I was raised in a fundamentalist cult. So much of my understanding of the world as a kid and teen was informed by white supremacy, american exceptionalism, fire and brimstone, and strict black and white thinking. Deconstructing is making me realize that, though I don't believe any of that anymore, my body still kind of does? I feel like I'm fighting to take apart the identity that was placed onto me, but my new identity is still a baby and I don't know what it looks like. I WANT to be alienated from who I've been my whole life, but I'm incidentally alientaed by my new identity because it's new, and I'm an adult and the world isn't really built for adults to rebuild themselves in a second adolescence. :/
I've noticed how, if I knew a person and that person cut their hair and it was long, and then it becomes short, I've noticed I wouldn't recognise that person.
@@gabeangel8104 This has a name!? Amazing. Also learned last week I'm dysgraphic. Was always so puzzled how can I struggle with writing and spelling while clearly not being dyslexic. Back at school in the 80's no-one knew a thing about learning difficulties. And even less about autism. Thanks Rainman for...nothing 😆
I was at the dying shopping mall last weekend. An aging old white dude was barreling towards the exit. I saw him in the distance. Racing fowards. His walker rammed up against the 1970s ass wall. He fell flat onto the ground. I just jumped up and ran to him heels and all. A man ran up alongside me. I tried talking to the aging man. Wouldn't get much from him. A black woman suggested we get the man to a bench. The lady was the the wife of the man who came to help with me. We got the man to the bench. He had a notebook on his walker. He was deaf or very hearing impaired. I asked him what he needed in writing. Gasping for breath, he wrote sodium low. I asked him in writing what he needed to eat and his reply was subway. I asked folks if there was a subway in the mall and realized, he was not asking for a brand he was asking for nourishing food with sodium. Sodium is important for muscle regulation. I ran off to the food court and found a shop that had sandwiches. It was ran by two asian dudes. I told them the situation and one dude jumped over and ordered and paid for the food and jumped back to make a sandwich, a philly cheese. Minutes later i brought the food back to the old man and he handed me a twenty. I just said thanks and ran back to the shop while he dug in. Back at the shop the young man said everything was good when i tried to give him the money. I explained that the money was more hos than mine and he eventually took it. Capitalism is no longer a social lubricant but a hinderance. In this odd weekend occurance money just slowed everything down and nobody really wanted it, i only happily accepted it from the old man because i wanted to show him respect. The biracial couple who stopped to help had no care for money, I could not take it and the young man argued against taking it. Human beings just want human beings to live without emergency. Tell that to the assholes who think greed is a virtue. They live so far removed from the lives of the working class, from the youth, from the elderly, from couples with kids. I love you, my neighbors love you. You love you.❤ a better world is not only possible, it is unbearibly close. It is just past the thinneat veneer of social construct. A better world is one millimeter away. Or for Americans like myself it is on the other side of a few sheets of paper.❤
That’s so unbelievably kind of you. My mother isn’t elderly but she’s physically disabled. She is able to leave the house on her own but she is constantly at a fall risk. I get so so so anxious when she has to go to doctors appointments on her own as I often have to work to support us and i can’t always personally be there to assist her. I’m not that religious but I secretly pray sometimes that it doesn’t happen, and if my mom ever fell in public without me I’d hope someone as selfless as you would be there help her and to make sure she’s ok ❤️
I'd argue that capitalism was never a social anything, it's just that monarchy was so bad that anything felt better than the countless wars fought for inbred royalty. So now we have countless wars fought for inbred billionaires instead. Don't forget that pretty much all indigenous tribes live in a form of proto socialism, because it's just the natural state of humans to live in a society where resources aren't hoarded and everyone's basic needs are met by default.
As a fellow ADHD/autistic socialist, I am often acutely aware of my own personal alienation as well as societal alienation. It can feel overwhelmingly frustrating and lonely when we can't communicate this to others, as well as be allowed to conceptualize different ways of being and moving through the world, so I very much appreciate all your work for being able to do that well. This is great, it's informative, entertaining, and funny … And I think it goes well with the video _Life on Mars_ by *Sophie From Mars!* Thank you ... 🛸💚🖤
It's hard to actually want equality for people and to deal with the inequality of society. I feel so distressed about politics right now because no-one seems decent and kind. It breaks my heart that society is so unkind and so many people are left to suffer for the benefit of those who just happened to be born into a life of wealth and entitlement. It hurts me that I live in such an unequal and divided society. People should never feel excluded, should never feel hurt or never feel 'less than' other people. It hurts my heart
@@gillb9222the most entitled brats are people like you folks! You talk like you are abow us that dont agree with you politicaly or any other way! Oh yeah, how much was Mica payed for her AD read?!🤔 CAPITALISM BAD! Just give me free money!
