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I think, as a black person, one character who represents this easy rise of facism in the hearts of my community would be Killmonger from Black Panther. The amount of people who'd not question ANYTHING he did or his ideas because he's the oppressed, he can't be a facist! Scared me. Killmonger is a product of western imperialism, he wants freedom but only for HIS people. And the definition of HIS people gets smaller and smaller each time he opens his mouth. It shows how even the most oppressed group can fall prey to those ideologies, no one is immuned. We all need to check ourselves

"The Clone Wars" animated series, headed by Dave Filoni, is a masterful depiction of the rise of fascism, parallel to the decline of a single man's mental health to the point that he is willing to slaughter children and murder his pregnant wife in support of the fascist regime. Filoni shows both the society collapsing and the way a human psyche is overridden by the core terrors that allow them to support fascism. I really suggest you check it out - there are a few episodes that give plausible deniability to it being a kid's show, but most of it is excellent political drama.

19:55 mr robot spotted :pp

We all think we'd see the world if it turned into a dictatorship and stand against it, but really, I feel like lots of us would be Tessy. Obedient to the system until we're in its iron sights, and then we try to stand up against it, but it's too late.

I would also recommend "Breathing lightning" by Anthrax. Clearly inspired by Roland.

i love listening to you talk! please make more videos like this lol

Great essay

*i drive*

I was just thinking today about making a "Turner diary" movie (Obviously a bit off to protect from copy right) but make it out to be as unbelievably stupid as the source material dignifies.

I was in the middle of making lasagne, took a break to chuck on some music on UA-cam, saw this video in my feed, hit play, and forgot about my lasagne. This is a great video, putting into words a feeling I’ve had about fascism and how easy it is for people to fall into that cycle - and how we can be blind to it, and how it can be so easily replaced by another watered down version of fascism (as in the case of Coin) I’ve always dreamed of writing a fantasy series someday (it’s how I started out as a writer before switching to poetry and realism) and it was always my intention to show the revolving growth, fall and regrowth of fascism in monarchy, born out of divine or political authoritarianism

The Road was so brutal precisely because of its matter-of-fact descriptions of brutal things. My thought after finishing: this is great and feel like I'm never going to smile again

It’d be really interesting to know your takes of the most recent hunger games book, the prequel that follows the beginning of President Snow’s political influence. How do you view Collins’ choice to have the reader follow the perspective of the one who becomes a dictator, which humanizes Snow? If you did read the prequel, did you have any other thoughts on how Collins presented the Capital citizens differently? Overall i really liked your video and could easily watch an hour long version of it without getting bored 👍

Another comment: in the Lottery, no body questions the process, because tradition, because conformity, because it is legal (the Sheriff reads the appropriate statute, so everyone understands this is properly state sanctioned and therefore he cannot arrest anyone, because the result of the Lottery is not a crime). And because the old man loudly proclaims that this is his 70th? 80th? 90th? Lottery, and as in every year: "Lottery in June, good harvest soon!" The Lottery is a religious ceremony, to insure food for the winter. What stayed with me was: the relief of the older children; the husband being asked if there was anyone else living in the household, (and he reluctantly says that his mother often stays with them, but she actually lives in the next town over, so the Sheriff declares that she is subject to that town's lottery); and the youngest boy, handed a small pile of rocks by one of his mother's friends, telling him "come on, now, play the game".

A very good video... Another way of looking at it... "We has met the enemy, and they is us.". Pogo.

Funny how all these people are enamoured with these violent characters but then are oh so suddenly terrified by violence that the "immigrants" supposedly bring to "their" cities

I've read "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany" three times and each time it got easier. The first time I was in middle school (8th grade), and yes I didn't understand much of it. The second time was the summer between my junior and senior year in high school (again, got easier). The third time was my freshman year of college (but I have to say that I spent four years in the U.S. Marine Corps before entering college). Now today I can quote sections, which I do more today than I ever believed I would.

This might hurt to hear... but Dumbledore was himself a fascist

James Joyce’s novels would be unadaptable but I think most other novels could be adapted if you worked hard enough to do.

You blew over Oy passing. If odetta/detta/susannah living, than Oy should have lived too. Or passed in Jake's time, running to save him.or similar circumstances 'ake, ake' Also he ached when Jake hurt The only reason he was there. Jake was Allian, Eddie was Cuthbert. Roland's first Ka-Tet Who were susannah? (susan) allowed to live Oy, mayby a new ka-tet member? This isn't the first or the last.

King has rarely been known to have story endings that tie up the loose ends, or "complete" the story. He has always left much to the reader to interpret. If you pay attention to the forwards and writers notes of this series, you now it started in late 60's and ran to early 2000's with only 7 original books (other materials are cannon but not concurrent with his vision). So, his thoughts and ideas changed over time. Just as 'Gunslinger' had to be edited for content after books 2 and 3 were published. However, once his accident in 1999 happened, King decided to finish the series to placate fans. This caused him to truncate 'Dark Tower' and finish "Rolands Tale" ; without finishing it. The reason it only took 3 years to publish final 3 books, but completed in 18 months

Don't knock the CCC camps. They allowed my father to work during the worst parts of the Depression. We always gave thanks to FDR for that program.

