@@leblanc8014 Do you often have videos start playing that you are completely unaware of? I finish a video and close that tab before the credits roll....almost every time.
I don't find it terrifying to be alone in the universe at all. I don't see why that is terrifying. We would have the entire universe to ourselves, we could spread out as much as we wanted with no competition.
@@adrianbeckmann3778think about it for a minute, if there's no other intelligent life out there it means it's impossible for intelligent life to be out there, which makes it seem very likely that we are not long for this universe LOL
Hey Quinn, before the year ends just wanted to write to you. I've been reading science fiction since I was twelve years old. Where I'm from, it's not big even in literature circles. I never had anyone to discuss these stories with so I always kept my thoughts to myself. These past few years coming across your channel and seeing it grow from a small niche youtube channel to a full fledged sci-fi content creator has been such a rewarding experience. Not only did you bring me back to the books of my childhood but introduce me to new and fascinating authors and stories. It's been a tough year but your content has kept me sane and enthusiastic. I wish you all the love and luck in the world and I cannot wait to see you reach more people in the coming years. Live long and prosper!
I had not really been a fan of Steven King's newer novels but Quinn always has a way of making me wanting to pick up a book. I'd pay money for an audiobook narrated by Quinn.
You could just….pick up a book. People not taking the time to actually hold a book, feel the pages….reading something yourself is almost like being in tandem with the author. It’s sad to me that so few people are having that experience anymore…..it’s the beginning of our very own dystopia! I remember when if you wanted to know something, you had to read books to learn it.
@@jayjeckelah yes, religion, the fact that our species cares more about its feelings than the demonstrable facts is the reason that we have less than a century LOL
*Fish speaker voice* "Just let it happen..." Most people have no idea how off the rails Frank Herbert went with god emperor of dune. Leto atreides was a monster and a half. 😂🤣😭👹🪱🏛️👑
Keep being worried. Eventually, things will change. When my parents were in school people were blowing up nukes on the surface, atmosphere, under water and in the sky. When I was a kid pollution was really bad. The Great Lakes were dead and the Eagle was going to be extinct. Things do improve.
People tend to forget the environmental issues we were able to resolve. Remember acid rain? Holes in the ozone layer from cfc? We are capable of making positive changes. Haven't nuked ourselves into oblivion yet. Here's hoping we dont
@@jesipohl6717we’ve found the special boy with all the knowledge! Congratulations on being a psychic. Is there anything else you can tell us about humanity’s future?
We are too polarized. We don't talk to each other. We hate each other. We are not a good species. We need to grow. We need to speak. We need to talk on a better level. There is too much hate in this world. We must grow, we must evolve.
"Either we're alone in the universe, or we are not. Both are equally terrifying." Then you have The Great Filter and The Dark Forest, two solutions to the Fermi Paradox and both of those are terrifying too! Fantastic...
You can also think of a kind of "The Great Peace" in which an intelligent species manages to solve its own problems and make life pleasant for everyone on their planet, and therefore loses interest in seeking out and contacting other intelligent species simply to avoid having their way of life destroyed, not necessarily by a military invasion, but by much simpler things like the philosophy of another intelligent species, which could create all kinds of problems in their world even unintentionally. Imagine, for example, a species where altruism is a dominant characteristic, where there are no instincts of competition for mates, and where the planet's climate provides abundant food all year round; such a species might not even have the concept of private property, something that if introduced into this world might lead to its ruin.
I forget where it comes from, but I always think of a book I read where an alien defined a species as being mature only if you could give the power to destroy the world to every single individual without worry that anyone would come to harm.
Hey Quinn, I was taking an Uber the other day and the driver brought up that he loves Scifi and asked if I was aware of the three body problem movie and book series. For the next 35 minutes or so, we got so wrapped up in discussing various scifi books, time flew by. He was fascinated, as am I, with all things Scifi, especially books. I gave him a list of my favorite titles, which happen to be almost all recommendations by you. I also told him to watch you on youtube and patreon. You've got a new fan! Fuuny thing he said was, the way I explained a book made him super excited to want to go read it. Thanks for your recommendations!
Because of your videos, I asked for Children of Time for Christmas and got the whole Trilogy. After I finish Deepdrive by Alexander Jablokov, another book I would love to see features on the channel, I will be starting that. I began the Three Body Problem series as well because of you, so thank you for shaping my Sci-Fi diet the last few years. My mind is the richer for it.
When I see him wave with the voice over, I always feel like he's trying to use mental powers to project his voice into my brain like a psi ventriloquist. Too much Dune coverage maybe, lol.