What breaks my heart the most is that everything related to the being humanitarian is now compared to complete and absolute misery because it sounds "communist". If I propose people that everyone should be happy so that you may have an enjoyable life, they usually fire back with "But they don't care about me, why should I care about them? In this world is every man for himself" and I find so baffling that they do not understand that that is exactly the point.
This is why we must call for Direct Digital Democracy without Parties nor Politicians. Citizen initiated referendums with thresholds and a social contract means Communities can vote their own laws. As well as a Public Authority to audit police and prosecute bad actors in our own courts. It means we can Nationalise resources and give Indigenous peoples the right of Sovereignty over them as Guardians. This can be achieved through a General Strike or Velvet Revolution, much like the Occupy movement, peacefully occupying State Buildings until a People's Mandate can be implemented. With the appropriate checks and balances, you could have a national digital forum where qualified professionals can debate the issues in a public setting without all the disinformation and bad faith antics, hatespeech etc. Any vote would need to pass the 70% threshold, with a veto or _rewrite_ vote needing 30%. The issues would be debated, the public educated, and then a vote taken. Votes that fail will have to wait a year before trying again. Any new proposal (Citizen Initiated Referendum) would have to reach a threshold of support before it made it onto the register. This would all be subject to a Social Contract (New Constitution) that forbids human rights abuses and discrimination, that can be written in the same manner based on the core principles we all share. Councils and Boards could operate in a similar fashion at Scale. It works in a way that obligates people to better educate themselves ( that is to use logic and evidence in their reasoning ) for a better understanding of the issues, and then take collective responsibility for the outcomes. As opposed to the divisive US v them scapegoating and bi-partisan finger pointing the current Capitalist Pyramid Scheme runs on. Thorium energy renders the global oil monopoly obsolete An average person's lifetime's worth of energy with Thorium energy would cost just $100 It is safer, cleaner, and cheaper, allowing for desalination and carbon sequestration. It also can process toxic and nuclear wastes and in return produces the most effective cancer treatment known to man. In the case of a complete failure the liquid salt cools into a container and then solidifies, it will be low level radioactive for 300 years, as opposed to extremely radioactive for 25k years. Thorium produce grams to the tonne in comparison to Conventional Reactors. It's compact elements don't require a pressure containment like with conventional reactors and so can be transported to remote communities who would be able to process their own waste for energy. There is enough Thorium already mined for us to power the economy for another 1000yrs. It can also be used to power Hydrogen converters for carbon free combustion engines. It's the only technology that could scale to provide effective carbon sequestration. The cost is also a tiny fraction of current models. It also can't be weaponised. Thorium energy is our only hope to survive Climate Change It's crazy it isn't discussed more
the shitty thing is, there's a layer of protection from alienation for ppl who sincerely see nothing wrong with the system and feel they deserve their current place in it (this includes ppl feeling like they don't deserve security until they earn it, and ppl who maintain security feeling like they've earned it above most other ppl). Sell-outs are weirdly protected from one of the layers of alienation'
What you may be describing is insulation. Yes, our society is built around and to appeal to neurotypical people, as well as materialistic/greedy people. Keeping people insulated discourages critical thinking and allows promotion of fears of the world around you I gather. However, a sense of entitlement is its own thing and wealth alone saps any humanity you may have had.
yea its a sense of peronsal responsibility, thats how cultures that have existed for millenia with families that became known for specific skills would use those skills to trade for other goods and services, thier is a satisfaction in the sense of community and responsibility to that, capitalism makes that possible, thats all it is, its a wonderful simple thing
I have been feeling a lot of alienation lately. Especially as a trans person not knowing whether people will even see me as Human let alone will get along with me is hard. Being alienated while in an apartment building full of people whose names I probably will never know sucks. But it's also a safety measure, I don't know how people will react to me. Also as an autistic person it's nearly impossible for me to just go up to a random person and strike up a conversation.
