The Dystopia We’re Sold

Dystopia is something you buy, every single day.
Planned obsolescence, ignored diminishing returns, false innovation, consumerism, these seemingly mundane aspects of daily life lay the framework of a purchased dystopia. What’s advertised to us as innovative tech or better features of products we need is really a clever trick; justifying the existence of corporations who add little value to the world to maximize profits, at the cost of us and our world, using excessive energy, wasting resources, and creating undue waste. Planned obsolescence, ignored diminishing returns, false innovation are creating the consumerist dystopia we live in every single day.
In this video essay we’ll explain how Blade Runner incorporates these concepts (ignored diminishing returns & planned obsolescence & false innovation), and analyze how they present an abstraction of our own world, and discuss the implications of these concepts.
Blade Runner is a 1982 cyberpunk film directed by Ridley Scott, starring Harrison Ford. An adaptation of Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” it follows Rick Deckard, a retired blade runner chasing down replicants, synthetic humans bio-engineered to be slaves on off-world colonies, led by Roy Batty. Created by the Tyrell Corporation, the replicants led by Roy seek out their creator Tyrell to ask for a longer life, while Deckard attempts to stop them. The overall narrative of Blade Runner is a philosophical one, questioning what humans really are as cyberpunk works do, as well as the importance of memories, empathy, and how dystopian civilizations are formed.
Buying Ourselves a Dystopia | A movie analysis video essay explaining Blade Runner
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[@ProfessorViral]

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[@ShadaOfAllThings]

You imply you are unsatisfied with certain mistakes so I will help you view one more easily with a justification and not judgement. To be clear as well I do not disagree with your conclusion either, just how you present it under the goal you've stated. You have an annotation in the video that says "Links in the pinned comment below" and there are none in this comment. The easiest way to rectify this would be to edit the links into the comment itself, and not as an accessible list through Patreon or Discord. The reasoning for this is because when you are attempting to make a persuasive argument in essay form one of the primary goals should be minimal appeals to bias beyond baseline biases that allow life to go on such as wanting to live. Another primary goal is to present the material with which you use to indicate a true thing or a chain of logic, so that others may more easily access them to assess whether your interpretation of them is correct, reasonable, etc. While I know that college style essay writing may not be the most fun to most people there are multiple people on youtube that make it work and also manage to obfuscate or even compensate for the potential of dry presentation. One method I used while I had to do essay writing is basically to establish the key ideas I wanted, restate the meaning in more clear words, and then give examples of it in real life. For this video you could have had a quote on the screen with a note for where its from, and then just did what you did anyways for the rest of the video with some mind to keep to the more solid thesis or logical point you are talking from.

[@marocat4749]

Oh youtalked about the lightbulb cartel thing. Like there are still old lightbulbs in older houses that still work, its wild. And how old stuff often not only is acssabl to repair yourself but still works. Its also made harder to even change a battery and akku :(

[@TrianglePants]

"Dear future...I bought you...I own the rights!" Innerpartysystem, "Don't Stop"

[@EnbyNomad]

Billionaires took the warnings of dystopian stories and viewed them as aspirational.

[@ProfessorViral]

They take the style and throw away the substance. Every "innovation" they make is so they can try and feel like the special one in a story

[@O1OO1O1]

​@@ProfessorViralno, it's not, lol. It's so they can be fücking rich and powerful.

[@SkullScar]

Does Klaus Schwab ring a bell? How about the WEF, Scientology, Transhumanism, and "the fourth industrial revolution"?

[@mrkonski833]

@@SkullScar aww hell na theres 4 💀

[@antonikudlicki1100]

Do you know any billionaire tho? That's quite a generalisation, don't you think? I've met some rich people (not ultrarich though, more like a mansion owning, post scarcity living) and they seem rather miserable. Not being able to relate to normal people appears to be quite a price for affluency. It's kind of like being beautiful. You're being surrounded with people who don't care about who you are, but what you can give them. You can't buy good friends nor healthy family life. Moreover you have more tools to cope, so it's easier to fall into hedonism and to hurt yourself more with it

[@SuperGoose42]

To answer the question at the very beginning of the video, "How does a society become this advanced yet this messed up?" When the advancement of technology outpaces the advancement of wisdom and morality, you get a dystopia.

