I realized a little while back that our ability to de-humanize each other is what enables us to hurt each other, and I try to avoid doing the first thing at all times. And I got an ego boost when I saw Terry Pratchett thought the same. He might have put it more succinctly: "Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things."
@PaperySloth9 ай бұрын
Therefore, the people who do such things are animals. 😂
@Alverant9 ай бұрын
The two words after that quote are the most important. "Including yourself." I'm reading Hogfather again (as I do every year between Thanksgiving and Hogswatch (err Christmas) and I don't think I ever encountered a fictional character who treated people as things more than Teatime, including the Auditors.
@bugjams9 ай бұрын
@@PaperySloth Yeah, if we keep treating people who view others as animals as ontologically evil "lost causes," then I feel we won't get anywhere. The hardest thing to do is to give empathy to someone who doesn't give it to you - but in doing so, you might teach them how to give empathy back.
@principleshipcoleoid80959 ай бұрын
I mean, if someone tries to invade a country people there dehumanising invading force is reasonable. They valued their lives less than milimiters of land gains
@solk.posner72019 ай бұрын
One of the easiest example is the car. When I get behind wheels, I just see everyone as an obstacle, it hard to avoid that. That’s why I really dislike driving
@akhayat899 ай бұрын
“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
@mooncalf1919 ай бұрын
Busy, busy, busy.
@afrikasmith10499 ай бұрын
Why do I feel like this was or could be used in a rap song?
@TAP7a9 ай бұрын
@@afrikasmith1049it reminds me of "Can't Help Lovin That Man of Mine" from the 1940s, but the structure of the Vonnegut is couplets of longer phrases "Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, I gotta love one man til I die, Can't help lovin that man of mine"
@darkhobo6 ай бұрын
So it goes
@FacterinoCommenterino9 ай бұрын
Today's Fact: The world's largest single structure made by living organisms is the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.
@WisecrackEDU9 ай бұрын
I hope we don't ruin the reef as it's pretty beautiful.
@danielsantiagourtado34309 ай бұрын
@@WisecrackEDU🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
@brandonvillamizar12169 ай бұрын
Dude! I really hate to see your posts! I thought it was only on Charlie's channel, but now also here? Gimme a break!
@Keyndoriel9 ай бұрын
@WisecrackEDU much depressed I'll never see what it looked like in its prime. Only thing to do is to make sure it recovers, for the sake of the sea and ourselves
@Keyndoriel9 ай бұрын
@@brandonvillamizar1216you're so gross
@LonkinPork9 ай бұрын
I gotta say, I know it's probably not as lucrative in the Metrics, but the steady slide into more general "Philosophy Applied To Current Events" topics over the previous "Philosophy Applied To Movies & TV" topics has been really enlightening. Being able to apply the ideas of some of the world's greatest Thinkers to the horrors of the present day makes the bleakness slightly more bearable 💖
@KIT_TV229 ай бұрын
I LOVE that you chose this topic. Yeah man, we're too casual with the words we use. It's not surprising. Words have power. Few know how to wield it with precision and prescence. In the rush to define things, it's not surprising so many of us are calling people animals, like a returning chorus of judgement. Great food for thought!! I'm fed. Bless.
@KIT_TV229 ай бұрын
Mean Girls is pure genius btw, saw it for the first time this year!! It's far smarter than I ever guessed it would be. Glad you brought it into frame.
@WisecrackEDU9 ай бұрын
Hell yeah - it's legit such a good movie.
@johnsteel53479 ай бұрын
Guns are not a human right
@elijahford36969 ай бұрын
@@johnsteel5347The right to defend oneself, however, is. That said, if the military calls something a "ballistics platform", it probably shouldn't be available to the general public.
@johnsteel53479 ай бұрын
@@elijahford3696 If the country you're stealing land from decides to fight back you should probably move your colonizers out or they become military targets.
@hichamababou1889 ай бұрын
Thank you so much Michael for addressing this exact point. Some sick and narcissist "humans" are still using these wretched ideas to justify acts of genocide, displacement of entire populations, and many horrible deeds that are deemed war crimes otherwise. I guess we get the hints you threw between here and there. Videos like yours are really cool since they spread awareness in a meaningful way. This one in particular gives a sort of easiness in a rather troubled era. It is really a mad mad world as Shaggy puts it.
@eitancodish3019 ай бұрын
Notice how you also use the sarcastic quotes around "human," dehumanizing the people that you're talking about it. Horrors aren't committed by "humans" they're committed by humans, and that makes them so much scarier.
@alexxx44349 ай бұрын
What makes humans distinct from animals is that humans are good at rationalizing their animalistic behaviours.