I’ve found having a dog automatically forces you to interact with your neighbors more often, since lots of people want your dog to meet their dog, so you exchange names and pleasantries, though it’s still pretty surface level. But I’m autistic and it’s actually overwhelming sometimes when people want to talk and meet when I’d rather just hide (especially when other people keep leaving their dogs off leash which can be potentially dangerous). But yeah, if you actually want a guaranteed way to get to know some of your neighbors (for better or worse) get a dog. 🐕
I think I already have that horrible stress inducing calendar as a visual representation in my head somehow and feel an impending sense of doom once it reaches late afternoon and I’ve done nothing “productive” or “valuable” with my time almost every single day off work I have and it slowly breaks my heart :,/
omg ok but hear me out: astronauts get POTS when they come back into gravity, I have POTS, therefore the only logical conclusion is that I'm an alien from outer space--
Here's to never shutting up. This is why I support your work, Mica: you give me hope that we can get this world into a better place as long as we just keep pushing in that direction and refuse to give up. (. . . well, that and to get my Boba footage fix, obviously . . .)
This is why we must call for Direct Digital Democracy without Parties nor Politicians. Citizen initiated referendums with thresholds and a social contract means Communities can vote their own laws. As well as a Public Authority to audit police and prosecute bad actors in our own courts. It means we can Nationalise resources and give Indigenous peoples the right of Sovereignty over them as Guardians. This can be achieved through a General Strike or Velvet Revolution, much like the Occupy movement, peacefully occupying State Buildings until a People's Mandate can be implemented. With the appropriate checks and balances, you could have a national digital forum where qualified professionals can debate the issues in a public setting without all the disinformation and bad faith antics, hatespeech etc. Any vote would need to pass the 70% threshold, with a veto or _rewrite_ vote needing 30%. The issues would be debated, the public educated, and then a vote taken. Votes that fail will have to wait a year before trying again. Any new proposal (Citizen Initiated Referendum) would have to reach a threshold of support before it made it onto the register. This would all be subject to a Social Contract (New Constitution) that forbids human rights abuses and discrimination, that can be written in the same manner based on the core principles we all share. Councils and Boards could operate in a similar fashion at Scale. It works in a way that obligates people to better educate themselves ( that is to use logic and evidence in their reasoning ) for a better understanding of the issues, and then take collective responsibility for the outcomes. As opposed to the divisive US v them scapegoating and bi-partisan finger pointing the current Capitalist Pyramid Scheme runs on. Thorium energy renders the global oil monopoly obsolete An average person's lifetime's worth of energy with Thorium energy would cost just $100 It is safer, cleaner, and cheaper, allowing for desalination and carbon sequestration. It also can process toxic and nuclear wastes and in return produces the most effective cancer treatment known to man. In the case of a complete failure the liquid salt cools into a container and then solidifies, it will be low level radioactive for 300 years, as opposed to extremely radioactive for 25k years. Thorium produce grams to the tonne in comparison to Conventional Reactors. It's compact elements don't require a pressure containment like with conventional reactors and so can be transported to remote communities who would be able to process their own waste for energy. There is enough Thorium already mined for us to power the economy for another 1000yrs. It can also be used to power Hydrogen converters for carbon free combustion engines. It's the only technology that could scale to provide effective carbon sequestration. The cost is also a tiny fraction of current models. It also can't be weaponised. Thorium energy is our only hope to survive Climate Change It's crazy it isn't discussed more
I've been participating in an ARG set up by a musician for his upcoming album. I joined a discord full of neurodiverse people who all happen to love this musician and want him to succeed (100% independent artist with chronic disease) and we've come together from all walks of life. Hadn't even realised I needed this in my life, even had voice chat with members and connected via other social media. The artist is Ren, the game is The Money Game. Nothing can be solved without the collective cooperation and we've bent the rules to defy sacrificing each other to win the daily prize. The real point of the game seems to be finding ways to unite and come together, rather than be selfish and ruthless (despite it being themed around Seven Deadly Sins) The anticapitalist anarchist mindset are a uniting theme. Anyone is welcome to join especially if you are neurodiverse or adjacent. We're inclusive, and the Ren discord will be around well after the game is done xx
This inspired me to start speaking up instead of watching and feeling helpless, because those in power are messing up our world so badly. This gives me hope that we can make change one day. Thank you for changing my mindset I feel much less doomed :)
I’d never heard anyone explain how talk therapy can work for dealing with past trauma. But that explanation makes a lot of sense. Excellent video all round - ties in very nicely with some stuff I’ve been thinking about recently.
