MAD MAX: How To Reclaim Your Humanity (ft. Babe)

Mad Max & Babe's guide to facing the dystopia to reclaim your humanity.
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Mad Max first burst onto the scene in 1979 to tell a story about a dope Australian apocalypse. But 4 sequels later, we're still left in awe by director George Miller's coherent vision about power, life, and death - as seen in these films and also, incredibly, his children's movie, Babe. We'll explain all in this Wisecrack Edition on Mad Max: How To Reclaim Your Humanity - ft. Babe.
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[@martinzyka6432]

When you want to make a video about philosophy of Babe, but you also want people to watch it.

[@MoviesPlease]

Sucks how people have forgotten Babe. It's too slow for kids nowadays, and too "childish" - at least in appearance - for adults. But its third act remains practically perfect.

[@MollyOKami]

@@MoviesPlease Especially when you compare it to Charlotte's Web. Both are stories about pigs that want to live. One finds his purpose by MAKING his purpose, while the other whines and keeps whining while it's the frickin' spider who does the REAL work.

[@theojenner1902]

Movies, Please! Completely agree mate. Watched it again recently and it makes me so happy and hopeful despite dealing with themes of utility, our purpose in life and mortality. I would love a proper breakdown of babe. It is a masterpiece

[@kevinnguyen4562]

Particularly Donald Trump. Oh wait..he’s always been an asshole.

[@DavidMyrmidon]

Nux's Moment was BEAUTIFUL. THAT is Sacrifice.

[@josephhoward9631]

Oh yeah, dude, I get teary eyes over his arc every time I watch it.

[@henriqueribeiro8167]

Real powerful imagery.

[@brettpid6416]

@@josephhoward9631 same

[@MrPedroleiria]

"Witness me."

[@marcelozerbini5411]

WITNESSED

[@JamesG1880]

“Witness me..” still chokes me up.. damn you nick Hoult!!!!

[@pivotresearchfoundation]

Leewilldofine that’s not slavery to die for ones you love. It was his choice to die, he wasn’t “guaranteed” a wonderful afterlife for the act or forced into it; he chose his path.

[@JamesG1880]

Leewilldofine yeah I think you missed the point of the whole movie... and the video..😅

[@JamesG1880]

Leewilldofine he doesn’t say witness me at the end as a delusional religion driven slave. He says witness me to her as a final middle finger to his old beliefs as he chooses to die for the love he believes in now instead of for ValHalla🤷🏻‍♂️

[@pivotresearchfoundation]

Leewilldofine because if someone disagrees with you it means they are attacking you. Brilliant. jesus fucking chris. AmIRite?

[@T0xXx1k]

Holy shit that was Nick Hoult?

[@asbestosfish_]

Fun Fact: in thirty years, Mad Max will be a Historical Epic.

[@jackbrobst7559]

Funner fact: might not take that long

[@kb.brandyn6798]

Yeah flint michigan isn't really too far off tbh

[@comedypolicehandsup5141]

How so?

[@skitt5396]

Dank no clean water

[@Zelmel]

In thirty years it'll be a historical epic... Told only via oral tradition based on memory because we will have nuked (figuratively or literally) back to the stone age.

[@StephenSiu]

The most ambitious crossover from Wisecrack yet.

[@theprocastinators9518]

I, for one, am looking forward to the release of Bad Babe: Furry Road.

[@hart-of-gold]

Sounds like Animal Farm expressed through Tractors crashing.

[@henrycolestage4249]

You just won the internet! Bwahahahaha!

[@vincentvacuus7010]

Sounds like something Sonic fans would like.

[@v-trigger6137]

the third part would be a crossover. Bad Babe v Sonic: Dawn of Furry Warriors

[@MrChupacabra555]

8:36 : Countdown to how many people are going to get mad because you equated BDSM Fetishists and Yiffing Furrys (I suppose, they could be Normal Furrys) to LGBT relationships 9_9 Also: Huh, I didn't know "Mr. Homm" was in Witches of Eastwick ^_^

[@Neon_Ghost1]

I still think Tom Hardy's Max is actually that ferrel kid from the last movie, he didn't have a name. But in deciding to stand for something he takes the name of the only hero he'd ever known, the man who stood for the same thing, Max.

