Futurasound Productions' analysis of the Metal Gear franchise and Kojima's wider works eg. Policenauts, are legit some of the best on youtube, bruh, homie deserves 45.6 million subs, not 45.6k
You can stop being part of a mistake, now. damn.. This game never ceases to amaze me, no mater how much time passes, how many times I beat it, this shit is some transcendental work
@@Pensive_Scarlet I hope it didn’t come off as a ‘lizard people inflating the price of diamonds in order to procure them for various lizard people activities’ kind of person, but it just seems like a rationally bleak thing. Its entirely possible that a secret society exists that forces society into a state of unfairness, and treats said unfairness a ‘that’s just life’ ordeal. It’s also entirely possible that humanity’s bleak condition is only perpetuated by individualist greed, and selfishness; but we’d rather think its a secret society. So who knows?
@@zyzdzy their not secret, they operate in plain open sight. World Economical Forum is one. Time Magazine just released a special about how the deep state rigged the 2020 election.
This was an incredible video. It's amazing that your background enables the production of such content. Damn, I wish I took more anthropology courses now.
It's so empowering to hear you say how the future is in our hands and how any one of us can and should affect it. But on a serious note, what can you even do in a situation like this?
I think a small thing everyone can do is to think about who they give their money to, wich companies you support, and I know that may envolve some sacrifices, but there are simple things like buying food from small buisnesses, adopting slow fashion, buy more used stuff instead of new products, etc. I know it seems like a small thing, but developing local communities that can thrive by suporting each other might go a long way in decentralizing power from certain institutions, and if nothing else at least it brings social value to one's life knowing they are suppporting people who actually need it. Our future might be hopeless, I do think that, but we can at least make our present a little more bearable
I ask myself this all the time..... My answer has changed throughout the years. We're either fucked and nothing we do matters. Or we have some potential to make change. The biggest impact our ancestors was passing down their genes. We exist because of them. We are the ones existing in the here and now. And what's our greatest strength as species. Generating memes and story telling. We can't control our genes but can control our memes. We can decide what memes, we pass on and spread. And past those memes in our stories. But the thing is, we have already been doing that. And it has be co-oped by states and used against us. At the end of the day, we just have hope. I hope our collective will to live and not go extinct, will force change in our society. I don't want to believe humans will throw away their future....
@Jack Schneider yup, its definitely a small percentage of the population, however I do this because the people I have met and connected while doing this ( indigineous tribes, people involved with permaculture, living off grid etc) have positively impacted my daily life and at some point it became more about my personal health than anything else, I want to build a sustainable lifestyle not for the good of the planet but rather for my own sanity. The fututure may be hopeless, but theres a rap song in my country that says a line like this: "Everybody is gonna die, ok, but before that, everbody has got to live." Everyone's experience is different don't blame anyone for not wanting to change their way of life, its a hard decision and it has little reward besides personal well being, some people have allready found their happiness in the normative lifestyle. I just took snake's word to heart, I don't want to keep being part of a mistake, living like I used to and not caring about any of this never gave me any joy, it was just a fog of consumerism, work and alcohol everyday.
Nothing. No time in human hostory has ever seen the collective take control of itself. We always default back to being led by people we think know better so that we don't have to take the risk of leading ourselves. There is no hope to change this. Save yourself.
I think that the biggest impact we can make towards changing the world as an individual is the open discussion of our problems as a society. We can all become whistleblowers for our families and communities. Call out corruption when you see it. Don't settle for anything less than the truth. This system that they've created was only done so through manufactured consent. The real power that these people possess is the consent of the masses to be exploited. The people hold all the power in this system, but they are convinced they have none. When people wake up and see what's really going on, they will want no part of this system. When this consent is gone, the system will inevitably collapse. I believe we are already witnessing this collapse. I'm convinced that we've already reached a tipping point in awareness that can't be reversed. The spread of the truth is now becoming exponential. The ignorant masses will learn the truth and in that same moment the system is dead.
I have come to realize that Japanese video games have made me an environmentalist (Metal Gear Solid 2, Final Fantady 7, and Legend of Zelda Wind Waker) before I have ever thought of climate change impacts.