I really appreciated the rant at the end of part I.

11:10 well said. as someone who studied politics in college i always get asked if i want to be a politician. i hate them all from the deepest part of my being. i studied politics because it’s important to know what’s actually happening around the world

when Patrick draws the crimson king, why was a second crimson king not created?

Lol... I love how they added more Greek letters! Now you can be a gamma to a beta? What a bunch of nonsense

The Trump presidency and Putin with his whole cabal really challenged my understanding of evil in political stories. Both are so cartoonishly, so laughably evil with not a smidge of effort to even pretend otherwise that if I had encountered a character like that in a book meant for adult audiences I'd roll my eyes and say that author was too lazy or thought too poorly of their audience and their ability to read nuanced narrative. And yet... both have hundreds of millions of supporters. People with education, with families, with values and dreams. Not EVIL people per se. I mean yes, some actually evil but the majority of supporters I have to imagine are not. They are just apathetic, resentful and not willing to take responsibility for their lives. I don't know if we need more books about the raise of fascism because those people don't really read books. Maybe we do need more stories about how it falls and that assassination of one figure head or even an epic battle isn't really what brings it but slow and grinding process of education and grassroots and community. I do believe that those stories can and should be made fun to engage with and would actually do more good than a glorious rebellion blew up and evil death machine and so the audience went home from the cinema happy and pacified that the evil had been defeated and they can continue disengaging with their fellow men.

t=17:27 Hey, bud. What's the first line of that poem there? Why did you omit it? The Nazis were explicitly anti-socialist. Other than the fact that "Nazis were socialist" is a VERY alive and well Fascist dogwhistle attempting to equate movements for social progress with literal nazism, it's a very well-written and researched video. Remember that Vietnam is still a proud, socialist democracy (these things aren't mutually exclusive, socialism describes economics and democracy describes political process) and that they beat the snot out of the Imperial Core so badly that we literally had to retreat. I appreciate what you're doing, but I do feel the need to point out this lapse in judgment, or personal bias against leftism, or whatever that reasoning is. Hope it doesn't give too much cognitive dissonance. Subscribed.

13:13 Voice from Russia. 13 out of 14, not so optimistic bingo.

Honestly I loved the 2016 Magnificent 7. To me, saying hollywood blockbuster action doesnt work in a Western just isnt true. Look at Westerns like Big Jake, The Sons of Katie Elder, True Grit, Rooster Cogburn, Tombstone, Django Unchained... These are all great examples of successful, blood-pumping, hollywood action-packed movies. Of course you have neo westerns as well, such as Sicario, Hell or High Water, Wind River, No Country for Old Men, and even Logan. As far as a Western cannot survive as a franchise, you have the Dollars trilogy, which consists of A Fistful of Dollars; For a Few Dollars More; and the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. I dont think the issue is that the Western can't survive a franchise or high action. I think the issue is the story and the characters. Unlike old Westerns, modern takes on Westerns give us a rugged, broken protagonist who is pushed to the edge of what they consider right due to the circumstances they're faced with. Sometimes, they're driven to crime, such as in Hell or High Water. Sometimes, they're driven to do terrible things in the name of the law, such as in Sicario. To put it simply, they're anti-heroes. From Robinhood archetypes to Man with No Name archetypes, they're usually antiheroes pushed to the brink and forced to make a choice they normally wouldnt make.

Not sure if you’ve already done so, but a video analyzing Fight Club (book and movie, as they follow different plots) would be interesting. Fight Club centers around authoritarian leadership, and I feel that it coincides with your observation that “film bros” identify with the harmful characters. Chuck Palahniuk himself has expressed discomfort that people identify with and love Tyler Durden. (“You know he’s the villain, right?”) Anyway, I did a presentation about leadership in the Fight Club book for a college course, and I think it would serve as a valuable addition to your arguments here. Cheers!

I believe King has gone on record saying that he feels Randall Flagg is the greatest villain he's ever written... well, then why did you do him so dirty, Steve? I almost stopped reading this book because of how unceremoniously King disposed of a villain that he had built up over several books; a staple main villain from one of his greatest earlier works, no less. I think we all expected there to be some final confrontation between the Man in Black and the Ka-tet, only for him to get completely overshadowed by another villain we were only just barely introduced to. Screw subversion of expectations, sometimes you need to give the readers exactly what they want or expect. He hadn't even interacted with the ka-tet since Wizard & Glass, and even that was hardly at all, at the very end of the book. He couldn't face off against the protagonists and do some real damage just one last time before dying? Like seriously, what was the point in including him in this series if he ultimately served no purpose to the plot or to the other characters? Utterly ridiculous.

