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Haha! I would be lying if it wasn't a factor! I desperately want to use the word "concupiscence" at some point but haven't found an opportunity to weave it in
I'm desperately trying to avoid making a "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" reference here. This is me not doing that, clearly. It might be pointless anyway, as I'm not sure how many people reading this have both seen the movie, and also remember the scene where 'succinctly' is used. But I'm hoping there's at least one such person out there, so if you read this and know what I'm referencing, or not referencing I guess, please comment and let me know.
@@unsolicitedadvice9198I'd imagine several of your viewers have used just that word whilst watching you. Top tier videos are all well and good, but a handsome host adds another dimension 😊
I did something emotionally cruel to someone (I said something true and hurtful to a stranger) when I was a teenager because I thought it would make me look tough to my friends. Many years later I still feel shame for it and wish I could apologize to person. But now it’s a shameful weight I carry that reminds me to be a better person.
I lack the words to describe how I was pleased to see the thumbnail to this video. Poe is my absolute idol, and you have helped me understand his stories a lot more. Thank you!
Poe is the American Pushkin, the fount of our literature and one of my favorite authors. Glad to see you give him the respect and analysis he deserves.
I think I commented something about it on the previous video, but I hope you know how much good this work does. I gave the eulogy at my mom’s funeral 2 days ago. I’m 37 and it was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. But consuming philosophy over the last 2 years and studying how people like Sam Harris and you physically speak and articulate things got me to a more secure and confident place in life. I never expected to for all the lessons I’ve learned through all that to be needed as much as they were at one moment, but I’m glad I had them.
Just came across your comment and wanted to say I'm sorry for your loss. Giving a eulogy for your mom must have been incredibly hard, but it's clear you found the strength to do it beautifully. Wishing you peace and comfort during this difficult time.
As a goth who has been inspired by Edgar, to become a writer myself, this is such a treat. He influences a lot of my poetic and literary style also when it comes to composing music and lyrics. Even before I even was into the musical aspect of goth like Sisters of Mercy, Bauhaus etc, existential horror, gothic romance and cinema were my first influences.
The power and depth of your thought would be astonishing in a man of sixty. In a twenty something, it is, for me, the cause of both astonishment and admiration. Bravo Joe!
My favorite Poe story is "The Imp of the Perverse". I have personally felt that imp. I knew what to do, planned everything out; and in the moment, SOMETHING made me screw it all up. (nothing illegal, mind you) I could feel the urge to mess up, and could not prevent its occurrence.
Love the video and the comments. I'm a bookworm and had no idea these themes are so embedded and what was actually being written about. Joe hits another one out of the park. Fwiw I only do one Patreon, guess who, yeah my favorite irresistible Joe. ❤.
I want to thank you for doing these segments. I enjoy all you have done. I have to listen to them, sometimes at least twice, because I pick up on some of what you're explaining and missing some. I wish I had you as teacher in College. Your energy and to the point on the subjects is really spot on for me. Since I can waiver off, when a person discusses for too long. Your explanation, reasoning etc. Has helped me to read the book, etc., you are discussing. Not to see you are wrong, but just to galvanise what you said. Keep going.
I met Poe for the first time at Al Rihanny café in my local city Alexandria where he worked as a janitor and was also a professional Balloonist, and this was around the time he wrote his short story the Baloonist. The next time I met Poe was fairly recently, around two or three days ago, at a small stationary shop where I was buying a notebook.
You mesmerize me to no end, your way with words is hypnotising. I clicked as fast as i could because im a big Poe lover. I really feel that that kind of romantic view is getting to us once again because our world is so unpredictable right now. I also think this new chapter we are entering regarding our use of technology, with the internet, IAs and all of this, tilts the balance towards this more romantic and emotional way of seeing humans, because we are starting to question in our capitalist system in what way we value humans, as AIs take a lot of our tasks for good and bad. Bringing us new challenges, im so afraid of the deepfaces, the deepvoices and stuff...we used to feel like an image could speak a thousand words but nowadays it cant be used as a proof of objective reality. In that sense, we are entering this new realm of constant deception by our own senses, not being able to trust what we see, hear, at least not through our digital lenses.
I like this guy! And yeah, Stavrogin in the censored chapter of 'Demons' is some of the most intense reading in literature. (I think that's what you were referring to?)
I love the way you do the arty subtitles and quotes, it really helps for following along and remembering facts and references. Though with your smooth and bold articulation, it's usually not necessary :-) Greetings from New Zealand
It's the heightened fear of ostracization that led the murderer to confess his crime: the need to feel safe from his unbearable fear of exclusion or being witch-hunted, and a last attempt to plead for forgiveness by siding with the majority against him. This same fear of ostracization, his embarrassment manifested as hatred, drove him to murder someone he feared being associated with, in a desperate bid for security. Therefore, he had always been mad-mad as in highly fearful.
