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Bonjour à tous ! Coming back with the second part of my tourism series (kinda extrapolated here but I really wanted to tackle the topic of hypocrisy at some point on this channel so here we go). Feel free to like, subscribe (if it's not done already) and share this video. I'll see you in the comments section xx
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The video that made me realize I had to dig a bit deeper into the topic of hypocrisy: • Too Many People Want t...
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A reminder:
_You can't be a perfect environmentalist in a world that isn't designed for you to be one_
Perfectly put. Wow, I've been trying to think of some way to explain it and this is exactly what I was thinking, just couldn't articulate.
it's not about beeing the perfect environmentalist, but it's about the claims you make on how far other people should adjust themselves to bear inconveniences, while not bearing inconveniences yourself
Most people in the global south can’t “pick up and travel” whenever and wherever we want because our passports don’t even allow us to. Most of us need visas to leave our homes.
Yes .
Me and my Mom were talking about this this morning. We're both Hawaiian-black and find it funny that people are outraged about what's going on in Palestine yet these same people literally go to Hawai'i which was overthrown in a coup. These people don't realize that they are the Isreal to our Palestine. The more they move to our islands the more we have to leave because we're too poor to afford the ever increasing rent. How do you think you got your beach hotel you're staying in? By destroying sacred native land. How do you think you got that home in Hawai'i? By forcefully removing natives and capturing their land. How do you think Hawaii became a US state? By overthrowing the monarchy in a US military backed coup that lead to horrible living conditions, practical racial purification, segregation, the list goes on. You only care so long as you don't profit but as soon the money comes rolling in and you're offered a once in a life time trip to Jerusalem, you'll excuse what Israel did just so you can enjoy the Palestinian beaches.
I feel like human beings are naturally performers because we are social creatures how we are perceived by others matters to us way more than how we actually are. Even with hypocrisy you have to be the “good” kind of hypocrite and come off as self aware, instead of just recognizing that hypocrisy is still just that.
YES
Not its because people are becoming more narssisistic in western society's because they are so spoiled and never had hardship compared to the rest of the world.
I agree with you, but I believe we should be careful with arguing for "natural" behavior in humans or human nature in general. Under different contexts, a different kind of human might react very differently. However, I do believe there are these big and overarching structural similarities like using the Internet, interacting through social media etc. which can massively influence our behavior.
We can unlearn this
Laugh in Autism. But I wish, though. Edit : I meant for the ''natural'' performers part. Not the hypocrite part. :S
Coincidentally, I came across this quote today from Michael Brooks that goes, "Be Ruthless With Systems, and Kind To Individuals"
Every person is flawed and doesn't always live up to their ideals all of the time. Most people are just trying to get by or do the best they can, so I can't fault them for some degree of "hypocrisy". You do what you can and you try to put good out into the world.
These are good discussions to have and I really appreciate this video.
A great man who was taken from us too soon
A brilliant quote from a brilliant man
Wow I love that. A quote to live by!
He just quoted Aurelius and changed "yourself" to "systems" so it would fit his own political views. Relax, its not that impressive.
Besides, systems are made up of and maintained by people, so it doesn't even make sense. Though it is excellent advice on how to not get banned on social media, because you can trash a government all day long, but if you aim directly at a member of government doing something wrong, then you're "targeting" them. So I'll grant him that much, its less an ethical stance to hold and more an effective PR protective shield.
@@YevOnegin I can't find the Aurelius quote you're referring to. I just thought it was a neat quote ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There are essentially two kinds of hypocrites: The kind you are talking about - people who are committed to a morally or ethically admirable goal who don't always act consistently with that goal. But then there is the other kind. The kind that repeatedly claims to have a positive moral agenda but displays repeatedly through their actions that their agenda is completely other.
The latter kind - like for example the US government financing coups and dictators reliably despite their claims to be pro democracy - needs to be called out. People can wrap themselves in the _myth_ of ethical goals to feel good about themselves while actually consistently working to undermine them.
Yes !
Climate change can't be solved by individuals, even when they're very privileged (tho privileged people advocating for meaningful reform would help). In fact, the very people who had the biggest hand in causing climate change want us to believe that it's our responsibility as individuals to fix it.
We're not gonna get anywhere with a handful of people who are doing it perfectly. We need masses of people doing it imperfectly. Maybe they're hypocrites or maybe they didn't have a better option (I'm from Eastern Europe, trust me, there aren't many opportunities of doing the right thing here, at least not without becoming so stressed that you buckle under the pressure; and what use would that have?).
indeed! that's why we need to speak up, to get people's attentions, to face that huge problem as a group
Actually, we as individuals have a power to change things. Take for example the animal agriculture, it won't exist if there wasn't a demand for it. People cannot wait for this industry to become sustainable because it simply isn't possible, it is destroying the Planet and people vote for this with their money, they want this. Yes, we cannot change everything as individuals, but there certainly are a few things we can do if we really care.
