Why Parkour Civilization is Fundamentally BROKEN | A Sociological Analysis

[@Ranni]

Would you jump for the beef? What are your thoughts on Parkour Civilization? Do you agree with my analysis? Let me know in the comments below! CHAPTERS 0:00 To Beef or Not to Beef 2:20 The Society of Parkour Civilization Explained 5:24 Parkour Civilization is Broken 10:32 So What Kind of Society is Parkour Civilization? 12:19 Social Mobility in Parkour Civilization 13:40 The Life and Exploitation of Pros 17:42 Marx, Labor Exploitation, and Parkour Prison 21:37 The Masters 25:28 The Truth About Parkour Civilization 28:21 The Power of Manufacturing Truth 30:13 The Parkour Champion 34:59 The Reign of Evbo 36:18 The Parkour Villain 39:17 Leap of Faith 47:35 Will You Jump for the Beef? 48:25 Outro =============================== 🤝 - Patreon ►www.patreon.com/Ranni979 🐦 - Twitter ► twitter.com/lukeranni 💻 - My Equipment ►www.amazon.com/shop/ranni

[@NateW162]

Logging out of real life to avoid doing "parkour" For legal resons this is a joke

[@Ayahuasca98]

The only joke is your “newspeak” killing any humor that could’ve been found in the original joke. This is why you’d be chosen as a noob, live on the lowest level, and know no other flavor than raw chicken and never ask a question in your life.

[@hasanmuttaqin464]

put this on a shirt

[@RayleeRaven567]

you either be a funny criminal or an unfunny citizen

[@kube_allah]

you have been conditioned

[@AlphaPizzadog]

i think evbo’s restructuring of parkour society makes sense from an in-universe perspective… parkour is all he’s known. he used to believe in a world where parkour wasn’t necessary, but he knows now that it was just an illusion. even if the thought had to come into existence from somewhere, it’s a thought that seems divorced from reality at this point. and honestly, i don’t think those living in parkour society would be able to accept such an immediate change to their life.

[@Ranni]

@@AlphaPizzadog that’s so true. If Evbo were to continue the series it would be interesting to explore what would happen if people knew more about the origin of parkour civilization.

[@modernclassicalmusic8942]

Evbo serves the same function as all reformers: prolonging an inherently unjust and brutal system by making it slightly more bearable, by painting onto it a kinder face

[@spawel1]

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[@Vixen-debo]

He said he was gonna change the system if he became parkour master, but all that he did, added upward mobility, abolished prisons, gave everyone infinite chances, etc. You could say he never really took down the classist system, he just painted everything green.

[@modernclassicalmusic8942]

"It is easier to imagine [the parkour god making Evbo_ the embodiment of parkour] than an end to capitalism" -Mark Fisher

[@lori0747]

To be fair, all those things seem to be pretty significant changes to parkour society even if they don't solve the root cause of all those issues.

[@Tokmurok]

@@lori0747better but I can’t help but think someday parkour civilisation will go back to being evil. It’s just a matter of time for the cycle to repeat because he never broke it.

[@SonicTheory96]

As someone who is completely unfamiliar with Parkour Civilization in Minecraft, this was a very interesting analysis! I never expected a Minecraft parkour game to have such deep sociological themes etched within its foundation!

[@Ranni]

Yeah it’s surprisingly profound lol

[@modernclassicalmusic8942]

I disagree with the assessment of this world being feudalist: it's very clearly a literal representation of the symbolic processes of capitalism. Under feudalism, there is no hope of upward mobility, and as such the psychological mechanisms engineered since the industrial revolution to maintain order in society are also not present. Because roles under feudalism were very strictly adhered to, there was usually very little day-to-day oversight of the ordinary person. On top of this, due to the fact that the majority of people were not yet alienated from the means of production (as in they farmed their own food, mended their own clothes, etc.), there was no requirement for more abstract measures of control: if you do not work under feudalism, you starve. You are the one responsible for your own bread, and you work when there is work and don't when there is not. The rhythms of work in the parkour society - regular daily schedules and the necessity of work regardless of its immediate necessity - is far more reminiscent of capitalism, as is the illusory promise of advancement within the society. The devices of control within the parkour society are far more relatable to modern people than they ever would be to a medieval peasant. I think you confused a society having a rigidly enforced class structure for a society practicing feudalism. Remember, capitalism is also class-based, the difference being just which class holds and exercises power. Under feudalism, this is the aristocratic nobility, and under capitalism it is the industrial bourgeoisie.

