With increasing calls for classic movies and TV shows to be 'altered' to fit our current climate, I want to explain why our entertainment, our art, is not something to be messed with.
HBO drops Gone with the wind because it shows a more complex relationship between slaves and owners then just Good guy/Bad guy 🤦♂️ There is a book "Jack Hinson's one man war" Jack freed his Slaves at the vary start of the Civil war. He offered them the opportunity to stay on as paid workers (Many did). After the Union wrongfully killed his sons and hung their heads on his gate. . . Jake started his one man war. Soon after that (Knowing he was hunted by the Union army) He gave over ownership of his holdings to his former slaves. As I remember, his place after the war became a small Black owned Township. It is also worth the read to see why you don't kill the son's of a Scott Irish old man and hang their heads on his gate, something like 36 Union officers paid with their lives for that mistake
Right now I'm all alone in a hotel room, staring at the ceiling. I got the notification for this video ( thanks youtube for doing something right ) and now I feel better. Thank you drinker.
Even if they do see it, they honestly believe they're on the correct side of history, which is ironic given how little they care to learn from the past.
Would not matter. Thats why they took over our schools and hollywood first. The left are so brainwashed they are mentally incabable of seeing anything outside their programming. Sadly there is no coming back without violence. When one side uses violence and the other tolerates it the ouycome will always be the same.
*oh they might eventually be compelled to watch it or be brought to their attention...be totally horrified or offended by it and then have it flagged on social media groups that share the same groupthink as being totally hateful and racist and potentially dangerous to the easily offended*
So true. I was trying to get my wife to get rid of all our media on hard disc the other day thinking they’re obsolete... oh how I’ve never felt so wrong.
Fahrenheit 451! Instead of memorizing books, we will trade books, movies, music privately on secret homemade networks like pirate wifi after the physical media is all gone. I have plans. They will not destroy our history.
The alcohol is do dumb himself down enough to translate to the stupid people destroying shit. They probably still won’t understand, but I’m always appreciative of his efforts! Bottoms up fellow drinkers.
Although I am not happy to say that, but there is a third option. You can also change it, or to be more precise, you can change what is taught, whose statue is on display, etc. and ultimately what people think.
Underdawgification well Henrich was long dead by the time hitler came to power but that aside, your missing the point. Hitler started by burning books that everyone agreed weren’t good or at least weren’t worth defending. He ended up burning people who people saw as not good or at least not worth defending. What’s in the books shouldn’t matter, destroying them isn’t right. If you don’t like what’s in the book write one of your own disagreeing with it or just ignore it, destroying ideas is not only futile but extremely dangerous.
@WolraadWoltemade 1652 Burning any book is wrong because you are burning an Idea. NO idea is objectively wrong, it's up to us to prove, by the power of argument, that that an idea is abhorrent.
mr snoop not ironic at all, he understands socialism from the inside out and saw it failings. Read his lesser known works like Homage to Catalonia and Road to Wiggin Pier
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” -CS Lewis
This video is Drinker's legacy. This is the best video Drinker has every done, and perhaps the best video he will ever do. This video right here should be preserved in the US Library of Congress and I hope Drinker has saved the original file in case UA-cam ever removes it. It should be regular viewing and watched 10, 20, 50, 100 years from now and beyond. Thank you, Drinker.
One of my proffesors once told me : "The moment art starts mixing with politics, it stops being art and becomes propaganda, cold and lifeless" damn was he right 😔
I absolutely hate it when people try to tell me "Art is political!". It CAN be but its not inherently political. It does my head in when people try to hamfist contemporary politics in their art or universes and then wonder why no one likes it. I see it with amateur artists and writers too.
@@ConkerBirdy but it is inherently so. Refusing to put contemporary politics in your art is as much a political statement as putting contemporary politics in your art. Just because you are sick of hearing it, doesn't mean it isn't true.
@@jakerockznoodles Yes, it is a statement. An artist who refuses is, in effect, saying "My art means more to me (& hopefully to the viewer) than the hot-button controversy of the week. I will not reduce my work to being a propaganda outlet. I wish to explore &/or articulate subjects other than [insert political issue here]." Most of all, to refuse to make one's art political is to declare that there is more to life than ideology.
Art and politics have always been intertwined. So it's has always been around this is not new. Art has always been censored in someway. The Sistine chapel, Michelangelo David, the Canterbury Tales all the way to the Birth of a Nation. People are just angry now because it Targeting things that they like. When it's mein kampf no one's says anything, but when it's gone with the wind, it's the end of civilization.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell, 1984 (The Alliance is Stopping it as we Speak) Hope to meat in our new Para dine my Friend ;^)
This only reflects the times inadvertently, as it is triggered by a confused myopic rabble with limited self-awareness, exploited by media for personal gain, as opposed to a grand scheme, crafted by a nefarious inner-party of conspirators, to establish and maintain an global hegemonic equilibrium.
“The Savage nodded, frowning. "You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows or outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them...But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy." ..."What you need," the Savage went on, "is something with tears for a change. Nothing costs enough here.” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
This precisely describes the situation today, and in all ages. Do you think you know history? It has been altered and tampered with so much that we don't know who we are, what we are, or even when we are. With no understanding of, or connection to, the past, we flounder helplessly in an endless present that we are ill equipped to cope with. There is a lot of confusion, frustration, and hopelessness everywhere. We should at least be able to enjoy our favorite movies and TV shows; but no, even those are falling under the power of the censors and the remakers of history. How long before Rhett Butler is portrayed as gay, or Scarlett as a sassy lesbian black woman? Let's hope that Hollywood collapses long before they try that shit.
I thought HBO Max removing the movie was a bit silly... But... Its their choice. Whoever likes that movie can go buy it. It's not HBO's job to make it available to its subscribers.
@@Boobalopbop No one is saying it isn't HBO's choice to remove something...we're all pointing out how that removal is indicative of a deeper, and far more concerning, problem with society. This goes far beyond a telecom company simply removing a film from their catalog.
I know and she did a damn good job in that movie to. Dead ass my favorite character. Rhet is a simp and the girl is so forgettable I can’t remember her name
Picard was always a traitous pompous ass as fiction and actor. If the speech were put into practice I would change my mind. However, looking at the early portayal of Ferengi, as whip wielding lying capitalist told all I needed. The most relevant episode of all of Star Trek was Turnabout Intruder. Last one written by Roddenberry to warn of the coming misandry.
I think all those years ago Trey Parker hit on something that's as close to an absolute law of satire as you can find: it's almost impossible to come up with an idea so absurd and extreme that _someone_ out there won't try to make it happen.
in the time of lockdown I have seen old South Park episodes and they seem more relevant and dead on today than when they were made. I'm starting to think that Trey and Matt are time travelers
It offends me that these meddling fools think the past is theirs to alter - they don't own any of this, from statues to movies to books and even Dr Suess. Brilliantly done, Drinker.
I thought the same about the statues when I first heard about them. After learning a bit more about them, I can understand removing them. They weren't there for hundreds of years or even made of stone. They weren't history; they weren't art. They were cheap, hollow, factory-made, metal representations of slave owners; erected in the late 1980's to mid 1990's as a giant middle finger to the black communities they were placed in. They were put up as if to say "know your place." I agree with you on movies and books though.
@@yobogoya4367 Curating the past is important as the vid says….even the bad bits to remind us of worse times. If those statues had been made of stone or stood for millennia it would not have stopped the brutal mob pulling them down….and they had gotten to the point of pulling almost all statues down, and ironically putting up one of a Marxist activist instead. The point of belonging in a democratic society is majority rule through elected representatives….not rioting activists deciding what to destroy and what to spare. Anyone who doesn’t get that needs to live somewhere else….
@@yobogoya4367 depends which statues though . It was kind of obvious that particular confederate statues were only being used as a pretext to go after any and every statue that a particular movement doesn’t think to be 100% pure. I mean , they did tear down plenty of statues of Jesus Christ . Not even Abraham Lincoln or the Founding Fathers were spared.
@@yobogoya4367 White slave owners: bad Muslim and black slave owners: good/never existed in the minds of idiots. Daily reminder that it's ok to be white
This is what we get for raising a generation that was never allowed to lose, where every kid got a trophy for doing nothing and where score was never kept so no one was on a losing side. A generation of self entitled adult aged children who have no skills for dealing with failure or rejection so they lash out and demand just as they did all their childhood years.
"Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.” - George Orwell, 1984
Might want to put a spoiler warning on that quote! (I'm joking of course, but seriously: The mentality of the party is becoming eerily "rationale" in pop culture)
Half the white population will become Winston, and the other half will be dead. No hope for us if the young continue along this path of indoctrination and weakness.
This video, even after 2 years, perhaps because of those 2 years, still leaves me speechless. This is something I plan to listen to round every year, because the past matters. No matter how joyful, how unnerving, how insensitive, how brave, how fundamentally present works of art are… to lose our past is to condemn our future. Thank you Drinker, be unapologetically yourself. Merry Christmas everyone/ and have a Happy New Year.
all according to plan: "Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution. Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." -George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
Hillary Clinton actually stated in her memoir that 1984 was about trusting authority and those in power. We live in bizarre times my friends. And now it's becoming dangerous before our very eyes.
"Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”
While I am happy for you to quote my favorite author (read Politics and the English Language to really cut through the BS), I'd suggest that Brave New World is more the template.
@Michael W. The thing about justice, and the derived "justified" isn't about someone not deserving the punishment, but it's about the right, and the lack of it, of inflicting it. Nobody has the right to kill Hitler
it started like a Critical Drinker Review. Then It became a magnificent call for liberty, for the freedom of mind, for the expanse of human expression. It became.... Truth. I want these words.. I want to remember them and repeat them to others. this work is a shot across the bow of those that would have all conform. You are truly a friend of freedom. Rank your words among these, and such others. “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right - Tom Paine “Until we are all free, we are none of us free. ” ― Emma Lazarus “Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.” ― Thomas Jefferson The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellowmen.” ― Robert Ingersoll Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.” ― Edmund Burk Critical Thinker indeed.
"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." - Orwell 1984
That's what the SJWs are aiming for. The totalitarian ideal. What can we even do to stop it? I honestly don't know. They hide behind social protections, while they try to destroy everything we've built in the last centuries.
