Vlad Vexler - The Long War: Defending Society, Rule of Law, and Democracy from Assaults and Nihilism

Russian propaganda is at its heart nihilistic. Its effects can be highly corrosive, and it does not necessarily try to convince you of its point of view. Rather it seeks to engender division, conflict and in some circumstances apathy and inaction. Today I am discussing a wide variety of themes with Social Philosopher and YouTube phenomenon, Vlad Vexler. Themes such as propaganda and imperialism, authoritarian media spaces and their impact on how people think and act. And of course, we’ll be talking about the war, and the changes in Russia that this may trigger.

Vlad Vexler is a philosopher working in ethics and musicology. But he is also the host of several wildly popular YouTube channels that provide a guide to surviving and making sense of the 21st century, but recently his focus has bene on covering the crisis in Russia and Ukraine in detail. His content is created for reflective people who feel the present resources for making sense of our world are inadequate, but pulls off an extraordinary trick, to be both informative and entertaining at the same time. Please do check them out on YouTube.