[@Tokmurok]

Yeah feudalism doesn’t even tell you that you can rank up. Panem from the hunger games for example is 99% feudalist fascistic socialism with a little teeny bit of wiggle room for a lucky minority who happen to strike it rich and suck up to the capitol. Other than that your life is determined by what district you live in. Parkour civilisation gives you an (unfair and highly rigged) way to climb up. And even if you do the tyranny doesn’t end.

[@stachu5049]

My favourite part is how Evbo, even after everything he's been through, given the power to restructure parkour civilization, didn't abolish the class system. It shows that he's a flawed individual and while he did make the social divide more fair, he still kept the social hierarchy that kept him in power. On the final stretch his biggest weakness was revealed, that not being any specific jump, but his unwillingness to question the status quo that made him suffer in the fist place.

[@StarShapedPie]

in parkour civilization nobody jumps for the beef

[@lolermosskoss1834]

Guy named nobody:

[@joeskates6848]

People need to get ludwig to react to this

[@CorazonDonquiote]

He already has its on his vids channel I think

[@joeskates6848]

@ the og vid or this analysis in particular?

[@robocittykat]

But you see they only get one meal a day!

[@Devilspade]

Bros been living under a boulder

[@joeskates6848]

@@Devilspade I meant this vid in particular

[@MsprtCam]

can't believe my meme tweet inspired a video essay, this is peak

[@florianmber6137]

This thing was the best frckin video I've watched in a while. Thank you for a great insight in philosophy :) Really enjoyed it. Big probs man!

[@Ranni]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it 🙏!

[@hjumn]

​@Ranni this is one of those videos that you think about for a week after watching it, and then pops into your head every once and a while for a couple months. This reminds me of the dark souls video by Sethorvan, but his has much more variety in the tone and content. As I write this I'm just sitting here thinking "damn..." while I Wonder by Kanye West rings in my head. Impactful is the best thing to describe this, great, but if it had some kind of shift in tone it would be perfect.

[@Jjus-n7z]

Just as a joke how would someone go about overthrowing the “parkour civilization” in real life

[@dazza2350]

Purely hypothetical teehee

[@sneakysquid8541]

With parkomunism of course

[@Tokmurok]

@@sneakysquid8541parkomunism would end up in the same tyranny either due to corruption from the start or to sustain its parkomunist ideals and economy, since something easy for people to do is start to run little business and black markets, you would have to crush and resistance to your laws and choke out rebellion. Becoming the enemy you fought if not worse. Parkour civilisation forces you to work for little to no pay, parkomunism would function the same. Same tyrannical leader, same corrupt unfair system, just a different coat of paint. Freedom is found in balance not an extreme ideology.

[@HanleyBrook-pz9iw]

We and the parkour noobs rise up and use the invisible block found and practice parkour together, we find community. People power

[@trinstonmichaels7062]

Well I can't tell if this is a joke or 100 percent serious and I love it.

[@Ranni]

It's both.

[@Nocean-me5rg]

3:44 well I consider the hidden 5th layer a part of the main 4 it’s like the middle child someone who is forgotten but he’s still there but it’s also the middle child of the particle civilization, I think it was originally supposed to be between the pros and masters before the old man hid it

[@qurturt8872]

particle civilization

[@hikikomori6005]

i wish i could watch parkour civ for the first time again. i remember it was like 3am, i was pretty tired but didnt want to sleep just yet, and it popped up on my yt homepage, it was two weeks after the video was released. i was laughing at first, but oh wow i remember staring at my screen in silence as the video ended. now, months later, my friends all love parkour civ, and it's so awesome talking to them about it

[@axiom6000]

Ranni you’ve done it again! This looks amazing!

[@Ranni]

Thanks man! Yeah this one took forever to make lol.

[@axiom6000]

@@RanniNow you gotta do PVP civilization😂

[@dalleme5656]

Parkour civilization is dystopic in a way that I've never seen before, I see it as a post-scarcity randian society where the only commodity is the authority granted to you by your level of skill in an arbitrary ability. Whenever I see reactions to parkour civilization they always get stuck on why parkour is a currency but it makes sense when you consider that if resources are plentiful the only thing of value is being able to make someone jump when you say jump.

