Today I am joined by Ben from the YouTube channel Dummy, where he talks about media theory, history, and business. In this episode we touch on a wide range of topics, from propaganda, to Noam Chomsky, an ecological approach to media literacy, the Israel-Palestine war, YouTube censorship, Trump 2.0, big tech, and much more!

I also give a preview of what's coming down the pipe for this podcast. I got a lot of ideas!

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'Little Miss Sunshine' teaches us to accept our absurd existence, and in this acceptance, we can find joy. In this video, I bring in concepts from Albert Camus, Friedrich Nietszche, and Marcel Proust to illustrate that the suffering we feel should not be resisted, but accepted, a powerful concept to anyone who’s gone through a dark time in their life.

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https://youtu.be/DdCxER5hoLc?si=HzYPZEPW99Kx268K

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0:00 - Sisyphus

1:20 - The Power of Acceptance

3:40 - Channel Intro

4:22 - Dwayne; or Do What You Love & Fuck the Rest

9:14 - Frank; or Forgive Yourself

11:42 - Richard; or It's Okay to Lose

14:47 - Sheryl; or Accept What You Cannot Control

16:31 - Olive; or Embrace Yourself

19:18 - Accepting the Absurd

Sources

'The Myth of Sisyphus' by Albert Camus

'The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietszche

'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' by Friedrich Nietszche

'In Search of Lost Time' by Marcel Proust

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4pDUxth5fQ

#philosophy #camus #nietzsche #videoessay #proust #filmreview #acceptance #mentalhealth #sisyphus

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In part 2 of my 'Crime & Punishment' analysis, we will take a look at Dunya, and how she shows strength in the face of patriarchal dominance and ideals

#crimeandpunishment #feminism #Dostoevsky #philosophy #classics #literature #russianclassics #videoessay #patriarchy

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Us5_-iiEbE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM-cp9Mw810

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKBdxYqavCw

https://youtu.be/DdCxER5hoLc?si=iOIlR2e3EFcUvfds

https://youtu.be/rRPkaVtx1_o?si=g9lWy-jbyWHT1l25

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbweDNPP_Ak&t=1s

‘Sonya, Silent no More: A response to the woman question in Crime and Punishment’ by Elizabeth Blake

https://youtu.be/F1KKNKHJsuY?si=9IGHRsfxIeAAk7gM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOpf6KcWYyw

Dostoevsky and Women by M. https://dostoevsky-bts.com/blog/dostoyevsky-and-women/

Dostoevsky on Feminism by Thinking Housewife https://www.thinkinghousewife.com/2013/08/dostoevsky-on-feminism/

Svidrigailov and the "Performing Self" by R.E. Richardson

Art used:

Raskolnikov, Dünya, and Svidrigailov: https://carcinogenical.tumblr.com/

Sonya: https://medium.com/@premiumeth/femininity-in-fyodor-dostoevskys-crime-and-punishment-7970cb924de1

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

4:14 - Svidrigailov: Patriarchy as a Weapon

16:58 - Luzhin's Miscalculated Risks

25:10 - Dunya, Sonya & Feminism

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Unpacking Raskolnikov’s Egoistic Utilitarianism and Sonya’s love as a savior in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment.

#CrimeAndPunishment #Dostoevsky #philosophy #classics #literature #russianclassics #Raskolnikov #Sonya #videoessay #utilitarianism #egoism

My other videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM-cp9Mw810

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKBdxYqavCw

https://youtu.be/DdCxER5hoLc?si=iOIlR2e3EFcUvfds

https://youtu.be/DdCxER5hoLc?si=HzYPZEPW99Kx268K

https://youtu.be/rRPkaVtx1_o?si=g9lWy-jbyWHT1l25

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Sources

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbweDNPP_Ak&t=1s

‘Sonya, Silent no More: A response to the woman question in Crime and Punishment’ by Elizabeth Blake

https://youtu.be/F1KKNKHJsuY?si=9IGHRsfxIeAAk7gM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOpf6KcWYyw

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

4:44 - Raskolnikov | Egoistic Utilitarianism

17:26 - Sonya | Moral Integrity and Love

23:24 - Love as a Savior

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VIDEO ESSAY ON YOUTUBE

Mindfulness, space, absurdism & writing.

You don't have to be anything. You only have to be.

#meditation #mindfulness #absurdism #nature #buddhism #space #philosophy #camus #sisyphus #videoessay

My other videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM-cp9Mw810

https://youtu.be/DdCxER5hoLc?si=iOIlR2e3EFcUvfds

https://youtu.be/DdCxER5hoLc?si=HzYPZEPW99Kx268K

https://youtu.be/rRPkaVtx1_o?si=g9lWy-jbyWHT1l25

Website: https://remarkablebooksandfilm.com/

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Sources:

https://bigthink.com/hard-science/the-universe-may-be-a-giant-neural-network-heres-why/

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-43674270

'The Art of Living' by Thich Nhat Hanh

'The Myth of Sisyphus' by Albert Camus

'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' by Friedrich Nietzsche

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FULL VIDEO ESSAY ON YOUTUBE!

The greatest art makes you question. Question who you are, what you believe. Question the assumptions you make about the world around you. Question the fabric of reality, the nature of being. Question free will or fate. Question systemic influences of behavior, or intrinsic human desires.

It does not answer, because in answers we find a more shallow understanding of ourselves and of the world’s complexity.

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen is one of these great pieces of art. Its questions are not concerned with your preexisting notions of the Vietnam War, nor will it dichotomize the opposing sides into good and bad, right and wrong. The complexities of the War are not simplified, and our American-centric perspective is challenged at every turn. If you read closely and mindfully, you may finish the book having examined the very nature of your way of thinking, our collective desire to neatly place thought into ideological boxes that give us an easy position on any issue.

#vietnamwar #books #booktube #ideology #videoessay #zizek #slavojzizek #capitalism #philosophy #vietnam #literature #thesympathizer #propoganda #hollywood #communism #consumerism #vietnamesebooks

0:00 - Intro

1:12 - A Man of Two Faces

7:50 - Asian-American Rage

14:44 - Independence and Freedom

21:31 - Question Everything

32:45 - Conclusion

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The Iron Giant and Spirited Away's No-Face have more in common than you might think. I'll explore how their identity is shaped by empathy, and how this relates to my own struggles with identity.

#film #studioghibli #theirongiant #ghibli #filmreview #videoessay

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0:00 - Intro

1:00 - Finding Identity

5:31 - It Came from Outer Space

9:45 - Xenophobia

14:46 - Full Circle

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Vanity masquerades as individuality. Selfishness masquerades as acheivement. Pointless pursuits masquerade as progress.

Victor Frankenstein embodied these ideas when he devoted years of his life to merciless toil in the name of science. He was vain, selfish, and pursued great accomplishments, not for the sake of improving the world or helping people, but for his own ego and legacy. The cruel twist of irony in Frankenstein is that exactly this arrogance doomed him to a life of vicious misery.

Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, the 1818 classic of gothic horror and science fiction, in the age of—and largely in response to—the Industrial Revolution, a time of great human “progress” and “achievement”. It is a harrowing tale of a scientist that goes too far and creates a monster in his desire to learn “the secrets of heaven and earth”. And although he occasionally frames this thirst for knowledge as a driver, the much greater desires, by his own admition, are glory and power. Frankenstein says, “A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs.”

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