False Consciousness

[@anhedonie92]

So sad you don't upload more often, very rich content very nicely presented.

[@matthewjackson9615]

I think of these videos as tasty hor d'oeuvres. They are delicious but not enough to satiate your hunger.

[@benjaminspeigner9832]

Haha that New Jersey joke was top

[@zahirjacobs716]

"Ideology is strong exactly because it is no longer experienced as ideology… we feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.." ~ Zizek

[@userX_00]

I feel like that’s the role of these ‘gurus’ and billionaires all of a sudden appearing on social media algorithm and podcasts. They’re pushing a false consciousness.

[@Birthdaycakesmom]

I got a little confused with the women wearing burqas as a kind of feminism. If a woman chooses to use a burqa, the empowerment to make a choice could be in part due to feminism, but also capitalism which might have produced a false consciousness, as well as social pressure and conformity.

[@heartdisease1]

“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.” ― Karl Marx, The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy

[@mariamzakraoui857]

I will not deny that these videos are helpful however I would like to advise that the input of ones opinion may degrade the credibility of your work. Furthermore, I find it interesting how photos of women wearing the burka held such a mood, one that the narrator of this video categorized them as a part of false consciousness. If this is truly the case, then is there really any definite definition to false conscious? If justified, no matter how rash, everyone is under false conscious. Im nine minutes into this video so I doubt this point will be brought up but if it is then please disregard.

[@auroraorha]

Your videos helped me to purge out of False Conciousness. Still waiting for getting out of Cultural Hegemony.

[@RextheRebel]

Several ppl discussed False Consciousness before Marx. Emile Durkheim being a famous one.

[@cr7neymar908]

can someone tell me why I have to take a ethics class when I am studying computer science

[@redbird1113]

You had me at "...a dickweed." LOL! I spat my coffee at this one. Stellar performance. These are really great vids. LOVE them!

[@Usufruct]

great video, I look forwards to more

[@HasanAbdullaHM6]

This is indeed a great video. I enjoyed some of the examples, namely why anyone would oppose healthcare programs, and the one where the great puzzle lingers about why people still keep smoking tobacco, (Ouch!)

[@RoadsToLiberty]

this isnt philosophy, it is sophistic propaganda. there isn't any proofs presented for these philosophical claims, nor are there first principles presented. It takes the form of a tautology or circular reasoning. I understand this is Marxism and not necessarily the view of the channel but this isn't a philosophically grounded logical argument but rather just a perspective backed up by disjointed claims.

[@kk-qy4sc]

"roads to liberty" [!? haahaa, aye ok then] . . . . how does one reach or achieve freedom? . . .by being encouraged to think . . this is all that's happening here . . or are you too right wing to grasp that . . . ?

[@Ozrictentacles87]

No , you are false .

[@digital_benadryl]

What's with the islamophobic analogy about headcoverings? A lot of muslim women feel empowered by covering their face, not necessarily because of the customs of their religious authority but because of the material need from protection against patriarchal authority. Some like it, some don't, and for different reasons which don't conflict with their own self-interests. The links you included have bits where muslim women are saying that the motives for the use of headcoverings are not the same throughout the world. It's almost like you didn't read the links you provided

[@kumarprashant5624]

true there

[@kategoss5454]

I totally agree- I was loving the video til the big yikes moment when he made that remark. My guess the reason in the west covering your flesh would be considered 'obviously not feminist' is because of our cultural context and the hegemony we experience- the narrative of sexualisation of women in the west. It seems that comically, our poor, fair video maker has slipped up at the very thing he was discussing historically, in such a shocked tone, and fallen for a grand narrative that alienates him from reality, and the women he mentions. I hope he realises what he's done and comes to a better understanding because of it. I've not seen many but judging by the videos I have seen I reckon he'll read through the reading to hear more women's voices to try and see outside of his cultural bubble. Shame this painful remark is still in this otherwise pretty good video.

[@SethAndrews111]

A lot of women also felt empowered wearing the chastity belt. Doesn't make it feminist.

[@jockbedgatwiri3452]

Benjamin Lappen some time back I’d have agreed with his comment about the head covering, but that was before I travelled the world and interacted with different cultures. Now I find this specific comment uninformed and biased.