I never would have guessed you'd cover this one. I like the fact that the alien woman is named from The Martian Chronicles. You see this whole thing is why I consider Colossus to have a happy ending; It effectively says "You're all a bunch of idiots so I'm running things now. Like or lump it!". Well, it didn't use those exact words but that was pretty much it...
bro.. we are on the edge of our seats way too often waiting for that theme music.. I'd actually like to hear you react to like the Jersey orbs or something like that too .. Lord knows there hasn't been enough fresh Quinn's ideas
Love your shows Quinn! Best Science Fiction channel on UA-cam! Thank you! Have you ever looked at Charlie Stross's book Accelerando? I'd look to learn your thoughts of it and Glass House, it's sort of sequal AND Stross's Saturn's Children.
You Like It Darker was such a great collection of short stories from my favorite author. Highly recommend, several stories will make it to movies no doubt.
This kind of thing has been weighing especially heavy on my mind for the last month or so. Texas has always had comparatively mild winters, snow being rare. But this entire month, we may have reached 32 F twice the entire time. It's been t-shirt weather otherwise. Every day. It's never been like this before.
This is the thought that haunts me. As I watch the world ignore climate change and fall to fascism once again, one can only conclude that our intelligence will be our undoing.
@@cw8867our technology gets more powerful every day, especially our weapons tech, it's only a matter of time before somebody comes up with a planet buster and is crazy enough to use it
I'd like to think that unless something actually destroys or sterilizes the planet (like an asteroid or a GRB), there would be some pockets of survivors. And they would eventually repopulate the Earth, even if restarting the tech level from scratch. It would be ironic is Earth was reset with like hillbillies from deep Appalachia, or uncontacted tribes from the Amazon or humters/gatherers from the Congo interior.
Yes. That's what the dinosaurs thought. We will endure... 😂 Millions if not billions of species have been wiped out on planet Earth over the eons. Many that were hardier than Homo Sapiens is in base form. Yes, we have technology. But currently we need a virtually global infrastructure to keep it working. If civilisation fell, I'm not sure how long humans would actually survive. Particularly if there was climate change.
Excellent examination and commentary, Quinn! Thank you for sharing this. You know, I actually _do_ like it darker! I'll have to pick this up! I haven't read King in a while. It might be time to dive back in to his voluminous body of work. 😎☮️
Perhaps civilizations are like the stars themselves, some burn brightly for billions of years, while others self destruct under their own weight. (giving rise for other intelligent species to form)
I'm thinking that things might be like Star Trek's Prime Directive. You can't interact with lower developed worlds, so that's why we haven't found anybody else. Maybe we're shielded from outside influence in some way. If there is nobody else nearby, that's scary.
How very strange - I just posted a comment and it's been swallowed up and vanished... Let's try again (if I can remember what I wrote).... Great vid, Quinn - I thought I knew where the story was going until it _didn't_ go there at all :) One day (ie probably never), I'm going to write a short story about why aliens visit Earth: it's because, of all the species in the galaxy, humans are the only ones with religions, and the only ones that believe in ghosts, spirits and an afterlife - because _we_ create them ourselves, and aliens find that fascinating. That's also why, on the whole, they keep away: they've seen what horrors religion can bring, and don't want to be "infected" by us. One day.... Happy Nude Year to everyone :)
When I see a new Quinn video click on it, upvote and comment for the algorithm. I love when you explore lesser known (to me, at least) sci-fi series. Keep’em coming
13:41 it is glaringly true that when intellect surpasses emotional intelligence, we are blindsided by our own hubris. Hubris stems from overshooting our own ability, thinking emotion is of the past, of lesser creatures, and thinking that intellect is what separates us from other things, but intellect is not better than emotionality. The heads of a coin is not better than the tails of a coin. They are just two sides of the same coin. The only way for humanity to go past the great filter and have the organism like desire and movement for survival is for intellect and emotionality to meld together. Only when they are together will humanity surpass all thresholds of annihilation. That is when the desire for physical empire, the vehicle for ideological empire, will be at last put to rest.
I worry the most about those forces that want to both squelch intellect and knowledge *and* regress to rock and doo-doo-throwing immaturity, paranoia, and hate. In some ways, perhaps the problem is how mortality itself is presented in so many thought-systems: people are in a way trained to be afraid of their own mortality in ways that mean they can't accept or really comprehend the world going on without them. An 'End of the World' is pretty tidy compared to the actual messes and misery that come from when civilization screws up, gets reactionary, and dumbs and/or burns itself down.
Hey Quinn, I like your ideas. Some quick feedback from a low attention watcher so more don't click off the video like me (sadly). 30 seconds in before we got to the intro, a minute in and I didn't feel like I have a real hook or entrance into whatever this topic is. I've never heard of it, and I'm sure it's interesting, but I (apparently) need an entry point a little quicker to stay. May the algorithm gods bless you.
Excellent overview and narration, as always, Quinn. We, as "cells" of humanity's superorganism, can--given enough of us care--reroute our path away from self-destruction and towards a future we can be proud of. Our nature can hinder us or help us, but our conscious mind can override our base instincts, if we allow it.
