How To BEAT the System (And Lose) - feat. The Matrix, Fight Club, Office Space & Rick and Morty
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The advertisement at the end of this video was so ironic or cured my anemia.
I am stealing that phrase. LMFAO!
Lol it was beyond ironic
Username checks out.
Felt like a punch in the face.
If you think there's irony in the ad, read the title of the video again then jump to 9:40 and ask yourself what argument they are trying to make.
"No one is going to give you the education to overthrow them." Assata Shakur
Not even Skillshare.
The paradox of education is precisely this that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated in-James Baldwin
I do, not from a moral perspective but as a challenge.
ever heard of napoleon?
Frank Should have been top comment.
@@abdirahmanali9649 that's deep - Allen Iverson
Gotta love "how do we break away from capitalism" by showing a commercial
They said "for a prime example of not being able to escape the system" and then segued into the ad.
Take the entire video with a grain of salt. Poor understanding of capitalism and the fact it refers to it as a system alone says how much ignorant the videomaker is about capitalism as a whole. I doubt the the guy who made this video could even differentiate between several economic school of thought.
@@gabbar51ngh ooohh you're so cool
I come home from my 12 hour shift at subway and try to relax with some simple wisecrack. AND GET PERSONALLY ATTACKED 😂😭
Lol.
Your welcome
Haha..don't be sad, you are an artist, sandwich artist ! 😉
Your officially now a sandwich warrior-poet.
Just focus on your art.
''Whatever the hell is going on in Brazil'' I live here and i ask myself this question every day.
He meant the movie
It's beurocracy
Same here, cara
@@alantepetla1007 I think he knows that
it's an intentional misinterpreation alluding to the fact that Brazil is pretty fucked up nowadays (high levels of violence in some regions, world record levels of corruption, political alienation by the most corrupt parties, economic crisis and a pretty worrying imminent fiscal cliff).
I think the skill share add at the end really capped this video off.
Will skillshare teach me to make a better whitevoice?
10:52 Someone needs to use skillshare for photoshop.
"No one is going to give you the education to overthrow them." Assata Shakur
Not even Skillshare.
I love how you talked about escaping the system... Then sold me a product.
#AmericaHellYea
Did you actually pony up? If you didn't, it wasn't sold.
Because no one is actually against capitalism. They just want others to give to them, and they want to virtue signal by saying the able should be forced to give to the needy.
@@1337Se7eN7 No one's against capitalism, but they are against seeing other people suffer pointlessly. Like the amazon-bottle thing. If you asked people if they'd be willing to wait longer for their stuff so Amazon can give longer breaks almost everyone will say yes. It's Amazon making their employees do these things.
The problem with not engaging is that it's like staying home during the 2016 election, the other side just wins by default.
@@raistlin69AZ that's a false premise. I can still get my stuff faster without sacrificing someone's breaks. Amazon can hire more workers to lighten the load without sacrificing fast delivery. But workers have to actually quit if they feel they're being taken advantage of. If they can do better elsewhere, why are people staying and working for Amazon? Probably because they're not being taken advantage of.
@@1337Se7eN7
I read the testimony of a mother whose husband left (or divorced, I don't remember) and she was so tight to meet the end of the month that she could not afford to risk losing the job for a potential other one. Everything is not as easy as you may think.
no to mention the system's latest ingenious invention in management theory: Startups. Through constant idolisation of a select "entrepreneurs" & their statistically impossible yet approachable fairy tale stories, the system found the most optimum way to efficiently "enslave" young talent in tedious work. In the 60's the "Man" would hire everyone, pay salaries, benefits & retirement all while running parallel experiment with new products under various departments hoping one of them would pay the losses of the rest. Now through the illusive fantasy of obtaining the ultimate individualism, creativity & freedom people in streams are willingly doing the exact same jobs for a lot longer hours less pay & security and the best part: completely sans supervision. And the system gets to choose at the end of the line the most suitable or efficient of them through a celebratory ritual called "buyout" or "Exit, leaving all the less efficient (yet possibly profitable) out to bankruptcy or self afflicted economic despair. And to keep the wheel rolling, cultural baits like "Never give up" or "its how hard you stand up after you fall" b.s becaome the background music of this era.
That's a very interesting point.
I know nothing about you but because of your commentary I felt compelled to subscribe into your channel!
Depends. That's mostly the tech business Wich offers incredible wealth to incredible risk/investment.
On the other hand, it has never been more easy to earn a very good "salary" from your own bed. With nothing but a mobile phone and a laptop.
Anyone who is willing to "settle" for 100-200k a year, and is capable (iq , streetsmart etc wise) and has put time.and effort in learning the necessary skillset, it's not that hard to reach that level of richness in your life.
Dani Londen Is it really ? Can you give me some evidence in real numbers that substantiate your assumption or is it just wishful thinking
@@BalBaaBart Next he is going to sell you a get rich quick scheme.
There is only ONE WAY to escape from the system....
