The Trump Mythology & Roland Barthes' Semiotics

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  • čas přidán 19. 06. 2019
  • A breakdown of Trump's MAGA myth using the semiology of Roland Barthes, first from Mythologies (amzn.to/33Ui0BL) and then from Image-Music-Text (amzn.to/2qnDJDo).
    If you like the work there's more at spoti.fi/3f0OIXD and / plasticpills

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  • @jantumo1425
    @jantumo1425 Před 4 lety +144

    I've never seen such a quality video with so few views

    • @MattStranberg
      @MattStranberg Před 3 lety +1

      @@PlasticPills Keep up the great work. Some of the best videos on youtube and I hope we can help you break into the higher levels....maybe even become a youtube influencer ;) haha

    • @johnclamp1535
      @johnclamp1535 Před 3 lety

      Yes. This a jolly good pair of glasses a la Zizek.

    • @benediktzoennchen
      @benediktzoennchen Před 3 lety +2

      yeah, I was like wow, this was the best video about the Trump phenomena I have ever seen. Then I looked down at the view count. How can this be real? I'm worried.

    • @skitidet4302
      @skitidet4302 Před 3 lety

      It's because he is clearly a shill that is payed to spin a narrative. Overproduced videos are a massive red flag, go look in to the data he percents. It is bad and he should know it is bad so he is intentionally using misinformation to spin the narrative he has been payed to push while at the same time criticizing the very same behavior in others.

    • @badmojjo
      @badmojjo Před 3 lety

      There is a caveat to that, what looks like quality to one, might not to other.

  • @johnradclyffehall
    @johnradclyffehall Před 3 lety +6

    The transformation of the snake as a symbol of fertility and female power, to meaning chaos, trickery and deceit is also a fun one for tracing the development of patriarchal ideologies.

  • @iDigsGiantRobots
    @iDigsGiantRobots Před 3 lety +23

    Bro, thank you so much for taking your videos at a pace that a novice to western philosophy can follow. I really like how you take the time to DEFINE terms really well and reiterate what you said.

  • @jaketrask3931
    @jaketrask3931 Před 4 lety +38

    You know, I never thought of fascism as a mythology. I had always thought of it as a totalization of aesthetics, to a point where it subsumes the political. To think of it in mythology terms, it is really a replacement to the total aesthetic of myth in the West of Christianity, a monolith that structures outward the rest of society.
    Very thought provoking. Great video!

    • @mobiditch6848
      @mobiditch6848 Před 3 lety +1

      Interesting thought. The Italian futurists, Marinetti specifically would agree.

    • @danilthorstensson8902
      @danilthorstensson8902 Před 3 lety +1

      This is also Umberto Eco's and Robert Paxton's view

    • @sad-qy7jz
      @sad-qy7jz Před 3 lety

      I think some of the more limited less critical leftist discourse csn kind of limit us in the vast sea of context. I think you’re description is PART of fascism but at its core it’s a. A product of capitalism snd festering toxicity/alienation, b. An escapist like snd illogical almost conspiracy or religious text kind of depiction of reality. C. It’s utilized in a similar manner that mythology and religion has been used in menu contexts to world oppression and enforce authority and control. It’s rooted in typical archetypes from mythology and has a very grand narrative. A gritty analysis would still tap into your point but I think people (not you) get too comfortable and safe keeping it mainstream and predictable and are afraid to stray away from more critical concepts

