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very cool video, subscribed as well; but i would really appraciate if you could go into deeper meanings; i feel like you are cutting on commenting about something because you may feel like it might be wrong (?) but at the end this kind of act makes the video less interesting or to think about. feel like ur capable of doing those comments so if you are afraid to do so; please dont be. thanks.

This is so ridiculously silly. The world is dying because of low to no birth rate. Only a few women can have babies and a handful of men that are not sterile. Are you saying the world should die so woman can be lesbians and have abortions?

The freedoms that women in the US No longer have in regard to their own bodies is despicable.

I’m going to wait in the Foucault section of the bookstore for my future wife. It may be a long wait, but it’s better than waiting at the bargain table.

why christianity? that is 1:1 what happens in the middle east/ north africa, thats islam

If you can find it, there's also a 1990 film of The Handmaid's Tale, starring Natasha Richardson as Offred, Robert Duvall as the commander, and Faye Dunaway as Serena Joy. Elizabeth McGovern does a fabulous job as Moira. It's a fantastic movie. What a shocker it was in 1990. Roe seemed firmly in place, and we were happy about the fall of the Soviet Union. I thought your point about the gradual implementation of changes was very important. This is what dictatorships often do...they come into power legally, then start changing the laws a few at a time. People are busy with work, family, etc., and they don't notice that they're the frog in the boiling water.

Thank you for this excellent overview and perspective. I have considered reading the book, then watching the drama for several years now, but it seemed too depressing and ominous. You have illustrated how Margaret Atwood steeped her story in real events, behaviors and beliefs. I now can't not pursue this topic now.

It is not always about oppression or the oppressed. The brilliance of the novel and the series is that it shows that women are very instrumental in the inhumane treatment of women and girls. Also notice that in as much there is a Christian tone to the world of Gilead, Jesus' teachings which are the foundational to Christianity are left out. When the Gospels are read the consequence for Serena is to have her finger cut off.

This is why the right wing in the USA have banned Margaret Atwoods books in school and public libraries in many red states. The threat to women's rights is not just something to be scared of, it is actually happening. If you are in the US and eligible to vote please do so. Blue up and down the ballot, don't allow version of this wonderful novel become a reality.

I think Muslims & christians are on to something lol

As of 22:28 when will the Russian people realize the power of their "Collective Agency" ?

Life Long SF fan. I believe I saw the original Hand Maid's Tale movie. The only female SF author I've ever read was Ursula Le Guin, and Lathe of Heaven. Oh that was good - very good. Regarding this video I like the calm, and thoughtful narration, and overall production. Excellent.