While I do not entirely disagree with what you are saying, this video mentioned Greece as one of its examples (my knowledge is lacking regarding Turkey and other areas mentioned, hence my focus on Greece); and the vast majority of fires in Greece were caused by arson, not climate change. Thus, while climate change is very real and didn't make the situation any easier, it should be known that lots of these fires weren't caused by it. (There is also much speculation about Greek government's involvement in the arsons and a lot of critique regarding the way they handled it. If the word spreads regarding this, and there was pressure from outside Greece, it could possibly have a meaningful impact. But of course, this is easier said than done.)
(Also, I am aware that this isn't the video's main point, but I felt like I should mention it).
@@sentientbean9853 I agree with what you say and that's why I try to eat less and less meat and I would like to become a vegetarian in the future.
I just wanted to add that even becoming a vegetarian is a bit of a privilege itself. In some countries fresh products are extremely expensive, vegetables are more expensive than processed meat and people would be able to afford processed food instead of fruits and vegetables. So we can not ask to those people to stop eating meat.
That's why we say that the system needs also to be changed. Fast food is cheaper and fast fashion is also cheaper, while rich or privileged can afford buying responsable made stuff, the poor have to buy what they can and now even feeling guilty for it.
@@mlsb9591 Interesting, however I have to disagree with you on this. Yes, vegan food is more expensive if you go to a restaurant or fast food, however if you go to the groceries the cheapest food you can find will always be vegan: beans, rice, pasta, lentils, legumes, fruits, grains. Look at Africa and India, people there consume the lowest amount of meat because they can't afford to eat meat. Poor people are definitely NOT the problem, they do not consume as much meat as the privileged ones.
Anyways, no one should be forced to do anything, but I believe it's our duty to raise awareness and to stop finding excuses if we do care. It's the smallest thing we can do that has such a big impact.
Edit: Another thing worth mentioning is that we grow more than enough food to end world hunger, but we feed the 70 billion farmed animals with that food. A cow eats around 60-70kg of food and drinks 50l of water every day. How many people can we help with this amount of food and water?
It is to be noted that CZcams is also a platform by Google -- which invests in fossil fuels. Our problems are too big now, big enough that we cannot completely abandon them without a collective effort. It's a battle too big for one person now. This does not make us hypocrites, this makes us helpless. We are helpless.
So on point!
We were cornered......
Great point.
you're not wrong. and yet, i think you are not entirely correct, either. Over the next 20-40 years, in the west at least, great many people are going to die of old age, and new ideas will begin to percolate. Change does happen - it is just rarely in the form that we desire. Can we perceive ourselves as part of a larger superorganism that is just beginnging to grow up?
I would add "and yet, we have no choice but do our best. It is our responsibility. And collective responsibility will end up in change."
Sorry, I have to remain optimistic.
The problem with focusing on people's lifestyle as well is that individual actions aren't going to solve climate change. You can harangue someone because they got on a plane, but until governments step in and force airlines to close in favour of greater investment in high-speed rail for shorter distance travel, and investment in researching green aeroplane technology for longer distance travel, we won't even have begun to tackle the real issue.
Agreed. The majority of people really aren’t gonna change their individual actions unless there is a real, visible threat right in front of them (like i dunno. Look at covid.) to do this fast we can’t rely on individual action. We have to make these actions safer to do (green plane energy etc). Companies just don’t want to change their actions because theres short term loss involved, so they blame it on the people. The fastest way to solve climate change is companies changing their actions.
@@blardyhell3095 Green planes absolutely! I really dislike as well this rhetoric you hear sometimes that we need to reduce quality of life in order to live sustainably. Like, sorry but most people can't face any further reduction in their quality of life?? What we need is precisely more investment and advancement as you say.
"hypocrites who ultimately refused to abandon the ideals they betray", holy shit this is such a good quote and such an insightful way to approach this question, I really love this
As an environmental major, in college, there seemed to be some low-key competition between us to see who was being more sustainable in their day to day lives, when the truth is, at the end of day, we're all hypocrites in some facet of our lives (like you said). Striving for perfection in an imperfect world will get us nowhere but deception.
Great stuff! Reminds me of what your countryman La Rochefoucauld once said: “hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.” By this he meant that the hypocrite at least admits there are values and standards, even though they cannot/will not live up to them. Cynicism, on the other hand, means discarding every standard as false, and thus any chance at critiquing and improving is lost. For the hypocrite there is always a chance for redemption
It wasn't until I was well into my thirties that I realized that hypocrisy was a useless concept. No-one is perfect, in morals, abiilities, or knowledge. The real problem with hypocrisy is that it arises from a desire to bully some "other" into actions that the self if unwilling to do. It is force, and even if it is not applied with a gun or a sword, using shame and other forms of social isolation are just as damaging to the community in the long run.