I think the madness was when I committed the horror, not the pain of guilt afterward. This is largely true of the murderer in "The Telltale Heart"; it is truely crazy to hate the old man's eye; he was actually fond of the old man. Compared to an auditory hallucination, this extreme hatred is crazier.
Your video essays are an absolute joy to listen to! Thank you for all the thought and effort you put into your videos! I really enjoyed reading Dostoevsky's Demons, but I find Stavrogin's character too complex for me to understand. I would LOVE to hear your thoughts on him and the book in general
The engagement with the idea of madness is interestingly shown in the John Carpenter film “the mouth of madness” which is based on HP Lovecrafts works and shows that when you are the only sane person left you may aswell be the only person in the asylum. Interestingly in Douglas Adams So Long And Thanks For All The Fish, there is a character called wonki the sane who has built an inside out asylum and lives outside the asylum.
'While most of us have never killed an innocent man and stashed him under our floorboards'. This leaves the very real possibility that someone watching your video has done just that. Ponder that my guy 🤔
The speed you upload high quality content is way more insane than any of Poe's characters (I'm not complaining ) Thanks!! Poe is an author that I haved loved since I was a teenager that loved everything dark and goth:DD Ok, I have no answers whatsoever but your questions about madness reminded me of another fictional name: Alex in a Clockwork Orange...How he considers himself happily sane when driven by his most primitive impulses of violence and sick after the rehabilitation program that would allow him to leave prison and be reinserted into society... which is the healthy one, then?:// Maybe our guilt is programmed in us from early childhood but would we be better without it?
I never thought about Poe as philosophy before but you do make a good argument for that. Now I have to mull over whether you see philosophy everywhere even where it’s not or if maybe there is indeed philosophy behind just about everything. Hmmmmmm….
I would say there is. Everything people think, say and do is based on a worldview, which is influenced by philosophy (the study of knowledge, reality, existence). Everything we as humans understand and do is influenced by what we’ve learned, what we know, and what we believe. Philosophy is everywhere. Everything means something, although it may not be in our capacity to know what “everything” or “something” means. Of course, that’s part of my own philosophy :)
We are not so much rational as we are cooperative. Over time, large groups outlast and out-compete small groups. That results in a small number of large societies rather than a multitude of small ones. As a result, more people are largely cooperative and they have at least fairly good self-discipline, which makes them capable of functioning in large societies.
Great analysis. What are your thoughts on the short "Ligea?" Every interpretation I've read says Ligea is a ghost but I don't see that. I think she is a complete fiction that the narrator created in isolation then imagined her dead so that he could get past his isolation. This is why I see it that way: while he describes many things about his real wife - her likes, her family, her actions outside of any servitude to him, Ligea is too perfect, no family is ever mentioned, he is vague on her history, he only speaks of her in relation to him (nothing about visitors, parties...), she is too perfect - his version of perfect and seems to live only for him. I think the narrator tries to live a normal life with a real wife but she can never compete with the perfect creation of his need based imagination so he kills the real woman and in order to live with it, imagines it is Ligea who does the killing. And he has his Ligea once more as well as justification for staying only with her, for retreating to his isolation - she might kill anyone else he brings into his life. Love to hear your thoughts. (came here via Mindshift and that wonderful podcast you two did)
I wish you could comment the book The Master and Marguerite by Bulgákov and his life. There are lots of nihilistic characters. Dog's Heart is a good one too. Bulgákov last years were plagued by fear of Stalin.
Ok, man. I held off on this before, but, if you're going to do Edgar Allen Poe, you have to at least look at Robert E. Howard. Queen of the Black Coast, maybe one or two more if you're into it. If it's not worth a video, I get that. I challenge you, however, to deny that Conan (yes, actual Conan) states and represents some valid answers to a number of major philosophical problems.
I honestly want to take some notes as someone majoring on English, and that has done a paper (unreleased) on "The Tell-Tale Heart". -By saying that the beating heart is the manifestation of his guilt, you are leaving aside so many other readings and explanations. Though I agree with this reading, you are reducing this, as there is no certain reading of the beating heart (as it happens time and time again through literature), and we can just support our own interpretations and create a reading of the overall tale based on this unique interpretation. -The narrator of the same story does not doubt his own senses, more-so he reinforces it by drawing attention to the "acuteness of his senses". I wish he doubted it, but he is adamant on his belief until the very end. It would be a good introduction to doubting the senses, but it's not relevant here. If I'm wrong, please quote the fragment where he doubts! He just doubts it when he doubts the policemen hear it, but because it is really faint and low, and could be mistaken by any other sound. The narrator had to be bored with the interaction to focus on the beating heart first, and then recognized it. -I do not agree the narrator suffers from monomania, but instead from paranoia inside the Schizotypal Personality Disorder. He is not obsessed with the heartbeat, but with the "vulture-like eye", and drives him to murder. When the source of this paranoia disappears, he has to redirect it somewhere else, this time the policemen are the subjects of this paranoia. In both cases, the beating heart serves as a detonator for the action towards this paranoia and its erasure: first, before he kills the old man; second, before he confesses. The beating heart drives him to confession. I'd love to add on the rest of the stories, but I don't think I'm in place in doing so when I did not delve into them as far as I did with "The Tell-Tale Heart".