[@Stray7]

That's one theory I've heard (though wasn't the feral kid from Road Warrior?). I've also heard the theory that the Mad Max films are about a mythological figure in the post-apocalyptic world, one who has stories told about them showing up and helping troubled people again and again but who might not have ever really existed -- the original film was the story told about Max shortly before or shortly after the societal collapse (when it still resembled the former world), and then The Road Warrior, Beyond Thunderdome, and Fury Road are all tales told by societies in the wasteland as a unifying origin myth.

[@retardedvaxxedliberal]

Not sure about that theory. Still think Mel Gibson shapeshifted into Tom Hardy to look younger.

[@DavidMyrmidon]

@@Stray7 It seems more logical that The Individual called Max Wha(can never say his last name) was a real person.. who went through real tragedy. But he is dead, and has been for a long time. But splinters of his legacy (history) gets passed down through a selective lucky (unlucky) few, who feel obligated to stand up to The Chaos of The World. And call themselves Max. Needless to say, these individuals are also suffering from traumatic psychosis of some sort. But there has to be a physical link between all the name-barers. A journal mayhaps, with Max's family's pictures. In short he's pretty much The Dreaded Pirate Roberts of The Wasteland. 😅

[@Stray7]

@@DavidMyrmidon Max Rocatanski. Yeah, I can buy the Legacy Character aspect as being possible.

[@GeneralTaco155555a]

Unless Fury Road is a reboot, Tom Hardy's Max has to be a different person. OG Max had a wife and son who were killed by bikers, Fury Road Max had a wife and daughter killed by a semitruck.

[@Dan-ud8hz]

"Above all, we should bear in mind that our liberty is not an end in itself; it is a means to win respect for human dignity for all classes of our society." Admiral H.G. Rickover

[@ScaryMason]

Max’s old Police-Captain talking about “heroes” is necropolitcs. You’re a hero by keeping the road safe. You keep the road safe by killing dangerous drivers.

[@spacedinosaur8733]

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being" - Carl Jung

[@Dan-ud8hz]

@@ScaryMason "It is bias to think that the art of war is just for killing people. It is not to kill people, it is to kill evil. It is a stratagem to give life to many people by killing the evil of one person." Yagyu Munenori, As quoted in The Japanese Art of War (1991) by Thomas Cleary

[@Dan-ud8hz]

@@ScaryMason "Every Nazi who remains alive will kill women, children and old folks. Dead Nazis are harmless. Therefore, if I kill a Nazi, I am saving lives." Lyudmila 'Lady Death 'Pavlichenko

[@ScaryMason]

Daniel Duvalle I have a medal for enlisting during wartime. It was not art, it was business. Deadlines were met and quotas were filled. Not once did my sergeant ask if I eradicated evil or killed a Nazi. But back to MAD MAX, just today I re-watched the movie. It holds up just fine.

[@antoineminjoz8318]

You know the world is getting crazy when you find optimism and hope in Mad Max...

[@LearnLiterallyEverything]

This one is heavy and speaks to what's happening in society today on may levels. Gonna watch a few times to make connections. Thank you!

[@mattpalmer916]

Look into Universal Basic Income. Lots of misconceptions about it, but I've found it to be the best system of freedom and prosperity for all and ensure our society doesn't succumb to this.

[@LearnLiterallyEverything]

@@mattpalmer916 Thanks Matt! I'm aware of it! Yang was really on to something. Too bad the timing was wrong. They're many layers to what was said in this video

[@StephySon]

Matt Palmer ain’t that the truth

[@ThinkLiveLife]

"Where can you see bio power and necro power at work today" I kinda think this one had a pretty thin veil. Especially with the unstated animal farm parallel ..

[@Gamelord191]

@@mattpalmer916 But how would UBI stop our society succumbing to this, it already is this. The system we live in wants us to do this, either be the perpetrator or be the victim. Thats what competition is and I don't understand how UBI could mitigate that. We will always be seen as tools and statistics in the wider picture. How you treat your friends is another thing entirely but then is that what you mean by society? Does society even exist?

