Don't Look Up and The Result of Late Capitalism
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- Опубліковано 13 тра 2024
- In the 21st century, satire has become a medium that is among the most commodifiable. In the spirit of Zizek, ideology isn't of blind acceptance, but of mass cynical unacceptance. In spirit of this, Don't Look Up approaches its critique much smarter than most. It goes beyond the symptoms of late-capitalism; hedonism, willful ignorance, and into the structure of political economy. Between state and(in) commerce, yet through the lens of culture. For this, in my mind, it deserves a video on this channel. And is one of my favorite movies I have seen in 2021.
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Timestamp:
Intro: 0:00
History and Emergence of Late Capitalism: 4:22
Postmodern Systems and Subjects: 11:54
Art as Affect and Existence: 28:52
A Message: 34:10
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@@Dkkm10 how has this video discouraged free thought?
@@Dkkm10 Citing the author's literal, verbalized intent of the film/TV show isn't an appeal to authority. I think you want to go back to the drawing board with that one.
Don't Look Up is evidence that irony and satire are no longer possible or, at the very least, far more difficult than in previous eras.
No, they are just simply rendered useless because, while annoying the capitalists and the like, don’t actually do anything to change the circumstances of late capitalism.
It’s evidence that no one is able to think about anything that they don’t already believe in
It's near impossible as we already live in a world as such. Irony and satire itself becomes the norm and thus have no power and meaning anymore.
One of your best videos, this is being criminally ignored by the algorithm.
only showed up when I searched don't look up with an apostrophe
I searched up hauntology and it was there but like 5-7 vids down. I’m a little late but this vid is a fantastic critique. I’m not familiar with the creator but I am glad he took his time explaining late stage to people who aren’t familiar with these concepts before going into the actual critique.
definitely, I looked for something like this on dont look up a few months ago, so happy to find it now
For profit algorithm +Feds keeps the min wage low ❤
Strangely, no one on the West (as far as I've heard) haven't talked about the religious level of sublime in the film. The last scene is precisely Chekhovian as the family meets their end chatting about mundane things with stoic dignity - Cherry Orchard style. The point is not mine, but this ending is very... calming in a bad way? Maybe it's just me, but the desire (and an instruction how to actually desire it, cinema perv) to meet the death with dignity is the very thing that pacifying. Contrary to that, like, no, apocalypse will come, but - bad news - we all will not die in that beautiful (i cried personally) scene with siberian shaman, fire falling from sky, very christian, very catarticly exaltating. No, we will survive to live in a dirty and humiliating world. And it's not that foreign, totally alian world of Mad Max and non-humanity. It will be ours world and the shame and filth will be ours to get by.
“There is no punctual moment of disaster. The world does not end with a bang, it winks out, unravels, gradually falls apart.” -Mark Fisher
on the contrary, we will die in the filth and chaos. the seemingly slow-motion apocalypse is so until the fire falls from the sky and at that point, there will be a bang to signal the end of the anthropocene.
I love that family scene at the end. My thought is that one wants to meet death with acceptance. I almost died once - swept out in a rip tide into the second break in a large area of surf in the ocean. I only lived because I had an experience of a connection to something greater that spoke to me and allowed me to choose to live because I came to a place of acceptance and peacefulness and I calmed down and found my way back to shore. I just think that I come into an apocalyptic event like abrupt climate change where the earth suddenly heats up due to something like the release of a massive amount of Arctic stores of methane that I choose to accept it. Maybe it was the mundane quality of the conversation as opposed to the scene with the shaman that you didn’t like. The shaman seemed to be welcoming the coming of the comet as if it was the force of Shiva destroying the world in the cosmic cycle of death and eventual rebirth. Yet that prayer at the end of family dinner - I was moved.
Hot take Ivan, damn..
There's a sense in which the film desires the comet. It wants it.
"With its never-ending emphasis on exploitation and expansion, and its indifference to environmental costs, capitalism appears determined to stand outside nature. The essence of capitalism, its raison d'être, is to convert nature into commodities and commodities into capital, transforming the living earth into inanimate wealth." (PARENTI, Blackshirts and Reds).