thanks for tackling this subject. ok insights you've made here. I agree with a point you made in your analysis of how gilead could be dismantled - by cutting off it's legs - legs of cooperation, funding, complacency, etc.. I disagree with the 'cause' of gilead being 'traditional values'. I think the cause is jealousy from men - men jealous of women's abiity to 'create life' and a group of insecure men desperately trying to 'control' and subdue women - thinking that they will then have the same power. This is repeated again & again throughout history in unhealth societies. We all know that the health of a society can be measured by the health, freedom and happiness of the women and children in those societies. Most mothers are instictively focused on nurturing the healthy development of their babies - this nurturing nature allows nany women to also know instictively know how to 'nurture' and focus on the health of others, including adults, families and communites. Matrilineal and matriarchal societies existed but are are fewer and fewer, but are we learning about them? What can we learn from them? Would it be better than our current majority of worldwide patriarchal societies? Would a balance between the two bring more healthy societies in general? less war? less destruction of our natural wilderness and pause the current mass extinction of wild animals worldwide? Religion says that only god can create life - yet athiests can see with clear eyes that only women are 'gods' - only women have this natural power to create life. Men today who respect their wives and women in general are not only men who want women to be healthy, happy and free to make decisions about their bodies and their lives - these are the men we need to support. A man who does not feel the need to 'control' women are secure & confident. They don't need to to subdue another person - of any gender - to feel ok. There is no redeeming qualities about gilead - even though you try to communicate this - only a reveaing look at how desperate 'weak & worthless' men can act when jealousy of women consumes them to the point they think that guns, slavery and a military army is needed to 'control' beautiful, magical, earthly godesses. My opinion differs from yours, yet I think it's worth considering. thoughts? Project 2025 aligns in numerous ways to the gilead government. It is shocking to me how millions of midwest & southern american women worship trump, his treatment of women & the project 2025's plans to subdue women on many levels. I can only surmise that american's general intelligence levels have decreased significantly due to processed foods, pollutants, banned books of real knowledge and daily brainwashing through the increased use of controlled social media & biased news like fox. The mechanisms in gilead can be found in all unhealthy, distructive governments - hitler's germany, israel's current massacre and 'control' of palestinians, iran, afghanistan & taliban's abusive 'control 'of women, and some christian extremists in america who have written a real 'gilead' bible called project 2025. Yes, all the people commenting here who see parallels in this gilead's violent abuse of power to the current violent actions of israel, iran, and project 2025 are absolutely correct. The only problem is when some of these commenters are blind to the evils regarding their own country's massacre of others - innocent palestinian children, innocent israeli children, innocent young girls in extremist muslim countries who are shot just because they want to go to school or fell the wind in their hair. My country is one of those 'legs' you describe in your portrayal of aparthied. When I attended college, I protested against my universities financial ties to aparthied & together with thousands of students, we successfully convinced our university to divest from aparthied - the first college in america to do so. Soon, other universities, corporations and states followed - leading to the successful deterioration of apartheid. Yes, you are right - the legs of support for evils in the world must be weakened - and America needs to divest from supporting more evils like they did for aparthied. We must all work together to stop the genocide and holocaust in palestine created by israel. We must stop the hamas without killing innocent palestinians. We must stop the killing of innocent Ukrainians who have lived on their land for centuries, and we must not be complacent and keep giving money to the dictators who are just repeating Hitler's terror.

ناسیونال سوسیالیسم یک ایدئولوژی سیاسی نیست بلکه یک سبک زندگی است که ریشه در طبیعت دارد.

Thanks for such reflections. A good essay and summary about a theocracy. Well spoken and narrated.👌🙏 Continue making such videos. You're good at it! Also, good music choice. Musorski's death march, is it?

That state oppresses everyone. In various ways...😒 And, if there weren't any wicked women dominating other women, it wouldn't exist!! Ever thought about that?? BTW, Gilead was a country, way BC, which is part of Palestinia now. Nobody talks about this fact, either! 🤔

You mention that oppressive regimes are based on table-legs of cooperation, but you fail to recognise the use of fear in forcing this cooperation. Fear, is really the underlying glue that attaches all other components in an oppressive regimes "table". This fear is so great, individuals will not dare defy the regime. When this exsits enmasse, there is real totalitarian control and is the reason why you can have few enforcers controlling many more of the oppressed. Think of Nazi Germany's concentration camps. It's a simplistic view to think that the oppressed should simply realise that if the remove their cooperation collectively the "table" will fall. If that was the case, all oppressive regimes wouldn't last years, decades, generations.

In your hierarchy triangle you left out the Jezebels, which would presumably occupy the lowest rung of this schematic hierarchy pyramid. Why did you choose to leave this group out? I found your analysis very interesting.

loved this!! i would also like an intersectional look into the classes as well: race especially because when looking closer, that is seen to have huge factor, but also age, and ability

Elon Musk/Trump are promoting ... this.

The new audience of defense attorneys is lawtube.. basically just like that they’ve became the heroes

This feature is timely as my current read is Nawal El Sadawi's Hidden Faces of Eve. I drew a lot of parallels between her arguments in the book and the themes espoused in the Handmaid's Tale.

