Hyperreality - Philosophy of "The Bachelor"
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- čas přidán 27. 05. 2019
- An analysis of Reality TV via application of Jean Baudrillard's concept of hyperreality, which you can find in Simulacra and Simulation (amzn.to/2XpvF15).
If you like the work there's more at spoti.fi/3f0OIXD and / plasticpills - Zábava
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Dude your work is incredible, I really hope you blow up soon because you really deserve it. Thanks for introducing me further into these topics, videos like this are a much needed step into comprehending the theory behind the cultural critique that I love to partake in
Word to Sushi
The fact that right next to this video is a link to BUY season 23 of THE BACHELOR is a PERFECT example of how the spectacle is the hegemony of the internet.
Although I've read simulacra and simulation and seen other videos about this, I still need to rewatch it many more times to fully grasp it. Love your work man, keep it up!
The pain in his face after the booty pic tutorial🤣🤣🤣. Seriously though these are some of the best theory videos out there.
Clear and easy to understand explanations of concepts by someone who really does understand them. Thank you.
Excellent video. So much better than most of the big philosophy channels. Will definitely be using your examples here to help explain Baudrillard in the future.
I really like your work! it really helps me to understand those dense texts better when you apply them to real life examples.
That's definitely the hope my friend! I started on this book because it's one of my favourites
I’d love to hear your stand on how this has expanded into the covid 2020 reality
Thank you for being there, your channel is an oasis.
dude, this was an amazing video. Only heard of baudrillard before on Cuck Philosophy channel (i then tried reading simulacra and simulation but failed). Really liked to find your channel (for some reason i scrolled waaaay down on youtube front page)!
Great work, greetings from brasil!
Insightful analysis. Thanks for the good work!
I love the subtle humor! Keep it up
Awesome video homie, keep up the great work!
Just found this channel a few weeks ago and finally strapping in to go through every upload chronologically. You do great work, stranger. Thank you for your efforts.
Congratulations this one is a superb analysis 👌 More like this please!
your videos are insane i binge watched them all. how you do not have more subs and views is beyond me. keep up the amazing work!!! you’re going to blow up soon i know it
But, we can't actually know what is "real" because all of the things we can possibly "know" are discovered by utilizing our sense organs and limited mental faculties, meaning they are merely phenomena...
So if we can only know the imaginal/phenomenal alone then that must be what is real, the reality. Ideas and images are real.
The qualitative, subjective, phenomena are dimensions/properties of consciousness, mindstuff! Time, space, matter, and causality. We are not in it. It's an appearance, what is called Maya (that which is measurable) and the origin of the English word measure is from Sanskrit Ma, a scientifically precise language and its original meaning is indeed compatible with quantum mechanical observer/measurer. "Out there" is an inference because it's indirect sense perception, metaphysical realism today is physicalist, so physicality is deemed real and that's the mainstream world view of western consciousness, materialist, both metaphysical and ethical.
When you dream is it not from a first person perspective, are there not objects and forms, solidity, motion, a virtual representation of space, unknown dream characters and environments? It appears "out there" right, beyond egoic volition?
This video is great! amazing explanation. you broke it down very well
Keep the good content up! subbed and liked!
Baudrillard looks good everywhere!
And his arse is amazing!
Great video. Excellent analysis.
I have never known I would love a video before watching it. Until now.
"If you haven't watched it... don't..."
Thank you for an excellent presentation! Nice to see a hyperreal explanation that didn't talk about a tree.
Thanks for your analysis 👌
Very much enjoying the channel and loved the expression at 9:34.
I want to live in dresden. Dresden was completely leveled in WW2 save for a single church. A part of it is currently being rebuilt in the image of how it was in the 1800's. I own a painting of 1800's dresden, actually its not a painting but a photocopy of a painting that was painted in the 1900's, the similarity between that painting and the current city is striking. The painting and the city are perfect simulacr of Dresden, and I probably love it far more than than i couldve loved the real Dresden
Awesome work! The concept of memes came immediately into my mind. Also Walter Benjamin's work "art in the age of mechanical reproduction" kind of relate to this.
I love your channel 💙
Great work thanks
lol the fact that Colton came out 2 years later lol
Great series.
You got me in process of thinking about using the manufactured consent analysis of the bachelor and romance fiction that glorified the ideal couple over what ones floats their boats of how some real life couples view their relationships. Along with issue of the ideal partner and having an unhealthy search for them.
Underrated comment. And not to mention, them having this set image of what the partner should be like and how their relationship should be like even before they get an opportunity to meet their partner!
You are brilliant 🌷🌷🙏 I thank you for your lovely video 🙏❤️
Good video!
I ate out last night #YOLO. I confused the menu for the meal #Constipation. I ate some chocolate laxatives #EatMyCakeToo. I enjoyed the go #Charmin.
Amazing explanation! I may not be able to put it into words but I am aware of the various simulations that took over the truth, but I still cannot understand how people can break their relation with reality so much that they like such a show.
Any chance you could do a video on the British TV show "love island" would love your take on it. So glad I found this channel 🙌
It would be basically the same as this one.