I can't stop thinking about this.
Nature sucks. It did nothing but try to kill humanity and our pre-human ancestors for millions of years. We should obliterate it.
Capitalism isn’t a person. If we made better consumer decisions then none of this would be a problem
@@yoeyyoey8937Say sike rn
@@neqi9984 what was wrong with what i said?
There will come a point when we'll be forced to choose between continuing capitalism and our survival on Earth, and unfortunately we shall choose the former.
Oh we already did that
We're already doing it. People don't give an af. We are choosing our destruction. We want to die and the Earth and the Universe will make sure it comes to pass.
Yep and that time was 20 or more years ago
@@shaneelliott9045 Oil companies knew about it 50 years ago 😵💫
Nope. You can't get out of your responsibilities that easily. We're not dead yet.
We are all responsible for the world.
The irony trying to watch this while constantly getting plagued by product propaganda 😢
I have been studying, researching, and writing about these subjects for quite a few years now. The fact that I find your UA-cam channel all these years later is quite the statement on the relevance of the information you're sharing.
I know people who have watched the film, and were entertained by it. It is an amazing work of satire. I watched it in a perpetual state of something between disgust, despair, and horror. I suppose there are a lot of us here who are trapped in that 'limbo', and are acutely aware of it. I've watched two of your videos, and they are phenomenal. I am sorry that I didn't know about them sooner.
Hey, thanks so much. Always appreciate these kind of comments.
I managed to watch the first twenty minutes of the film before my frustration levels blew off the scale and I switched it off.
From a tired old man, this is spot on.......... What Ive born witness to during these past 60 years has been absolutley and utterly remarkable. Ive found the only why to cope with it is to look at it all with a disstracted sence of ammusment.
It fascinates me how many people do not realize how scary it is to put stupid people in positions of power.
Lucky for you, then, stupid people aren't in positions of power. Just malevolent ones.
Real problem is that they think they are smart or don’t need to be. Look at our current prez
They are not stupid, they know exactly what they are doing in they are not in favor of yours. If someone has different benefits than you is stupid? I wouldn't think so
Or any people in power for that matter.
Amazing video, Epoch! I'll make sure to share this with my friends, because damn, the algorithm does not like your video. Didn't even get a notification even though I specifically activated the "notify me" button.
Such is the state of weird UA-cam stuff my friend. Not a problem. Thanks a ton for the support!
Amazing work, effort, and passion put into this one as always, Epoch! Thank you for doing what you do
Thanks as always John Cena. I'm very happy you enjoyed!
Fantastic work. I've come to expect nothing less from you. I was looking forward to this and it did not disappoint.
Amazing video Epoch, your videos are continually fantastic and demonstrate an amazing knowledge and analysis on these subjects and they're always a genuine pleasure to watch
P.S. I'm just wondering how you manage to edit these videos so well; any tips? They're executed beautifully
Oh nevermind, just seen it's in your Patreon, I don't have the money to sign up. But nevertheless your videos are outstanding and I hope you make a plethora more in the future. Out of interest, are you aware; past Plastic Pills and Acid Horizon; on any good UA-cam channels that make content similar to your own?
No problem at all. Thanks a ton.
Lots of time spent in After Effects, and trying to keep an artistic eye on how certain colors, tones, etc. all mesh together you know? Kind of impossible to explain here, but I do have some tutorials. If I could simply type out my editing process, I actually would lol. And yes, watch PlasticPills all the time, and know the dudes over at Acid Horizon. Used to listen to their podcast quite frequently when going between classes in university.
damn this analysis was really next level, thanks for the further study references, and also this is easily my favourite video on your channel, i think because of how relevant this info is thx
Agreed. Just found this vid and channel. It's a fantastic video and I hope more people would view it. 👍
This is a great show but all it really does is show how little we care for each other and are completely focused on gaining materials to feel validated in a system that no longer lifts people up but rather gets them to enjoy and even idolize our slavery … seriously, actors who have more wealth then they know what to do with are on the TV trying to tell people everything is just fine the way it is
Read my comment on this video.