[@lekiflomaster5013]

This is perfect timing considering America is falling into a fascist hellscape as we speak

[@Ranni]

@@lekiflomaster5013 LMAO

[@SleepyBaseball-fg5op]

Is? Wasn't it always a tiny bit fascist? Especially considering it is the major supporter of a state tht is currently conducting a genotype?

[@lekiflomaster5013]

@SleepyBaseball-fg5op supporting in a genocide has nothing to do with being fascist. Horrible and deplorable? Yes. But the Democratic party, whilst being nowhere near an actual Democratic party, is not outright fascist and allowing of neo-nazis to be in the presence of many rallies, and the now sitting president try to incite a coup, which is also what Hitler did

[@lekiflomaster5013]

@SleepyBaseball-fg5op I will concede that tolerating fascism in a society will create a direct pipeline towards what we have now, which is an overwhelmingly majority of fascist people in places of power, as we can see what Trump is now doing

[@GooberCatus]

​@SleepyBaseball-fg5op yeah, a lil, but trump had stated that he is perfectly open to making it so he can murder political rivals with the military and wants to eradicate church from state AND on top of all of that somehow make it so he can run more than 4 terms. It's getting worse.

[@SoundtrackDetector]

Never watched PC but this video is super cool!

[@sometimes_questionable_logic]

How did Parkour civilisation get so deep and philosophical😅

[@Ranni]

@@sometimes_questionable_logic yeah I was surprised too haha

[@nonsensicalramblings9167]

DUDE THIS ONLY HAS 1K VIEWS??? The entire time i was watching this, I just unquestioningly assumed that it was something put out by a mainstream video essayist who I'd never heard of before, bc of how well made it was made! Can't wait to see this video skyrocket, have fun with all your new subscribers ✌️

[@Ranni]

Thanks man! Appreciate it! Yeah this video in particular took a long time to make!

[@bachtruongson9408]

Both Nineteen Eighty Four and Das Kapital on the thumbnail? You got my click

[@Kitsune2Megafan1086]

Marxist analysis of Parkour Civilization?

[@Ranni]

Yup

[@karimgaafar4634]

I can't believe you only have 144 views on this. This was so well made. WOW

[@Ranni]

Thanks for watching! Yeah, this video took a long time to make!

[@mygills3050]

you have nothing to lose but your hunger bars

[@Ranni]

@@mygills3050 LMAO! This is great haha!

[@KlD_B]

Liked for the "To beef or not to beef" joke alone

[@Paintballperson-k2l]

In 1984 civilization. Nobody jumps for the book

[@Blade1515]

I’m being honest, did Evbo even think of all of this orrrrrr are we all just gonna extremely deep into it for some hidden reason that doesn’t actually exist-

[@Ranni]

@@Blade1515 probably the latter but it’s fun making videos like these lol. I also believe a lot of creative work stems from the unconscious and people are able to create profound things without even consciously knowing it.

[@personisme3556]

This is great, nice man

[@mrm123p]

parkour civilization is basically a mix of 1984 and New Testament in minecraft

[@blankylazu]

As someone who find interest and deep fascination in sosiology, this video was awesome. Great job man! Keep it up :D

[@comedyatitsworst]

9:55 ULTRAKILL!?!?!/1

[@dima_tnt1703]

Is that prison… for… me..?

[@ants2340]

Minecraft: Story mode music feels very appropriate.

[@MiloShibaInu04]

Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind

[@Dogempire-001]

Nahh even philosophers watch parkoor civilization

[@G_man5]

Loving the story mode music

[@danielplocica8766]

Look, props to making this documentary as cool and professional as it is. But calling parkour civilization unfair is like calling a basic villain in any movie evil. "Yes, that's right, so is that supposed to sound deep ooor...."

[@thetree5643]

great thumbnail design

[@kitcringe]

It seems to me that Evbo, with his adventure and the society he builds, embodies the American dream.

[@pastillas3443]

amazing video

[@Ranni]

Thanks 🙏

[@Flamme-Sanabi]

I planned on only reading the comments but I guess this is a second monitor video after all.

