Humor is a great coping strategy when faced with such enormous sadness, especially about the world around you, and things you can't directly control. But it's also not enough. Getting organised, directly DOING something (joining a union; solving the case & discovering the phasmid) can help SO much. It's good to know how to deal with something you can't influence, but it's also good to remind yourself of the power you have - the power of action, the power for change. It's overwhelming, and the deck is stacked against you, but you CAN do something, and however small, it has an effect. Offer small kindnesses and relief to someone you know, for example. It helps to go from standing still to a slow walk - that's the literal first step you take, before being able to run.
Perfectly said, whether it’s possible on not… and as Volition said to Harry “Subdue the regret, stay the course, endure, you’ll get it in the next life, where you don’t make mistakes, do what you can with this one”
This video is great, and unfortunately I can relate. The only way I was able to get out of bed this morning was by telling myself, “you must become a psycho-locomotor” I knew what I was doing was completely absurd but it worked. We may never escape sadness but we may learn to befriend it.
Embrace the absurd, as volition once said Just wait through the hell, month after month, year after year, you against the nothingness, it’s possible… because time is possible
Reality is absurd. The world is controlled by barbarians who look down on us and believe themselves to be civilized, that's absurd. Keep going. You, me and everyone we know are mutual friends with sadness. We're working in this sh!t factory together
@@benzur3503 I don't know who that is but I also dislike whining, will probably avoid if I come across them. I also love Disco Elysium video essays, I'm thinking about making one and I want to find more to watch. I'm assuming you've seen that really long one by that eastern European guy?
You can't ever be certain, that you are right. But if your world suddenly crashes, you know for certain, that it hurts. There is no truth but pain, there is no meaning but desperation, and realizing that doesn't even help. Thank you for your essay.
I agree with you on a broader scale: pain is, indeed, a fundamental truth. In a Lacanian sense, it aligns with the concept of lack-a void shaped by our desires and the impossibility of ever fully satisfying them. Yet, an interesting paradox arises: when pain becomes constant, it ceases to function as pain, much like happiness or any other emotion. Pain, happiness, sadness, and even boredom lose their emotional intensity when they persist without end-they become a baseline, a state rather than a feeling. I’m not here to argue which perspective is correct. Some claim life is defined by the inevitable suffering of existence-the randomness, the lack of inherent meaning. Others suggest that constant pain can transform into growth. But speaking from my own experience, having come from a totalitarian and dictatorial country, pain never turned into growth for me. Perhaps that’s a reflection of my personal suffering rather than a universal truth. What I do know, and firmly believe, is that pain is undeniably real. Meaning, on the other hand, is a construct-a fragile narrative we impose to make sense of it. Thanks a lot for your view, I can’t believe how deeply connected we are to Disco Elysium
This is just amazing to hear, I will try my best to deliver as best as I can. Thank you so very much for this. This makes me want to make even more content.
@@theideologyobservatory I think you have a good shot at finding an audience if you keep making stuff. Another Disco Elysium video would probably get some attention, or an essay about some aspect of Cyberpunk 2077 that you find interesting. People love videos about that game and it's sorely lacking intelligent essays about it.
@@itcouldbelupus2842 I will definetly put that in mind, this is a very positive note you gave, I've been meaning to use the modern games to coney ideas that people sometimes find boring to think about in an abstract sense. So thanks a lot for this, Cuberpunk 2077 video will be on the way 100% !!
@authaire This is a art piece beyond me, I tried to be parasitic enough to talk about it, but holds so much art, poetry, and just pure fucking amazing chaos that we need a Harry Du Bois in the world for real
I like the analysis but I feel like you filled some of the video with just disco footage and no talk. Intro of all the quotes was great but after I feel like there was too much space Good video overall though
You’ve got a solid point there-really appreciate the feedback! I probably could’ve matched specific shots to specific ideas better. Turning essays into visual presentations is like herding cats-tricky, but totally worth it. Feedback like this makes it way easier, though, so thanks. ❤
@benzur3503 Man your comment is soo brilliant!!! First of all, you're absolutely right, and second of all I'm so excited and I'd like to share my thoughts with on this, you can ignore this comment if you think it's too long but know it's coming from a place of "Fuck Yeah!!" The idea for me was that Harry’s repetition being both internal (shaped by what’s left in his mind) and external (shaped by Revachol’s own cyclical nature). Harry isn’t just trapped in his misery; he’s working within it, it's a job that he clearly loves! I tried capturing that in the phrase “for Harry, it’s Tuesday”. It’s not a celebration of fate (amor fati), nor resignation to suffering-it’s just routine, the amor fati was a sarcastic comment made to make even Nitezsche's misery look absurd to Harry hahaha. Acohol as a tool for forgetting while Revachol refuses to forget. Harry’s personal cycles and the city’s unchanging state create a contrast that makes every morning a new negotiation of identity-a "New Harry Du Bois Every Morning." This daily renewal carries a strange divinity, and here’s where G.K Chesterton’s radical Christian insight fits beautifully: "It is possible that God says every morning, 'Do it again' to the sun; and every evening, 'Do it again' to the moon." Chesterton’s view reframes repetition as something sacred, not burdensome. For Harry, repetition isn’t merely his fate or his suffering-it’s his participation in something larger, something beyond despair. Every "Tuesday" becomes a moment where the universe says to Harry, “Do it again.” It’s not just Harry’s repetition of misery-it’s Revachol’s, the world’s, even God’s. And in that constant “doing it again,” Harry’s identity isn’t fixed; it evolves. Like I said you're not wronge!! You completed the essay!! And I think adding Chesterton elevated it to something transcendent, which fits Harry’s struggle perfectly.