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StraightUpJumpshot These videos are asking questions, and not making judgments. They give you the questions, and you can seek your own answers. In the end, they're here to entertain and to make a living in the process. These aren't TED talks - just food for thought.
Making fun of the sponsor is a legitimate ad strategy czcams.com/video/XCxVf2l8OLk/video.html
It’s tough to change a system you’re born into because you’re forced to operate within that system.
Yeah the ad at the end felt especially ironic...
"What do you think wisecrack? Do simple-rick wafers taste too good to risk it? Here, take a product and think about it!"
My thoughts exactly...
Will skillshare teach me to make a better whitevoice?
Malcom in the middle- "you cant control the system, but you sure can break it"
This line always stuck with me as a kid
You can't control the system, but you can [mess] with it. Something to this effect is a central theme of _Interstate 60_.
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30:00 to 50:20
I think the _Malcolm in the Middle_ episode is Season 3 Episode 2: "Emancipation."
www.dailymotion.com/video/x4sw7da
Great show. Great episode. There was plenty of similar sentiment in Hal´s frequent struggles against authority aka "the man" at work or as "Kid Charemaqne"
I'm sort of surprised Brave New World was not mentioned. Rick and Morty, as much as I love them, are by no means the first media to show that one's rebellion can become a part of the system. Neither is Matrix. In Brave New World when John tries to rebel against the system by living a quiet, ascetic life he only finds that his lifestyle is entertaining to the society and is nothing more than another product for them. His answer to this is to hang himself. Would have been a perfect story to include here as well. Basically the first work of literature (that I know of) that shows how a rebellion is a part of the system.
Nick Zardiashvili you see the word revolution, it also means a full circle.
and also 1984
@Indigo Rodent That really isn't the case unless you're either extremely desperate or extremely selfish
@Indigo Rodent "One must imagine Sisyphus happy". Death, on oneself, or others, is resignation. The important part of fighting for a cause is always the fighting, never the dying. Murder is an extremely arrogant act in and of itself, as the murderer proposes to "know what's best for' em" as an excuse to steal a man's freedom. The mere fact that you so nonchalantly propose suicide and resignation before the fight has even begun is quite revealing of your character.
@Indigo Rodent That is correct, in this fashion it is indeed the last way out. But as you yourself said, it is the *ultimate* resistance. Let me remind you, this word comes from the Latin ultimare, meaning end. It's the very last thing yo do, quite naturally. What I'm saying is, the *ultimate* action is *not* justified when there are plenty, much more _penultimate_ things to do. Why not go straight to the end you ask? Because, as you probably understand, the _final solution_ is always the worst one... (pun intended). This kind and magnitude of defeatism has always been the hallmark of cowards.
This video is too *_real_*
What I find funny tho is the fact that he spends the whole video talking about breaking out of the system and having a discussion about it while profiting off the sponsor in the end. Nobody breaks out lol
@@tsanjoubrahma7763
Skillshare helps you break the grand illusion. Haha. Nobody can exist in a vacuum. There's always some 'order,' even if it's reborn from a revolution of sorts. Re-evolution.
'Real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain
No it isn't it's leftist bs.
Noone is forcing you to live in the "system". You can go and f*ck right off if you don't like it, run out into the woods. Or you can do the verry thing capitalism is based on an improve the world you live in. Capitalism is what has brought us all the things we enjoy and need in life. Don't like something? Don't buy it, don't do it. Create an alternative. Want something? Like masculinity in fight club? Start a damn fight club, join a kick-boxing club, build a house, work hard, get a wife. Noone is stoping you.
What even is "the system"? Capitalism just means that you can do what you want. The absence of restrictions or control. What is there to escape? Freedom? Suicide is an option. What do you even want? What's the alternative? There is none an there is nothing wrong with capitalism. That doesn't mean slavery and exploitation is okay, every trade MUST be volentary, otherwise it's not a trade but a robbery. Like taxation. If you mean govenment controll and anti-libertarian stuff then I'm totaly with you, but it doesn't seem likely at all. Otherwise you would've brought up the real problem, leftist ideologies like liberalism and socialism, not capitalism. (There are efffectively no right wing authoritarians left in power otherwise that would be a problem too.)
@tsanjou brahma
What's wrong with product placement? He found a product he liked and promoted them.
You're a part of the Capitalism train too, Wisecrack. We watch your videos, nodding our collective heads, going "hmm yes, indubitably, it is the commodification of dissent that prevents any true critique of capitalism, as any critique becomes a part of the system itself until we're split between those who choose the relative bliss of ignorance and those who choose to pull back the curtain that leads, by the nature of the inability to escape, to misery and nihilism." We're satisfied by you voicing our dissent for us, put a notch in our "woke" belt, and continue on contributing.