That’s fine - I’m not saying my interpretation is definitive, it’s just what I took from it. As you point out, it is not like you can QED an interpretation of literature. Regarding your second point, if there was no doubt about his own insanity, I don’t think he would feel the need to defend it. For me it’s a case of “the lady doth protest too much”
@@unsolicitedadvice9198 I honestly didn't expect you to reply and thought this would be more complementary to someone reading the comments after the video. Thank you for your reply! I think that doubting the narrator's perception is doubting the senses per se, maybe I didn't understand how you worded it the first time, I'm sorry for that, but I hope it can at least make clear any doubts someone else might have had on that part. (I don't know if with the last sentence you are talking about me for doubting of your analysis, or towards the narrator. I'll read it as the second one unless you specify) Thank you again for answering, I love your videos and I hope that my critique or addition was not taken badly.
I never understood this idea of being tortured by guilt. I know fear of consequences. I know regret for causing damage I did not intend. I know anger at myself for succumbing to this instinct of perversity. I have it, but if it ever leaves the realm of my imagination to manifest in reality, it's always in very minor ways. I usually restrict my transgressions to rules I disagree with, and that does not, of course, induce guilt.
I don't agree with Hume but I've always understood Aristotle as saying that humans _possess_ the rational faculty that animals don't (certain animals, notably ravens, notwithstanding), not that we are always, or even necessarily, rational. (See what I did there with the ravens? I'm a funny, I am. 😁)
Oh yes certainly - I didn’t mean to imply that he thought we were entirely rational, just that the faith in reason’s ability to dictate our actions was declining
You have to checkout, "The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror." Is a collection of philosophical essays on Nihilism, Pessimism and Anti-natalism
Brutal, beautiful and bleak. I had to use a dictionary, often for multiple times a page. It inspired me to finally read Moby Dick. I'm nearly halfway through after almost a year lol. Bazed Lit Analyzer has a great 3 hour review.
Emotions are instantaneous value assessments that are necessary for survival because rational thought takes too much time to, for example, decide whether or not to run from a charging tiger. They are formed over time from birth by automating judgements that initially take time to determine. They are subject to our thinking in that they derive from it. Thus, the more rationally a child is raised, the more his emotions will accord with rationality. Emotions need not be irrational - we can train them not to be. Consider, dear reader, how your own emotions have changed over time. Then consider how much more (and likely better) they would be if you had consciously used reason for their training instead of allowing them to develop with no direction, as nearly everyone does due to believing that they are a fundamental force that cannot be controlled.
Without a relationship with God we would all become criminally insane. If we are not getting better we are becoming mad. When we reject the truth we willing deceive ourselves. Both Heaven and Hell are only for volunteers. So, if I were you I’d follow King Jesus before it’s too late, but you do you boo?
The Holy Fathers teach that sin makes us mentally ill. Orthodoxy brings healing to the heart and soul of man. The proof of this is in the lives of our saints. Today is Pentecost, the birth of the Orthodox Church ☦️
"To Waste Existence" I wonder, what shall become waste within human entities? As, said entities seek simplistic existence, what shall such, attempt to be? What shall become of thee? For, I wonder is waste, tethered to that of reality? Does that which the human create, simply exist as, waste? For, I wonder, does the simplicity of an artificial existence, lead only to senseless accumulation? To the human, existing absent why, whilst tethering oneself to creation. For, in truth, may we simply be beings of nature? To take oneself from such, may not only disrupt, but, of course, irrevocably alter the way which the human seeks. For, that which exist as artificial, in truth, simply externalizes that of the organism. Meaning, it would seem the human, simply seeks, itself. Rationalizing ways to exist tethered to the human, whilst claiming said existence is tethered to externalities. For, that of competition, is a simple internal existence, relating to that of the organisms, reproductive intention. For, each entity exist tethered to "Winning". Being, that which exist as a zygote. The forming of an entity, now tethered to being. Tethered, to the simplicity of, that which exist as, existence itself. That of replication. That which drives survival, and, procreation. Simply to exist, externally. To be that which is simply able to be. For, within that of competition, as it relates to the external. There seems to be three forms which, human entities continously exist tethered. The first, I would simply deem, "Full Cycle". Within that of the "Full Cycle", that which represents the phallic system takes the form of, the arm, the leg, the club, the bat, the hockey stick. Each existing tethered to, that of a deliver system. That which propels, semen as it attempts to reach the egg. Such an existence is represented, within that of the, ball, the goal, the net. The moment where procreation is actualized, and, existence begins. The second form of externalizing internal reproductive intention, one deems simply, the "Race" stage. Within such, there is only a race to exist as number one. The simplicity of being first. Such an existence is plainly seen within, of course, racing. That of nascar, track. That of, swimming, a marathon. Each existing tethered to the simplicity of being dynamic beings, seeking only to be first. To be that which moves, simply to be that which, exist. The third stage of externalizing, that which exist as internal, relating to that of the organism. Is, of course, existence itself. Within, that of the "Existence" stage, said organism seeks simplistic violence. For, there can only the one. One tethered to being. One able to exist, within, that of the egg. Such an existence was seen plainly in the, coliseum. Where as, gladiators fought to be beings. To be that which, draws breath. To be tethered to, existence. Of course one sees such, within, that of, fighting. That of war, the simplicity of conflict. Each and every combat situation essentially exist in such a way. As to create, the simplicity, of existence. I wonder, since such is tethered to actuality, what truly does the human, create? How is such an existence not tethered to waste, if, within such, be not, even a human mind? Not even the ability to exist as such a kind. For, of course, each human entity tethered to creating such realities, knew not of, why. For, all deem such to be apart of, human life. To be, that which matters. But, of course, such could never matter. Could never be, that which one deems, not only substantive, but, tethered to that of rationality. For, I deem all that exist, absent a mind. Absent, simplistic contemplation leading to immense comprehension, to be tethered to, nothing. Nothing but, uselessness. Nothing but, senseless ascension. Nothing but, a, wasteful, existence...