[@salimkomora4477]

some women who cover are on top of the ladder.... the definition of 'a ladder' is a fact that is be debatable

[@trainingaccount7528]

Several subjective statements, pity.

[@mydarlinggirlrachae]

That's very subjective of you

[@Compound_B_Fabrication]

The southern fighter was told they were fighting for states rights and while I know they meant the right to own slaves, they didn’t say this part to the confederate soldier. This is why you have northerners fight for the south. They weren’t fighting, in their mind, for slavery. They were fighting for individual rights. That is the false consciousness of their situation.

[@CCDSNational]

'Conflicted Consciousness' is a better concept, more in tune with Hegel, DuBois and Gramsci. Marx never used false consciousness. It's not only elitist since we all share a conflicted consciousness in various ways, but 'false' implies a 'true', putting you on a metaphysical path.

[@badgerattoadhall]

6:00 women wear high heels because it makes their legs look nice and enhances the female gate.

[@patricioperez1985]

why did you stop uploading content? they are really good!

[@artificialacapellas]

why is this video from 3 years ago w 37k views coming up in my recommended, what is the algorithm trying to say to me...

[@ggstylz]

To do the right thing by yourself on Tue, 3 November 2020!

[@mydarlinggirlrachae]

No it didn't, that is your false consciousness playing tricks on you

[@serenalipscomb9507]

How does false consciousness link to labour though??

[@Alianger]

10:50 But you already explained i over here 6:40

[@jodihallstenlyczak3066]

I miss you.

[@10minutePhilosophy]

I'm actually planning a rebound, stay tuned!

[@trombone7]

A plus dude. Keep 'em coming. Unlike 95% of videos that utilize illustration, you use it well and it enhances the content. C'mon dude, make vids again !! Subbed / liked.

[@cliffordhodge1449]

Glad I watched this. Regarding the Popper criticism, lack of falsifiability is not itself proof of falsehood or illegitimacy; but it should be a concern. But when an idea is taken as a heuristic hypothesis or paradigm to help in analysis of a problem, lack of falsifiability is something you can live with.

[@davinashell7300]

Thanks for this one too! wish you were my teacher!

[@aidensteidle6041]

I had to watch this for world lit 2. I almost killed myself

[@Zookmannsayswhat]

Can't wait for the next one!!

[@AltereggoLol1]

"False consciousness is anything that makes the people we claim to speak for disagree with their betters".

[@tonyvanhouten1960]

Use this to explain Covidiianism.

[@phoenixrises1311]

Hey I'm from New Jersey...damn that shit is true!

[@stellario82]

Great Karl Popper

[@ChrisRalphHoward]

Hey, these videos are really great. Thanks for making them.

[@jay_sunday]

It's chill and informative at the same time!

[@supersasquatch]

Do you only do Marxist stuff or

[@arjardine]

fantastic work, great production quality and content - thank you!

[@JW-my2hl]

Firstly, love your knowledge and effort. I know this video is old, but since the upload, have you read DuBois' Black Reconstruction? Might aid in deciphering your understanding of the southern effort in the civil war. Could also be the impetus for some awesome and relevant 10 min philosophy vids ;)

[@omalone1169]

I'm interested as Kimathi Carr likes him

[@wasimshaikh1665]

New Jersey lol

[@spyfreakm1]

it seems that most if not all roads of false consciousness lead up to religion. Class formed from monarchy, monarchy formed in belief that the monarch was the son of god.

[@wack-a-mole9250]

FYI: Religion is prohibited in China.

[@esesdeekay776]

FYI: China is not socialist nor communist. Why do we outsource a majority of our production to communist society, please use your head.

[@onseayu]

speak up please

[@sabdurna2368]

@2:36 it is not a valid argument. I know many Turkized Muslimized Armenians who said: before our roots being revealed to us, and when we were living the life of a Muslim Turk in Turkey we never really followed the religion and the traditions. But we didn't know why. Until we learned that we are Armenian descend and 3-4 generation before had to convert to Islam.

[@eileenmcmullin3693]

Using the Affordable Care Act was a very poor choice. Anyone, who thought for him- or herself and applied First Principles, knew very quickly there was nothing affordable about it. Not only that, it could only have a deleterious affect on the quality of health care. That was a grossly inaccurate sample. Using that has also made questionable some of the other examples, such as the usage of social programs by red states. Some of your facts don’t appear to be so.