Amazing video - thorough, deeply insightful and moving. Thanks so much.
You've knocked it out of the park with this one. Thank you!
Really enjoyed this video, the movie was really good and you pointed out things I looked over. Thank you!
Fantastic video! Thank you for producing it. Just learned of your channel and subscribed... just fantastic!
Great video!! I haven't actually watched Don't Look Up yet - but now I'll definitely check it out!
Dude you need more views this is amazing
Beautifully gripping there at the end, I'm so glad yt finally let this through the gates
I love how your video consists of examples of everything you're critiquing. Hopefully we can see this marathon to its end.
Came here from LSOO, subscribed. Awesome work man
Thanks so much! Glad you are here.
Only reason people were ripping on this movie is because it is EXACTLY spot on about how people would react to something like that.
What's so great about the movie is how it pissed me off because how real the character acted to actual western society.
Leonardo da Vinci is such a great actor...
indeed. I particularly love his work from the 1485 film “The Mona in The Iron Mask”.
This video made me appreciate the movie much more, great analysis!
Another very thought provoking video. Wasn't going to watch this film as I generally associate Netflix with an open sewer, however I will now try it.
Great video, nothing to add. Commenting mostly to drive engagement and add my grain toward tipping the algorithm
Thanks to you and your team.
Enjoyed the movie, and now with this additional topping of philosophy seasoning it is even better
I found it to be very moving, and powerful and relatable. I've been living as a vegan since 2017 and often feel like no-one understands why, or cares 🤔.. I did it for the animals and for the planet, trying to spread that message often falls on deaf ears. The frustration is mind boggling sometimes. Capitalism is our enemy...is how I feel...
I suppose we should teach and civilise wild animals that it is morally wrong to eat other animals. Or better yet, I think, plants/fruits shouldn't be eaten altogether too because every thing is ✨ alive ✨
@@akashp01 have a read of 'this is vegan propaganda ' by ed winters. Your arguments/ whataboutary are all addressed in there xxx
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Me and my wife were vegan for over a year. And would totally do it again (or something similar) under certain circumstances. There's a lack of serious infrastructure to accommodate said lifestyle, sadly. Even more so, and more importantly, there's absolutely zero systemic response to how insanely cruel the animal industry is, and how it is playing a large role in the destruction of the planet. Which "systems" itself need to be the main focus in my mind, I think we put way too much stock into personal responsibility regarding the cruelty of industry. It needs to happen top down in my mind to make a serious difference.
Really hoping for developments of lab grown meat, and newer technologies that make traditional animal agriculture irrelevant.
@@epochphilosophy agree with all of that. I wish we had more ethical choices available xxx
This video was amazing !!! Great job!
you got it out!!! i'm so excited to watch this
I did. Super happy to share it!
Lmao that Tim pool take always cracks me up.
Watched this film while tripping. The effects, particularly the time distortion alongside the film's visuals and concepts, led me to a state of reflection that I consider one of the most profound and hauntingly beautiful experiences. Contemplating the future of humanity, the cycle of hatred, and nature, an intense journey that I hope wasn't my last of such depth
Much love l
Oh man, those random scenes showing random clips of nature and people must have hit hard.
@@epochphilosophy the shaman dancing on the mountain top while the meteors hitting all around 😭😭😭
@@sbibbity_bobbity_bupDefinitely way more of a beautiful move than what many lead on. It's satire is pulled to the forefront but it's incredibly genuine alongside it. The scene in the car when they are listening to jazz on the way to the grocery store personally got me.
This was so beautifully said. Thank you for the video
I don't usually leave comments but I'd like to say I really enjoyed the video and have subscribed to your channel. I'm gonna watch this movie tonight after work with my husband, thank you!
Hey, thanks so much!