    • @DarkAngelEU
      @DarkAngelEU Před 2 lety +2

      I studied Italian fascism for about a year, just to wrap my head around why Mussolini was still praised today, and the myth making is a great part of it. Fictionalized storytelling (D'Annunzio), references to the old Italy where the country would shape people into strong individuals through labour and exposure to the elements, alot of shouting and posturing during his speeches goes without saying.
      Hitler loved him so much, he copied him, and of course Hitler would use the Roman Empire as an example of what Europe once was and could be under his leadership. The Germans believed they were fighting not only for a better Germany, but also "cleaning the entire continent", thereby being the sowers of Utopia.
      People have to be either really desperate or simply equally deluded as their leader to follow such men into the grave. Love it or hate it, Italy is well-known for being quite literally bound to its past. Everywhere you go, something will remind you of ages long past. Rocks, an epitaph, perhaps even an entire city uncovered by archaeology, or the billions and billions and billions of towns that haven't changed in a few hundred years. The past sometimes even prevents Italy from becoming more modern, as is evident in Rome where the metro service is very limited because the city is so old and the ground is rife with ruins. Mussolini has become somewhat of a martyr who tried to defend Italy's past against modernization, and that message still finds ears to this day.
      I will add that myths as propaganda were probably one of the reasons why Ancient Greece had so many myths. They loved war, they glorified bloodshed, they glorified all kinds of inhumane actions, paedophilia being one of them, yet their myths were often based on true events (think of the Illiad), real people (Perseus was an actual king), and the myth served to inspire young men to become heroes who would fight for their kings. If they died just as heroically, they might be remembered among the stars for eternity. It's the same how the Alt-Right inspires young impressionable men today.

  • @franciscobrizuela3420
    @franciscobrizuela3420 Před 2 lety +1

    Man, I'm a huge fan of how you're putting all this effort to make online content that actually has interesting things to offer. Best channel!

  • @hazzardmaddison4971
    @hazzardmaddison4971 Před 4 lety +44

    He did descend from the upper class heaven on that escalator for his announcement

  • @aloknr2430
    @aloknr2430 Před 3 lety +3

    Great content friend! Love the logo as well to ur brand.solid. encapsulates what every video stands for. Truly wonderful work here good sir.

  • @LordOmnipraetor
    @LordOmnipraetor Před 3 lety +5

    I love your videos, and I love how fair and unbiased you are in your philosphical analyses. Keep up the great work :)

  • @tutkukrcal3176
    @tutkukrcal3176 Před 3 lety +2

    you are doing a great job! I love the attention you are paying to all details, keep going bro!

  • @samthesomniator
    @samthesomniator Před 3 lety +10

    Nice video.
    At 5:55 it is Plato talking through Sokrates as his fictional character. ☺️

  • @ladislavnemeth3001
    @ladislavnemeth3001 Před 3 lety +2

    This video is top quality, great breakdown and analysis combined with a smooth sense of sarcastic humor. One might call it intellectual entertainment. Thanks a lot, pill!

  • @defmeta
    @defmeta Před 3 lety +7

    I've been watching your videos with my son, you do a really good job of explaining a view without completely obfuscating it in theory. I can see his own views expanding via both literal understanding, and osmosis, and it's entertaining too! ;) cheers.

  • @cindyrauth8215
    @cindyrauth8215 Před 3 lety +16

    This series is phenomenal. You do such a great job of breaking down hard theory and presenting it in relevant contemporary ways. So interesting. I finally feel like I am starting to understand this stuff. Thank you!

  • @kajesimpson126
    @kajesimpson126 Před 2 lety

    Yo. ACTUALLY the best video I’ve seen on CZcams. This content and explanation was 🔥

  • @rzcrzc1449
    @rzcrzc1449 Před 4 lety +8

    Absolutely brilliant. Thank you for your insight and amazing work.

  • @dianamiller3307
    @dianamiller3307 Před rokem

    Just saw this on reccomendation of a friend and subscribed. Fascinating stuff.

  • @domm1341
    @domm1341 Před 3 lety +12

    Excellent stuff! You fight myths with other myths. We’re all sold on emotion, after all. In my country, we have a similar myth about our country being shackled by Europe, and that we can recover lost glories/empire if only we could “take back control”.

    • @half7232
      @half7232 Před 3 lety

      poland?

