comedic things they have to say. I wonder about how people are gonna feel about this little comment some other guy with thoughts yapped on.
Thank you for your curiosity if you read this far, and I hope to see your own opinions as well!
(edited to fix grammar and add more to my comment)

Learned so much in the first few minutes. Example, I always thought that Cambridge University was in Cambridge, England not Boston, Massachusetts. Derrida must have taught them a non-binary approach to this!

So, Derrida destroys the greatest contribution of Western thinking on assuming a truth behind appearances. That contribution then helps to build our civilization, only to be destroyed because people can't see that truth behind appearances and become blind by the appearances. So, then, after years on living on appearances, once again, it becomes obvious that truth exists and we cannot live without it (at least, not on a societal level of complexity like ours).

The philosophy of wishy washy-ness where you can't tell up from down!

This is exactly what I taught now 18 year old daughter growing up and still do. One of many things I teach her of course. This one is listen to the both sides . Those who are against a topic will do a great deal of research of negatives for you about the other topic and vica versa. By listening to both sides saying negatives and positives and using your own eyes and morale you can see the truth

PLEASE, do not use the word "liberalism" for the USAmerican left.
Liberalism is a set of ideas that has very little to do with wokeness.
This way of using the word "liberalism" is fairly limited to the US.
If you are going to use "liberal" for "woke", please, state so for every instance of the word,
OR state clearly that the video is solely for 'Murricans.

aint no one side

gay juice

Credits for the vignette picture please !
Oh and Thank you VERY much, this vid means a lot to me :)

I'm really not sure what's a "conservative" anymore. So-called "conservatives" these days are either actually more liberal than the so-called "liberals" or, as ironic as it is in the context of the video, kinda the opposite: reactionists. By the way, the description of the term "conservatism" I've been taught in school is pretty much how one would describe reactionism, except I've learnt the term "reactionism" long after the school. By the way, Prussian school system sucks and that's an objective fact.

You did so much research into everything except how to pronounce his name.

This is just dialect

Thank you for putting this in a word for me, Aporia. I've been training my mind to be as open minded as possible for over 10 years. It's not an easy task.

Being open minded is not the difficult part, setting your own moral principles while accepting all versions of a reality is.

It is very important for one to understand their own innate nature and also constantly question any influence of a predisposed bias or societal conditioning.

I feel it's a life long journey of never ending learning. It's beautiful!!

Thank you for putting this in a word for me, Aporia. I've been training my mind to be as open minded as possible for over 10 years. It's not an easy task.

Being open minded is not the difficult part, setting your own moral principles while accepting all versions of a reality is.

It is very important for one to understand their own innate nature and also constantly question any influence of a predisposed bias or societal conditioning.

I feel it's a life long journey of never ending learning. It's beautiful!!

I think that the idea that all ideas are flawed is flawed.

In conclusion Derrida was the father of ''Non Binary'' We face the consequences today! Thanks Derrida😁

Meh I think I prefer Hegelian dialects as a concept of analysis.

This framework assumes there’s inherent value in every set of opposing ideas but that’s not necessarily true.

Like you wouldn’t say that fascism and anti-fascism are ideals that should be considered with equal merit. The same with slavery and emancipation.

Some ideas are objectively wrong and to open up that idea for consideration can only bring harm. Even if there is some value in its consideration is what is gained worth enduring the harms that remain?

For example considering the ideas of regulation versus deregulation. You can make viable and reasonable arguments for both but I think it’s fair to say that removing regulation to the point that children can work in toxic spillage clean up is an undesirable outcome. The alternative to this would be over regulation which only really harms profit margins for businesses so I think it is fair to say that leaning towards over regulation would do better for people than deregulation would

I like, dislike and feel neutral about this video

Ahn... it makes me think how open minded you are!😂

Honestly, this reeks of postmodernism, where any lie can be distorted as truth. I understand the need to think outside the square and to be aware of the limits of knowledge, known unknows and unknown unknowns - but there is such a thing as objective truth, or at least the best approximation of it. "The truth" might not be complete but it is empirically proven and reproducible - it's the best we can do. For example, Newton's law has later been superseded by Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, but the universality of the gravitational constant is intact and the law still continues to be used as an excellent approximation of the effects of gravity in most applications.

2 + 2 = 4.

Darridra?

No I won't.

Consider the alternative. Consider time. Consider to what extent.

so point is?

Sophists 2.0

This channel has many of the red flags of plagiarism:
1. 2-3 videos per months
2. complex philosophical topics
3. not a single source mentioned in the video or the description (not even for the direct Derrida quote...)