@dinglesworld8 ай бұрын
@@alexxx4434”Thank God for rationalizations!”
@nebojsadurmanovic22689 ай бұрын
I see what you did here, Wisecrack, and I like it. #notThatComplicated
@luukderuijter13329 ай бұрын
The biggest human flaw is always imparting a hidden meaning behind every construct, which also somehow always places themselves at the top (or at least upholds the status quo)
@someoneawesome87179 ай бұрын
That's because of our advanced pattern recognition
@melusine8269 ай бұрын
I think that's a feature, not a bug. Well.... a feature that's been effective at keeping humans doing the generational thing, so is it a unit of cultural transmission?🤔 aka a meme?
@alexxx44349 ай бұрын
It's called 'bias'. Human psychology displays plenty of them.
@leonaise75468 ай бұрын
@@someoneawesome8717 It has nothing to do with pattern recognition & is just Humanity’s narcissism
@leonaise75468 ай бұрын
That’s humanity’s narcissism for you
@TheVincentKyle9 ай бұрын
Unfortunately the drinking-game word wasn't "wretched", but "animality" - by the end my stomach screamed "FINISH HIM".
@brentt67149 ай бұрын
ANIMALITY!
@thisjustin65299 ай бұрын
“Keep the change you filthy animal” is one of my favorite movie quotes. Someone said that to me when I was working at a gas station and it was so funny.
@darkhobo6 ай бұрын
Every time I get pizza delivered.
@caseyczarnomski80549 ай бұрын
The more money you have the more "human" you are perceived to be. Money gives people the entitlement to dehumanize.
@raycar98279 ай бұрын
We are all always and always have been human. Their funny money doesn't mean shit. It's just racist rhetoric disguised as capitalism.
@globaladdict9 ай бұрын
Chimps have been shown to hoard bananas so hoarding money isn't really a human only thing
@sisyphus_strives54639 ай бұрын
It is the easiest form of discrimination, either it is the case that you're chosen and blessed by fate or you have risen to your position through merit(which separates you from everyone else). Of course, there is no such dichotomy except in the obvious extremes, but most will perceive it this way and accordingly their ego will inflate irrelevant of which interpretation they've chosen.
@bugjams9 ай бұрын
More human? I don't think anyone seriously believes that. I think they simply feel jealousy over the material and powers rich people have because our instincts are hard-wired to make us hoard resources. The latter half of your comment is spot on, though.
@raycar98279 ай бұрын
@@bugjams not entirely true across the board. I've powerful people hate me for my laid back attitude because they worked so hard for everything they have.
@TheRepty8189 ай бұрын
This whole conversation reminds me of Tomi Lahren claiming that BLM was protesting wrong, then when asked how they should protest she admitted she doesn't believe in protesting period. Then years later, when Biden was in office, she was the one protesting.
@KaseyMasterpeace9 ай бұрын
R.i.p. to the best dog i ever had Memphis. German shepherd who had a long spoiled 13 years 💜 such a good boy. Never forget all dogs go to heaven.
@WisecrackEDU9 ай бұрын
RIP Memphis!!!
@kyleespinoza72019 ай бұрын
Speaking of the biology angle; humanity is shockingly similar when it comes to our genetics. Like, in spite of the incredible diversity of how we all look and our histories and ancestry, you can take two people from opposite sides of the earth, as genetically distinct as you can get, look nothing alike at all, and the differences at absolute maximum is 0.1% It's actually kind of a scary sign, because generally the more genetically diverse a species the better the odds of their survival...
@FeiFongWang9 ай бұрын
We share 60% of our DNA with bananas, that doesn't mean much.
@coletrain419 ай бұрын
.....or does it. VSAUCE here!
@gemain6099 ай бұрын
It's also a positive in as far as natural selection didn't have to go through massive break ups in genetic diversity in order for humans to survive in different environments (remember kids , the reason why we have different skin colors is because a whole lot of people effectively dropped dead because the sun wasn't giving them enough vitamins)
@alexxx44349 ай бұрын
Mice have approximately 97.5% of their working DNA in common with humans. Which makes you think, that 'humanity' we hold so dearly is just a tip of the iceberg. In essence we have much more in common with other living beings than we differ.
@nobody42489 ай бұрын
Humans have a ridiculously low genetic diversity (at least for an ape). If you took 2 random humans and 2 random chimps from the same popilation, the chimps are basicly guranteed to be more different from one another then the humans are.
@nimged89529 ай бұрын
Have you ever thought about exploring these concepts from a non-western philosophical perspective? There is so much that can be said on this subject from a perspective of animistic worldviews, that are so different from the standard western world views.
