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Hey I have a question do you know anything about non western philosophy, like from the Middle East or Africa? I think it would be interesting to learn because of how they'll analyse these themes very differently!
Hey, could you ever do a video about the fictional city of Adocentyn and about what people with virtue based ethics think about it? Anyway, thank you so much for helping me figure out my views
RIP Kafka, you would have loved the irony of becoming popular on a social media platform based on connecting and empowering people through sharing their experiences and participating in shared trends that ends up inadvertently alienating them and further diminishing their sense of self
That's what I couldn't stand about Kafka. The self doubt sets in in a way way that's inescapable. Probably because of a subjectivism, but really belief in faith can work that way and it's annoying.
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness. ~Franz Kafka
My German teacher assigned me one of Kafka's letters to his father (or a similar excerpt) as part of my final exam to graduate high school (Europe). It was a story about his longing to feel welcome in the family home that he never did feel welcome in. My teacher knew that I was being abused at home and that I often struggled to relay my knowledge in exams due to a lack of confidence. To this day I believe that he assigned me this story with the intention of allowing me to connect with the piece that I had to analyze. I got a (very rare) perfect mark on that exam, and I connected deeply with Kafka's writing that day and ever since.
I remember visiting the Kafka museum in Prague. Everything about his life made sense as to why he wrote what he did. And now that im older, i can see the world a bit more through his eyes. Not with blind pessimism, but a reserved optimism
@@olgamarinho everything made him nervous. I think he even had to be escorted to school. Also he wrote in a letter to his bride-to-be "When I think of approaching the altar with you, I imagine going to an execution block" or something like that.
Without getting maudlin, you have greatly enriched my life, young man. At 72, I refuse to give up on learning much more, becoming more mature and "wise" in my silver fox period. Thank you. I hope that Cambridge or Oxford have snatched you up. This is your road to greatness and perhaps Nietzsche would be proud. Perhaps he would suggest you wear a breast plate and Greek warrior helmet and brandish a sword of literary interpretation as you charge your way to great academic acclaim. Or not (shrug).
For me, finding this channel is like crossing the desert , barely alive from thirst, only to find a jug of the clearest, cold spring water. It gives hope.
@@thwartificer that whatever meaning and non-meaning we give to life, whatever identity and non-identity life consists of, and that whatever revelations and unfoldings that happen to us ends with the death of us... Or shall I say with the coming of our nonexistence...
yes, and the people who insist on that there must be/ have to be something after death is just catering to their emotions of wanting more, be it out of someone they love or themselves, but fail to realise that it is yet another social construct, having been brought up in a culture with so many diverse thoughts on what is there after death, from literally nothing to literally anything, to even respawning in another universe as an arcade character, why then with no knowledge of what happens after death and that the concept of soul lies within imagination, why not imagine further and bigger, I shall be Mewtwo in another world as soon as I die in this world
@@thwartificer life and death must coexist by their very natures. If there is no end, then "start" has no meaning. If there is no death, then there is no life, there just "is".
I told my friends that I would let them read the next short story I wrote and I’ve been kind of dreading it. I set out to write a horror/thriller but as time went by I found myself writing about me. Hearing Kafka’s story has given me the final push. If he was an anxious depressed person like myself and he could do it then I guess I can too
Yay, finally another video on Kafka, his books really helped me stay myself during semester graduating, so thanks for more in-depth philosophy analysis.
This video couldn't have come out at a better time! I've been diving into Kafka's work recently. As someone who struggles with autism and other issues, there is no author more resonant to me than Kafka.
I’ve read Kafka before, but it wasn’t until you started describing his depiction of being isolated in public, the idea of being a stranger in a world with rules and customs that everyone but you seems to know, that I realized what his writings constantly remind me of. Kafka reminds me of the way my autistic younger brother talks about being around people or society in general, makes me wonder if Kafka was neurodivergent himself
As someone who is AuDHD - while we will never know for certain, I certainly believe that he would have been neurodivergent in some way for those exact reasons.
Joe, I can't help but think there's a book perculating inside of you. Perhaps a synthesis of the thought of your favorite philosophers and its application in modern life? Whatever its theme, it will certainly be worth reading.
I never considered myself a lonely person at all, and I still don’t, but i am shockingly surprised by how much this video in particular resonates with the way I feel
Franz Kafka is an amazing person with an amazing collection of works. I find myself laughing and being scared by his stories and insights. No writer has ever impacted me so much, with the exception of Dostoevsky and Nietzsche.
I'm going through the worst times of my life, and yet, as long as I breathe and am able to read, I find solace I'm Kafka during my darkest moments. I feel relieved and deeply masochistic as well. Anyway, thank you. Hope you fare well
Huh. Now I understand my life a little better. I'm living in a Kafka novel. Any cries for help are met with, "Yep, seems like everyone's going through that." without another thought to my situation. My struggles are so vastly unimportant they are completely ignored until they somehow impact someone else.