All too true. People act they way their predecessors acted 100 years ago or 1000 years ago, but the materials are far more dangerous and damaging than before.
@@nettewilson5926I believe our tragedy is that not all of us are stupid or short-sighted but that those drown out the voices of temperance and foresight. Have you ever tried telling a stupid person that they stupid and worth less to the super organism and people around them? It never ends well.
Quinn, it's driving me nuts that I can't figure it out - which of Jamez's pieces have you used for this video? It's so captivating to listen to, I'd love to hear it on its own! But it doesn't seem to match anything he currently has on his own channel or Bandcamp. 🤔
I'm amazed that the aliens had the foresight to get an autographed picture of juhjudi several years before she even became a judge and nearly 20 before the show first aired.
So basically this is like a mirrored version of Childhood's End. The aliens in that book make a museum of Earth and other worlds, but it's far more optimistic and utopian
I wish I remembered the name of the short story, but I read it a few years ago and the moral is that we humans are dramatic, self-absorbed creatures who like to think we can either reach Star Trek style utopia or completely destroy the world, but those views are utter hubris. Civilizations rise and fall, and have their ups and downs; so do species. Inevitably humans will go extinct, but it is unlikely to be by our own hand. On the flip side utopia is so filled with things that go against our very nature it would be hard to call us human still if we ever reached it. I could only think of that this whole video. Nukes are scary, but there never has been a reason to nuke every square inch of the planet. Climate change presents a major challenge, but it cannot change the layout of the continents so hot house Earth will not return. AI are tools and gene editing is so new we can fill it with our own dark fantasies.
I was watching this show called Silo on appletv and this character “Judy meadows” made a statement that brought a tear to my eye. So basically humanity lives underground due to the surface world be uninhabitable, yeah I know so original right but this show is amazing. But she says and this this what broke me “Bernard, how did they (present day us) lose this world” won’t spoil anymore but man lines like that in times like these just make me want to cry.
if he was collecting souvenirs I would empty my pockets.. that would probably give me some small satisfaction to know that these guys were putting my knife, wallet and pocket change in the museum like.. "bro this one was trippy" lol
To be honest, when I consider the number of photos I have of me with celebs at ComicCons, aliens valuing a signed Judge Judy photo kind of makes sense. I mean, if they have interstellar travel and can create rough facsimiles of humans, our technological achievements will have little value to them. And only the "richest" (even I'd they have such a concept) could afford to acquire a pyramid or London Bridge...
The light speed barrier, where by intelligent species learn that the speed of light is seemingly THE maximum speed of matter/information exchange and they never bother to try and develop workarounds like an alcubier drive or 0width wormholes. Genuinely what if it's smart people saying that the speed of light is the be all end all and their populace just accepting it
“Their populace”? It’s literally other scientists who would work with or explore other alternatives. They aren’t some elite secretive ruling class. They were just the share of the regular people who try to look deep into science
Humans as a super-organism?? I don’t buy it….people seem too contradicting; too tribal ; too competitive for that….maybe you could discuss further or point me to another video you did that explains further…..also love your works…so intelligent and thought provoking… 18:52
I tried a few King novels, but I could never get into his style of writing. I'm here only because I like your reviews. I hope you are having a good holiday season.
I can't get through his novels, but enjoy his short stories. The format makes him get to the point at the expense of (usually excessive) world building.
One wonders if the superorganism has been infected or is simply maladaptive. If it has been infected, how? How long ago? Why didn't the superorganism fight it off? Does the superorganism even have an immune system? Was it's diet compromised? Or was it injured? Was the injury accidental? Or was it the intention of some other entity?
One of the hard to grasp things about meme theory is how fuzzy the borders between organ and organism are. Memeplexes are made up of memes that are themselves part of the environment that the memes are adapting to. It's like studying evolutionary biology except if every animal was one of those animals that incorporate jellyfish stinger organelles into themselves after eating jellyfish, and instead of embedding stingers in their skin it's central parts of their entire makeup like adding bits of other animal's kidneys to their own. The whole set up's super-saturated with vectors for parasites. Kidneys that want to get their hosts eaten so more hosts will have that sort of kidney, sort of thing.
@ryle4h yeah. It's definitely not a one-to-one metaphor, but it seems that the superorganism was more stable (though not necessarily healthier) in the past. Now - thanks technological innovation - the old imperialism/colonialism/capitalism dynamics have overpowered the natural environment to the point that there's no real feedback mechanism anymore. It's like a child that no one ever says no to. The superorganism's evolving too fast to find an equilibrium with its environment, because it's too focused on extracting everything it can from its environment - thereby leaving the environment in a constant state of flux. Too much Entropy leads to collapse.
In my opinion, the superorganism has cancer. A small portion of "cells" are demanding all of the resources and propagating themselves at the expense of the whole.