As I have gotten older, I have found it most useful to abandon the world of good/evil, black/white, right/wrong, and all of those dichotomous categories we apply to human behavior, because humans define them contextually. What is good for the tiger is bad for the deer; but also what is good for the deer may well be bad for the herd. Even our own bodies are a delicate balance of creation and destruction of cells and tissues - how can one hope to decide "good" or "bad" in such a murky universe?
This is a deep and thorny problem in the philosophy of moral reasoning. And when most of us murder monkeys try to practice moral reasoning, what we really end up doing is rationalizing our own prejudices in favor of actions that are within our self-conception of our abilities. I know htat I do this, even though I am aware of the problem and try to avoid it. Which brings us nicely back to my original point: hypocrisy is a useless concept. Everyone is pretty much just doing the best they can with what they've got. I feel it is my job to help provide people with the tools to do better (where better is according to my understanding, of course :) ), not to threaten violence to those who will not obey my opinions.
Well put.
It's good to recognize your own hypocrisy, and accept that nobody is perfect but at the same time this can also become an excuse to not change anything about yourself; 'I know I'm a hypocrite, but aren't we all?'. Acknowlediging your own hypocrisy, or being called out on it, can also be a drive to make changes to your behavior.
Being from Greece thank you so much for this video and for raising awareness. 🙏🏻❤
Thank you for this video. It makes me think of The Good Place thesis...it's impossible to go through life without making mistakes or hurting people but when we have people around us that give us love and acceptance we become better.
"hypercorrect yourself to the point that you're not saying anything anymore..." I've been dwelling on hypocrisy and as you put is paralyzed by it for so long now. Loved this breakdown of the topic.
been a LONG time since i've been like thinking about this, now it's like someone's finally saying it! Amazing video!
Thank you 😊
@@AliceCappelle :D
I mean there are other youtubers that have talked about this, maybe you didnt know
@@IsabelRodriguez-jt8tg Yeah, probably. But hey, she's the one I do watch and I guess that's why
You might like my channel too then
Demanding moral perfection of oneself or others is letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. And for kittens' sake - if leftism means anything, it means a hope that we can improve. That already assumes that we're NOT paragons but that we don't NEED to be to get the work done.
Honestly, working in the airline industry while caring about the global warming crisis, this video was such a relief for me.
It's so easy to feel guilty about the work I have to do to survive, while the ones that should feel guilty don't do anything.
It is actually unbearable to communicate with people who always check whether you're descent and good enough or not. I had a boyfriend with whom we shared lefty views (now i rely more on a liberal way for my country, enough with the Soviet past), and he always nagged me by saying that i wave too many clothes, that i eat meat, listen to the wrong music (with lyrics without any social message), attend public entertaining events just just for fun, etc. He always imposed a sence of guilt on me, and it damaged my psyche for more than a year. And it didn't help me to become better at all, because moralizing is not a cure. We should support people in their good intentions, if they really try to make the world better, and be fair with ourselves.
Interesting topic, I often feel like I can't do anything because it's not perfectly moral. But then I realised it's about small steps, I may not feel like I'm doing enough, but small steps
Why obsess over it at all and inevitably spend more time miserable than happy, in a world where it's going to permanently end for every one of us before long anyway? That's tantamount to pointlessly and intentionally maximizing your own suffering and unhappiness right up until the day you die. The Epicurean mentality seems healthy and more worthwhile.
Thank you soooo much for this video! I am usually a silent viewer on your channel. But this video just helped me to figure out some thoughts I was wrapping my mind around the last weeks (or maybe month) ~ so I just wanted to let you know how much I needed this video!
I had a friend whose company and critical thinking I actually enjoyed. But when I started to speak about topics like climate crisis on social media, he started to make me feel like a hypocrite. And I noticed how every time I wrote or said something about these topics, I started to think about what he would criticize and re-wrote it or added some more explanation or the like. I had him constantly in mind even though we stopped talking and grew distance. „The cure“ part of this video helped me to understand, how I can deal with this twisted situation without letting him dominate my thoughts and words. I‘ll try to keep this in mind!
I think this video goes hand in hand with the latest video from Contrapoints. In it, Natalie argues that social conventions and mindsets like morality or justice underlie deeper and suppressed emotions like envy or hate. I believe that the supposedly right behavior in the wrong system is simply very difficult or even impossible to achieve. So the "right" attitude should be seen more as an ideal to strive for. We should learn to endure these ambivalences and nonetheless maintain our ideal. For example, if influencers WANT to earn money with their work, they inevitably have to work with sponsors. Of course, that doesn't mean that you have to sign any advertising contracts whatsoever. So choosing Surfshark instead of Google might feel like the better/ more ideal option.