    • @half7232
      @half7232 Před 3 lety

      @@JoostJGJ ooh yeah that makes sense, i didnt see the bit about empire

    • @sad-qy7jz
      @sad-qy7jz Před 3 lety

      could be Russia, being a first gen immigrant ppl don’t realize that Putin’s russia does literally have these narratives and certain areas are borderline Orwellian hellscapes

    • @DarkAngelEU
      @DarkAngelEU Před 2 lety

      @@sad-qy7jz Putin wants to re-install the KGB and kiss with some old comrades *coughcough* UKRAINE *coughcough* behind the red flag. Russians are aware of what he's trying to do, they're simply too scared to rebel against him because he's such an oppressive asshole. The fact that Trump loves and admires Putin should be a red flag to Americans what kind of America Trump truly desires to establish.

  • @blanchismerris
    @blanchismerris Před 4 lety +9

    I'm teaching semiotics in México. And your video was a really good example to explain what a cultural myth is. Great video!

  • @vovinlonshin3708
    @vovinlonshin3708 Před 3 lety +5

    We need new myth builders to bring down this dragon who is destroying the land with his blight

  • @TheRealSly14Cat
    @TheRealSly14Cat Před 5 lety +14

    I've been really into in sort stuff and had no idea what "semiotics" is. I might take my future undergraduate research into this direction. I'm currently reading Marx then Baudrillard. Where should I go to start with semiotics?

    • @PlasticPills
      @PlasticPills  Před 5 lety +25

      You'll want to look up Saussure, who kicked it off, but what's most interesting are the responses to the structuralist method. Then you get into post-structuralism, which includes later Barthes, Baudrillard, Derrida, and the other big bad "postmodernists."

  • @DanielVoisin
    @DanielVoisin Před 5 lety +29

    Extremely good. Makes very hopeful that there are younger thinkers out there nailing it so hard. The last bit in particular.
    I'm a lunatic but hear me out. Catholicism or something similarly complex, perhaps confuciusism, is a possible answer. I've been waking back up to politics in a more direct way lately, as my kids become older, and the rise of neo fascism has me worried. So I thought I wonder what the Church is up to since they (despite the American myth to say otherwise) fought the last fascists as hard as possible. Even though they didn't kamakazie.
    I found Bannon is opening monestaries across Europe to train neo fascist Catholics and there is a growing schism between the American Chruch and the rest of the Church. Benedict didn't step down and get replaced by a Jesuit (literal warrior of God) for no reason. They're very concerned and aware of how serious things are.
    So they're actually a potential "ally" and La Croix even wrote a recent article arguing Catholics need to choose between Bannon or the Church. (For the record I'm an agnostic and very lapsed Catholic).
    Despite the America myth, which I swallowed, the Church is very sophisticated. Greek and Roman philosophy has been a big part of the church for a long time. It has far more depth than popular media or new atheist myth suggests. Interestingly Peterson used to do the new atheist circuit before his current gig.
    So the result is you don't have people talking to each other or able to share their perspectives on why the problem is happening. Thus preventing anything from being done about it. You also make profane the word God and allow it to be owned by the fascists. You can only find faith through republican Jesus.
    Anyways, like I said I'm a lunatic, and I'll just wrap it up by saying Bellah gives a very good argument that the Plato you just quoted was a religious figure. Exactly like Buddha, Jesus, Confucius, Moses, Mencius, etc. When you're reading the Republic you're not reading a literal guide book for how to order a city. It's instructions on how to order your soul.

    • @PlasticPills
      @PlasticPills  Před 5 lety +16

      Damn--now that's a wall.
      I'm well with you on the potency of myth in religion. 2000 years of syncretism is always gonna leave you with a full store, and that that store can be put to any number of ideological uses--Constantine's Jesus, Evangelical Jesus, or Hippie Jesus. Barthes' relevance in this context is probably how something like 'intentions' are not authoritative when it comes to text, and the meaning of the text is going to necessarily be formed by the context in which it's read, whether it's Jesus or Plato. I appreciate the reflection, it's strangely coherent for a lunatic!

    • @justineady4251
      @justineady4251 Před 3 lety +1

      Do you have any videos of Jordan Peterson in the New Atheist circuit? Maybe I have them if you do have them?