@ revachol’s history doesnt quite repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes. The lack of repeating is what leads Harry to try and numb himself until he forgets his drives, until there arent even the peaches to remind him of how he lost everything he had with Dora. To reach his tequilla sunset. Before the game all harry has is misery. After? He has misery and something more. It repeats but it is new in its repeating. It is never without what made it no matter how hard one might try. The only way out is through
@@theideologyobservatorya lot of the Eternal Recurrence idea makes a lot of sense if we see the context of True Detective in this, which was one of the main inspirations for Disco Elysium. Rust also talks about Eternal Recurrence and even directly references Nietzsche.
Hey!!! I'll recommend you a film by great director (Jonas Mekas) It's called "As I was moving ahead, occasionally I saw brief glimpses of beauty" I swear I'm not making it up hahahaha
"sadness is a super power, it opens doors to empathy" that was strong
your soul is immence
Humor is a great coping strategy when faced with such enormous sadness, especially about the world around you, and things you can't directly control. But it's also not enough. Getting organised, directly DOING something (joining a union; solving the case & discovering the phasmid) can help SO much. It's good to know how to deal with something you can't influence, but it's also good to remind yourself of the power you have - the power of action, the power for change. It's overwhelming, and the deck is stacked against you, but you CAN do something, and however small, it has an effect. Offer small kindnesses and relief to someone you know, for example.
It helps to go from standing still to a slow walk - that's the literal first step you take, before being able to run.
Perfectly said, whether it’s possible on not… and as Volition said to Harry “Subdue the regret, stay the course, endure, you’ll get it in the next life, where you don’t make mistakes, do what you can with this one”
This video is great, and unfortunately I can relate. The only way I was able to get out of bed this morning was by telling myself, “you must become a psycho-locomotor” I knew what I was doing was completely absurd but it worked. We may never escape sadness but we may learn to befriend it.
Embrace the absurd, as volition once said
Just wait through the hell, month after month, year after year, you against the nothingness, it’s possible… because time is possible
Try saying something else
I wanna befriend u
Reality is absurd. The world is controlled by barbarians who look down on us and believe themselves to be civilized, that's absurd.
Keep going.
You, me and everyone we know are mutual friends with sadness.
We're working in this sh!t factory together
@@elydro is this a suggestion failure
I am a simple man. I see a disco elysium video essay, and i subscribe
So you'd watch another one?
@ yep. For each and every one except thealmightyloli. That guy’s whining are my achilles heel
@@benzur3503 I don't know who that is but I also dislike whining, will probably avoid if I come across them.
I also love Disco Elysium video essays, I'm thinking about making one and I want to find more to watch.
I'm assuming you've seen that really long one by that eastern European guy?
@ youre going to have to be more specific
@@benzur3503 it's by Last Minute Essays.
Really enjoyed it.
"Sadness might be a cop, but humor is the anarchist that always gets away" Holy FUCK this quote hits hard, damn
I’m sincerely happy, If anyone can actually be, that this resonated with you, thank you
You can't ever be certain, that you are right. But if your world suddenly crashes, you know for certain, that it hurts.
There is no truth but pain, there is no meaning but desperation, and realizing that doesn't even help.
Thank you for your essay.
I agree with you on a broader scale: pain is, indeed, a fundamental truth. In a Lacanian sense, it aligns with the concept of lack-a void shaped by our desires and the impossibility of ever fully satisfying them. Yet, an interesting paradox arises: when pain becomes constant, it ceases to function as pain, much like happiness or any other emotion. Pain, happiness, sadness, and even boredom lose their emotional intensity when they persist without end-they become a baseline, a state rather than a feeling.
I’m not here to argue which perspective is correct. Some claim life is defined by the inevitable suffering of existence-the randomness, the lack of inherent meaning. Others suggest that constant pain can transform into growth. But speaking from my own experience, having come from a totalitarian and dictatorial country, pain never turned into growth for me. Perhaps that’s a reflection of my personal suffering rather than a universal truth.
What I do know, and firmly believe, is that pain is undeniably real. Meaning, on the other hand, is a construct-a fragile narrative we impose to make sense of it.
Thanks a lot for your view, I can’t believe how deeply connected we are to Disco Elysium
Me? It's about *Me*? Well, now I have to watch the video!
Can't relate, I'm a superhero, lost track of you talking after 1 minute
@@red-hn5iy You know… That’s actually really good, cheers to Volition.
That's some heavy conceptualization my dude. Good job! Subscribed.
Nice job uploading this, bratan
Thanks!
your soul is immense and the world loves you
More videos, longer videos. If you make em I'll watch em.
