Episode 170 ... Albert Camus - The Fall

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      @stacysmith7387 11 місяців тому +1

      after listening to his versions of the classics it’s made me realize how much of our free will we have lost to the institutions influencing our thinking in todays world. I mean, humanity has always seen cycles of trauma making it easy for people to be sheep, so I have much respect for these great thinkers that have actually moved the needle to help empower us. These are once in a lifetime minds, that’s for sure.

  • @divelostmind
    @divelostmind Рік тому +77

    This concept hits too close to home, I feel like I have adopted personas my whole life to avoid real judgement of my actual authentic essense, and recently I have been put into many situations that test my value systems and always ended up not doing the thing I thought I would do. Causing some cognitive dissonance. This episode really made me reflect.

    • @EddieStyle
      @EddieStyle Рік тому +2

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    • @mrpzak
      @mrpzak 10 місяців тому +1

      I kind of feel that too sometimes. I think being a latch key kid growing up (spending several hours a day at home alone), and now working from home (also spending several hours a day home alone), you have plenty of time to develop this persona that has no outside judgement. No one to look at you and go, wow, you really going to eat that cupcake for lunch? Or whatnot. We then go to soccer practice or something with other adults and you store that away, and just “act like everyone else”.

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  • @musicloverchicago437
    @musicloverchicago437 8 місяців тому +2

    I know from personal experience it's extremely difficult to be a moral atheist. It requires constant analysis and re-analysis of past actions, the analyses are rarely settled because there are always new pieces of information to factor in. It would be so much easier to be a religious person who has been spoon-fed a pre-written set of morals, do whatever I want, and apologize later to the diety (or its proxy) for the infractions. Sometimes I wish I were that type of person! It doesn't make me weak to wish that though, and I think it's unfair to describe Clemence as weak for wishing it. Life would be so much easier without any of a number of time- and energy-consuming burdens we might bear (like being politically informed, as you mentioned). But I'm pretty sure a person who self-analyzes cannot convert into someone who doesn't.

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  • @l.arabak
    @l.arabak Рік тому +5

    I got halfway through the novella when I was in year 10 and have never had the motivation to pick it back up. So glad this was covered. Steven, please do more Albert Camus.
    Signed, a person who lives off your podcasts

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  • @nadazohayr1318
    @nadazohayr1318 9 місяців тому

    just finished reading the fall and really enjoyed this!!! thank you!

  • @fahrenheit8084
    @fahrenheit8084 Рік тому +2

    Thankyou for covering this, its a miracle,
    I just finished this book

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    @mr1234567899111 Рік тому +6

    I read this book in my early twenties 40 odd years ago. I got much more from it listening to this podcast. Thank you Stephen --

  • @TopLobster11
    @TopLobster11 Рік тому +2

    Thanks for this 🖤
    This is probably my fav Camus book. Would love it if you did First Man next.

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    @WheelMarks Рік тому +4

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    Thank you for your work Stephen!

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  • @OrdnanceLab
    @OrdnanceLab Рік тому

    Great video and analysis. Just discovered the channel and am looking forward to working through prior videos.

  • @WhammyLooper
    @WhammyLooper 5 місяців тому

    Really the only podcast I listen to. Great breakdown of a great book!

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  • @PatrycjaCzardybon
    @PatrycjaCzardybon 11 місяців тому +4

    thank you for this episode! i've just finished The Fall last night and immidiately went to youtube to try to understand it a little better. honestly i felt like this book's message was very frantic, disconnected from each other, like every scene was critizing other facet of modern life and there was no coherent way for me to grasp it all. i wanted to have a bigger message, instead of a lot of tips and examples of what not to do. and you've delivered greatly on that! thank you, your interpretation and analysis made me realize a lot of things and finally appreciate the book much more. i'll be looking forward to reading it again in the future, with the foresight from your analysis, to hopefully extract even more meaning out of it. this was a great listen and i greatly appreciate your work

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    @davitchaganava9622 Рік тому

    good Projekt and well done work. thank you!

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    @jZamora87 Рік тому +16

    I'm joining the patreon, I can't get enough of the way you explain philosophy. I'm using this channel as a building block to start reading the books of the great philosophers and be able to understand a bit of what they are saying thanks to you translating their work in more layman terms.

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  • @jglez6868
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    Man I have been following this podcast for years now and somehow didnt listen to this episode, i just finished “The Fall” and I cant express how happy i got when i saw this podcast has an episode about it!! Keep it up brother

  • @stevesmith4901
    @stevesmith4901 11 місяців тому

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    @geneharvey7 Рік тому +2

    I like the way you wove the book into your Creation of Meaning series. Nicely done. A great episode and one that has me doing a lot of self evaluation. I have been affected. However, I am not boiling in my own soup yet. I think you're on to something with that phrase.