I would love to hear your take on Camu's 'Absurdism' philosophy. Camu suggests that we embrace the absurd condition of human existence....is that even possible with all the absurd behaviors most of your videos discuss?
Just like how watching CZcams videos is reading theory.
this is awesome
Yo, At times laughing/crying so hard, you might as well become a comedian
PS: Love your work!
Genial primer video. Zizek tells something about how we are urge by the structure to joy and almost obligated. I see this in your video. We are no longer chosing what, how and when to feel pleasure and that means we are not free anymore. Maybe we never were, but now the direction on how yo experience feeling is more strong and at the same time misleading.
Underrated comment
I laughed so much at 9:25 that i couldn't breath anymore
I love this channel!
Anyone here heard of the show “UnREAL”? It’s a 4 season “fictional” show about a producer on a reality game show the same as the bachelor. The struggles of being a producer on these shows. It was written by former producers.
You should do one of these specifically about using hyperreality to escape something like a pandemic.
If only Edward Bernays could see us now!
great video homie,
think about acoustics a bit, its a bit hall-y. Otherwise videos was perfect
True say. This was our first go at it but we are ascending the learning curve.
@@PlasticPills itss great and acoustics is sth you figure out in time
point is keep up the good work
Billdriard first time hearing about. I'd bote ro read him
at 9:30 I died of laughter
would love to hear your take on this hyper-realism and simulation in 2020-2022 with covid and the metaverse..
I think on one hand we do need these frames of reference, even if people are imitating the imitation, which sounds kinda fake indeed, because people function collectivelly in our current societies.
On the other hand I fear when things like a proper simulation like the metaverse is taking traction to an extent we lose our touch with the world and its problems.
I fear we'll all live in Plato's cave one of these days..
damn, saw this title and had to click! I felt so alone before these vids...
Yo no one watches these anymore 😀, glad you're here!
Bit of a generalization here but ALL French theorists look amazing in the shower. You haven't lived until you've seen a soaking-wet Sartre looking over his shoulder at you.
Sartre take a shower? 😂
which one of his eyes is looking at you?
True Love baby!
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Wow. Now I will watch all your videos, and try to read the authors you mention on them. This knowledge pills are already mind-blowing, imagine what they'll be once I read more. I hope you keep uploading. Greetings from Mexico .
On April 14, 2020, CNN news:
(CNN)Colton Underwood told Robin Roberts on "Good Morning America" that he is gay in an interview that aired Wednesday morning.
"This year's been a lot for a lot of people and it's probably made a lot of people look at themselves in the year and figure out who they are," Underwood said. "I've ran from myself for a long time, I've hated myself for a long time. I'm gay. I came to terms with that earlier this year, and the next step in all of this was sort of letting people know. I'm the happiest and healthiest I've ever been in my life. That means the world to me."
Do hyperreality on gaming
I would like to hear more of your views on love. I mean films,books have made us believe it exists. Does it? If not did it ever exist? Is relationship between man and woman is based on sexuality only? What about authors like Paulo Coelho who preach love,soulmate and stuff.
They don't necessarily preach capitalism but rather could be identified with romanticism which is associated more with the left. Please do create some content on this,would love to hear your thoughts.
I personally think it does exist in the terms of respect, admiration, understanding and personaly growth that two people can offer each other. The problem I feel maybe linked with this idea or expectation of what is an ideal relationship, what to expect from a partner, all which is very influenced media. So before you can even learn about what the person can offer you, and what you can offer, you have this pre made expectation - so really you never get to love the person, but this idea of what they should be according to you. More time passes, you realize they arent meeting this expected image, so you flee. Alot of lack of understanding plays a part too, because everyone also feels super entitled with hyper or hypo self image ( the book subtle art of not giving a fuck explains this really well. I'd recomend to give it a read if you want. )
Late take
There is this song lyric by arctic monkeys that says "they made it far too easy to believe that true romance CAN'T be achieved"
And i think it really plays in the whole simulation circle. Because media by making us believe in love made us simultaneously believe it doesn't exist (your comment for example)
In order to sell love they had to rarify it, and when it became rare, to have people still believe in it and find it. Thats why there is a loss of referential and the love signs represents both the presence AND absence of real love.
This song line is just about this transition from belief in true love (which is false) to belief that it doesnt exist (which is also false, since the whole concept is simulation, its not fake its hyper real)
But as an answer, where did media get the idea of love if not from the real world. It exists and is abundant but is not assiciated with the signs they associate it with.
Diamonds as a symbol of commitment are not the result of training minds to want this. There is a deep psychological need for the woman and her family to know that the man is invested. That is the function of the ring.
A sign (diamonds) are a more real showcase of investment in love than the investment in love itself which led the man to buy the diamond in the first place.That is a really great example of the hyperreal.
This is my last comment on mobile because i imagine about people when i write comment .....
No Facebook , no comment on mobile ...... screen can't take place of written paper for Knowledge.....
jb all the way up
I imagine that making this video was a painful one......
Your videos are both interesting and depressing af
House of mirror rizz🎉
Omg the booty clip n aftershock song choice!!!