  • @quartzfiend
    @quartzfiend Před 3 lety +1

    Your videos are awesome. Keep it up.

  • @leicalove9384
    @leicalove9384 Před 2 lety

    that dramatic choir music killed me xD

  • @MissCracker
    @MissCracker Před 3 lety +3

    You’re about to blow up.

  • @remotefaith
    @remotefaith Před 3 lety

    11:55 what is the name of this piece of music? kicking myself

  • @taniar2739
    @taniar2739 Před 3 lety

    I love the epic music in the background.

  • @mahumansari6027
    @mahumansari6027 Před 3 lety +1

    Hey! I find your videos amazing! Just a small suggestion, it will be great if you may sometimes keep the background music off. At times, it creates a bit ot distraction esp when one wants to concentrate more on what you're explaining.
    All the best!

  • @liberty-matrix
    @liberty-matrix Před 3 lety +3

    Trump is a marketing genius because he can predict trends and flush out ways of engaging in them.
    He'll leave the semiotics to the art students and historians to ponder.

    • @mobiditch6848
      @mobiditch6848 Před 3 lety +2

      Another myth is established by “analyzing” the myth of Trump rather than say the “social justice” mythology of the DNC’ers thereby avoiding the “wrath” of the TDS’ers.

  • @FirstRoyceMusic
    @FirstRoyceMusic Před 4 lety +5

    Question: why do you consider socialism to be a myth? What do you mean by that? (Greatly enjoyed the video btw!)

    • @PlasticPills
      @PlasticPills  Před 4 lety +31

      Answer: not sure if this is mentioned in the video, but I don't use "myth" pejoratively. Myths--or mythic narratives more precisely--have a necessary cultural function of unifying large groups, particularly by representing a shared past and a vision for the future that marks everyone: friends, enemies, leaders, martyrs, sages, traitors.... etc. These are archetypes. Socialism includes these archetypes: the friends are the wage labourers, the enemies are the current owners of the means of production or the superrich, the leaders are politicians or public figures like Bernie or whomever and so on. The vision for the future is clear enough and everyone who calls themselves a socialist sees themselves as one or another character in the story. Myths are not right or wrong, and they are necessary for mobilization at large scales because they create definite goals, and define the standards for which events count as good/success/important or evil/failure/irrelevant. Glad this was worthwhile to you!

  • @enriquemartinez5647
    @enriquemartinez5647 Před 3 lety

    Where can I buy a shirt like that you are wearing?

  • @benjaminh2120
    @benjaminh2120 Před 5 lety +16

    I liked it. I thought this info was essential.

    • @PlasticPills
      @PlasticPills  Před 5 lety +9

      Glad to hear it dude. All this has been said before, a lot, I'm just trying to give it a crittheory spin (with some tryhard animations for the attention deficient).

  • @wheresmyeyebrow1608
    @wheresmyeyebrow1608 Před 3 lety +1

    I'm gonna need a source on that car image

  • @manso306
    @manso306 Před 3 lety

    I'm in a McDonalds. Is McDonalds me now??
    Love your stuff.
    You say in a more recent video that you sometimes ask yourself if you should just make vlog-style stuff. I appreciate your visuals and effort, though sometimes I just listen to it in the background, while going for a walk or something. Then I only look if you reference something on the screen. Maybe some of your video could be vlogs if that feels good to you; I wouldn't mind.

  • @specialdead
    @specialdead Před 2 lety

    This is top quality edutainment. Thank you for this!

  • @kelvindatson1202
    @kelvindatson1202 Před 3 lety

    God bless you boss, you're very good at this. I never know there's so many symbolism in politics.

  • @theveganqueenofdairy6690

    seems like I've first watched this video months ago, but now I dare say this out loud: how are your eyes so blue and your teeth so perfect? it's hard to concentrate! (even though the content is, of course!, excellent!)