[@donkylefernandez4680]

"Evbo took a literal leap of faith and through it, he met God" We're still talking about Parkour Civ, right?

[@somethingsomething1395]

well, i guess i know who hasnt watched the actual parkour civlization

[@spawel1]

feel like throwing up, kapital and 1984 in the same image?? i cant, i just cant do it anymore

[@thesnassassn8521]

I knew big tech was the reason behind me not being able to drink and drive.

[@josephgreen9613]

This went way too deep and I am here for it

[@سلمانقتل]

Great video 👍

[@luki7614]

I can do my sociology exam because of this

[@IceifritGaming]

I didn't know that I needed to know about this but apparently okay here we are😂

[@sahilhossian8212]

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[@overdriveoutershaxson1837]

to me, it makes no sense why they would just... parkour and not just kill each other.

[@Imasteg]

Why is this actually like peak content

[@miyaa208]

I really like your video and parjour civilization appeared to me as being symbolic of society too, but i somewhat disagree with some points of your analysis, so let's go to a way too long comment. To me it represents capitalist society rather than feudal one: there is lumpenproletariat, blue collar workers, white collar workers and the capitalist. The lumpenproletariat are seen as the unemployed and criminals of society, wich is why noobs are the only ones that can go to parkour prison. They can't have any blocks in their inventory because they do not work and therefore arent allowed to possess any property beyond being fed and sheltered. The pros are theo only ones who provides meaningful work in parkour society, and cannot conceive a world without working because it is the only way to maintain their way of life, and is showing alienation. The masters could easily not work but chose to in order to maintain their social statut and the appearance of their pears. They survey blue collar workers to ensure they actually do their jobs, as in a workplace. The champion can make all the rules (as in a company but also as influencing politicans and the state to ensure their power remain unquestioned). It is unimaginable to him that a lumpen or a blue or white collar worker could steal his place as a ruler. When someone enters the company, he is the one who choses their place: failing the first or second jump = not being hired and being a noob/lumpen, failing the third = being a pro/blue collar worker, succeding at the three jumps = being a master/ white collar worker. I no capacity even making the three jumps could allow anyone to become the champion. It is also to note that when you lower in the hierachy and become a noob, you keep your full hunger and capacity to jump at first, symbolizing that you have a better chance at succes in entering back the workforce, at first but the longer you stay a noob/unemplyed, the harder it is to enter back the workforce. The blue collar/pro works towards the noobs such as giving food to the noob could be charity work or social services, showing that the longer you are in noob/lumpen position, the more you need such services/charity to survive and become dependant of their existences, but it doesn't help you to take your life in your own hands and become autonomous, like it is in our world, when such charity work and social seervices even exists. The meritocracy in this society is a myth, and it is quite difficult to move upward the social hierarchy while it is easy to go downward, specifically for the pros to become noobs, showing that these two classes are more similar than they appear. It is also interesting to note that the way you climb the social ladder is quite different for noob-> pro than pro -> master: To become a pro you need a pass (representing a job interview), and the final jump is actually possible, but only if you have enough hunger to sprint. To me it reinforce the idea that being unempoyed or employed are quite similar but the longer you are unemployed, the harder it is to find a job. It also shows that something that is theoricaly possible can in fact become impossible because social systems and hierarchies are rigged. In contrast going from pro to master is met with an actual impossible jump, showing that you need to have a special knowledge (here passed by the master in the duel) which could represent having a degree, or being born in a white collar family (succeeding the 3 blocs jump when you join the server). Therefore we could ask: why are the noobs are surveilled that way by the blue collar? To me it represent the fact that the capitalist system devide the working class to maintain order. They monitor the lumpenproletariat because they think they don't deserve anything beyond basic necessities because they don't work for it, not even allowing them to have a single bloc of wood they find or quality food beyond what is charitibly given to them. They also survey if they dont keep food aside to accumulate wealth by profiting of social services. The blue collars don't have luxury food, they just have the same but cooked and in slightly higher quantity but not in opulence. White collars have luxury food and in vast quantity showing it isn't even a problem to them and pursue goods that are not to meet their needs but only to show their social status and wealth. The fact that the protagonist says at a point that at least in prison they have better food, could show that despite the fact that some homeless people would rather be in jail than outside during winter in order to be warm and fed, and this despite the fact that for the majority of people being in prison is quite a torture. Prison isn't a punishment for a crime, but for failure for the lower class of society, in fact murder seems to be something quite acceptable in this society since killing someone in a duel is not seen as bad but as a way to resolve conflicts and doesn't grant prison time, and it is only the pros/blue collars that make it work. It also show prisoneers to work coerced labor for free (testing parkours) which reprensents prison slave labor in the US. The protagonist still successfully climbs the social ladder despite it seeming impossible and, as you stated, at each steps he becomes like the others in his new class, while still starving for upward mobility. When he becomes a pro he at first do his tasks but then doesn't work for a day to take time for himself. When he is reprimended by the master, he then wants to move even upward the hierarchy instead of orginizing to better the labor condition and reduce labor time and being allowed to have leisure. When he becomes a master he is faced with the meaninglessness of their way of life where everything is made to maintain social status, it is a society of appearances, and he wishes to become a champion to change society. defying the champion is unfair and apparently impossible since he has a set number of block to beat multple opponents while each of them has the same number to beat him only. In the end of the first movie shows the protagonist becoming the campion and having now inlimited power over society, but because of his experiences of climbing the social ladders, he can no longer imagine a world that is truly different and whitout hierarchies. By changing the system by the inside instead of provoking radical mass action when he was lower in the class hierarchy, he internalized the class system. So instead of aboloshing the hierarchy and class system, he only transformed the false meritocracy in a true meritocracy, so instead of a communist/socialist that he could have been at first, he became a social democrat who doesnt want to aboolish an unfair system, but making it more livable and easier to move upward the hierarchy. As we say "it is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism", even if he know (or at least think he knows) a different world existed prior to parkour civilization, whitout the need to constantly parkour and whitout that class system (maybe there were a different one, maybe there werent any, it is unsure). But even with the knowledge in the fake flashback that society was different, he cannot imagine a different world after it, which is strinkingly similar to our relationship with capitalism and the fact that everyone today can imagine the world failing appart, but most of us have a hard time trying to imagine a different economic system beyond capitalism, while knowing society was different prior to it. And since he is now at the top, he couldn't know what unofficial systems could prevent someone from moving upward, like it was prior to him where the technically possible jump to become a pro was in fact impossible due to the lack of food. So in the end, even if it seems he created a better society which seems perfectly fair to him, it is impossible to know if it is actually fair to the people at bottom of the new hierarchical system. Sorry for the wayyy too long comment and maybe i, too, read too much in it lmao, but it is how i view and interpret the work, i mostly agree with your analysis of the second movie tho.