@davida.yorkson33979 ай бұрын
I studied Biochemistry in university, and having been raised rather isolated from other people I've always has difficulty relating to other, but one day after a Genetics class I had the following thought: every living thing on this planet shared th same molecules. We're all, basically the same. And that was a rather enjoyable moment of "Hey, the difference between me and that pigeon is, literally, shape!"
@juliana.x0x09 ай бұрын
We are made up of the same basic building blocks as everything from bananas to stardust, and we will break down to essentially the same thing.
@t_ylr9 ай бұрын
It's funny cause i use animal as an insult but like when ppl litter or they're rude to their server lol. I'm not attacking ppl's humanity 😅
@WisecrackEDU9 ай бұрын
That's fair, we should shame people who litter and who are rude to servers.
@danielsantiagourtado34309 ай бұрын
@@WisecrackEDU🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤
@A.Filthy.Casual9 ай бұрын
As a flower, I find it offensive that others would automatically assume I couldn't be an intellectual.
@KBird2049 ай бұрын
Awww yeah, another piece to the Terror Management Theory (TMT) discussion I inevitably have with any of my friends who like to discuss philosophy, psychology, anthropology, history, etc Lowkey, it kind of feels like a ‘Roko’s Basilisk’ type of weight to drop on others who may have been happier in their ignorance before hearing about it. I consider TMT a compelling theory- that explains so much of what we do, have done, and will continue to do as humans in the future. I’ve had similar discussions with friends about how lots of ideologies around the globe have a similar underlying framework that are just localized, contextualized understandings (and sometimes justification) of human psychology. This was a very in-depth dissertation that will further add to my discussions in the future. Thanks Wisecrack 👌
@srf27679 ай бұрын
Yet another solid wisecrack vid 👍 *Veganism peeks its head out*
@GWT1m09 ай бұрын
Animals eat animals, checkmate Veganists
@ГеоргиГеоргиев-с3г9 ай бұрын
9:18 Imagine now we call this hypothetical a "war", and practiced it regularly on the "ENEMY".
@WisecrackEDU9 ай бұрын
that would be nuts
@danielsantiagourtado34309 ай бұрын
@@WisecrackEDUVERY NUTS
@alexthewrecker46669 ай бұрын
Good thing that never happens right 😅
@TrepidDestiny9 ай бұрын
A similar dehumanizing term I've seen trend a lot, especially in particular internet spaces is calling people "NPC's". They aren't real people, they're programs walking around masquerading as human, as the logic follows. Allegedly the "NPC" only regurgitates information it's been told to, knowingly or not. For those who don't know, NPC is a gaming term for "Non-player character", as in the created characters to make up a game world, like townsfolk in D&D, or the characters you interact with in an RPG video game.
@llsilvertail5619 ай бұрын
Honestly this is why I’m much more interested in what gets which degree of personhood over being a “human” or “animal”.
@99sins9 ай бұрын
Same thing in this context since it's pointing at the moral consideration associated with the terms being used.
@williamcooper80249 ай бұрын
The second edition DnD book of human(oids) may have had a chart. I just look at how much they try to separate other humans from themselves, money really seems to dehumanize the afflicted but in a more virulent way with more horrific consequences.
@skafiend1679 ай бұрын
That was from the Animorohs tv show, wasnt it? The blonde cat lady thing at the beginning. Damn, i love Animorphs
@K1ng19959 ай бұрын
It's weird to think Jake from that show went from Animorphs to Iceman in the Live-action X-Men movies.
@drugsdelaney29079 ай бұрын
Dehumanization is manufacturing consent.
@purewhiteloverbizarrejelly9 ай бұрын
Kudos for scripting a video that’s both evergreen and topical while also being soul crushingly depressing
@turkoizdog9 ай бұрын
I asked my dog once if being a good boy was important to his self identity and he responded by sitting in what we call The Good Boy Chair, so it sounds to me like he IS capable of intellectualizing.
@TommyHanusa9 ай бұрын
I think humans are animals. And as animals can be noble when responsibly cared for; when they are treated 'like animals' we shouldn't be surprised when they bite and lash out. Or inversely, if humans are lashing out against power structures then those power structures are not responsibly caring for them.
@ioannisaliazis9 ай бұрын
I think all we need is “The Denial of Death”, that book is a complete eye opener and explains a loooot of the stuff covered here. Would also love to see a video on Jiddu Krishnamurti.
@WisecrackEDU9 ай бұрын
That book absolutely rules.
@silverswordstudios73349 ай бұрын
One critique: Locke did not maintain that property was owned by whomever was most capable of using a resource, but rather by whomever actively applied their labor to it. This entails that imperialism is, by-and-large, anti-Lockean as the imposition of a major power in controlling a given territory does not recognize the right of those existing settlers and labor-mixers' rights to their own property.