Yeah I kind of feel the same Even though I have a family (wife, daughter) and a couple of good friends, I feel my nihilism and feeling of loneliness growing day by day and sometimes I just don't give a damn if I just die in my sleep and don't wake up the next morning; in fact, sometimes the thought of that happening gives me a sense of relief ("no more pain, I'm out" sort of thing)
This managed to find me at the end of a very long, anxiety-riddled day and I am SO grateful! It’s exactly what I needed to feel a little bit better and has inspired me to check out some of Kafka’s work in more detail :)
The fact we can search for subjects on the internet that interest us has fine-tuned each of us to the point where interest doesn't arise from purely social intercourse. Hence, we become more alone.
This has really clarified some things for me this morning, thank you 🌿 Kafka is one of my favorites. His sense of the absurdity of the world can bring me to laughter whilst reading. I've always had this sense of being removed from the world or on a slightly different plane, it may be due to derealisation and dissociation from ADHD & trauma but yes, whenever I read Kafka I feel like he gets it. It's different from a sense of loneliness because there isn't sadness in it. It's more like floating slightly above things so they seem absurd, often other people's behaviour seems completely alien. I'm more present with plants and animals. Thank you for the video 🌿
I remember you mentioning how much you enjoyed Kafka in one of your videos so I was waiting for a full video on him. Great work I appreciate your videos mate!
Im a dyslexic and I read very very slow and I get so frustrated that I couldn't read Kafka and because of your wonderful insight I find you being a great teacher. For my frustration is something he would poke fun at, so I shall slowly read what I should have read in english class if I wasnt such a slow reader stuck with football players and low intellect. Being dyslexic before 1984 was terrible and Kafka and I could laugh and cry about it all. Thank you!
As someone who is also dyslexic I’ve always felt frustrated thank you this changed my perspective i was always ashamed of being a really really really slow reader tysm
Your videos always throw me off of my reading schedule. Whomever you discuss in the latest video is made to seem so grand that I MUST revisit them immediately, leaving behind whatever I am currently delving into! Bravo!
Trauma doesn't just cause mental health problems but also gives a person's humoristic skill an extra ounce of spice! The more people I get to know, the more I think this is definitely true!
No matter how long I watch this channel, my brain still always goes through that slight "Oh, no! It's already over!" panicky line of thought, only to realize it just means /ourboi/ here has only finished point number 1 and is moving on to the next one, for some reason.
Found your channel 2-3 days ago now I'm obsessed and want to drop out of my masters on drug addictions and study philosophy at Cambridge 😂 but for real I loved every single video of yours i have watched up to this point, you are a magnificent genius 💯
I like the humility to point out another video after putting in the work to make your own. Even putting it in the beginning of the video. Still gonna watch yours and may look at the other later.
Nice video! If you dont mind me asking, how have you achieved such a level of fluency with such a wide vocabulary. Theres a sense of elegance and deeper understanding that i get from each of your sentaces which is very difficult to find elsewhere.
Ah thank you! And to be honest I probably expand my vocabulary just by reading. I also have always enjoyed playing with language. I found Tom Stoppard was really helpful for getting the hang of sentence rhythm (not that I am anywhere near as good as he is with it)
New to the channel. Just wanted to say, your videos are unbelievable and you are so well spoken. I am beyond impressed. Off sick today so I began my journey of reading the classics. Metamorphosis was something else.
And how can we not struggle with Kafka when it comes to identity and isolation? Identity is such a fascinating theme in philosophy and other areas as well. Would be very interesting to see a video and the various takes on it by different Philosophers! If you haven't checked him out already, have a look at Luigi Pirandello. He accompanied me a lot during my existential angst years in High School! Would love to see you make a video on his works and his philosophy! His work inspired Jean Paul Sartre and Beckett as well. Thank you for your videos!! Greetings from Italy
For that first chapter, I've seen quite a many people turn activities or interests into a whole label for a person. It feels like the result of that might end up a lot like three branding buzzwords in a trenchcoat? I've kinda developed a pattern of phrasing, or I suppose reassurance to some extent that has helped me also define who I am of sorts. Its kinda simple? I am a person. Who does things. (And has some attributes and odd traits.) That is all. Maybe also a philosophy that'd take an hour or two to elaborate. Also some grudges and chips on my shoulder. But those don't define me or "what" I am or what I oughtn't think or do (safety aside). I am just me. At my core a human, just doing various things.
Everyone goes through an "identity crisis" as a teenager. It's not just a crisis for teens and twenty somethings of the modern age. It's part of being a human being. Read some of Carl Jung's writings. He coined the phrase "identity crisis" as one of several stage-of-life related psychological "crises" we experience throughout our lives.
