Currently, many netizens are taking sides on many issues while others who don't feel as strongly are castigated for fence-sitting or being "apolitical". In this episode, we discuss why, how, and when political neutrality is necessary especially under highly polarized conditions. Overall we ask, how can we be "ethically neutral?
You can find our collaborations here:
Ley La Salle:https://www.facebook.com/LEYDLSU
White Stripe podcast:https://open.spotify.com/show/2IaDB2WzyYHtwKelxxFN64?si=AkQ7BueCSsyo0SBhA-3pkQ
Sources:
Ex-flight attendant turned TikTok creator draws flak over ‘not everything is political’ view by Catalina Ricci S. Madarang
https://interaksyon.philstar.com/trends-spotlights/2021/02/23/186117/ex-flight-attendant-turned-tiktok-creator-draws-flak-over-not-everything-is-political-view/
Elie Weisel acceptance speech
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1986/wiesel/26054-elie-wiesel-acceptance-speech-1986/
On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80449.On_the_Genealogy_of_Morals
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https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch27.htm
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020629/
Last Speech of Pericles
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POLITICAL PARTIES FOR THE ALIENATED AND DISEMPOWERED: Partisan Politics in the Philippines and the question of Political Alienation by Anthony Borja
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On Pragmatism
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Recommendations:
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060665/
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (2018)
https://shopee.ph/12-Rules-for-Life-Book-by-Jordan-Peterson-i.293656678.9101712306
Beyond Order: 12 more rules for life by Jordan Peterson (2020)
https://shopee.ph/Beyond-Order-12-More-Rules-for-Life-Jordan-Peterson-i.293656678.3018510344
0:00 Music
0:15 Intro
1:10 Collaborations and guestings
3:08 When is it ok to be neutral? On Political Neutrality
4:18 The difference between being neutral and being apolitical
5:50 Living in the most politicized Anti-neutrality society
7:30 Definitions of Neutrality
8:25 Silence serves the oppressor by Elie Weisel
12:50 Are there only two sides?
17:23 On lazy thinking or capacity to think
19:30 Claiming one's own thoughts
20:50 Is there such a thing as "your own side" and self-criticism?
25:30 Looking at your habits in thinking?
28:00 Earning your right to speak on an issue
29:48 If you're not with us, you're against us?
33:33 Is this my war?
37:48 Bayan o Sarili
41:35 Paralysis by analysis; At what point do we stop thinking?
44:00 Sometimes we need to gamble even if we dont know everything.
45:45 How will you participate? Why are you participating in politics?
49:25 What if there are too may voices? What if politics is too complicated?
52:15 Starting small at your own community; community pantry
56:13 How do we be ethically neutral?
1:02:40 Recommendations