[@ProfessorViral]

Is that a specific principle from somewhere? I feel that's certainly part of what I reached in the conclusion, but it's summed up much more succinctly there

[@SuperGoose42]

@@ProfessorViral I believe it's a quote from Jordan Peterson, though I may be misremembering Also I commented this about 5 seconds into the video, I hadn't yet seen your conclusion. You hit the nail on the head with the modern day comparisons

[@mrkonski833]

Reminds me of that speech from Charlie Chaplin at the end of "The Dictator" where he also adresses the rapid advancement of technologies and its effect on the morality and humanity of people.

[@lorenzomizushal3980]

technology makes people see the world in a very warped way, and our worldview informs our actions. Technology corrupts our soul and make us create decadent societies. Think of the trans people, these people would never even be able to exist without technology that allows gender reassignment, nor would their reach be as wide without mass communication. In this way and multiple ways like this technology has warped society and will inevitably make a hell out of a potential paradise.

[@marocat4749]

​@@ProfessorViralthe star trek episode about a first contact, where the leadrconclude they need to catch up on their problems before going to space?!

[@juniorkamutande8395]

Honestly I don't care if we wait longer if it means we get videos like this

[@ProfessorViral]

Thank you, its reassuring to hear. I want to reach the level of written quality of the creators I love mostly, but the extra time will also help me present things in a much more polished way, like my videos about a year ago

[@freddarteagavaldez725]

came for an anime video essay, stayed for the anti corporation rant

[@ProfessorViral]

I can always provide a bit of that haha

[@elios7623]

I don't remember who said this phrase but it went something like "we live in a cyberpunk world without the cyberpunk fun" every day that phrase becomes more and more true.....

[@ProfessorViral]

FOR REAL. I know it would just be common to us if we did have the cyberpunk fun, but I'd like to dream there'd at least be more fun in the world with all this stuff we dont need

[@klenstdp1737]

@@ProfessorViral only cyberpsychosis we’re getting is prolonged twitter usage

[@zefem]

you can with drugs and videogames tbh

[@elios7623]

@@klenstdp1737 TRUUEEEEE

[@PhalynHope16]

“You should be angry” - thank you, I needed that reminder today. I find myself feeling so angry and sad and frustrated and then have people responding with “well, aren’t you just being kinda dramatic? It’s not THAT big of a deal”. So thanks - I needed someone to support this anger.

[@ProfessorViral]

I feel that, I'm tried of hearing from people that anger at these things isn't justified just because its how life is. I see nothing wrong with being mad at the way life is when we only get one! Anger is an emotion we feel for a reason, if its directed at something truly unjust, its healthy

[@padrearyan1645]

Dystopia , bad future , a very fitting title that’s brings up many memories . Cyberpunk edge runners , Akame Ga Kill , and etc. These animations showed me that the world moves on even when you are hurting . Your pain will never be known . The more the Advanced the society , the more advanced we are at hatred and the inhumanity . Through time stories are told , through time life is lived , through time we are in a cycle . But at the end life moves on .

[@internalizedhappyness9774]

I like to say- “life’s not a cycle, it’s just a downward spiral that we’re looking up at”

[@pewternatural]

Really like how much more in depth you went in this video. Nearly an hour long and I could have watched even more, because of how well you put this together.

[@bobchelios9961]

every time a writer comes up with something which is fucked up, a tech bro sees it and goes "i will build that" cyber punk used to be a warning, by not it feels more like a prediction

[@ProfessorViral]

It's odd, it becomes a prediction because assholes with money decide to build a cyberpunk world, not understanding its commentary

[@marocat4749]

Ha , reminds me how star trek did influence technology, itsprobably that art will inspire technology, but yeah, why do peopke want a dystopia?