Really appreciate this video. Wonderful. Really is something that needs to be understood. We are all hypocrites. Whilst people understandably fear acceptance of ours and others hypocrisies can excuse individuals from responsibility to their ideals, it creates such a toxic and often 'cult' - like environment to expect people to always be uniform expressions of their ideologies to absolute perfection. It takes fair less strength to uphold your values, the more privilege you are blessed to have.
Even in the process of something as broad as living and growing, inevitably changing situations arise in which we do not always act out to our highest ideals. The truth also is often we as people are complex and unfinished.
We gain empathy for the people who settle for less when our privileges start to slip and re realise a lot of our moral high ground was that we were born on the high mound of privilege. It is easy to look down on others and criticise when we are the wo/man on the hill.
We are all a sea of pulling and pushing tides whose preferred personalities often struggle to manifest.
Even to ourselves, if in our inner society of personalities we do not have compassion for the flaws of ourselves (and others), then we descend into holy than thou, doctorial rulership in which in the name of morality we persecute those who are different than us.
Tyranny is the forceful removal of novelty to an ideal. We must ask in our own lives, do we rule ourselves with compassion or do we rule ourselves with tyranny?
The Irony in living being that in seeking perfection we only find more flaws and by accepting imperfection, we experience a sense of perfection IN imperfection. Acceptance of the existence of a situation does not have to disempower us to change life for the better.
We must ask only of ourselves and others that we do the best to our ability.
That is always enough.
the problem with influencers is not their hypocrisy but their insincerity.
They use these issues to get more likes as it makes them look good and make more money. I sound cynical, but thats the game. Martin Luther King didn't fight for civil rights for likes, money or sanctimony
True, it has also become part of our obsession with external validation, feeling like your a hero, etc
@@AliceCappelle I could be ill informed, but Greta Thunberg and Leonardo DiCaprio are examples of sincerity (I could be wrong with the latter example, could just be another celebrity trying to look good).
Religious and philosophical teachings tell us to seek validation from within, to be happy with ourselves as we are, right now. I can only see late stage capitalism as the main reason for this rapacious chasing of numbers (more sales, more money, more likes, more clout), even though this path is suicide for the human race as a whole.
Thank you so much for talking about the wildfires in Greece as a Greek I'm truly touched
This is a wonderful video and I agree with the message. I thought more about it, and it led me to this question: If we are all a little bit hypocrite, how can we avoid, or at least mitigate, performative activism? Per the thesis of the video, it is impossible to completely avoid doing it, of course, but I think simply trying to come up with a solution that satisfies us, we run the risk of doing an act that is not helpful to the cause we are supporting, or even downright detrimental. I think part of the solution to reconcile this two ideas is to listen to what activist on the ground and those who are harmed by the action we are protesting require. However, this is only a partial solution, since the need of those people will be varied and multi-faceted, and we might risk focusing too much on the short term over the long one. Again, thank you for your video!
thank you for this video!! i was really close to the turkish fires and its been so frustrating to see how our government handled all of the situation... seeing your video just makes me feel in ease to know the fact our voices are heard 💙
Yay new video!!! 😀😀😀 I often feels like a hypocrite, but for me, when i experience a severe dissonance in my head, i just think about what can i do now. I often feels hopeless about the world and my country situation.... It's easy to criticize this and that. I think it's kinda liberating to realize one's own hypocrisy and know that you have limitation. But it's important to keep trying, to understand, to help others, if we can't attain perfection... At least we can try to strive for it. Good video as always! The world and life are just complex, hard to understand and confusing at best. I mean for me.... It's like that...
I think that human nature is made from moral goodness but it's driven by anything except that, hence the remorses, the insecurities, the feeling of losing yourself in this game of "I give you what you want (an example of fairness and understanding) to receive what I want(acceptace which means influence which means power)" And It's how things should be in this life, because we are here to learn, observe, interact with and not to rule the world. We don't own the world, because we are still struggling to own ourselves, to define our destination and willing. It's not a shame to admit we are lost. The fact that you believe in humans after all those events is so hopeful :) Dankeschön!
Great video! I love some of the quotes on hypocrisy that you've included, especially the one about refusing to betray ideals. I personally really believe in that and try to practice it as much as possible. I've often thought on the topic of hypocrisy and it's great to see someone break things down so clearly.
7:33 - about this point on denouncing hypocrisy publicly and it having the power to motivate people into being more virtuous. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it doesn't work if done properly, but I believe that if done improperly the virtuosity it inspires doesn't last very long. I feel like today's "cancel culture" is a prime example of the wrong way to convince someone to let go of their hypocrisy. Responses to actions where the hypocrite is excessively bashed, and not allowed the chance to have a moment to evaluate the reactions they are getting and come to the conclusion of why exactly what they did is wrong, in my opinion, does not always motivate the person to change their behaviour for the right reason. Rather, sometimes fear of public backlash more often motivates people to maintain the facade that they are morally upstanding while perhaps not being so in private - as opposed to reflecting on their behaviour, understanding why it was harmful and making the necessary changes. In other words, fear might motivate someone to maintain their hypocrisy. They might appear to change in the short term, while continuing their negative actions in the long term once everyone has forgotten what they were angry about - which happens quickly with things like cancel culture when mass public outrage is sparked.