And it’s only going to get a shit-ton worse as time goes on. The only thing keeping society somewhat civil and organised is economic prosperity. Once the bloated and mismanaged economy starts to tumble and the globalised trading system it relies on falters, we’re going to have an economic meltdown the likes of which have not been seen since the Bronze Age collapse. And after that, the entire western world will go down one of two paths: neo-Bolshevism or neo-fascism. I prefer the latter over the former, but either way we’re in for a impoverished, confused and totalitarian future. So buckle up fuckers, this is just the beginning.
All this time and history to fall back on, yet people just do things the exact same way. Over and over and over. You can't fix stupid. Can't wait till I'm dead.
This is my favorite video on UA-cam as a whole. I watch it again every so often. It moves me more then most actual movies do these days. Art should never be changed by anyone other then the people who made it themselves. Anyone who would change someone else's art is no different then the Nazis that burned books. You have no right to destroy what someone else creates no matter if it offends you or if you just disagree or disapprove of it. Art is art and exists to inspire and provoke. God bless you drinker for giving such eloquent words to the world's art lovers.
That’s a crime to ruin such a good quote with a SPELLING ERROR!!!!!! -Person who is about to receive a mean response from someone for being prudish. But don’t lie, you people know that you cringed a little when you saw that c there.
I listened to Orwell's cautionary tale. That's why I stand firmly against this Political Correctness BS every single day. Every time I vote, every conversation I hold with people, every piece of art I produce, from the humblest of memes to the grandest high fantasy novel I am able to craft, all of it stands as a giant "fuck you" to PC culture, also known as Cancel Culture, also known as The Radical Left, this insufferable vocal minority of overgrown children and the cynical established elites, both corporate and governmental, who profit immensely from the divisions they've sowed between us.
Orwell's ideas resonate more every day. People are so apathetic today, they capitulate so that they can ignore the problem. And so goes society and culture.
I just love that when Drinker says "the blandness, the laziness, the pandering "clips from Captain Marvel, Birds of prey and last Jedi" start. Top notch edit
Yeah, but don't be surprised if someone says, "Oh, you're only saying these things because they're women!". If they had male leads, it would still be bland, lazy and pandering; no matter the gender.
@@ottagol1985 and he couldn't find a single example of modern movie that sucks but not because of a female protagonist? This is shameless pandering to misogynists at minimum.
This should be shown at every theater, before every movie, at the beginning of every broadcast day on every station and each time you log into a streaming service.
Especially that Picard quote, since it *directly* applies to the event, and too-numerous similar events before it, that was the catalyst for this over-corrective, overzealous, P.C. backlash. Those chains are forged for us all, as we are all damaged, from one man losing his freedom, and his life, for senseless reasons. FUCK THE POLICE, AND FUCK THE SJWS.
@@DjornNorthfield dude, if I had a 3D printer that could make all the parts I needed to build a car and a workshop to do it in, I would. I think we all would.
The past is a reminder of things good and bad that are long gone. I am a staunch advocate for leaving all records immaculate, since we have a lot to learn from those that were here before us. From the past we've learned how evil some people can be, how brightly the righteous once shined above adversity, and how creative some minds could be. Why strip the future generations of these things when there is so much to learn? The fact that there people in big companies afraid of these ideas from the past shows that not only they didn't learn, but don't want anyone else to do so or understand it, and that's what's truly dangerous.
Drinker, I am 64 years old and have been a fan of movies since my mother made me sit down and watch "The Day the Earth Stood Still" when I was 7. I have followed your channel with great delight for over a year now and my son raves about you as well. Not only are you spot on about the neutering of our cultural history but it's clear you put a tremendous amount of work into this to get it right. Using each clip to increase the impact of your words must have been tedious but it sure paid off. Thank you for this heartfelt take on what's happening to our beloved visual arts. You sir, are an unmitigated genius.
Emotional video. I watched beauty and the beast animation in the cinema when I was 9 and it was the first time I ever went to a cinema. Made me study animation later. It was pure magic for me.
This should be required watching in many different circles: political, entertainment, education, etc. It speaks truth, and that in itself appears to be the actual victim in the end.
I hope that never shall come true on the paintings, for that would make me sadder than I all ready am about that happening to movies, and I am pretty sad about that all ready.
Wasn't there a case where some wierdo vandalized a painting in a museum, because it depicted black people working in a field, and he yelled that it "promoted slavery"?
@@heidipeterson4504 It somewhat already happened. Even from centuries ago, a lot of paintings and buildings were modified to appease different interests. Sadly, a lot of people tend to dismiss history, and because of that, those things are prone to happen again and again.
Hollywood has reserved for itself the right to alter the past in order to make its products more "palatable" to what it considers its customers. As one of those customers, I, in turn, reserve the right to reject those alterations and any other content I find objectionable for any reason. If I remember my basic economics theory correctly, Hollywood needs me a lot more than I need Hollywood.
The problem is that Hollywood has been pandered to, put on a pedestal and generally made to feel important beyond their actual worth to society. Art is important yet what they churn out nowadays is often far from a good product. Millionaire elites with very little formal education in anything other than drama studies etc. think they have the knowledge to talk down to us about everything deemed important by Twitter.
"An artist strives to frame his ideals in an image, to challenge his audience, and make his vision immortal. But the parasites say, no. your art must serve the cause, your ideals endanger the people"
@Klausbärbel Fömm You may well be correct, but we all need heroes. I'd pick "JL" over Patrick Stewart any day. Why? Heroes are in reality, imaginary: they cannot exist as coherent beings in this world. And because we can still somehow relate to them, they give us hope and reasons to strive.
Beneath the snark lives a beautiful mind. You have articulated something really special in this video. Well beyond anything i could have, yet said everything I didn't even know that I wanted to. Thank you. I hope more people hear this and share the message.
It comes to my attention that most people who are bitter are only bitter because how much everything could be better Now depending how you go about doing that effects how things play out, and how you deal with it
The Simpsons called it again! When they were watching a censored version of Gone With the Wind in the seniors home, Hans Moleman said "Didn't that movie used to have a war in it?" and he's dragged away.
@@cgh7337 over time writers get replaced and eventually there end up being enough to play ball with the agenda of the powers that be to where the creator can lose control of their own creation
"Why not change it so everyone can enjoy it?" The problem with this statement isn't the slippery slope of precedence it sets but the sheer amount of offense it should generate into anyone with more brain cells than IG Followers: Not everything is, nor should be, made for everyone. The amount of tweaking you'd have to make to a rom-com to make it appeal to me would be so drastic that it would no longer be a rom-com. Thereby pushing out the original audience for a new one. I don't understand how we came to a society that believes, by virtue of being offended, something should be changed to accommodate. While there are some exceptions to this rule, we should instead realize that we're offended and simply find another venue. I don't see why this is such a novel concept for people today.
It's a novel concept because people today are more spoiled to the point of narcissism. They only think of themselves, their point of view. Time was, people that were offended would have no choice but to deal with it. Get on with their lives. Now, they expect others to conform to a stale, colourless, and mediocre way of living.
“Without the guiding hand of the past we are but empty husks adrift in the sea of our own ignorance, proudly repeating the mistakes of our forefathers without recompense or thought.” - Charles Alstein
It’s interesting how much is placed on history when talking about a movie. You would think that Gone with the Wind was historical fact and if it is removed from HBO Max, “we’ll forget our past.” That’s what books are for...not some romanticized piece of fiction. How about teaching actual facts about the civil war, slavery and the reconstruction instead of The Lost Cause Myth that’s pushed in books today. Maybe more people might understand why this movie is so hated by some.
Drinks, I think this may be the best video you’ve ever done. I hear in your words your true belief in the humanities, which when forthrightly and honestly pursued, are the higher things in our lives, enriching and inspiring us all. I became a physicist, but I was not inspired by tables of data and swinging pendula. I was called to and sustained upon that difficult road by great stories, some historical some fictional. And that Picard quote was the perfect quote at the perfect time in the video. Credit to Jeri Taylor for her awesome writing. “With the first link the chain is forged; the first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied chains us all irrevocably... The first time any man’s freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged.” Where is that writing’s equal in modern pop culture?
what are we exactly? surely we will dimish but what do you see in the current "US" thats worth perserving? I'm not against keeping films as they are, but what do you see thats actually being hurt in the content of these altered works?
@@m150985 It isn't so much about the small edits they are aiming for, it is the bigger picture. This is the equivalent of the Nazis burning books, because they didn't want people having a different perspective to the one they were forcing onto the people with their own propaganda. This is 1984, The Memory Hole, where the past is continually changed, in order to control the way people think in the present. They wont stop with a few small changes either, they will use them to condition the public into their usual apathetic attitude, and then make bigger changes once we have accepted it. The Drinker makes this point in his video, this is just the beginning, but it certainly wont be the end.
michael miroshnik “Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
I am a thirtysomething Nigerian. I grew up on western movies (not without a healthy dose of kungfu flicks). The culture then was deep, even to my child eyes. The entertainment dared to be bold. If it offended on, one simply avoided it. This need for 'PCness' is confusing. I hope this alterations of beloved movies isn't really happening. That would be like wiping out huge moments of my past.
Equally so is Nigerian culture, Ita Ita. Every nation has a past. If we don't look to it for guidance we cannot grow. We cannot change what we were, only what we want to be.
Ita Ita the censorship has already begun. Disney owns the movie Splash, they just altered a very brief nudity scene and have reportedly done the same with Thor's Ragnarock.
@@lazerbeamhawkins This is why its always important to have Physical copies of films were you have the original unedited versions i still buy DVD'S and Blu Ray discs for that reason alone......
There's a lot of amazing modern art. It's just the weird "high" art that's so often bad. Check out video games and movies, or the things being made with photoshop and CG by artists. That's some of the most interesting art we've ever made. Art is simply all around you nowadays.
One of the funniest things I've learned about is how the US hired Nazi intelligence officers to help them form the CIA and fight communism. Part of that fight was cultural, so the CIA used a front organization, the Congress for Cultural Freedom, to fund literary magazines (including leftist ones as long as they were anti Soviet) as well as modern art, to contrast with Soviet realism. So I imagine these Nazis being besides themselves, having to watch the funding of Jackson Pollock's "degenerate Bohemian art," longing for whatever it is Nazis liked to look at. Paintings of blonde girls I guess. Idk, I think it's funny. Imagine the Coen Brothers writing it
@@regiman222 'Because unlike the people in the original quote, who for whatever reason can't, they refuse to remember and learn from the past' - Worse: They are trying to reengineer the past and destroy it, so that they might be on top in the new future.