Hi Joe - Is it too much of a stretch to suggest that all of the characters in Poe's tales are merely metaphors for different aspects of the human psyche?
Is there any philosopher that is actually cheerful ... I'm not talking being in La La Land, just, at the root of it, hopeful and seeing the better natures of humans ?
Did anyone tell you that you got one the most British accent ever ? Like these days, whenever I think of British English, I tend to hear your voice. No offense intended if that happens to be a sensitive area btw.
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I can see the pokemon in your eyes.
I’m convinced you made this video just to be able to use the word “succinctly”!
Haha! I would be lying if it wasn't a factor! I desperately want to use the word "concupiscence" at some point but haven't found an opportunity to weave it in
@@unsolicitedadvice9198 You already did Markies De Sade right?
I'm desperately trying to avoid making a "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" reference here. This is me not doing that, clearly. It might be pointless anyway, as I'm not sure how many people reading this have both seen the movie, and also remember the scene where 'succinctly' is used. But I'm hoping there's at least one such person out there, so if you read this and know what I'm referencing, or not referencing I guess, please comment and let me know.
@@TwoDudesPhilosophy *Marquis De Sade
@@unsolicitedadvice9198I'd imagine several of your viewers have used just that word whilst watching you. Top tier videos are all well and good, but a handsome host adds another dimension 😊
I did something emotionally cruel to someone (I said something true and hurtful to a stranger) when I was a teenager because I thought it would make me look tough to my friends. Many years later I still feel shame for it and wish I could apologize to person. But now it’s a shameful weight I carry that reminds me to be a better person.
"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious." (Jung)
fake and ghey
What does this mean?
@@Mojo-w6p It's a fart sniffing bs demonic platitude. Don't worry about it.
@@Mojo-w6p It's a stupid gnostic platitude that makes you think embracing the will of satan for your life is good.
@@ElonMuskrat-my8jylmao no one was talking about Satan
I lack the words to describe how I was pleased to see the thumbnail to this video. Poe is my absolute idol, and you have helped me understand his stories a lot more. Thank you!
I discovered Poe when I was 10 and have loved his work ever since. Thanks for this.
This might be one of my favorite videos on this channel! It's awesome watching you analize one of my favorite writers of all time :D
Poe is the American Pushkin, the fount of our literature and one of my favorite authors. Glad to see you give him the respect and analysis he deserves.
I think I commented something about it on the previous video, but I hope you know how much good this work does. I gave the eulogy at my mom’s funeral 2 days ago. I’m 37 and it was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. But consuming philosophy over the last 2 years and studying how people like Sam Harris and you physically speak and articulate things got me to a more secure and confident place in life. I never expected to for all the lessons I’ve learned through all that to be needed as much as they were at one moment, but I’m glad I had them.
Just came across your comment and wanted to say I'm sorry for your loss. Giving a eulogy for your mom must have been incredibly hard, but it's clear you found the strength to do it beautifully. Wishing you peace and comfort during this difficult time.
As a goth who has been inspired by Edgar, to become a writer myself, this is such a treat. He influences a lot of my poetic and literary style also when it comes to composing music and lyrics.
Even before I even was into the musical aspect of goth like Sisters of Mercy, Bauhaus etc, existential horror, gothic romance and cinema were my first influences.
I was discussing this channel and Poe with a coworker. I opened my phone, opened youtube, and this video was at the top.
Im not crazy
The power and depth of your thought would be astonishing in a man of sixty. In a twenty something, it is, for me, the cause of both astonishment and admiration. Bravo Joe!