  • @bartvisscher2647
    @bartvisscher2647 Před 2 lety

    5:37 minutes talking about Socrates banning poets reminds me of the song by the band Rush called “Hemispheres” ........it packs a lot of philosophy in 18 minutes

  • @amanofnoreputation2164

    Another good example of a mythical term is "tabernacle." A tabernacle, or _the_ tabernacle, was the earthly dwelling place of the one and only Hebrew god Yahweh fashioned by Moses and the Israelites during their flight from Egypt. This was essentially a portable temple partitioned into a meeting area for the congregation and the Holy of Holies which contained the Ark of the Covenant and four pillars. The tabernacle wasn't just a "dwelling place," as is what the original Hebrew term translates to; the sacredness of this place became a metaphor for one's innermost soul. So the Old Testament also makes references to the tabernacle as a synonym (or perhaps a euphemism) for one's "heart of hearts."
    A place sheltered and separated from the world, yet infinity vague, filled with mystery, and somehow vulnerable; susceptible to being profaned by the wicked as one sees it in other people.
    Look at the image in reverse and the tabernacle becomes like the body of God; the body is taken to be the dwelling place of the soul in the same way that the tabernacle is the dwelling place of the godhead.
    In this we even seem to get a prefiguration of Christ, which is not unlike the idea that God could dwell within a literal human body.

  • @leenasingh8365
    @leenasingh8365 Před 3 lety +1

    This video is such a gem. All my frustrations at having to make my way through literary theory are gone seeing it can be applied in ways that will do so much social good.

  • @dianarodrigues4179
    @dianarodrigues4179 Před 3 lety +1

    HELP
    can someone break down the signifier(meaning) and the signified (concept) in the slogan MAGA according to Barthes?

  • @AnimalJusticeEmergency
    @AnimalJusticeEmergency Před 3 lety +1

    Brilliant. Thank you.

  • @marshallsolomon9488
    @marshallsolomon9488 Před 4 lety +2

    Excellent.

  • @sawbonesquad4876
    @sawbonesquad4876 Před 5 lety +5

    Really well done stuff. Earned another sub

  • @Gwest555
    @Gwest555 Před 6 měsíci

    And when people interact with snakes they don’t, they interact with the “snake”

  • @quincygao9787
    @quincygao9787 Před 4 lety +1

    I expected more introducing of Roland Barthes

  • @memecorporation3167
    @memecorporation3167 Před 4 lety +5

    Got a new sub comrade, great work

  • @megadan66
    @megadan66 Před rokem

    You pick and choose

  • @flynnjaman
    @flynnjaman Před 3 lety

    7:07 Solid Adidas commercial

  • @sawtoothiandi
    @sawtoothiandi Před 4 lety +2

    I consider advertising as propaganda and like party politics a form of black magic, in that they beguile the reason for the purpose of deceit with the aim of exploitation. discuss..

  • @skiphoffenflaven8004
    @skiphoffenflaven8004 Před 2 lety

    We chemists (and other scientists) use signifiers. But we most certainly use language to convey ideas in addition to the signifiers. Saving time as one talks with one who knows what the signifiers are makes sense. What DJT and its supporters did is forego human language and clear communication, and instead relied on signifiers that only they could decode easily, or ‘angrily chummily’, as I like to think of it. Chemists (and scientists) who are worth their potassium chloride (their salt…hehe…he..he.h….) will use language when communicating with those not clued in to the signifiers of their discipline. The failure of DJT and its supporters to do so, especially not in an emotional (“snowflakish”) way, is the summary of the past 14 years of American history.
    Excellent video!!

  • @CynicalBastard
    @CynicalBastard Před 3 lety

    I find that, in my experience, it seems to me that most things undergo the trend and tendency to arbitrarization and over-specialization.

