People's egos start to develop when they are quite young. As they get older and dream of doing difficult things they are confronted with a painful mismatch between their assessment of their self and their inability to reach their goals. This makes the task of accomplishing their dream doubly difficult as it becomes personally painful and disorienting. Some people with very powerful minds find that the same power that propelled them so far at first can become redirected at these and other inconsistencies. It's a bit of a setup, isn't it?
@siddarthmohta85042 ай бұрын
Excellent
@jendolak3022 ай бұрын
Beautiful analysis. Once we learn to release the old stories of ourselves and create one that better serves us tremendous healing can occur. I love this movie!
@Beruxar2 ай бұрын
Great video! Looking forward to rewatch Arrival soon :)
@Beruxar2 ай бұрын
Great video, really enjoyed listening to your thoughts on that topic! :)
@Peter-ky5uh2 ай бұрын
Thanks for this video. Getting stuck with a certain image of oneself is something I can definitely relate to.
@ororo1013 ай бұрын
This was beautiful. Thank you for sharing it 💙
@ryanwebste3 ай бұрын
I just read the courage to be, so searched KZbin for videos expanding on its ideas, and I found your video. Nice work. I'm looking forward to watching more of your content.
@TWINS109844 ай бұрын
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@brianhenderson95994 ай бұрын
The Butlerian Jihad is Frank Herbert escaping the Frankenstein’s Monster trap that so much sci-fi thoughtlessly falls into and instead embraces the truth that even if our technology becomes oppressive it is because it is fulfilling tasks that we have programmed it to perform.
@serpenttree4 ай бұрын
Good take! For me the Butlerian Jihad allows to focus entirely on the human element, which is why I love Dune so much.
@zchularoceribfjan4 ай бұрын
It's the human family itself which is fascist and without transcending its repression and cycle of death there will be no life: And f/ck your heteronormative "lover's touch" - whose peace and whose "no" is this? Everyone means *everyone*.
@zchularoceribfjan4 ай бұрын
Nice one - so we'll step aside and let the planet rise above a temperature and carbon point of no return. That seems a long-sighted plan.
@serpenttree4 ай бұрын
How is this comment in any way related to the video?
@zchularoceribfjan4 ай бұрын
😮 The Will to Power did not then "manifest" itself - it is all there has ever been, to the contrary of fascist metaphysics and democratic farce.
@serpenttree4 ай бұрын
I wholeheartedly disagree, there have been other driving forces throughout history, and a striving towards a basic embodied decency has been one of them.
@Ai-he1dp4 ай бұрын
The psychology of hate, has become a science to those it benefits.
@nickibinski5 ай бұрын
What a beautiful piece. So well curated. Love your heart and your message. It is true, this movie is one that poises for awakening. I am having a similar experience myself now that I have discovered it, so many years after it's been released.
@elijah47595 ай бұрын
Beautiful video
@TJ_ax6 ай бұрын
First Man is so underrated im happy you included shots from it
@iamchristiankasper6 ай бұрын
amazing essay and helps me to understand Paul Tillichs book!
@robertotarantino57787 ай бұрын
this is a brilliant articulation of emotion and feeling and i commend you
@serpenttree7 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@Hoots_Maguire8 ай бұрын
Though I disagree with your conclusions on ideology - in fact real socialism as practised in worker collectives is deeply liberating and empowering to the individual - I think your praise of Camus is well-deserved. If he'd lived longer, he no doubt would have joined with Frantz Fanon, another victim of cancer at a young age.
@pamelaj12268 ай бұрын
A beautiful video. 🙏🏽
@craigkeller8 ай бұрын
Outstanding. Thank you 🙏.
8 ай бұрын
Camus did not practice decency or solidarity with his wife Francine. Camus’ cruel infidelities with other women drove his wife to depression & suicide attempts. Miguel de Unamuno is, I think, a similar philosophical guide with more integrity & coherence.
@mfenaughty8 ай бұрын
Movie Name: Far From Men (2014) starring Viggo Mortensen
@StrangeLoops48 ай бұрын
Wow, beautiful story and well told. Very happy this was recommended to me.
@AlokAsthana19548 ай бұрын
Yes, decency is the start point, the only start point possible, of everything good.
@corrupt12388 ай бұрын
Excellent video, have liked & subbed, look forward to more, thank you.
@sphinxtheeminx8 ай бұрын
And not a woman in sight.
@stevenstewart34148 ай бұрын
For me, this was monumental. It expressed what I have always known deep inside... even though it had never fully flooded my conscious mind.
@serpenttree8 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing that!
@martinaseidel33168 ай бұрын
thank you for reminding me that camus is from algeria. i find it so interesting how that seems to get forgotten in discussions of him. also, thank you for introducing me to this movie which i'd never heard of! shame really. at first i thought your title was meant to be ironic in some way and i hoped that decency wasn't going to be dismissed so i'm glad i stayed. but also it reminds me of a school of life video about politeness, for some reason, something about not needing to know all the ins and out of a situation but to treat other people with dignity and respect.
@llyando8 ай бұрын
Awesome video.