Love and Respect from Russia 🇷🇺❤️Your literary intelligence always shines. Amazing videos. Thank you so much.
Ah thank you! That is very kind
I spent one depressed.summer reading the portable poe, and having nighares at 15, will never leave me, particularly love the mask of the red death.
That's certainly one of his best. The Oval Portrait is another favorite of mine.
Love how you explain it all with so much passion! :>
Ah thank you!
Wow! Thanks for this fresh insight into the significance of Poe’s work. He was one of my first loves.
In the poem Lenore, we learn just why the young man is later tortured by the raven. He did not, perhaps even could not, love Lenore.
My favorite Poe story is "The Imp of the Perverse". I have personally felt that imp. I knew what to do, planned everything out; and in the moment, SOMETHING made me screw it all up. (nothing illegal, mind you) I could feel the urge to mess up, and could not prevent its occurrence.
Love the video and the comments. I'm a bookworm and had no idea these themes are so embedded and what was actually being written about. Joe hits another one out of the park. Fwiw I only do one Patreon, guess who, yeah my favorite irresistible Joe. ❤.
My vocabulary expands each time I watch one of your videos
I want to thank you for doing these segments. I enjoy all you have done. I have to listen to them, sometimes at least twice, because I pick up on some of what you're explaining and missing some. I wish I had you as teacher in College. Your energy and to the point on the subjects is really spot on for me. Since I can waiver off, when a person discusses for too long. Your explanation, reasoning etc. Has helped me to read the book, etc., you are discussing. Not to see you are wrong, but just to galvanise what you said. Keep going.
I remember rereading Poe after going through my first neurosis and laughing at recognizing newly familiar patterns
Perfect timing. I've been reading Poe this week.
I been wanting to get poed up, yet here I am
I met Poe for the first time at Al Rihanny café in my local city Alexandria where he worked as a janitor and was also a professional Balloonist, and this was around the time he wrote his short story the Baloonist. The next time I met Poe was fairly recently, around two or three days ago, at a small stationary shop where I was buying a notebook.
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You mesmerize me to no end, your way with words is hypnotising. I clicked as fast as i could because im a big Poe lover. I really feel that that kind of romantic view is getting to us once again because our world is so unpredictable right now. I also think this new chapter we are entering regarding our use of technology, with the internet, IAs and all of this, tilts the balance towards this more romantic and emotional way of seeing humans, because we are starting to question in our capitalist system in what way we value humans, as AIs take a lot of our tasks for good and bad. Bringing us new challenges, im so afraid of the deepfaces, the deepvoices and stuff...we used to feel like an image could speak a thousand words but nowadays it cant be used as a proof of objective reality. In that sense, we are entering this new realm of constant deception by our own senses, not being able to trust what we see, hear, at least not through our digital lenses.
I like this guy! And yeah, Stavrogin in the censored chapter of 'Demons' is some of the most intense reading in literature. (I think that's what you were referring to?)
I love the way you do the arty subtitles and quotes, it really helps for following along and remembering facts and references. Though with your smooth and bold articulation, it's usually not necessary :-) Greetings from New Zealand
It's the heightened fear of ostracization that led the murderer to confess his crime: the need to feel safe from his unbearable fear of exclusion or being witch-hunted, and a last attempt to plead for forgiveness by siding with the majority against him. This same fear of ostracization, his embarrassment manifested as hatred, drove him to murder someone he feared being associated with, in a desperate bid for security. Therefore, he had always been mad-mad as in highly fearful.
I love this channel so much, your videos always teach me so much
That was great! My mind is awash in thoughts!
I wish that video was out before I wrote my tribute to Poe in a recent anthology. So lovely and succinct!
Another banger, thank you UA! ❤
I think the madness was when I committed the horror, not the pain of guilt afterward.
This is largely true of the murderer in "The Telltale Heart"; it is truely crazy to hate the old man's eye; he was actually fond of the old man. Compared to an auditory hallucination, this extreme hatred is crazier.
Denial, bargaining, anger, despair, acceptance. Does Poe outline the 5 stages of grief in "The Raven"?
I felt compelled to congratulate you for this banger of a video.
Thank you so much! I love listening to your videos. You have incredible script writing!
Ah thank you! That is very kind! I do spend a lot of time on the scripts
This man has had a major glow up from his first video
Thank you very much for sharing your philosophical intellect with us, I mean you were the person because of which I felled in love with philosophy ❤
Your video essays are an absolute joy to listen to! Thank you for all the thought and effort you put into your videos!
I really enjoyed reading Dostoevsky's Demons, but I find Stavrogin's character too complex for me to understand. I would LOVE to hear your thoughts on him and the book in general
I always learn so much from this channel, thanks so much and amazing teaching style
I'm addicted to this kids channel.
The engagement with the idea of madness is interestingly shown in the John Carpenter film “the mouth of madness” which is based on HP Lovecrafts works and shows that when you are the only sane person left you may aswell be the only person in the asylum. Interestingly in Douglas Adams So Long And Thanks For All The Fish, there is a character called wonki the sane who has built an inside out asylum and lives outside the asylum.