[@wwaxwork]

I always held the theory that Max isn't the same person throughout the series. Max is just the name given to the hero in stories told around the campfire. He's like Odysseus a way of joining all the myths & stories together.

[@than217]

I'm gonna die historic in the KZbin comment section!!!!

[@mitskis_bf]

Meet you at the gates of Valhalla!!

[@rotschadel3574]

WITNESSSSSS

[@diggitydoo5836]

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[@ThreesixnineGF]

Mediocre than217!!!

[@zacksmith2227]

@@mitskis_bf "All shiny and chrome"

[@goatshagger]

"Where must we go, we who wander this wasteland, in search of our better selves" somehow I'm disappointed this wasn't referred.

[@spacedinosaur8733]

This you know: the years travel fast, and time after time I done the tell. But this ain't onebody's tell. It's the tell of us all, and you've gotta listen and to 'member, 'cause what you hears today you gotta tell the newborn tomorrow. I's lookin' behind us now into history back. I sees those of us who got the luck and started the haul for home, and I 'members how it led us here and how we was heartful 'cause we seen what there once was. One look and we knewed we'd got it straight. Those what had gone before had the knowin' and the doin' of things beyond our reckonin' - even beyond our dreamin'. Time counts and keeps countin', and we knows now: finding the trick of what's been and lost ain't no easy ride, but that's our track. We gotta travel it, and there ain't nobody knows where it's gonna lead. Still in all, every night we does the tell so that we 'member who we was and where we came from. But most of all we 'members the man who finded us, him that came to salvage. And we lights the city, not just for him, but for all of him that are still out there. 'Cause we knows there'll come a night when they sees the distant light and they'll be comin' home. - Savannah Nix - Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

[@theridify]

When hearing instrumentalization I immediately thought of Neon Genesis Evangelion. Do you guys think that Evangelion was also inspired by Biopower? Namely the "human instrumentalization project".

[@Killerfox512]

Instrumentality* but yeah, I think you can apply the same concepts to that series. Everyone treats the kids as means to the end of piloting the Evas.

[@RevolutionaryLoser]

One of the biggest inspirations for Neon Genesis Evangelion is Georg Hegel's Master and Slave Dialectic.

[@theridify]

@@Killerfox512 I was actually referring to the project which aims to use the whole human race as fuel for the creation of a god/goddess. But your point is actually more interesting.

[@Mathewrath]

As Gendo always says, Shinji can go away any time, he will use rey. And when Shinji refused to act as him intended, he activated the dummy plug. He also outright used Ritsuko and Ritsuko's mom. Gendo is a sick fuck. Rei is also a tool, a doll as Asuka nicknames her. She does what its told her to do without question or hesitation, but likewise the George miller's characters, she transcends this state when she kills herself to save Shinji from Armisael and when she gives Shinji control over Instrumentality. So yeah, there's a lot in common.

[@azzor4134]

When Wisecrack analyses a piece of media through one philosopher's lens, it doesn't mean that piece of media was inspired by it.

[@maxperlman5209]

The cinematography in this film is amazing. Worth the watch just for that

[@jagerisbae6481]

and epic guitar guy

[@poposterous236]

I know Babe has some absolutely epic cinematography.

[@retardedvaxxedliberal]

Babe is one of the best shot movies ever. Oh and Mad Max was pretty good too.

[@mcswaggerduff8946]

I see the dude, I abide

[@emeraldviqueen]

“-to become a subject outside the necropolitical framework to reclaim his name” How great of a line is that???

[@yggdrasil3]

Fury Road is my favourite film of the last decade.

[@ravenkarlin]

If it wasn’t for Blade Runner 2049, it’d definitely be Mad Max for me.

[@tonyiommi2380]

@Long duk dong no, you.

[@yggdrasil3]

@Long duk dong Well that's just like ah...your opinion, man.

[@yggdrasil3]

@@ravenkarlin Close second for me. What's cool with the 10's was that we got the perfect cyberpunk movie (Blade Runner 2049), the perfect post-apocalyptic movie (Fury Road), and the perfect city hellscape movie (Dredd). Which are all also perfect reboots. 🙂

[@lalakuma9]

Makes sense because of your username

[@iainronald4217]

When the title said "ft. Babe" I actually thought Jared's Girlfriend/Wife was gonna co-host this video with him

[@macmurfy2jka]

I didn’t realize Babe were miller films! That’s awesome. Only the twisted mind of Mad Max could have conceived such a hilariously twisted yet endearing piece of surreal art with real despite meaning and make it a children’s film!