A new video - A nice Happy New Year present. Just ordered "You Like It Darker" from my library by TDS suffering raving lunatic, Mr. King. A chat between Mr. King, Keith Olbermann, and Rosie O'Donnell? Would be both entertaining, and so sad. He's as economically inept and fact immune to a wide range of issues as AOC .... but still a fine writer :)
14:30 All those examples you gave, about extracting the power of atoms and mapping the human genome, these kinds of advances have always happened, even when we were cavemen and started using stone and bone tools, dressing in furs, and lighting fires at night to keep warm and protect ourselves from predators. All of this has always been "something we weren't prepared for," and the biggest proof of that is that we allowed these discoveries and inventions to shape us and our way of life. It may seem that now, with our smartphones and computers, we are very smart, but I assure you that a large part of the world, perhaps the majority, doesn't really understand what fire is and how it truly works at a fundamentally scientific level. We have always been animals, and our creations have always been too much for mere animals to handle. As for the Fermi Paradox, besides the vast distances that may separate intelligent species from each other, it is possible that at some point intelligent species reach such a secure and stable level, both technologically and socially, that seeking out other beings would simply be a threat to their way of life. Far more dangerous than any laser weapon would be some kind of alien philosophy with ideas and concepts perhaps never considered by that society that has finally achieved peace. Here in Brazil, we have a saying: "In a winning team, you don't change players!" which, in this context, basically means that if you, as a species, have finally achieved world peace or something like that, there is no reason to go out looking for trouble beyond your planet.
Never change the intro song. 👍
It’s like taking a journey into deep space every time I hear it haha
It’s simple and it works! I hear it and I know it’s Quinn. That brand recognition 😂
agreed
@@leblanc8014 Do you often have videos start playing that you are completely unaware of? I finish a video and close that tab before the credits roll....almost every time.
I'm playing on the guitar with each video.. I mixed it with the melody from 'gravity falls' , it surprisingly matching each other
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke
I don't find it terrifying to be alone in the universe at all. I don't see why that is terrifying. We would have the entire universe to ourselves, we could spread out as much as we wanted with no competition.
When you're paranoid about everything then everything is terrifying.
Doesn't have to be terrifying
@@adrianbeckmann3778think about it for a minute, if there's no other intelligent life out there it means it's impossible for intelligent life to be out there, which makes it seem very likely that we are not long for this universe LOL
@@emoryogglethorp8180 Or we just won the ultimate lottery and no one else did. Look at glass half full vs half empty.
Hey Quinn, before the year ends just wanted to write to you.
I've been reading science fiction since I was twelve years old. Where I'm from, it's not big even in literature circles. I never had anyone to discuss these stories with so I always kept my thoughts to myself. These past few years coming across your channel and seeing it grow from a small niche youtube channel to a full fledged sci-fi content creator has been such a rewarding experience. Not only did you bring me back to the books of my childhood but introduce me to new and fascinating authors and stories. It's been a tough year but your content has kept me sane and enthusiastic.
I wish you all the love and luck in the world and I cannot wait to see you reach more people in the coming years. Live long and prosper!
I had not really been a fan of Steven King's newer novels but Quinn always has a way of making me wanting to pick up a book. I'd pay money for an audiobook narrated by Quinn.
Yes. His narration is quite good and allows you to get "within" his words.
Which books and how much are you willing to pay?
I have Ai tools that can literally have anyone you like, reading any book you want.
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@@Itssmial_Ovaif I send you a box of old 70s porn paperbacks can you have them narrated by Quinn? It will be a gift for a friend.
I was thinking the same thing.
It's still not a great story. King isn't good at aliens.
Quinn makes it work.
You could just….pick up a book. People not taking the time to actually hold a book, feel the pages….reading something yourself is almost like being in tandem with the author. It’s sad to me that so few people are having that experience anymore…..it’s the beginning of our very own dystopia! I remember when if you wanted to know something, you had to read books to learn it.
Hopefully we won’t need to be ruled by a worm god-emperor for 3500 years in order to survive
I have some bad news post the 2024 US presidential election... 😑
I voted for the wormgod 🇺🇲
Bless the Maker and His Water. May His passing cleanse the World.
@@jayjeckelah yes, religion, the fact that our species cares more about its feelings than the demonstrable facts is the reason that we have less than a century LOL
*Fish speaker voice* "Just let it happen..." Most people have no idea how off the rails Frank Herbert went with god emperor of dune. Leto atreides was a monster and a half. 😂🤣😭👹🪱🏛️👑
Keep being worried. Eventually, things will change. When my parents were in school people were blowing up nukes on the surface, atmosphere, under water and in the sky. When I was a kid pollution was really bad. The Great Lakes were dead and the Eagle was going to be extinct. Things do improve.
People tend to forget the environmental issues we were able to resolve. Remember acid rain? Holes in the ozone layer from cfc? We are capable of making positive changes. Haven't nuked ourselves into oblivion yet. Here's hoping we dont
icing on the cake might look good, but when the cake is poisoned it doesn't matter.
humanity is done.