[@reganalv]

How backwards human society can be always amazes me. Corporations and Capitalism are just insane...

[@O1OO1O1]

If a small group of psychopaths and sociopaths can control billions, who's are the insane ones?

[@ProfessorViral]

It's a depressing fact. The point of doing everything we've called society should be for people to be happy, but so much is directly designed to keep us unhappy

[@Amphibax]

Companys don't care about you they only care about your money its pretty simple thing but big companys spend huge amounts of to make you forget that simple fact

[@ProfessorViral]

They engage in so many manipulative practices in their advertising to try and seem better than they are. It's something I really want to cover one day with all the "meta" ads we see now, including ones that essentially state they're manipulating you!

[@krillin2591]

I love your videos, keep it up! Just binged a lot of ones in regards to Edgerunners, Love, the future, moving on…. It really helps me reflect on myself, I also appreciate how vulnerable you allow yourself to become in some of the videos, it takes a lot to do so. 🙏

[@nickl6373]

I feel i was promised something growing up as a late mellinial It feels like when i hit my 20s in 2015/16 reality just did a rug pool on me

[@ProfessorViral]

There were definitely unkept promises growing up in the millennial generation and beyond, essentially post-Regean America. For me it was expressed in college; a good job with a good degree meant happiness, and all it really was was debt and regret

[@ericjohnson7234]

so yougood, because what you were told was a half truth. So someone in incredible amounts of unearned power can keep that power.

[@shaynemaskall6984]

Please review Cell's at Work: Code Black, a spinoff off Cell's at Work. It's an awesome anime about an unhealthy body. Many dystopia themes are brought up including if it is even worth working for a person they are part off who does not give a dam about his health.

[@ProfessorViral]

I'd heard of the series, but didn't know about the spin off. I'll keep that in mind for sure!

[@melg322]

Your videos are the best. Whenever I'm having a bad day or just want a pick me up I always throw on ur vids and chill. Makes all the stress go away. Thanks for always putting a smile on my face.

[@ProfessorViral]

As someone who has youtubers they love for that reason, that you so much, is one of the most validating compliments 💙

[@Luca-zt3oo]

just wanted to say, i really love your videos. I've even watched blade runner today, so i can come back here to watch and understand this video fully. Keep doing what you're doing, because its great.

[@mattd5240]

Technological advancement isn't a prerequisite to social or moral advancement, and never will be.

[@ProfessorViral]

I don't believe it is, I hope that didn't come across as my point. Rather, I wanted to show false technological advancement as a drain to the other two

[@mattd5240]

@@ProfessorViral Ah, I see. It kinda did as you repeated. "How can a society this advanced be so fucked up?" I could have paraphrased slightly.

[@vikkipink1288]

This video was so brilliant. It deserves wayyy more views. Glad I stumbled across your channel. I’m definitely gonna be subscribing 😊

[@tomonelch8705]

I enjoy your philosophical view on life‘s topics. I think you have a beautiful mind and I appreciate you sharing your thoughts and perspective with us. The way you described a specific life event (in a different video) made me realize and rediscover a part of myself long forgotten. Thank you for that I’m sincerely grateful. I’m happy that you produce content, Keep up the great work and I’m sure your subscribers will grow!

[@wumbeezle]

Love the innovation of your videos and showing the real world examples, we love you professor!

[@MrWaifuTaker]

Should I rage quit life with the world being more dystopian with time?

[@lordseptomus441]

honestly no-one can tell you the answer to that. if you're asking random strangers though, there's a good chance you're seriously considering it. I've not got much by way of advice, other than some very general stuff: keep your friends close, invite them round to play cards against humanity or any of the silly board games and card games you can find. drink lots of water, water is a major source of hydration in humans. take the time to properly greet your pets or failing that, go pet a cat, there's bound to be one somewhere, a pet is only a very small part of your world but to them, you are their entire world. drink inhuman quantities of water, increasing volume of fluid intake leads to greater water concentration in your blader. drink water every three minutes and eight seconds, water is a known cause of drowning in human adults and children.