Sounds like the teaching of Buddhism. Not exact but back when I listened to Alan watts it was very similar ideas. Look at the beauty of life as it is vastly more complex than one can imagine. How one can ever be bored is a marvel of life itself.
Kafka's comedy is tragedy and his tragedy is an immense joy... There is hope but not for us... the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self that is inseparable from the horrific struggle... that our endless and impossible journey to our home is our home... You can imagine that art is kind of a door that we approach and pound on the door and finally the door opens and it opens outward... We have been inside what we wanted all along... David Foster Wallace on Kafka May you please make a video on the American philosophy of David Foster Wallace? He is like the American Kafka, Infinite Jest description of mental health problems of the age is prophetic...
Another awesome video Joe. I could never get into Kafka but you did a great job of presenting his works. He certainly identifies in human suffering, does he help us transcend it? For me not personally. Maybe I should have kept reading! He's an important philosopher all the same, I wouldn't have had him any other way!
Bro you have been reporting on a bunch of things I like and have read, such as Nikomachean Ethics and Kafka. Since your taste seems to match mine, I would suggest for you Goethe Faust and Carmen Aureum by Pythagoras. These really struck me in awe.
I think the inequality of hierarchical societal structures based on individual rights and not human rights first has a profound impact on this issue. Take capitalism & the free market, they allow the leveraging of human needs to be an individual’s commodity to profit off without any obligation to humanity as a whole. Individual rights over human rights. Something to consider?
What are the "human rights" exactly and how would you like to enforce them? Seems to me that "human rights" are a construct which serves to the priviledged ones of the hierarchical structure to impose their schemes on the masses.
The image of a wide pork butcher's knife, swiftly and with mechanical regularity chopping into me, shaving off razor-thin slices which fly about, due to the speed of the work. -Franz Kafka
As an Orthodox Christian, it seems to me that there may not be much difference between the Greek stories of the gods battering people and throwing them around and Kafka's bureaucratic nightmares. Understanding what the gods are from this perspective makes one realize that they may very well be the same thing. Nothing is arbitrary, and people didn't just sit around making up stories because they were bored.
Helplessness Theme: Not to malevolent superior force dominance, But by striking against unbearable obtuseness of world Classic meaning of word Kafkaesque : being helpess in face of endless incomprehensible beuracracy and difficulties ( baffling and obstructive recognized reality.)
May you please make a video on the main precursor of Franz Kafka: Robert Walser? He is like a funny beckett and Kafka... ❤ much love and appreciation to your videos...
“They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong…..” ~Franz Kafka ( Perhaps ridicule and absurdism are just words….) Also, he never wanted to be a lawyer (in reality), his father pressured him into being so…. (Profound explanation of this can be found in “Letters to Father”- a compilation of letters written by Kafka to his father…)-which he never submitted (posted) to his father….. They are truly excruciating distressing…. (BTW, I love your work! Can not imagine how much work and energy you put into researching the information and then creating such great videos…….)
@@itiso1123 “Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.” Is a line taken from the poem “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Elton College “ by Thomas Gray, it is often shortened just to the phrase “ ignorance is bliss”. It suggests the idea that if a person is unaware about some certain things then they don’t need to worry about them. This particular state of unawareness is then linked to a condition of transient happiness ( which is due to the delusion approach of an individual). However, this quote was never meant to express apathetic feelings towards having knowledge or simply being aware. Kafka in his quote says,”They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong.” Which contradicts the initial interpretation of the original quote. Kafka implies that ignorance can result in lack of comprehension and clarity of one’s own life and character. He asserts that the unawareness of one’s own consciousness and condition may lead to greater suffering or a state of pernicious delusiveness and ultimately a harsh realisation of the truth( later on). So, according to him it is better to accept and be aware about the painful truths, even if they cause you misery and it is more advantageous to deal with the disturbing realities than to just ignore them ( because ignorance may cause you greater pain and agony in the future). When one reads this quote for the first time, it is a little daunting to understand the real and substantial meaning behind it. The reason behind this particular thing is that, Kafka has used a sense of nuance while expressing this statement and this subtle shading might cause difficulties for readers to understand. HOPE YOU UNDERSTOOD THE MEANING BEHIND THE WORDS….. [Note: This particular explanation is my own personal interpretation of the quote, there might exist other explanations too….. (Also,this explanation is agreed upon many other people too, and is considered the most legitimate.)] THANK YOU!