@@treavorwhitlock5606 the ozone hole and cfc problem is still ongoing. keep posting on that vision board though.
Don't forget the dustbowl.
@@jesipohl6717we’ve found the special boy with all the knowledge! Congratulations on being a psychic. Is there anything else you can tell us about humanity’s future?
We are too polarized. We don't talk to each other. We hate each other. We are not a good species.
We need to grow. We need to speak. We need to talk on a better level. There is too much hate in this world. We must grow, we must evolve.
"Either we're alone in the universe, or we are not. Both are equally terrifying." Then you have The Great Filter and The Dark Forest, two solutions to the Fermi Paradox and both of those are terrifying too! Fantastic...
You can also think of a kind of "The Great Peace" in which an intelligent species manages to solve its own problems and make life pleasant for everyone on their planet, and therefore loses interest in seeking out and contacting other intelligent species simply to avoid having their way of life destroyed, not necessarily by a military invasion, but by much simpler things like the philosophy of another intelligent species, which could create all kinds of problems in their world even unintentionally. Imagine, for example, a species where altruism is a dominant characteristic, where there are no instincts of competition for mates, and where the planet's climate provides abundant food all year round; such a species might not even have the concept of private property, something that if introduced into this world might lead to its ruin.
This wasnt my favourite story in the collection, but I always like it when king goes a bit sci-fi
I haven't read the book yet. Were there any particular stand outs for you?
I forget where it comes from, but I always think of a book I read where an alien defined a species as being mature only if you could give the power to destroy the world to every single individual without worry that anyone would come to harm.
Hey Quinn, I was taking an Uber the other day and the driver brought up that he loves Scifi and asked if I was aware of the three body problem movie and book series. For the next 35 minutes or so, we got so wrapped up in discussing various scifi books, time flew by. He was fascinated, as am I, with all things Scifi, especially books. I gave him a list of my favorite titles, which happen to be almost all recommendations by you. I also told him to watch you on youtube and patreon. You've got a new fan! Fuuny thing he said was, the way I explained a book made him super excited to want to go read it. Thanks for your recommendations!
über is more evil than any taxi company or lyft.
Incredible reading, thank you! The part where the Alien mentions having an autographed picture of Juhjudi was a nice touch
Damn. Every time a new Quinn vid drops, I realize again, and again, how much I missed watching them..
Finding out that we aren't alone in the universe and neither be faced with malice nor kindness. But pity. That has to sting.
Hey Quinn, I highly recommend checking out the Metal Gear Solid Series. Personally, I think it’s right up your alley.
Because of your videos, I asked for Children of Time for Christmas and got the whole Trilogy. After I finish Deepdrive by Alexander Jablokov, another book I would love to see features on the channel, I will be starting that. I began the Three Body Problem series as well because of you, so thank you for shaping my Sci-Fi diet the last few years. My mind is the richer for it.
Oh you are in for a treat, Children of Time is excellent
Love this channel. Keep it up Quinn.
Happy Holidays, Quinn! Here's wishing you longevity & a prosperous New Year!
0:23 anyone else wave to Quinn here? No? Just me? Cool…. 😬
When I see him wave with the voice over, I always feel like he's trying to use mental powers to project his voice into my brain like a psi ventriloquist. Too much Dune coverage maybe, lol.
Yep
This end has already begun.
I never would have guessed you'd cover this one. I like the fact that the alien woman is named from The Martian Chronicles. You see this whole thing is why I consider Colossus to have a happy ending; It effectively says "You're all a bunch of idiots so I'm running things now. Like or lump it!". Well, it didn't use those exact words but that was pretty much it...
bro.. we are on the edge of our seats way too often waiting for that theme music.. I'd actually like to hear you react to like the Jersey orbs or something like that too .. Lord knows there hasn't been enough fresh Quinn's ideas
Love your shows Quinn! Best Science Fiction channel on UA-cam! Thank you! Have you ever looked at Charlie Stross's book Accelerando? I'd look to learn your thoughts of it and Glass House, it's sort of sequal AND Stross's Saturn's Children.
Bro, a new Quinn drop. It's a great day 😎
What is technological development, really, when it comes at the cost of social and moral progress?
The fact that the ET hearings were just another side story tells you how apathetic people have become to the constant inundation of "breaking" news...
You mean the please give us millions of dollars without oversight hearings?
You Like It Darker was such a great collection of short stories from my favorite author. Highly recommend, several stories will make it to movies no doubt.
This kind of thing has been weighing especially heavy on my mind for the last month or so. Texas has always had comparatively mild winters, snow being rare. But this entire month, we may have reached 32 F twice the entire time. It's been t-shirt weather otherwise. Every day. It's never been like this before.