Rorshach was a broken, sad, insane man with more hygiene problems than all his fingers and toes and a moral compass that only had two directions on it. Evil, and slightly less evil. He was a good character. But quoting the ramblings that eventually went into his journal isn't the way to go.
@@chaveztyndale8468 On the other hand, as viewers we admire the fact that he was the only character who had principles and stuck to them. It doesnt mean we support murdering petty criminals, etc.
@@chaveztyndale8468 The point was that you can live on your knees or die on your feet. Rorshach was a child of severe abuse so the only thing he possessed which couldn't be taken away in his childhood was his sense of right and wrong. But the point of his character and the end of the story was this: Yes, you may choose a pragmatic action to forestall an inevitable outcome -- and at the time, it seems the lesser of 2 evils. But compromise only postpones the inevitable -- and that postponement builds up a force which will make the tragedy far less survivable. Say what you will about Rorshach, but he understood human nature more than everyone but the Comedian. That's why the Comedian was killed -- he discovered the grand plan. We know from the end of the story that secrets can't be kept for long... and a lie which saves the world, can destroy it many times over when that lie is discovered by humanity. That was R's point: if you compromise now, you'll compromise again and again, until one day you look back and discover that your string of compromises has yielded hell in your wake -- a hell which eventually became the greater evil. That's why the phrase "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" was created: it's an allusion to all the compromises one makes in forcing your version of utopia upon an eternally flawed reality. Once you compromise, your normalize. The next compromise is just as easy as the last... and so on. Eventually, you're so invested in the long journey to your utopia that you've compromised the last of your humanity --- you'll eliminate anyone or destroy anything to achieve your ends. Rorshach wasn't broken or insane, he merely adapted to his circumstance -- he was exactly appropriate for he world within which he existed -- brutal and without pity. He understood the long view -- that when you compromise on your principles, the anchor of your conscience is snapped and your principles are set adrift. There's no way to predict where an unmoored conscience will alight. Too often, it ends in bigger problems than your compromises were designed to resolve. You'd do well to remember the context of Watchmen -- people were killing each other in the streets on the regular. Any man who lives on those streets wouldn't survive without being more brutal than all the rest. Especially a man who possessed a firm sense of right and wrong. Watchmen was a story about moral compromise and how different personalities behave under those conditions. It's also about the domino effect of small choices which propagate into world changing tragedies. The Comedian was a nihilist, Rorshach an idealist, Dr Manhattan was the useful idiot -- no matter how much power he possessed, he was easily manipulated into performing a role for smarter men. Owl was a man who had lost himself by shutting off an essential part of himself -- a lost soul. The women of the piece were at odds with their own nature and their relationships in circles they chose to travel within. Veidt was an utter pragmatist who allowed a single small event change his fate and the destiny of mankind. The Comedian was ultimately responsible for the choices Veidt made. His throwaway insult gave rise to the deaths of millions. That's why even the Comedian's dark comedic nihilism gave way to despair in view of the apocalyptic punchline for which he was responsible. So, by the end, Rorschach was the only character left alive who didn't compromise on his principles. And Veidt knew Dr. Manhattan would be forced to take care of that loose end as well. As readers, we were meant to be conflicted in the end. We were meant to ask ourselves: does the ends justify the means? For the Comedian and Rorschach, the answer was "no". The Comedian couldn't live with what he knew without eventually revealing it. Rorschach didn't find out until the end, and so he was eliminated as well. In the closing scene, we see Rorschach's journal on an inbox at a magazine. We know that eventually the secret will get out... and all that death will have been for nothing -- as people come to understand that they were fooled and they can merely return to their self destructive ways. I guess in a way, the end was saying that the ends could possibly justify the means... but only if the ends are relatively permanent. Otherwise, you've just compromised your morality and eliminated millions for nothing... much like fascism and communism has done. Veidt was just another in a long list of impermanent solutions designed to create a utopia but which are ultimately destined to fail.
As broken as he was you have to admire his strength of will. His fortitude to never bend or waver. Rorschach is one of the greatest hero's in my mind because he let nothing stop him, he wasn't rich or super powered. He did not have a large organization behind him. What he did have was the will to continue the fight no matter the odds. Even facing death he would not waver.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell, 1984
I remember reading 1984 and brave new world in highschool and not really understanding a lot of the nuances like thought police and thought crime. Needless to say I now know everything those books were about thanks to modern day politics. It's shocking how many people don't realize what they are doing.
This reminds me of V for Vendetta. One of the things that made V himself was his obsession with collecting the past. He gathered records, movie posters, books, and even advertising that had been scrubbed. The only media he consumed was the media that he was told not to. It made him that much more bold, human, and dangerous to the authorities he challenged.
He doesnt have to. He wants to. Bill Maher said it a while ago but no one remembers. www.socialpoliticalcommentary.com/what-were-you-thinking-generation-context/
People have been altering media they didn't like for thousands of years. Hell, the catholic church reinvented how angels behaved and looked because they didn't like how they were introduced in the old testament.
@@steviegbcool Wrong, wrong, and wrong. The BBC, for example, isn't a private TV channel - many British residents are forced, under threat of criminal conviction, to pay for it. They cannot show whatever they like - there are regulations and laws on what can't be shown on TV. I cannot buy whatever I like - see what would happen if I wanted to buy some drugs in front of a cop or purchase a functioning howitzer. Bad NPC cope - you need to get your programming checked.
@@Gilberto90 Im talking about Netflix and the Disney channel you idiot!! they can do what they want to THEIR movies!! Dont like what they do you are free to buy the films on DVD!!
Except there really are secrets that have to be kept. If you expose an agent who's infiltrated a gang he could have his eyes sucked out with a vacuum cleaner. This would be hilarious if it hadn't actually happened.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” ― C. S. Lewis
*and the sad realization that Ben Franklin himself would be considered a racist for even bringing that observation into the sphere of public opinion by the easily offended*
First came across this video about a year ago and have probably watched it a dozen times or so since and cry every single time. The music and video and you're amazing words are so spot on. Thank you so much for what you do Drinker, we need you!
“The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably. The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged.”
The thing in the video that caught my attention was the desire to censure/rewrite to make everything so that everybody could enjoy it. How could that ever be achieved? Censorship prevents a lot of people from enjoying it.
@@charlesng553 No China is their supreme overlord. Sure they talk a big game about social justice and everything but money talks and they’ll immediately stop pretending they care about that BS if it makes their bottom lines bigger. China is a racist country and don’t like seeing black people in movies so Hollywood either cuts out black characters from their Chinese movie posters or make them smaller and less noticeable. just check out Chinese The Force Awakens poster. They don’t allow homosexuality in their country so they edited out Freddy Mercury’s sexuality in the Chinese edit of the movie Bohemian Rhapsody. In this new Top Gun Sequel they took Taiwanese and Japanese flags off Maverick’s jacket cuz China hates those countries. This is just a few examples
Screw sjw, screw politics. Bring back entertainment even if its shit or good, it's meant for entertainment. If anyone hates it don't see it. I hate a lot of movies(certain remakes😅) but share my views and I don't beat down by views on to my peers, I just explain why I love it or why I hate it.
@@samdiego1965 china claims they're so anti racist and virtuous when talking about america and us, and then expect us not to know the sheer irony of it
Do not be dumb, Hollywood has no fucking agenda... They care only about making money. They make there decisions simply on what they think will be the most accepted and make the most dollar 💰.
I deeply hate the banning of old artistic creations, not only because it strips us from quality pieces, but mostly because they are some of the closest witnesses of the past, and that enrages the historian and philosopher in me.
This is a good reason for keeping copies of past films, instead of relying on streaming services that can easily change their content at any time. Very true and very depressing video...
absolutely. i recently scored a 2-tape vhs copy of Gone With The Wind in a storage unit action. that was on the cancel culture list, correct? i think ill hold onto that one for a minute;)
I believe you meant. Hawkeye : "Are you alright?" Mustang : "Yes. But it's a terrible day for rain." Hawkeye : "What do you mean? It's not raining." Mustang : *Tear runs down his cheek* "Yes, it is." Hawkeye : "So it is."
I haven't seen Captain Marvel...I don't know if I should, just to know how bad it truly is or to just save myself those few hours and read a book or something.
They came for our heroes our stories our history our lore and canon Once done they proceeded like locusts to the next target from the world of fiction to the realm of reality... dragging down statues and beginning to destroy our canon once again...
As an artist i've always looked towards the past and I'm a big advocate for creativity and individualism. We humans tends to be for the David but also are more fearful for the Goliath. It's art that makes us human, that makes us have color in our white and black world. Filmmaking is my passion and I've loved it ever since I had my first memories. Seeing films makes me thing we could do anything and imagine such worlds. Art in my opinion is the spark of light in the world of darkness. it's how we express our uniqueness. But we do need order and for that we need balance...When people say we need this or that I see it as we just need to balance the two, but no one should touch art, art in it of itself doesn't need order, it's wild and can't be tamed or else it'll be depressed and becomes bland if tamed. We live in the startings of a dystopian world that we would never dream or want. It's the rise of authoritarianism and where the loud are the powerful and the silent are the plebs. I maybe another comment in this sea of my fellow advocates but what i do want is an understanding of peoples. Yes we have our differences or sensitivities but one thing we cannot touch to censor or take down is art. art is to understand, not the ripe up and banish it. Even the most evil of us can create an art form which we can understand and ponder about, negatively or positively. In the end all I want is for individuals to understand and not put down each other like our dictators and authority figures have done. Hopefully this can be a message for all sides of the spectrum. i hope we can bring the past but understand it's faults and achivements.
I live in Missouri, the home of Mark Twain. Schools are starting to ban his books because of some of the language used. It was written in the 19th century for God's sake! You can't give it 21st century values without changing the structure of the story.
This is history. By books and moves we can lern how they thinked. What was their values? How they live as poor man, rich man, what they thinked about slavery etc. Movie was racist? Becouse time was racist. ua-cam.com/video/sacn_bCj8tQ/v-deo.html&ab_channel=ThomasLaang < it is starting to looks like this. If you don't know from where you are going, you don't know where you are going.
I have a hard drive of 1000 torrented movies in their best versions. been saving it for nearly 15 years. People say "bUt tHeRe's NeTfliX". I have deleted episodes, unedited movies, all the good shit. Smartest thing I've ever done.