@@nusratkhan3083 Ah so in the end it comes down to the idea of temporary bliss not being worth the harsh meeting with the truth that destroys one illusion and puts him in a higher state of misery than would be if he had known. Ignorance building up the impact of the crash that is yet to come. I feel like its a very simmilar argument to Dostoyevski's "It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise." Being often interpreted that one should come in terms with harsh truths, for accepting them leads to growth and allows to move forward instead of embracing the ignorance that rewards with fragile deceptive state, that although is initially blissfull does eventually crumble down when confronted by ruthless reality. I was wondering if a simmilar topic would be answered by a diffrent way of reasoning for i Imagined Kafka's philosophy to be diffrent from that of Fyodor Dostoyevski, but it ends up in basically the same arguments. Thanks for providing insight on the topic i wasn't expecting such a extensive answer involving where the initial quote originated from, but it was a welcome surprise.
@@nusratkhan3083 I see so it holds up to simmilar arguments behind Dostoyevski's "It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise" Fyodor's quote is also usually interpreted that its better to accept the harsh reality and come in terms with the truth as it leads to growth and allows one to move forward instead of living in ignorance, that provides a short lived and fragile bliss, choosing "fools paradise" one chooses to put themself into a state of deception that crumbles easily when confronted by unforgiving truth leaving them worse off than if they had known and accepted the truth beforehand, for life will eventually will come and teach us reality but the lesson shall be harsh. I was wondering if Kafka's approach to the basically the same topic would be diffrently argumented as i imagined thier philosophies and life experiences to be diffrent. If you know another thinker that achieaved the same conclusion but with diffrent reasoning behind it i'd love to hear about it. That was a more extensive answer that i had originally expected but its a welcome surprise. Thank you for providing some insight into how Kafka vieved ignorance in an understandable way.
"...where the rules are hidden and absurd, and yet everyone else seems to know them perfectly..." This feeling reaches Truman Show levels of paranoid terror in myself too, too often.
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Hey I have a question do you know anything about non western philosophy, like from the Middle East or Africa? I think it would be interesting to learn because of how they'll analyse these themes very differently!
Hey, could you ever do a video about the fictional city of Adocentyn and about what people with virtue based ethics think about it?
Anyway, thank you so much for helping me figure out my views
Kafka >>> Monty phython?
You’re a good man.
RIP Kafka, you would have loved the irony of becoming popular on a social media platform based on connecting and empowering people through sharing their experiences and participating in shared trends that ends up inadvertently alienating them and further diminishing their sense of self
Fk sakes 😂😂
Franz Kafka once said that by believing passionately in something that still doesn't exist, we create it.
Ah yes, I remember reading that. Is that from his journals?
@unsolicitedadvice9198 it is probably from one of his letters, i don't think it is in his diaries...
That sounds like Death from Hogfather.
Basically how tulpamancy works
That's what I couldn't stand about Kafka. The self doubt sets in in a way way that's inescapable. Probably because of a subjectivism, but really belief in faith can work that way and it's annoying.
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
~Franz Kafka
I've got to admit, the level to which I align with this idea is somewhat concerning...
Omg! This man is so beautiful!! I want to put my face next to the arch of his foot!!!!
"Kafkaesque" is the most beautiful word in the dictionary!
Haha! It just rolls off the tongue
And the most terrifying world :)
I love the word! Probably the most memorable I’ve learned.
And an episode from Breaking Bad :)
celler door is the most beautiful coupling of words, you can only understand this by understanding kafkaesq which just means you don't know anomie
My German teacher assigned me one of Kafka's letters to his father (or a similar excerpt) as part of my final exam to graduate high school (Europe). It was a story about his longing to feel welcome in the family home that he never did feel welcome in. My teacher knew that I was being abused at home and that I often struggled to relay my knowledge in exams due to a lack of confidence. To this day I believe that he assigned me this story with the intention of allowing me to connect with the piece that I had to analyze. I got a (very rare) perfect mark on that exam, and I connected deeply with Kafka's writing that day and ever since.
True form of teaching sounds like this ❤
I remember visiting the Kafka museum in Prague. Everything about his life made sense as to why he wrote what he did. And now that im older, i can see the world a bit more through his eyes. Not with blind pessimism, but a reserved optimism
I too visited the museum, concluding that Kafka was basically insane. Love his works, though.
@@2ndviolin Could you say what you saw there that made you come to that conclusion?
@@olgamarinho everything made him nervous. I think he even had to be escorted to school. Also he wrote in a letter to his bride-to-be "When I think of approaching the altar with you, I imagine going to an execution block" or something like that.
@@2ndviolin Oh, poor Kafka... Thank you for answering.
@@2ndviolin I don't think that's insanity? Sounds like anxiety more than a lack of sanity lol
Without getting maudlin, you have greatly enriched my life, young man. At 72, I refuse to give up on learning much more, becoming more mature and "wise" in my silver fox period. Thank you. I hope that Cambridge or Oxford have snatched you up. This is your road to greatness and perhaps Nietzsche would be proud. Perhaps he would suggest you wear a breast plate and Greek warrior helmet and brandish a sword of literary interpretation as you charge your way to great academic acclaim. Or not (shrug).