[@alexanderford3831]

Holy shit! Great episode, guys. I'd never heard of Achille Mbembe, or the concept of Necro-Power as an answer to Foucault. I was just introduced to Fanon a couple of years ago. Also, Shirtless, scarf-wearing Fifi professing a need for heroes in dark times, as he cares for his plants, is one of my favorite scene from the franchise, and recontextualizes Max's journey.

[@odiemonster12]

Im so glad that wisecrack finally has an african philosopher featured on the channel!

[@EskimoCreamKing]

They had David benatar referenced in their true detective episode as well for anti-natalism

[@GuerillaBunny]

It should be noted that James Cromwell, the actor playing the farmer in Babe, became vegan because of that movie, thus leaving that practice of necropolitics behind.

[@sophiejones7727]

if you think vegans don't contribute to modern necropolitics, you're an idiot. Vegans depend on a worldwide industrial food distribution system, which both directly and indirectly kills people while warming the planet and destroying the natural world. Unless they live in the tropics, that is. Necropolitics is the inevitable result of Capitalism gone out of control. You want to opt out of it? become a Mennonite or something. Otherwise, get off your high horse.

[@joaovilaca1436]

@@sophiejones7727 no need to call him an idiot. Be respectful the next time.

[@sophiejones7727]

@@joaovilaca1436 excuse you, but I don't need to be respectful to ignorant hypocrites. *They* need to learn shit before they open their mouths.

[@GuerillaBunny]

@@sophiejones7727 I never said we can opt out. You're right, necropolitics IS an inevitable result of capitalism, and I think the incentives for exploitation are there even in milquetoast capitalism. Some would say "There's no ethical consumption under capitalism", but I'd go as far as to say that whether ethical consumption is possible under any system remains to be seen. That said, not all systems and consumption equally bad. The problem with your attack is that you're wrong. An average western meat-based diet contributes to climate change much more than a plant-based one, because transport is actually a fairly small part of the carbon footprint of food. You only need to google "carbon footprint of diets". Also, you may have heard that South American rain forests are being cut down to grow soy. This is true, but almost all of that soy goes to feed American livestock. There are activist movements campaigning end it, but ~150 environmental activists are killed annually. Likewise, the burning of rain forests under Bolsanaro wasn't started by vegans. It wouldn't even make sense... If the goal is to save animal lives, burning rain forests would hardly be the logical path to take, wouldn't you agree? The funny thing is, I wasn't even trying to make a moralistic statement. Even when ignoring animal rights and environmental effects, it'd be really difficult to deny that as the animal industry is designed to kill billions of animals globally every year, it is one of the purest (if not THE purest) implementations of necropolitics in human history. And I did say that Cromwell walked away from that specific implementation, not that he walked away from all of them. Or that I have.

[@joaovilaca1436]

@@sophiejones7727 that's why people despise anti-capitalism. You're a shame to the movements that fight capitalism back. You're arrogant. You think you're so intelligent that you get drunk on the little knowledge you have that makes you feel authorized and capable to humiliate others. Grow up. You're just obnoxious. You're not smart. Go read some books on how to deal with people who does not have the same degree as knowledge as you or how to deal with people in general. And keep in mind that this was not even the case here. Please, do not call yourself a communist. I don't want to share anything whatsoever with someone as unpleasant as you. You're clearly miserable. Now you can just fuck off.

[@jordel2010]

Interesting concepts: Biopower and Necropower. I've learned something new. Thanks. The Inmortan Joe character pretty much reminded me of monarchical figures of ancient times like, say, the Egyptian Pharoahs; mere mortals that, because of the power they held, they ascended themselves to an outright divine status over their subjects.

[@skunkrat01]

Wow, as always, you come at things from an angle I was not expecting and it’s a pleasure to learn new ways of thinking about things.

[@archer1949]

Fury Road was one of the greatest, most perfect genre movies ever made.