My main question at the end of all this is, can we really call it a 'good change' and being 'morally upstanding', if someone makes a change to their behaviour out of fear of repercussion rather than out of a genuine desire to correct their mistakes and do the right thing from here on out? I personally don't think so, which is why I dislike seeing people motivate others through fear. I do think there can be a way to call out bad behaviour publicly in a way that encourages actual change, we just need to find a better way to do it.
Great video! I believe also, for some individuals for fear of being labeled as a hypocrite they do not commit or half commit to a cause, is better to avoid the shame of “not being perfect” than trying to be doing something right, wether for the planet or any other cause.
Speaking of tourism it seems like everyone wants to upload images of themselves on social media for no purpose.
Just off topic
😂😂
No different than the people who want to travel just to show the stamps on their passport, but can't tell you anything about what they've learned of relative importance or how much of a different language they happened to pick up.
But I don't spend that much time wagging my finger at them. We can't fix our mouths to talk down to people who've never left their country (or even their singular state, because people like that do exist here) while judging them for contributing to air traffic pollution.
@@normandy2501 social media are not stamps but viral marketing tools. Mining people's social lives to sell them stuff they don't want and end up buying no justification for it
@@gvi341984 "...for no purpose."
When I say stamps, that means what people did before social media. It was a way of showing you went places but for no real reason, just like an Instagram photo. Information mining had nothing to do with that, and I didn't get that from your OC so I didn't talk about that. That's just an added element I guess, even though television ads were still a thing.
@@normandy2501 Stamp collecting had authenticity before social media because it was kept privately. Each uploaded image on social media is being monetized and studied for data mining 3rd parties to sell more hamburgers.
Tourism now is a monetized living state of being for People. They are now products when traveling to France or Italy
Maybe one of the main reasons things are not changing is because of how good we are protesting and telling others how to go on life and we're not capable to follow that road ourselves?
Just few hours ago I was watching a lot of "curb your" memes and I thought 'At this point we all are just a hypocrites'.
Now yt recommended me this video with exact same title, coincidence!!
Some of what is described here is just being human : we all have our contradictions, the moment you're in denial or worse lie about those contradictions is when you become a hypocrite. So no we're not all hypocrites, we're all human and some of us are shittier than others...
Its just a massive clump of colors&shades at this point, that the world just seems... Black again? Like, on an average day i get to see side by side pictures of Friends having wholesome fun and immeditaly scroll to find a man screaming his lungs out because a gas explosion destroyed his only home. And its honestly so draining, like i feel constantly privileged AND powerless.
Plus, with all the covid madness, is like all i can do now is watch and wish everyone i know good luck on their lives. Its almost like saying goodbye in the time i figure out how to escape this goddamn pitch black indifference.
I always felt like this in someway and people around me for not doing what they say. This is my first video of you. It was in my recommendation and I just it for the first time. I feel the way you articulated around this topic with references if quite refreshing. In one way or another everyone is hypocrites. However, it does not mean one does not use her or his platform in order to make life better. The whole idea of purity would be good to put it here, I feel you really shed a light in this topic with good cortical thinking. I really enjoy it. Thank you for your uplifting video essay.
I'm really grateful for stumbling into your channel. Your arguments always make me challenge my own biases or expand on discussions that I already have with myself
I dont think the issue lies with the people who travel once or twice a year by plane, but by the elite who uses it weekly, if not daily for small trips. IF you can choose another type of transport do. Its ok to travel by plane if its a 5 hour flights, rethink if its under 2 hours, take the train or car instead. Little changes help, but its really the ones who overuse fliying that should be more critizied, not normal working class people who goes on vacation once or even twice a year. A commercial plane is better for the enviorment while a private one is the defintion of being wasteful and contributing to the death of humankind and our planet, with all that lives here.
Also we're all selfis beings, we always think we should be the execption to the rules, its okay if i do it, but others cant.
This discussion is so necessary right now. I’m an immigrant (Africa to Europe) and I’ve been away from my family for nearly seven years. I always challenge myself to grow in my knowledge of the climate crisis, but in my heart, I’m still a kid who just wants to be held by her mum. I’ve been judging myself so hard for being a climate ‘activist’ yet having these wants. Thanks for providing nuance and healing.
The more I live, get to know people better and get to know myself, I realise that I am a hypocrite as well as everyone, to an extent
Its always so crazy to me when I could be having the worst most tragic day when my life feels like its falling apart but its just a regular Tuesday for someone else and life goes on.
It's a big world out there.