@dfj2329 ай бұрын
Animals with pants that play "society"
@alexxx44349 ай бұрын
What makes humans distinct from animals is that humans are good at rationalizing their animalistic behaviours.
@ryansutter42919 ай бұрын
"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man." -Samuel Johnson
@yourfriendlyinternetmeatshield9 ай бұрын
"Too weird to live, too rare to die."
@jacksonrocks42599 ай бұрын
As evergreen as this topic is, it’s super important to talk about now as events in Africa and the Middle East unfold. Also very happy to hear you reference Fanon. He doesn’t get enough love
@disky019 ай бұрын
I put my hand in the box and sadly, I got the gom jabbar. It just happened like a second ago so yeah I'm about to die but this felt timely so I wanted to comment firsdftarnzdtb
@CamWeezy169 ай бұрын
I love the picture in my mind of someone patiently watching every video this channel has ever posted with a bottle of vodka in hand, waiting to hear the word "wretched" so they can take a shot and maybe they've gotten to do it a time or 2 but today was their super bowl
@WisecrackEDU9 ай бұрын
That's a beautiful vision.
@yourfriendlyinternetmeatshield9 ай бұрын
@@WisecrackEDUi had a beer, and grabbed another to do so. I have the vodka, but even for me, thats too rapid a frequency.
@Bacagon9 ай бұрын
FREE PALISTINE!
@tribalbear849 ай бұрын
I often think about how they in the Dune series talk about being human as being capable of conscious thought and physical self discipline, where animals act on instinct and impulse. The test of the Box in the first book where Paul Atreides is tasked to put his hand in a box and not remove it even if it feels like it's being slowly burned to an ashen lump (it's not, though, it is simply "pain by nerve induction"), and his level of self control is how he is judged to be either human or an animal. He passes the test and is deemed "human". I think that argument is quite fascinating.
@lucyandecember28438 ай бұрын
o.o
@KareemDaKing9 ай бұрын
Exactly what I was Expecting from the title and soo... Much More. Needed.
@endormorre65679 ай бұрын
Have people ever committed atrocities without dehumanizing the victim or being dehumanized themselves? It feels like an elegant answer that the only real bad thing people can do is to treat others as lessers, as if they are less real or less human. The over simplifications of reality can lead to a lot of blind spots as no one person can completely define what the real world is. This doesn't stop people from finding their own answers to big complicated issues. That is my conclusion, and it isn't exclusively mine, but I'm sure I'm wrong somehow. If anyone can think of an instant where lessening of another isn't the course of an atrocities I would be very appreciative to be proven wrong.
@lucyandecember28438 ай бұрын
o.o
@someoneawesome87179 ай бұрын
I wish I could be a crow, smart enough to appreciate the fun of throwing snow, no pesky anxiety about existentialism
@MisterCynic189 ай бұрын
Who's to say the crows don't suffer existential dread every day of their brief lives? Smart enough to have a concept of self, yet powerless to affect a world seemingly fixated on their inevitable and often painful demise. They can't even distract themselves from their doom with drugs and tv like the giant hairless monkeys that throw rocks at them.
@someoneawesome87179 ай бұрын
@@MisterCynic18 that's an excellent counterpoint
@yourfriendlyinternetmeatshield9 ай бұрын
Crows hold "funerals" of a sort. It's closer to a murder investigation, but in doing so it clearly displays the understanding of their mortality, and actively attempting to learn from it and alert the community in an effort to avoid the same fate. While, perhaps, this doesn't fully reach the level of how you define "existentialism" but I feel that these intelligent animals, comprehend existence as both individuals and a community, bordering at least upon the fact of each being a part of a greater whole as a species, and, once again imo, perhaps in a way superior to humans. They all work to help other crows. Humans... not so much. Being able to write poetry and whatever (there has been a crow that can paint, we ain't that special) or make thought experiments, doesn't make us that much better.
@bugjams9 ай бұрын
@@yourfriendlyinternetmeatshield hehe, "murder investigation," don't know if you meant to include a pun there, but it works. :P
@yourfriendlyinternetmeatshield9 ай бұрын
@@bugjams *Law and Order SVU noise*
@deathlytree4349 ай бұрын
We're all animals embrace that we are part of the ecosystem not above or separated from it
@SageWon-1aussie9 ай бұрын
I think you missed religious class.
