It takes 10 minutes to destroy classical liberalism, as it turns out. Wait! 11.

Resorting again to Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Brandom and the conception of freedom as being "the author of the laws" or "the lawgiver of onerself."

'You are free when you are the lawgiver of yourself". That's Rousseau, but then it's also Kant, Hegel, Habermas, Brandom etc. By an amazing coincidence, the laws you give yourself are word-for-word the laws we've given you. This approach amounts to a disingenuous disinformation program.

videos on conceptions of freedom in western philosophy:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUz6jqVz4W1LtmhTkTejFtyTMn9ZRMGx_

(One of) the most disturbing book(s) I've ever read is Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Humanism and Terror.

"To tell the truth and act out of conscience are nothing but alibis of a false morality." (Humanism and Terror, chapter 4)

He was [one of] the most influential philosopher[s] of the 20th century (the golden age of totalitarianism) and a real, genuine, bona fide Nazi.

Somehow I blanked on the fact that the letters I'm quoting are to his brother Fritz Heidegger.

The defense of Hegel I refer to here is by Susanna Lindberg in the volume *On Hegel's Philosophy of Right* (Heidegger's lecture notes from 1934-35).

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/03/reviews/980503.03rortyt.html

I love Nietzsche the writer and thinker. That is a dark and dangerous politics in various ways, however. Let's talk about Nietzsche and the Nazis.

of what we've done so far (namely Plato, Hobbes, Rousseau, Hegel, Marx) and where we might go from here (Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Jameson). 'But what about the collective?' These people think we should all be foodprocessed together into kind of human borscht.

I talk about my own history here a bit: I come from Marxist folks. Here we swing into reality in a different way.

You'll be relieved to hear that Hegel's amazing political philosophy of the Prussian state as freedom and God is here to annihilate your individuality once and for all.