Good on you: everyone talks about keeping their CD's and DVD's, as if keeping the content on separate individual discs somehow makes it "physical", but in reality, optical discs are frail and short-lived. It will be through massive data banks made up of individual drives with redundancies, both locally and through PtP with other such collections, which will ultimately save our contemporary works. Even now, various content, including old video games thought to have been lost in limited production and movie cuts which were never distributed have been saved through these methods of collection and transmission. Do not rely on stacks of discs and tapes to save that which you believe should live on, spread it to the world, and let the internet fulfill its grandest purpose: preserving memories and experiences otherwise lost to time.
Every one of these women that think they're making their mark on history in film will be erased from history, as those that came before them have been. If history doesn't suit the narrative, change history.
@@joeyrozic1100 I'm going to name several from cinema alone. Sarah Connor, Trinity from the matrix, Princess Leia, there are so many good and strong female characters in films. Strong doesn't mean devoid of weakness and character flaws. It means standing up and fighting in spite of weakness.
You, my drunken friend, are an inspiration. The uncharacteristically flat "go away now" brought a tear to my eye, and it's not just the Whisky. Never stop. Never surrender.
Dear Drinker, Thank you for this. I always knew that there was thoughtful intellect and wisdom under the haze that you say that you stay in in order to survive having to watch the fall of all you hold dear . I too have watched the destruction of entertainment rapidly excell especially in the last few years. How did this idiosy get so imbeded so deeply and quickly. Makes a movie buff want to cry. And what you said here aced it. I hope and pray that people will start doing what is needed to bring back America's brains .
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Best work yet. Thanks drinker!
So there's still hope? That the past won't be watered down and erased?
HBO drops Gone with the wind because it shows a more complex relationship between slaves and owners then just Good guy/Bad guy 🤦♂️
There is a book "Jack Hinson's one man war" Jack freed his Slaves at the vary start of the Civil war. He offered them the opportunity to stay on as paid workers (Many did).
After the Union wrongfully killed his sons and hung their heads on his gate. . . Jake started his one man war. Soon after that (Knowing he was hunted by the Union army) He gave over ownership of his holdings to his former slaves. As I remember, his place after the war became a small Black owned Township.
It is also worth the read to see why you don't kill the son's of a Scott Irish old man and hang their heads on his gate, something like 36 Union officers paid with their lives for that mistake
Trust old Picard to tell it like it is
Right now I'm all alone in a hotel room, staring at the ceiling. I got the notification for this video ( thanks youtube for doing something right ) and now I feel better. Thank you drinker.
It is a shame that the people who really need to see the video never will.
Share. Share. Share!
Or they'll see the video and not listen.
Even if they do see it, they honestly believe they're on the correct side of history, which is ironic given how little they care to learn from the past.
Would not matter. Thats why they took over our schools and hollywood first. The left are so brainwashed they are mentally incabable of seeing anything outside their programming. Sadly there is no coming back without violence. When one side uses violence and the other tolerates it the ouycome will always be the same.
*oh they might eventually be compelled to watch it or be brought to their attention...be totally horrified or offended by it and then have it flagged on social media groups that share the same groupthink as being totally hateful and racist and potentially dangerous to the easily offended*
My collection of VHS, DVDS, Blu-rays and books never felt so precious.
So true. I was trying to get my wife to get rid of all our media on hard disc the other day thinking they’re obsolete... oh how I’ve never felt so wrong.
So true
I said the same today to a friend who uasually makes fun of me having my little collection.
Found a DVD of Gone With the Wind a few months ago (unopened). Never knew how much it mattered. We got it for the sake of having it... not anymore.
Fahrenheit 451! Instead of memorizing books, we will trade books, movies, music privately on secret homemade networks like pirate wifi after the physical media is all gone.
I have plans. They will not destroy our history.
When a drunk makes the most sense....
En vino veritas
hes playing a character hes not really a drunk, yeah he likes to drink but hes sober when he makes these. he even admitted that he changes his voice.
The alcohol is do dumb himself down enough to translate to the stupid people destroying shit. They probably still won’t understand, but I’m always appreciative of his efforts! Bottoms up fellow drinkers.
@@chrisk.5964 well aware. I've seen his older videos and it's pretty obvious. Just playing into it 😅
@@kuzuboshii *In
As a wise baboon once said:
"Yes, the past does hurt. But you can either run from it, or learn from it."
Thank you ☺️❤️
He's a mandrill, not a baboon :)
@@urissaresto and his name means "Friend"
"The past can hurt, but the way i see it, you can either run from it or learn from it".
You were paraphrasing.
Although I am not happy to say that, but there is a third option. You can also change it, or to be more precise, you can change what is taught, whose statue is on display, etc. and ultimately what people think.
“Where they burn books, they will too in the end burn people.” - Heinrich Heine
Makes sense. You'll run out of books eventually but the ideas in those books, they can be persistent.
Underdawgification well Henrich was long dead by the time hitler came to power but that aside, your missing the point. Hitler started by burning books that everyone agreed weren’t good or at least weren’t worth defending. He ended up burning people who people saw as not good or at least not worth defending. What’s in the books shouldn’t matter, destroying them isn’t right. If you don’t like what’s in the book write one of your own disagreeing with it or just ignore it, destroying ideas is not only futile but extremely dangerous.
correct
Underdawgification but they burnt the books because it didn’t,t conform to their perspective also that kinda sounds like cherry picking
@WolraadWoltemade 1652 Burning any book is wrong because you are burning an Idea. NO idea is objectively wrong, it's up to us to prove, by the power of argument, that that an idea is abhorrent.
"I told you so."
-George Orwell
"I was right" - A. H.
orwell was a socialist, ironically
@@mrsnoop1820 , socialism is more humane.
mr snoop
not ironic at all, he understands socialism from the inside out and saw it failings. Read his lesser known works like Homage to Catalonia and Road to Wiggin Pier
more like
''I tried to warn you''
1984 is not a science fiction novel, it's a testimony.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” -CS Lewis
“Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told. Obedience is doing what is told regardless of what is right.”
H.L. Mencken
@@MolecularArts that's a good quote
That quote could apply to so many groups honestly and over the decades too.
CS Lewis will probably be banned soon if some of the groups running around today have there way
Indeed.
This video is Drinker's legacy. This is the best video Drinker has every done, and perhaps the best video he will ever do. This video right here should be preserved in the US Library of Congress and I hope Drinker has saved the original file in case UA-cam ever removes it. It should be regular viewing and watched 10, 20, 50, 100 years from now and beyond. Thank you, Drinker.
Agreed. Simply an incredible work of art that never ceases to give me goosebumps, even after the 20th viewing.
One of my proffesors once told me :
"The moment art starts mixing with politics, it stops being art and becomes propaganda, cold and lifeless"
damn was he right 😔
I absolutely hate it when people try to tell me "Art is political!". It CAN be but its not inherently political.
It does my head in when people try to hamfist contemporary politics in their art or universes and then wonder why no one likes it. I see it with amateur artists and writers too.
@@ConkerBirdy but it is inherently so. Refusing to put contemporary politics in your art is as much a political statement as putting contemporary politics in your art. Just because you are sick of hearing it, doesn't mean it isn't true.
@@jakerockznoodles Yes, it is a statement. An artist who refuses is, in effect, saying "My art means more to me (& hopefully to the viewer) than the hot-button controversy of the week. I will not reduce my work to being a propaganda outlet. I wish to explore &/or articulate subjects other than [insert political issue here]." Most of all, to refuse to make one's art political is to declare that there is more to life than ideology.
Art and politics have always been intertwined. So it's has always been around this is not new. Art has always been censored in someway. The Sistine chapel, Michelangelo David, the Canterbury Tales all the way to the Birth of a Nation. People are just angry now because it Targeting things that they like. When it's mein kampf no one's says anything, but when it's gone with the wind, it's the end of civilization.
Polish rich entertainment stars now
“If you have the right to be offended, I have the right to offend you”.
“Just because you’re offended, doesn’t mean you’re right”
I'm an equal opportunity offender
Good luck living happy life when u being offended about everything.
@@danieldz7906 Yeah you’ve completely and utterly missed the point, but thanks for playing
@@robferguson8696 u offend me with ure opinion :)
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984 (The Alliance is Stopping it as we Speak) Hope to meat in our new Para dine my Friend ;^)
This only reflects the times inadvertently, as it is triggered by a confused myopic rabble with limited self-awareness, exploited by media for personal gain, as opposed to a grand scheme, crafted by a nefarious inner-party of conspirators, to establish and maintain an global hegemonic equilibrium.
“The Savage nodded, frowning. "You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows or outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them...But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy."
..."What you need," the Savage went on, "is something with tears for a change. Nothing costs enough here.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
This precisely describes the situation today, and in all ages. Do you think you know history? It has been altered and tampered with so much that we don't know who we are, what we are, or even when we are. With no understanding of, or connection to, the past, we flounder helplessly in an endless present that we are ill equipped to cope with. There is a lot of confusion, frustration, and hopelessness everywhere. We should at least be able to enjoy our favorite movies and TV shows; but no, even those are falling under the power of the censors and the remakers of history. How long before Rhett Butler is portrayed as gay, or Scarlett as a sassy lesbian black woman? Let's hope that Hollywood collapses long before they try that shit.
@@matthewlaurence3121 Let's hope you're right.
Had George Orwell lived through the last 70 years he would not have been able to distinguish them from his novel, 1984.
“the job of art is to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.”
- Jake Gyllenhaal quote from his dad.
Banning "Gone with the wind" where the first african american woman won an oscar because it "offends". The irony.
Democrats want to scrub history, so they can repeat it.
I thought HBO Max removing the movie was a bit silly... But... Its their choice. Whoever likes that movie can go buy it. It's not HBO's job to make it available to its subscribers.
@@Boobalopbop People should cancel subscription i hate HBO with passion i hated them before and now i loathe them.
@@Boobalopbop No one is saying it isn't HBO's choice to remove something...we're all pointing out how that removal is indicative of a deeper, and far more concerning, problem with society. This goes far beyond a telecom company simply removing a film from their catalog.
I know and she did a damn good job in that movie to. Dead ass my favorite character. Rhet is a simp and the girl is so forgettable I can’t remember her name
Captain Picard's speech is more important now than has ever been.
"THERE....AHHH.....FOOOR........LIGHTS!!!"
