Albert Camus: The Madness of Decency

[@mtrude]

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.

[@stevenstewart3414]

For me, this was monumental. It expressed what I have always known deep inside... even though it had never fully flooded my conscious mind.

[@serpenttree]

Thanks for sharing that!

[@raxneff]

Less than 90 views? This video is clearly underrated by the YT recommendation algorithm.

[@dayegilharno4988]

:) So true. On the upside: No ads!

[@FinallyAlmino]

I'm here at 13k and I still think it is criminally under published. This is such great content

[@MrUndersolo]

I have read his Algerian writings, and I admire the man even more than I thought possible. Thank you for this!

[@MykalMalloy]

An automotan tightly bound up in the chain of command. WOW.. Those words are so strong and so relevant in our world.

[@imacg5]

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".

[@hihy220]

I loved every second of it. I once read the Stranger and this convinced me to buy the Plaque. Camus and his absurdism is absolutely fascinating.

[@serpenttree]

Thanks for the feedback! Enjoy the Plague, it is my favorite book from Camus.

[@corrupt1238]

Excellent video, have liked & subbed, look forward to more, thank you.

[@craigkeller]

Outstanding. Thank you 🙏.

[@shortminute]

Well Done, thank you. You've made me want to read Camus again.

[@AlokAsthana1954]

Yes, decency is the start point, the only start point possible, of everything good.

[@tavenstrickert9658]

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_lazy]

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

[@nps3b]

@@intellectually_lazy tipper 😃 : this fine blonde made my day

[@roccoliuzzi8394]

Sad but true. @intellectually_lazy

[@tavenstrickert9658]

@@intellectually_lazy Fair enough my decency surrounds a sense of humanism. Not moral policing but I get what you mean. Oh Tipper 😂

[@StrangeLoops4]

Wow, beautiful story and well told. Very happy this was recommended to me.

[@martinaseidel3316]

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.

[@jamesdunne9833]

Just brilliant. Thank you.

[@MannyEspinola-q4t]

Thank you for this video

[@intellectually_lazy]

if anyone ever remembers one comment i post, let it be this: every atrocity begins with dehumanization

[@joshuapoe3830]

True. Gotta fool that pesky right brain and it's blindness to separation somehow....

[@llyando]

Awesome video.

[@Peter-ky5uh]

Great video! Was not aware of this side of Albert Camus. Will check out the speech you mentioned!

[@pamelaj1226]

A beautiful video. 🙏🏽

[@michaelepp6212]

Great work. I've subscribed and will watch your other videos when I'm free

[@mfenaughty]

Movie Name: Far From Men (2014) starring Viggo Mortensen

[@Hoots_Maguire]

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.

[@Ai-he1dp]

The psychology of hate, has become a science to those it benefits.

[@castelodeossos3947]

'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.)

[@serpenttree]

I had originally in the script but removed it. Good catch, thanks!

[@castelodeossos3947]

@@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.

[@serpenttree]

@@castelodeossos3947 I removed it because as you can hear it is not in the final video.

[@castelodeossos3947]

@@serpenttree That is why I wrote 'Not mentioned by the narrator'.

[@consequences5638]

Could well inspire or impress Darwin Award nominees and such like. It's a sort of fairy tale which would make it popular also.

[@tavenstrickert9658]

Do you watch like stories of old?

[@serpenttree]

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.

[@tavenstrickert9658]

@@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

[@serpenttree]

@@tavenstrickert9658 True these are great. I love the videos about Terence Malick's movies and the Magician Archetype!

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.

[@thomass6757]

Sounds like modern DIE

[@futuristica1710]

*DE and I.

[@intellectually_lazy]

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

[@sphinxtheeminx]

And not a woman in sight.

[@zchularoceribfjan]

😮 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.

[@serpenttree]

I wholeheartedly disagree, there have been other driving forces throughout history, and a striving towards a basic embodied decency has been one of them.