He’s a Cambridge grad lol
Loved this! Makes me happy to see an elder still so eager to learn
I fuckin love the word maudlin… maudlin.. What a great word. Thanks for saying that to the young fella. You’re a good dude.
For me, finding this channel is like crossing the desert , barely alive from thirst, only to find a jug of the clearest, cold spring water. It gives hope.
Yes.
This channel along with Horses and Whatifalthist have been my oasis
I could have built the pyramids with the effort it take me to cling into life and reason.
~Kafka
Really? Then build one
@@horukyeHe is putting the effort into clinging to life and reason.
@@horukye I don't think he can hear you, since he's dead as fuck
Every thing that you love will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.
~Kafka on Love...
thats some crackhead shit imma stick to drugs
The meaning of life is that it stops.
~Kafka
Most accurate definition/answer to the meaning of life...
How so?
@@thwartificer that whatever meaning and non-meaning we give to life, whatever identity and non-identity life consists of, and that whatever revelations and unfoldings that happen to us ends with the death of us... Or shall I say with the coming of our nonexistence...
@@Life_Of_Mine_ Well, this is a true fact, but I don't see how this is a "meaning" per se
yes, and the people who insist on that there must be/ have to be something after death is just catering to their emotions of wanting more, be it out of someone they love or themselves, but fail to realise that it is yet another social construct, having been brought up in a culture with so many diverse thoughts on what is there after death, from literally nothing to literally anything, to even respawning in another universe as an arcade character, why then with no knowledge of what happens after death and that the concept of soul lies within imagination, why not imagine further and bigger, I shall be Mewtwo in another world as soon as I die in this world
@@thwartificer life and death must coexist by their very natures. If there is no end, then "start" has no meaning. If there is no death, then there is no life, there just "is".
I told my friends that I would let them read the next short story I wrote and I’ve been kind of dreading it. I set out to write a horror/thriller but as time went by I found myself writing about me. Hearing Kafka’s story has given me the final push. If he was an anxious depressed person like myself and he could do it then I guess I can too
Yay, finally another video on Kafka, his books really helped me stay myself during semester graduating, so thanks for more in-depth philosophy analysis.
Thank you for watching! He is a brilliant thinker
This video couldn't have come out at a better time! I've been diving into Kafka's work recently. As someone who struggles with autism and other issues, there is no author more resonant to me than Kafka.
I’ve read Kafka before, but it wasn’t until you started describing his depiction of being isolated in public, the idea of being a stranger in a world with rules and customs that everyone but you seems to know, that I realized what his writings constantly remind me of. Kafka reminds me of the way my autistic younger brother talks about being around people or society in general, makes me wonder if Kafka was neurodivergent himself
As someone who is AuDHD - while we will never know for certain, I certainly believe that he would have been neurodivergent in some way for those exact reasons.
My thoughts exactly
Joe, I can't help but think there's a book perculating inside of you. Perhaps a synthesis of the thought of your favorite philosophers and its application in modern life? Whatever its theme, it will certainly be worth reading.
Agreed!
it's indescribable how I appreciate your videos. Also, as an English learner I'm so thankful that you add subtitles
I never considered myself a lonely person at all, and I still don’t, but i am shockingly surprised by how much this video in particular resonates with the way I feel
Franz Kafka is an amazing person with an amazing collection of works. I find myself laughing and being scared by his stories and insights. No writer has ever impacted me so much, with the exception of Dostoevsky and Nietzsche.
Someone is having a great night with a new video. Thank you)
Ah thank you for watching!
This dude is too good. I can’t think of a better energy that I would want to be learning philosophy from!
I really like how you speak, its almost poetic and really entertaining and educational while also being thought provoking
Great video, my inner Kafka was really relating... He says he feels much better now, thank you.
Interesting, and yet, fascinating.I'm sad for Kafka. Sad for myself. Sad for the human condition. Good job.Keep up the good work.
The best critique of Kafka I have heard
Never have felt so relatable until now... imma start reading Kafka
How is it going 😁
Ngl, Kafka is my comfort. I'm reading the trial for the fifth time atm (in german). I love it so much
I'm going through the worst times of my life, and yet, as long as I breathe and am able to read, I find solace I'm Kafka during my darkest moments. I feel relieved and deeply masochistic as well.
Anyway, thank you. Hope you fare well
Huh. Now I understand my life a little better. I'm living in a Kafka novel. Any cries for help are met with, "Yep, seems like everyone's going through that." without another thought to my situation. My struggles are so vastly unimportant they are completely ignored until they somehow impact someone else.