[@O1OO1O1]

No, you should get to work. When ww2 happened, if people quit because it was hard or unpleasant, we'd be living in a much worse dystopia. They didn't, so we're not. We have a responsibility to make use of the sacrifice of those who lost their lives so we could have something better.

[@alanlu8625]

fight with us

[@marocat4749]

No, i mean its your life, but also it can get less bad as long as you are alive. And put your anger toward that problems And you cant undo it.

[@twinphalanx4465]

As someone who doesn't have a platform doesn't have a large audience to speak to. Thank you and keep saying it

[@ProfessorViral]

Other course, always will

[@cereskerrigan]

Insightful work mate. I needed to hear this.

[@ProfessorViral]

Thanks, glad I could provide it!

[@lordseptomus441]

another PV upload, another good day

[@lordseptomus441]

man I really should have used a semicolon instead of a comma there

[@ProfessorViral]

Me writing scripts right there 🤣

[@wrenromero6392]

certified banger, good job dood

[@ProfessorViral]

Thank you 🙏

[@eternalnos2179]

Thank you for being here, sir. Your words are appreciated. Speaking words of philosophy that so many can hear and digest is a worthy use of technology.

[@ProfessorViral]

Thank you, I'm glad they can be meanful words across what's so often meaningless tech

[@AffinityShadow00]

Great job Prof ☕☺️

[@ProfessorViral]

Thank you as always 💙

[@revy281]

Thank you for the video. 😊

[@ProfessorViral]

Of course, thank you for your time!

[@AngDevigne]

👏👏👏 Hell yeah my dude. Preach.

[@KeithDraws]

I get the feeling that when talking about Tyrel you really meant the devs at Google.

[@marocat4749]

and musk for sure. oter that fictioal villains are always more competent.

[@LeviathanJoho]

Nice vid!

[@joshuaharris3039]

You win! You win! I’ll go see Blade Runner; I’m finally convinced

[@intellectually_lazy]

very well said

[@ProfessorViral]

Thank you!

[@alexxx4434]

We already live in a dystopia.

[@JamesDecker7]

The world we should aim for is the one where you would be most comfortable taking a gamble on you and your loved ones being born into a very poor family.

[@ProfessorViral]

The freedom to take a gamble is an important factor. Say someone has a truly innovative idea that could better the world, but they never have the safety net to actually take the risk to try and create the product? We need to have an social system which encourages risks taken in the name of creating a better life

[@marocat4749]

Yes , the if you would be ok to loose the coinflip and were on the other side, think sbout it argument?! To at least try to make it ok living it.

[@slowjamsliver7006]

Times are stranger than you ever really stop to think about.

[@camilorivero]

Nice choker! And vid, the vid was great!

[@derrmeister]

Hey, nice video, it really resonates. I'm by the way living a relatively minimalistic life despite being born into one of those nice first world countries. I never owned a smartphone even though many people around me kept urging me to buy one. some even offered to gift their old stuff to me, not getting the reason I actively chose not to get this. I live fine and happy despite being paid what is essentially minimum wage, because I reject capitalism. I reject letting material wealth pretend to be a measure for ones happiness. I think the only way to get out of this misery of unending growth and cosnumerism is of a philosophical nature, but everyone has to come to their conclusions for themselves. I won't save the planet by myself, but the planet might just heal itself after humanity has eaten itself up by way of never ending growth. I hope that won't be the case for all of us, but who knows what the future holds.

[@antonikudlicki1100]

F*ck the planet tho, it's the people who matter. You matter. "Nature is our mother and she's a dirty b*tch"

[@marocat4749]

I would hope that humanity gets their craptogether when shit hits the fan, you kinda have to force it over rich aholes doping ithat , but it can, maybe? Ok i stick to humans can be grat and if capitalism collapss for good whenever, it can get terrible or way way better.