It feels like this is Left Wing propaganda?

my girl thanks alllooot your English is beautiful and descriptive yet simple to understand (as a non-English speaker) let alone the video and the music annnnd ofc your content

The gradual introduction of female oppression is a reflection of the frog in the water, placed over heat. Gradually, the heat is turned up, and slowly the frog boils to death. This is a societal analogy to stress being used as a heat, and many people react negatively to this increase in pressure. So others, who blame them, react as "Something must be done". Then, unfair laws are introduced, based on pre-fabricated stress. Such are some of the similarities to today's world. We must , as a society, and individual countries, be very careful that boiling our societies in stress-based heat is recognized, and guarded against. The freedom of life should be sacred, and not compromised by laws which individually turn men against women, men against men, and women against women. The concept used here is known as "Divide and Conquer", for conquerers like those portrayed in Gilead are a real threat to open and free societies. We are all responsible for governments; we are those who are voted in. And it is truly our role to be sure those in charge reflect a truly democratic process.

that's the trick, isnt it? Bravery is asked from the least powerful- and death or imprisonment of the least powerful is excused or explained away. We need bravery on every level- there have to be brave politicians and brave powerful who don't want to be brave because they don't want to lose their power. And even having one brave politician or one brave powerful will always be explained away as an anomaly. The amount of death and destruction it takes to change things like a government will be the highest possible price. That's why it's so unbelievably important to vote in the leaders you find have that bravery- those that will fight for common people, those that will give a voice to the voiceless. Like the bravery inherent in HARRIS WALZ 💙 to protect the voiceless and powerless 💙

Or Camus himself was a functional psychopath. He identified with his hero, his philosophy was just a concept which tried to explain his emotionless inner world, a euphemism to this state actually, and after two world wars this concept was seen as a truth by many because they were traumatized. A good answer to that was Tom Ripley by Patricia Highsmith by the way.

The premise is excellent. I started the book, got through 1/3 of it , but found it slow-paced , I got bored . So far it's not impressive at all . I may pick it up again , maybe not .

I dont know if i have stomach for this lol Its so tragic

death is also mentioned when the neighbor's dog is most likely dead and the protagonist is annoyed by his need to talk it out with someone

death is also mentioned when the neighbor's dog is most likely dead and the protagonist is annoyed by his need to talk it out with someone

death is also mentioned when the neighbor's dog is most likely dead and the protagonist is annoyed by his need to talk it out with someone

I agree with you, both did some malicious stuff… Also, both men and women can be abusive, whether overtly or covertly sometimes its impossible to tell. Example: an emotionally abusive husband who gets physically abused by the wife, who is the victim? Flip the script. Emotionally abusive wife get physically abused by the husband, who is the victim? Without having actual stats I know men are mostly the perpetrators. But, I have seen women frame up their men because they know society they live in will support them without question. Literally in the society I live in, men who report abuse are dismissed for not being men enough… So anytime a person cries wolf when there’s no wolf, it takes away from the progress we have achieved. Also, abuse, especially non physical is soooooo complicated. All in all, I wish celebrity cases did not carry as much weight in influencing progress

It seems the author might have drawn inspiration from the trans-Atlantic slave trade for ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ as the experiences depicted in the book-such as sexual assault, mutilation, beatings, and being treated like property-are strikingly similar to what Black women endured during enslavement in America. These atrocities were common for enslaved Black women, who were often assaulted by their masters and subjected to brutal treatment. However, this historical reality is often overlooked, which is why many Black women have issues with this series. It feels disingenuous to center this narrative on white women in America, who have never experienced this level of systemic and violent oppression. Additionally, it highlights a broader issue where mainstream feminism has historically focused on the struggles of white women while often neglecting the unique and more severe challenges faced by women of color. This selective approach to feminism further alienates Black women, as it fails to fully acknowledge or address their experiences.