[@wannabecar8733]

Hamilton quote: ''You have no control who lives who dies who tells your story'' Necro power & bio power: Am I a joke to you

[@jneotron]

Great video!! Just a little detail... although Miller worked in "Babe" as a writer and producer, it was directed by Chris Noonan. "Babe: Pig in the City" (the sequel) has been directed by George Miller.

[@RohitPant04]

I was hooked from the second Foucault was mentioned. Good analysis!

[@FrankCastiglione]

14:03 - the beginning of Max Madness. PS: Anyone watched A Boy and His Dog?

[@Atazroglam89]

Watched it recently and now it's one of my favourite post apocalyptic movies. The angle of bio/nacro-politics fit it as well :)

[@MrTechblackdog]

yes, i watched 'a boy and his dog'. liked the layers of what was going on. it was a movie, that made you think. one thing made me think WTF was, How were there still viable can food?? try watching (if you can find it), 'radioactive dreams' 1986 rock & roll movie. the music was great

[@aaronc6586]

The prison industrial complex, and all those involved.

[@cascadianham]

This was particularly great. While it's a little on the nose, I would call out Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood as one of my favorite versions of this concept

[@vsGoliath96]

The Mad Max films almost single-handedly made the decision for me on my first car. When I was 18, I bought a 1965 Ford Mustang with a 302 V8 crate engine. Sure, it drove like shit and got about 9 miles to the gallon, premium gas only, but I fucking loved that car. Learned to wrench on it because it was constantly breaking something. Sadly, I had to sell it when I got my own apartment. Just too expensive to keep around. I fully intend to buy another one some day so I'm ready for the apocalypse. See you on the highways of Valhalla!

[@chrisbird4913]

Premium duuude, she needs PREMIUUUUUUUMMMMM!

[@andrasbiro3007]

If you want to be ready for the Apocalypse, buy a Tesla Cybertruck. Tesla is the leader in Apocalypse technology. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aGa9pn6hl62Xp68

[@vsGoliath96]

@@andrasbiro3007 You know, I may not like Elon Musk as a person all that much, but God damn that man has all style and no shits to give. Armored glass on our electric truck? Sure, why not? Fuck it! Let's slap some rockets on the Roadster and make a widebody package for the Model S while we're at it!

[@Mathewrath]

If you want to be ready for the apocalypse, an armored eletric sun-powered car would be MUCH better.

[@MrWizeazz]

All hail the mighty V8!!

[@mattjackson382]

The Metal Gear Solid series, particularly MGS4: Guns Of The Patriots, deals heavily with necropower

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Aaaaannnd there goes my childhood. 😂

[@voltarashtavroth]

Take a shot every time Jared says “Mbembe”

[@thisisyol]

Thanks for widening our horizons.

[@kennethd.9436]

I can depend on Wisecrack to give me amazing author recommendations. Michel Foucault is amazing.

[@nocandoslurms433]

I bought Babe a few years ago for my son, since he was 2 and loved farm animals. I realized then what fantastic movie it was.

[@robintauber9994]

I read the book and practically had it memorized by the time the film was made. I was appalled the movie changed "the password"! The rodent chorus was really fun though. Very Muppet-like. The book didn't have a male dog .... just "fly" and her puppies but the goose trying to take over the Rooster's job was a great touch.

[@HurricaneDDragon]

When I think about stories that are based on the concept of biopower the first thing that comes to mind is The Matrix. 😎

[@MollyOKami]

Mad Max: Porcine Road

[@Dan-ud8hz]

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” ― Abraham Lincoln “Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.” ― Sun Tzu "Conquering evil, not the opponent, is the essence of swordsmanship." ― Yagyū Munenori

[@CrabSkin]

Happy to be a witness of this

[@MaharoMaharo]

Wisecrack: *Finally puts out a video on Mad Max* Me: Oh what a day! What a lovely day!

[@szopaful]

Why is Jared’s look approaching Sean Bean with every quarantine video

[@minuteman3317]

Jared walks down from the chopping block with Ice. His son asks him why he must carry out the sentence himself. Jared answers his son as he looks out to the highlands "The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword". He looks back down with a smile and a microphone "Now let's do a deep dive into necropolitics".