@justinbyrge89979 ай бұрын
It's quite simple dear Watson: You see, the term "people" or "person" in most contexts spoken of is synonymous with the term "God" or "God-like", as in "above" someone else or something else. I've met many humans who don't think other animals even have self awareness or a conscious or even any sense of consciousness - as if they are meat robots. Even the scientific community gets into debates as to whether other living organisms are conscious and to what degree. It's a way of protecting oneself from the negative psychological effects that come with causing harm or destruction - by disassociation and justification. If others are "animals" then by implication you are not. And therefore the other is "less than" or "unworthy" of whatever it is you happen to be worthy of or above. After all, you are good. And so rather than face the truth of any perceived entitlement or harm you cause to anything else, you end up maintaining your goodness and reinforce your belief that you are in the "righteous" team through demonization. It's an effective way that cult leaders, politicians, and military officials convince their troops to kill or destroy for the sake of whatever ideology or empire is being forced into being. It's also an effective way for wealthy business owners and corporations to be able to deal with the so called "tough" decisions that effect many lives for the sake of profits. Basically, it's one thing that happens in order to win the internal conflict that arises when one tries to hold onto two or more beliefs that contradict or conflict with each other. It's a form of cognitive dissonance, that's it that's all.
@PorkotylerClips9 ай бұрын
I’ll tell you who’s an animal…that cousin of Tony Soprano, Tony Blundetto
@budget_ballin9 ай бұрын
Shoutout to my dog, bear. My best man at my wedding.
@WisecrackEDU9 ай бұрын
That's so beautiful. We love you, Bear.
@danielsantiagourtado34309 ай бұрын
@@WisecrackEDU🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
@happinesstan9 ай бұрын
Why does the flower need to partake in debate in order to demonstrate intellect? That's simply our definition of intellect. The flower might know things at the nutritive level, that we don't. Maybe it's intellect has led to them producing a million seeds and not caring if 999,000 die in childbirth. I know, such an uncultured thing to say, right?
@jessekoansmith37589 ай бұрын
I feel you’ve avoided an elephant in the room
@kated31659 ай бұрын
I think we are very much still animals, and its part of the problem. We have created a world that is no longer adapted to (and too complex for) the level our instincts still operate on. We are still, at our core, the apes obsessed with securing land... but now the most powerful of us can literally own massive chunks of the world. We still have minds wired to care for a small community, ours, and view ''the others'' as threats (or at the very least not worthy of worrying over)... except we are building a world where we would all benefit greatly from learning to cooperate and function as one global species. We still use survival strategies that are harmful to others of our species (stealing/deception/killing/bullying/conning), when we have created a world that depends so much on everyone's cooperation. We still run on the instincts of an ape in the forest who ''can never secure enough resources'', only we have replaced fruit and leaves with money and the power imbalances we are creating are allowing a few (big oil giants, pharma giants, etc'' to rule over the masses while destroying the planet we all live on at their leisure.
@beccangavin9 ай бұрын
I believe the last recorded thought of a flower was “Oh no, not again.” But nobody knows what he meant by that.
@s73squee9 ай бұрын
The scriptwriter missed their chance to drop the term "merciless savages" from the USA Declaration of Independence
@SpoopySquid9 ай бұрын
As a great philospher once said: You and me, baby, ain't nothing but mammals
@Bendylife9 ай бұрын
We often see it used as a way for us to distance ourselves from behavior and actions we find unpleasant or abhorrent, as well. I think one of the worst things we took away from the Holocaust was the idea that Nazis werent human. Its dangerous because it should never be forgotten that they were human and all humans are all capable of committing horrible crimes, just as they did. It is hard to see the humanity in people who do horrible things, especially when they also have dehumanized us in the past, but its so important to remeber they are human and treat them as such or else we learn nothing and risk doing the exact same.
@elijahford36969 ай бұрын
Agreed. That said, there's lines a human being shouldn't cross. Some things are such an affront to the concept of decency that they should be abhorred. That doesn't mean these things aren't human. Cruelty is very human. We're very good at it, historically speaking.
@Bendylife9 ай бұрын
@@elijahford3696 That's my point. Regardless of how cruel actions might be, those who commit them never stop being human and we need to always remember that. Things don't happen in a vacuum and we must understand why and how things get to those points if we wish to stop them in the future.
@fionamason47259 ай бұрын
Humanity thinking it was above nature, rather than of it and deeply intertwined with it, how wild. Love the content :)
@direktive49 ай бұрын
animals haven't intentionally developed weapons of mass death, it's one of the dumbest insults to hurl
@MatthewNash9 ай бұрын
I've not put much stock into John Locke's theory of property previously, but you do make a convincing argument that TVs should belong to those who know how to turn motion smoothing off.