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
TNG Picard, not that shadow of a feeble man from the new series
At this rate we will never get anywhere near Capt Picard or Star Fleet ideals.
Picard was always a traitous pompous ass as fiction and actor. If the speech were put into practice I would change my mind. However, looking at the early portayal of Ferengi, as whip wielding lying capitalist told all I needed.
The most relevant episode of all of Star Trek was Turnabout Intruder. Last one written by Roddenberry to warn of the coming misandry.
South Park 1997:
"The Happy, Non-Offensive, Non-Denominational Christmas Play"
The parody has become reality.
Just like PCU :(
I think all those years ago Trey Parker hit on something that's as close to an absolute law of satire as you can find: it's almost impossible to come up with an idea so absurd and extreme that _someone_ out there won't try to make it happen.
*"winter holiday play" please. We're diverse here.
The best satire is satire that holds up
in the time of lockdown I have seen old South Park episodes and they seem more relevant and dead on today than when they were made. I'm starting to think that Trey and Matt are time travelers
It offends me that these meddling fools think the past is theirs to alter - they don't own any of this, from statues to movies to books and even Dr Suess. Brilliantly done, Drinker.
I thought the same about the statues when I first heard about them. After learning a bit more about them, I can understand removing them. They weren't there for hundreds of years or even made of stone. They weren't history; they weren't art. They were cheap, hollow, factory-made, metal representations of slave owners; erected in the late 1980's to mid 1990's as a giant middle finger to the black communities they were placed in. They were put up as if to say "know your place."
I agree with you on movies and books though.
@@yobogoya4367 Curating the past is important as the vid says….even the bad bits to remind us of worse times. If those statues had been made of stone or stood for millennia it would not have stopped the brutal mob pulling them down….and they had gotten to the point of pulling almost all statues down, and ironically putting up one of a Marxist activist instead. The point of belonging in a democratic society is majority rule through elected representatives….not rioting activists deciding what to destroy and what to spare. Anyone who doesn’t get that needs to live somewhere else….
@@contessa.adella "I'll take ridiculous things conservatives make up to try to win an argument no one is having with them, for $500 Alex"
@@yobogoya4367 depends which statues though . It was kind of obvious that particular confederate statues were only being used as a pretext to go after any and every statue that a particular movement doesn’t think to be 100% pure. I mean , they did tear down plenty of statues of Jesus Christ . Not even Abraham Lincoln or the Founding Fathers were spared.
@@yobogoya4367 White slave owners: bad
Muslim and black slave owners: good/never existed in the minds of idiots.
Daily reminder that it's ok to be white
Why do I feel like UA-cam is going to remove The Critical Drinker's account abruptly without any given reason?
why, Don't Know!
Because they silence people all the time now. This platform is insanity. Cold, measured, insanity.
Because it's your "feeling".
no one cares about your 'feelings'
No way! Are you from the future too?
"All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."
Yes, they will. For all of man’s accomplishments will inevitably crumble to dust. But there’s no reason to accelerate the process.
Flatebo famn fucking right
This is what we get for raising a generation that was never allowed to lose, where every kid got a trophy for doing nothing and where score was never kept so no one was on a losing side. A generation of self entitled adult aged children who have no skills for dealing with failure or rejection so they lash out and demand just as they did all their childhood years.
Another good quote "it can't rain everyday"-the crow
I don't think Drinker realizes what a fucking genius he is.
"Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.” - George Orwell, 1984
Ouch...
Might want to put a spoiler warning on that quote! (I'm joking of course, but seriously: The mentality of the party is becoming eerily "rationale" in pop culture)
Half the white population will become Winston, and the other half will be dead.
No hope for us if the young continue along this path of indoctrination and weakness.
Exactly sir. The last chilling lines of that book.
@john egan well, freedom IS slavery.
This video, even after 2 years, perhaps because of those 2 years, still leaves me speechless. This is something I plan to listen to round every year, because the past matters. No matter how joyful, how unnerving, how insensitive, how brave, how fundamentally present works of art are… to lose our past is to condemn our future. Thank you Drinker, be unapologetically yourself. Merry Christmas everyone/ and have a Happy New Year.
It is an excellent video for sure. I keep coming back as well.
I just watched this for the first time and couldn't be happier that Drinker is creating such success.
The moral: always remember the past, because it tends to repeat itself when forgotten.
To know where you are going , you have to know where you have been.
The greatest truth. Even unto thyself be aware of your history.
Past is like the one job your mother told you to do. If you forget about it, the force of nature will make you remember again.
@@29-arnavsamant97 wise words
What I have learned from the past is... We never learn from our past.
all according to plan:
"Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution. Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."
-George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
Hillary Clinton actually stated in her memoir that 1984 was about trusting authority and those in power. We live in bizarre times my friends. And now it's becoming dangerous before our very eyes.
WAR IS PEACE.
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY.
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.
"Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”
While I am happy for you to quote my favorite author (read Politics and the English Language to really cut through the BS), I'd suggest that Brave New World is more the template.
@@dopplereffeckt675 id say a mix of both. Mindless entertainment but behind the scenes an Orwellian nightmare unfolding.
*"Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice."*
- Henry Louis Gates
@Michael W. It's never justified
Michael W.
Would you rather be judged by a court or by a mob comrade?
@Michael W. The thing about justice, and the derived "justified" isn't about someone not deserving the punishment, but it's about the right, and the lack of it, of inflicting it.
Nobody has the right to kill Hitler
@@tylerulfmann4586
Depends on the court.
@Michael W. Sometimes abortion is justified. Your mother should reconsider.
it started like a Critical Drinker Review. Then
It became a magnificent call for liberty, for the freedom of mind, for the expanse of human expression. It became.... Truth.
I want these words.. I want to remember them and repeat them to others.
this work is a shot across the bow of those that would have all conform.
You are truly a friend of freedom.
Rank your words among these, and such others.
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right
- Tom Paine
“Until we are all free, we are none of us free. ”
― Emma Lazarus
“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.”
― Thomas Jefferson
The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellowmen.”
― Robert Ingersoll
Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.”
― Edmund Burk
Critical Thinker indeed.
"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." - Orwell 1984
Unbelievable how relevant this is today.
That's what the SJWs are aiming for. The totalitarian ideal.
What can we even do to stop it? I honestly don't know. They hide behind social protections, while they try to destroy everything we've built in the last centuries.
And it’s only going to get a shit-ton worse as time goes on. The only thing keeping society somewhat civil and organised is economic prosperity.
Once the bloated and mismanaged economy starts to tumble and the globalised trading system it relies on falters, we’re going to have an economic meltdown the likes of which have not been seen since the Bronze Age collapse.
And after that, the entire western world will go down one of two paths: neo-Bolshevism or neo-fascism. I prefer the latter over the former, but either way we’re in for a impoverished, confused and totalitarian future.
So buckle up fuckers, this is just the beginning.
All this time and history to fall back on, yet people just do things the exact same way. Over and over and over. You can't fix stupid.
Can't wait till I'm dead.
Orwell was right about 1984 it's just that people don't want to believe it .
The “Go Away Now” never sounded as sad it did here...
Agreed
It hit me hard
If it bothers you guys, then....
Go away now!
Brought a tear to my eye.
@@shane5896 Almost.
_”If you want to know who rules over you, look to those you cannot criticize.”_ ...(attributed to Voltaire)
IIRC, it was actually Publius, or at least some Roman guy.
The Romans had a lot of things worked.
@ Not always. The truly powerful make sure nobody _needs_ to know their name. Jacob Rothschild.
@@Wilantonjakov Rothschild? Well well, it seems one of the truly insidious and powerful assholes gave us the quote that denounces itself.
Salkafar ...The quote may be a lot of things, but “outdated” will never be one of them.
Jesus Christ the children with leukaemia and cancer are masterminds
This is my favorite video on UA-cam as a whole. I watch it again every so often. It moves me more then most actual movies do these days. Art should never be changed by anyone other then the people who made it themselves. Anyone who would change someone else's art is no different then the Nazis that burned books. You have no right to destroy what someone else creates no matter if it offends you or if you just disagree or disapprove of it. Art is art and exists to inspire and provoke. God bless you drinker for giving such eloquent words to the world's art lovers.
I'm back to watch this video yet again. I find myself drawn to watch it every six months or so.
Appeasement only makes the aggressor *more* aggressive.
So true. A good ass kicking is the only sane response to this insanity.
Britain once had a leader that understood that.
Just like Hitler.
The leftists/SJW/marxist/communists are literally Hitler.
Exercise your 2A if you live in the USA
Give them absolutely no quarter!
Blood in the water never makes a shark calm down.
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile-hoping it will eat him last.” - Winston Churchill
But eaten he will be. That's what the appeasers fail to see.
"Cencorship is like not allowing man to eat steaks, because babies couldn't chew it."
Mark Twain
You referred to ageism, manhood and meat eating in single quote - triple offender at least in SJW value system ;)
@@piotrd.4850 Good. (Also an offender to moral relativism. Bonus points!)
That’s a crime to ruin such a good quote with a SPELLING ERROR!!!!!! -Person who is about to receive a mean response from someone for being prudish. But don’t lie, you people know that you cringed a little when you saw that c there.
@@Frisbinator I did not even notice it. Benefit of having English as a second language. :D
That's a great one!
Captain Picard's epic speech from "The Drumhead" still gives me chills. Thank you for that. True words.
"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." Orwell weeps in his grave. He warned us. We didn't listen.
I think the genres of Animal Farm and 1984 ought to be changed to true events
I listened to Orwell's cautionary tale. That's why I stand firmly against this Political Correctness BS every single day. Every time I vote, every conversation I hold with people, every piece of art I produce, from the humblest of memes to the grandest high fantasy novel I am able to craft, all of it stands as a giant "fuck you" to PC culture, also known as Cancel Culture, also known as The Radical Left, this insufferable vocal minority of overgrown children and the cynical established elites, both corporate and governmental, who profit immensely from the divisions they've sowed between us.
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." - George Orwell, 1984
Orwell's ideas resonate more every day. People are so apathetic today, they capitulate so that they can ignore the problem. And so goes society and culture.
I just love that when Drinker says "the blandness, the laziness, the pandering "clips from Captain Marvel, Birds of prey and last Jedi" start. Top notch edit
Yeah, but don't be surprised if someone says, "Oh, you're only saying these things because they're women!". If they had male leads, it would still be bland, lazy and pandering; no matter the gender.