1st question:
We are all crazy, all of the time.
most people's crazy requires balances that death or guilt pulls at that balance.
Oh boy I am glad i subscribed to this guy
'While most of us have never killed an innocent man and stashed him under our floorboards'. This leaves the very real possibility that someone watching your video has done just that.
Ponder that my guy 🤔
lmao i would never lol,but uh... anyway do you know where i can get good quality floorboards????
The speed you upload high quality content is way more insane than any of Poe's characters (I'm not complaining )
Thanks!! Poe is an author that I haved loved since I was a teenager that loved everything dark and goth:DD
Ok, I have no answers whatsoever but your questions about madness reminded me of another fictional name: Alex in a Clockwork Orange...How he considers himself happily sane when driven by his most primitive impulses of violence and sick after the rehabilitation program that would allow him to leave prison and be reinserted into society... which is the healthy one, then?:// Maybe our guilt is programmed in us from early childhood but would we be better without it?
Great video as always! Me and alot of others would love a video about osamu dazai's no longer human or his any other piece
Oh, I really thought the sound of heartbeat which caused the narrator to confess his crimes was HIS heartbeat, not the old man's
There is an amazing timing with the ad I got “it is now time to take a look into the disturbing world of the pervert” ad “se”
I never thought about Poe as philosophy before but you do make a good argument for that. Now I have to mull over whether you see philosophy everywhere even where it’s not or if maybe there is indeed philosophy behind just about everything. Hmmmmmm….
I would say there is. Everything people think, say and do is based on a worldview, which is influenced by philosophy (the study of knowledge, reality, existence). Everything we as humans understand and do is influenced by what we’ve learned, what we know, and what we believe. Philosophy is everywhere.
Everything means something, although it may not be in our capacity to know what “everything” or “something” means.
Of course, that’s part of my own philosophy :)
Yesss!! Talk about Foucault more!!!! One of my faves
Love the channel would you every do a video on TAG?
Thank you! What does TAG stand for, sorry?
@@unsolicitedadvice9198Transcendental Argument for God
We are not so much rational as we are cooperative. Over time, large groups outlast and out-compete small groups. That results in a small number of large societies rather than a multitude of small ones. As a result, more people are largely cooperative and they have at least fairly good self-discipline, which makes them capable of functioning in large societies.
Love the new profile photo 😊
Thank you!
At 6:30 UsA mentions Dostoyevsky . I had thought of the Underground Man and Crime and Punishment as being similar.
"We are a chronically conflicted Animal".
Steve Stewart-Williams
Good vid. Gag time
My English teacher when reading any literature:
Presentation 👌🏼😘 perfect as always
de sade, HP Lovecraft and Poe were all influences on Clive Barkers Novels.
Great analysis. What are your thoughts on the short "Ligea?" Every interpretation I've read says Ligea is a ghost but I don't see that. I think she is a complete fiction that the narrator created in isolation then imagined her dead so that he could get past his isolation. This is why I see it that way: while he describes many things about his real wife - her likes, her family, her actions outside of any servitude to him, Ligea is too perfect, no family is ever mentioned, he is vague on her history, he only speaks of her in relation to him (nothing about visitors, parties...), she is too perfect - his version of perfect and seems to live only for him. I think the narrator tries to live a normal life with a real wife but she can never compete with the perfect creation of his need based imagination so he kills the real woman and in order to live with it, imagines it is Ligea who does the killing. And he has his Ligea once more as well as justification for staying only with her, for retreating to his isolation - she might kill anyone else he brings into his life. Love to hear your thoughts. (came here via Mindshift and that wonderful podcast you two did)
Great video, what mic are you using?
The raven is the demon of despair or acedia.
Finally edger Allen poe!!!
I wish you could comment the book The Master and Marguerite by Bulgákov and his life. There are lots of nihilistic characters. Dog's Heart is a good one too. Bulgákov last years were plagued by fear of Stalin.
Ok, man. I held off on this before, but, if you're going to do Edgar Allen Poe, you have to at least look at Robert E. Howard. Queen of the Black Coast, maybe one or two more if you're into it. If it's not worth a video, I get that. I challenge you, however, to deny that Conan (yes, actual Conan) states and represents some valid answers to a number of major philosophical problems.
I honestly want to take some notes as someone majoring on English, and that has done a paper (unreleased) on "The Tell-Tale Heart".
-By saying that the beating heart is the manifestation of his guilt, you are leaving aside so many other readings and explanations. Though I agree with this reading, you are reducing this, as there is no certain reading of the beating heart (as it happens time and time again through literature), and we can just support our own interpretations and create a reading of the overall tale based on this unique interpretation.
