I love The Swerve! One of my favorite mind-blowing books. Thanks for bringing this to life in this video.

How do you think Lucretius “know” about atoms and their behaviour? And more importantly, why do you think Europeans took this “ knowledge” seriously?

The Swerve is a great book.

This is a great explanation of the thought process from the Renaissance on

Very nice, thank you for this.

Tell us also about Leibnitz and other thinkers who just before renaissance went in Asia binary logic, Algorithm,maths from Egypt,and India,but not only,let the world know we are brothers and sisters and like atoms interact, exchanges,and learn one from another.Not still persisting vision that all I have is mine and all you have is mine too including your integrity

There at last something that make sense ❤

"I told him we've already got one!" 😅 Great video! As much as I'm aware of the fact that we have no evidence of a purpose or importance as sentient beings, I also get the impression that the universe allowed a path for such beings to occur. Even if we are the result of a purely statistical arrangement of atoms, there are so many more ways for us not to exist, it's one hell of a fluke. One could say there was a 100% probability that we would come to exist and we are the evidence, but we know that the wave function never predicts a 100% probability for anything. There's a fundamental uncertainty beneath our most successful model of physics and that uncertainty is NECESSARY for the occurrence of sentient beings where the determinism drops off. The fact that we exist combined with the function of our minds indicates not 1, but 2 extraordinarily unlikely events in the same place at the same time. I'm sure that I cannot imagine exactly how the universe turned out this way, I only think that it's doubley unlikely given the scale of what we are able to observe.

Can i find a copy of that book as originally written ?

i can speak. omg, it feels so good. i'm back, youtube

CORRECTION: Galileo wasn’t executed, but imprisoned and then put under house arrest for the remaining decade of his life.

There are too many things wrong with what you are saying to enumerate them, but almost every one of these "implications" has now been de-bunked by more cutting edge science. Continuing to cling to these ideas as "smart" or "enlightened" is now more akin to buying into a life-style brand than it is a product of rational or critical thought.

Well done this is a fantastic video

Definitely going to try this. Thanks!

Wow ive heard, studied, and have read so much. This is absolutely incredible and im mindblown that this isnt more well known and spoken about. Ive never heard of Lucretious or seen a video anywhere about him! 😅😊

Great video👍

Really enjoyed this man good job. Glad the algorithm is working in ur favor

I actually spoke to Greenblatt while he was doing a book tour for the swerve. I talked to him backstage and asked him a question in the audience... Silly to me now, but then I was young and asked if it was possible to predict when Humanity was about to make a sudden swerve, by studying history and it's patterns (I was quite obsessed with chaos theory and myths telling stories in circular time). I wondered whether it was possible, by studying our history (the stories we tell ourselves of it), to tell when humanity was about to make a sudden shift from an system of order, to one of chaos. The theory being that you could see a buildup of tension by the increasing rigidity of polarities (much like we have in the world right now)... Anyway, a wonderful book!

Nice video man, great topic and you do it justice.

I liked this a lot, thanks for making it!

Frank Zappa reference

The work becomes elevated beyond simple "bad" status when an artist is able to maintain their sincerity in the face of opposition. A lot of this art is incredibly genuine even it isn't coherent or competent. The spirit of true creativity is often just as celebrated as mastery of the craft.

The absolute best genius of bad art is Faraón Love Shady, the ultimate reggaeton musician

Here’s a comment for the algorithm my man.

13:07 Good bad art breaks table legs too, apparently :p

Neil Breen is the purest version of a bad artist. He insists that he is a very serious artist but his fanbase is entirely composed of people who think his movies are bad. But they're wonderfully bad. Fascinatingly bad. Bad in a way that could only be made by this particular man. "Fateful Findings" is a disasterpiece. I love it.

Les Dawson and his piano. Likewise that sketch with Morecambe & Wise featuring 'Andre Preview'. And especially Tommy Cooper. They weren't obliviously bad while being convinced of their genius like The Queen's Poet, Florence Jenkins and Tommy Wiseau. They set out to redefine being bad by conventional artistic standards into something new and sublime. I think there is a difference.

I used to use Thopas/Topaz as a pen name because I always felt my poetry was bad! 😁

13:36 one exception that comes to mind is the now dead art of “trollfiction”, which was a parody of badly written fanfiction. it was both so-bad-it’s-good and deliberately written to be that way. many people still fondly remember “my immortal” for example.

What's the clip at 5:18 from? Great video by the way.