@Ford_prefect_429 ай бұрын
I can't tell you how much I love this thought
@zenhasustormclaw14429 ай бұрын
I haven't finished the video but I now suddenly want a wisecrack video on dog math... Seeing as dogs are capable of math. I dunno why that popped into my head but it did.
@WisecrackEDU9 ай бұрын
I too want a Wisecrack video on dog math, especially if it means I get to invite a bunch of dogs to the studio to hangout.
@dsgdsg97649 ай бұрын
The problem doesn't come from everybody believing it's okay the problem comes whenever tensions have rise so high that everybody is okay with calling everyone else an animal and that is the real problem
@danaugust9939 ай бұрын
How groups are portrayed and talked about is something I find myself thinking about a lot because it seems to affect political discourse a lot. I'd love to see more videos on these kinds of topics. I started reading about the "5 filters of mass media" recently.
@kodaxmax9 ай бұрын
It is difficult. Because when you are a politicians or ruler ir even ceo you litterally can't consider the thousands or millions of people your responsible for individually when making decisions. But that also inherently dehumanizes them and encourages these leaders not consider them as human at all. So the best middle ground is to give them all a say and act based on that data (a democracy for example). This is why smaller communities can successfully implement communist and socialist policies. Because it's viable for them to consider the few individuals they are effecting. I don't know if theres a better solution. given the national and international scale of todays society a heirachy with few leading millions or billions seems unavoidable, even if you broke them into small communities with local leaders there still needs to be a minorioty leadshership to allow all these hypotheticall small cominities to oc-exist peacefully.
@lucyandecember28438 ай бұрын
@@kodaxmax o.o
@highonlife3419 ай бұрын
Wisecrack: plants don't have souls Dryads in the comments: rude
@MikeT8979 ай бұрын
Greetings from Newark,Nj !! the name is Michael T. weirdly , my belly would be awesome cuz ive been a "thicc" guy most my life. omg so morbid!! Big fan of Wisecrack. i love how it makes me think more.
@WisecrackEDU9 ай бұрын
Mikey from Jersey!
@ossapinhosfazemhumah9 ай бұрын
Aeeeoooo!!! Jersey Mikey here! you KNOW what Mike Meat the ladys find most delicious, eh?? EH?? EHHH!!!!??????? OOhh!!! gettauaheaaa
@WisecrackEDU9 ай бұрын
MIKEY! YOU ANIMAL!
@tysonasaurus63929 ай бұрын
I was hoping you would mention Fanon when I saw the title of the video, great work as always guys, thank you for what you do P.S. I've seen your Mean Girls video Michael, it's very good and I hope people go watch it because it pairs well with this video
@pennywaldrip37749 ай бұрын
The comparison of people to animals, and the distinction between them, makes more sense in an era when people might likely be attacked by animals, if they don't live in a populated city. We are all animals, we just think we're more important because we can say things like, "I think."
@realDonaldTrump4209 ай бұрын
Humans are the least natural (most sinful) animals.
@bugjams9 ай бұрын
Important in the universal scale? No. But we certainly are important on our own planet, which is to say, significantly powerful. We have the ability to completely change landscape and ecosystems, for better or worse. We have the capacity for cruelty beyond what other animals are capable of, but also empathy beyond what other animals can do. I don't think it's wrong or even narcissistic to acknowledge that we play the most significant role in deciding the fate of our planet. Because if not us, then nothing else decides at all - it just is.
@Ford_prefect_429 ай бұрын
To be fair- parrots can also say that
@umairahmadkhan37929 ай бұрын
"This type of colonial dehumanization breeds a type of animalistic violence in which the colonized animals lash out at the colonizing humans"... Perfect summary of colonialism and what it leads to. Pretty relevant in current times.. In such times, who is to be blamed for violence? Colonized animals or colonizing humans.
@WisecrackEDU9 ай бұрын
Fanon is spot on about this stuff.
@MrGksarathy9 ай бұрын
We are humans, a type of animal. The distinction between us and other animals is completely arbitrary, as are all distinctions and similarities. There is no truth but emptiness...
@petercevallos2589 ай бұрын
Little tidbit on that quote from John Locke, in context while he would likely agree that depriving indigenous people of land could be justified if colonists could "make more use of it", he was more referring to the peasantry who in England had been deprived of land due to enclosures and in his philosophy were justified in having ownership over the land they till. In other words, his position was more of the generally liberal position of land to the tiller (until monopoly's no longer found it to be fashionable).
@aeonophon9 ай бұрын
If the distinction between human and animal is that humans wear pants, call me animal.
@carsonpaullee9 ай бұрын
9:20 reminds me of Palestine-Israel and the German lebenstraum shit…
@moribell10839 ай бұрын
Human rights are a western ideal, so it is hard to separate it from western lenses of society.