[@davedismantled]

Civil War was not really about slavery. Even Lincoln himself stated that. It was about the Rights of the States and the imposition of Federalists on those Rights. In that respect, Lincoln was the tyrant.

[@salimkomora4477]

Expound on the burqa part......to confirm of what you are talking about.....

[@crabmannyjoe2]

You don't thing the way that I do so every conclusion you have is wrong. Assumed?

[@dallaskenn]

11:15 Auwghhh, poor Popper!

[@dan.w.2432]

dude your voice is chill!

[@xcvxcvcxvxvcq]

I always knew sheeple were ruled by le commercialism and media XD -REDDIT BOYS

[@retroloneliness]

Jake Thomas ugh

[@micheleinacharles-hazellem1968]

awesome

[@puglosipher1666]

Good video comrade, nice examples (with smoking and thoose things you mentioned.)

[@SK-le1gm]

possibly the best video i’ve ever seen to explain the trivial pursuit american dream

[@yttean98]

well done and more of similar videos, I think you are not making this kind of videos anymore.

[@phoenixrises1311]

Hey I smoke cigarettes...damn that shit is true!

[@fallback67winns81]

Recently discovered your channel, ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!👏🏾

[@jonahbutler9079]

Will you return with more of your bitesized philosophy?

[@sweetblack1216]

This video is 2 years old when are you going to upload more content

[@KazakhToon]

Thanks for this, hope you can start posting video again in the future.

[@jonasholm9428]

At 5.15 smoking is mentioned as an example of false consciousness, György Lukács was a smoker. Does it mean he had false consciousness? Hmmm

[@esesdeekay776]

*Most thought out and cohesive criticism of this video*

[@johnclhugyugihjbvgbkj9729]

:34 Zach G... and voice/humor of Hedberg. Good stuff!

[@christianwentz5020]

Falsification problems are also found in modern social theories like "White Fragility" and "Critical Race Theory". Simply asking questions that do not then lead to acceptance of these ideas is a kind of de-facto proof of the conditions that they claim to be factual.

[@omalone1169]

I werent aware it meant that

[@_Somebody07]

Something on deep ecology please! :)

[@jayyt2969]

Not all of Jersey is what u see on tv.

[@Themaskedtalker]

Come back please! Love your videos

[@brianclaffey6138]

Those last examples are very confusing and didn't make any Sense. It's like there was very little thought put into them

[@denvorsden7903]

Well explained.

[@ron_see]

I love these! When are you going to have more :)?

[@GetUpGetUpGetUp]

Have you stopped? :(

[@xGensai]

MAKE MORE VIDEOS! PLEASE.

[@yaceen1621]

Thanks Peter Baelish

[@isasen5945]

- coolest channel

[@lollylicker101]

This is great

[@dakshaadeonarine4815]

interesting

[@mikeolszanski594]

Very Good.

[@dimitrydoronkin]

Excellent

[@willemsmit9019]

Thanks for this 💪🏼

[@keerthilanka9039]

Amazing work !

[@gmensah2008]

great video!

[@AstroSquid]

Not everyone is the product of their environment. Individuals who seek self-awareness can step outside tribe, though that's the last thing Marx would want you to believe, which kinda makes him the oppressor.

[@abuzakariyah5376]

Sorry buddy I think your a victim of fuls consciousness, when you pointed out out that Muslim women wear the veil are oppressed, I bet you don't the the same way when you see a Catholic nun or an orthodox Jewish woman. This is a religion that bring harmony to over a quarter of the world people and is the fastest growing religion. So my advice to you is the you broaden your mind and speak to Muslims, learn and read about Islam.

[@retroloneliness]

Abu Zakariyah fuck religion man

[@SophieeMaeeva]

Cool video but a little bit slow

[@morgangreen2526]

i put it on 1.25 speed

[@Skaniniyoh]

Theoretically the video is good, however, the given examples to identify false consciousness are weak.

[@meryemda2031]

If you think the choice of wearing burqa is a false conscious, then what about promoting for freedom of body wear you go outside showing of your flesh openly to everyone is passing is it not part of false conscious where the man is the man satisfy his desire in scanning women, and the women now consciously or not, only think about themselves as a sexual object

[@esesdeekay776]

You're right, and personally I don't think Islam has gone far enough, men should just never look at women ever.