Kinda eery how that coincides with the efficacy of Skinner box indoctrination achieved by the military-industrial complex via entertainment software as pointed to earlier in this terrific electronic MGS2 essay cinematic universe. P.S. Gotta love the e-MGSE CU
Metal gear solid 2's "environmental message" was entirely based around a fake Big Shell event. Final fantasy 7 was eco-terrorism about a group who did more harm than good to the normal people they were trying to protect. Then a comet threatens to hit the planet. Wind Waker? The gods flood the world. What part of any of that turned you into an environmentalist exaxtly?
This is by far my all time favorite UA-cam channel. It used to be pewdiepie because of how him making me laugh was my drug for years. But now I have to admit, metal gear solid is my life and this channel deep diving into the world of it is now my new favorite channel. Thanks for the amazing content brotha.
I've seen dozens of MGS analysis vids, and this is the best one I've ever seen as far as making me think about the reality of these global issues beyond "yeah, that's really fucked up".
I knew about this before, but whenever I hear about oil companies KNOWING about global warming and just not DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT, I think I understand exactly what my mom felt when she herself was a young woman and the Chernobyl reactor blew up, and the Polish government didn't warn the people that they could be in danger due to the fumes from Ukraine. They just hid it as long as they could to cover how innept they were. My mom gets so mad to this day whenever she talks about it. I know that the government and oil companies have different reasons for what they did, but the result is very similar. Stellar work as always dude!
Can anyone believe the content this channel is sharing? God damn, thanks a lot. It´s funny, I played MG2 when I was 10 years old. I loved it. Now, watching it in my thirties makes me realize the profound political and phylosophical themes it treats. Much things I didn´t pick it up by the concious, but today I can say that I learned so much from MGS saga, even though I couldnt understand it completely at the time.
I really appreciate the depth of your research for these videos. This kind of material should be included with the sale of every Metal Gear game, much like the Document of MGS2. As far as I'm concerned, this is equivalent to 'required reading' if you're a Metal Gear fan.
I just want to say thank you for these videos basically re-explain my in class social studies lectures with a fun twist. And also thank you for letting me procrastinate on the aforementioned social studies homework but still be able to participate in class discussion.
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I appreciate the essays you make for this game specifically. It was this game that opened my eyes to the concepts of what can possibly exist in our reality. How much of what this game is can be based on truth? And I began to study as much as I could to try and understand the source material, or rather, our history. So thank you for taking this way of thinking to a new level; it is very insightful and engaging. Thanks for that Boss
This video is a certified banger not only in the Existence series, but in the Futurasound library as a whole. I specifically loved your use of the research of the economist Yanis Varoufakis, to draw parallels between the elite financial institutions and the Patriots. Really love what ideas this video discusses. Keep it up, can't wait for your next piece!
When I first discovered this channel, I thought you had to be a crank to churn out as much content as you do as fast as you do. But the more I look into the sources that you synthesize in your work, the more I realize that you really know what you're talking about.
It's amazing, yet unfortunate to hear info about climate changes in this video when my girlfriend, an oceanologist, tells me how much our seas, rivers and lakes are slowly dying, by losing oxygen, etc. and it's all happening right now. Some countries literally ignore those facts. Great analysis, by the way. Keep it up!
Fantastic deep-dive essay into globalism and economic warfare of our modern time. Amazing effort and research, as we've come to expect from Futurasound!
This is why I love Futurasound Productions. He mentioned the 'Economic Hitmen.' People don't understand just how dangerous Economic Hitmen truly are. Even though they are called "hitmen", they can bring nations down to their knees without firing a single shot.🌍
I'm a huge fan of your channel. And I love watching the metal gear series. I'm the Author of land of amer. When I'm writing I always have you video on, just to listen to my favorite game lore. I just wanted to reach out and say your amazing, keep it up.
The desription says 2nd to last video of the retrospective but this is the last video in the "METAL GEAR SOLID 2: SONS OF LIBERTY (2001) Essays" playlist. What video is the last of the retrospective?
Hard day of college is over. Time to play duck life 3 and listen to a man discuss the economic and ecological themes of a 20 year old video game and how they relate to the modern day collapse of the economy.
@futurasound I realized afterwards that I was anticipating a mention of Oilix from MG2 or the Mninfinda Oil Spill in MGSV. Still a great video nonetheless!