I think we need an Internet video awards show. Screw the Oscars. The real artists are on the "web".
Notice the clip he uses when he says "we lose a little piece of ourselves" is Sharon Stone right after she crossed her legs.
@@jonathanmcdaniel1040
Good eye. (Wink wink)
@@ottagol1985 and he couldn't find a single example of modern movie that sucks but not because of a female protagonist? This is shameless pandering to misogynists at minimum.
I think this is one of the most intelligent commentaries on art I’ve ever heard. Thank you sir!
This should be shown at every theater, before every movie, at the beginning of every broadcast day on every station and each time you log into a streaming service.
Especially that Picard quote, since it *directly* applies to the event, and too-numerous similar events before it, that was the catalyst for this over-corrective, overzealous, P.C. backlash. Those chains are forged for us all, as we are all damaged, from one man losing his freedom, and his life, for senseless reasons. FUCK THE POLICE, AND FUCK THE SJWS.
You wouldn't DoWnLOad a cAr woULd YoU?!!
they should play this on tv and the radio. maybe some of these so-called "woke" people will actually wake up to what they're destroying!
@@DjornNorthfield dude, if I had a 3D printer that could make all the parts I needed to build a car and a workshop to do it in, I would. I think we all would.
It's rather sad listening to this 8 months later knowing how correct he was
Lets meet here again in 10 years
@@CoNteMpTone
Then he will be seen as a prophet.
@@CoNteMpTone I Don't Think youtube Gonna Be Here In 10 Years.
16 months and it’s worse
@@CoNteMpTone I hope his liver is treating him well then
“The real world is much smaller than the imaginary”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
He would so despise the herd mentality today
Let us not forgot that Nietzsche also inadvertently led to the postmodernist movement
The past is a reminder of things good and bad that are long gone. I am a staunch advocate for leaving all records immaculate, since we have a lot to learn from those that were here before us. From the past we've learned how evil some people can be, how brightly the righteous once shined above adversity, and how creative some minds could be. Why strip the future generations of these things when there is so much to learn? The fact that there people in big companies afraid of these ideas from the past shows that not only they didn't learn, but don't want anyone else to do so or understand it, and that's what's truly dangerous.
Drinker, I am 64 years old and have been a fan of movies since my mother made me sit down and watch "The Day the Earth Stood Still" when I was 7. I have followed your channel with great delight for over a year now and my son raves about you as well. Not only are you spot on about the neutering of our cultural history but it's clear you put a tremendous amount of work into this to get it right. Using each clip to increase the impact of your words must have been tedious but it sure paid off. Thank you for this heartfelt take on what's happening to our beloved visual arts. You sir, are an unmitigated genius.
Here, bloody here....
Emotional video. I watched beauty and the beast animation in the cinema when I was 9 and it was the first time I ever went to a cinema. Made me study animation later.
It was pure magic for me.
This should be required watching in many different circles: political, entertainment, education, etc. It speaks truth, and that in itself appears to be the actual victim in the end.
Well said, I watched it twice in a row just to hear it all again
Beautifully put sir.
“It exists because it can, not because it musts” exactly. Art doesn’t owe anything to anyone
I love how you were so easily able to pretty much sum up the entire video in two sentences
'because it can' makes art sound so fragile.
@@shereenorth7261 Art is as fragile as it powerful.
Can you imagine going into a museum and putting black paint over old paintings that aren't politically correct now? Yeah, same thing with movies.
I hope that never shall come true on the paintings, for that would make me sadder than I all ready am about that happening to movies, and I am pretty sad about that all ready.
People have already been tearing down statues. I love art it absolutely hurts my heart.
Nice analogy.
Wasn't there a case where some wierdo vandalized a painting in a museum, because it depicted black people working in a field, and he yelled that it "promoted slavery"?
@@heidipeterson4504 It somewhat already happened. Even from centuries ago, a lot of paintings and buildings were modified to appease different interests.
Sadly, a lot of people tend to dismiss history, and because of that, those things are prone to happen again and again.
Hollywood has reserved for itself the right to alter the past in order to make its products more "palatable" to what it considers its customers. As one of those customers, I, in turn, reserve the right to reject those alterations and any other content I find objectionable for any reason. If I remember my basic economics theory correctly, Hollywood needs me a lot more than I need Hollywood.
The problem is that Hollywood has been pandered to, put on a pedestal and generally made to feel important beyond their actual worth to society.
Art is important yet what they churn out nowadays is often far from a good product.
Millionaire elites with very little formal education in anything other than drama studies etc. think they have the knowledge to talk down to us about everything deemed important by Twitter.
"An artist strives to frame his ideals in an image, to challenge his audience, and make his vision immortal. But the parasites say, no. your art must serve the cause, your ideals endanger the people"
Damn it Ryan, why must you be right
Indeed Ryan was right. Now, would you kindly eradicate the snowflakes and sjws.
A man chooses... A slave obeys..
In other words, it's not enough to control art, they want total submission on the part of artists to control the narrative.
"Don't corrupt the host to pacify the parasites."
Masterful. Using Jean-Luc Picard at the end: an icon of a franchise that has been utterly trashed by this nonsense.
By the very man himself
@dereksjourney He is old.
One of the best quotes from one of the best episodes. Drinker truly is a man of culture.
Speaks volumes
@Klausbärbel Fömm You may well be correct, but we all need heroes. I'd pick "JL" over Patrick Stewart any day. Why? Heroes are in reality, imaginary: they cannot exist as coherent beings in this world. And because we can still somehow relate to them, they give us hope and reasons to strive.
Beneath the snark lives a beautiful mind. You have articulated something really special in this video. Well beyond anything i could have, yet said everything I didn't even know that I wanted to.
Thank you. I hope more people hear this and share the message.
It comes to my attention that most people who are bitter are only bitter because how much everything could be better
Now depending how you go about doing that effects how things play out, and how you deal with it
The Simpsons called it again! When they were watching a censored version of Gone With the Wind in the seniors home, Hans Moleman said "Didn't that movie used to have a war in it?" and he's dragged away.
The simpsons have been a part of the mob for a while now.
@@heroesytumbas yeah, Groening & Co sold their souls a long time ago. Caving into that Apu bullshit was the final straw for me w/ that show.
@@heroesytumbas You either die a hero...
That's hilarious hahaha
@@cgh7337 over time writers get replaced and eventually there end up being enough to play ball with the agenda of the powers that be to where the creator can lose control of their own creation
"Why not change it so everyone can enjoy it?"
The problem with this statement isn't the slippery slope of precedence it sets but the sheer amount of offense it should generate into anyone with more brain cells than IG Followers: Not everything is, nor should be, made for everyone. The amount of tweaking you'd have to make to a rom-com to make it appeal to me would be so drastic that it would no longer be a rom-com. Thereby pushing out the original audience for a new one.
I don't understand how we came to a society that believes, by virtue of being offended, something should be changed to accommodate. While there are some exceptions to this rule, we should instead realize that we're offended and simply find another venue. I don't see why this is such a novel concept for people today.
To appease everyone, means you can offend no one. It's a dystopia if I ever knew one.
Well said
It's a novel concept because people today are more spoiled to the point of narcissism. They only think of themselves, their point of view. Time was, people that were offended would have no choice but to deal with it. Get on with their lives. Now, they expect others to conform to a stale, colourless, and mediocre way of living.
It used to be that if you were offended you would just leave. Now everyone else who isn't has to. This only goes on bc everyone lets it, ffs.
If you change it, it becomes a lie
Lot of lying going on today. 😟
“Without the guiding hand of the past we are but empty husks adrift in the sea of our own ignorance, proudly repeating the mistakes of our forefathers without recompense or thought.” - Charles Alstein
@pyropulse Those who don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it, and those who destroy the past doom those yet to come to the same cycle.
@pyropulse If everyone were to forget the past our modern state would collapse and repeat the mistakes of our forgotten forefathers.
It’s interesting how much is placed on history when talking about a movie. You would think that Gone with the Wind was historical fact and if it is removed from HBO Max, “we’ll forget our past.” That’s what books are for...not some romanticized piece of fiction. How about teaching actual facts about the civil war, slavery and the reconstruction instead of The Lost Cause Myth that’s pushed in books today. Maybe more people might understand why this movie is so hated by some.
@pyropulse If we Do not learn from past mistakes we are doomed to repeat it. In by erasing the past it's the ability to repeat the mistakes.
Drinks, I think this may be the best video you’ve ever done. I hear in your words your true belief in the humanities, which when forthrightly and honestly pursued, are the higher things in our lives, enriching and inspiring us all. I became a physicist, but I was not inspired by tables of data and swinging pendula. I was called to and sustained upon that difficult road by great stories, some historical some fictional. And that Picard quote was the perfect quote at the perfect time in the video. Credit to Jeri Taylor for her awesome writing.
“With the first link the chain is forged; the first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied chains us all irrevocably... The first time any man’s freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged.”
Where is that writing’s equal in modern pop culture?
"slowly but surely it diminishes who we are..."
yeah, that is the intention.
He who controls the past controls the present. He who controls the present controls the future.
what are we exactly?
surely we will dimish but what do you see in the current "US" thats worth perserving?
I'm not against keeping films as they are, but what do you see thats actually being hurt in the content of these altered works?
Slowly turning every person into a object, an identity, not an individual.
@@m150985 It isn't so much about the small edits they are aiming for, it is the bigger picture. This is the equivalent of the Nazis burning books, because they didn't want people having a different perspective to the one they were forcing onto the people with their own propaganda. This is 1984, The Memory Hole, where the past is continually changed, in order to control the way people think in the present. They wont stop with a few small changes either, they will use them to condition the public into their usual apathetic attitude, and then make bigger changes once we have accepted it. The Drinker makes this point in his video, this is just the beginning, but it certainly wont be the end.
michael miroshnik
“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power" -Abraham Lincoln
The irony was Lincoln revealed himself to be a tyrant by taking 1 giant shit on the Constitution.
I am a thirtysomething Nigerian. I grew up on western movies (not without a healthy dose of kungfu flicks). The culture then was deep, even to my child eyes. The entertainment dared to be bold. If it offended on, one simply avoided it. This need for 'PCness' is confusing. I hope this alterations of beloved movies isn't really happening. That would be like wiping out huge moments of my past.