[@bestlndr]

Nice. However I noticed that you subscribe to your own false consciousness in your perspectives on the Civil war and Health Care.

[@havadatequila]

Go on...

[@uttaradit2]

I'm poor, sick and would rather die than have 'free' health care.

[@paulelago9453]

Well it depends on what you define as and see as "oppression". If you see nature as oppressive then staying alive itself false consciousness. Willful participation is not oppression, it's important to note that Marx does not believe in free will, and believed othat him and other intellectuals were in better position to define what is appropriate for the individual. This theory of false consciousness is build to explain the individuals rejection of Marxism.

[@esesdeekay776]

There is a difference between oppression and struggle. Struggle is a fact of life while oppression is the systematic induction of struggle in order to keep a certain group from developing, it is inherently biased against that group, while nature is unbiased and unconscious.

[@OjoRojo40]

Popper: "You are wrong, your theory doesn't fit this new think I "invented" called Falsifiability".

[@Waaazuuuubp]

well anything that isn't falsifiable, like the flat earth theory, or the fake news, are most likely a slippery slope to denying reality

[@OjoRojo40]

@@Waaazuuuubp It isn't falsifiable YET. Fake news? Maybe you can tell me what are real news. I may have been watching the wrong news all this time :p Materialists......:p Cheers!

[@Waaazuuuubp]

@@OjoRojo40 what do you mean it isn't falsifiable yet?

[@OjoRojo40]

@@Waaazuuuubp It means that paradigms change, what is today an established scientific truth, tomorrow can become obsolete or even considered "pseudo-science". Scientific theories under Popper's approach are not stronger because they can't be "denied" but quite the opposite. Even if you positively check the correlation of a phenomena and his underlying theory , you'll have to start all over again because the conditions/time are always changing. Cheers! P.S: So what's your source for "real" news?

[@Waaazuuuubp]

OjoRojo40 ok so you mean we’re entering an era where we could prove this theory? But isn’t false consiousness just the idea that ideology is used to keep the proletariat from realising their predicament? And i don’t know where you live, but in Denmark we have a state funded network that deliver quite objective news

[@simorote]

This video does a great job at highlighting how this is not scolarship: it is a roundabout and clumsy way of of saying that everyone who disagrees with marxism must do so because he's brainwashed, and not because he might find the theory wanting. This is just therapy for marxists, and shouldn't be taken seriously.

[@jeffreysteelman8583]

Okay anti communist

[@simorote]

@@jeffreysteelman8583 Yes.

[@omalone1169]

@@simorote Gwiz so theres this new catchphrase going around about "colourism' and of course its rebranded old news, but even so, lets press this using the case of lil kim. If we do we might conclude the victims of colourism indulge in the same victimhood politics as the LGBT brigade 💪🏻 Lil Kim for example "confessed" that she started bleaching because black men did not want her and openly expressed their preference for lighter skinned women. Leaving aside female sexual selection pressure and its inherent unquestioned entitlements, what is she really saying? 🤔 Keeping in mind that the highest power is that which can say "no" she is essentially saying she had less objects upon which to exert her power. She had a smaller pool of men to reject. She had less men to lead on, manipulate, insult, confuse, deceive and belittle. She ultimately willed to be in a better pisition to assume and practice her prerogative ; her female duty to degrade and deny men, and yet, it is woman who need protecting 🙈 If we cease femsplaining and turn to mansplaining we unearth a series of unique or additional insights, for example, the idea that colourism isnt racial but corporate. Men arent as bothered by "colourism" as its just another brand of the many ways in which we are called igly eveeyday. Women however take exception as it undermines their pretences to being gods. For a man to be able to say "no" to them means they cease being women; whilst he becomes one. We as a people have problems all across the board so why would women focus exclusively on this particular aspect of our sickness whilst ignoring and neglecting others. Its as if they treat our pathologies as they do men. If we do dissimilar and see it as an issue of branding we can suggest that the issue is with who gets to define worth, and what trend will be in vogue. Theyre upset that their dashion is out of style but want everyone to buy into their branding. But lets pretend this logic isnt true and presume this claim of colourism has some merit. Let's jump ahead to a future place where darker skinned women are celebrated and cherished, and call it nigtopia. In nigtopia our people still have no control over their education, housing, mass communication, employment, means of production, continent or global image, but the darker skinned women feel real good. Im curious; what problem will this solve? 😐 It brings me back to apartheid azania where the white elite classified the japanese - or was it the chinese - as honorary whites. Under no circumstances would it have made sense to bicker amongst themselves about their designations, unless they were in collusion with the existing antiblack power equation , which most these anti "colourism" claimants are. They arent seeking liberation, but containment. They want to be oppressed peacefully If these people were deeply upset ablut colourism it is unlikely they would be the same ones to mock african features such as complexion and hair and yet they're often the very ones referencing hair as picky, niggerish and nappy, whilst claiming mixed/diluted heritage as pretty or good hair. How can people claim to be against the source of their values and the system defining how they see the world? They arent; they want to refine the system not eradicate it because they remain invested and are the reason it perpetuates. Language, Neely Fuller and other long explained, structures how we see the world. It is as if what we see is ordered by what we think, which is determined by the tools used and programming our thinking. If however we fail to challenge concepts of "fairness" that essentially equate whiteness with purity and right, it is a battle lost prior to a pistol being fired. We cannot think like them and still profess/pretend to be against then. It doesnt make sense. [phone] [e-mail]

