This person's videos are too philosophical and navel-gazey for me. In one vid, the claim was basically that Marxists are wrong to want to change society because people are too dumb and lazy and don't want politics. Like??? Just unironic belief that the "spectacle" is actually what is true and trying to make the world a better place is the same as capitalism.
At first it was change is impossible but by the end it turned into even wanting change itself is wrong and the only thing we should do is remain at the level of the aesthetic and judge things based on how interesting they are.
Sure. That will definitely help the children mining for cobalt and lithium in Africa and South America.
It felt like these philosophers have spent too much time reading books and living in the first world. There needs to be a cultural revolution but only for philosophers - send them to the mines and factories and see if they still say change is impossible and unwanted.
It felt like these philosophers have spent too much time reading books and living in the first world.
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it."
How we have strayed from Marx
That video was about Baudrillard, and I think people made those same complaints about Baudrillard. I don't know much about philosophy and think of the channel as more educational than activist. I think these contemplations of social stagnation and regression are interesting.
Genuinely do not know of anyone who actually expects this to be a "real" movie (whatever that means), they just think it will be fun lol (or they don't and they won't watch it).
It's directed by Greta Gerwig and co-written by her partner Noah Baumbach, both of whom are well-acclaimed Academy-award nominated filmmakers. I think given their reputation plenty of people are expecting this to be elevated beyond the usual commercial schlock you'd expect from a movie about Barbie dolls.
I think the video is interesting but I don't know if I got the point. Might be a case of not being familiar with the terminology/ philosophy, or a rare case of a video essay being too consise for its own good. .
Or I got distracted because the guy is cuteAnyway, I'll still watch that garbage. It will probably somehow manage to be more "real"(and more importantly, fun) than Oppenheimer