@Martinarmonica9 ай бұрын
During Pinochet's regime in Chile, one of his fellow generals became famous for doing press conferences in which he frequently called communists "humanoids". The same people the government was exterminating, was publicly dehumanized on live tv every tuesday. The general was named José Toribio Merino, and his "segment" was known as "Merino Tuesday".
@TheSquirrelChaser9 ай бұрын
When you said "philosophical glossover," all I could see was that glorious DOME!!!
@danielsantiagourtado34309 ай бұрын
Im a human guys! 💁♂️💁♂️💁♂️🙋♂️🙋♂️🙋♂️🙋♂️
@FeiFongWang9 ай бұрын
He's getting more and more radicalized with every video. His next video will be titled "What is a socialist cultural revolution and how do we instigate it 🤔"
@SageWon-1aussie9 ай бұрын
You say that like putting people before profit is a bad thing.
@FeiFongWang9 ай бұрын
@@SageWon-1aussie How did I imply that in any way at all?
@SageWon-1aussie9 ай бұрын
@@FeiFongWang by combining radicalised and socialist in your comment?
@stefanmilicevic53229 ай бұрын
I am partly an animal, partially non-animal. As Hegel puts it: “Man is an animal, but even in his animal functions, he is not confined to the implicit, as the animal is; he becomes conscious of them, recognizes them, and lifts them, as, for instance, the process of digestion, into self-conscious science. In this way man breaks the barrier of his implicit and immediate character, so that precisely because he knows that he is an animal, he ceases to be an animal and attains knowledge of himself as spirit.” ― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Also, I think I am in favor of a sharp distinction but with the added modification of being empathetic and non-disparaging towards both humans and animals. Both a distinction and a harmonious coexistence can coexist.
@FelisImpurrator9 ай бұрын
Nah, that idea has always been cope. Humans have been inventing excuses to pretend to be special forever, and none of them mean anything.
@AndreyEvermore9 ай бұрын
Humans ARE animals our special ability is to make things into tools. Even sounds, words, concepts… etc
@Ford_prefect_429 ай бұрын
Something I've been looking into lately is my insane belief that everything has a level of consciousness and it's not just restricted to humans or animals. I genuinely can not be cruel to a rock, for example. One of the most popular contemporary composers of our time has the same issue and his story puts it perfectly: he was at Starbucks trying to buy a banana to go along with his drink. His dilemma was that if he chose a banana, would the others feel left out? Would the one he picked feel sad it was leaving it's friends? Would it know that it was going to be eaten and be scared? Would it be happy it was going to fulfill it's purpose? This (possibly psychotic) belief is Panpsychism- as much as I would love to say I'm a humanist, I'm really an everything-ist. I don't think I'm more important than a tree, or cow, and I'm thankful for their existence and loss when I need to eat or live in a building. I try to honor everything as though it was a human that made a sacrifice and treat it to the best of my ability. I'd love to hear Michael's take on this belief/compulsion.
@lucyandecember28438 ай бұрын
panpsychism is a very difficult word to say lol
@JaceDeanLove6 ай бұрын
I think there's zero evidence for this, but it results in you being a good person so it doesn't matter if it's "psychotic"
@Ford_prefect_426 ай бұрын
@@JaceDeanLove there's actually a ton of studies on it currently, because consciousness is pretty highly debated and the current theory just got a ton of scrutiny. You can look up those studies and see their research. I was surprised this was even being studied
@JaceDeanLove6 ай бұрын
@@Ford_prefect_42 oh I know they're studying it. I just haven't been convinced yet. I don't discount it either
@Ford_prefect_426 ай бұрын
@@JaceDeanLove that's fair. If I wasn't this way since birth I'd think I'm crazy too 🤣
@manoelrocha948 ай бұрын
My little princess is called Mila, and she's a Shih-tzu. But I would like to mention something that caught my attention. Michael says that he can't have a dog because the apartment building don't allow it. Here in Brazil, is forbidden to any apartment biulding or condos or wahtever to forbid anyone ti have a dog or any pet. We have a law that allow anyone to have any amount of pets at home as long as it obeys sanitary rules of the city. I guess it's because people that live alone need the company. And they understand that the noises that pets make are inherent to them being alive, not different from, for exemple, a baby crying.
@sentientflower78919 ай бұрын
Among all those people who say that humans aren't animals they seldom acknowledge that animals do not engage in warfare, Holocausts and the exploitation of each other.
@bugjams9 ай бұрын
Agreed (minus the "exploitation of others" bit, animals certainly do that). However, to play Devil's Advocate, I think the implication is that other animals _would_ do that stuff, if they could. War, exploitation, crime, holocaust, all these things happen because of simple animalistic instincts like greed and anger. We're just privy to the tools to express those instincts on a horrifying scale.