This is the thought that haunts me. As I watch the world ignore climate change and fall to fascism once again, one can only conclude that our intelligence will be our undoing.
Nice. Does feel as if this planet is doomed at times
Not the planet. Humans. The planet will be fine without us just like it has the previous 4 billion years...
@@cw8867our technology gets more powerful every day, especially our weapons tech, it's only a matter of time before somebody comes up with a planet buster and is crazy enough to use it
Quinn carries the SciFy community on UA-cam for yet another year.
I'd like to think that unless something actually destroys or sterilizes the planet (like an asteroid or a GRB), there would be some pockets of survivors. And they would eventually repopulate the Earth, even if restarting the tech level from scratch. It would be ironic is Earth was reset with like hillbillies from deep Appalachia, or uncontacted tribes from the Amazon or humters/gatherers from the Congo interior.
Yes. That's what the dinosaurs thought. We will endure... 😂
Millions if not billions of species have been wiped out on planet Earth over the eons. Many that were hardier than Homo Sapiens is in base form.
Yes, we have technology. But currently we need a virtually global infrastructure to keep it working.
If civilisation fell, I'm not sure how long humans would actually survive. Particularly if there was climate change.
Hunter gatherers from the Amazon are more likely to survive.
The planet will be fine. The people are fukked.
2:55 this type of End of the world reminds me of Terminator Zero and Vivy. Both highly recommend to watch.
Love vivy! So underrated....just finished pantheon.
Vivy Flourite Eyes?
Excellent examination and commentary, Quinn! Thank you for sharing this. You know, I actually _do_ like it darker! I'll have to pick this up! I haven't read King in a while. It might be time to dive back in to his voluminous body of work. 😎☮️
I hope you got lots of books for Christmas, Quinn
Perhaps civilizations are like the stars themselves, some burn brightly for billions of years, while others self destruct under their own weight. (giving rise for other intelligent species to form)
I'm thinking that things might be like Star Trek's Prime Directive. You can't interact with lower developed worlds, so that's why we haven't found anybody else. Maybe we're shielded from outside influence in some way. If there is nobody else nearby, that's scary.
How very strange - I just posted a comment and it's been swallowed up and vanished... Let's try again (if I can remember what I wrote)....
Great vid, Quinn - I thought I knew where the story was going until it _didn't_ go there at all :)
One day (ie probably never), I'm going to write a short story about why aliens visit Earth: it's because, of all the species in the galaxy, humans are the only ones with religions, and the only ones that believe in ghosts, spirits and an afterlife - because _we_ create them ourselves, and aliens find that fascinating. That's also why, on the whole, they keep away: they've seen what horrors religion can bring, and don't want to be "infected" by us.
One day....
Happy Nude Year to everyone :)
Doooooo iiiit!
Cool story summary. Each nation is a competing superorganism. Humanity is a colony of colonies.
You like it darker. We kill the flame.
When I see a new Quinn video click on it, upvote and comment for the algorithm. I love when you explore lesser known (to me, at least) sci-fi series. Keep’em coming
Sounds like a visit from dark Ford Prefect. I love it.
Great video. Thanks for my daily dose of gloom and doom. Just waiting for the second dimension to make me into a painting.
Oh hell I just read this. Quinn you are a god.
I rate this video, 10 of 10 🍿
If anything wipes out humanity it’ll be pure cringe.
The organism best lined up to wipe us out is... us. Humans may end up being the cringelords of the universe. Kind of funny but also quite morbid
....because humans are deplorable.
13:41 it is glaringly true that when intellect surpasses emotional intelligence, we are blindsided by our own hubris. Hubris stems from overshooting our own ability, thinking emotion is of the past, of lesser creatures, and thinking that intellect is what separates us from other things, but intellect is not better than emotionality. The heads of a coin is not better than the tails of a coin. They are just two sides of the same coin. The only way for humanity to go past the great filter and have the organism like desire and movement for survival is for intellect and emotionality to meld together. Only when they are together will humanity surpass all thresholds of annihilation. That is when the desire for physical empire, the vehicle for ideological empire, will be at last put to rest.
I worry the most about those forces that want to both squelch intellect and knowledge *and* regress to rock and doo-doo-throwing immaturity, paranoia, and hate.
In some ways, perhaps the problem is how mortality itself is presented in so many thought-systems: people are in a way trained to be afraid of their own mortality in ways that mean they can't accept or really comprehend the world going on without them. An 'End of the World' is pretty tidy compared to the actual messes and misery that come from when civilization screws up, gets reactionary, and dumbs and/or burns itself down.
Love the storyline , especially this one
Another great video.
Great vid!
There should be a sequel to this story
Quinn, have you watched Love, Death & Robots on Netflix yet?
I love that show! Well, most of it!
Awesome video thanks dude
Hey Quinn, I like your ideas. Some quick feedback from a low attention watcher so more don't click off the video like me (sadly).