Thank you for this video. I highly agree and would like to add that under this encounter with hypocrisy there may be a struggle with guilt and or helplessness which may trigger one’s mental health especially for those already suffering. It’s a struggle for many to find the spoons or energy to become activists outwardly. Pointing out that even a single conversation about change is influential, helps considerably. We all may want to be perfect activists and sometimes it feels nothing short of that is enough. But in reality, every word is something. If we reach a friend or family member then we still have influence towards change.
Wow, someone finally brought this sensitive but significant topic up. We're definitely never perfect but we try our mighty best to strive our lives for the better.
Love this! I call it the Care-Less lifestyle. It's still about Caring, but less about you. Post whatever you want, but don't be careless about the real. Care Less in order to avoid being careless.
I was so close to scrolling past this because the title made me feel like I was going to be told off 😂 but I’m sooo glad I did watch. You’re so clever and it was such an important idea xxx
I love this video! I often find that my search for justice and my childhood trauma intersect. I'm still trying to be the perfect kid that my parents wanted, but now, I want to be the perfect person, the perfect activist, and I often project that onto public figures. I started feeling really bad late last year cause I started to take in the idea that no, people can't be perfect, I can't be perfect (I know this sounds silly, but if anyone with trauma like mine is reading this I'm sure they'd understand, you just live your life by illogical thoughts that helped you survive another difficult moment in your life). This came to my attention when I was trying to cancel everyone in my head and stop supporting them for let's say, not so bad behaviour (like partnering with google). Not that we shouldn't hold people accountable as I think we've been doing, but maybe too much of that would let me in a state of general disillusion and bitterness. Because I really now believe what you said, that if we held people to those ideals perfectly there wouldn't be any, it's just not possible.
I hope my message made some sense lol, communicating in English is harder every day for me haha (not my native language), but anywat, I really love your content so much, you really make me think out of my confort zone, approach things with more balance and with a efficiency mindset rather than a perfectionist mindset (when we're talking about social movements), I learn a lot and get really inspired to keep moving, maybe in small ways as I am only one person, but moving. Thank you so much for your work!! :)))
It's been a year and a half since I couldn't visit my home country nor go on a vacation. Shortly after I came to my home country, Turkey, wildfires and refugee crisis in Afghanistan started. I pondered over sharing my moments with my dear friends and family on social media. Then I decided to share them because social media is not the real world. We should not see social media from one perspective only. I am not lying about my concerns regarding our planet when I share them along with my happy moments. People are smart enough to understand which of my social media posts are important and should be read and acted upon.
I realised that if I called out people on Social Media for vacationing, would that be ‘moral policing’? I get judged for not leaving my house and going somewhere, when people from marginalised communities have no choice but to leave their homes.
Finally someone vocalised how I've been feeling for a while. This really puts it in perspective. Thanks
Wow~ Just discovered ur channel today and almost watched all the videos!! Love how ur activism is not about arguing against the other side of the problem but more about finding the complexity in these problems and making a reasonable solution/conclusion about it
Thank you so much 🥰
To add to your point about sometimes having to book a yearly flight or buy that dress from Zara - when I'm emailing companies demanding better I sometimes use my former purchases as leverage, for example "I stopped purchasing from you since learning about the impact of your carbon emissions..." or "As an annual traveller with your airline I am disappointed and concerned that you do not take more steps to protect our forests from deforestation". If you have to make these purchases even if you dont feel good about them, then it's okay to use some of the energy you have to demand better as a customer. It's a shame as investors should really be doing this, but I'd like to see us normalise this type of advocating as well. I've divested my purchases where possible but I'd like to see it normalised for people who are technically stakeholders, still able to demand better, even if they cant afford more ethical options.
Because people want to have fun and make money, but they don't want to look superficial, alienated, or completely disconnected from reality. So they are always posting some fundraising campaign or a horrible situation somewhere if it will sound cool or will improve their image with their followers. But it is seldom because they are really worried about it.
Guuuuurl this!!!! Not only is traveling contributing to climate change it has created a global gentrification. However, as it comes to flying and other problematic human activities we don't have realistic options. But as consumers we are only one part of the problematic story. The infrastructure is also another player. The truth is, we are at a point where we should do what we think is right and essential. That's going to be different for everyone.
Thanks for this Alice, appreciate all that you do.
I've been guilty of judging people too harshly for their hypocrisy in the past.
Hate the hypocrisy, not the hypocrite?
Love, from India
How I interpret this message: we are all imperfect humans, and imperfection is inherent to being a human, so we should embrace our imperfections. So let's not be too hard on ourselves and others and keep trying to do our best.