[@Idiotvera]

Max also gave his name/identity at the point in which he was using his body not to kill but heal. Max started the film as a blood bag with no name and ended it by giving his blood and name to Furiosa, claiming both from the cycle of violence

[@MrNinjaFishLifeForm]

dude, this made me reolize the conection between all the forms of medial i engoy, thanks man. also faves are fantasitc mr fox and The Wind in the Willows stories. yall should check them out

[@thadiusbarnelsnatch3665]

Mobile suit gundam iron blooded orphans is a great example of necro power and I’d love it if you guys did a video on the series

[@RidleyJones]

Possibly your best episode yet. Made me cry pretty hard actually. Thank you.

[@johnredacted5141]

Fun Fact: Max's full name is Maximus Decimus Meridius. YT that name to see the coolest secret Mad Max scene ever

[@cosmicmuffin322]

Brilliant and very pertinent video. Necropolitics is on my reading list. Cheers from a new subscriber.

[@auntypae3273]

As an African, I appreciate how you said Mbembe.

[@holytankadinSabelane]

This is the kind of video that I subscribed to this channel for 💯

[@zeblogo]

Beautiful analysis.

[@khanyisile_mathebula]

Referencing Joseph Mbembe's work. I see you Wisecrack team, and thank you!

[@HigherMammal]

Hoggett singing "If I had words" makes me feel human again.

[@FacundoTroitero]

I guess I'll have to rewatch the Babe movies now. Beautifully written video btw

[@TheBrood525]

Can you guys do a philosophy of Alucard?

[@austinlangdon4375]

The literature on suicide bombers show both the logic of martyrdom (search for personhood and glory) and the logic of survival (search for living over mere surviving) talked about here. A lot of researchers debate the relative causal value of glory seeking vs altruism since glory seeking is seen as a selfish personal motive in contrast to the altruistic. However they are interconnected. In a necropolitical setting glory is defined by altruism itself, in the sense that your worth is tied to what you contribute to the group. A suicide bomber getting revenge to honor the group or hurting the enemy to defend or improve the political, social, or military standing of the group is simultaneously selfish and altruistic. Individual identity becomes something bestowed by the collective and in a necropolitical setting you have to earn it through violence and sacrifice.

[@FlipOFaCoin16]

This one's a mind fuck. For your observations and for Miller's themes across the film's. Haha love it

[@TheLandscaper0115]

Great show mate.

[@TorridPrime217]

I think its important to discus the rather sizable contrast between the two films; namely, how the people of the wasteland came to be that way, as opposed to animal farmers. There's a sense of understanding missing from the conversation that leads to a feeling that certain characters are being completely dehumanized

[@Karl_Marksman]

You cut the hair! So happy you listened

[@philipmolokwu9271]

15:07 so basically God in the Old Testament vs God in the New Testament

[@jackannoon]

This reminded me of Sonya Renae Taylor's book, "The Body is not an Apology"

[@GabrielCortezWrites]

Wasn't expecting a Sonya Renee Taylor shoutout here but I'm happy it's here!

[@busnello1987]

this was wholesome.

[@Salamarnir]

so here for the foucaldian reading of happy feet, the first movie to ever truly make me weep

[@THEGODDAMNDINOSAUR]

I loved this episode, I'm a huge fan of both Babes movies and Fury Road.

[@Kazuma11290]

Broke: WITNESS MEEEEEE!!!!!! Woke: witness me.

[@altalena9139]

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[@LordOfAllusion]

Whaaaaaaa. Wisecrack analyzing media exclusively through Frankfurt School outlook? Who could have seen that coming?!

[@IoEstasCedonta]

"Humans don't eat roosters. Why? They help the hens make eggs." ...amazing, every word of what he said was wrong.

[@hugorhurtado939]

he probably meant that they help make more chickens, yes a female chicken can lay eggs without the rooster, but that could only last so long

[@ScamallDorcha]

I think that the duck meant that humans don't eat their one breeding rooster who sings at dawn.

[@dessfred]

And peole are surprised a duck didnt elaborate more about the life of roosters in a 90 minutes movie about a pig.