Equally so is Nigerian culture, Ita Ita. Every nation has a past. If we don't look to it for guidance we cannot grow. We cannot change what we were, only what we want to be.
Ita Ita the censorship has already begun. Disney owns the movie Splash, they just altered a very brief nudity scene and have reportedly done the same with Thor's Ragnarock.
@@lazerbeamhawkins This is why its always important to have Physical copies of films were you have the original unedited versions i still buy DVD'S and Blu Ray discs for that reason alone......
Hear. Hear.
Oh its happening. Right down into the memory hole.
Wowww the first few minutes of this needs to be a quote. It PERFECTLY describes what's happening.
Too bad modern art sucks so bad the Gunny used it as an insult.
"You're so ugly you could be a modern art masterpiece."
Modern art RULES!
There's a lot of amazing modern art. It's just the weird "high" art that's so often bad. Check out video games and movies, or the things being made with photoshop and CG by artists. That's some of the most interesting art we've ever made. Art is simply all around you nowadays.
Whos Gunny?
@@NuclearNuke41R. Lee Ermey in Full Metal Jacket.
One of the funniest things I've learned about is how the US hired Nazi intelligence officers to help them form the CIA and fight communism.
Part of that fight was cultural, so the CIA used a front organization, the Congress for Cultural Freedom, to fund literary magazines (including leftist ones as long as they were anti Soviet) as well as modern art, to contrast with Soviet realism.
So I imagine these Nazis being besides themselves, having to watch the funding of Jackson Pollock's "degenerate Bohemian art," longing for whatever it is Nazis liked to look at. Paintings of blonde girls I guess.
Idk, I think it's funny. Imagine the Coen Brothers writing it
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Same fate for those who censor the past.....
Because unlike the people in the original quote, who for whatever reason can't, they refuse to remember and learn from the past
@@regiman222
'Because unlike the people in the original quote, who for whatever reason can't, they refuse to remember and learn from the past' - Worse: They are trying to reengineer the past and destroy it, so that they might be on top in the new future.
Whops, I posted that same quote! You said it. I think it's rather poignant.
unless they are doing it with awareness of the objective
This was the most stirring video that you have produced to date.
2020: the year book burning took hold once again.
I almost felt like crying. It was so beautiful.
This should be required viewing for movie fans at the minute..
Edit.. I'm fact just society in general.
I agree
Except no one is burning books.
@@kylewilliams8114 not a pile of fire but they are burning
That was depressing , somber and poignant , and at the end Chilling , Picards words send chills down the spine due to Stewart’s delivery.
"Never comprimise, not even in the face of Armageddon" - Rorschach
Rorshach was a broken, sad, insane man with more hygiene problems than all his fingers and toes and a moral compass that only had two directions on it. Evil, and slightly less evil. He was a good character. But quoting the ramblings that eventually went into his journal isn't the way to go.
@@chaveztyndale8468 On the other hand, as viewers we admire the fact that he was the only character who had principles and stuck to them. It doesnt mean we support murdering petty criminals, etc.
@@chaveztyndale8468 I think what the idea behind the comment (Rohrschach or not) is exactly what it says... never compromise your morals.
@@chaveztyndale8468 The point was that you can live on your knees or die on your feet. Rorshach was a child of severe abuse so the only thing he possessed which couldn't be taken away in his childhood was his sense of right and wrong.
But the point of his character and the end of the story was this: Yes, you may choose a pragmatic action to forestall an inevitable outcome -- and at the time, it seems the lesser of 2 evils. But compromise only postpones the inevitable -- and that postponement builds up a force which will make the tragedy far less survivable.
Say what you will about Rorshach, but he understood human nature more than everyone but the Comedian. That's why the Comedian was killed -- he discovered the grand plan.
We know from the end of the story that secrets can't be kept for long... and a lie which saves the world, can destroy it many times over when that lie is discovered by humanity. That was R's point: if you compromise now, you'll compromise again and again, until one day you look back and discover that your string of compromises has yielded hell in your wake -- a hell which eventually became the greater evil.
That's why the phrase "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" was created: it's an allusion to all the compromises one makes in forcing your version of utopia upon an eternally flawed reality. Once you compromise, your normalize. The next compromise is just as easy as the last... and so on. Eventually, you're so invested in the long journey to your utopia that you've compromised the last of your humanity --- you'll eliminate anyone or destroy anything to achieve your ends.
Rorshach wasn't broken or insane, he merely adapted to his circumstance -- he was exactly appropriate for he world within which he existed -- brutal and without pity. He understood the long view -- that when you compromise on your principles, the anchor of your conscience is snapped and your principles are set adrift. There's no way to predict where an unmoored conscience will alight. Too often, it ends in bigger problems than your compromises were designed to resolve.
You'd do well to remember the context of Watchmen -- people were killing each other in the streets on the regular. Any man who lives on those streets wouldn't survive without being more brutal than all the rest. Especially a man who possessed a firm sense of right and wrong.
Watchmen was a story about moral compromise and how different personalities behave under those conditions. It's also about the domino effect of small choices which propagate into world changing tragedies. The Comedian was a nihilist, Rorshach an idealist, Dr Manhattan was the useful idiot -- no matter how much power he possessed, he was easily manipulated into performing a role for smarter men. Owl was a man who had lost himself by shutting off an essential part of himself -- a lost soul. The women of the piece were at odds with their own nature and their relationships in circles they chose to travel within.
Veidt was an utter pragmatist who allowed a single small event change his fate and the destiny of mankind. The Comedian was ultimately responsible for the choices Veidt made. His throwaway insult gave rise to the deaths of millions. That's why even the Comedian's dark comedic nihilism gave way to despair in view of the apocalyptic punchline for which he was responsible.
So, by the end, Rorschach was the only character left alive who didn't compromise on his principles. And Veidt knew Dr. Manhattan would be forced to take care of that loose end as well.
As readers, we were meant to be conflicted in the end. We were meant to ask ourselves: does the ends justify the means? For the Comedian and Rorschach, the answer was "no". The Comedian couldn't live with what he knew without eventually revealing it. Rorschach didn't find out until the end, and so he was eliminated as well. In the closing scene, we see Rorschach's journal on an inbox at a magazine. We know that eventually the secret will get out... and all that death will have been for nothing -- as people come to understand that they were fooled and they can merely return to their self destructive ways.
I guess in a way, the end was saying that the ends could possibly justify the means... but only if the ends are relatively permanent. Otherwise, you've just compromised your morality and eliminated millions for nothing... much like fascism and communism has done. Veidt was just another in a long list of impermanent solutions designed to create a utopia but which are ultimately destined to fail.
As broken as he was you have to admire his strength of will. His fortitude to never bend or waver. Rorschach is one of the greatest hero's in my mind because he let nothing stop him, he wasn't rich or super powered. He did not have a large organization behind him. What he did have was the will to continue the fight no matter the odds. Even facing death he would not waver.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984
i finished the book a few months ago, this line gives me the shivers
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
- George Orwell, 1984
I remember reading 1984 and brave new world in highschool and not really understanding a lot of the nuances like thought police and thought crime. Needless to say I now know everything those books were about thanks to modern day politics. It's shocking how many people don't realize what they are doing.
It's unfortunate so many people see that book not as a warning, but as an instruction manual.
Glad I'm old won't have to see the madness that destroys our species
This reminds me of V for Vendetta. One of the things that made V himself was his obsession with collecting the past. He gathered records, movie posters, books, and even advertising that had been scrubbed.
The only media he consumed was the media that he was told not to. It made him that much more bold, human, and dangerous to the authorities he challenged.
The saddest aspect of this video is that The Drinker has to actually say it in the first place.
He doesnt have to. He wants to.
Bill Maher said it a while ago but no one remembers.
www.socialpoliticalcommentary.com/what-were-you-thinking-generation-context/
shortylickens69 and look at what bill mahar has become.
@@shaunb8889 A pundit?
These lunatics won’t stop with just altering or banishing our most beloved movies or Tv shows. This is just the beginning.
It’s communism
Haven't you read Foucault, bro? They want to destroy the entirety of Western society and its values.
Sadly, I believe that you are correct. :[
People have been altering media they didn't like for thousands of years. Hell, the catholic church reinvented how angels behaved and looked because they didn't like how they were introduced in the old testament.
No my friend, lets hope this is their end...
"Beware he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart, he dreams himself your master."
@Neil HercegTheTattooGuy I believe it's a quote from Sid Meyer's Alpha Centauri; a game we'll ahead of its time.
Its a Private tv channel they can show what they like you are welcome to buy whatever you want.
@@steviegbcool Wrong, wrong, and wrong. The BBC, for example, isn't a private TV channel - many British residents are forced, under threat of criminal conviction, to pay for it.
They cannot show whatever they like - there are regulations and laws on what can't be shown on TV.
I cannot buy whatever I like - see what would happen if I wanted to buy some drugs in front of a cop or purchase a functioning howitzer.
Bad NPC cope - you need to get your programming checked.
@@Gilberto90 Im talking about Netflix and the Disney channel you idiot!! they can do what they want to THEIR movies!! Dont like what they do you are free to buy the films on DVD!!
Except there really are secrets that have to be kept. If you expose an agent who's infiltrated a gang he could have his eyes sucked out with a vacuum cleaner.
This would be hilarious if it hadn't actually happened.
Never has a UA-cam video moved me quite as much as this one.
*"Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it."*
- George Santayana
@@chuckyxii10 Watch or act. Choice is yours. But if you act there is chance.
Those who fail to remember the mistakes of the past are condemned to repeat them.
We don't deserve The Drinker, but I'm happy we have him.
Our little resistance..
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
― C. S. Lewis
Man going back and listening to this again got me emotional for some reason.
Cheers to a much needed voice, giving a much needed message.
“Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.” Benjamin Franklin
*and the sad realization that Ben Franklin himself would be considered a racist for even bringing that observation into the sphere of public opinion by the easily offended*
@@scottmantooth8785 and fired from his job no doubt
Drinker, this is beautiful, and a poignant message we ALL need to hear is this censorious day and age.
You made the classic mistake of thinking "censorious" means 'censoring', it doesn't. Censorious: severely critical of others.
Hi Jean, fancy meeting you here.
@@AL-ws5yi same to you 😁
Right on Jean!
That could be exactly how it was meant.
The people doing the censoring are some of the most insanely, pathetically critical people I've ever seen.
That was the saddest and most worn out 'go away now' so far. Hit me right in the feels.