I’m glad you’ve done very thorough research but education and inequality have not become “non-issues” as you state early on in the essay. Anyway, this was highly intriguing as always and I can’t wait for the next one boss!
we analysed Shakespeare and other poets and different authors throughout school... maybe soon we'll hear of schoolkids bringing home a copy of MGS2 and having to deconstruct it to this same level for their essays.
This was a brilliant Analysis on the future of humanity futurasound, but when you look at that way towards the oil economy you begin to ask yourself when the hell will these Bastards realize that the earth is not object, it’s a living breathing Planet that’s needs us to get out of this Repeating cycle of a mistake, because I’ve already been out of that mistake when played mgs2 and learned about it more since three years, I hope... that someday I’ll have the proof and Courage to save my whole family from this mistake.
John Taylor:Humans are diverse, everyone has different capabilities, strengths, weaknesses, talents. John: The push for social equality and human rights is about how that diversity is understood and you seem to think people should only be valued by how well they compete in the business game as if the violence spread between the rich and the poor reflects objective human worth. Simon Devoe: John, I amuse myself with the notion of the money God because it isn't far from the truth. Simon: Some system has to exist to divide up a scarce world and nature has spoken as to what that system must be. Simon: Those who reach the top of the pyramid deserve it, not because you or I think it's right, but because that's what nature is selecting for. John: So nature prefers sociopaths and psychopaths to guide the species ? Because those are the dominating traits of the ruling class today. Simon: The system is as the system does. John: Is that what the Malthusian Mandate is about ? to select out the poor and weak. Simon: We'll get to the mandate in a moment. Simon: I'm still bothered by your denial of the fact our social system reflects our true biological nature and if this revolution you speak of did magically occur, it would just be a matter of time before the innate compulsion towards social dominance prevailed yet again. Simon: Deep down, John, the slaves don't want to be free, they want to be slave owners. John: Nice one. John: Too bad history paints a different picture. Simon: Power hierarchies have remained constant throughout recorded civilization. John: For perhaps the last 12,000 years, sure. John: but you know as well as I do, before the discovery of agriculture, there was no such thing, ninety-nine percent of human history has been egalitarian. Simon: I said civilization, John, meandering hunter-gatherer tribes chucking spears and eating grubs isn't civilization. John: How contemporacist of you, yet 20th century studies of numerous hunter-gatherer tribes, those still surviving in remote areas just as they did thousands of years prior, actually show socially rich cultures. Adult life spans not far from ours. John:Relatively peaceful in balance with nature. John:No leaders, no group hierarchy, no inequality. John:To argue today's society is somehow more civilized is dubious at best. Simon: Well, then perhaps you can encourage all your enlightened followers to come together and live out their utopian fantasy in the Amazon jungle. John: You mean what's left of it ? what hasn't been destroyed by the supposedly advanced culture that's ravaged the natural world into total decline in the name of infinite consumption and economic growth ? John: and the point here, Simon, is hunter-gatherer cultures are evidence of human variability, variability which contradicts your vague biological determinism. Simon: John, just because history shows a range of behaviors across time doesn't prove anything. Simon: The introduction of agriculture indeed changed the human condition because it triggered a dormant trait in our evolutionary psychology, a trait that wasn't expressed before. John: How ? Simon: By the advent of economic surplus. Simon: Resources and goods that could be stored, hoarded, stockpiled, owned, traded, controlled and leveraged for personal gain, a phenomenon that was impossible in a hunter-gatherer reality, and it was that realization that sparked our now omnipresent drive toward dominance and hierarchy. John: I didn't know that. John: Genetic dormancy of an evolutionary expression, needed an environmental trigger, psychological drive, but then morphs into complex oppressive institutions and structures. John :Compelling. Intuitive. Plausible. john: Too bad it's total bullshit. John:All simpleton, pedestrian, bio-deterministic conclusions that are nothing more than elitist projections. John: Agriculture did change everything but not because of someone's dormant psychological drive magically triggered by economic surplus. John: It was about what a society technically required, dramatically shifting incentives and the very nature of human relationships. John: Think about it. First you need the proper land, water, the right conditions to farm, then creating settlements around those fruitful areas as opposed to foraging. Since land quality varies some settlements will prosper due to their geography and some will falter. So what happens when a group finds itself with failed crops and no way to survive the winter ? They may trade with other groups, building out what we call a market today, giving way to the idea of property and so on. Or if they have nothing to trade, desperate, they may invade, they may steal, compete, establishing the need for protection, laws, armies, the state institution itself. At the same time, people begin to notice the imbalance and power of this new propertied reality, rationalizing the hoarding of wealth for the sake of future security. Hence the birth of inequity, poverty, socio-economic class. John: Simon, every major structural aspect of society today, from ownership to trade to nation states to institutional warfare to the competitive ethic to vast economic inequality and power hierarchy was predictable. Snowballing ever since. Simon: So your theory is if you change the structure of society you change the human condition ? There's no going back, John. John: No one's going back, we're going forward. John: Humanity has been trapped in this immature stage for far too long, not to mention the sickness manifested by this endless striving towards social status is palpable. Children, when who asked what they want to be when they grow up say,"Rich and famous." How the most wealthy nations, those beacons of supposed success are by far the most mentally ill. People don't know who they are, where they're going, or what they're doing. Lost in a perversion of social image, a spectacle that no longer has any relationship to anything real. From Peter Joseph's 2020 film Interreflections.