[@Cheshiremd]

Do you expect a duck in a kids movie to be more scientifically correct? Really? My wifes tells me that iam tedious, but even for me this is too much.

[@ineptwizzard]

Well, he's a duck,

[@nituldeshptha99]

Drive has a similar feel to Mad Max. A survivor who decides to use violence to protect others.

[@sleepyandroid6904]

"Max. My name is Max. That's my name." 😭😭😭

[@TheMlerich30]

Except no, they don't "transcend" their positions. They merely move laterally. Nux still dies a martyr's death (if only for a different cause,) Max still kills to survive (it's in his best interest to fight with furiosa, because now he'll have an ally in the new power structure,) and furiosa isn't a "freedom fighter" she is simply attempting to replace immortan joe as the new power structure. Finally, all babe did was find a way to do what the duck was trying to accomplish. The only difference being that he actually succeeds. In all these cases the necro-political system remains intact and continues to work as intended.

[@tomblake9997]

Agree to disagree. Doesn't Max blend in with the crowd and disappear when Furiosa rises at the end of the film? And there's no implication that Furiosa 'simply intends' to replace Immortan Joe. Her goals from beginning to end were about liberating others from the tyrannical system Joe represented. In the beginning, she was just liberating Joe's wives, but at the end she was liberating everyone.

[@Wingedmagician]

This was beautiful man 😭

[@aliasjon8320]

Is Jared's hair tied or did he cut it?

[@thelostpawn]

And when did he get the ombré style?!? 😆 jk, Jared, long hair for life! ✊🏾

[@aliasjon8320]

@ um , what are you talking about?

[@deep_fried_analysis]

Asking the important questions!

[@NoseBearMonkey]

Please do one on The Lobster by Lanthimos

[@jquiznos2283]

Jared! hey broh... You cut that mane? okay... okay, I ain't mad at ya. You still look boss. I haven't seen you in a Kraftwerk shirt in minute. Still looking good, bruv. Thanks for uploading and hooking us up with a dose of cool introspection.

[@mikeisthelunawolf]

This one got me depressed

[@Tfiend18]

My body is chrome. My blood is gasoline.

[@bea4156]

Great video! Another way that Fury Road demonstrates the mechanization of human bodies is the presence of the “Organic Mechanic” rather than simply a “Doctor” or “medic”.

[@baptistelasbats3952]

A story that works on this idea of necropolitics is one you've already made a video on, it's NieR:Automata. In that game, both the androids and the machine life forms that are stuck in their everlasting war define themselves by their ability to harm the others, and the entire development of the plot (mostly in the second chapter of the story, the first is mainly here to set the principles of the world and of the situation) deals with the struggle of the characters to get free from this cycle of violence and to find a value to their life outside of their potential to conduct war. The big difference with Mad Max and necropolitics is that here, the "toolification" of the protagonists is far less driven by an evil entity or system. The core of the game, as all of the other Taro Yoko games, is to provide a possible answer to the question "what does justify violence?". Here, the answer he is advocating for is "violence can be justified by the urge of those who perpetrate it to find a purpose to their lives". N:A conveys this message by sending in an absurd world characters that owe nothing, neither their bodies, nor their memories, and who are so desperate to find a value to their existence that they triggered a made-up war for a made-up cause to obtain a purpose and a metrics -their efficiency as weapons- to judge the value of their existence on. "The core of humanity, is conflict". Here, the characters are not really assigned in their state of injury by others, an evil emperor, enslavers or corrupted politicians, they are assigned to it by themselves. ***huge spoilers, don't read if you've not played this game, and you should!!*** The story elaborates on this for all the characters. 9S is the archetype of the character self-assigned in his state of injury. He completely buys the lie at first, and his entire arc consists in losing everything: his friends, the cause he used to live for, his protector/girlfriend 2B, and in locking himself deeper and deeper in a cycle of violence as a result, as his self-perceived value as a weapon is everything that he has left. He is given the unassailable proof that nothing can justify his crimes provided that his enemies are exactly like him (the so-called black box of the androids and the core of the machines are the same thing), that the cause he lived for was an entire lie built in concertation with the enemies (project YorHa was built with the help of the machines, who also created the bunker and had infiltrated it all along), and that the girlfriend he wanted to avenge was precisely his executor, who was killing him over an dover again (2B was 2E). At this point, does he stop fighting and find something else to give value to his life, as any mental-healthy individual would? Of course not. He keeps killing no matter what (and ends up killing himself), precisely because he can't imagine any value to his life out of conflict and war. Then comes A2, who loses everything just like him, but follows the opposite arc. Instead of clinging to her violence as she used to, her evolution entirely consists in escaping her state of injury and finding value to her own life out of conflict. Contrary to 9S, she finds this value (the god of the god-box) before the last 10 seconds of her life, and by the end of route C, she has become alive. And then comes 2B, who knows the truth about the lie, consciously committs what she knows to be a genocide and goes to the point of killing the only friend she has over and over again, just because she feels the responsability of protecting the cause that provides her fellow androids the value to their selves that they are unable to find elsewhere. No matter how blind she is, she finds a value to her life out of her potential to harm, therefore, she is (to be). Very interesting vid anyway, it's great to see how it connects with other works!

