While it was a short summary of All Tomorrows as you said during the video, and not the philosophy of it as the title suggests, I still appreciate this video. In the last couple of minutes you shortly dived into its philosophy a bit and your words at the end about how it holds more value to spend time with loved ones rather than to live by the nation you belong to hit me because I again noticed that I am motivated by my nationalist views lately and this even blocked the way of me spending time with my family or care simply for myself and what I want from life personally. Every nation will fall and every human will die but my nation falling brings me more sorrow than my loved ones dying and now thinking- this is what the ones ruling over us want. In my country, it is seen as one of the most honorable things to sacrifice your and your family's life for the state. I am disgusted by this that the government encourages this but I also can give up my life for my country because it falling down to others' hands brings me so much anger and stuff. Idk man. The point of all of it is probably something like to enjoy it and making it worth its existence, and every second we live to hate it and see the bad sides of it created by the ones who taught to give it away for something we wouldn't even know existed if we lived some thousands of years ago and later. I know it sounded like I am contracting myself with me saying I can give up my life for my country but also I despise when it is encouraged.. It isn't a contradiction actually. Yes I love my nation so much that I can die for it but I know it is a wasteful thing I have become *attached* to and that's why I don't want other people to think ANYTHING AT ALL is worth more than your life. Cuz it ain't. All Tomorrows even states that... Some people become so *attached* to a painless life they decide to *sacrifice* it once that painless state is gone... That's one thing I will never understand and I actually think we should thank All Tomorrows for giving us the journey of all those humans (especially Colonials) who went through the hardest and most miserable existence but still said imma live to see the next day. Even that's to live your life based upon by!
To me the modulars and the asteromorphs are the gigachads in the story for this reason. The modulars workes through their biological imprisonment with unity and sheer will. They humiliated the qu twice and would have the last laugh if it wasn't for the gravitals. And they didn't become paranoid xenophobic lunatics like the gravitals despite the all the treatments they have received. The asteromorph became matured as a species and always try to be friendly despite knowing that they are living in a hostile universe. And their conducts showed themselves to be the better ones trying to intergrate the people they have defeated instead of torturing them like the Qu or subjugate and exterminate like the gravitals.
While it was a short summary of All Tomorrows as you said during the video, and not the philosophy of it as the title suggests, I still appreciate this video. In the last couple of minutes you shortly dived into its philosophy a bit and your words at the end about how it holds more value to spend time with loved ones rather than to live by the nation you belong to hit me because I again noticed that I am motivated by my nationalist views lately and this even blocked the way of me spending time with my family or care simply for myself and what I want from life personally.
Every nation will fall and every human will die but my nation falling brings me more sorrow than my loved ones dying and now thinking- this is what the ones ruling over us want. In my country, it is seen as one of the most honorable things to sacrifice your and your family's life for the state. I am disgusted by this that the government encourages this but I also can give up my life for my country because it falling down to others' hands brings me so much anger and stuff. Idk man. The point of all of it is probably something like to enjoy it and making it worth its existence, and every second we live to hate it and see the bad sides of it created by the ones who taught to give it away for something we wouldn't even know existed if we lived some thousands of years ago and later.
I know it sounded like I am contracting myself with me saying I can give up my life for my country but also I despise when it is encouraged.. It isn't a contradiction actually. Yes I love my nation so much that I can die for it but I know it is a wasteful thing I have become *attached* to and that's why I don't want other people to think ANYTHING AT ALL is worth more than your life. Cuz it ain't. All Tomorrows even states that...
Some people become so *attached* to a painless life they decide to *sacrifice* it once that painless state is gone... That's one thing I will never understand and I actually think we should thank All Tomorrows for giving us the journey of all those humans (especially
Colonials) who went through the hardest and most miserable existence but still said imma live to see the next day. Even that's to live your life based upon by!
To me the modulars and the asteromorphs are the gigachads in the story for this reason. The modulars workes through their biological imprisonment with unity and sheer will. They humiliated the qu twice and would have the last laugh if it wasn't for the gravitals. And they didn't become paranoid xenophobic lunatics like the gravitals despite the all the treatments they have received. The asteromorph became matured as a species and always try to be friendly despite knowing that they are living in a hostile universe. And their conducts showed themselves to be the better ones trying to intergrate the people they have defeated instead of torturing them like the Qu or subjugate and exterminate like the gravitals.
I Couldn’t Agree More !