NETFLIX: Empty CLASS Consciousness
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Ep 199 | @SkipIntroYT came through to discuss the media landscape
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2:51 Hamfisted Class metaphors
13:02 Corporations NEVER allow truly REVOLUTIONARY speech
21:40 who owns our data
27:06 Age restricting porn watching
31:25 old man action heroes
34:23 the joys of male enhancement
45:51 freezing/uploading your brain
57:57 is SPACE travel actually worthwhile?
1:02:21 we must discover ALIEN life so we can END it
1:05:19 hotep science
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I kind of get what Eddie was talking about with the ED thing. 😂 Aging is a privilege that not everyone gets, so if you get to experience these physical manifestations of aging, it's a new experience AND proof that you're getting to do stuff that not everyone gets to do.
That is such a healthy outlook on aging!
When it comes to corporate media’s need to co-opt Leftist criticism or anti-capitalist criticism, I’ve noticed that you all are part of a somewhat larger population who can be both entertained by these TV shows and movies and still recognize that they are not going to create revolution in and of themselves. That’s good, because we’re telling one another that we know what real world revolution requires. It’s something that is deeply missing in all of these shows: Optimism. Joy. Hope. Collective action and sustained systemic change. Many of the shows you all mentioned are very bleak and cynical. Or they focus on the individual to make change rather than the whole group surviving and thriving in the revolution.
Real revolution requires social bonds, trust, solidarity, making sure everyone is protected and safe, and that we all get to rejoice in the fruits of winning against oppression.
Absolutely true. I like this take
Naw Eddie, you are DEFINITELY trippin. Though there have always been empires in pretty much every continent, the specific breed of empires in Europe (western europe specifically) were more aggressive in terms of global expansion, primarily because they had so little actual arable land. Most other empires in other continents (Asia, Africa, Americas) had plenty of land to expand into. While folks like the Brits, Dutch, Francs, and Portuguese were either surrounded by water or rocks. So not only did that bias them towards naval exploration, but also towards naval warfare, thus colonization across the globe.
By contrast, empires across Africa, for instance, traded with China and India, but had no need/desire to expand beyond Africa. Its already the biggest continent in the world with most diverse ecosystems. Why would they need to go anywhere else? Thus they never really built the means to colonize the world.
Same thing with most countries in Asia and the Americas.
But, ofc, the Euros weren't the only ones with these unique circumstances. Japan, the 'sea people' of the Mediterranean's (ie Carthage and the Maroons), and the Ottomans in the middle east were similarly very expansive, primarily because their surrounding environments were too barren.
But I'd love for an actual history buff to check me on that lol, I'm just a nerd.
Anyways, if you expand this out to space (which is not all easy to do), there is VERY little reason for any potential space-faring civilization to colonize another, since pretty much every solar system is surrounded with plenty of resources. Plus, the very act of space colonization is just terribly inefficient, difficult, and risky. Far easier to just get better at utilizing all the resources in your local system.
But generally, I think going to space should be a Very high priority for humanity precisely because of the absolute plethora of resources and lack of any life to fuck up (at least in our immediate systems). But I dont think we'll ever get there under capitalism... since space projects are on too long a time horizon than capitalists can bare to wait for. Aint no quarterly, or even decade-ly profits you'll be seeing. Its a multi-generational project that will completely upend any market dynamics one can have as soon you find a comet maid of 'rare' metals and such.
Funny enough, years before Black mirror, was bought by Netflix, they did an episode about how media entities incorporates and monetises “revolutions”
The level of underrated that “The night of” is is unfathomable!
I don't understand why people obsess over going to Mars when the Moon is offers a better environment and scenario for us to design, test, and master the technology needed to survive in space. We should be colonizing the Moon which would allow for EASIER Mars travel and future exploration. We can create a launch site on the Moon which would reduce the cost of fuel and allow for sling shotting around Earth. As an Aerospace Engineer who worked on propulsion systems, tt's actually crazy to me that people choose Mars over the Moon.
Also, these corporations can produce this auto-critical art because most people are just trying to survive day to day. Most of us see this as surface level entertainment and generally we don't take sustained, high-pressure social/political stances.
Violent Night is unironically my favorite Christmas movie
Star Trek is the most aspirational sci fi out there. A post scarcity society.
Sadly more recent shows in that universe have become "neoliberalised"
Acolyte of Horror does a great essay on Egger's The Lighthouse that examines what the movie is saying about labor and masculine power dynamics, class, etc
40:21 this part 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😭 I cant
The written word, (books, pamphlets, manifestos etc.), have had a greater capacity to influence change in the real world than any film media
Exactly. Eternal like by copying your mind… always just means creating a twin brother, with your memories and he takes over your life.