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  • @tortera
    @tortera 9 місяців тому

    Brilliant. Thank you so much for sharing.

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    @vadimismailov6289 6 місяців тому

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    @fatemeebrahimi8999 4 місяці тому

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  • @bugsbunny2944
    @bugsbunny2944 Рік тому +6

    Huh. Thats a great point about people thinking they'd resist Hitler or free slaves while currently doing nothing about human trafficking. I feel challenged.

    • @alenbacco7613
      @alenbacco7613 Рік тому

      The term human trafficking has become somewhat muddied, under the law I mean. If you do decide to fight human trafficking, be mindful that some laws and organizations hurt victims and supposed victims as much or more then their sometimes nonexistent abusers.

    • @bugsbunny2944
      @bugsbunny2944 Рік тому

      @@alenbacco7613 how so

    • @alenbacco7613
      @alenbacco7613 Рік тому

      @@bugsbunny2944 I'm not a lawyer. I suggest you look into it. From what I hear some laws have been written braodly enough that two sex workers sharing an apartment, and splitting the rent, could be charged with trafficking each other. Hypothetically a group of sex workers who pool resources as a effort toward mutual aid, say scheduling baby sitting duties with each other, could be considered a trafficking ring. The term has an emotional charge that some have used for political benefit, often at the expense of the women they want to be seen as saving, who are often arrested and prosecuted as prostitutes regardless of extenuating circumstances or, you know, actually being sex workers.

    • @joeshugabowski1444
      @joeshugabowski1444 Рік тому

      Human trafficking .. i never met single person who got trafficked.
      We dont have that where i live

    • @alenbacco7613
      @alenbacco7613 Рік тому +1

      @@joeshugabowski1444 I mean be careful who you donate to or support. First do no harm. Also I assure you it does happen where you live, assuming you live where other people live

  • @you_cifer
    @you_cifer 10 місяців тому

    Excellent analysis.

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    @barbarajohnson1442 Рік тому

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    Thank you, I am now on board with your site!

  • @christinemartin63
    @christinemartin63 Рік тому +1

    Yes, you can say "better than anyone else." My favorite novel. (My tears fall for Francine.) I recently memorized Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner." I wonder if Camus knew the story of the cursed sailor and his redemption (?). The Clamence's, Jim's, Philip Carey's, Mariner's, Raskolnikov's, and Eschenbach's are some of the most intriguing characters in literature. So many parallels.

  • @audrajones
    @audrajones 4 місяці тому

    Appreciate you!!!!

  • @edmundtrebus4084
    @edmundtrebus4084 Рік тому

    This was entertaining, relatably funny and just brilliant

  • @benbobo8330
    @benbobo8330 Рік тому +1

    I prefer to be happy and judged.
    What a great episode
    Thank you ❤

  • @robinblack9
    @robinblack9 Рік тому

    great video!

  • @ml4173
    @ml4173 7 місяців тому

    Thanks man, I just finished The Fall and was wondering if I was interpreting it correctly, your video was a perfect explanation. What else from Camus do you recommend?

  • @abyzzwalker
    @abyzzwalker Рік тому

    Boy, i need to start reading the Fall soon. It has been sitting gathering dust for weeks.

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    @mohamedabdullah8266 Рік тому

    big fan of the show from 🇸🇩 sudan

  • @TRIXIDUST
    @TRIXIDUST Рік тому

    Thank you

  • @saeed_2498
    @saeed_2498 4 місяці тому

    Fascinating

  • @djm192
    @djm192 Рік тому

    So good!!!

  • @steveLOVESbooksandwritingand..

    AI art is nuts...did a Samuel Beckett dancing...now it's my wallpaper

  • @alirahi8053
    @alirahi8053 Рік тому +1

    That was gold. Maybe it's alcohol talking but still this was a great topic and made me think. Thanks

  • @camiladellepiane6281
    @camiladellepiane6281 Рік тому

    Hi! I really enjoy your podcast, and I've been trying to find the page where I can sign in for the message to ger the reminder there's a new episode. I'd appreciate if you could tell me which is the link. For some reason it doesn't appear. (regards from Uruguay)

  • @touyen6470
    @touyen6470 11 місяців тому

    finally someone explain this clearly :> tysm

  • @leomilani_gtr
    @leomilani_gtr Рік тому

    I just heard about the chinese room argument by John Searle and I think it's a really interesting debate in days of AI art.