Solidus certainly was not the bad guy. To be free from these real life La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo we need to shake off the chains of capitalism. This was an excellent video that highlights how damaging the "new world order" truly is. To the planet & to the majority of humans alike.
Futurasound Productions' analysis of the Metal Gear franchise and Kojima's wider works eg. Policenauts, are legit some of the best on youtube, bruh, homie deserves 45.6 million subs, not 45.6k
Seriously 4realz🔥😎👌
I would really love to see that very soon!
Thanks jack for understanding how much this site could be pain a*s but god bless you to man 🙏
Their videos are academic level.
Keeping me sane the last few moths since finding him. Only good thing during lockdown
Seriously how do you make such masterpieces of videos in such short time and so consistently. Just wow you deserve millions of subs.
These are literally the thoughts I have while watching his videos
Psyop
i agree!
I see I wasn't the only one that though of MGS2 after last week's events. Looking forward to the video.
Snake
Be careful....
There are claymore mines in that area
I been on an MGS Binge. Missing my Metal Gear.
@@FiLipiNoJezus never be game over!
Your production puts 95% of the mainstream to shame, bro
I was legitimately not in a mentally stable enough place to hear that carbon zetajoule stat
High as fuck
You can stop being part of a mistake, now.
damn.. This game never ceases to amaze me, no mater how much time passes, how many times I beat it, this shit is some transcendental work
The explanation of the international system, the one that starts at 21:00 may be the best I’ve ever heard.
Metal Gear Solid 2 has been on my mind a LOT over the last 4 years to be honest...
I hope learning about the existence of "EHMs" helps people understand the true nature of modern economy and how currency is controlled.
A happy and educated populace runs contrary to our leader’s beliefs.
@@zyzdzy And, by "leader", do you mean the imaginary friend of economists that continues to rule with its ubiquitous invisible hand?
@@Pensive_Scarlet I hope it didn’t come off as a ‘lizard people inflating the price of diamonds in order to procure them for various lizard people activities’ kind of person, but it just seems like a rationally bleak thing. Its entirely possible that a secret society exists that forces society into a state of unfairness, and treats said unfairness a ‘that’s just life’ ordeal. It’s also entirely possible that humanity’s bleak condition is only perpetuated by individualist greed, and selfishness; but we’d rather think its a secret society. So who knows?
@@zyzdzy their not secret, they operate in plain open sight. World Economical Forum is one. Time Magazine just released a special about how the deep state rigged the 2020 election.
This was an incredible video. It's amazing that your background enables the production of such content. Damn, I wish I took more anthropology courses now.
It's so empowering to hear you say how the future is in our hands and how any one of us can and should affect it. But on a serious note, what can you even do in a situation like this?
I think a small thing everyone can do is to think about who they give their money to, wich companies you support, and I know that may envolve some sacrifices, but there are simple things like buying food from small buisnesses, adopting slow fashion, buy more used stuff instead of new products, etc. I know it seems like a small thing, but developing local communities that can thrive by suporting each other might go a long way in decentralizing power from certain institutions, and if nothing else at least it brings social value to one's life knowing they are suppporting people who actually need it. Our future might be hopeless, I do think that, but we can at least make our present a little more bearable
I ask myself this all the time..... My answer has changed throughout the years. We're either fucked and nothing we do matters. Or we have some potential to make change. The biggest impact our ancestors was passing down their genes. We exist because of them. We are the ones existing in the here and now. And what's our greatest strength as species. Generating memes and story telling. We can't control our genes but can control our memes. We can decide what memes, we pass on and spread. And past those memes in our stories. But the thing is, we have already been doing that. And it has be co-oped by states and used against us. At the end of the day, we just have hope. I hope our collective will to live and not go extinct, will force change in our society. I don't want to believe humans will throw away their future....