Tastiest moment of 2020
The face after the how to make your butt look big tutorial 😐
You got an Instagram booty. Me 9:22
lol, love the drop of Zizek's inversion of Marx: "they know this, and they do it anyway"
"I know very well, but still"
When my friends look at The Bachelor: hot people doing funny campy things
When I look at The Bachelor: Postmodern Akira blob
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Could the "UnReal" tv show be considered as a postmodern fiction ?
He's not even straight this aged perfectly (though happy for him)
A couple people commented about him coming out but it really matches zizeks discussion known unknowns and shows like this. true love is sort of like WMDs and while Billy Eichner saw past the facade coltons persona was very powerful due to our expectations of him. Now he is turning his coming out process into another publicity stunt. I've seen his advertising ready body but maybe i actually understand baudrilard better. Hopefully he wont go milo.
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I will get myself diagnosed with Aspergers. How do you cope with reality and its deconstruction? To me it seems like modeling my character as a "philosopher": Is it worth it even if you end up going through dark places willingly, while being confronted to model your basic needs/ yourself as a member of society to bacheloresque NPCdom? Should I keep swallowing my @PlasticPills?
"Although he probably doesnt look as good in the shower", damn dude you made me snarf my milk and cereal
gosh i thumbed to the 666 bwahahah
I just like when the women are SO sure they’re the one and then get dumped. Colton is dreamy. Hey what about Andy Cohen and his Housewives series? My GF can’t seem to turn it off. I can’t seem to remember any of the names or even what city series they’re from. Camilla Paglia thinks it’s brilliant.
I love to watch American reality shows like The Bachelor, Temptation/Love/... Island or The Real Housewives, and then watch how they get adapted to European formats. It's fascinating to compare the heterosexual dynamic in American and European cultures.
The best so far has been The Bachelor. Like shown in this video, there is alot of fantasy involved. The women willingly partake in this fantasy. Everyone considers the format "normal".
Now, where I live, The Bachelor has failed many times to draw an audience. Most people don't even care to watch this kind of fake shows, teenagers only watch Love Island for obvious reasons (thirst trap) and others to see who will cheat first, how many of the women decided to step into the show to make a fool of their asshole partner and break up with them on television, etc. and up until now there hasn't been a Belgian version of Real Housewives because most of these bimbo's start working for television at some point in their life so they're all colleagues instead of frenemy actors (yawn).
There has been one instance where they reversed the roles, ie there has been a female Bachelor. This was equally boring and failed miserably as a format, only running for one season.
This is where it becomes interesting from a hyperreal perspective. They rebooted The Bachelor with an infamous player from Temptation Island, Fabrizio. Fabrizio is a stereotypical example of an Alpha pretending to be Omega, ie the asshole who likes to think of himself as creative, sensitive, thoughtful, etc. In Belgium it's common for these shows to have at least one psychologist that checks with the participants from time to time how they're dealing with the show and the interactions they're having with the other participants. For this season of The Bachelor, they chose a sexuologist who is infamous for fawning over Alphas like Fabrizio, which led to many instances of one-sided jealousy, flirting and motherly (cougarly?) validation between the two when they had interviews.
Back to Fabrizio: As I mentioned earlier, he's the stereotypical playboy we know from the movies. Buff physique, pretending to be cool and sociable, but within he's fragile and deeply insecure when it comes to women challenging his authority. Mix this kind of personality with the format where the female participants are supposed to appeal to his male gaze, in a country where women are often the ones who decide which men they will engage social interaction with, who are very direct when it comes to confronting a man about his intentions with her, who aren't afraid to flirt but aren't afraid either to draw a line in the sand, and you can already tell how fast Fabrizio's ego had been crushed by not just one, but many of the participants.
The first instance was when it became known he had kissed not one, but two girls during separate dates. The first woman obviously attached some significance to this romantic gesture, whilst the second woman only feigned ignorance to keep herself out of this conflict. When the first woman tried to confront Fabrizio about this instant, he simply blamed her for ruining the entire night with her drama.
As a result, the first woman voluntarily left the show. Others would follow after similar episodes of being guilt tripped for breaking the illusion of the show, while others were more than willing to play along simply to maintain their hopes that now others were leaving, their chances to date (and who knows what would follow then) Fabrizio would increase. Of course, showbiz wouldn't be complete with an ironic twist - in this case, Fabrizio wanted to choose the second woman he kissed as his final choice. She was part of the final three, yet dropped out because she had found a partner in real life when they got back from the show. Fabrizio was left with two choices, a woman he had been gaslighting in always loving her from the start and "just playing the game", or his equal - a woman who had also just been playing the game and had been "cheating on him" (that's how he called it in the episode; she had been dating and kissing another guy, so pretty much exactly what he did) when they got back.
He chose the woman he gaslit the whole time, she said yes, and they dated for a while.
Later, it was revealed that Fabrizio had dumped her and was trying to contact the other woman who had been "cheating" on him. He said, "If I had known what my heart was trying to tell me, I would have chosen for her.".
Very cool
Are these videos going to receive Spanish captions, I would love to share it with some friends of mine, love your content