Yeah I kind of feel the same
Even though I have a family (wife, daughter) and a couple of good friends, I feel my nihilism and feeling of loneliness growing day by day and sometimes I just don't give a damn if I just die in my sleep and don't wake up the next morning; in fact, sometimes the thought of that happening gives me a sense of relief ("no more pain, I'm out" sort of thing)
You explain things better and more clearly than any of the college professors I had ever had. Well done! 👏 🎉
I love the way he delivers philosophy! This has become my favorite channel on UA-cam
The way you put so much thought and research in your videos is incredible... Definitely one of the best channels i have come across this year.
This managed to find me at the end of a very long, anxiety-riddled day and I am SO grateful! It’s exactly what I needed to feel a little bit better and has inspired me to check out some of Kafka’s work in more detail :)
Appreciate the efforts you go to to present thought provoking videos.
The fact we can search for subjects on the internet that interest us has fine-tuned each of us to the point where interest doesn't arise from purely social intercourse. Hence, we become more alone.
This has really clarified some things for me this morning, thank you 🌿 Kafka is one of my favorites. His sense of the absurdity of the world can bring me to laughter whilst reading. I've always had this sense of being removed from the world or on a slightly different plane, it may be due to derealisation and dissociation from ADHD & trauma but yes, whenever I read Kafka I feel like he gets it. It's different from a sense of loneliness because there isn't sadness in it. It's more like floating slightly above things so they seem absurd, often other people's behaviour seems completely alien. I'm more present with plants and animals. Thank you for the video 🌿
I can feel a new passion forming… (oh no why do I want to read everything Kafka has ever written…)
I remember you mentioning how much you enjoyed Kafka in one of your videos so I was waiting for a full video on him. Great work I appreciate your videos mate!
I love this channel so much
Im a dyslexic and I read very very slow and I get so frustrated that I couldn't read Kafka and because of your wonderful insight I find you being a great teacher. For my frustration is something he would poke fun at, so I shall slowly read what I should have read in english class if I wasnt such a slow reader stuck with football players and low intellect. Being dyslexic before 1984 was terrible and Kafka and I could laugh and cry about it all. Thank you!
As someone who is also dyslexic I’ve always felt frustrated thank you this changed my perspective i was always ashamed of being a really really really slow reader tysm
Read from a browser with Half-Bold and Open Dyslexic (browser extensions) installed. I cant read paper books well but I can read in the browser.
Love you....❤
Your videos always throw me off of my reading schedule. Whomever you discuss in the latest video is made to seem so grand that I MUST revisit them immediately, leaving behind whatever I am currently delving into! Bravo!
Franz kafka art is inspirational as I like dark moody theme artwork. As always I thank you for uploading your work.❤
Trauma doesn't just cause mental health problems but also gives a person's humoristic skill an extra ounce of spice! The more people I get to know, the more I think this is definitely true!
Personally encountered my first Kafka in a video game, then fell into an incredibly deep rabbit hole...
thank you for having subtitles
Nice, I was in the marbach exhibition on kafka literally 2 days ago so its great to get even more into him now^^
No matter how long I watch this channel, my brain still always goes through that slight "Oh, no! It's already over!" panicky line of thought, only to realize it just means /ourboi/ here has only finished point number 1 and is moving on to the next one, for some reason.
Found your channel 2-3 days ago now I'm obsessed and want to drop out of my masters on drug addictions and study philosophy at Cambridge 😂 but for real I loved every single video of yours i have watched up to this point, you are a magnificent genius 💯
Its great to see fellow young people with similar interests as me
I like the humility to point out another video after putting in the work to make your own. Even putting it in the beginning of the video. Still gonna watch yours and may look at the other later.
Nice video! If you dont mind me asking, how have you achieved such a level of fluency with such a wide vocabulary. Theres a sense of elegance and deeper understanding that i get from each of your sentaces which is very difficult to find elsewhere.
Ah thank you! And to be honest I probably expand my vocabulary just by reading. I also have always enjoyed playing with language. I found Tom Stoppard was really helpful for getting the hang of sentence rhythm (not that I am anywhere near as good as he is with it)
@@unsolicitedadvice9198 thank you, i will make sure to look into him so that i may someday be able to speak like you!
The Disney singalong subtitles catch me offguard every time.
Excellent work, that was brilliant.
Very succesfull video 👏
My favorite philosopher ever since I watched Home Movies and had no clue who he was, up until now. 🎵 HE IS FRANZ KAFKA! FRANZ KAFKA! 🎵
Love from a Alex'O Connor and Vaush fan!
Thanks & good job! Don't settle. Break the cycle. Rebel. We got this. Let's go!
I watched the other video on Kafka, he's so relatable out of a sudden!
Hehe. Never been here so early. Hello and thank you for your brilliant videos.
Thank you for being here! And I am really glad you enjoy them :). I find it very motivating when I get feedback like this
New to the channel. Just wanted to say, your videos are unbelievable and you are so well spoken. I am beyond impressed. Off sick today so I began my journey of reading the classics. Metamorphosis was something else.
