I've seen Don Quixote being called "the Deadpool of knights" and wonder how accurate that statement is.

Such a good video. Very thought provoking. Well done.

28:30 i would not say the blame for the handling of covid should be with the technocrats. It failed much more at the hands of the anti intellectual, ignorant populists of the merchants and especially priest class class.

Time to read the Stormlight Archive, my man. The Knights Radiant and their squires returning after centuries is a story entirely about the chivalric romance reemergence in a society that let it die.

It get to the point where the people who call every media messages anti-fascism behaving like actual fascist. They would straight up call you a fascist, and demonize you for giving a different view point on certain media. People are allow to give their own view point on certain thing

FOR THE EMPEROR!!!!

Have you heard about the The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction?

Good lord, fuck off autoplay.

Yea it’s basically accepted now that Martin was subconsciously writing a story about true heroism and then realized it and couldn’t accept it which is why it took him so long to finish the book because all the pieces came together where a true hero must unite the waring factions into one people with a noble cause and a mythos surrounding a great person etc. Whether that was John or Jamie doesn’t really matter now because there zero chance Martin will go with the Tolkien centric view point he adamantly disagrees with. I mean this guys made a literal God that allows resurrection and had flaming swords. Martin was one step away from becoming high fantasy.

Theocratic and warrior are cool the others are gae as f.

As the matter fact, I think we must adapt cultural and archetypal legacy rather than ruin it. Yes, we are deep into post- and meta-modernism, but the overall influence, to say so, of the "natural" patterns is the base we simply can not reject in order to simply survive all the strife is happening now.

"It's the Ghost of Fascism!!"

Lets do handmaiden's tale. Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse for some.

Thank you for understanding of the Ukrainian situation and all the historical premises 🙏

Listened to this while i did the washing up and then made tuna pasta, listened to the whole video. Very insightful and gave me a lot to think about, it also changed my perspective on a few things. I love how well thought out this was great video, liked and subbed

Dude is ignorant of the amount and variety of intersex folk there are. Waves it around like a brave culture warrior. Is it deliberate reductive misrepresentation of a complex subject to reinforce your own opinion?

You produce great videos my dude. I've been a soldier for 15 years now (yes I've been deployed and have seen combat), I take philosophy courses online as a hobby (online universities are max flexible thank god). I'm also a WH40K nerd. In context to your video, I think Socrates got it right in terms of a Guardian/Auxillary class. Some people just have a nature to be suited for different things. Soldiers still have to have empathy, charm, etc. Especially if they are leaders. You're going to have people breaking down from long periods away from their family and living hard for so long. You're going to have guys who seemed good-to-go during training and then freeze/panic when the actual thing happens (universally, in my experience, these were always the full metal jacket types who turned out to be cowards). You're going to need creative soldiers who think outside the box, because the decentralized command philosophy puts all the weight of the mission success on the sub-units. So back to it, I think Socrates idea of "the noble dog" for soldiers is relevant. He basically says that the nature of soldiers is to be "spirited" and then should also study philosophy about as much as they train for combat to prevent them from committing crimes and overthrowing the government that pays them (Republic). Anyways, thanks for the video man, your channel is great

Miguel de Cervantes sounds like a real life old Ben Kenobi.

Superman is subversion of "Power corrupts" Clark Kent is who he truly is , Superman is what he can do He tries to save everyone even if he can't His upbringing differs him very obviously from Homelander and Omni Man Plutonian was written by Superman writers answering What if Superman had no Clark Kent? Omni Man - What If Superman had evil conquerer father ? Homelander- What if Supe was created and raised in company lab by Scientists, unable to become the hero he ever wanted to be?

so we're just gonna pretend that female knights were as common as male knights because some fiction was written about them in the medieval times now? What a weird tangent you went o0n. Cringe.

28:40 bad one. China kind of controlled the spread fast and clean before the vaccine even is a thing.

As someone who has read the reincarnated as a villainess genre stuff... it is pretty much built around 3 major types of plotlines: 1) Deconstruction of the Maiden (Otome) Game storyline. Instead of the Heroine, who is typically a commoner or a noble in name only, stealing the love interest of the Villainess, which is typically a Prince, the Villainess overcomes adversity and at times supernatural correction forces that try to enforce the original storyline to keep the heart of her finacee. In the end the Villainess is the one who wins, preventing the cheating from occurring and causing the Heroine to either be hoist by her own petard in a reversal of roles or give up. 2) Subversion of the "Happily Ever After" of the Maiden (Otome) Game, this is where the story is built around "zamaa" aka "just deserts" where the Prince is stolen, the engagement is called off, but the Villainess gets to be our perspective character in watching everything fall apart for the unfaithful Foolish Prince. The Heroine gets consumed by decadence and luxury she never got to experience before, she is proven to be useless, and the "true love" relationship rapidly breaks down (especially if the Villainess hooks up with an even better looking guy which causes the Heroine to try to steal that man instead while abandoning Foolish Prince). Commonly in the end the Foolish Prince and the Heroine wind up getting executed or imprisoned for causing tremendous damage to the nation while the Villainess is the one who gets the Happy End, putting her Queen training to use alongside the second Prince or in another country with a major aristocrat. If built off of a reverse harem route this type tends to be very, very, brutal with entire countries collapsing because that is what happens when you start a feud between the royal family and every other big aristocratic family because one Viper of a commoner girl managed to sink her fangs into the next generation Royal Knight Commander, Prime Minister, Royal Purveyor, and Court Mage Commander causing 8 high ranking aristocratic families who are the core of the nation's ability to function to break off their very political and important fiancee arrangements. This one always ends with an execution of idiots. 3) Freedom from an enforced role of misfortune and finding love elsewhere, pretty self explanatory. This one is more of a traditional story of facing adversity after falling to rock bottom, typically this is a situation where the engagement is broken and the Villainess is banished from the country with the Villainess simply not caring about what happens with her lost Prince and the Heroine. Sometimes it is a situation that the Villainess intentionally caused in order to obtain the freedom to pursue their own interests instead of being bound down by the role of having to be a Queen and be with a man she simply does not like. Sometimes this is a reaction to "waking up" too late to have prevented the situation. Regardless the focus is more on exploring the world and finding love on the Villainess' own terms. Sometimes you see moments of the Foolish Prince regretting what he did once he realizes the true personality of his Heroine and trying to get the Villainess back after realizing his mistakes.