PROJECT 2025

Excellent work! I enjoyed your thoughts on the novel. Keep it up :)

'Christian values' create hierarchy

Albert Camus did not know the notion of innocence of existing permanently (this is not a pious joke, but a real point of view that philosophy and even society should study closely), which is due to the fact that we have all been forced to exist, imperfectly manufactured by our parents with the agreement of society, imperfectly educated by parents and society, and forcibly introduced into society, which is in fact a real jungle of humans in permanent competition. If I had been in the place of the lawyer of the young man, the Stranger, I could have said many things to Justice, starting with this permanent innocence of people which is due to the fact that society is associated with our birth and our education therefore with all our physical and mental defects, and therefore of course it is responsible for our behavior. Society desires us, but then once we are manufactured it demands that we make ourselves desired just to survive. Isn't that absurd? Isn't that absurd? And I'm not talking about the doubt that benefits the accused when the universe is most likely deterministic and free will has never been demonstrated... Why does Justice have so much trouble listening to scientific truth, and so much trouble agreeing with its own ethics? Life does not have more meaning because it would have an extension in the afterlife, it is just longer... Life does not have more meaning because a god created it, the meaning that any entity gives to my life is not the meaning that I give to it, and whether he is a god or a human changes nothing. No one should be able to impose his own ideas on other people. The meaning of my life and the meaning of another's life are not the same, and it is not because this other gives meaning to his life that he must impose life on another person who does not have to accept ideas that his parents or society will impose on him (parents rarely have the same ideas on this subject and any other). _

Gilead was created because Nations exist and the first capitalism is national before being individual (even if we only refer to individual capitalism in general). A Nation is in theory a society, that is to say an association between individuals, but this is not really the case, we are even currently (in the West), in reality, a kind of democratic kingdoms rather than associations. Nations should as a society have the goal of defending their associates only against Nature, but humans have created Nations that have seized the world by force, all habitable territories on Earth are occupied. Nations supposedly want to defend their associates but the capitalist Nationalization of the world has added problems between Nations to Nature's problems. Gilead was created because Nations are competitors of other Nations and for the Nation to be strong it needs children, labor. Labor makes the GDP and GDP makes the power of the Nation. Conclusion: no Nation, no Gilead.

Theocracy does not exist since there is no god, there is only *Credocracy.* Why should a woman obey the orders of Nature? Why should she not know how to use her index finger in the same way as a man since she has this power, and therefore the same ability to lift ten tons with the right tool, or to kill an elephant with the right weapon (don't do it!)? We are all *innocent of existing permanently* (and this is not a pious joke) since we have all been forced to exist, imperfectly manufactured, imperfectly educated, and forcibly integrated into an imperfect society, a social jungle.

Just finished the book yesterday at the request of a friend. She really enjoyed it but I didn’t personally find it very interesting. There were a few interesting angles, but overall it just seemed to be a proclamation of indifference. Maybe I’m missing the value in it, but as of now it doesn’t feel like much

Scary as hell because it could happen.

Pressuring Gilead from the outside with sanctions and other political measures would only work if those countries (richest most influential ones) actually hold Human Rights themselves and find them important. But i think for us, the modern world, those values slowly disappear roughly everywhere. Also, we cab see now that in Russia sanctions etc do not work. It only works if it’s a country which needs the help of the other countries. Anyway just some thoughts..

Great analysis, simplistic and concise, just like the novel itself haha

I really liked your analysis. I finished the stranger and had read "a happy death" as well. Reading the stranger caused me frustration because Meursault is asked on repeated occasions to respond, to react, or to defend himself. Your analysis made it all clear, he won't defend himself, because it makes no sense to fight for a life that has no meaning. It is a really good book, and I am happy to have come across your analysis.

Having all the clips in monochrome is really powerful. However, you mix suddenly and slowly. In the series the protagonist says "It was America, until it wasn't."

I wanted to listen to you but the background music was so loud and distracting at times I couldn’t hear you

Not "Al-bert". T is silent.

I appreciate you taking the time to make this video. I am here in July of 2024 after even more disturbing Supreme Court decisions. It is terrifying how I can actually see this happening.

Obsessed with child molestor !