I really like your channel. Thanks for making it.
And how can we not struggle with Kafka when it comes to identity and isolation?
Identity is such a fascinating theme in philosophy and other areas as well. Would be very interesting to see a video and the various takes on it by different Philosophers!
If you haven't checked him out already, have a look at Luigi Pirandello. He accompanied me a lot during my existential angst years in High School! Would love to see you make a video on his works and his philosophy! His work inspired Jean Paul Sartre and Beckett as well.
Thank you for your videos!! Greetings from Italy
Ooh! Greetings from Pakistan here; I'm stealing your recommendation for myself 😅
Wonderful video, Cousin. (You're the cousin I see once a year at a familt reunion and we talk in depth for hours about things)
"Being alone is a circumstance.
Loneliness is a state of mind.
One need not, necessarily, follow the other."
- A.D. Wallace
This man inspired me so much that I made my username in almost all apps as Kafka
Me too
For that first chapter, I've seen quite a many people turn activities or interests into a whole label for a person. It feels like the result of that might end up a lot like three branding buzzwords in a trenchcoat? I've kinda developed a pattern of phrasing, or I suppose reassurance to some extent that has helped me also define who I am of sorts. Its kinda simple? I am a person. Who does things. (And has some attributes and odd traits.) That is all. Maybe also a philosophy that'd take an hour or two to elaborate. Also some grudges and chips on my shoulder. But those don't define me or "what" I am or what I oughtn't think or do (safety aside). I am just me. At my core a human, just doing various things.
Kafka is a MUST read
Everyone goes through an "identity crisis" as a teenager. It's not just a crisis for teens and twenty somethings of the modern age. It's part of being a human being. Read some of Carl Jung's writings. He coined the phrase "identity crisis" as one of several stage-of-life related psychological "crises" we experience throughout our lives.
hiiii thanks for the mention!
I love your videos, thank you!
Beautiful
Good stuff
I like your videos, engaging philosophical elucidation without narcissistic embellished like JP
Sounds like the teaching of Buddhism. Not exact but back when I listened to Alan watts it was very similar ideas.
Look at the beauty of life as it is vastly more complex than one can imagine. How one can ever be bored is a marvel of life itself.
Thank you, your videos really help me
Thank you for watching them :)
Love your videos, they make my days. Please keep making them
I hate waking up from a perfectly good nap only to realize I've metemorphisized into an insect.
Kafka's comedy is tragedy and his tragedy is an immense joy... There is hope but not for us... the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self that is inseparable from the horrific struggle... that our endless and impossible journey to our home is our home... You can imagine that art is kind of a door that we approach and pound on the door and finally the door opens and it opens outward... We have been inside what we wanted all along...
David Foster Wallace on Kafka
May you please make a video on the American philosophy of David Foster Wallace? He is like the American Kafka, Infinite Jest description of mental health problems of the age is prophetic...
Another awesome video Joe. I could never get into Kafka but you did a great job of presenting his works. He certainly identifies in human suffering, does he help us transcend it? For me not personally. Maybe I should have kept reading! He's an important philosopher all the same, I wouldn't have had him any other way!
The descriptions of Kafka as a person remind me a lot of Robin Williams, who also happened to be quoted saying something very familiar.
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Haha! You are very kind
Bro you have been reporting on a bunch of things I like and have read, such as Nikomachean Ethics and Kafka.
Since your taste seems to match mine, I would suggest for you Goethe Faust and Carmen Aureum by Pythagoras.
These really struck me in awe.
These videos have been really helpful! Thank you. You should be a professor if you aren’t already :)
I think the inequality of hierarchical societal structures based on individual rights and not human rights first has a profound impact on this issue. Take capitalism & the free market, they allow the leveraging of human needs to be an individual’s commodity to profit off without any obligation to humanity as a whole. Individual rights over human rights. Something to consider?
What are the "human rights" exactly and how would you like to enforce them? Seems to me that "human rights" are a construct which serves to the priviledged ones of the hierarchical structure to impose their schemes on the masses.
Oooh this is such a good angle to look at. Food for thought, really!
@@HajerahUmar thank you
Can you do an audiobook for us! My eyes suck so I listen more than anything but I'd listen to any and every audiobook especially if you orated them
The image of a wide pork butcher's knife, swiftly and with mechanical regularity chopping into me, shaving off razor-thin slices which fly about, due to the speed of the work.
-Franz Kafka
👏you have outdone yourself. quick note, unsure how important: kafka can be labeled with AvPD.
As an Orthodox Christian, it seems to me that there may not be much difference between the Greek stories of the gods battering people and throwing them around and Kafka's bureaucratic nightmares. Understanding what the gods are from this perspective makes one realize that they may very well be the same thing. Nothing is arbitrary, and people didn't just sit around making up stories because they were bored.