Fantasic work!
this was great and im excited for more media videos. i consumed it willing and found it adequate.
That first 34 seconds said so fucking much in so little. That's the thing though, what "system was better" was literally never up for debate, and all that rage spoke to how true of a statement that is. It will never, ever, ever EVER be anything less than an "ideal society" at the very least. It will never be at the very least a vision of something better. Anyone conceding to anything else is nothing more than a liar.
A detail about your videos that I really enjoy and that I think really lends an amplified edge to their potency: the subtly emotive, gentle atmospheric and ambient music in the background. Discussing and trying to grapple with modern loneliness, alienation, apathy, and despair under capitalism often leaves one feeling rootless, directionless, and powerless. The gentle anxiety in the background tones are the same hue as that atmospheric sense of confusion. I think what I'm trying to say is that even tho there is alot of technicality and history and economic understanding that goes into these videos, the "human" feeling we all share is that of anxiety and vague despair, and I think you capture that very well.
Thank you so much.
32:15 I wish I and everyone of the people our mindset could enjoy life as it should be not how it is. Enjoy the little things, see the beauty of nature, explore our planet and see many different places. Unfortunately if you don't work a lot and earn enough you are basically as a good as nothing to some people. Can't afford living or even feeding yourself at times. You got to work to keep the "economy" going which in the end a single minute of it won't matter. So what do we do? Here I am and I guess others wanting a better place, but the people so called in charge won't do thing to make it better.
Oh these people in charge do want to make the world better just not for you and me. Only themselves and in the alternative universe they live in that's not rooted in reality. These people literally live on cloud nine and act like entitled children.
"Capitalism makes us uniform in the pursuit of unfettered individuality. We are uniform in the sense that we all actively try to stand out. Because we are so embedded in the pursuit of the aesthetic of individuality; the smokescreen of it, we struggle to think, to act, to exist, when dealt with actual novelty; novelty in art, society and culture, science, and novelty in potential world ending disaster" how poignant and profound. words have never left such an impact on me
I love the cameo pokes Brother, funny af.
"My takeaway was communism is bad" he says proudly
Brilliant video!
Great video!!
This is such a good analysis
When the art machine meets the revolutionary machine and the analytic machine.
Im gravitating more and more towards the following understanding:
Mckay and Sirota got a good Idea to a movie dealing with the denialism towards climate change by a comet metaphor, he made the script, selected the actors and them Covid hit. Those involved started to see the similarities between the script and the reality, Mckay Itself need to rewrite some parts of it and in these process something change, he put more and more of what he saw on the news, on the world, on the previous movies like "the big Short" (which is a kind of story about denialism deraliing), and with that the emphasis changed towards corporate motivated scientific denialism as a large, incompassing climate.
And despite he still saying that it is a movie about climate, it works even better as a move about scientific denialism as a whole, and that is how not only how the majority of those who liked it understand the movie but it is a refreshing not told before tale who usuallly recieve marginal or at best secundary plots in conventional movies. We know tales about people not being heard, but they are old, not dealins with our current post-truth and social media environment.
And somehow that second interpretation kind of ressonate with the Zeitgeist of our current generation.
the science is the film was a great critique of the corruption of science. few characters acted anything but neurotic and psychotic. the belief that science is a monolith was destroyed and we saw individuals that had no concept of how to express anything helpful or real outside of their neurosis-induced fugue states. at every moment where they have an opportunity to express their scientific understanding, but they instead either deflect (as in their proposed solution), avoid, or resort to hysterics. in the film sciencetists are the worst of us, unable to even function as scientists or as with covid they were simply absorbed by capital to sell yet another fiction straight from edward bernays' playbook.
@@jthadcast I think that whatever you are calling science is at odds to the other people definition.
Example: Science is no monolith, there is lots of people doing nasty things and scientists are few of the ones who doesnt and the ones who deflect could hardly be called scientists... My guess is a problem of who you are including into the "science" group.