[@Aselectir]

I think… I think that’s enough stuff forever. Goodbye.

[@Foxffires]

TAKE THE ALGORITHM, JUST TAKE IT

[@Kelvinkelvin666]

10:04 kryptarium prison from ninjago???

[@NoJustNo-oy4cy]

I see 1984, I click on 1984.

[@lendbrains]

but how will this affect hegelianism

[@handyman2101]

From where your kneeling it must seem like 18 carat run of bad luck Truth is... the game was rigged from the start 13:18

[@Kai-vq3gf]

Ain't no way I found Minecraft communist propaganda for kids

[@saharatsriboonraung7891]

wow

[@Kelvinkelvin666]

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[@Writer_Productions_Map]

r/suddenlyparkourciv

[@SO1-nu5vx]

I Don,t belive parkour civilisation has the themes that people say it has i just Think People are over analysing parkour civilasation

[@thatprofessorguy8316]

I sorta agree, isnt it supposed to be a cheesy YA dystopia parody?

[@animecat3556]

That's what fun about it

[@pepitocovid-91]

@@animecat3556 I agree with this person lmao

[@embasorangiratina36]

That's just what life is like in video essay civilization.

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[@oakpersonal]

parkur :)

[@helenrosario8141]

1:04 bro I don’t think it’s that serious

[@RowdyZeePAY]

nah it's so serious lmao

[@Fire_Axus]

you are too pessimistic about our current society

[@Qartlos]

We live in socraftiety 😔

[@gabrielc7861]

Yup, refusing to hope is how evil wins. Refusing to believe our current world has plenty of good in it is always a bad idea.

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