This is just amazing to hear, I will try my best to deliver as best as I can. Thank you so very much for this. This makes me want to make even more content.
@@theideologyobservatory I think you have a good shot at finding an audience if you keep making stuff.
Another Disco Elysium video would probably get some attention, or an essay about some aspect of Cyberpunk 2077 that you find interesting.
People love videos about that game and it's sorely lacking intelligent essays about it.
@@itcouldbelupus2842 I will definetly put that in mind, this is a very positive note you gave, I've been meaning to use the modern games to coney ideas that people sometimes find boring to think about in an abstract sense. So thanks a lot for this, Cuberpunk 2077 video will be on the way 100% !!
A video that communicates alot in a very short span of time?
I thought things like this died out a long long time ago
@scruffles3838 I hope to be able to do more interesting stuff like that
Thank you very much!
Been needing some more disco Elysium content from someone, anyone. Thanks fam
@authaire This is a art piece beyond me, I tried to be parasitic enough to talk about it, but holds so much art, poetry, and just pure fucking amazing chaos that we need a Harry Du Bois in the world for real
This game sounds "disco" I should check it out!
Before it fades!!
I like the analysis but I feel like you filled some of the video with just disco footage and no talk. Intro of all the quotes was great but after I feel like there was too much space
Good video overall though
You’ve got a solid point there-really appreciate the feedback! I probably could’ve matched specific shots to specific ideas better. Turning essays into visual presentations is like herding cats-tricky, but totally worth it. Feedback like this makes it way easier, though, so thanks. ❤
very gud video man, thanks 👍
Thanks alot!!!❤
Amor fati is the choice to love the repeating. I dont think harry loves his repeating in the Nietzschian sense. Maybe in the Schopenhauerian sense
@benzur3503
Man your comment is soo brilliant!!!
First of all, you're absolutely right, and second of all
I'm so excited and I'd like to share my thoughts with on this, you can ignore this comment if you think it's too long but know it's coming from a place of "Fuck Yeah!!"
The idea for me was that Harry’s repetition being both internal (shaped by what’s left in his mind) and external (shaped by Revachol’s own cyclical nature). Harry isn’t just trapped in his misery; he’s working within it, it's a job that he clearly loves! I tried capturing that in the phrase “for Harry, it’s Tuesday”. It’s not a celebration of fate (amor fati), nor resignation to suffering-it’s just routine, the amor fati was a sarcastic comment made to make even Nitezsche's misery look absurd to Harry hahaha.
Acohol as a tool for forgetting while Revachol refuses to forget. Harry’s personal cycles and the city’s unchanging state create a contrast that makes every morning a new negotiation of identity-a "New Harry Du Bois Every Morning." This daily renewal carries a strange divinity, and here’s where G.K Chesterton’s radical Christian insight fits beautifully:
"It is possible that God says every morning, 'Do it again' to the sun; and every evening, 'Do it again' to the moon."
Chesterton’s view reframes repetition as something sacred, not burdensome. For Harry, repetition isn’t merely his fate or his suffering-it’s his participation in something larger, something beyond despair. Every "Tuesday" becomes a moment where the universe says to Harry, “Do it again.” It’s not just Harry’s repetition of misery-it’s Revachol’s, the world’s, even God’s. And in that constant “doing it again,” Harry’s identity isn’t fixed; it evolves.
Like I said you're not wronge!! You completed the essay!! And I think adding Chesterton elevated it to something transcendent, which fits Harry’s struggle perfectly.
@ revachol’s history doesnt quite repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes. The lack of repeating is what leads Harry to try and numb himself until he forgets his drives, until there arent even the peaches to remind him of how he lost everything he had with Dora. To reach his tequilla sunset. Before the game all harry has is misery. After? He has misery and something more. It repeats but it is new in its repeating. It is never without what made it no matter how hard one might try. The only way out is through
@@benzur3503 The only way out is through...
@@theideologyobservatorya lot of the Eternal Recurrence idea makes a lot of sense if we see the context of True Detective in this, which was one of the main inspirations for Disco Elysium. Rust also talks about Eternal Recurrence and even directly references Nietzsche.
@@Tainted-115I don’t sleep… I just dream..
Personally, I wouldn’t put Harry’s name in the title, because it’s kind of a spoiler.
@@ThetrueDino I actually agree, I didn’t think this video will get views honestly, I thought I’m boring UA-cam to the death… so sorry for that
great vid! keep up the hard work
@@arthurmelo5030 Thanks!! Really grateful ❤️
are you a fan of donatedpizza? your intro clips match perfectly to those used in his disco elysium short, in order and everything.
@@WeirdVoyager I’ll make sure to check his work for sure!!! Thanks!!
HARDCOREEEE
Good job lad
@@RuzgarKaragoz Thanks a lot!!
hey man really great title!
@@breakinggood3601 Thanks!!
the title is longer than the god damn video
Hey!!!
I'll recommend you a film by great director (Jonas Mekas)
It's called "As I was moving ahead, occasionally I saw brief glimpses of beauty"
I swear I'm not making it up hahahaha
Video
Video 🎦