@@Padtedesco talking about the film, two main characters, dr. randall mindy and kate dibiasky or do you not consider them scientists? science in the real world for 70 years we have trillions in malpractice judgments in the health care sciences, big pharma alone. let's not forget big tobacco, asbestos, nuclear, big petrol, big agra the list is infinate of science that is now driving our near term extinction or do you not consider all of them science?
@@jthadcast dr. randall mindy and kate dibiasky did not ordered the missiles to turn around, so why do you put that blame on them? I think i know why.
Because the guy who did it is a corporate denialist. Someone who uses degenerated and faulty practices with the goal of generating missinformation.
There is corrupted or sold scientists and you are acorrect to say that those are the ones which allign to corporate denialism and help to missinform, generate inaction so profits wont be harmed. Those are anti-science practioners, they are enemy of knowledge, not unlike the worst others who came before.
And big tobacco, asbestos, nuclear, big petrol, big agro are all promoters of fake science. They should be called opon that.
@@Padtedesco their first response was to apear on a morning talk show, they described the situation as if they would die at any second, they expected some sort of immediate action, as in we have 10 days to fix this. they didn't have the emotional fortitude to tackel any responsibility. when a civilian overhears them discussing doom kate says "in a video game," instead of being honest. only when hysterical are they honest in a fashion.
the first mission was to fire nukes at the asteroid which would not have done anything even if successful (no real science there). the idea that two astronomers would even be needed to consult on a assault of the asteroid is ludicrous. these are completely different disciplines, you need a rocket scientist for craft, you need engineers for blasting not astronomers. they were always played as pr personalities, intentional no doubt, the whole film was a critique on market based science and the feckless nature of celebrity.
peter isherwell's scientists also were caricatures of corporate spawned science who's goal was to secure patronage without critical thinking.
you are misinformed on science. science has no morality, it seeks answers and always with a limited scope. however, in capitalism the only science that is fleshed out is the science attached to the consumer economy. all real science that you desparage as fake science. science gave us electricity, computers, cars, flight, refining but they never calcualte the externalities because that would end the profit associated with "real science."
Act 4 of this video was just incredible.
Found that movie so annoying that i couldn't get past the first 10 minutes. Great video as always tho.
I'm watching this tonight. Thanks.
Insightful ...
The art we are missing is mastery of human sound. Become an overtone singer
very well done!
This video is really good
i dig 26:00
Great stuff.
Satire has been eaten by capital.
Amazing. Thank you
Thanks, Karl. Quite enjoy your writings. Shame the world had to do you like they've done!
@@epochphilosophy I think my writings are more important than ever at the moment. But thank you regardless my spectre will haunt your videos comrade
So good, make sure to like this video folks.
I didn't watch the movie yet, but I'm most certainly going to do so now.
Just one thing really bothered me throughout the video. You've focused too much on money in capitalism. I think what it's actually got us hooked on is comfort. We'd do anything to stay comfortable, nobody even dreams of happiness anymore. That's, in my opinion, the primary consequence of capitalism.
In "Heaven in Disorder" Žižek says something like: We'd rather die to the climate change then let ourselves be scared to death by it."
I love how this movie came out and no one was able to apply it to covid lol. Just shows you what’s really happening and how it all works
GREAT WORK
Don’t Look Up is to movies what Earth by Lil Dicky is to music
I don’t know what you mean but both are polarizing
Great video. I would say that "Don't look up" is one of the best movies that reached mainstream status which presented some thought provoking critical points regarding the current stage of capitalism from the philosophical perspective of the Left.