  • @transcend1078
    @transcend1078 Рік тому

    I love you man I love your podcast

  • @luebird7779
    @luebird7779 Рік тому

    Thanks

  • @chrisegan9088
    @chrisegan9088 2 місяці тому

    Forty seconds in and both feet in. ❤

  • @robinbeckford
    @robinbeckford Рік тому

    Thank you very much for this piece. I remember being rather irritated by Clement when I read the book some years ago, so I probably didn't see some of the aspects of his character that you mention.
    As to the AI pic of Camus: The man was born stylish, and wouldn't appear to be eating anything in such a clumsy way. I know it can be difficult to eat pizza elegantly, but (my vision of) Camus would have managed it easily.

  • @Coolgardt
    @Coolgardt Рік тому

    Love love love love love

  • @blavatovsky9553
    @blavatovsky9553 Рік тому

    Amazing

  • @edplunk600
    @edplunk600 6 місяців тому

    Perhaps instead of saying "you" say "most people" or "one", because, for example, I like being around people who do think differently from me. It is how I learn and become more open. I say this, because I also have the bad habit of saying "you" instead of "most people" or "one". That said, this is one of the few actually very good podcast out there.

  • @benjueabba9480
    @benjueabba9480 Рік тому

    Thanks for the soup Steven

  • @tonystrawberry7024
    @tonystrawberry7024 Рік тому

    👍🏽amazing

  • @jonathanjollimore4794
    @jonathanjollimore4794 Рік тому

    Its crazy so go with it

  • @enzofranco4634
    @enzofranco4634 Рік тому

    12:18 Values tested
    16:45 juzgamos permanentemente

  • @vans2548
    @vans2548 Рік тому

    Ego protection. Virtue signalling. Echo chambers. We have so many ways to run from ourselves. To seek approval from the outside, that we cannot give ourselves on the inside. But wherever you go, there you are.

  • @CiscoZero
    @CiscoZero Рік тому +2

    The clear answer to this episode is stay away from bridges and motorcycles.

  • @dovydas4483
    @dovydas4483 2 місяці тому

    Great podcast on a very difficult to understand book, Camus literary works are full of interesting philosophical concepts although they arent just shoved in your face, you must look for them and think about them.

  • @swiip100
    @swiip100 Рік тому +1

    Uh oh this just sounds like me. Is there a DIY solution at the end of the book by any chance

  • @salt3613
    @salt3613 9 місяців тому

    I wonder how camus feels after knowing that his philosophical take in his myth of sisyphus has been transformed and solidified into modern meme culture

  • @luky98ification
    @luky98ification 6 місяців тому

    That AI Albert Camus looks rough at 13:00

  • @lonelycubicle
    @lonelycubicle Рік тому

    Great video. But how does Clement become a moral person? Just say all his actions are helpful to the vulnerable but his motivations are not good as described by Camus, what does one do to change their motivations? In this case, think really hard that they want to only be motivated by the desire to help the vulnerable?

  • @jacobjackson6513
    @jacobjackson6513 Рік тому +1

    Greatest guy in history

  • @evanr7102
    @evanr7102 16 днів тому

    Judge Penitent is giving Eminem's 8 mile verse

  • @LilBafta
    @LilBafta Рік тому

    Oh damn… Didn’t know my drink of choice was a gutter spirit. Anyone know Jolene by Ray LaMontagne? Makes me think of that

  • @F_ckAllTrumpVoters
    @F_ckAllTrumpVoters 3 місяці тому

    "On Paper People."

  • @TopLobster11
    @TopLobster11 Рік тому +1

    Not a drinker here. Can you explain to me the importance of Jean drinking Gin?

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    @deveneb8409 Рік тому

    Steven west the best

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    @akulinamackenzie4492 11 місяців тому

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  • @joesapiens2871
    @joesapiens2871 Рік тому

    Every man indeed does have the innate tendency to sin. And, let us not forget that man also has the tendency to not sin. This is the fundamental realization of free will.
    We must not exaggerate our abilities or what we may do in a hypothetical situation, least we become hypocrites. Therefore, honest self awareness is imperative.
    Keep in mind to not be too hard on yourselves. You very well may jeopardize your own life, in futility, while trying to save another person. So it is wise to look for alternative solutions.

  • @tchedoumenou1165
    @tchedoumenou1165 Рік тому

    No audio :/

  • @josemariarecalde9984
    @josemariarecalde9984 Рік тому

    Okay so not want the super system or be better than the rest but then that in itself is done because you consider it good, you are always doing what best pleases you.

  • @skykitsu
    @skykitsu Рік тому +2

    capitalism and religion are doing their best to make slaves. If you're not fighting everyone loses. Great episode keep up the great work