Then, about climate change, the thing that makes activists #1 hypocrites: of course every individual has some responsability for climate change, but in our neo-liberal climate, governments and their big company allies really like to hold the individual accountable with "every bit matters, try to take shower for 1 minute less each day". But the thing is that governments need to take more action in terms of more severe regulation and taxes on the aviation, tourism, supply chain, meat - you name it - industry to really push companies to become more energie neutral and to let the polluter pay. If we keep buying into the neoliberal bullshit that it is mainly the individual's responsability, nothing will really change except for the climate.
The crux of the matter is we are forced into hypocrisy. The way our world is structured makes it impossible to not trangress against our ideals and other people simply by living our everyday life. And that is something we can only change collectively. And change it we must.
In the meantime, all we can do is limit the damage as much as we can on an individual level. You might have bought a fast-fashion dress but you didn't use any plastic bags. You bought coffee in a plastic cup but refused a straw. You ate non-fairtrade chocolate but you didn't eat meat. Little things like that.
Yeah, I try to but local (artisans) in other countries/ give good tips, etc. I hope to support local economies in that way.
Love your channel! I've been watching White Lotus on HBO (wealthy families on vacation in Hawaii) and I think that show pairs well with your commentary.
These videos are hontesly just so informative while thought provoking.
Also Alice is so beautiful... 😭😭😭
I agree as we are all hypocrite, the whole system is flaw, and as you say we are part of it, we are like slave and the chains are invisible and your master is all around, you could run but how long you could go, and those who found themselves out of the system we call the crazies, uncivilized or tramps. Love your content !
It maybe is my favourite video on your channel. So insightful! I love that you took Machiavel as your main source, because we can all read his book and benefit from it.
For sure, everyone's a hypocrite! Those I look up to are just slightly less so.
I was so excited to click this video and…it was the first video of yours where I felt let down. Not because you didn’t do a nice job covering the subject but because there’s no solution to my hypocrisy. There aren’t even clearer universal solutions. Everyone really is a hypocrite.
I often struggle with what it means to live an ethical life. What does it mean to be a good person? Is there always a chain reaction for nearly anything in life that comes down to someone or something else being harmed?
Part of me thinks the trite answer has to be good enough. “Just do your best.” Another part me is nagged by my old Christian gold standard of morality that basically says live like a pauper and sacrifice everything pleasurable in life, ONLY THEN you will be truly good.
Gah!!!!
Nice one! Simple concept, but one we should be mindful of. Being flawed, or living in an unjust system, is no reason for inertia.
lol my biggest hypocrisy is abhoring the pharmaceutical industry while remaining entirely compliant w my prescriptions! what a world
Hi from Greece! Thank you for raising this issue!
I don't think it's too much to ask to not fly for leisure anymore. Zero flying isn't realistic for everyone, especially if your family lives far away, but why do we feel entitled to international vacations? There are places in our own countries that are interesting and fun to visit.
Climate action has to come from the top. The over focus on individual actions is a trap. Making green, public, affordable options to travel might be possible, but no individual can make that happen on their own. In England, making the railway public again would probably do a lot of good. Transforming it to make it run on renewable and making it comfortable and affordable would help generations of English people, but the reason it's not happening isn't because Bobby travels by car. It's because his government is in bed with the fossil fuels industry. We have to focus on fighting them, and not on pointing the finger at Bobby.
It's impossible to be perfect in an imperfect world. Life itself has many ironies and flaws, just like us, humans.
I see it differently. Individuals and groups have limited, and different, degrees of power and possibility to act in a way to produce change. We cannot pretend we don't live in a system that forces us to, well, live in it. Hypocrisy doesn't lie when you care about the environment but need to take a plane because there's no other option (or affordable one, and yes that includes vacation, lack of other viable flying means is not your fault). It lies when you say you care but do not do what is within your limited power. Of course each person will see what they can do differently. So no need to hate on hypocrites but yes we can call some people out on blatant hypocrisy
Good analysis of a complex and highly pertinent question.
Alice, it's a challenging read but short (150 pages) - Straw Dogs by John Gray. It gets into some of the core conflicts of the human condition pretty well, and he drills down on some of the ways in which Darwinian evolution and Machiavelli's understanding of the world dovetail.
Thank you for the recommendation 😊
I love the content and aesthetics of this channel. Thank you 👏🏽
Its strange how we use the word hypocrite to denounce people as false, when in actuality its just revealing them as human.
As soon as we disagree with someone we look for a way to denounce their character, the word hypocrite gives us an easy shortcut.
When I was in Middle School this was a huge part of why I switched from catholic to raging atheist, when I realized that God tells you to love your neighbors as yourself, but yet also tells you to worship him every week. As God's neighbor, I felt I deserved a little more respect🤣
LMAO 😂😂
The ending was fire !
It’s hard to do the right thing. It requires the ability to process actual events, morals involved and putting it all in perspective. I guess a start is to consider what is universally considered right and wrong: murder, torture, imprisonment of the defenseless. If you don’t want to be a vegetarian then worrying about social justice is like running before you can walk.