  • @smc9207
    @smc9207 Před 3 lety +1

    To be fair the JBP clip in this one is fine, it is just talking about how people and environment are inseparable

  • @Limits6
    @Limits6 Před 3 lety +1

    Hahahah that Peterson bit 🤣

  • @BlueRockBill
    @BlueRockBill Před 10 měsíci

    1. Love your stuff, and your podcast! 2. In the midwest of America manufacturing is still 25% of jobs. Yes, automation impacted factory reduction, but NAFTA (thanks, Clinton) made a massive shift of industrial jobs first to Mexico then China. This really f'd up A LOT of small towns & urban neighborhoods in the Midwest. They went from nice working-middle class places, to relatively scary in 10 years. This isn't to say that you are wrong, but I think that: 1. A strong myth needs something tangible behind it. 2: The Myth does all the heavy lifting; Instead of a long political-economic discourse on Atari_dems, to Clinton reworking Bush's NAFTA, and to the Service Economy that was a disappointment, AND TO Oxycontin, Pain Killer, Fentanyl addictions... You can just say MAGA. The Myth distills disillusionment with both parties, the economy, etc. and resets to a simplistic (and jaded) solution: Trump.

  • @StephenSchleis
    @StephenSchleis Před 4 lety +2

    Damn dope pills bruv.

  • @johnyoung741
    @johnyoung741 Před rokem

    Awesome.

  • @jamiemackie3994
    @jamiemackie3994 Před 2 lety

    That man spent a lifetime selling himself. Does it become then a surprise to anyone?

  • @zfloyd1627
    @zfloyd1627 Před rokem

    By the way, people on the left also have their own mythologies, just like people on the right.

  • @gregtaillon4019
    @gregtaillon4019 Před 4 lety +1

    How do you pronounce Althusser so well and then Barthes so not-well? jknjk

  • @henriquerodrigues468
    @henriquerodrigues468 Před 10 dny

    brilliant.

  • @ghujjhh9454
    @ghujjhh9454 Před 3 lety

    You know that we're fucked up, when a vedio like this have 3k views.

  • @ricochetsixtyten
    @ricochetsixtyten Před 3 lety +1

    Does Trump know he is a mythmaker or is he doing it unconsciously?

  • @megadan66
    @megadan66 Před rokem

    You've got to make yourself better first before you can help others

  • @HybridLemming
    @HybridLemming Před 3 lety

    Can somebody please tell me where I can find the background music? I don't know why, but it's awesome.

  • @megadan66
    @megadan66 Před rokem

    Because the Chinese and other countries took over manufacturing......And we let it happen with unions, government and big companies working together for themselves and not America...

  • @CynicalBastard
    @CynicalBastard Před 3 lety

    Most neurophysicists would agree with Peterson on that [rare] one [he gets right].

    • @richardhall5489
      @richardhall5489 Před rokem

      I found myself having that queezy feeling of agreement with JP. I'm not a neurophysicist but I came to the conclusion as a result of meditation practice. I won't describe the whole chain of thought as it might be like me cornering you at a party and telling you about a dream I had.

  • @onlyresilience6276
    @onlyresilience6276 Před 3 lety

    Basically everything that is in this sapiens book...

  • @chiefredthrax7418
    @chiefredthrax7418 Před 3 lety

    Gas dawg

  • @JohnTaylor-fh4et
    @JohnTaylor-fh4et Před 3 lety

    We live under the Rule of Lying Liars for money. Should be great, no worries.

  • @megadan66
    @megadan66 Před rokem

    is he talking about himself when he talks about America. How about when he talks about someone else?

  • @thatkidraven6452
    @thatkidraven6452 Před 3 lety +1

    I love your videos but this one is quite dettached from reality. The outsourcing of factories deeply hurt working class America, even if the production keeps going up this only benefits the bourgeousie so Trump it wasn't that mythological Trump was talking to yearning of unemployed that obviously can relate to what he's saying without disregarding the facts

  • @johnkan5619
    @johnkan5619 Před 3 lety

    He doesn’t know he’s perfectly describing Marx’ writings. Probably wasn’t his intention.

    • @justineady4251
      @justineady4251 Před 3 lety

      Why do you say that because Marxism is a meta narrative?