And let's not talk about the obvious representation of the capitalist adaptation to the artistic critique by means of the Skillshare plug. "Those bleeding heart creative types not happy with our capitalist machine? Give 'em a virtually unlimited learning platform, and charge 'em a subscription fee. Literally the more they satisfy their curiosity, the more they feed into to the system." I'm not mad, obviously, that would be pointless and ridiculous: I like your channel because I'm a curtain-puller myself, but how did making this video not seem soul-crushingly ironic. You basically just served us your own Simple Rick's rebellion-flavored wafer, and I'm doing the same by critiquing your critique, in that my comment increases this video's weight with The Algorithm^TM, giving it slightly increased recommendation to others and, by extension, slightly greater potential for monetization.
And, of course, it's all hilarious because given the choice between laughing about it and crying about it, I'm going to choose laughing every time.
Louder please
" Literally the more they satisfy their curiosity, the more they feed into to the system." WHAT? That's not a monthly subscription. Instead of looking at how traditional rent seeking behaviour evolved to something else, you've just doubled down on a cliched and out dated analysis.
I present to you the great Marxist... Ronald Reagan?!
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But seriously. If we, as a working class never own anything? We have no leverage upon which to pry more from the grasp of those trickle-down golden-shower corporate libertarians.
MIT Economics Professor turned Marxist, Richard D. wolff on the problem and solution:
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TL;DW - we need to form co-ops. Nobody's talking about the great ones that we already have around us. And once we have that, we need to coordinate them. If you're in Spain, make sure you're a worker-owner at something owned by Mondragon - its not perfect, but it beats anything else.
I can wax poetic about the merger of corporation and union all day... But then nobody would read. SOLIDARITY FOREVER!
To be fair he never said he was an anti-capitalistic activist.
And as far as we know, this soul crushing system is the most fair we have ever created, at least the ones where poor people are just working their ass off to buy the new Playstation, instead of starving to death like the good old days.
Capitalism is far from perfect, just like the world, just like ourselves. World was never a good, fair and happy place, and it will never be, if we want a happy life, we must accept it, and live accordingly to it, we must know the rules of the game in order to play the game.
You cant stare at the work you have to do, you must stare at what you have already done. You cant ignore the amazing $100k house you just bought because youre staring at the $500k house down the street, you cant ignore how good your Corolla actually is because youre too busy staring at your neighbour's Camaro, you must enjoy what you have, or you will be no different than those capitalist pigs hunting down that CEO chair, throwing away their lifes, their family, their children, so they can earn more money than they can spend, throwing away their youth so they can buy cocaine and pay loveless luxury whores when they are old.
We live in an amazing world right now, life expectancy is 2 to 3 times higher than ever before, birth death is almost non existent. Hunger is in all time record low. Poverty is in all time record low. Standard of life was never that high. And we are still not happy, we are still seeing our neighbour's yard greener.
Be realistic, accept the tragedy, dont ignore it.
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Btw if you guys want something practical:
A job is just a job, you can do what you love the most, and in a few months you will hate it just like you hated every other job you had, because thats what jobs are. Do you think people loved to hunt down a prey for days while starving to death, back in the days? No, they hated it, just like you hate your hunt time today.
You dont live to work, so stop expecting an amazing work environment full of dopamine and adventures. You work to live, so accept that in order to be able to get what you want, you need to do the boring part first.
Your life happens after your job, and in the weekends, thats the time you need to focus on. To find a hobby that gives you amazing times, to have quality time with your friends and family.
You may not agree with it, you may think we must have more time for ourselves, but this is real life, and life doesnt give a shit about what you think, life will roll over you without any compassion.
I like you
Crash the Train. 100%
I weirdly agree, I feel that the main issue is that the problem adapts to the circumstances therefore the circumstances must consistently shift, or some version of that, the constantly keep it down
I would have agreed with you just a couple years ago when I didn't have a family or a great career like I do now. Which is why crashing the train is so difficult. I'm still about fighting the system and doing what we can to stop it but my heart isn't in it the way it use to be. This has become a major flaw with the resistance. If we can't beat them join them. If the resistance ever actually got off it's ass to really overturn the system, I'll jump in and fight alongside. However, after 20 years of seeing the system never truly changing, I must regress and for that I'm sorry.
@@SOURCEw00t your very very right people got too much to lose the system ensures it. But as ecological collapse nears and resources dwindle people will increasingly have less and less to lose. Its only a matter of time.
I wholeheartedly agree yet the only way to do that would be the extinction of mankind.
Wisecrack provides the red pill while offering the blue one.
It was never fully explained what happens if you take both simultaneously.
In effect, they are only able to offer both or neither.
Love the ending. It summarizes the point of the video
bu..bu-but skillshare
Bucciaratti
is this the ultimate Show Me the Meaning episode
No it isn't. It's nihilistic bullshit born out of laziness. Ask if you want an explantion.
@@freedomofspeech2867 i would like one
@shmuel s
Here are some of my comments that should encompase a lot.