-The narrator of the same story does not doubt his own senses, more-so he reinforces it by drawing attention to the "acuteness of his senses". I wish he doubted it, but he is adamant on his belief until the very end. It would be a good introduction to doubting the senses, but it's not relevant here. If I'm wrong, please quote the fragment where he doubts! He just doubts it when he doubts the policemen hear it, but because it is really faint and low, and could be mistaken by any other sound. The narrator had to be bored with the interaction to focus on the beating heart first, and then recognized it.
-I do not agree the narrator suffers from monomania, but instead from paranoia inside the Schizotypal Personality Disorder. He is not obsessed with the heartbeat, but with the "vulture-like eye", and drives him to murder. When the source of this paranoia disappears, he has to redirect it somewhere else, this time the policemen are the subjects of this paranoia. In both cases, the beating heart serves as a detonator for the action towards this paranoia and its erasure: first, before he kills the old man; second, before he confesses. The beating heart drives him to confession.
I'd love to add on the rest of the stories, but I don't think I'm in place in doing so when I did not delve into them as far as I did with "The Tell-Tale Heart".
That’s fine - I’m not saying my interpretation is definitive, it’s just what I took from it. As you point out, it is not like you can QED an interpretation of literature. Regarding your second point, if there was no doubt about his own insanity, I don’t think he would feel the need to defend it. For me it’s a case of “the lady doth protest too much”
@@unsolicitedadvice9198 I honestly didn't expect you to reply and thought this would be more complementary to someone reading the comments after the video. Thank you for your reply!
I think that doubting the narrator's perception is doubting the senses per se, maybe I didn't understand how you worded it the first time, I'm sorry for that, but I hope it can at least make clear any doubts someone else might have had on that part.
(I don't know if with the last sentence you are talking about me for doubting of your analysis, or towards the narrator. I'll read it as the second one unless you specify)
Thank you again for answering, I love your videos and I hope that my critique or addition was not taken badly.
Oh not at all! I just replied because I found your comment really interesting :)
He was only mad at the time he thought the police could Also hear heartbeat and were messing with him
"Most of us..."
Cool cool.
I never understood this idea of being tortured by guilt. I know fear of consequences. I know regret for causing damage I did not intend. I know anger at myself for succumbing to this instinct of perversity. I have it, but if it ever leaves the realm of my imagination to manifest in reality, it's always in very minor ways. I usually restrict my transgressions to rules I disagree with, and that does not, of course, induce guilt.
I've been racked with guilt from early childhood on. And almost entirely undeserved.
I love your videos!
For me his best work is The Fall of the House of Usher. How could you miss it in this video?
I don't agree with Hume but I've always understood Aristotle as saying that humans _possess_ the rational faculty that animals don't (certain animals, notably ravens, notwithstanding), not that we are always, or even necessarily, rational.
(See what I did there with the ravens? I'm a funny, I am. 😁)
Oh yes certainly - I didn’t mean to imply that he thought we were entirely rational, just that the faith in reason’s ability to dictate our actions was declining
OMG EA. POE MY ENGLISH TEACHER RECCOMENDED HIM TO ME🤩
Haha! I hope you enjoy the video then
Amazing video
How is a raven like a writing desk? Poe wrote on both.
I was just watching ur camu videos lol ily! i want friends like you
Thank you so much for your videos, you're videos kept me motivated and understood life and myself even more🫶
Ah thank you! That is very kind!
Bleeding magpie waking me up
You have to checkout, "The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror." Is a collection of philosophical essays on Nihilism, Pessimism and Anti-natalism
Augustine in the peach orchard.
What do you think about the blood meridian book?
Brutal, beautiful and bleak. I had to use a dictionary, often for multiple times a page. It inspired me to finally read Moby Dick. I'm nearly halfway through after almost a year lol. Bazed Lit Analyzer has a great 3 hour review.
Quoth the raven, “fireball!”
The DM when:
Emotions are instantaneous value assessments that are necessary for survival because rational thought takes too much time to, for example, decide whether or not to run from a charging tiger. They are formed over time from birth by automating judgements that initially take time to determine. They are subject to our thinking in that they derive from it.
Thus, the more rationally a child is raised, the more his emotions will accord with rationality. Emotions need not be irrational - we can train them not to be. Consider, dear reader, how your own emotions have changed over time. Then consider how much more (and likely better) they would be if you had consciously used reason for their training instead of allowing them to develop with no direction, as nearly everyone does due to believing that they are a fundamental force that cannot be controlled.
Without a relationship with God we would all become criminally insane. If we are not getting better we are becoming mad. When we reject the truth we willing deceive ourselves. Both Heaven and Hell are only for volunteers. So, if I were you I’d follow King Jesus before it’s too late, but you do you boo?
The Holy Fathers teach that sin makes us mentally ill. Orthodoxy brings healing to the heart and soul of man. The proof of this is in the lives of our saints. Today is Pentecost, the birth of the Orthodox Church ☦️
"To Waste Existence"
I wonder,
what shall become waste within human entities?
As,
said entities seek simplistic existence,
what shall such,
attempt to be?