@Jack Schneider yup, its definitely a small percentage of the population, however I do this because the people I have met and connected while doing this ( indigineous tribes, people involved with permaculture, living off grid etc) have positively impacted my daily life and at some point it became more about my personal health than anything else, I want to build a sustainable lifestyle not for the good of the planet but rather for my own sanity. The fututure may be hopeless, but theres a rap song in my country that says a line like this:
"Everybody is gonna die, ok, but before that, everbody has got to live."
Everyone's experience is different don't blame anyone for not wanting to change their way of life, its a hard decision and it has little reward besides personal well being, some people have allready found their happiness in the normative lifestyle. I just took snake's word to heart, I don't want to keep being part of a mistake, living like I used to and not caring about any of this never gave me any joy, it was just a fog of consumerism, work and alcohol everyday.
Nothing. No time in human hostory has ever seen the collective take control of itself. We always default back to being led by people we think know better so that we don't have to take the risk of leading ourselves. There is no hope to change this. Save yourself.
I think that the biggest impact we can make towards changing the world as an individual is the open discussion of our problems as a society. We can all become whistleblowers for our families and communities. Call out corruption when you see it. Don't settle for anything less than the truth.
This system that they've created was only done so through manufactured consent. The real power that these people possess is the consent of the masses to be exploited. The people hold all the power in this system, but they are convinced they have none. When people wake up and see what's really going on, they will want no part of this system. When this consent is gone, the system will inevitably collapse.
I believe we are already witnessing this collapse. I'm convinced that we've already reached a tipping point in awareness that can't be reversed. The spread of the truth is now becoming exponential. The ignorant masses will learn the truth and in that same moment the system is dead.
Couple of questions Mr. Lee: what motivates you to churn out such quality metal gear content? And do you ever have free or hobby time?
i'd argue this is his hobby, and god bless him for it
I have come to realize that Japanese video games have made me an environmentalist (Metal Gear Solid 2, Final Fantady 7, and Legend of Zelda Wind Waker) before I have ever thought of climate change impacts.
Kinda eery how that coincides with the efficacy of Skinner box indoctrination achieved by the military-industrial complex via entertainment software as pointed to earlier in this terrific electronic MGS2 essay cinematic universe.
P.S. Gotta love the e-MGSE CU
Art convays real life sometimes
Metal gear solid 2's "environmental message" was entirely based around a fake Big Shell event. Final fantasy 7 was eco-terrorism about a group who did more harm than good to the normal people they were trying to protect. Then a comet threatens to hit the planet. Wind Waker? The gods flood the world.
What part of any of that turned you into an environmentalist exaxtly?
This is by far my all time favorite UA-cam channel. It used to be pewdiepie because of how him making me laugh was my drug for years. But now I have to admit, metal gear solid is my life and this channel deep diving into the world of it is now my new favorite channel. Thanks for the amazing content brotha.
The quality of your videos is insane.
The amount of effort and thought put in to your is insane. You are definently one of my favourite youtubers.
Due to the quality of your content, I'm just going to like the video beforehand. Keep up the very nice work sofar:)
Same here
So what do you think after watching the video 🤔 does your like still stand
@@ARGENIZtheUNICORN It does. It offers up a fresh perspective on the American Century, modern climate change and MGS2.
I’d love an mgs podcast with this guy!! Let’s gooooo leeeeeee!!!!
yea, i'd like to listen to a podcast about all media (not just the metal gear series)
I've seen dozens of MGS analysis vids, and this is the best one I've ever seen as far as making me think about the reality of these global issues beyond "yeah, that's really fucked up".