[@TheSingingBUn]

Perhaps, this is a strange statement to say, but I'm noticing this over the passing years. For every advancement of technology, we set our younger generation 10 years back in emotional, intellectual intelligence. The dissonance of technology and society, as it stands puts morality into conflict for many a different reasons. It's not even a political war of intellectual attrition on the question of ethics between business men and society. When they introduce a technology to 'make human life easier' it comes at the cost of three more issues that relate to said technology. I know how ironic this comment can come off, typing this down through a piece of technology. But many people kept saying this is the most peace human society has experienced in the past decade or so. If that is the case, then why is the scale of depression and anxiety worse now than it was in the past 5 decades? philip k dick foresaw the consequences of how technology creates an unfathomable dissonance of our morals at the price of 'easier comforts' of an advanced society.

[@Human_01]

"Sci-fi warnings" can be accounted for to balance out the impressions, but it will always be tailored to genuinely intelligent, high-sentient human beings, as it should.

[@atab6555]

Great vid

[@ProfessorViral]

Thanks!

[@SlickEvan]

Does anyone know the song @ <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1795">29:55</a> ???

[@justinianthegreat1444]

The question can be applied to our own real dystopia

[@wrld9540]

only 2 minutes in but this is already amazing. exactly how ive been feeling. i dream to live in a cyberpunk world but i realize id 100% be like an ordinary person in the slums fighting for survival and not someone like V with all the connections and potential. its so boring in our current world compared to theirs, but the 1950s wouldve said the same comparing our world to theirs. wifi, high tech cars, mobile computers,

[@Kay-kg6ny]

Join the right to repair movement!

[@somerandommen]

"If" we lived in one of these societies? We already do.

[@Sage0016]

Manifestation of Dystopia. We talked it into existence.

[@marocat4749]

We really need more solarpunk in media. Is kipo one?

[@jakariashafin1695]

Ah yes another banger

[@MADCATMK3103]

No complaints about this video other than it made me more depressed good job! I'm a little surprised you did not go into refrigerators or toasters, something that has useless features but is getting FAR less reliable.

[@ProfessorViral]

I haven't seen anything about that actually, mine are both still decently old models, so I wasn't aware of anything about new ones

[@danielbatista8760]

Make sense and it get harder to fight for a better life when your fighting to survive

[@astalidiot8559]

If I may quote Real Genius, "All science, no philosophy." that will kill the human soul

[@alexxx4434]

About this emotional test in Blade Runner. I wonder how many real people nowadays would pass this hypothetical test, given most people have traumatized emotions from their childhood. I fear the future humans would evolutionary become emotionless beings, because all these emotions and empathy kind of go agaainst the survival and prosperity in the modern atomized world.

[@benmcreynolds8581]

It baffles me. Even tho Society is struggling, We are yet to even attempt to implement: "The concept around: The better off the lowest income living people are doing; The better the entire rest of our countries economy could be doing." -Think of it like a ecosystem in nature. The least important little things might seem meaningless and insignificant yet, if they crumbled away, the entire ecosystem would crumble. The last things remaining would be the top diverse predators that eat everything else.. until they eat each other.. leaving just a few top sharks in the ecosystem.. the whales would all be gone once the plankton crumble away, the sharks would eat the whales. Then once all that's left is sharks, the sharks would eat the sharks. *(Think of this but as a analogy for our economy and our modern day society..) If we instead decided to support the lowest people in the ecosystem, there would be a beneficial systematic dispersion towards other aspects of society benefiting. All because the lowest people would be flourishing. I say flourish but I really just mean, able to obtain the most basic essential living standards... Yet even that would Vastly improve our current state of our economy & society *Also imagine this analogy in our economy. The more help we invest in the lowest level people, the more it would trickle into every facet of our economy. If poor people can pay their rent & not go homeless: landlords would get $, businesses would get $, banks would get $, local small shops would get $, mortgages & bills could be paid, insurance companies would get $, Taxes would get $, So essentially that $ would go out & filter right back in to improve our Country while simultaneously improving our quality of Life. Every bit of the economy would somehow find a way to benefit off of this situation... I don't get why we haven't even Given it a chance?? If it doesn't help? Then by all means stop it and figure out what problems we could be facing might be one's that run way deeper than expected and that would take drastic changes to improve that situation... (I hope we TRY something soon, before things get any more unstable. The worst thing we could do is continue on doing exactly what we are currently doing. It might get to a point where overcoming our struggles could simply become a pipedream. I don't want it to get to that)

