Episode #82: talkPOPc Resident Philosophers Ian Olasov & Carolina Flores discuss narratives of group-identity, beliefs, racism, colonization, and how to restructure the future

Episode #82: talkPOPc Resident Philosophers Ian Olasov + Carolina Flores discuss narratives of group-identity, beliefs, racism, colonization and how to restructure the future.
Timestamps:

• 00:30: Narratives and their political/social role. The stories we tell are more negative, and we might miss something if it's all negative
• 01:55: What are the dimensions of badness...What's the role of identity? We want to feel proud of who we are, but the challenge is negativity.
• 04:10: The connection to identity. Belief in God and knowing "These are my people"
• 06:10: White people in America. Seeing things accurately and being the bad guy. Accurate but discouraging to the point of denying those narratives. The puzzle of accuracy and empowerment
• 09:00: We think of identity as a construct in the past, but we can think about the future as well. The thought of shifting perspective. Progressive identity, history and the future
• 12:50: Employing the utopian vision from the past as a mechanism to imagine what the future would look like
• 15:30: Movements unfold on different fronts. When people wonder about the role of philosophy, one of the fronts is theoretical. Policy exists on a similar level
• 17:00: Identity, while important, receives too much focus sometimes. Standpoint Epistemology. People that are members of an oppressed group have some special knowledge, but the way it gets metabolized is not exactly right.
• 19:55: Sometimes members of the oppressed class take on disadvantageous ideas. False consciousness and the reality of it. Engels' sociological work. Important work, but not by someone of the working class.

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