1. Well this was some leftist bs.
Noone is forcing you to live in the "system". You can go and f*ck right off if you don't like it, run out into the woods. Or you can do the verry thing capitalism is based on an improve the world you live in. Capitalism is what has brought us all the things we enjoy and need in life. Don't like something? Don't buy it, don't do it. Create an alternative. Want something? Like masculinity in fight club? Start a damn fight club, join a kick-boxing club, build a house, work hard, get a wife. Noone is stoping you.
What even is "the system"? Capitalism just means that you can do what you want. The absence of restrictions or control. What is there to escape? Freedom? Suicide is an option. What do you even want? What's the alternative? There is none an there is nothing wrong with capitalism. That doesn't mean slavery and exploitation is okay, every trade MUST be volentary, otherwise it's not a trade but a robbery. Like taxation. If you mean govenment controll and anti-libertarian stuff then I'm totaly with you, but it doesn't seem likely at all. Otherwise you would've brought up the real problem, leftist ideologies like liberalism and socialism, not capitalism. (There are efffectively no right wing authoritarians left in power otherwise that would be a problem too.)
2.
What's wrong with a sponsorship? They found a product they liked so they made them a sponsor. They are supporting what they like. What kind of dystopiand nihalistic fantasy do you live in? "The system". What system? Don't you like something? Don't give it money. Want something? Support it by giving it money, or create it. No one is stoping you! The only ones who try to are the left. Regulation and controll over people isn't really constitutional.
The consumer is the one creating the market. Your choices are controlling what companies do. If everyone suddenly wanted to use their money for plumbuses, trillions of dollars would be put into research for it. The market is the consumers slave. And if you give something another consumer wants, you will get money, buying power in return. The more you give to the market the more buying power the market will give to you. That is super fair. In capitalism, you as the consumer has ALL the power, in socialism, there are no consumers, only slaves.
Freedom Of Speech ngl those spelling errors made me think you're a 12-year-old who mistook an Ayn Rand book for a comic book one and got a-hold of a computer
No that makes me look like someone who knows 3 languages fluently.
70's Hippie A: Where'd you get those threads, man?
70's Hippie B: I knitted them!
2010s Hipster A: (imitating a stereotypical 70's hippie voice) Where'd you get those threads, man?
2010s Hipster B: An Amazon vendor owned by a small subsidiary of Gap Inc!
That conclusion was really unsatisfying. "You might be able to be okay, if you play into the system and make small changes slowly but who knows... And now a word from SkillShare!" 🤦🏻♂️
Strange game - the only winning move is not to play.
The tricky part is you're born into the game and understanding what it even means to stop playing can be a challenge in itself.
I play for the fun, not to win. How awesome is it that I can eat enough to have the energy to take a walk in the backyard, have the money to buy the clothes that keep me warm while doing so?
@@1234kalmar not gonna lie that's pretty awesome. I'm so thankful for the luxuries that I have but the one thing I want is to not feel guilty for supporting a system of violence against the less fortunate. I don't want to win and couldn't even tell you what that would mean, I just want to be free and help others.
JOSHUA.
+1 for the War Games reference
Decent-ish movie.
You can't break the system while being in the system you would have to somehow rise above it. But once you get to that point you have no interest in changing anything.
is why that happen on that black mirror episode threathening to kill himself....... its just... more depressing i guess....
o ye yeah
How do you like an idea of a cooperative? Like a Mondragon Corporation.
Because you above that, Many people who are in the system are happy about it, but they just see their "bubble". It´s like first world problems.
Yes the catch 22. The moment you fly high above the system and all its bullshit you feel no need to become entangled with it and change it, the burden lifted from removing the chains is more than enough reward!
i think the commodification of knowledge itself is leading to the downfall of humanity
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A word about the excellent "Sorry to Bother You" and the question of how the system gets changed. In this video you imply that the lesson is that the system can be "slowly" changed. But that's exactly not how Boots Riley, who made the movie, would probably put it. Boots Riley is a communist (and a real one, not some neo-marxist Frankfurt-School smart-ass), and his proposition is that the majority recognize themselves as having a common class interest (the working class) and get organized in order to change the system.
The problem of the working majority of society (all societies) is not that they have conflicting interests, but that they are not organized as a class. If they were, even slightly, they would immediately hold all power in society and presumably end the cycle of exploitation for good. At least if their forms of organization are democratic.
So the lesson of Riley's movie is for the workers to organize and fight the bosses to improve their lot, however that doesn't mean that the end goal is slow, gradual change. Because the goal (at least according to communists) is not the individual improvements that are achieved, but that all these struggles lead to an increasing organization of the exploited class, as a whole. This itself is slow work, but in a time of crisis it can start to accelerate hugely and lead to mass organizations which are able to seize power simply by exercising their collective control over the productive process.
If say, the majority of the logistics and manufacturing workers in the USA were organized with the common purpose to overthrow the system and employed a coordinated tactis, they are pretty much unstoppable. So it's actually the necessary organization that is the tricky part for communists. And you have to recognize that change doesn't happen at a steady pace, there are times where nothing happens and times where suddenly everything is in flux and the progress of decades happens in a few day.