@imacg58 ай бұрын
Camus never "celebrated" loneliness and estrangement, it was precisely the existential crisis haunted him and drove him to propose that "suicide is the only one really serious philosophical problem". His initial answer was to revolt against this situation, hence "One must imagine Sisyphus happy". In other words, Man in the Absurd must be happy, not because loneliness must be celebrated, but because Man must revolt against the situation, and be happy about this revolt. But simply revolt is not enough, as Zizek once asked: what is it like the second morning after the success of the Revolution? And Camus' later thinking is more an answer to this question of his youth than a "transformation".
@futuristica17108 ай бұрын
This is the pacifism Putin would love to see prevail, so he can take whatever he wants.
@serpenttree8 ай бұрын
I wholeheartedly disagree
@thomass67578 ай бұрын
Sounds like modern DIE
@futuristica17108 ай бұрын
*DE and I.
@shortminute8 ай бұрын
Well Done, thank you. You've made me want to read Camus again.
@castelodeossos39478 ай бұрын
'The same dynamic that tore the whole of Europe apart was replaying itself during' (8:39) the establishment and perpetuation of the State of Israel. (Not mentioned by the narrator, although whoever wrote the subtitles slipped in 'Eretz Israel' at 7:14.)
@serpenttree8 ай бұрын
I had originally in the script but removed it. Good catch, thanks!
@castelodeossos39478 ай бұрын
@@serpenttree Sorry, you removed it. The most obvious (and certainly among the worst) modern case of the dynamic under discussion, although the same dynamic, of course, means one mentions it at one's peril.
@serpenttree8 ай бұрын
@@castelodeossos3947 I removed it because as you can hear it is not in the final video.
@castelodeossos39478 ай бұрын
@@serpenttree That is why I wrote 'Not mentioned by the narrator'.
@consequences56388 ай бұрын
Could well inspire or impress Darwin Award nominees and such like. It's a sort of fairy tale which would make it popular also.
@intellectually_lazy8 ай бұрын
no, to the building managers and janitors, the police, social workers and emts, who tell me i better turn that person or people back out on to the streets and the arctic snap, or else
@intellectually_lazy8 ай бұрын
if anyone ever remembers one comment i post, let it be this: every atrocity begins with dehumanization
@joshuapoe38308 ай бұрын
True. Gotta fool that pesky right brain and it's blindness to separation somehow....
@intellectually_lazy8 ай бұрын
yeah, i'm so tired of tankies calling me a petite bougiousie just because i ain't on board with everything they say. well i ain't joining no revolution that's gonna uphold all the same heirarchies which have been keeping us down so long as they're not based in class
@intellectually_lazy8 ай бұрын
and you can spit at me with every syllable. i shant drown. not one drop of your multitudinous saliva can make through the screen, mr. bigshot, hollywood, or the eastern european equivalent, comparing yourself to diogenes who would obvious relieve himself on you
@MannyEspinola-q4t8 ай бұрын
Thank you for this video
@MykalMalloy8 ай бұрын
An automotan tightly bound up in the chain of command. WOW.. Those words are so strong and so relevant in our world.
@MrUndersolo8 ай бұрын
I have read his Algerian writings, and I admire the man even more than I thought possible. Thank you for this!
@jamesdunne98338 ай бұрын
Just brilliant. Thank you.
@staciemarcus58089 ай бұрын
thank you for giving meaning to what how this movie affected me. It has awakened me and for that I am thankful.
@tavenstrickert96589 ай бұрын
Do you watch like stories of old?
@serpenttree9 ай бұрын
Yes, I do! My style is inspired by his videos. I try to put more focus on the philosophical, psychological themes rather than the cinematography.
@tavenstrickert96589 ай бұрын
@@serpenttreeI thought I saw the inspiration. You definitely have a similar cadence and presentation style. But yes I really appreciate it. Your focus on the philosophy. I think his early works focused more on philosophy, but his videos in the last year have been more about the cinematography which has also been fascinating. Some of my favorite videos were the cloud atlas video, the stoic series he did and the philosophies of directors like Kurosawa
@serpenttree8 ай бұрын
@@tavenstrickert9658 True these are great. I love the videos about Terence Malick's movies and the Magician Archetype!
@tavenstrickert96589 ай бұрын
I saw Camus and was immediately interested. It was the subtitle though. That really got me fascinated because I love the word decency. I think it's the most practical thing a person can be if they're trying to make the world a better place is just decent and how absolutely impractical that can seem to so many others when they see it happen.
@intellectually_lazy8 ай бұрын
but decency means different things to different people. i grew up in the 80s, joined the kiss army to fight tipper gore and the pmrc and what they called decent
@nps3b8 ай бұрын
@@intellectually_lazy tipper 😃 : this fine blonde made my day
@roccoliuzzi83948 ай бұрын
Sad but true. @intellectually_lazy
@tavenstrickert96588 ай бұрын
@@intellectually_lazy Fair enough my decency surrounds a sense of humanism. Not moral policing but I get what you mean. Oh Tipper 😂
@mtrude9 ай бұрын
As an Algerian. I love how you described the wars that we. The world had to go through. I hope the right audience find this and you get your well deserved recognition.