[@ebioweifekumo3335]

Could you please show me where the theory is lacking? I mean no harm by this..

[@simorote]

@@ebioweifekumo3335 In what way does my original comment not answer your question already?

[@pweddy1]

Some of the biggest problems with Marxism come from Hegel. Discarding normal logic, for the dialectical method allows you to say the contradictions or simply something that we don’t yet understand. This allows you to come up with linguistic word games that justify anything. Such as murdering, millions upon millions of Russians, for the benefit of “the people.” Obviously it wasn’t for the benefit of the people you murdered in the name of Karl Marx. And if this pattern wasn’t repeated everywhere they employ Marxism, without exception, maybe you could take a some lessons from those societies. But universally any amount of murder is allowed in pursuit of “the revolution.” It turns out that Marx assumption that the workers were always going to be good people and the capitalist were always bad people wasn’t exactly true. It turns out that any criticism of a socialist government can justify the gallows. Because if you’re criticizing the government, which is trying to make the world better for everyone, you are the “enemy of the people.” And this happens every single time. Of course most people don’t talk about everything that marks wanted to abolish, nor his penchant for writing megalomaniac poetry, where he placed himself above God. Things Marx wanted to abolish: Private property, ok that one’s easy. All division of labor and all hierarchy. You can’t run a farm this way. This would reduce us to hunter gatherers. In Marx own words, you should own nothing but what comes from nature were you produced with your own hands. The family. It turns out Marx never took care of his family. If it wasn’t for Engles they would’ve starved. And he never acknowledged his bastard s child that he had with a maid. The hypocritical nature of Marx is astounding. Because one of the other things he wanted to abolish was inheritance. This man never provided for his whole family in any meaningful way. Almost every dime he had came from dead relatives. He lived off of inheritance after inheritance until such a point that Ingles had to pay for him to live. The deconstruction that is so common for Marxist I think, actually comes from Marx favorite quote more than anything else. I don’t think he was actually trying to make a better society. I think he was trying to create the embodiment of his favorite quote, which was “everything that exists deserves to perish.” The other destruction and privation that’s caused by Socialism in countries like Venezuela makes it obvious that this is not a workable system. Because that leads us to one of the last things that he wanted to abolish, and that must thing was morality. He had no care for whether or not his theories caused people to die. Because as Hegel said “ history, uses people and then discards them.”

[@TheRickyandLucy]

Super informative! Thanks!

[@alie.6386]

OMG! THANK YOU!

[@MrAlienAssassin]

"Why would anyone be opposed to affordable healthcare" Just because it's called the 'Affordable Care Act' doesn't mean it actually makes healthcare more affordable.

[@alancosta8633]

Education, health and food cannot be sold, it's simple. We need to ban the private sector on these areas.

[@saadbenabdellah6159]

avoid cursing and showing shocking content in future videos.