First came across this video about a year ago and have probably watched it a dozen times or so since and cry every single time. The music and video and you're amazing words are so spot on. Thank you so much for what you do Drinker, we need you!
“The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably. The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged.”
The thing in the video that caught my attention was the desire to censure/rewrite to make everything so that everybody could enjoy it. How could that ever be achieved? Censorship prevents a lot of people from enjoying it.
Name one instance in history when the people banning books have been the good guys
That was before Picard went senile.
@@edbrook7088 or thoughtful writers...
Is that captain picard?
Hollywood sees this and says: “But what will China think?”
Its not China that is a threat to filmaking and pop culture. Its the SJWs and the incessant desire to pander to all.
@@charlesng553 No China is their supreme overlord. Sure they talk a big game about social justice and everything but money talks and they’ll immediately stop pretending they care about that BS if it makes their bottom lines bigger. China is a racist country and don’t like seeing black people in movies so Hollywood either cuts out black characters from their Chinese movie posters or make them smaller and less noticeable. just check out Chinese The Force Awakens poster. They don’t allow homosexuality in their country so they edited out Freddy Mercury’s sexuality in the Chinese edit of the movie Bohemian Rhapsody. In this new Top Gun Sequel they took Taiwanese and Japanese flags off Maverick’s jacket cuz China hates those countries. This is just a few examples
Screw sjw, screw politics.
Bring back entertainment even if its shit or good, it's meant for entertainment.
If anyone hates it don't see it.
I hate a lot of movies(certain remakes😅) but share my views and I don't beat down by views on to my peers, I just explain why I love it or why I hate it.
@@samdiego1965 china claims they're so anti racist and virtuous when talking about america and us, and then expect us not to know the sheer irony of it
Do not be dumb, Hollywood has no fucking agenda... They care only about making money. They make there decisions simply on what they think will be the most accepted and make the most dollar 💰.
I deeply hate the banning of old artistic creations, not only because it strips us from quality pieces, but mostly because they are some of the closest witnesses of the past, and that enrages the historian and philosopher in me.
It's like burning books......
hear hear
Yes. If we erase everything that's e. g. Racially offensive in older stuff, then we enable the next generation to be deniers
@@stevecarter8810 I mean, y'all have been doing that with black culture for centuries, so you're absolutely right.
I never fail to be impressed by the depth and thoughtfulness you give to your videos
If that don’t deserve a round of applause I don’t know what does👏👏
Right now, I'm more likely to cry than clap
@Aeotye How exactly? This entire video is pointing out flaws with reactionary standpoints, but it isn't doing it openly either.
@@maxmocs5008 oof. The guy deleted his comment 🤣
Seriously
This is a good reason for keeping copies of past films, instead of relying on streaming services that can easily change their content at any time.
Very true and very depressing video...
I’m sorry I didn’t keep more of my old DVD movies because more recent releases of some have been edited.
absolutely. i recently scored a 2-tape vhs copy of Gone With The Wind in a storage unit action. that was on the cancel culture list, correct? i think ill hold onto that one for a minute;)
I’m a Blue-Ray collector, and I feel that now is a great time to be a collector of physical media if you want movies that aren’t altered.
@@joningbretson1990 I'd probably get that digitised, VHS is not the most stable form of media and was absolutely not built to last
Books also. If all of your books are digital, they can be altered anytime the device is updated.
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last"- Sir Winston Churchill
Churchill was one for some amazing quotes!
For a piece of shit liar and murderer, dude's speechwriter did come up with some catchy quotes 🤷♂️
@@jasongrahm6068 You know nothing.
"Crikey look at this little rippa!" - Steve Irwin
@@jasongrahm6068 at least he didn't resign as PM during WW2 and had the guts to fight the Nazis. Not saying he isn't flawed though...
I was genuinely moved by your commentary. The editing was perfect. A piece of art in its own right.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke.
That quote is the call to arms for the very people you think you are being threatened by. Go figure that one out!
i minabrons The freedom of expression is being threatened. Do we not have the same goal?
We need to start burning their books and them first
Roosevelt
History is history...there is no point sweeping it under the rug.
The studios / media system are not confused about the issue, their point/ goal is the destruction of the west.
Agent carter don’t you mean *Herstory?* I hear people actually saying this on tv 🤦🏻♂️
Lietenant Hawkeye: "Sir? Are you crying?"
Colonel Mustang: "No. It's raining."
Thanks for the Full Metal Alchemist quote. Good stuff
FMA, great choice.
I believe you meant.
Hawkeye : "Are you alright?"
Mustang : "Yes. But it's a terrible day for rain."
Hawkeye : "What do you mean? It's not raining."
Mustang : *Tear runs down his cheek* "Yes, it is."
Hawkeye : "So it is."
I am not exaggerating. This is not hyperbole. This censorship is equivalent to book burning.
That's why piratebay will be our savior. Only place with uncut films.
nice to see a fellow pirate 👌
Ahoy fellow mateys! The oceans are wide and we sail them as free men!
Piratebay & Putlocker.
All movies, series, documentaries,...uncensored, with a director's cut version.
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Can you guys teach me how to pirate movies safely?I don't have money for a VPN and most public wifi blocks TPB.Any advice?
"The blandness"
*Cut to Captain Marvel*
I fell out of my chair laughing
The well that just keeps giving 😂
"The humourlessness" is what defines all these fanatics.... Humour is the single most unique thing of humanity...
I haven't seen Captain Marvel...I don't know if I should, just to know how bad it truly is or to just save myself those few hours and read a book or something.
They came for
our heroes
our stories
our history
our lore and canon
Once done they proceeded like locusts to the next target
from the world of fiction to the realm of reality...
dragging down statues and beginning to destroy our canon once again...
... "And then they came you You. You... who reads this right now"
If SJW and WOKE CULTURE are locust, them who is, or whats represent the bug killing spray?
Dawid Depa Pepper spray.
As an artist i've always looked towards the past and I'm a big advocate for creativity and individualism. We humans tends to be for the David but also are more fearful for the Goliath. It's art that makes us human, that makes us have color in our white and black world. Filmmaking is my passion and I've loved it ever since I had my first memories. Seeing films makes me thing we could do anything and imagine such worlds. Art in my opinion is the spark of light in the world of darkness. it's how we express our uniqueness. But we do need order and for that we need balance...When people say we need this or that I see it as we just need to balance the two, but no one should touch art, art in it of itself doesn't need order, it's wild and can't be tamed or else it'll be depressed and becomes bland if tamed. We live in the startings of a dystopian world that we would never dream or want. It's the rise of authoritarianism and where the loud are the powerful and the silent are the plebs. I maybe another comment in this sea of my fellow advocates but what i do want is an understanding of peoples. Yes we have our differences or sensitivities but one thing we cannot touch to censor or take down is art. art is to understand, not the ripe up and banish it. Even the most evil of us can create an art form which we can understand and ponder about, negatively or positively. In the end all I want is for individuals to understand and not put down each other like our dictators and authority figures have done. Hopefully this can be a message for all sides of the spectrum. i hope we can bring the past but understand it's faults and achivements.
I live in Missouri, the home of Mark Twain. Schools are starting to ban his books because of some of the language used. It was written in the 19th century for God's sake! You can't give it 21st century values without changing the structure of the story.
This is history.
By books and moves we can lern how they thinked. What was their values? How they live as poor man, rich man, what they thinked about slavery etc.
Movie was racist? Becouse time was racist.
ua-cam.com/video/sacn_bCj8tQ/v-deo.html&ab_channel=ThomasLaang < it is starting to looks like this.
If you don't know from where you are going, you don't know where you are going.
It's not about the message it's about the words and the shallow meanings not the deep ones
I have a hard drive of 1000 torrented movies in their best versions. been saving it for nearly 15 years. People say "bUt tHeRe's NeTfliX".
I have deleted episodes, unedited movies, all the good shit. Smartest thing I've ever done.
I guess I'll be hanging onto my grandma's Fawlty Towers DVD collection
My man
:D your a modern day Marion Stokes!
Hook me up brother hook me up.
Good on you: everyone talks about keeping their CD's and DVD's, as if keeping the content on separate individual discs somehow makes it "physical", but in reality, optical discs are frail and short-lived. It will be through massive data banks made up of individual drives with redundancies, both locally and through PtP with other such collections, which will ultimately save our contemporary works. Even now, various content, including old video games thought to have been lost in limited production and movie cuts which were never distributed have been saved through these methods of collection and transmission.
Do not rely on stacks of discs and tapes to save that which you believe should live on, spread it to the world, and let the internet fulfill its grandest purpose: preserving memories and experiences otherwise lost to time.
People who say that Diversity and Great Female characters have been lacking in Cinema don't watch as much films.
You need to understand that nothing say say holds logic thats not the point. They say whatever it takes to get what they want!
Every one of these women that think they're making their mark on history in film will be erased from history, as those that came before them have been. If history doesn't suit the narrative, change history.
@@joeyrozic1100 I'm going to name several from cinema alone. Sarah Connor, Trinity from the matrix, Princess Leia, there are so many good and strong female characters in films. Strong doesn't mean devoid of weakness and character flaws. It means standing up and fighting in spite of weakness.
They should watch more indies instead of being spoon fed corporate slop.
Censorship is by it’s very nature, the destruction of diversity.
The world needs to hear this... thank you.
You, my drunken friend, are an inspiration. The uncharacteristically flat "go away now" brought a tear to my eye, and it's not just the Whisky. Never stop. Never surrender.
Same
I couldn’t agree more.
Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.
It's worse than that makes it sound. "Destroying our history leaves us absent a guage with which to measure our progress as a society."
-Me
@M;H Look around. America looks more like 1932 Germany than anything else right now. And if that's not doomed, I don't know what is.
And that’s why we are burning books all over again
Mike Brines more like on the cusp of a Communist revolution.
rhetorical nonsense
Drinker, you inimitably astute interpreter of moving pictures, this is the most important video you've ever made.
Dear Drinker, Thank you for this. I always knew that there was thoughtful intellect and wisdom under the haze that you say that you stay in in order to survive having to watch the fall of all you hold dear . I too have watched the destruction of entertainment rapidly excell especially in the last few years. How did this idiosy get so imbeded so deeply and quickly. Makes a movie buff want to cry. And what you said here aced it. I hope and pray that people will start doing what is needed to bring back America's brains .