That being said, some of the parallels from the movie don't actually match with the reality we are living with the pandemic. For example, most major television and social media outlets presented the pandemic as a major threat, to the point of even censoring truthful information on social media which potentially threatened the mainstream narrative, such as the existence of the Wuhan virology lab (and thus it's possible connection with the onset of the pandemic), and the dramatic rise in heart incidences in professional football players after vaccination was forced on them in order to continue their careers. Most goverments placed strict lockdowns to reduce the infection rates, to the point of suffocating the life out of middle class buissneses, and thus enlarging even more the gap between economical classes, despite some public intellectuals being vocal that there are smarter measures than the doctrine of "close down everything and lockdown everyone". At the same time, multi-national corporations, supposedly rised up to the occasion by mobilising their scientific workforce, receiving billions in profit by selling vaccine products which failed to do what their manufacturers claimed that it will provide, immunity to covid that is. And the best thing out of it all? The further establishment of an ever more powerful techno-capitalistic internationalist dictatorship. Truly, the control contemporary elitist castes have on our bodies and souls, far exceeds the control of even the most tyrannical monarch of the ancient world had on his subjects.
I don't disagree with any individual think you said, at all. But I don't understand how Covid is relevant to what this film is addressing. It's just another virus that we're taking care of and getting through, like Spanish Flu, Polio, SARS, smallpox, etc. I understand why it was left out of the film, because it would just be a distraction from the point they are already having a hard time making to anyone in charge. Eh. Again I totally agree with what you said, just don't think it would serve any purpose in the point being made... it would most likely muddy the waters, which is exactly what denialists and their death-cult mentality (we're dealing with a lot of people who eagerly welcome the "end of the world" for purely religious reasons, and happily work to accelerate it) want most: a convoluted argument that the average person will ignore. This shit needs to be grassroots, ground-up, people putting the same posters everywhere in the nation on a certain date at night, that say something like "The world will burn if we don't stop"... It has to be a mass strike. That's the only thing that gets their attention. except medical, I suppose.
It still blows my mind that a vaccine is a contentions issue. W'eve had them since 50's or so, FDR had Polio for everyone to see, though he did his best to hide it. And you know that most of these people had their kids given the standard cocktail of so they can go to school... what's the difference?
It's on the level of flat-earthers, honestly. Yeah, the Wuhan lab should be investigated, check if anything they even worked on was this thing, I don't believe anything like that has been done. It's super fucked, but if we have a situaton where the idiot voters are dying at a great rate compared to the sensible ones, that's helpful politically.
Why do you think the movie has something to do with the pandemic?
If anything, it seems to be highlighting extreme apathy in the face of catastrophe. Climate change, globalism, capitalism, greed, poverty… None of this is sustainable.
Nice anti-vax rant, though. I love this paradigm of who is the real sheep… Those who listen to the medical establishment or those who say that the medical establishment is complete rubbish?
Sadly, I think we are all sheep at this point just trying to make the best decisions we can. The powers that be sure do know that divide and conquer works. We’re proof.
In other words, I’m not here to get an argument with you about something that really doesn’t matter much anyway because the entire world is facing obliteration while we argue endlessly about dumb shit on the interwebs as designed.
I feel like people would come here after watching the film for the deep philosophical discussion.
I felt the meaning of the movie was more about making a decision between right and wrong. When climate change creates new ocean front property or real estate demands in Northern Canada, late stage capitalism will tell on itself
Ah, the primacy of entertainment values - you are safe from 'spoilers' here; no matter the importance of the subject matter your sacred right to avoid 'spoilers' is paramount. Is there not a message about late capitalism in that? might someone's profits fall if fewer of us can be bothered to watch the film OR might fewer watch the video if 'Don't Look Up' will be 'spoiled' - woks both ways I guess.
That rocked.
Thanks friend.
Thank you.
I’ll watch the film then come back to this
Well done!! I would only add:
Our government has been completely captured by corporate interests.
We now have the merger of corporate and government power, which is called corporatism, but aka fascism.
Corporations should be illegal, or illegal to put profit over all else, including life and a planet able to support human life.
Capitalism is insane because it's based on the idea of infinite growth in a world of finite resources.
Americans represent about 5 to 6 percent of the world's population.
Yet, we use up 25 percent of the world's resources!!
Our greed (the greed of the owner class) necessitates the suffering of others across the globe!!
This new development of "spiritual capitalism" is one of the most misguided developments I've ever witnessed.
