West Point Rooms and Hyperrealism

[@christopherletarte5423]

As a current cadet, this made my day just a little better. I like the way the new content is going by the way.

[@codycurtin2295]

I just randomly got your e-girl video on my algorithm and now I see this!! This channel is everything I want in my life: hyperreality, post modernity, military, and horrifically dry sarcasm. Amazing channel Justin ❤

[@k98killer]

Shostakovich's waltz is a tasteful choice here: the hyperreality of West Point is reminiscent of the hyperreality of the Soviet bureaucracy. But also, that Shostakovich waltz is wonderful.

[@1tombensky]

Class of '69 here. I slept under my cadet bunk covers every night. I don't believe I ever got written up for improperly made bed. Enjoy your videos. Hard to believe that after 50+ years, the typical day of a combat arms LT has not changed much.

[@rubygarcia2936]

Yeahhhh the night before graduation I broke sheets and crawled in and I could feel a bit of gritty dirt that had seeped into the sheets (Mind you, I at least washed the sheets before making the bed that semester) I was instantly horrified of the festering filth that lay under the covers. Immediately got out, laid my green girl over it and slept like I normally did.

[@kelleyroth]

any perspective that makes me look at this bubble Im trapped in right now a little differently is Much appreciated. Thanks

[@gorilladude3932]

This video helped me gain some perspective on things around here, thank you. Great new videos, very entertaining during esp

[@Justin_Taylor]

Stop watching KZbin videos during ESP or you’ll end up branching infantry like me.

[@jonathandemmond276]

I just finished writing my undergrad thesis on the simulacra of Utopia - I spent so much time trying to figure it out and explain it and you just explained it so much easier lol. I'm no military guy but the ideals of West Point are definitely utopian in nature. Good point you made about institutions and how they degrade into simulacrum. I concluded in my thesis the same you did about the alignment guide. Utopia originally as a core concept was born of a principle, to envision alternative "good endings" in order to try to work backwards to think of changes to society. But through self-referential derivation over and over it stands more as an image of itself for the image itself rather than a treatise on societal change, so referential that core values are not changed much, but rather inherently and invisibly baked into its design. Good video!! Now I want to go edit my writing

[@Deanzphx]

2 mins in; as a dietitian, you are speaking poetry to me; though i grasp the book, it's a good conveyance

[@karthikkottapalli]

I came to learn more about West Point, I stayed for the philosophy.

[@GreyZone7]

Actually, Baudrillard disliked the Matrix movie because of it's clear distinction between simulation and 'reality'

[@kathleenr.3508]

OMG, this was awesome. That ending made me giggle so much! This is so funny.

[@WelshRabbit]

"Epitome" is pronounced by most people as something like e-PIT-uh-Me.

[@Justin_Taylor]

U rite

[@ST4X-0N-ST4X]

I'm just realizing for the first time in my life that e-pit-uh-me and epitome are the same word

[@rubygarcia2936]

Also I’m sorry. My gf and I have been talking about this video all day. Another thing that is just beyond its original design. The simulated dress shirt under the full dress/dress gray with the fake collars and cuffs, the fake ammo box, etc. Oh god we’re down this rabbit hole now

[@Justin_Taylor]

Just don’t think too much about how grant barracks only has granite bricks on the side facing the road

[@johnvmi27]

Sir these videos are excellent Sir.I currently in a TMilitary Academy succeeding Academicly and Militarily . Sir watching your videos keeps me motivated and focused on my goals. IM Iin my Junior year pushing myself and others Sir nothing is handed to you You need to work for it and never get comfortable. I'm only 16 and I still have always to go but your right I would rather fail than quit.Thank you sir for the positive motivation.

[@titanwrestler145]

WHAT?! The BAG is in PDF and no longer printed out and put in a three-ring binder that is also a part of SAMI??? THE CORPS HAS.

[@benjamin3044]

Perhaps I should have started with a slightly less confusing video for my Thursday morning. Good shit nonetheless.

[@stephenwilson9497]

Excellent. Great Examples!

[@andres-alejos]

Sleeping in your bed is actually used as a punishment too. It's called "breaking sheets"

[@Justin_Taylor]

And do flutter kicks under the covers to really mess up the bed

[@walterg4025]

One thing is very clear, and it's that West Point isn't what it used to be.

[@Justin_Taylor]

By definition, nothing is.

[@purplpen]

"The Corps has," for sure.

[@walterg4025]

@@Justin_Taylor If Colonel Thayer was still around, I don't think he'd be impressed with the current program.

[@jacksonwitherington4437]

When are you releasing your Spotify playlist

[@Justin_Taylor]

When the internet is ready

[@purplpen]

If you don't sleep in your bed, where do you sleep?

[@StrappyWave]

I still cant tell if these are love letters or hate letters to west point

[@StrappyWave]

Follow up question if i did actually put tape on the bottom of the bed would i get in trouble?

[@jmpetersrn]

I don’t know about the Point, but when I was in Basic Training in the late 1970s you would be punished if you got caught doing that. Now that did not stop some of us (me) from doing that. We never had/thought about using duct tape. I brought elastic bands that hooked on each end, garter straps. A little trick I learned in JROTC. The key to not getting caught was learning to do it perfectly and then after the 2nd tear down inspection fix said contraband to the linens. Done right you could skinny under the covers at night and slip out in the morning with a quick smoothing. Woe be the restless sleeper.