30 seconds in before we got to the intro, a minute in and I didn't feel like I have a real hook or entrance into whatever this topic is. I've never heard of it, and I'm sure it's interesting, but I (apparently) need an entry point a little quicker to stay.
May the algorithm gods bless you.
Excellent overview and narration, as always, Quinn. We, as "cells" of humanity's superorganism, can--given enough of us care--reroute our path away from self-destruction and towards a future we can be proud of. Our nature can hinder us or help us, but our conscious mind can override our base instincts, if we allow it.
Utterly naive fantasy. More rational to follow the available evidence.
@kennethg9277 An excellent example of learned helplessness.
I always believed that we would create our own doom one day.
People are too fickle. Too easy to anger. To easy to manipulate.
Too selfish and stupid
All too true. People act they way their predecessors acted 100 years ago or 1000 years ago, but the materials are far more dangerous and damaging than before.
@@nettewilson5926I believe our tragedy is that not all of us are stupid or short-sighted but that those drown out the voices of temperance and foresight. Have you ever tried telling a stupid person that they stupid and worth less to the super organism and people around them? It never ends well.
Quinn, it's driving me nuts that I can't figure it out - which of Jamez's pieces have you used for this video? It's so captivating to listen to, I'd love to hear it on its own! But it doesn't seem to match anything he currently has on his own channel or Bandcamp. 🤔
Blimey, cheer up it’s Christmas
I'm amazed that the aliens had the foresight to get an autographed picture of juhjudi several years before she even became a judge and nearly 20 before the show first aired.
Selfishness/greed/individualism are both a blessing and a curse
"Unfortunately, No One Can Be Told What ‘Quinn’s Ideas’ Is. You Have To See It For Yourself."
Agent smith from the matrix talks about this.
The human collective is not yhe human individual.
So basically this is like a mirrored version of Childhood's End. The aliens in that book make a museum of Earth and other worlds, but it's far more optimistic and utopian
I wish I remembered the name of the short story, but I read it a few years ago and the moral is that we humans are dramatic, self-absorbed creatures who like to think we can either reach Star Trek style utopia or completely destroy the world, but those views are utter hubris. Civilizations rise and fall, and have their ups and downs; so do species. Inevitably humans will go extinct, but it is unlikely to be by our own hand. On the flip side utopia is so filled with things that go against our very nature it would be hard to call us human still if we ever reached it. I could only think of that this whole video.
Nukes are scary, but there never has been a reason to nuke every square inch of the planet. Climate change presents a major challenge, but it cannot change the layout of the continents so hot house Earth will not return. AI are tools and gene editing is so new we can fill it with our own dark fantasies.
I was watching this show called Silo on appletv and this character “Judy meadows” made a statement that brought a tear to my eye. So basically humanity lives underground due to the surface world be uninhabitable, yeah I know so original right but this show is amazing. But she says and this this what broke me “Bernard, how did they (present day us) lose this world” won’t spoil anymore but man lines like that in times like these just make me want to cry.
We're Doomed. 😐
Quinn I would love to listen to audio books in your voice, have you ever considered?
What do you think of the Strugatsky brothers work makes me sad no one discusses their novels
if he was collecting souvenirs I would empty my pockets.. that would probably give me some small satisfaction to know that these guys were putting my knife, wallet and pocket change in the museum like.. "bro this one was trippy" lol
Sounds like typical Star Trek episode
As I look at the world I feel sad, as this story might not be fiction.
To be honest, when I consider the number of photos I have of me with celebs at ComicCons, aliens valuing a signed Judge Judy photo kind of makes sense.
I mean, if they have interstellar travel and can create rough facsimiles of humans, our technological achievements will have little value to them.
And only the "richest" (even I'd they have such a concept) could afford to acquire a pyramid or London Bridge...
Makes you wonder if these aliens would go extinct leaving collections of stuff gathered from other alien races.
The light speed barrier, where by intelligent species learn that the speed of light is seemingly THE maximum speed of matter/information exchange and they never bother to try and develop workarounds like an alcubier drive or 0width wormholes.
Genuinely what if it's smart people saying that the speed of light is the be all end all and their populace just accepting it
“Their populace”? It’s literally other scientists who would work with or explore other alternatives. They aren’t some elite secretive ruling class. They were just the share of the regular people who try to look deep into science
wake up early
secure the trigger
take no xenoshits
get on that spell grind
NO days off
Sword Bearer Mindsight
Steven King brags about meeting aliens and getting the ability to produce crazy stuff like we wouldn't notice
Unless those aliens gave him a big old bag of cocaine, I doubt they influenced his work all that much
Quinn's concept or perspective on the human race's behavior is accurate. I see it in elections and hatred towards each other.
What about the genocide that so called western “democracies” are aiding and abetting? And in our case, directly funding?
This is similar to SCP-3201.