I knew about this before, but whenever I hear about oil companies KNOWING about global warming and just not DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT, I think I understand exactly what my mom felt when she herself was a young woman and the Chernobyl reactor blew up, and the Polish government didn't warn the people that they could be in danger due to the fumes from Ukraine. They just hid it as long as they could to cover how innept they were. My mom gets so mad to this day whenever she talks about it. I know that the government and oil companies have different reasons for what they did, but the result is very similar.
Stellar work as always dude!
Can anyone believe the content this channel is sharing? God damn, thanks a lot. It´s funny, I played MG2 when I was 10 years old. I loved it. Now, watching it in my thirties makes me realize the profound political and phylosophical themes it treats. Much things I didn´t pick it up by the concious, but today I can say that I learned so much from MGS saga, even though I couldnt understand it completely at the time.
I am educating all my friends on the origins of the petrodollar, thank you for educating me about its many facets.
I really appreciate the depth of your research for these videos. This kind of material should be included with the sale of every Metal Gear game, much like the Document of MGS2. As far as I'm concerned, this is equivalent to 'required reading' if you're a Metal Gear fan.
I just want to say thank you for these videos basically re-explain my in class social studies lectures with a fun twist. And also thank you for letting me procrastinate on the aforementioned social studies homework but still be able to participate in class discussion.
I have been waiting for this mgs2 Analysis !
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Busy finishing MGS V at mission 50 on extreme... was waiting for thing video last night 😅
I’ve owned the game for weeks now, but I’m finally getting around to it.
I will use this video to teach my kids history of modern economics. Great books cited!!
I have to compliment you on your videos again. I don't really make comments often but its been a joy to have found this channel. Thanks man.
Man i look forward to every one of your videos! Up the good work Boss
I appreciate the essays you make for this game specifically. It was this game that opened my eyes to the concepts of what can possibly exist in our reality. How much of what this game is can be based on truth? And I began to study as much as I could to try and understand the source material, or rather, our history. So thank you for taking this way of thinking to a new level; it is very insightful and engaging.
Thanks for that Boss
This video is a certified banger not only in the Existence series, but in the Futurasound library as a whole. I specifically loved your use of the research of the economist Yanis Varoufakis, to draw parallels between the elite financial institutions and the Patriots. Really love what ideas this video discusses. Keep it up, can't wait for your next piece!
When I first discovered this channel, I thought you had to be a crank to churn out as much content as you do as fast as you do. But the more I look into the sources that you synthesize in your work, the more I realize that you really know what you're talking about.
Dude how the fuck you only got 50k subs it's ridiculous, this is some of the best content I've ever witnessed
It's amazing, yet unfortunate to hear info about climate changes in this video when my girlfriend, an oceanologist, tells me how much our seas, rivers and lakes are slowly dying, by losing oxygen, etc. and it's all happening right now. Some countries literally ignore those facts. Great analysis, by the way. Keep it up!
MGS2 gripped me from the very beginning. The tone of the story was just shrouded in mystery.
#early2000snostalgia
Brother, your videos are poignant, relevant, well produced, and have a strong effect upon me. I appreciate and value your work.
Fantastic deep-dive essay into globalism and economic warfare of our modern time. Amazing effort and research, as we've come to expect from Futurasound!
Never thought this guy could dig so much out of mgs2.... How deep dose the rabbit hole go.... Fatman, I'm laughing beside you.... lol
Amazing video, your talents deserve more recognition!
Just discovered this channel for myself. Absolutely amazing. Keep up the good work!
Fantastic doc. I really love these and appreciate your contributions to the moment we’re living in.
This is why I love Futurasound Productions. He mentioned the 'Economic Hitmen.' People don't understand just how dangerous Economic Hitmen truly are. Even though they are called "hitmen", they can bring nations down to their knees without firing a single shot.🌍
I dunno what you just said lil man. But you reached out, and you touched my heart
I'm a huge fan of your channel. And I love watching the metal gear series. I'm the Author of land of amer. When I'm writing I always have you video on, just to listen to my favorite game lore. I just wanted to reach out and say your amazing, keep it up.
I love “memories of hal” and the other version of it
An important video for all of us and one of your finest videos yet.
glad you took your time to give us this episode
at this point. MGS is simply a facade to leasure us about our recent history. i love it
Yo this mans videos on mgs2 are insanely good
the very existence of this channel gives me hope for the future of humanity
So much truth and wisdom in this video it can be depressing
In hindsight, this may have been the most important video that you made.