And that is actual marxist theory, and it's also something that capitalism will never ever teach you even on it's most self-critical day, because it scares the crap out of the bosses.
IMO (and fwiw) I believe communism and capitalism are terrible, and for the same reason: both exist as an ideal that refuses to acknowledge the fact that some people suck, others suck worse, and some suck so much that they ruin the game for everyone else, and that the third group is often the one to find their way into power in such structures. Communism can be usurped by one or a few smart and manipulative people, and the system can break down into a dictatorship or oligarchy as we've seen with formerly/currently communist states in the East. Capitalism can be usurped by one or a few smart and manipulative people, and the system can break down into corporatism or oligarchy as we've seen emerge in the West. There is no such thing as pure communism/capitalism, and there never will be. At least not with the monolithic power structures and sprawling populaces we loosely tie together as "countries."
What would work best (again, IMO and fwiw) would be a local mindset where people figure their own shit out and learn to work together as a community before worrying about the rest of the world. What would probably work best (this is just me musing) is much more a communist mindset in a community with a capitalist mindset in dealing with the other communities. Get rid of countries and have sovereign states about the size of counties, in which the community handles their business as they see fit. It will be a clusterfuck, trade-wise, I'm sure... but if they could do it in the dark ages with a handful of crooked fucks ('nobility') who were the only people in the land who knew how to read or write calling all of the shots, then I think a fully literate populace could handle dealing with the intricacies of how to establish appropriate channels of goods and services to benefit a locality, a region, a geographic continent, and the world.
....or you would get a handful of counties who decided to be dicks and band together and conquer other counties in their region, establish a larger government, and then proceed to fuck it all up for the rest of us.... Yeah, on second thought, that would probably be exactly what would happen. Because of that third group of people, of course: the people who suck so much they ruin the game for everyone else.
You can't wish away the fact that some people are so messed up that they'd be willing to destroy polite society in an attempt to sate their greed and lust for power. Most of us probably are, tbh, and that's probably why we go on internet forums and muse about why our vision of society is better than someone else's.
Moral of the story: people suck; do your own thing. Don't be seduced by big, "easy", esoteric solutions to life's problems (i.e. capitalism/communism). Do your best to survive in whatever structure you've found yourself in (it's likely not changing anytime soon), or do your best to relocate to one that you think would be better (easier said than done, I know), and, most importantly, do your best to make your little corner of the world (your house, your building, your neighborhood, your town, etc.) a tolerable place for you and everyone else around.
Communism destroys capitalism and then eventually becomes it again under different rhetoric. A full circle.
@Ray Last - I feel like your argument is assuming that people are truly unhappy and want to over-throw the system. I think the mass of people in the US are generally okay with the system and don't feel the need to band together to overthrow. Especially to overthrow the current system and replace it with an unknown and unproven system, with a very messy multi-generational transition to the new system that will invariably be miserable time for all. Personally, I do not feel socialism works (throughout history) as it fails to account for the way humans are programmed.
@@generalaccount6531 Consider this: Hive-mind species only cooperate between siblings. Same species, different family = *Enemy! Keep them out of our territory!*
That's why humans are actually more capacity for cooperation than bees.
as awesome as that sounds, I don't think even the majority of the working class is in the position to do something like that. The minute things would go well for us, our government literally has the power to just reverse direction or wipe us all out. The U.S. is just a cesspool of stockholm syndrome
This is the high-quality wisecrack content that we have not yet earned, but are lucky enough to receive!
*Ques clapping scene from Citizen Kane*
The irony of making a video about how to escape capitalism but still being sponsored
"No one is going to give you the education to overthrow them." Assata Shakur
Not even Skillshare.
Just as in Network movie.
Whenever I get depressed, I always make a few drinks and watch Fight Club. It always cheers me up for some reason, especially the 1st half. There's just so many good quotes in the movie that you can apply to your everyday life.
Great to have you back Jare
Disembodied Jared is back! You bring awesome to the name of Jareds everywhere.
Hipster
What about Notgayjared?
I was driving home from work, and while driving over an overpass looking at the cars on the freeway, I thought how strange it is that millions of these primates have agreed to these rules. To ride in steel boxes between dotted lines, along concrete paths. I thought about all the things that could go horribly wrong if only a few decided to say fuck it to the dotted lines and not agree to the rules. I realized the systems we live in are incredibly fragile. The truth is at any moment, the entire population could decided to just lay in bed not get up, and the system would cease to exist as a population organizing concept.
This is one of your best episodes!
I think we’re just all in that second episode of Black Mirror. Excuse me while I go ride my bike and listen to someone else give words to the emptiness I feel.
Have you ever asked yourself how the Wisecrack channel fits into this?
Do John Carpenter's Apocalypse Trilogy!
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great video, wisecrack is really stepping up their game!
