Angela CollierI made a video.
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Feral ThoughtsI suppose Walter Isaacson is the monogamous Ralph Leighton's promiscuous twin, the fox to Leighton's hedgehog 😉
Kidding apart, excellent survey of the commercial setup minting Feynman's name and fame.
Godfather-length videos are becoming your signature, you should keep it up 👍
Some points about Feynman that had occurred to me earlier (and are not covered in your video):
1. Feynman was one of the workers involved in the construction of the atomic bomb in the early 1940s, yet there is hardly any comment in the "autobiographies" on the overwhelming threat of a nuclear winter and related issues.
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2. Many of Feynman's colleagues at Los Alamos were persecuted in the 1950s during the McCarthy witch-hunt, most prominently Robert Oppenheimer, Feynman's Los Alamos boss (and mentor?). However, not only as a young faculty member in his 30s, but even as a 67 year old legendary Nobel prize winning physicist, Feynman neither condemned nor uttered any other comment on the McCarthy witch-hunt that had targeted some of his closest ex-colleagues.
That's elite cowardice!
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3. Feynman's cowardice also extends to not taking any position on the philosophical dilemmas around quantum physics, issues which the previous generation of Niels Bohr and Einstein were unafraid to tackle.
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4. Feynman's comments on philosophy come across as stupid, and seem like an effort to create an image of the "practical American"; perhaps he was trying to hide his own deeply theoretical inclinations, and to preempt people from thinking of him as a nerd.
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5. Feynman's derision of psychiatry is equally pointless.