Fascism never wins, when the wolves finally eat up all the sheep, the world turns into dog eat dog ... Robert Sapolsky has talked about gorilla tribes where every few years a new dominant male gains power and kills all the male gorillas in the tribe, some of these tribes are at risk of extinction because of it ... And according to Sapolsky there is no difference between these gorillas and humans ... We are both primates...

My interpretation of the Dark Tower ending is that King is meditating on the nature of stories themselves, and how people consume them. Human beings have been telling each other stories for as long as we’ve existed, but we don’t just tell them once. We love revisiting old stories, we rewatch our favorite movies, we reread our favorite books. And back when stories were nothing more than spoken words, the storytellers would recite the most beloved stories time and time again to the recycled delight of audiences everywhere. King, like any good storyteller, loves his characters. He’s invented their entire existences and they were given life as his fingers danced across the keyboard and filled the pages with their essence. And when the reader experiences these stories, the characters live and breath once again for as long as we are engaged with the story; they are alive within our minds and their stories play out in endless repetition as new readers discover what old fans relive time and again. I think the Dark Tower is a meta narrative down to its core, going beyond just connecting the universe of King’s other stories, beyond simply having King himself be a character within the world of the series. I think its metatextual meaning extends to the very existence of the Dark Tower, both the book series and the titular tower itself. King knows these characters only truly live within the minds of his audience, just as he knows that same audience will be rereading this story until it is eventually forgotten by history, or until human beings cease to exist. That means the character of Roland Deschain, whom King clearly loves and cares for dearly, is doomed to live through the trials and tribulations and triumphant highs and devastating losses of this story over and over again without end, without knowing why or even that he is trapped in an unending cycle. This is why the series must end the way it does, warping Roland back to the beginning and leaving him to repeat the entire story over again. King even warns the reader in the author’s note before Roland enters the tower. He says you can stop reading right here, right now, let this be the final and ultimate conclusion to this story. Because there will be no coming back from this, there will be no way to unknow what you will know once you read the final pages. But King knows us as he knows himself. We are as helpless to stop reading as he is to put down his pen and let Roland be at peace. This is why I think the horn of Eld is such a brilliant addition to the ending. A small, seemingly insignificant change that potentially implies to the reader that things could be different this time, that Roland’s journey might come to some significant and true end this time around, somehow. But you will never read that story. That alternate journey can only exist within the readers’ mind, and if you choose to turn back the pages and reread the Dark Tower series, you will only find…the same journey you experienced last time. You can never accompany Roland on this new and more hopeful version of events. So what do you choose, intrepid reader? Will you let Roland finally rest, will you let him know peace at last? Or will you follow him once more, just as he follows the man in black across that desert, only to return again and again to the same fateful conclusion? A conclusion that is no conclusion at all, one that can only ever be a return to a story you can never experience for the first time ever again.

I highly recommend familiarizing yourself with caberet! it's a musical that takes place in the "last good days" of Berlin, it's so interesting and good

Hope to see it I’m from chihuahua and would love to see it on screen

The film "Cabaret" illustrates well how most people are pretty clueless as fascism/Nazism gradually takes root.

when I was reading A Clockwork Orange at work I got a lot so much pushback! which I really did not anticipate! I’m literally an English Teacher and I got sooo many questions as to why I would read that. Someone even called me a freak to my face!

I am always disturbed by how classism is ok, while racism is bad. A lot of people hide their unacceptable racism as being "just" classist, even from themselves. Because assuming poor people are greedy and lazy thieves out to get a free ride at everyone else's expense is apparently fine. They ignore the fact that they automatically expect proof that members of minority groups are NOT poor and assume people like themselves are not amongst the lazy class.

5:00 - ayeeeeeee

Simply put: 4K = Good

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me. -Martin Niemöller

Ken doesn't just feel put upon, he really is marginalized. The character is a stern warning to young men that basing your self worth on other people's approval or whims is dangerous.

My favorite book series

Great video. I've seen others try to explain the "Netflix effect" but none of then were as thourough and informative. I'd love to see a video that goes in more on the colour grading on your film and what you did then versus now.

You have an awesome voice

I’d love to see a ‘300’ or ‘sin city’ styled adaptation of blood Meridian with a horror feel to it and visually stylish. It might not be perfect but I believe it could be attempted

Making films sounds way too hard, let's just go back to books 😫Interesting breakdown though!

Wow I’ve never heard anyone share The Lottery other than my mom. She saw it as a child as was so disturbed that it always stayed with her, and she’s cited it often in these recent years. Also I’m a sucker for symbolism because even when people don’t get it, they get it, and the way people responded to your book being out highlights that. They recognized the symbol, made an immediate connection to “bad and wrong” and then in an attempt to disown any bad or wrongness within themselves they attempted to get rid of the book. Two seconds of looking at the whole title could have altered that.

*reading Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and shaking my head so everyone knows I disagree with the rise part*

I wanna write stuff for jason todd, and this feels like a great resource to get in his head. Thanks!