Nice job putting an ad at the end.
Seriously though, great video, I love you guys.
This video ending explains the tone and message of capitalism perfectly. Always a smooth transition into unwanted marketing.
Crash that damn train, so polar bears can live.
@Hussein Naji lol
Thank you
I don't know you An... but i know i love you ♡♡♡♤♡
subvert the train take the tracks into space away from the prexious planet
snowpiercer reference
Thank you for a wonderful video, this really hit home!
Wow, this one was amazing. You guys knocked it out the park.
At the end of sorry to bother you, the horse people lynch and most likely rip apart the rich. I don't think that's slow progress.
Anyone can beat the system, but it involves not engaging. And, let's face it, we want our smart phones.
You can't be half-in, half-out.
that seems to be the root of the problem, indeed
But that's not really beating the system that's just leaving it, and it will keep on just fine without you. To beat you will have to crash the train.
Depends on who "you" might be. If it ends up being enough people, it will crash just fine, though without some consistent rebel ideology there's no telling what the system that will replace it be.
Minimal engagement is totally possible and very relaxing.
Actually that is exactly what metamodernism praises
The best part of the video it's the irony of an ad at the end. Great video as always.
Great video, as always! Thanks for your work and
Please, do a "Over the Garden Wall" some day :)
Hrmm... I might need to read 'The New Spirit of Capitalism'. They claim management theory grew to engage with workers on creativity, autonomy, etc? That seems counter to my experience. I've read many management books from the 80s and later, and they are extremely focused on making workers totally disposable and interchangeable in order to control the cost of labor. One of the more common ideas presented in almost all of them in different forms is that if a worker becomes valuable to your organization, you should fire them immediately. Their thinking is that firing them now, when you first recognize it, will be easier to recover from than firing them later when they have become even more integral to the organization - something you will definitely have to do because eventually they will ask for more money, and that's something you can't even consider giving them for fear or raising the cost of labor.
0.0 so your saying that it's a feature, not a bug, that competency is stamped out?
@Dustin I like this. I have often theorized the very same idea but have never followed up with research. Can you recommend three management books where this move is put in print? One reference that works around this idea is sociologist Richard Sennett's _The Culture of the New Capitalism_ (2006).
CRASH THE TRAIN! NOW!
Damn. You guys's work is always so thought provoking. Can't get enough of your videos or podcasts.
I love how you literally sold out at the end of the video! what a wisecrack!
Jared: "Consider everyone's favorite trenchcoat Jesus..."
Me: "Kirito?"
Jared: "Neo."
Me: "Oh."
>SAO
lmao what a shit taste
TheNN
Kirito is just anime Keeanu Reeves anyway
That's the Abridged version.
omg just no
Jesus-Kun*
Dear WISECRACK it's been 10 months
25 days
13 hours
18 minutes
32 seconds since you made that philosophy cover the 2016 Berserk anime but I think if you really want to grasp the meaning of such a deep philosophical masterpiece like berserk your going have to cover the MANGA to really do such a phenomenal series Justice
jesus crist the thirst is real.
Luis Dias The Thirst for Quality content if you read berserk you'll understand
Great video!
Thanks for making the video bruh
I demand bibliography in perscription of episode. You toss the tiltes of books and movies, so quickly and lightly, only to make us scroll or watch it again to find out "what was that?!". Didn't you owe to publications you use?
That's silly. You're silly. Grab a pen, replay the video and pause when you need to take a note.
@@martingreen4543 yes and of corse i tried, and with whole my respect and thankfullness for Jared (for his grate work), some tiltes are not clear (like that movie about train i saw for the first time and find it intriguing)
Snow Piercer
@@davemarx7856 thanks :)
It's a good movie.
Slow change is possible; however, the problem is it’s not sexy like a great revolution.
@ mrgresick I agree.
What do you mean by slow change?
The word revolution also means a full circle.
+Black Shark. exactly how it sounds, things change in increments rather than giant shifts.
This thought is originate from and promoted by the system. Because it can neutralize or incorporate slow change and slow-changers.
I love how you guys flipped your sponsor into the end of your video. Hammered the point home.
This video sums up a lot of my life...understanding the system and figuring out how to change or end it.
- The Matrix
- Fight Club
- American Beauty
- The 13th Floor
- Office Space
Fun fact: They all came out in 1999
When they all thought fuck it its over anyway..
Did you plan this with sage? He just came out with a video taking about the matrix
The ad at the end is the "cherry on top" of this entire video. THAT was genius.
Now THIS is my new favorite video ever. You did it, AGAIN. Damn you.
I LOVE NETWORK.
Under capitalism, EVERYTHING IS A COMODITY including your "individuality"
jrmorales86
Including the bourgeois. Saw an article of ex Amazon manager calling Amazon a hell hole and surprised noone has tried to blow it up THE MANAGER SAID THAT
personally I'd say that even a highly compensated manager at a place as large and monolithic as Amazon is more a class-traitor than truly bourgeois. They don't control capital, they just get the tiniest taste of the "benefits" of labor exploitation.
well said fellow capitalists
@@DOUMA_theblacksuns will I admire the compliment, I'm not a big fan of capitalism lol
@@jrmorales86 you don't like having commodities?