It's a reflection of desperation and greed, and the failed state that is now the U.S.
Sad, very sad.
Americans are probably( and ironically) the most propagandized citizens of any country .
We've been indoctrinated to associate socialism with communism, and communism with authoritarianism.
The truth is, capitalism (or, properly, corporatism) is FAR more authoritarian than socialism!! What we saw in Russia and China was/is as much a corruption of socialism as is our long lost small business, stakeholder capitalism.
Socialism is bringing democracy into the workplace!!
But most Americans have little to no immunity to propaganda or ability to think critically and independently.
If the masses ever understand MMT, perhaps that will upset Americans enough to make them willing to fight and make sacrifices to bring about real change!!
It's gotta come from us. We can't vote our way out of this mess, that's for sure.
#learnMMT
✌❤🔥👁
We are all responsible for the world.
very good thank you
I once stared at a deer take a dumb. It was magical.
Hey! That's my name in the credits!
Hell ya brethren.
Hellz yeah!!!!
Your videos are always so engaging, because of the attention to unifying the tone of the video with the subject. Often philosophy is presented too dryly.
Very kind, thanks so much! I often get the reverse criticism. That my videos have music to them and my "editing" takes away from the "analysis" lol. I couldn't care less about that.
I of course make the videos the way I like to see them!
Hello, my name is Andrés Jiménez and I am a Political Science student. Greetings from Bogotá / Colombia.
1. This message is to ask you what academic works can allow me to understand what factors explain the famines in the Soviet Union and Mao's China and why these experiments led to authoritarianism or totalitarianism. [Some philosophers would say that totalitarianism is an impossibility and that there is in any case a sacralization of democracy, a so-called "democratic fundamentalism", see the philosophical school of the Spanish philosopher Gustavo Bueno].
Regarding the famines: Were they deliberately caused or the result of other factors?
In other words: Are these phenomena the result of the "inherent" relationship of socialism-communism with "evil" and the "impossibility" of economic planning? (As the opposing ideological spectrum would say.) Or on the contrary: did these phenomena have causes that have never been explained in the dominant discourse? (external sabotage, isolationism, etc...?)
How can we understand the phenomena of Cuba and Venezuela?
2. I would also like to understand if there is evidence to link capitalism with the practices of imperialism and interventionism (in Latin America as in the Middle East, the phenomenon of military intervention by the United States and the United Kingdom is clear)
On the one hand, these issues interest me because I want to be able to analyze history without ideological dogmatism (but always from a critical perspective that is not submissive to the hegemonic political, cultural and economic order, since I consider myself a person on the political spectrum). leftist) without giving more weight to politicians I disagree with (right-wing libertarians, new right, new conservatism, neoliberalism, Austrian economists, or pretty much anyone who says that capitalism and liberal democracy are the end of the story)
3. Since I began to study and become interested in politics, philosophy, economics, etc., I have been told that communism only means hunger, death, authoritarianism and misery. All political discourse is focused on the fact that there is nothing beyond capitalism and that anything that pretends to be different will result in the aforementioned elements. However, I see that Capitalism being the global system is leading us to an unprecedented ecological crisis, where phenomena of scarcity, conflicts and even authoritarianism are beginning to manifest (of course, in the IPCC or United Nations reports the problem is reduced to the aspect technician of greenhouse gas emissions, but no one mentions production and consumption patterns, growth and accumulation dynamics, etc.)
4. I understand that the concept of progress and development cuts across capitalism and the "really existing socialisms" for which Latin America has made proposals beyond development. An example of those who question it are the Colombian anthropologist Arturo Ecobar and his text "The invention of the third world" and "The invention of development" or the analysis of the ecological economy proposed by Joan Martínez Alier, the analysis of Eduardo Gudynas on the “ Good Living” and post-extractivist economies or the works of the various decolonial perspectives that deal extensively with the issue of colonialism, capitalism and dependency (political, economic and cultural) in the Latin American region (Rita Laura Segato, Anibla Quijano, Enrique Dussel , Walter Mignolo, María Lugones, Santiago Castro Gómez, Ramón Grosfoguel, Bolívar Echeverría).