Doesn't the body replace all of its cells every once in a while? Isn't that basically like uploading the consciousness and DNA into a new chassis? I feel like Eddie has a point
I think the problem with Eddie's point in response to teleportation is it doesn't change whether or not teleportation is equivalent to death. It just presents the idea that moving through sleep cycles etc. is equivalent to death.
So either teleportation would be death and we also die day to day or teleportation would be death and we don't die day to day.
@@tamia8298 that's true. But the statement I made was in regards to the idea of uploading consciousness to like a different body if the current one gives out
@@kel-A-3414 I do consider that to be pretty much the same as teleportation, but I hear you
@@tamia8298 is it? Cuz I usually think of teleportation as transportation over distance (instantaneous or otherwise) so I guess moving your consciousness to another spatial coordinates IS teleportation. But it's also cloning (if the original copy is still alive).
I just feel like teleportation should move the original itself, whatever original means.
There's also the ship of Theseus situation. Replacing the parts of the ship is akin to putting the "essence" of the ship in different parts. Is that teleportation too? Idk words, words meanings, sentences. Idk what I'm even talking about anymore at this point 😂😂
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Y'all, I'm losing my shit over this talk about colonoscopies. xD I get what Eddie's saying, but man I don't think anyone should *look forward to* colonoscopies.
I have to get that done regularly, and let me tell you, the procedure isn't the bad part. The bad part is the prep for the procedure. First time I had one, 24 hours before the procedure they had me pick up a gallon jug of the nastiest tasting laxative you can imagine and I had to finish that jug in 12 hours. I ended up calling the nursing hotline at 3am in tears because I was three quarters of the way through the jug and I knew if I kept going I wasn't gonna be able to keep it down. Since then they've switched me to a different laxative regimen that's less intense, but shit... colonoscopies are *not* something to look forward to. The sooner we invent the star trek tricorder that can just scan you externally and diagnose whatever is wrong with you, the better.
Eddie was wild as hell one this one
Media literacy is all but dead. People now need themes, metaphors (visual especially), allusions, etc. Highlighted with a neon sign and pounded in their heads with a cartoonishly large mallet. For many people a character shouting "capitalism bad!" at the audience through a megaphone would still be too subtle.
When was media literacy good? I ask because we say stuff like this, but I don't know what we're comparing now too. Were people in, say, the 19th century super media literate? Maybe early 20th century? When?
@@tamia8298 That's the thing isn't it, they really can't and if they say they can, they're lying their ass off because those metrics have never existed in a scientific setting. They can't poll 19th century British poor house folks, they can't survey 20th century Russian factory workers, and they can't focus group 18th century American indentured servants. Even the bits of information we have regarding old culture is in itself through a specific class & cultural lens; people in the poor houses of Austria had no reasonable access to Mozart's music or American slaves to Walter Scott's novels.
And yes. Who ever greenlights this shows, they just care about increasing the profits number for their department.
Silo is so good!! anyone who says otherwise is crazy. also Wool is an amazing series. read it, watch it, support good art.
Snowpiercer was not overrated but hey to each their own lol
Symmetric wide eyebrow slits freak me out. Oops.. Never mind thought he did it himself.
Autobiography of Malcom X stay being a black man's marker for hotepery! Issa gateway drug 😂. I'm glad you pivoted Eddie. Only few see the other side.
Kid friendly corn is like “365 days”…. Simulated pron.
This was funny 😂
not me feeling completely lost in the joys of male enhancement chapter. do I not know boy parts????
the part that's scary for me is: As soon as you upload your brain. there's 2 of you. 1 stays behind (you) and will never experience the wonders of a digital life, and 1 goes (also you) and go live this life. The fucked up part is, for both of them there's no difference in the experience prior to the upload, you literally split yourself
"Physical prowess" is never not funny when describing someone
People tend to be overly enthusiastic about what technology is going to for humans with regard to aging. However, while technology may help us have a better quality of life, it’s very unlikely that technology will significantly increase our life expectancy.
A person may replace all their faulty organs and die by other means 😅
The 100 is the best CW show hands down 😂 that’s not the compliment you think it is.
Project moon smh
parasite was so mid
You buggin
Alvin, only be worried about himself.😁 Lol. Organs are not going to be available for most of society, if it ever gets that good. That shit is expensive. Plus our organ harvesting industry would have to get much more effective and efficient, or we would have to be growing clones and that brings on a whole other set of ethical problems.
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I hope Josh doing ok. He didnt talk much this episode, he seemed distracted.