[@jasonmcginty6719]

Man I feel this. I was Naval Academy class of 2015 (BEAN TAVY, iykyk) and I’ve had a lot of similar thoughts about that place. Our bed and room craziness was a little less crazy than yours I think; we would all leave our beds made, sleep on top of the made bed, and have another blanket or sheet folded up on a shelf that we would use for an actual covering. In the morning you fold up your covering blanket and put it back on the shelf, hop down, and smooth out the still made bed real quick. Shirt stays on the underside of the mattress help to keep it stretched tight.

[@masonbay9945]

Don't worry, sir, Grant might've gotten renovated but Dirty Sherm hasn't changed a bit

[@Justin_Taylor]

Hope it never does.

[@Leftyloveshuskies]

What did that poor innocent bed ever do to you?

[@charlesbatkin9783]

Watching this video as my roommate is sleeping on top of his green girl

[@robertguidry2168]

Is your BA in Philosophy? Or is it more of a extracurricular interest?

[@Justin_Taylor]

I have a BS in Geospatial Information Science, I didn’t major in philosophy because I didn’t want college to ruin it for me.

[@robertguidry2168]

Makes sense. Philosophy at West Point would be... Interesting. You would literally be required to question your purpose and existence to pass.

[@Justin_Taylor]

Everyone should be doing that regardless

[@judy8117]

ITS all about taste and ways oh eating it at the end be proud to have been PICKED for the friut bowl ,maybe your a lucky charm lol ENJOY YOU always,stay safe and keep writing !!🐾♥️🐾♥️🐾♥️☘☘☘🇺🇸

[@wojali]

So much lol. I enjoyed this

[@sunalwaysshinesonTVs]

Jesus fk. Listening to a solider discuss post-modernism is the scariest shit Ive seen on the internet today.

[@technogaming3118]

Love the mcjuggernuggets meme

[@Justin_Taylor]

I have no idea who that is

[@technogaming3118]

@@Justin_Taylor the little clip at :23 is from another youtuber and his channel is called mcjuggernuggets and that’s his dad in the little clip . Love your videos by the way I want to go to West Point myself. My dad took me to a West Point presentation that taught me about most of it and I knew I had to go there and I have 3 more years

[@rocko7711]

🥰😍🤩😘

[@FranklinBurrus]

fruit? taste?

[@phineascampbell3103]

Eh-pit-oh-me. Epitome... 🙂

[@santinosanchez3824]

I just started highschool and I plan on going to west point any advice

[@This.is.not.Leanne]

Have good grades take some AP classes, do anything that will make you stand out or take up on leadership positions, pretty much be a well rounded student. Be consistent all 4 years by the middle of your sophomore year study a little bit of the SAT/ACT so all junior/senior year you keep taking it until you’re satisfied whatever score you get. The middle of your Junior year start the application soon as possible trust me dude it’s a long process. But if you still stay consistent you’ll probably make it, keep in mind have a plan b and you can always reapply up to when you’re 23.

[@This.is.not.Leanne]

I’m giving you all the advice that I wished I knew when I applied and the stuff I messed up on, I got rejected but it’s okay I ended up enlisted instead.

[@benb686]

Captain Rocko13 I know I’m not him but thank you this really helped.

[@alexandergregorov9694]

If military friend's really cared about a damn life.

[@MiaBella-b4r]

You sound absolutely bonkers but you're one of the few who can perhaps elaborate on such complex topics... kzbin.info/www/bejne/Zpq7hXaLiMmUn5Isi=iiDlB7-cJs6oWhv7 As a musician, working on multiple projects at once, but particularly with the central theme of measuring motion perception through time, space, plane and dimension being SYNCHRONICITY IN TIME consisting with the phenomena of perceiving reality and its chaotic multidimensional mumbo jumbo of infinite realities. I came across some interesting things a few days ago in which I was able to further make a matrix connection, if that's what we can classify it as. Either way, thought you might find it interesting to kind of look into considering you might understand the content and see some connections of your own even without the advance music theory knowledge knowing your mind's way of sorting through things at times. Especially complex computing, you silly pewter. Also, just keep in mind the 2000 mind reset concept where although the basic laws of physics considers everything in motion to stay in motion in the physical sense of time, the mind, or mental plane on the other hand can at any moment be reset back into a previous state of mind, as where just like there are motion pictures or films that can be analyzed or evaluated through direct observation, the resetting through the phase of "awakening", the mind's memory can reproduces it's own motion pictures simultaneously where the subconscious and the conscious self from the earliest memory of observing the world through senses becomes super aware - or rather super-conscious. This is also where people suddenly can become anything, especially infantil once again right before they suddenly can shift back into their present selves, if that's even capable. I do believe they can be restored to their selves again, but the process of processing their mental motion pictures from beginning to present time, for most part has always resulted in some Twighlight Zone shifting of internal and external perception along with the chaos's residue of paranoia with the endless thingy majingy you mention in the beginning.

[@MatanColl]

He lost me at the fruit part lol

[@KevinBJones-dv2nn]

Yes....I'll eat the steak

[@stormstern502]

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