  • @christopherbarber5283
    @christopherbarber5283 Před 3 lety +1

    This is fantastic. Ya bastard. Love it. But hey I can admire Joseph Campbell and Jordan Peterson too while at the same time being aware of the perils of myth.

    • @jackburt5073
      @jackburt5073 Před 3 lety

      check out his video on jordan petersons’, deleuze and guattaris’ ideas.

  • @megadan66
    @megadan66 Před rokem

    Definably a plastic pill. Not A red one

  • @jaysingh05
    @jaysingh05 Před 2 lety

    👍👍

  • @locustsD
    @locustsD Před 3 lety +1

    I like it best when you just talk like this

  • @dawiethomas
    @dawiethomas Před 4 lety +2

    If you could please do an analysis of the new democratic nominees campaign message that will be great. Because every politician uses this mechanism, so what will the nature of Biden's myth be? Please do not tell me he will not be doing the same or that his myth will be true because that is nonsense. Trump won because his myth was more powerful and more effectively distributed.

    • @PlasticPills
      @PlasticPills  Před 4 lety +4

      I'm not all that interested in politics. But the myth of brown nose politicians will forever be: "everything's fine, we got this, dontcha worry folks!" Then they'll point away from any consideration of economic policy that would bother their donors. It's a boring "let's get back to normal." Of course, normal is a f*cked up situation to accept, but again, these vids take a lot of time to make and I'm not all that motivated to separate sour cream from mayo.

    • @mobiditch6848
      @mobiditch6848 Před 4 lety +2

      PlasticPills I enjoyed your video. However your choice of threads for each term’s connotation added a spin (itself a mythology) which distanced you from being confused as a sympathizer. I think of trump as a surrealist strategy more Dali than Breton. Id like to see a Barthean analysis of the democratic platform. You know the platform that used to claim all of those despicable believers as their base. There’s a Zizek video which asks if Hitler was a postmodernist. I’d like to hear your take on it. Thanks again...enjoyed your Lacan videos enormously. Job well done.

  • @stuarthicks2696
    @stuarthicks2696 Před 2 lety

    Trump/Hillary Perseus/Medusa statue was great. Might of been more effective to start with the magazine cover Barthes made use of with the soldier from a colonized French African country and gone from there. Funny I actually listen to NPR just to see it from a bit of Barthes POV. You know the metered adult tone to all the voices meant to signify intellect? Content could almost be anything but as long as it’s spoken in such a way it’s taken as natural that this is smart. Then the commercial for Ira Plato’s Science Today comes on. Man we are smart now! Then back to tying every issue and story of the day to global warming and how an oppressed subculture has a more difficult time dealing with global warming. Meteor heading towards 🌍 will destroy entire planet..LGBTQ community hit harder than the rest. Vacillate between global warming and the oppressed. Lather rinse repeat. Smart. Great video tho.

  • @megadan66
    @megadan66 Před rokem

    Are rusted out factories a myth? Where do you live?

  • @sergey3746
    @sergey3746 Před 3 lety +1

    Quality video. I don't think it's fair to put JBP out of context piece next to some televangelists though.

  • @megadan66
    @megadan66 Před rokem

    Hey, how about the border crisis? Build that wall...

  • @megadan66
    @megadan66 Před rokem

    Tell me exactly how Trump is excluding any Americans?

  • @megadan66
    @megadan66 Před rokem

    No, you perceive MAGA hat as a sign of hatred. They are a sign of loving the country you were born in. Me=America

  • @megadan66
    @megadan66 Před rokem

    Dude automation is a small part of it. Your only giving out the facts or lies that suit your narrative

  • @brandon9172
    @brandon9172 Před 3 lety

    beuh

  • @HenkelmanAndy
    @HenkelmanAndy Před 6 dny

    Pretty biased. I see why it doesn’t have many views. Do one on the Obama myth of “Hope” 😂

