Seeing Public Figures as Human Beings

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0:00 – Introduction
2:00 – How we're all composites of good & bad
4:00 – Judgment vs. understanding
5:33 – Humility & our fragile egos
7:03 – Our addiction to self-importance
8:48 – The problem of confirmation-bias
10:07 – Seeing Joe Biden as stupid
14:00 – Seeing Donald Trump as an arrogant jerk
17:30 – Letting go of our demonizing rhetoric
18:47 – Letting go of our self-importance
20:01 – Becoming a conduit for compassion & freedom

Eric Dodson

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0:00 We live in strange times
0:43 Idol/Demon/Human Beon
1:37 Contact with reality
1:49 Heal Divisive

2:47
3:50 Perceive real in play
4:25 Hardly ever understand, usually Judge each other 5:07 Judgement is easier, more common, faster
5:37 Understanding takes Humility, recognizing wrongness, fragile ego

7:02 Addiction to Self-Importance
7:28 Warm Bliss of Superiority over regulars and foes 8:11 Who doesn’t enjoy that?
8:49 The World is the way my judgement says it is
9:58 Skew Perception

10:28 Joe Biden - Stupidity, Fool, Nincumpoop
11:44 Calling each other stupid is a weak insult
13:45 Caricature division

14:13 Donald Trump - Narcissist, Big Ego
Who wouldn’t want to be that?

17:40 Rhetoric is 1 thing 18:23 Drop it
18:47 Humility is essential

thattimestampguy

I recall Aristotle saying politics is an important art but today it’s hard to have a sensible discussion of issues due to all the vilification of politicians.

stevepowsinger

I love the message this video espouses as it is something that I have been working on for the past couple years. Now, as a 21 year old, I look back at my first time coming back home after going away for college. My parents were great at showing me that I was now an adult, and while still their baby forever, I am more so a peer as opposed to a subordinate (even though it took my dad some time to get used to). Being able to see my own parents as fallible human beings navigating this world to the best of their abilities, as everyone else does, allowed me to have better communication with them and understand why they do what they do. I then took that thinking into the public figure realm through sports. Athletes, especially ones that speak out for their personal causes, are nothing more than a person speaking their truth. After sports figures, I then was able to work on accepting politicians for the same thing. I do think its made me a much more empathetic person to everyone, especially in my personal life. Great video, great message, great man. You are a God who can do no wrong ED ;)

Craizon

I wanted to say hello while I'm watching the new video! I miss sitting in your classes in undergrad.. ahhh the "good ol days"

laneplaysuke

Smart Video, Smart like Socrates. As for the “sophisticates” and politics: “…the superiority of the politician is only mediocrity raised to its highest power.” ~Gabriel Tarde

marqpsmythe

Brilliant video, I remember being young under the tutelage of adults and looking up to them as if they were some other race with all the answers only to find out, as an adult myself now, how utterly wrong I was. Interesting paradox, perhaps, of keeping the inner child alive (not so serious) yet not playing into these childlike approaches towards others that you so eloquently laid out.

tannerhagen

Request 😬
Hello prof. Dodson

I wonder if u can do another video about post-existentialism .. structuralism, deconstructionism and post-modernism ...

P.S.
I watched your video episode 6 of existentialism introduction ...

Your videos matters, its life changing, cant thank u more.

husseinmohammed