[@Human_01]

Btw, all the intriguing aspects in your video is feasible in the physical world/this conscious-simulation we exist within (including the supposedly "dystopian" and hidden Utopian aspects - it will be utopian for intelligent humans [those who do not have a "pathological disregard for rationality and reality").

[@siamihari8717]

Answer to your Opening Question: Technological Advancement and The Advancement of Sciences does not corelate nor relate in anyway too Cultural, Societal or Speicies Wide Maturation. Explination: (optional) As we once were Kids playing with the Toys of Teens and Adults in the Bronze and Iron Ages (War and Polotics respectfully) it taking a number of Enlightenments for us to become ready to handle some of the Technological revolutions we made, we are still but Teens playing with an Adults Toys. Were in the 21st Century, our leaders in their Ignorance or Age act as though we are still in the 20th Century, and we have unlocked and are unlocking technolgies Centuries ahead of their time. Nuklier, AI, Gene-Modification, Synthetic Body Parts, Cloned Animals, Cybernetic Technolgies, Robotics, Simulated Realities. People are trying to make the goddamn holodeck from startrack but now. We are playing with the tools of Gods and we have conquered Gaia for our own Eden, yet we have not even begun to master Humankinds innerworld or found a way to control ourselves wholy. To become Adults as a Species, Humanity must first finish its age old conflict. End the Struggle thats been running from the Neolithic to Now, we must finnally choose if we Value Liberty or Value Authority more. But thags a Dangerous argument...

[@rabbitcreative]

> master Humankinds innerworld or found a way to control ourselves wholy This idea is more fleshed-out in a book called Manhood of Humanity, by Alfred Korzybski.

[@SerifSansSerif]

I agree with your points, but I feel blade runner was a weird way to get there. Snowpiercer and Armitage III both answer some of the questions of the replicants indirectly. First of all, blade runner 2049 kind of demonstrates the replicants to be essentially lab grown humans with genetics that are copyrighted. You could argue this is the new version is different from the original replicants in the first movie, but Rachel is a key part of the plot (which her ability to breed with humans is Armitage's plotline: the 3rd were made as assassins, but them repurposed to compensate for less women on Mars, and a unification of Mars and earth results in destruction of the 3rds. In dual matrix, Armitage had a baby and the plot is trying to recreate that technology and control it, which is the plot of Blade runner 2049). In snowpiercer, the kids are sacrificed because life is cheap. Biology, believe it or not is quick to adapt and repair. Mechanical parts are weak and fragile and require others to repair them rather than self repair. Biology will always be more durable for that. Now if you assume bladerunner's original replicants were non-biological (and I'm not sure if the were always biological), I think your points are spot on, it's more of a god complex and doing something simply because you can.

[@marocat4749]

Werent the kids a metaphor to the willingness to throw kids future and lifes aeay way too fast by that thinking?

[@Eric1738-7]

wooooooooo early today too pp everysingle day i find something new to blame capitalism for

[@ProfessorViral]

Yall are earlier than me because of work 😔

[@elios7623]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1880">31:20</a> ah, I see what you did there lol

[@ProfessorViral]

validation 😎

[@N0tsaved]

I've been watching this anti vulture-capitalism gender questioning egg crack over the last several months and it's been so satisfying to watch. I wish you the best in all your future stories and ideas.