It is a bit of a cliché to describe something So Bad Its Good as 'Comedy Gold' but that, to my mind, is exactly what Country singer Red Sovine's 1976 hit 'Teddy Bear' is. While I would not describe it as being deliberately _bad,_ which would rather disqualify it, it is without doubt a cynical hack job that _definitely_ sniggers in the face of its audience. If Liberace famously "Cried all the way to the bank" (brilliant!), Red unquestionably laughed like a drain. His tale, told from the point of view of a gold hearted trucker trawling for contacts on the CB radio in his cab, relates the story of a crippled×, orphaned urchin whose one joy in life is to converse with -lorr- passing truckers on his late dad's old CB rig, against the wishes of his mother who doesn't want him bothering these knights of the road, and whose Christmases all come at once one day after the brave little soldier chokes out his memories of riding high in the cab of his pop's 18 - wheeler, keeping him company. That's all finished now, of course, with his dad gone. Unable to play because of his legs, his only friends are the truckers he raises on that CB. Well, sho' nuff' that noble traveller gets the waifs address and puts the pedal to the metal as, schedule be damned, he will show our little waif a good time -- but, SPOILER ALERT! Every trucker for miles around has descended on 2233 Evergreen Terrace (or wherever it is) where they are queueing up for their chance to bring the kid (handle, I kid you not, 'Teddy Bear') for rides around the county... I mean, the song couldn't even be made today - one doesn't have to have a dirty mind, or even a particularly jaded worldview to cop to the fact that it plays like it's the set up for a kiddie fiddlers fantasy in the same way that if we saw some 'stud' type delivering pizzas to a sorority house full of 'babes' engaged in a pillow fight, who have mislaid their pocket books, it would be a fair bet that this is not a work by Tarkovsky or Bergman! The song has everything; tragic, disabled Tiny Tim (the Dickens one!) figure, _check!_ In fact, iirc, the lad isn't just crippled; in his own words, "He won't be around much longer" - talk about trowelling it on! Parent cruelly snatched away, _check!_ The struggling, sainted widow, _check!_ the wayfaring stranger with a noble heart, _check!_ heroic cast of extras, sure thing! Liberal use of latest fad or gew~gaw (citizens' band radio) - absolutely! The fact that the song dominated the top 10 on both sides of the Atlantic for a good year suggested that Red's many subscribers weren't buying the song out of an appreciation for kitsch or an appreciation for a certain type of irony, they bought into the song 100%, hook, line & sinker; and, nearly 50 years later, the gushing comments on the song's KZbin page suggest much the same. I would surmise there were 3 types of people who were, in the main, buying the record; sentimental housewives of the kind that keep those lurid penny dreadful "My Baby was Born with No Head" and "Why I married the Man who 7aped Me and Set Me on Fire!" Magazines in business; (are they a 'thing' in the States? Obviously they have their own tabloids featuring 'Elvis, Back From the Grave", and "Trump Colluding with Gray Aliens to Steal Election" - type headlines, but their UK counterparts, like Lileth, demand carnage!) Secondly, (I contend) there were those rather tragic sorts of old person who turn a blind eye to the near~blatant thieving of their grandchildren for the purposes of subsidizing gambling debts or drug habits, so desperate are they for company; and who use their welfare cheques to enrich kleptocratic, philandering tele~evangelists; and lastly - truck drivers; well, natch! What _is_ it with truck drivers anyway, the American ones in particular?! Yes, it's true they have a hard and skilled job and I'm sure they do deserve better pay and conditions, and yes, if they wanted they could shut down the economy more or less overnight - but _boy,_ do they ever have an inflated idea of themselves (this is confirmed in the comments on the songs KZbin 'page'.) And Americans buy into this - just check out an American on meeting a trucker - they almost perceptibly stiffen and go into "Thank You for Your Service" mode, which the truck drivers seem to accept as their due. I don't necessarily agree with the way we rank and value jobs anyway, but I don't seem to see bus or train drivers get this sort of acclaim, or even pilots, or for that matter, _doctors!_ 'Influencers' and celebrities, mind you? Probably better you don't even get me started! At least ol' Red, unlike C.W. 'Convoy' McColl (if that _is_ his real name!), was, as far as I'm aware, a bona fide trucker, if that means anything. I think I've sufficiently - more than sufficiently - explained and enumerated 'Teddy Bear's inadvertently comic attributes, but why, you may wonder, the vitriol for the song, or, indeed truckers? Could it be that, having lost a leg, and having once entertained the ambition of having a career as a lorry driver myself, and even a more than passing interest in things 'radio', the song bears uncomfortable parallels with my own life? Might it be that this is a case of The 'Lady' that "Protesteth Too Much"?! Not a chance! I utterly reject that assertion! Pure Co~incidence... This song _stinks..._ but it stinks like expensive French cheese! Given the sorts of people drawn to this video, I say, listen to the song and I defy you to keep a straight face! ×'Crippled' - notwithstanding that I'm the sort of person who prefers to call a spade a spade, given that I've lost one leg and am in the process of losing the other by degrees, I think I'm allowed to use that word!

