Featuring discussions of John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress; perfectionism; Deism; Benjamin Franklin; errata; Thomas Jefferson; syllogisms; John Locke; and the Declaration of Independence.
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Complete video at: fora.tv Author Steven Johnson links the rise of coffee house culture to the Age of Enlightenment. Before coffee replaced beer as the daytime drink of choice, says Johnson, “the entire culture basically was drunk all day long.” —– Steven Johnson talks about his book, The Invention of Air. Johnson recounts the story of Joseph Priestley — scientist and theologian, protege of Benjamin Franklin — an 18th-century radical thinker who played pivotal roles in the invention of ecosystem science, the founding of the Unitarian Church, and the intellectual development of the US – Book Passage Steven Johnson is the author of the US bestsellers Mind Wide Open and Emergence. His most recent book is The Invention of Air. Johnson’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Guardian, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He also writes for Discover magazine and Wired.com, and was co-founder of the award-winning websites FEED and Plastic.com. He teaches at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program and also hosts a weblog at www.stevenberlinjohnson.com.
um people who will watch this youtube video which is? an hour long are students studying English Literature. there are some actual educational videos here on youtube and not just music vids and other useless vids.
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wtf?! how did I get here and why this? video is more than 1 hour long?! who the hell will watch it on youtube??
Toni? Morrison is an idiot.
Franklin liked that metaphor of the erratum so much he put it on his epitaph. I hope the Author? makes favourable edits for both of us!…too many bad chiefs and not enough Indians in America!…
@LongliveSnak2e
What has this? to do with the subject? What do you wanna do? Slaughter the Indians?
Too? many Indians.
@seamoremonster yeah that dude..I still think your asshat comment was the best:)..I told a bunch of people about the asshat thing and I am going to spread it around everywhere and see if I can make? asshat a catch word…hahahhaa..It is so funny..
@doobersmanster I’m not assuming anything. I’m assessing the content of? your comments and what you say. Eg, calling me a communists. Education is worthless? Like the sage says…”Those who are self educated are taught by an idiot.” Believe me when your country is being taken over by corporations that communism is the least of your worries. Pascal…1642…Catholic Philosopher? And you think the Founding Fathers were conservative? Anyway, good day to you.
@seamoremonster Thank you so much for that wonderfully insultive compliment…I just wanted you to know how much what you think about me means…Hahaha,and don’t assume things about people,you have no idea about. Not many people have read as much as I have..I have not had a TV for over 17 years for the specific? purpose of reading and improvinfg my mind..maybe I can recommend a book for you to read,The Pensees by Pascal..also I have been around the world twice.Godbless you:)
@doobersmanster I can only surmise by what you write what you are like. But I have to admit…I am surprised that you have shown a sense of humour…all is? not lost! A sense of humour usually indicates some intelligence. You have a good day as well. Take Care.
@seamoremonster Asshat…did you just call me a asshat? hahaha..well I can say I have been called everyname under? the sun on here but never asshat..I’ll give you a b+ for creativity..:) At least a liberal is good for something..making me laugh…have a great day:)!! Oh by the way..you know nothing about me.
@doobersmanster Oh…and by the way asshat…a little? message for you and the rest of your tea-bagging loonies….”There’s no progress in being Backward.”…And being “Backwards” is what Conservatism is.
@doobersmanster You have to read books, study and get your pig ignorant head out of your stupid ass. You need to travel further than your backyard and listen to other opinions besides your hick lay preacher. You call anyone you disagree with a “communist”.? You’re quite content to call yourselves “Christian” and let your own people die because they lack proper medical care. Then you let your corporate masters tell you anything else is “socialIsm”. You’re brain washed by Madison Ave.
@seamoremonster You are so smart…I wish that I could be like you…haha Go make out with a gerbal..COMMUNIST! To think that our founding fathers were not more theocratic? and Godly (except for the occasional Paine in the Liberal) Is stupid. My point was, which you missed entirely (must be from all your education-that is worthless by the way-) Is that the term Liberal back then means something different then it does today. Now Liberals are just Communists slaves and perverts
@doobersmanster I can? easily say that because I’m educated. You think it was conservative two hundred years ago to be against the Monarchy? You think it was conservative to legislate separation of church and state? Even today conservative pricks are trying to convert our democracy into a theocracy. I’m ignorant? You can generally tell when someone is bone achingly ill educated and ignorant when they accuse others of being ignorant because they lack the intellectual rigour to understand.
@seamoremonster How you can say that Thomas Jefferson,Franklyn and Payne were modern day Liberals shows how Ignorant you are. The sense of the word has changed. Liberal today means a person? that is for Slavery,Socialism, Marxism and having sex with animals and a conservative stands for Family, Balanced budgets, Freedom of thought and actions and free enterprise through private property.
@LexPhilogus Somebody forgot to tell George and East Indian Trading Company.? Most of the Found Fathers were reluctant to pull the plug on Mother England…they had the sense to know it was a big step. Franklin…may not have been a radical but he certainly wasn’t a Tory…it’s all relative.
@seamoremonster You need to brush up on your British History my friend. Britain had effectively made the monarchy toothless after the Cromwellian revolution and this trend progressed. The Hanoverians were basically figure heads, so opposing monarchy from a clean slate was hardly ground? breaking.
Benjamin Franklin was not a radical at all and supported Britain as best he could up to the end, although he did have some classical liberal views.
@LexPhilogus I find it hard to believe that rejecting a monarchy at that time was conservative. I find it hard to believe that after years of feudalism and papal domination that separation of church and state was conservative. I find it hard to believe that Franklin’s “Advice to a Young Man on Why He Should Seek the Favours of Older Women” conservative. Nah…sorry don’t believe it. Sounds like another Conservative re-writing history to suit their own ideology.?
@seamoremonster Franklin was a very reluctant supporter of separation and was for the most of his life quite proud of what the British Empire had accomplished.? The American revolution was a conservative revolution to restore traditional British values in the former colonies. He was actually quite conservative.
Now we need a drink to usher in an? age of socialism/solidarity.
@geek49203 Ben Franklyn?…talking revolution and science…nah…he’d still be? a liberal..
@seamoremonster And not to mention? that those you think are “liberals” would be decried as “Consevative” today.
@seamoremonster
Except that there were no conservatives or liberals back then. At least not in the sense in which? those words are used today.
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@seamoremonster Makes two of us. Thank you for sharing this great video.?
@drfoxcourt Thanks for that. As someone who thinks beer preceded bread…and that coffee accelerated enlightenment…I’m putting this book on? my list…
@archaedemos
idk, where we have gotten here is not much different from pre-Enlightenment times, mho. so, i vote for? the beer, at least their drudge was replaced by a high. now, we mope around all day, coffee-stimulated, reaping, suffering our woes in the post-Industrial Age
@seamoremonster?
you testify smm!!
Coffee has also enabled students to study and cram in as much as possible over long periods of study, sometimes without sleep. It is also the miracle drink to some people before exams. It is also the reason why there are millions of coffee cups on university campuses all over the? world.
This issue with coffee is covered in a superb book called “The History of the World in Six Glasses”. Rather than view? world history in terms of the major resources (Bronz Age, Iron Age, Age of Steam…) The book looks at what people drank and what kinds of big movements they produced (the Beer movement, the Wine movement, The distilled spirits movement, the Coffee movement, the Tea movement, and the Coca-Cola movement). Worth reading.