@swissarmyknight43069 ай бұрын
Wtf are you talking about, animals engage in warfare all the time. All social species engage in aggressive, competitive attacks on other groups of the same species. Chimpanzee wars are particularly brutal. Hell, I've watched meerkats on video. Not just a meerkat war. They killed the children of the other burrow, and not for food. Just purely out of competitive aggression.
@darksidegryphon53939 ай бұрын
Ants do.
@sentientflower78919 ай бұрын
@@darksidegryphon5393 ants do, yes. Humankind has found its equal.
@Dr_12129 ай бұрын
Absolute power corrupts absolutely
@ShakaWhenTheWallsFell9 ай бұрын
🎉 so proud of you guys for making this
@alenbacco76139 ай бұрын
After 456 comments, I'm impressed if you actually read this
@WisecrackEDU9 ай бұрын
Then be impressed.
@JustinTorres-mp7zp9 ай бұрын
Definitely no pants Also, no judgment lol
@danielsantiagourtado34309 ай бұрын
Comment for the algorithm
@penteyrnedd9 ай бұрын
This video was very good! I teach a course on exactly this subject, and this was a condensed version of the entire semester. I’d like to see a complementary video on dehumanization under neoliberalism and digital revolution
@WisecrackEDU9 ай бұрын
Oh amazing that course sounds cool, and yes we'd love to make that video as well.
@CottonCandySharks9 ай бұрын
This is a good topic for right now, thank you for making it
@TheAllSeeingEye24689 ай бұрын
How long before anthros become a thing?
@carsonpaullee9 ай бұрын
Inside of me are two wolves one says “the moon isn’t real” the other says “that’s a metaphor for widely believed disinformation and misinformation”
@jamesonpace7269 ай бұрын
Animals? Yes - monkeys, to be precise. Pants are always optional....
@Dvir9289 ай бұрын
What if a society is built upon the idea of destroying another competing, more successful society? what if the weak society just uses the occupation as an excuse when the question of occupation is more complex than old school imperialism? Did you mean that occupation is also an excuse to dehumanize the occupying side? What if the occupier is doing everything in its power to let the occupied live its life peacfully but the occupied still dehumanize the occupiers? What if its a real question of life and death of one of the competing societies, the more "moral" society would be the one to let the the other to destroy it or the one that defends itself untill the threat is eliminated? If some people are technically considered to be on the occupiers side but are actually more on the occupied side, should they still be treated as dehumanized occupiers? If not, what does it say on the occupied side that dehumanize them too and does the most horrifying acts against them? Occupation then can still be considered as an excuse? Am I and my family supposed to be murdered in the most violent ways possible without ressisting?
@MD0Hatter9 ай бұрын
I've been waiting for this one since you first mentioned it, very excited!
@Bunclemark9 ай бұрын
"If your a guy named Mike from Jersey, shout out in the comments which part of your meat would be the tastiest." "Ayyy, get outta heeeeeeeya"
@amanyhossam54379 ай бұрын
I studied Locke and Fanon at university and I used to think: "Wow the past was messed up. How could someone be so cruel? Thank God humans now have become wiser". I had no idea that I would live to see a genocide where my fellow Arabs in Gaza are dehumanized and ethnically cleansed. What hurts is that the response from the International Community is showing how little we have developed as humans when we are literally repeating the horrors of the past.
@Nuke_Skywalker9 ай бұрын
this coment is exactly is the result of doing post colonial theory. it's just lacking and also wrong in regards to this conflict.
@Dsonsee9 ай бұрын
The "international community" is just an association of capitalist exploiters, who all benefit from imperialism in different ways, even the Chinese and the Russians. They will never be honest when it isn't convenient to them
@WisecrackEDU9 ай бұрын
Studying folks like Fanon is wild as you definitely end up thinking . . . "oh he wrote all this 60+ years ago so surely we would have all gotten the message by now?"
@amanyhossam54379 ай бұрын
@@Nuke_Skywalker Arguing about the validity of Post Colonial theory is a little difficult to do in comments. I think we can agree, however, that just like any theory or ideology it is being constantly added on and revised and developed. I agree with you that in the case of Palestine post colonialism does not apply. It is not "post". It is an active ongoing case of settler colonialism, and I believe postcolonial theory has been evolving and adapting to that. I think the main problem is many academics do not practice what they actually teach so post colonialism remains only an interesting conversation in the classroom.
@errabbitc9 ай бұрын
My belief is that the soul is not mechanical but the body is mechanical.