Can't wait
I’m excited for this one. Already liked it 🙃
"Big Shell gets flooded, like the Titanic did, Quintessence? *I THINK NOT* "
You cite yanis in a mgs video. Fuck my life dude... This is perfection.
dude i can't wait to see that sub count blow SKY HIGH, this guy is a fax machine.
Ya think Kojima was playing with those legos before the interview
He uses those to model out the bases we infiltrate etc
It’s crazy how prescient this game was... excellent video essay.
Btw, it’s pronounced “cough-ers” (for “coffers”).
Great video as usual. I'm surprised Death Stranding didn't come up at all in this topic?
The desription says 2nd to last video of the retrospective but this is the last video in the "METAL GEAR SOLID 2: SONS OF LIBERTY (2001) Essays" playlist. What video is the last of the retrospective?
I really enjoyed this video. I wish this topic wasn't politicised as it is very hard to know what to trust.
Hard day of college is over. Time to play duck life 3 and listen to a man discuss the economic and ecological themes of a 20 year old video game and how they relate to the modern day collapse of the economy.
@futurasound I realized afterwards that I was anticipating a mention of Oilix from MG2 or the Mninfinda Oil Spill in MGSV. Still a great video nonetheless!
thank u for the global minotaur reference!
I’m glad you’ve done very thorough research but education and inequality have not become “non-issues” as you state early on in the essay. Anyway, this was highly intriguing as always and I can’t wait for the next one boss!
So every video is a masterpiece now? OK Futurasound, I'll take it...
Sure this vid is also a masterpiece ❤️
we analysed Shakespeare and other poets and different authors throughout school... maybe soon we'll hear of schoolkids bringing home a copy of MGS2 and having to deconstruct it to this same level for their essays.
Your videos are art
Well, we're boned.
Thank you so much for this content and context
This was a brilliant Analysis on the future of humanity futurasound, but when you look at that way towards the oil economy you begin to ask yourself when the hell will these Bastards realize that the earth is not object, it’s a living breathing Planet that’s needs us to get out of this Repeating cycle of a mistake, because I’ve already been out of that mistake when played mgs2 and learned about it more since three years, I hope... that someday I’ll have the proof and Courage to save my whole family from this mistake.
Nice work Boss!
Was looking so much into the stats of the economy I damn near forgot this started about a videogame 😳
Kojima has slowly warned us of capital folly...
Great work as always. Hope my countries leaders and more importantly China’s leadership focus on these concerns
I literally started clapping @27:00 bro great job with these videos more people need to see this
MGS2: Has incredibly deep, meaning themes that are way ahead of it's time
Fans: well no it has raiden so its bad
I dropped my phone and when I picked it up I saw it had disliked the video. I almost had a heart attack
apolitical indie gem ❤️
Humans really are a disgusting species. This is also a masterpiece, bravo!
Tfw the last episode of existence 2 will never come out
University professors should play Jorin’s videos for education.
you should arquive all your videos outside youtube.
John Taylor:Humans are diverse, everyone has different capabilities, strengths, weaknesses, talents.
John: The push for social equality and human rights is about how that diversity is understood and you seem to think people should only be valued
by how well they compete in the business game as if the violence spread between the rich and the poor reflects objective human worth.
Simon Devoe: John, I amuse myself with the notion of the money God because it isn't far from the truth.
Simon: Some system has to exist to divide up a scarce world and nature has spoken as to what that system must be.
Simon: Those who reach the top of the pyramid deserve it, not because you or I think it's right, but because that's what nature is selecting for.
John: So nature prefers sociopaths and psychopaths to guide the species ? Because those are the dominating traits of the ruling class today.
Simon: The system is as the system does.
John: Is that what the Malthusian Mandate is about ? to select out the poor and weak.
Simon: We'll get to the mandate in a moment.
Simon: I'm still bothered by your denial of the fact our social system reflects our true biological nature and if this revolution you
speak of did magically occur, it would just be a matter of time before the innate compulsion towards social dominance prevailed yet again.
Simon: Deep down, John, the slaves don't want to be free, they want to be slave owners.
John: Nice one.
John: Too bad history paints a different picture.
Simon: Power hierarchies have remained constant throughout recorded civilization.
John: For perhaps the last 12,000 years, sure.