Nice to see that a broader audience becomes aware of the problems. I think this leads to change inevitably.
Destroying the system or joining it are not the only two options, I believe leaving the system entirely is the best choice. Finding somewhere of your own and providing all the subsidies eg food and energy on your own is really the only way to beat it, as you’re no longer feeding the system with your actions but depriving it of what it needs, which is your participation and engagement (positive or negative)
Honestly, I like going to my 9 to 5 and watching “grand illusion” sci-if in the evening.
@Hussein Naji and you can work on your dreams in the remaining hours of the day. before capitalism, you worked your ass off from sunrise to sundown. I think it's better now.
Ger Tar that’s the thing. It IS better now. Objectively. Quality of life for the average person today is as good as it was for the wealthy 100 years ago.
People are still mad that they’re on a hamster wheel though, no matter how shiny it is.
@@realGBx64 Plenty of people in this country work their ass off from sunrise till sundown and live paycheck to paycheck. Maybe it's better for YOU...
Of course you do Jerry. Of course you do.
@@realGBx64 We used to have a 12 hour day, the only thing that changed it was mass-demonstrations by radicals where the authorities killed protesters[1]. Capitalism resisted every benefit and right that we currently have. Even our the tech innovation was actually created in the public sector[2]. Even the free market is at risk because Capitalism tends towards monopolization. Also it's killing our climate but our system is helpless to stop it.
[1] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair
[2] czcams.com/video/8jTCBirELDU/video.html
So are we going to see Thug Notes again or nah?
Maybe if Dan Harmon released Rick and Morty the book, They;d make 15 videos on it
Yeah I miss Sparky Sweets
Maybe he's reading a really long book; it takes time to nail the meaning behind the text.
Immediate comfort when I hear Jared's voice
Jared u rock, glad you touched on Sorry to Bother You in this 1
6:27 "Revolutionary ideas have basically become the official style of contemporary capitalism," *cough*ColinKaepernick*cough*
This is why I love the Matrix Revolutions (I know, unpopular opinion). In the end, the Unplugged don't usurp the machines and destroy the system, they make a deal whereby people are given the choice to either leave or plug in or leave for a new life.
The problem isn't that the system is evil and we should destroy it to make another. It's that systems try to force everyone into a mold that many fit into, but some don't. I think there just needs to be an opt-out option. Let the hippies live in the woods.
@Jared Anderson (...)" The problem isn't that the system is evil and we should destroy it to make another. It's that systems try to force everyone into a mold that many fit into, but some don't"(...).
It is called Democracy.
Remember at the end of 1984. "I love Big Brother!"
@@Kharis- Yes you are right.
Sorry for my mistake there.
Great video! I’ve had very similar thoughts, but this video did a much better job at bringing them all together and illustrating them by using popular film.
Absolutely recuperated
well, to me, the best way seems to be, getting out of the system INDIVIDUALLY..
becoming minimalistic by giving up all my consumerist instincts, saving up, and investing in something that can feed me for the remainder of my life.. THEN, i'm free to put all my time,money and energy into whatever my passion is..
wow, seems like someone figured out capitalism.
before capitalism, you didn't even have the chance to do that: you toiled on the field all day to feed yourself and your family, and the lord that owned the land and the people living on the land.
But... They get to many so young that saving up isn't a choice because of the massive student debt they get roped into when they are 18
@@bradmapson6243 Cheat the system? Is that immoral? Cause it's definitely one way to get ahead.
There's a solution here you're not seeing
*blows brains out
Offering society as a sacrifice to he that lies dead but dreaming in the city of R’lyeh?
@Wisecrack, the philosophy of an oldie, but goodie: the games of "The Legend of Zelda".
My feeling of Nostalgia would appreciate it.
You're the best!
I've been waiting for this one
So basically, the only way to escape the system is to improve it so that it doesn't suck and also works better?
Huh... who would have thunk it?
Well technically you are not escaping the system. There is a (most probably wrong) theory called social facism, which states that improvements only support the system and oppression
@@overklaus Realistically, the problem with living in a bad system is not the living in a system part.
It's the part where the system happens to be bad. we don't need a new system every week,
or to go back to an older, even more broken one. We need a better one.
Or watch the world burn
That's the point. It can not be improved, as effort to change it becomes part of it. You either burn it down or improve it so slowly that it barely shows.
@@1234kalmar Sure thing buddy, I'll go tell my friend Agamemnon down the road in his golden palace that its still ok to cut peoples hand off for stealing and take people slave
as war trophies. The king of the British empire will love to hear the news as well.
I'm a well-read bawler and where's Sparky?
Friendship that’s me, and my three droogs...
