kita semua syaitan 😎 / Arendt x Malaysia

Malaysia agak kotor, dalam politiknya. Bila Kerajaan dan Pembangkang berjuang, terpenyetlah kancil seperti :

- orang asli

- warganegara minoriti

- pelarian yang dijamui

- warga asing yang mesra dengan mana2 pihak kebencian yang senang dikambinghitamkan

- dll

Bagaimanakah orang biasa yang kesayangan dengan rumahtangganya dan alim dengan mana2 agamanya boleh terjebak terjadi peralatan perjuangan gajah? Carilah penterjemahan video ini dalam bahasa kefasihan anda!

https://youtu.be/bpV2Yi9zQMM? si=gFnpVy7VDTF9_x3f

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"Book" review :  life and work of Hannah Arendt. I found this as a throwaway link to spam on social media, linking the famous "banality of evil" meme, to how Malaysians are talking about Rohingya and Israeli issues.

Then I actually listened to the cast, and was pleasantly surprised to find that Arendt's entire life is a jihad about thoroughly Malaysian issues : ethnic identity, minority-majority interaction, power vs. violence, opiated masses, and the role of informed, active, participants in democracies.

If I was a teacher, I'd encourage students of politics, society, and so-called critical thinking, to (a) list out all the analytical terms mentioned in the cast, (b) explain what Arendt meant briefly, then (c) apply the terminology to show relevant specific examples from Malaysia in 2026. Give it a go, could be super fun for some of you.

It's a YouTube video, sorry, and quite lengthy but manageable in one sitting at 2x speed - given some foreknowledge of 20th Century European political thought. Try to ignore the LLM-ese, not-A-but-B-s, if it bugs you, as there are quite a few of those.

leverage i. e., economics

Before bed, a friend asked about my studies, as people do. Everyone is looking for leverage. But most folks don't regard uncertified knowledge/skill as a form of leverage, so they may not appreciate why I am a student. 

I often explain my career as being a matter of killing time since 2004, when I figured out how human consciousness can be quantified, and then ran out of more important things to look into. It is equivalent to saying, I already have a lot of leverage, and I need large extrinsic incentives to move me where most people may be moved by smaller incentives.

That is why I am largely absent from commerce - I live in a poor, dumb, country, so there are limited incentives to do commercial things. The comparative advantage of being here, is to pursue the study of non-commercial things, like the anthropology of poor people, and academic subjects available anywhere on earth, such as maths. 

logic without semantics?

More precisely, I think, logic is a property of language ( semantic systems). So it is meaningless to talk about logic outside of semantics. The same would simply be physical progress, without extrinsic meaning.