Essential words, as always, Alice! 💞
September 24, 2021 is a global climate strike! Let's all join
I am very torn around this issue as well. Specifically recently there was a certain influencer that had asked for donations for their troubled country of origin and virtually immediately after that they continued to make content showing off their over the top luxuries and hauls, certainly more that average viewers of theirs could afford. One of the designer items they own could probably provide food for months or even years for a family in said country and us viewers probably on average cannot afford it either... strange conflicted feeling that resulted in me unfollowing them to gain some perspective.
the 'rich people problems'
it's a very sarcastic question, being middle class in brazil, most of the points pointed out in this video are considered as rich people's problems here. for example: malware on cell phones on a trip in GERMANY.
It's all about perspective and scale, you have to take into account that I live next to Germany
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I don't really know of any hypocrites. I haven't flown anywhere in 7 years, and my friends don't really either. I think only one of my friends has flown on one holiday in the time I have known them. Sophie occassionally flies when she has a tour more far away, but inside Europe she's touring with her van. The rest of my friends don't even have driving lisences, and neither do I.
This makes me sad because I would LOVE to travel. I want to get to know people’s cultures and learn. When you don’t, which is the problem with America, we are ignorant to people’s cultures.
I completely agree and I would add that this is why government have to make laws to push change. Individual behavior change will never be enough for climate change i.e.
I can't miss any of your videos anymore 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 important topics!!
Absolutely… we are hypocrites in many different ways. I would mention diet and food consumption as well as religions. Thanks for the though provoking video. 👍
While I do not think we should focus on the hypocrisy of others to dismantle their argument (as we forget their humanity in the process), feeling bad about your own hypocrisy is to me a healthy mechanism. It is this very mechanism that leads to results when we hear about something we agree with but are not doing...
I think the key resides in the ability to forgive yourself and others when you don't abide to the standard you wish to follow. All the while genuinely wish you had done things differently so that you can find a way to actually make a change!
My ecological footprint is and was always impeccable (small flat, no car, rare flights). But it’s only true for a first world person. As a teacher I tell my students to go out and see the world. I think, for us humans, traveling is important for understanding oneself and others. This also includes just being a tourist. There a hundreds of millions dependent on tourism and it’s often not the rich developed countries. Getting rid of fossil fuels means a complete upheaval of what we’re used to in the first world, because everything in life will get expensive. It will mean that the rich will fly and you will be happy if there’s space in the bus. Some will still enjoy the beaches but others will stay at home and hope they can pay for adequate heating.
there's this tennis player, Quentin Halys, and every single time, Alice does her intro, I think she's saying Bonjour a tous, my name is HALYS, lmao
yeah, we are all hypocrites to some degree. Sometimes we can't control it. That is why we need forgiveness and to try our best to less hypocritical. Great video!
What can we do when air plane tickets are cheaper than train? If they build fast trains across Europe that connects all countries and big cities I’d give up plains. I do not have enough holiday days to spend on the travel that would be required if it had not been for a plane (I do not live in my home country, so I travel to see family. On an individual level, I work from home, don’t have a car and move around the city on a bike, but individual actions can take us only so far in a capitalistic society!
Trains are so expensive honestly. I've seen single tickets to Manchester for £300 when you can get a single ticket to paris from the UK for less than £100. Crazy!
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
We can only do our best. Eating less meat and driving less are great but on an individual level this makes almost no difference. And no matter how hard you try, there is exploitation happening because of the system we live in, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't try.
The most effective way to combat climate change is to build the political will. 100 companies are responsible for 71% of emissions.
I think it's important to keep this in mind when calling out others for their lifestyle when the focus should be on the system that enables this behaviour.
Great video!
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The current organisation of the economy will not allow for any meaningful environmental action unfortunately.
I agree that it's absolutely necessary to separate the action from the individual, and we must come to terms with the highly imperfect nature of humanity. In the same vein as celebrities' seemingly hypocritical efforts at activism, we should recognise that some of the most essential growth can come from morally questionable places.
Celebrities with their millions of fans leverage their influence to motivate changes in social mindset. Google is a company with shares in fossil fuels, and yet the sheer magnitude of today's climate awareness, activism and research could not possibly have been achieved without the information technology that Google have developed, which at the moment requires large amounts of fossil fuels to sustain. It should also be noted that Google has consecutively matched their electricity use with purchases of renewable energy for four years.
Although it is important to urge and fight for change to motivate virtuous behaviour, I feel it is also worth celebrating the small incremental actions that are being taken, even if they may come from potentially condemnable origins.
I have a feeling that the emissions problem is more about bad habits than bad instances. Someone could plant trees everyday of their life but take one flight and be considered a hypocrite. Either that means the word loses its intensity or it’s just not suitable to describe the situation
Your video titles hit every time 💀✨
8:58 this is a good comment to the West's hypocrisy with Julian Assange