Tiny Tim was a wonderful performer. He had a unique camp persona that he executed brilliantly. You might not care for it, but he does not belong as am example of so bad it's good, no more than, say, Andy Kaufman.

8:55 wait... does Dr. John not know that Prince Harry's book IS bad? Has he not read it? The book is bad, bad, bad, in so many ways. It doesn't even quite manage to be so bad it's good, unlike his wife's podcast.

After watching this, I like to amuse myself with the mere possibility however minute, that if there _is_ such a thing as reincarnation William McGonagall could legitimately be the reincarnated Shakespeare, with brain damage.

I enjoy kitch poetry with a lot of melodrama thrown it. You can’t beat Mark Twains ‘ The Tombstone schoolyard.’

I have a lot of insubstantial reasons why I love the 'gloriously bad,' but the reason I've I keep coming back to is they serve as an artistic palete cleanser. I love your perspective on this. First time viewer, and definitely subscribiing.

What is the scene with the screaming guy and girl with the itchy trigger finger from please?

The humour bad art generates is worth the effort by creators, it shows their humanness.

I never considered how similar bad art and avant garde art are in terms of how they break expectations and established rules, really interesting to think about. Good video and really cool analysis 👍

Shooby Taylor.

Cool video

There are a few great trolls in history. He is without a doubt pulling you in

I think the issue with discussing why we like bad art is that we're really talking about many overlapping yet distinct things. Like, you use Nicholas Cage clips, and the thing is... is he a bad actor? I could agree he is, in that he doesn't adeptly portray a variety of distinct and nuanced characters... but that isn't what we're looking for from him in the first place. People are drawn to Cage for his quirks, his personality, his charisma, things that would be distorted if he did "act well." He's over the top and people love that. Jack Black is another example of this. There are a whole host of actors like this. You can say they aren't good actors, but if you shift your perspective on what it means to act, perhaps they're amazing actors, and the "good actors" are actually bad. I mean, both things are simultaneously true and not true. But then there's stuff like The Room. Works of passion, where you get the sense that the person making it really cares about what they're doing. They're really trying their hardest. They are invested. This is also a charm that you could say about a lot of early YT content. People made content that wasn't necessarily "good" but with lots of passion. This is compelling, endearing, and because they're really trying, it tends to be interesting. It's the sort of thing kids have, but people lose as they get older. What they create may be utter garbage, but they mean it wholeheartedly, and that's compelling on some level. Then there's also that some bad art is often just funny. It's over the top. It's absurd. It's parody without intentionality. Like that clip of the guy being shot. It's Austin Powers but without the creators being in on the joke. Bad art that's just bad lacks these features. The acting is poor, and you're not getting a charismatic performance. It lacks passion, and is formulaic. It's not over the top or absurd, it's just boring. There's also a class of bad content that I feel is worth mentioning. That is "offensively bad" content. For me, this is where I place creation that seems to hold it's audience in contempt. It's the creative equivalent of spitting in someone's face. But ultimately any attempt at defining these differences is just a story we're telling ourselves. These things are subjective. They don't have actual criteria. They're a vague feeling that emerges from the complexities of our minds. Asking what makes a good movie good is like asking what makes something beautiful. We can talk about it for days, and tell ourselves really compelling stories about what makes something "good bad," or beautiful, or anything similar, but at the end of the day, they're just stories. Those stories might be useful, but it's important not to confuse them as being the truth.

It's like when that guy from Equatorial Guinea swam in the 2000 Olympics. He was so bad, it looked like he might need to be rescued, it took nearly two minutes to swim 100m, the slowest time in history. But how everyone cheered when he finally reached the end without drowning!

A big factor on ratings is the filter. The less popular something is the more you know that the people who are leaving reviews are actually into that thing, whereas the more popular something is, the less that's the case. You don't buy a book of poetry by some guy known as the worst poet ever not wanting exactly what you're getting, but a good portion of people buying a really popular book are at best only casually interested, and then there's also that anything popular draws haters just to be contrarian.

He may have just been conning everybody. The incident with the Queen goes to show that good poet or not he never would've mistaken the phrase "Thank you for your interest" for "Welcome on board" without a fundamental misunderstanding of the English language and its contextual usage, I suppose just as much back then as it would be nowadays. He certainly understood the English language, good poet or not. He constantly saught attention, and he certainly got it, all the way to current day.

Please remember that magician Tommy Cooper 11:14 , deliberately performed badly.

Now this guy. THIS guy was definitely autistic

This guys poetry is nowhere near as bad as the garbage Alistair Crowley wrote🤷

I feel like 'good bad art' is similar to camp art, in the way that both are earnest executions of ideas in an unconventional manner. One point that the RedLetterMedia guys often mention, is that a good bad movie is one that keeps finding new and interesting ways to be bad; but an actually bad movie is bad in a consistent way.