[@apotheosis0111]

My body is chrome.. my blood is GASOLINE!!!!

[@JurassicRaptor1993]

Necro-Power lives on in corporate America.

[@neilgin1]

thank you so much for turning me onto "necropower".......very svelte analysis, well done.

[@ruizinho08]

AWESOMETACULAR!! This theme of instrumentalization and Bio Power can also be found in George Orwell's Animal Farm!

[@FracmentalMusic]

Cloud Atlas sprang to mind.

[@thedoctor2871]

George Miller made Happy Feet? Whoah, so that's why I love that movie and I thought it was Footloose for kids.

[@MaxIronsThird]

Why would you change the thumbnail? It was perfect.

[@moopara7991]

Can I ask a small request, can you refrain having music with war sirens in it? It sadly brings up not so fond memories with appropriate physical response. Right around 9:00 in the Happy Feet background.

[@IvanRSaldias]

Your best video yet Wisecrack ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻✊

[@thecroakedtoaster3398]

I randomly looked up mad max and this videa was only up for 4 minutes

[@razoreater616]

I’m from the future. It’s 2024. The elder penguins were right!

[@billyjoeallen]

i think you mean how to ruin a post-apocalyptic fantasy franchise by getting a literal social justice warrior to crowd out the title character.

[@abolishpolice5232]

Rewatching Happy Feet for the first time in almost a decade, I was struck by how it's pretty explicitly an autism allegory? Like, as a 10 year old it didn't fully register, it was just lumped into the rest of those "being Different is OK uwu" kids movies, but the experience portrayed in Happy Feet isn't that generalized.

[@allocater2]

That's how we're gonna win. Not fighting what we hate. Saving what we love.

[@Ramsey276one]

@Ryan Wieber I agree with you

[@walkinmn]

That's an awesome take

[@ShengTheCraftsman]

why not both?

[@allocater2]

@Jack The light side of the Force only grants favor to those who are pure of heart. When the bomber captain wanted to destroy the Star Destroyer out of hate, it refused to drop the trigger. When the bomber captain wanted to destroy the Star Destroyer out of love to safe her sister, the force dropped the trigger. The opening scene was a micro-cosmos of the entire movie.

[@lynnpehrson8826]

How have i not noticed the use of "mcfeasting"

[@friedpickle8332]

"More violent car crashes than lines of dialogue" I died 🤣🤣

[@Bisquick]

Nice, Achille Mbembe is awesome. To play devil's enslaved advocate, I wonder if the drive to a consistent "satisfaction" or realization of one's self is in itself an illusion from abstraction. I think Sartre kind of argues this in Being and Nothingness.

[@kevinwehrstedt6378]

Where does one find that tapestry you gots behind you?

[@anthonywestbrook2155]

"Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire." Matthew 3:12 Those who are good and useful separated from the bad and unvaluable. "And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me." Matthew 25:32-36 This one's interesting in that it starts off with the necro-political division of useful and unuseful, but then, because the "me" in "ye gave me meat" &c. is later explained to be anyone -- especially the lowest. So it's still "have value by creating utility for others" but in a grand humanist way.