Bertrand Russell: Message To Future Generations, 1959
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell, (1872 – 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, and social critic.
Russell was one of the early 20th century’s most prominent logicians, and one of the founders of analytic philosophy, along with his predecessor Gottlob Frege, his friend and colleague G. E. Moore and his student and protégé Ludwig Wittgenstein.
This clip looks older than 1959.
Regardless, seems appropriate.
A message more of the world needs to hear, today more than ever.
Wise man
The fact that he is telling this to future generations “perhaps one thousand years in the future” shows hes not very optimistic. This is one of our current big issues imo. We struggle too much between what we want to be true, or what we think ought to be true, and what is actually true to the best of our knowledge.
He was called, by the theocrats the most evil man on earth because he was an atheist.
This post needs to be seen by everyone in the world.
*Be Excellent to each other…*
This guy is one jump from Napoleon Bonaparte. He was raised by his grandfather, who had visited the Emperor on Elba in 1814…
Welp! Looks like we failed. Sorry Bertie.
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Humanity will continue to have the same issues. People believing only what validates their beliefs and people showing a lack of tolerance for others.
I’m sure many people will relate to this message and their first thought will be “Well it’s the other side not being tolerant, I’m not the problem”.
I might be a pessimist but I don’t see how humanity can get beyond this tribalism.
And then there’s twitter
His book “In Praise of Idleness” is groundbreaking and more relevant than ever. He was an amazing philosopher.
I mean, I don’t have a Betrand Russell quote because I haven’t even heard of him until now
Advance human culture is not going to be around in 1000 years
If we only would take one of his advice to the heart that would be progress
I will take this advice in 900 years
this is my first introduction to Russell and i loved it!
5 minutes later and a quote of his is used in the book i just started reading, The Drunkard’s Walk
more relevant now than ever. They would probably try to cancel him today.
We are standing on the shoulders of giants. Great men who accomplished great things. We don’t appreciate the effort and sacrifice it took for humanity to get this far. We squandered our opportunities these men have given us.
I have loved this man since I first read In Praise of Idleness. I was actually lucky enough to study with Howard Woodhouse who worked with Russel and wrote the introduction to my copy of IPOI. Super fucking cool.
This look like AI generated moving picture to me..
Treat others as you would wish to be treated. If someone has different views or beliefs maybe try sitting down with them and having a rational conversation without getting angry, throwing accusations, insulting, blaming, etc. it helps to build perspective, be able to see someone else’s point of view and realize that not everyone is the same or has to be and that’s ok.
Incredibly relevant today. Wow.
“Facts don’t care about your feelings” – this guy, 1959
Damn, this old lady speaks the truth
“Love is wise, hatred is foolish.” Well said.
What an absolute G. 60 years later and his words still ring true.
Trans right activists won’t like his first point
His moral point precisely is the way.
Pretty damn good advice if you can only pick two things. Smart man.
My only criticism is people are picking their own facts now like it is a buffet at Golden Corral
As a non-English native speaker, why I can clearly understand him and not a single word in any nowadays BBC documentary without subs?
“Love is wise, hatred is foolish”
Two nice nuggets of timeless advice. Too bad we mostly don’t take that advice…