[@ProfessorViral]

My slow dive into insanity hasn't been put into better words than that haha

[@ramphastos1]

Engagement

[@ProfessorViral]

Thanks!

[@jazzknh1105]

There is so much to this video about rampant waste and the threat of climate apocalypse, but it also serves as a great reminder of why you shouldn't buy Apple products.

[@ProfessorViral]

Apple does so some market changing stuff, and I'm glad they changed the smartphone game to what it became after the iPhone, but they squandered all that buy just reproducing the same trick again and again and again. For my next phone (it's 2023, a phone is an essential necessity) I'm going third party build; the base features nowadays are all thats really needed with how pointless "advanced" things have gotten

[@alanlu8625]

@@ProfessorViral hope smbdy hax the iphone so we can all keep old phones goin

[@HenryCasillas]

☮️

[@ntgon]

We already have so much of this useless shit. The worst thing is that we are literally engineering our own prison.

[@bobmartell5849]

🙂👍

[@ProfessorViral]

Thanks 😎

[@JachymorDota]

Capitalism doesn't have the task to supply everyone with all the goods and Services they need. It rewards individuals making profit by any means necessary. We, Humanity as a whole, have enough ressources and means to supply everyone with decent living standards. If Humanity wants to see the year 3000, we require modern political and economic systems that Go beyond Democratic Capitalism and Autocratic Communism.

[@ProfessorViral]

It's a tricky situation because most of these theoretical social and economic frameworks are good in theory, but are corrupted by the same factors like greed. I wonder how we prevent those seemingly base coruptors from destroying any system. As such, I typical advocate to try and adapt what we know into something better, so that we at least are working from a baseline, however this in itself has become extremely difficult as the system was hijacked so much by so few wealthy people

[@JachymorDota]

@@ProfessorViral I don't have the right solution for that either. Personally, I think it comes down to power, and how it corrupts/reveals corruption. My ideal system would divide and evenly share it, or maybe even distribute it to an AI, as utopian as that sounds. But this requires less people in high positions - something they would, understandably, not seperate willingly from. Alas, these are just mad ramblings of an online philosopher.

[@marocat4749]

Yeah, even capitalism seemed to recognize that in areas, why socialist capitalism can try make it less so. And still so much inequality, If capitalism needs social regulations to even work alone, no capitalism is miserable to the point it needed social regulations to even work spmewhat.

[@neomancr]

Dude use a fold 3. Play Dex and use your phone at the same time. It restores a knox protected work space that either wirelessly projects or you can do it through wired. It's 192khz 24bit. The phone itself works as a phone and a burner phone in one so you can fools fire base that you're in 3 places at once roaming around. If you think that a phone in a tall form factor is good enough for you you don't handle anything text oriented or thin clients. The note 8 and the fold 3 are capable of more things you can even imagine. Up cycle. I rarely even use my laptop anymore because my phone does anything and way better and faster and with much high quality. The screen on a fold 3 is high res than what you'd think was a big monitor. You can also hear 3D sound though spatial 3d all the while the audio industry is removing the out of phase audio and flattening 3d stereo to 2d biphonics or binaural You mentioned the light bulb. Why do you think it doesn't just pop in like an audio jack? Or a power jack? Why does it have to be screwed in? And why can't it even snap in to tell you when you've screwed it in "tight enough" I haven't bought light bulbs for 10 years. You can make your own lighting out of led. You can make virtually anything, you can reverse engineer anything. The biggest issue are cartels I. E. Monopoly like btc opec etc. That legitimise themselves somehow though they cause all the world's evils. If we electrified all the cars in the world less than half would have batteries before we depleted out reserves of REEs. The Zelda tiers of the Kingdom is a contempary critique on how we destroyed the world through greedily chasing consumerist tech. They went as far as to make it so that the tech comes out of a giant gumball machine and once out pop it open you can put it back in like anything else. It must be thrown away or has a timer built on where after some use it literally blinks and breaks. Meanwhile the more you war against the "enemies" the more powerful they have to become because you leave them no choice. That's why it's possible to beat Zelda in 5 minutes but not for someone who's spent 200 hours, by that time the cold / hot War has already begun and the enemies you keep beating are getting smarter and more technologically advanced and you, the human behind Link, are the link to the avatar or player and can decide to choose violence and escalate the violence likewise or choose any other path. It's entirely up to you. Thats why people who are used to western rpgs where the story is more like a movie done get it when the perception of the world of Zelda is a reflection of you and how aware you are of the world around you. Right now everyone in tiers of the Kingdom is battling over zonaite ore which is described exactly like REEs.