Nice profile pic🤘
This is awsome because watching this video is you promoting the ststem about critiquing the system!! Very meta!!
thank you!
FREE DRUGS!
By god we've cracked the system..
the biggest problem with trying to hit the restart button on the system by destroying it then rebuilding it is that most people won't support this idea even though it makes the most sense, since the vast majority of the population won't see a video like this and will consume media like fight club without understanding it properly and will only use media like that to funnel their feeling of rebellion into media not really change thus further commodifying rebellion by doing this the system effectively stop rebellion. also you must get the irony of making a video like this then ending it with a paid sponsership
that is fair but i meant that there is irony in talking about how we escape a shit system then following it up by promoting something its like if Lenin finished all of his speeches by saying "and this call for the dethroning of the tzar was made possible by (insert craft beer) this beer is the best beer for getting yourself ready for the installment of a new government and the execution of the corrupt ruler"
The problem is when you destroy it and want to rebuild the system (which apparently makes the most sense). Which new system are you going to build? One of the others that must be destroyed because people are dissatisfied with it, and therefore it makes the most sense?
Sorry to Bother You was amazing, clad to see you guys talking about it even just a little!
I understand why they put the ads at the end of the video and I totally forgive wisecrack for it, but it still crushed my absolute soul to hear that right when I was waiting for the "Here's how to escape it" line, because jesus fuck this is probably the #1 thing that keeps me up at night - I don't know how to rebel.
The twist of this video it´s that ends up as and advertisment. Rebel or don´t rebel, but buy.
Why do I still feel like you didn't answer this question...except crash the 🚆
Worth it. There's no escape so just improve your lot in the system as best you can or try and improve it.
so on point, if I wasn't already subscribed I'd subscribe
"Heres how capitalism monetises rebellion, now heres an add for Skillshare!" Love your channel but couldn't pass on the irony of that.
Pretty sure that was intentional in order to further prove their point while still getting some money out of it.
Societies reflect the quality of the individuals that comprise them. Trying to amend societal ills by fighting _"the system"_ is as ludicrous as trying to cure an illness by fighting symptoms, or attempting to groom by combing at one's reflection in the mirror. The key is to recognize and amend the faults in one's own character that contribute to external societal dysfunction. Those who seek revolution while neglecting to engage in honest introspection and diligent self-work are doomed to just project and perpetuate the very things they're crusading against.
Genuine systemic change ultimately emerges from the inside-out; improving one's self improves the world by as much.
Kimani White Those are some good metaphors, my dude. "Combing a reflection in the mirror." Quaint as fuck!
That's pretty accurate. Society is a reflection of us, nothing else.
@Adolf Schinkler So... don't improve yourself? Yeah, that'll do a whole lot of good if lots of people have that attitude. Actually no, it will place us squarely in the current situation. How do you expect to fight 'those in charge' if you don't improve yourself?
@Adolf Schinkler
Bad people can only gain positions of influence in a society via the personal failings of those who make up that society.
@Adolf Schinkler
I think you're bending over backwards to avoid recognizing that you're actually kind of a shitty person, and the responsibility that comes with such awareness.
People like you are just part of the problem, and that will never change until you start to get your shit together.
The irony of the way you went from talking about shattering the Grand Illusion straight into an ad at the end for skillshare just cracked me up so hard lmao
Great video.
*Establishment propaganda*
lol what
Matrix sequels are amazing.
No. But to each their own. In any case they are very different from the first one. I also liked Animatrix. It had a bit more of the same vibe.
I feel like this channel is giving us common folk insight of our reality, but it's already digested, most are here for approval and reassurance.
There is most likely a very big subgroup of these people that get way too many ideas and the illusion of knowledge that may divert their purpose, give them an illusion of rebellion, a plastic glass shards up their throat.
Holy shit! Sorry To Bother You is finally getting some love from Wisecrack!!!
Before I finish watching the video...
I thought Sorry to Bother You was really confusing - it seemed to portray Detroit as being a positive alternative to the capitalist system, but I didn't see it that way. She was a "sign spinner" that held signs which pointed the way to other signs, which made me think that Boots Reilly was pointing towards symbolic exchange as an alternative driving force for society, better than the current capitalist model which values productivity. But her symbols ended up being meaningless - or meaning free, their power having been gutted by capitalism. Violent and sexual symbols placed on casual clothing removes their power, because it takes the powerful concepts away from the context that gives them power, and makes them nonchalant fashion statements, commodities which are sounds in a sea of noise.
I'd really like to know what Boots thinks about this, because to me that's a fundamental philosophical flaw in an otherwise great movie that's meant to be eye opening and empowering.
I think it could be reasonably argued that Sorry To Bother You carries a somber message. Detroit, in a way, represents the commodification of art and how that process hollows out the meaning of art.
Yeah I think you're right, especially since later she channels her energy toward making political art
The irony of tackling "the system" then to have a 2 minute ad at the end hahahaa
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