Mike and Darren: Unplugged ep.8

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[dialaskisel]

I love listening to these conversations. Three sages imparting their wisdom to our fallen age. With a drinking horn!

[guillermotorres]

I love replaying Michael and Darren's lectures on the drive home from work. I love these conversations, you guys are awesome - keep it up!

[nicholasporteron]

Engaging with this channel is the version of my "university"

[stormbreak]

I love listening to you all, but Sugrue particularly strikes a chord with me, I've now watched all his lectures available on YouTube (some of them several times), and hearing that his lectures on Plato were done in 94.. the year I was born, took it to another level of appreciation for me- every generation has their heroes

[Horndogthehorneddog]

Really appreciating the amount of content guys!

[josephanthonymedia]

Dr. Sugrue, I came across your channel about a week or two ago. I saw your lecture on Machiavelli. I'd like to say those lectures are profound. You did an incredible job and have produced some truly good work(s). You're an impressive man. God bless you, for whatever it is worth.

[cameliavaschi]

Going through the lectures, learning so much, laughing, becoming perplex, feeling illuminated and inspired, trying to read ( or listen) to the books discussed was a kind af school I couldn't attend otherwise as a mother of three, but I come now to say a huge thank you to all of you generously involved in this! God bless you all!

[Hendrix]

In short: Thank You.

At length: I have started and then deleted this comment about 10 times over the last 2 months, because I didn’t feel like I would be able to articulate how much this series has meant to me over the last few years. A friend of mine stumbled on Mike’s 94 lectures at the beginning of the COVID lockdown— a period of time that felt both terrifying and banal. Those lectures opened up so many long discussions at his kitchen table, and opened me to a world of classic literature. I’ve since read 30+ classics in the last 2 years including the astonishing Magic Mountain, which feels like a montage of so many of these lectures. All in all, you have helped open a portal, and I know I speak for thousands of others when I say: thank you, and sláinte.

[racofre]

I just wanted to express my gratitude for making these brilliant and important conversations accessible to everyone

[BruTalc]

instant watch every time

thanks docs (& Genevieve)

[michaeltape]

Hey Dr. Sugrue. I'm glad to see you are still producing for us. I often access your older stuff. Thanks guys.

[mikebradley]

Thanks, once again gentlemen. If the humanities get lost, I can’t think of any group of people who have made a greater or more effective effort to leave a trail of crumbs on the Internet to help them to find their way.

[djangounchained-ws]

what you are doing is meaningful and helpful, thank you

[kiaa]

What a great discussion! God bless you! Michael Sugrue, I’ve learned so much from you, you’re a dear friend and professor although I have never met you before! I’ll keep you in my prayers.

[DamienWalter]

Dear Professor Sugrue. I hope that your channel is part of the proof that the humanities are alive and kicking, but universities are dead institutions still stumbling along like hyper-rich zombies. I watch only philosophy, video essays and cultural theory on youtube and I find our world's best teachers here. Thank you for your efforts.

[junonismusica]

“Piety is doing honor to God by being of service to men.” Great thought. Reminds me of a famous Martin Luther sermon, “God doesn’t need your good works, but your neighbor sure does.” A highly religious thought. I am of the opinion no purely secular man could reach this by reason alone.

[dasuero]

44:42 I second that, Dr Field, as someone who is only a high school grad and living the sheltered, comfortable life. That can only or will only build character and build strength of character. Excellent podcast, Darren, Michael and Field; the power sagacious trio. I was never beaten or scolded as a child at least not intensely or as bad as other kids (now grown adults or teachers) have had it. Nor was I bullied in school because I got lucky and kept a calm low profile and was alienated and isolated though parts of that was almost largely self-imposed. I had no desire to speak to anyone much less peers or old friends. You can only imagine or conclude how much that played into and built arrested development, learned helplessness and 'victimizing' myself and being defiant against my guardians, my parents. Against and in the face of authority.

Everyone now looks for the eternal ghastly evil boogeymen to scapegoat and never learn or build strength and character. That includes the post-modern left and progressives and identity politics. They really just want to ban and abolish all forms and manners of jobs and that includes banking and commercial and consumer activity. It's absurd. If anything, instead of parental and school workshops, we need Book clubs and elegant and studied/studious teachers and readers and authors that have also done back breaking labor.

[shutincinema]

I think the three amigos should have someone like Dr Lee T. Pearcy on one of their unplugged sessions. Pearcy is a life long scholar and classicist who (fairly) recently provided a concise yet compendious history of classical education and the humanities in America in “The Grammar of Our Civility”.

[kiaa]

“ Piety is doing honour to God by being of service to man” this is the core right there by professor Sugrue.
It reminds me of a old quote by a well known Dutch officer in The Salvation Army, Majoor Bosshardt, which goes like:

'God dienen is mensen dienen’

('To serve God is to serve people’)

[thegeordierambler]

Brilliant again from the learned gents!! I particularly enjoyed the “finale” of Darren and Peter with the game of the century!? I have to quote here the great human being himself.. Bobby Fischer.. “.. it’s not about psychology, it’s about the moves..” BF 1972. A brilliant mind. Michael will pick up on CGJ’s..”thinking and feeling” Cannot wait for the next one!