Absolutely mindblowing video 🎉

1:09:00 You are actually a worker. You sell your labour. (Selling or promoting others things _may_ make you a trader, but not a capitalist.)

Heroism is timeless. Every human race and culture I can think of has a mythological hero showing fathomless courage and/or sacrifice. All of this thinly veiled bitterness and envy are traits of only the lowest of villains. We can see it for what it is because actual heroism resonates with us. We don't have to be told by our "betters" why it is socially poignant in order for us to like it.

Great essay! Love it and will try the your Fables! Cheers!

That’s a really cool note on the symbols of heraldry. Also: “Shazamily” is unnecessarily funny to me

Lore of Why They Can't Subvert the Hero momentum 100

Billions of Duncans died during the making of this video.

The funny thing about the high fantasy genre is that while Tolkien is indeed massively influential to the genre, one of the most recognizable and significant fantasy platforms, Dungeons and Dragons actually takes a lot more inspiration from the pulp 'sword and sorcery' stories. The only thing DnD took from Tolkien was some of the races. But the classes, the way the magic system works, the nature of the divine are all much closer to Conan than middle earth. You see this especially in R. A. Salvatores Drizzt books, which basically are just Sword and Sorcery books set in the Forgotten Realms.

Thanks for the Thanos diss, and his idiotic plan.

Mostly I agree with the general sentiment but a bit dismissive of other viewpoints. Regardless I wish you all well. Sincerely -The Void

"Why are government officials obsessed over transgender stuff?" Because it's easy to trigger bigots with that and to win their minds. And their votes.

Having hunger games as socialism in the title card feels ao weird when capital represents the excess and greed of late stage capitalism and the exploitation of other groups. This is akin to neo colonialism that happens today with capitalist nations. Not that a socialist dystopia can't exist I'm just saying that hunger games does not feel like an example of that.

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The only reason Eowyn is proto-woke modern nonsense is the whole "I am no man" line, which undermined what happened in the book and the importance of Merry's Barrow-blade in breaking the Witch King's magic.

I can't overstate how much I appreciated this video! Everything from the base claims, to the evidence you supplied, to the way you articulated it was convincing and very high quality in my opinion. I think, with this, you certainly made the internet a slightly better place. Thank you for it.

Just got done playing NieR: Automata recently and my existential crisis dystopia cup is full to the brim

10:16 you're good bro👍🏻

This adds context to why those who have given themselves to Slaanesh view people like Elon Musk as public enemy # 1. Why strive for progress when deviancy and collapse are so easy?

The paradox of medical advancement. Medical knowledge, serving to treat and alleviate the suffering of people, makes it's greatest advancements through tragic human suffering.

I can feel my brain getting filled with so much knowlwge it hurts. Maybe it us because i'm whatching this at 3am

Bro your explanation of why GRRM hasn’t finished the books hits home…

Well your favorite author j.r.r Tolkien said he go with anarchy then the society he is living in

_Mushoku Tensei_ was one of the first novels that set off the isekai trend more than ten years ago, around the same time that the _Sword Art Online_ anime was released. You shouldn't read too much into the fact that the _MT_ anime is only just now airing (other than the fact that the anime industry is full of incompetent execs who don't know what their audience wants). _Mushoku Tensei_ and _Shield Hero_ are the two works that laid down the tropes that were shamelessly imitated by the rest of the isekai genre.

Seems like the socialists can't accept that socialism is inherently authoritarian 😂

cyberpunk

I want to live in whatever dystopia chooses me at its singular leader, backed up by emergency powers stretched to infinity. I would usher in a nation where all the trains were on time, every time. I would firmly define the national region and culture, and reform the prison system. Under my iron-fisted leadership our nation would be the most powerful nation in the region. The economic system and government structure I leave to others. The only relevant part of my desire is to not be on the bottom rung of such a civilization. I would also settle for a dystopia where I get to avoid being the "peasant" of the system, where I would get to be a general, bureaucrat, baron, corporate owner, archduke, or similar. A commissar or apparatchik where I could avoid the worst outcomes of being in such a dystopia. Of course I would much prefer to be well off and somewhat higher on the rung of a non-dystopian civilization. Even if I cannot be the king, I would rather not be a peasant either.

Jesus I hate Second Thought lo Thank you!

1. morality is objective (not subjective) 2. Christianity discovered the most accurate morality 3. writing non-Christian heroes always fails because. No person has discovered anything better 4. people don't like failed/sub-par heroes