Helplessness Theme:
Not to malevolent superior force dominance,
But by striking against unbearable obtuseness of world
Classic meaning of word Kafkaesque : being helpess in face of endless incomprehensible beuracracy and difficulties ( baffling and obstructive recognized reality.)
'The Castle' is one of the five best novels of the 20th century.
Love you 🌳
Literally going thru something rn and u upload this haha talk about timing
Haven't seen it yet, but this one will be fun
Most excellent!
May you please make a video on the main precursor of Franz Kafka: Robert Walser? He is like a funny beckett and Kafka... ❤ much love and appreciation to your videos...
“They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong…..” ~Franz Kafka
( Perhaps ridicule and absurdism are just words….)
Also, he never wanted to be a lawyer (in reality), his father pressured him into being so….
(Profound explanation of this can be found in “Letters to Father”- a compilation of letters written by Kafka to his father…)-which he never submitted (posted) to his father…..
They are truly excruciating distressing….
(BTW, I love your work! Can not imagine how much work and energy you put into researching the information and then creating such great videos…….)
Do you know whats the reasoning behind the "they are wrong" part?
@@itiso1123
“Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.” Is a line taken from the poem “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Elton College “ by Thomas Gray, it is often shortened just to the phrase “ ignorance is bliss”. It suggests the idea that if a person is unaware about some certain things then they don’t need to worry about them. This particular state of unawareness is then linked to a condition of transient happiness ( which is due to the delusion approach of an individual). However, this quote was never meant to express apathetic feelings towards having knowledge or simply being aware.
Kafka in his quote says,”They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong.” Which contradicts the initial interpretation of the original quote. Kafka implies that ignorance can result in lack of comprehension and clarity of one’s own life and character. He asserts that the unawareness of one’s own consciousness and condition may lead to greater suffering or a state of pernicious delusiveness and ultimately a harsh realisation of the truth( later on). So, according to him it is better to accept and be aware about the painful truths, even if they cause you misery and it is more advantageous to deal with the disturbing realities than to just ignore them ( because ignorance may cause you greater pain and agony in the future).
When one reads this quote for the first time, it is a little daunting to understand the real and substantial meaning behind it. The reason behind this particular thing is that, Kafka has used a sense of nuance while expressing this statement and this subtle shading might cause difficulties for readers to understand.
HOPE YOU UNDERSTOOD THE MEANING BEHIND THE WORDS…..
[Note: This particular explanation is my own personal interpretation of the quote, there might exist other explanations too…..
(Also,this explanation is agreed upon many other people too, and is considered the most legitimate.)]
THANK YOU!
@@nusratkhan3083 Ah so in the end it comes down to the idea of temporary bliss not being worth the harsh meeting with the truth that destroys one illusion and puts him in a higher state of misery than would be if he had known. Ignorance building up the impact of the crash that is yet to come.
I feel like its a very simmilar argument to
Dostoyevski's "It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise." Being often interpreted that one should come in terms with harsh truths, for accepting them leads to growth and allows to move forward instead of embracing the ignorance that rewards with fragile deceptive state, that although is initially blissfull does eventually crumble down when confronted by ruthless reality.
I was wondering if a simmilar topic would be answered by a diffrent way of reasoning for i Imagined Kafka's philosophy to be diffrent from that of Fyodor Dostoyevski, but it ends up in basically the same arguments.
Thanks for providing insight on the topic i wasn't expecting such a extensive answer involving where the initial quote originated from, but it was a welcome surprise.
@@nusratkhan3083 I see so it holds up to simmilar arguments behind Dostoyevski's "It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise"
Fyodor's quote is also usually interpreted that its better to accept the harsh reality and come in terms with the truth as it leads to growth and allows one to move forward instead of living in ignorance, that provides a short lived and fragile bliss, choosing "fools paradise" one chooses to put themself into a state of deception that crumbles easily when confronted by unforgiving truth leaving them worse off than if they had known and accepted the truth beforehand, for life will eventually will come and teach us reality but the lesson shall be harsh.
I was wondering if Kafka's approach to the basically the same topic would be diffrently argumented as i imagined thier philosophies and life experiences to be diffrent.
If you know another thinker that achieaved the same conclusion but with diffrent reasoning behind it i'd love to hear about it.
That was a more extensive answer that i had originally expected but its a welcome surprise. Thank you for providing some insight into how Kafka vieved ignorance in an understandable way.
Hi, can you make a video about Beckett's works?
Ah I would love to! I really enjoy Beckett (I think "Endgame" is my favourite). I just need to find the right philosophical angle
very mindful very demure ✨
"...where the rules are hidden and absurd, and yet everyone else seems to know them perfectly..." This feeling reaches Truman Show levels of paranoid terror in myself too, too often.