If you prioritize comfort, the love of the truth dies. When Nietzsche compared master and slave morality, and the world view each shared, consider now a world where most people believe they are now masters. Good, evil, truth, irrelevant. Only victory.
great video
Democracy in OUR economy, we decide together ❤️. That way, we can FINALLY place societal good above profits 📈 😀
Why have there not been more movies like Don't Look Up...😢
Great video, sad truth…
Guy Debord Society of the spectators
Got an ad for Monopoly before this video. Haha
Yes and No. I see our situation inevitable: how would Newcastle NOT dig up coal, back-when? How would any tribe look at fireworks the same once guns and bullets were obvious… so many small moves that don’t require capitalism - it IS the metastasized end-state, but these effects started millennia ago.
Nicely stated though and thank you for this PoV.
16:30. I would say that is much less sexism and much more total ignorance by the masses. Bc sometimes it is just who you are that they will take the first tiny thing and extrapolate entire stories out of it or they assume and push that it was someone else which has happened a lot throughout history not just to women. We need to stop assuming everything is done out of hatred and disgust of another group. The vast majority of the time it's just all about them and you don't matter at all.
I confess I didn't really understand the ending at all. Something tells me that's indicative of something bad. I also don't really see how "We really had it all." I genuinely don't see how most people on earth could think that. So much of lived existence is in the context of want and deprivation. And the idea that art may change things... I doubt it. If it was going to, shouldn't it have done so already? Didn't Adorno basically accuse the whole culture industry of being totally coopted by capital and thus only capable of producing piffle? Yours is an optimistic take that I would like to share, but I honestly believe it's a more distant fantasy than even Star Trek. I'll be glad if I get proven wrong one day.
“What I relate is the history of the next two centuries. I describe what is coming, what can no longer come differently: the advent of nihilism!
Nihilism stands at the door: whence comes this uncanniest of all guests?
1. Point of departure: it is an error to consider 'social distress' or 'physiological degeneration' or, worse, corruption, as the cause of nihilism. Ours is the most decent and compassionate age. Distress, whether of the soul, body, or intellect, cannot of itself give birth to nihilism (i.e., the radical repudiation of value, meaning, and desirability). Such distress always permits a variety of interpretations. Rather: it is in one particular interpretation, the Christian-moral one, that nihilism is rooted.
2. The end of Christianity-at the hands of its own morality (which cannot be replaced), which turns against the Christian God (the sense of truthfulness, developed highly by Christianity, is nauseated by the falseness and mendaciousness of all Christian interpretations of the world and of history; rebound from 'God is truth' to the fanatical faith 'All is false'; a Buddhism of inaction).
3. Skepticism regarding morality is what is decisive. The end of the moral interpretation of the world, which no longer has any sanction after it has tried to escape into some beyond, leads to nihilism. 'Everything lacks meaning' (the untenability of one interpretation of the world, upon which a tremendous amount of energy has been lavished, awakens the suspicion that all interpretations of the world are false). Buddhistic tendency, a kind of yearning for Nothing. (Indian Buddhism is not the culmination of a thoroughly moralistic development; its nihilism is therefore full of morality that is not overcome: existence as punishment, existence construed as error, error thus as a punishment- is a moral valuation.)
4. Philosophical attempts to overcome the 'moral God' (Hegel, pantheism).
Overcoming popular ideals: the sage; the saint; the poet.
The antagonism of 'true' and 'beautiful' and 'good'."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche (1888)
Nice
Urdjeldale, The McTerdjelorian Burdjelthy
Capitalism is basically an upward flow of money. From poor man's pocket to the accounts of the rich.
Nicely said! 👍
Did you get a B- in a critical theory 101 class for that?
Yeah but at least capitalism lets you sit anywhere on the stream instead of always being at the bottom.
"Don't Look Up The Result of Late Capitalism"
send me some book recommendations