I became the 666th “like”…my path is now set.
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Bit of a typo in the title of the video, Quinn.
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@@egads3696 The devastating reason the visited earth. It's supposed to be The Reason "They" visited earth
Very King-esque.
@egads3696 The devastating reason the visited earth. It's supposed to be The Reason "They" visited earth
@TikiDragon1 he must have fixed it by the time i watched
Yayyyy a quin upload!!
Humans as a super-organism?? I don’t buy it….people seem too contradicting; too tribal ; too competitive for that….maybe you could discuss further or point me to another video you did that explains further…..also love your works…so intelligent and thought provoking… 18:52
How did the north American locust go extinct?
Butch as in Butch Cassidy not Butch as in much. @11:29
Our ambitions far exceed our humanity
This!
I tried a few King novels, but I could never get into his style of writing. I'm here only because I like your reviews. I hope you are having a good holiday season.
I can't get through his novels, but enjoy his short stories. The format makes him get to the point at the expense of (usually excessive) world building.
Caught the typo in the title ;)
The biggest danger to humankind and planet earth is human greed, imo.
The hunger for power is much much worse than greed. "Robber barons" build railroads. Control freaks start wars and run killing fields.
Eyy, early!
SK mentioned 😌👌🏾
I love the idea of first contact being nerdy aliens who just like collecting junk hahaha 😂
Yay a video not about dune tv show. No offense its just not my thing, and like when this channel does thought provoking cosmic horror
Thanks!
We want More just more ❤
One wonders if the superorganism has been infected or is simply maladaptive. If it has been infected, how? How long ago? Why didn't the superorganism fight it off? Does the superorganism even have an immune system? Was it's diet compromised? Or was it injured? Was the injury accidental? Or was it the intention of some other entity?
One of the hard to grasp things about meme theory is how fuzzy the borders between organ and organism are. Memeplexes are made up of memes that are themselves part of the environment that the memes are adapting to. It's like studying evolutionary biology except if every animal was one of those animals that incorporate jellyfish stinger organelles into themselves after eating jellyfish, and instead of embedding stingers in their skin it's central parts of their entire makeup like adding bits of other animal's kidneys to their own. The whole set up's super-saturated with vectors for parasites. Kidneys that want to get their hosts eaten so more hosts will have that sort of kidney, sort of thing.
@ryle4h yeah. It's definitely not a one-to-one metaphor, but it seems that the superorganism was more stable (though not necessarily healthier) in the past. Now - thanks technological innovation - the old imperialism/colonialism/capitalism dynamics have overpowered the natural environment to the point that there's no real feedback mechanism anymore. It's like a child that no one ever says no to. The superorganism's evolving too fast to find an equilibrium with its environment, because it's too focused on extracting everything it can from its environment - thereby leaving the environment in a constant state of flux.
Too much Entropy leads to collapse.
In my opinion, the superorganism has cancer. A small portion of "cells" are demanding all of the resources and propagating themselves at the expense of the whole.
A new video - A nice Happy New Year present.
Just ordered "You Like It Darker" from my library by TDS suffering raving lunatic, Mr. King.
A chat between Mr. King, Keith Olbermann, and Rosie O'Donnell?
Would be both entertaining, and so sad.
He's as economically inept and fact immune to a wide range of issues as AOC
.... but still a fine writer :)
Stephen King is completely overrated but Quinn has a voice created for audiobooks and could make a telephone directory sound interesting.
You take that back! He's only mostly overrated.
His short stories are better than his novels.
@@scottmorgan5212 Which are, in turn, better than his movies...
His writing is great he just never learned how to land the plane.
Quinn does have at least one book out there, go give it a read
The self destruction trope is over done by people who think themselves rational manifesters.
14:30 All those examples you gave, about extracting the power of atoms and mapping the human genome, these kinds of advances have always happened, even when we were cavemen and started using stone and bone tools, dressing in furs, and lighting fires at night to keep warm and protect ourselves from predators. All of this has always been "something we weren't prepared for," and the biggest proof of that is that we allowed these discoveries and inventions to shape us and our way of life. It may seem that now, with our smartphones and computers, we are very smart, but I assure you that a large part of the world, perhaps the majority, doesn't really understand what fire is and how it truly works at a fundamentally scientific level. We have always been animals, and our creations have always been too much for mere animals to handle.
As for the Fermi Paradox, besides the vast distances that may separate intelligent species from each other, it is possible that at some point intelligent species reach such a secure and stable level, both technologically and socially, that seeking out other beings would simply be a threat to their way of life. Far more dangerous than any laser weapon would be some kind of alien philosophy with ideas and concepts perhaps never considered by that society that has finally achieved peace. Here in Brazil, we have a saying: "In a winning team, you don't change players!" which, in this context, basically means that if you, as a species, have finally achieved world peace or something like that, there is no reason to go out looking for trouble beyond your planet.