  • @johns8944
    @johns8944 Před 3 lety

    I've never seen someone try and stretch basic definitions sooo hard in order to completely warp the truth and spread hate. It's possible that "great" doesn't mean a solely nationalistic uncharitable thievery, rather just the normal perception of "great" as in rights, freedoms, wealth, success, improvements etc. Ultimately something the people would like more.
    "Greatness for trump's America is solely nationalistic. Trump wants not only success but more success than other people and not giving anything up for free. No charity or anything like that, not making the world better, only America."
    How many times has trump bragged about helping other countries, donating the largest amounts in charity, sending military aid to allies, and obviously creating peace in other countries (Kosovo-Serbia, Middle East etc) hence the Nobel Peace Prize nominations.
    All in all the video was alright but the religious music wasn't mixed correctly and made it hard to hear some of the speech.

  • @megadan66
    @megadan66 Před rokem +1

    How about the myth of transgenderism and global warming?

  • @nanba739
    @nanba739 Před 3 lety

    Another way of breaking the Trump myth: Complete failure to counteract the pandemic? Perhaps?

  • @megadan66
    @megadan66 Před rokem

    Prove with facts, not your own rhetoric that Trump's facts were wrong...

  • @megadan66
    @megadan66 Před rokem

    Yeah, come one why don't you give us some left wing mythology?

  • @skitidet4302
    @skitidet4302 Před 3 lety

    I found a serious error with your video. The graph at 12:58 smelled like total BS so I did some digging. It comes from this blog www.aei.org/carpe-diem/october-2-is-manufacturing-day-so-lets-recognize-americas-world-class-manufacturing-sector-and-factory-workers/ and it is very misleading as it does not account for inflation or growth of the economy as a whole, ofc the number will go up if you leave that out. What is even stranger is that his data supposedly goes back to 1947 but his listed source only gives me data from 1997.
    When I adjusted for inflation the gross growth in manufacturing is only a few percent from 1997 to 2014 and not like 60% as the graph erroneously shows. Also, the numbers on the graph are wrong on his graph, they are wrong by almost a factor of 3 according to his own listed source. I would not touch that graph with a 10 foot pole as it is clear that it's intentionally designed to be misleading.
    A much more honest evaluation would be to look at the data for "Industry Economic Account Data: GDP by Industry" from his listed source, in the period from 1997 to 2014 manufacturing went from 16.1% of total US GDP down to 11.7% of total US GDP. It dosen't seem so world class now does it when it has lost so much in just 17 years.

    • @slm711
      @slm711 Před 3 lety

      Just read Imperialism in the 21st Century. All economics graphs are pretty much lying

    • @skitidet4302
      @skitidet4302 Před 3 lety

      ​@@slm711 Thanks, but I already know. I'm Fash to the bone so I already know how this evil, demonic, globalist, materialist and capitalist liberal world order works.
      We would have finished them off back in WW2 and broken our peoples free if the dam commies hadn't sided with their co-ethnics against our liberation movement.

    • @skitidet4302
      @skitidet4302 Před 3 lety

      @@vals4207 I'm not a schizo and I'm not on Reddit because I'm not a homosex who drinks soy.
      I'm simply a humble denizen of the internet that spotted this snake spitting venom and wanted to help the people listening to him get a chance to avoid the venom.

    • @yashbisht33
      @yashbisht33 Před 2 lety

      @@skitidet4302 we're still here and all your worst fears will come true! gulags won't be easy on you!

    • @skitidet4302
      @skitidet4302 Před 2 lety

      ​@@yashbisht33 You are like 100 years off message, the Gulags for the G o y s plan died with Trotsky and all the chosen Trotskyists went on to become NeoCon as that was their plan B.

  • @megadan66
    @megadan66 Před rokem

    You've made this u out of your own ideological narrative. you have few facts and how you interpret them.... You believe your own ideological mythology

  • @suburbanyobbo9412
    @suburbanyobbo9412 Před 3 lety

    Conveniently avoiding Trump’s Realist foreign policy, perhaps the most important aspect of Trump’s 2016 campaign and his 4 years in office. Woefully misinterpreting National Populism.
    This is painfully naive Liberal interpretation.