What shall become of thee?
For,
I wonder is waste,
tethered to that of reality?
Does that which the human create,
simply exist as,
waste?
For,
I wonder,
does the simplicity of an artificial existence,
lead only to senseless accumulation?
To the human,
existing absent why,
whilst tethering oneself to creation.
For,
in truth,
may we simply be beings of nature?
To take oneself from such,
may not only disrupt,
but,
of course,
irrevocably alter the way which the human seeks.
For,
that which exist as artificial,
in truth,
simply externalizes that of the organism.
Meaning,
it would seem the human,
simply seeks,
itself.
Rationalizing ways to exist tethered to the human,
whilst claiming said existence is tethered to externalities.
For,
that of competition,
is a simple internal existence,
relating to that of the organisms,
reproductive intention.
For,
each entity exist tethered to "Winning".
Being,
that which exist as a zygote.
The forming of an entity,
now tethered to being.
Tethered,
to the simplicity of,
that which exist as,
existence itself.
That of replication.
That which drives survival,
and,
procreation.
Simply to exist,
externally.
To be that which is simply able to be.
For,
within that of competition,
as it relates to the external.
There seems to be three forms which,
human entities continously exist tethered.
The first,
I would simply deem,
"Full Cycle".
Within that of the "Full Cycle",
that which represents the phallic system takes the form of,
the arm,
the leg,
the club,
the bat,
the hockey stick.
Each existing tethered to,
that of a deliver system.
That which propels,
semen as it attempts to reach the egg.
Such an existence is represented,
within that of the,
ball,
the goal,
the net.
The moment where procreation is actualized,
and,
existence begins.
The second form of externalizing internal reproductive intention,
one deems simply,
the "Race" stage.
Within such,
there is only a race to exist as number one.
The simplicity of being first.
Such an existence is plainly seen within,
of course,
racing.
That of nascar,
track.
That of,
swimming,
a marathon.
Each existing tethered to the simplicity of being dynamic beings,
seeking only to be first.
To be that which moves,
simply to be that which,
exist.
The third stage of externalizing,
that which exist as internal,
relating to that of the organism.
Is,
of course,
existence itself.
Within,
that of the "Existence" stage,
said organism seeks simplistic violence.
For,
there can only the one.
One tethered to being.
One able to exist,
within,
that of the egg.
Such an existence was seen plainly in the,
coliseum.
Where as,
gladiators fought to be beings.
To be that which,
draws breath.
To be tethered to,
existence.
Of course one sees such,
within,
that of,
fighting.
That of war,
the simplicity of conflict.
Each and every combat situation
essentially exist in such a way.
As to create,
the simplicity,
of existence.
I wonder,
since such is tethered to actuality,
what truly does the human,
create?
How is such an existence not tethered to waste,
if,
within such,
be not,
even a human mind?
Not even the ability to exist as such a kind.
For,
of course,
each human entity tethered to creating such realities,
knew not of,
why.
For,
all deem such to be apart of,
human life.
To be,
that which matters.
But,
of course,
such could never matter.
Could never be,
that which one deems,
not only substantive,
but,
tethered to that of rationality.
For,
I deem all that exist,
absent a mind.
Absent,
simplistic contemplation leading to immense comprehension,
to be tethered to,
nothing.
Nothing but,
uselessness.
Nothing but,
senseless ascension.
Nothing but,
a,
wasteful,
existence...
Hi Joe - Is it too much of a stretch to suggest that all of the characters in Poe's tales are merely metaphors for different aspects of the human psyche?
Brother,do provide meanings to your so much difficult words🥲🫀
Is there any philosopher that is actually cheerful ... I'm not talking being in La La Land, just, at the root of it, hopeful and seeing the better natures of humans ?
Rousseau. Or poets, celebrating natural beauty. Try the Transcendentalists.
Your a little mad sir, walking the line
Ahh yes ..what a coincidence bird just stopped by my window 😊
Hero how I pity you
The common and vain still envy you
If religion and the old tell you
What is true then hero hero
Tell me who are you
You don't think that conscience is rational? Sure, the judgment of conscience causes emotions. That doesn't mean it is an emotion itself.
There's no reason to consider it either rational or _irrational._
Did anyone tell you that you got one the most British accent ever ? Like these days, whenever I think of British English, I tend to hear your voice.
No offense intended if that happens to be a sensitive area btw.
Your shame gives birth to the dead
Lolwut
Wait wait wait....... you're not the same guy who asked Rishi Sunak 'why you hate young people' !!!!!??????
Random question: What are your reigious views? Or is there a video on your personal religious views anywhere?
What does it matter?
He is an agnostic leaning on atheism
Repetition-compulsion.
In the first story I dont find it very rational to be driven to murder over the hatred of somebodys eyes.
Fear drives people with a guilty conscience to behave irrationally.
“Mad” = “weird” 🧐
Kamala a subscriber to Poe’s philosophy? 🤨