John: but you know as well as I do, before the discovery of agriculture, there was no such thing, ninety-nine percent of human
history has been egalitarian.
Simon: I said civilization, John, meandering hunter-gatherer tribes chucking spears and eating grubs isn't civilization.
John: How contemporacist of you, yet 20th century studies of numerous hunter-gatherer tribes, those still surviving in
remote areas just as they did thousands of years prior, actually show socially rich cultures. Adult life spans not far from ours.
John:Relatively peaceful in balance with nature.
John:No leaders, no group hierarchy, no inequality.
John:To argue today's society is somehow more civilized is dubious at best.
Simon: Well, then perhaps you can encourage all your enlightened followers to come together and live out their utopian fantasy in the Amazon jungle.
John: You mean what's left of it ? what hasn't been destroyed by the supposedly advanced culture that's ravaged the natural world
into total decline in the name of infinite consumption and economic growth ?
John: and the point here, Simon, is hunter-gatherer cultures are evidence of human variability, variability which contradicts
your vague biological determinism.
Simon: John, just because history shows a range of behaviors across time doesn't prove anything.
Simon: The introduction of agriculture indeed changed the human condition because it triggered a dormant trait in our evolutionary psychology, a trait that wasn't
expressed before.
John: How ?
Simon: By the advent of economic surplus.
Simon: Resources and goods that could be stored, hoarded, stockpiled, owned, traded, controlled and
leveraged for personal gain, a phenomenon that was impossible in a hunter-gatherer reality, and it was that realization that sparked our now
omnipresent drive toward dominance and hierarchy.
John: I didn't know that.
John: Genetic dormancy of an evolutionary expression, needed an environmental trigger, psychological drive, but then morphs into complex oppressive institutions
and structures.
John :Compelling. Intuitive. Plausible.
john: Too bad it's total bullshit.
John:All simpleton, pedestrian, bio-deterministic conclusions that are nothing more than elitist projections.
John: Agriculture did change everything but not because of someone's dormant psychological drive magically triggered
by economic surplus.
John: It was about what a society technically required, dramatically shifting incentives and the very nature of human relationships.
John: Think about it.
First you need the proper land, water, the right conditions to farm, then creating settlements around those fruitful areas as opposed to foraging.
Since land quality varies some settlements will prosper due to their geography and some will falter.
So what happens when a group finds itself with failed crops and no way to survive the winter ?
They may trade with other groups, building out what we call a market today, giving way to the idea of property and so on.
Or if they have nothing to trade, desperate, they may invade, they may steal, compete, establishing the need for protection, laws, armies, the state institution itself.
At the same time, people begin to notice the imbalance and power of this new propertied reality, rationalizing the hoarding of wealth
for the sake of future security.
Hence the birth of inequity, poverty, socio-economic class.
John: Simon, every major structural aspect of society today, from ownership to trade to nation states to institutional warfare
to the competitive ethic to vast economic inequality and power hierarchy was predictable.
Snowballing ever since.
Simon: So your theory is if you change the structure of society you change the human condition ? There's no going back, John.
John: No one's going back, we're going forward.
John: Humanity has been trapped in this immature stage for far too long, not to mention the sickness manifested by this endless striving towards
social status is palpable.
Children, when who asked what they want to be when they grow up say,"Rich and famous."
How the most wealthy nations, those beacons of supposed success are by far the most mentally ill.
People don't know who they are, where they're going, or what they're doing.
Lost in a perversion of social image, a spectacle that no longer has any relationship to anything real.
From Peter Joseph's 2020 film Interreflections.
30:30 Temperature is rising on Earth, because we're still at the end of a small ice-age.
Man can write an entire thesis on MGS2
Top notch content
spooky video you got here. who knew a video game could make you think about global affairs?
Your videos are amazing
You all should check out the book The Prize it’s great for understanding the history of oil
Solidus certainly was not the bad guy.
To be free from these real life La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo we need to shake off the chains of capitalism.
This was an excellent video that highlights how damaging the "new world order" truly is.
To the planet & to the majority of humans alike.
"Economic Hitmen"
You have the most killer terms, son.
The older i get the more prolific and salient these games themes become.
Thank you
We humans are really insane, as a whole. Greed outweighs existence.
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
You should consider doing a podcast. :)
La Li Lu Le Lo???