[@ssbbking91]

🙂

[@davidmauriciogutierrezespi5244]

I want to say the name of sooooo many people, one in particular is in the tip of my tongue... but I can only remember it rhymes with husk

[@ProfessorViral]

I would have done it if I hadn't made a whole video yelling at him just a few months ago haha

[@davidmauriciogutierrezespi5244]

@@ProfessorViral I'm new, discovered your channel for Black Lagoon, so I'm gonna watch that video next 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Oh, goddess what a time to be alive

[@questakemi8861]

You made an hour-long critique of Capitalism without naming it directly and I wonder if that was intentional on your part to not drive away people with a big buzz word.

[@bafumat]

This guy thinks we aren't already in a dystopian present.

[@ProfessorViral]

I never said we weren't now

[@lonewanderer9982]

Then we wonder why the planets dying.

[@O1OO1O1]

Technology is not equal to advancement.

[@nmghmarquis2583]

hmmm4_4 kinda sad better the black sky Goood show kinda nice

[@tomykong2915]

Oh, ho, ho, the apple ecosystem. Apple products are unique in how locked down they are, most android products work with the same things as other android products, switching costs are minimal between different android based smart phones.

[@Elias-qp7cz]

Are you gonna watch psycho pass providence?

[@yourlocalreptillian1742]

This is the crap that politics should be used to fix. But we are lost in the sauce

[@O1OO1O1]

It's a dystopia we create. We literally have a market, and the idots chose wrong consistently. Don't blame the people who exploit that.

[@ProfessorViral]

This is akin to victim blaming. You're saying to blame the people born into and raised by the system put in place by those with power? We don't have a choice; we have the options those who abuse us provide. You can't tell an ant that got washed away "well you shouldn't have been out in the rain" when it knows nothing of predicting weather

[@marocat4749]

It is, with great power should come great responsibility, and how do that idiots get to make that decision?! And all that bypeople rich enough they can do stuff without caring ever for money again. If its avanity project, dont play god and exploit others for it. Ok, or play god.

[@BladeStar420]

You are very pretty =^.^=

[@noahdigit430]

So... Capitalism?

[@drewmarteny1495]

Generic comment for the algorithm

[@drewd4491]

"You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart." Jeremiah <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1753">29:13</a> The Lord Jesus Christ, the God who created everything wants to have a relationship with YOU no matter what sins you've committed, you are worthy of his love. He is only a prayer away. Ask him to reveal himself in your life. ❤

[@alanway5]

God, alah, etc is dead, we made him up

[@drewd4491]

@@alanway5 He is Jesus Christ and He is real. He will literally show you he exists if you seek him out. Ask him.

[@O1OO1O1]

​@@drewd4491someone who assumes what we call God will "show" themselves likely has a poor understanding of reality and people.

[@drewd4491]

@@O1OO1O1 He did it for me. He spoke to me and transformed my life. Jesus Christ is the one true and living God. He wants you to know him brother. Ask him. He loves you. ❤️

[@dumbassgrobler]

I don't know if it means anything to you our not but your videos didn't only change how I view anime/pop culture but it's also changed how I view my world 8n general Thank you

[@ProfessorViral]

It means a lot to me, truly, thank you 💙

[@gd995]

Couldn't make it 30 seconds without doing that thing where you over-emote and sound like you're crying huh. Annoying.