Your videos have gotten much better

I was strongly influenced by an experienced I had in Brazil when I was in my early twenties. After a horrible car crash I came (with other people) to help a family from one of the cars. A woman seemed to be in shock and was asking loudly where her baby was. She and her family was rushed to a hospital. We all thought she was in shock. But her baby was indeed ejected from the car and was somewhere out of view! I don’t know exactly what happened after this, I think I heard about the baby in the next day. I just hope the baby was fine. This story pops up from time to time in my mind, telling me how stupid I was to assume I knew what was going on. This was 40 years ago!

From this day on I tried to take people seriously, doesn’t matter how much I believed they are just confused or something else. This means, if an old and confused woman tell me she needs my help, I will talk to her and ask what is going on, even if she has severe dementia and asks all the time for help (as happened today again!). Or I listen patiently to a very drunk guy who tells me he once saw aliens, or an author comes with a silly hypothesis which smells like pseudoscience. I give my best to understand, at least for a while.

Having this mindset helped me in my scientific research, asking questions which most people would say they are not great or they were probably answered. It is surprising how much a mindset of “perhaps we don’t know so much as we think” can help us to find new areas if research. Most scientists will jump in an area without the interest (or often not the time) to understand the historical roots or bias in their fields.

Al these voice overs in these analysis are so similar....😂❤

Do people not like it out of fear of straying from their cult dogma... baa

Yeah, I mean, I feel incredibly guilty concrning my binary thinking and closed mind. I should have been celebrating men dominating womens sports, male rapists being in womens prisons. It is with great joy the French post modernist movement was denounced as academically fraudulent. How closed minded were those critics.

in the modern wester world😅? how about muslim/infidel ?

I just came in here to say, " no I wouldn't. " now I'm leaving and not watching this.

LET'S STAY REAL GUYS.. IN THE WEST WE SEE SOME KIND OF FREEDOM... IN CHINA , IN ISLAMIC RULED NATIONS, IN MOST OF AFRICAN NATIONS ,IN ANY NON WESTERN SOCIETY WE DON'T SEE THIS... JUST FEW DAYS AGO THEY WHIPPED 74 TIMES A GIRL FOR REFUSING TO WEAR HIJAB IN IRAN... IN SOME NON WESTERN NATIONS THIS VERY VIDEO WOULD BE BANNED... IT'S NOT ALWAYS BLACK AND WHITE... I AGREE...BUT BEING A HUMAN IF YOU TRY TO JUSTIFY WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GIRL WITH THIS ARGUMENT YOU ARE A MONSTER...YOU HAVE MENTAL ISSUES...

I have been kicked out of 109 strip clubs. I'm certain that all the fault is with the strip clubs.

Derrida was someone who realized you're always looking through a piece of glass but couldn't focus on anything but the glass itself, to the detriment of the image beyond the glass.

The silent majority don't think about issues in binary terms at all.
The silent majority ignore most complex issues entirely.
They're far too busy just wading through their everyday lives... to have complex opinions on societal issues.
It's the noisy minority that make all of the clear-cut binary value judgements.

Society has to be pulled in either a progressive or regressive ( reactionary ) direction.
Otherwise it stagnates. It's the job of the noisy minority to do the heavy lifting.
For that... they must make binary choices.

Ask ninety percent of the general public on fiscal strategy or the merits of living in a democracy... they won't have a clue.
They may offer a prosaic platitude... but they will not be able to tell you a well thought out definition,
that actually means something to them. Life for most people, is already far too complex with their own emotional upheavals.
Humans are not logical... they're purely emotional. And that emotional flow within you... is all powerful.

The irony is... Jacques Derrida is only ever read by the noisy minority.
That make binary choices... because they're educated in order to become the noisy minority.

It is endlessly tiring to try to lean into the realization that you don't draw permanent conclusions and stay "liquid" in the grey area, when even good friends tend to pull you right back into the black/white debates. I hope this video does a better job of communicating this :D Thanks!

No, i wouldn't be 😁

Il n'y a pas de hors texte...

I agree with his theory and we all should practice this way of thinking/living.

Not crazy about the subject matter, but really cool presentation.

Individualism rules over meaning that's why we all could learn one thing, yet will have a personal opinion because life is a personal journey and your personal experiences will shape your opinion. Ex: In America, you're either Democrat or Republican or in England, Labour or Conservative or in France, Left or Right in China, Russia, one party. What are your chances of being truely open minded? Zero.

I like to think that I am aware of my inclusion and exclusion stances and I want it to remain as such as I think if we don't we will homogenize in no time.

i was talking with a very literal friend in response to me saying my life is "ok". we discussed for a while over it being considered a lie one tells oneself to name a bad situation as good. needless to say we didnt get far, and i was missing where the problem lay.

i think the crux of the argument was it not being good or bad but rather something i "allow" or accept".

i was expecting this to be garbage. not bad lots af merit

No me brother, I’m consistently surprised at how OPEN - minded actually I really am.

Internet is full of sht now more than ever. Including this video