Beautifully written and stated, thank you. Love the Neverending Story analogy at the end - it was one of my favourite books growing up, and one of my son's favourites when I passed it on to him (along with a question authority/the status-quo mind set).
This is the kind of content we all need more of. Thank you for explaining all this so well and bolstering hope. 💙(Side notes, the production value of this one was fantastic, and I'm very excited for the alienation and masking video!)
Yes I do feel like I’m being pulled in a million diff directions while the ticking clock of my life gets louder and louder and louder it’s the worst and I’m glad I’m not the only one goddamn that was a perfect description of trying to be become a functional not-miserable adult as a young person in the modern capitalist hell of a world and never quite living up to the ever expanding expectations and blaming urself for being inadequate at keeping up with everyone else in the rat race of society:,( sorry that got depressing but it’s true for me at least and I’ve gotta beleive for others out there too. This is a wonderful video as always dude , if u ever became a professor I think I’d have to go get another degree just to take ur classes lmao but seriously your videos are always insightful and interesting and relatable and fun to watch even if they’re on topics I’m already familiar with like this u always bring a fresh perspective I appreciate and value! Much love from the US!
"Convicted of occupying an oil drilling ship", "had to do communiity service". That is a game-breaking exploit and we need to get the glitch hunters figuring out how to replicate it.
The strict work/personal hour boundries and demands of worker rights is why the millennial and Zs are called entitled and lazy by everyone else. Those generations just demand basic workibg rights
I'm 10 seconds in and I already fucking LOVE this video. Dropped a like without even hearing what you have to say because the production is great. I'm a production nerd (I know, considering my username this is SHOCKING), and that opening was well executed. I can see you were having a bit of trouble with the spill on the super reflective material you were wearing, but reflective stuff, much like wispy hair, is hard to green screen. Fucking good show.
i literally just found your channel like 2 days ago and i've been working my way through all your video essays. i've genuinely learned so much about asd from you and ive been able to think deeper about how my adhd affects me from listening to your point of view on mental disorder stuff. and the way you talk is just so enchanting and relaxing on top of it all. thank you for all your hard work!!! cant wait to finish this vid! edit: also i love your alien costume, its giving juno birch 👌👌
RE "someone else already did an essay on this": Don't you dare worry about that, when I find a topic I like I WILL find ALL the essays on it and make a 100hr+ playlist to either binge throughout a week or have as my bedtime entertainment for months and I won't be satisfied before I understand everything in detail.
How can you believe that “some people owning things” is bad. But everything owned by the government, is better? When has that ever worked out for people in the past?
*_"Create the concepts you wish to see in the world."_* might be just the rephrasing necessary for me to use this "quote" again. Finding out *"Be the change you want to see in the world"* was a misattribution to Mahatma Gandhi (et al.), but was actually a message originally created for selling greeting cards really killed me...
I've always felt like an alien. An older cousin once told me recently that when I was a really young kid, my whole family thought I was from some other family or planet.
I came out as a trans woman recently, and I'm still sifting through my life and aspects of self. What parts are me, what parts are what I was told to be over and over, what parts are the structures I built to repress myself for survival from well before I can remember. I read Nevada the other day by Imogen Binnie (everyone should read) and it has had me thinking a lot about this recently. Your video is helping me reinforce that and broaden it, thank you
14:30 "So theses brains, right... what are they up to? What are they even here for?" 🤣🤣🤣 That timing was so perfect! You start with alienation, and then talk about our identities, and then suggest we take an objective look at our brains, and then you say that, in the way you said it! 🤣 That wasn't the only joke that had me laughing so hard I was in tears, but around Halloween, such things are just that little bit extra extra funny to me :) So I figured that if I pause the video to laugh my ass off and dry my tears from laughing I might as well type things. Great and informative video giving lots of different views as well, by the way. And every time you comment on a philosopher philosophing I feel so vindicated. It's like you're almost reading the comments from my mind, with the sarcasm and all, and even the praise for, I think it was Hume, for getting the brain thing pretty much right. **small applause for ye olde deadge guy who wasn't completely stupid like most other philosophers** And credit where credit's due, I think it's rather impressive that so many philosophers can overlook the most obvious things and then double and triple down on stupid things like the expectation that people don't change, or that we're all exploitative bad guys, even though _every_ single time in history when shit hits the fan we did the exact opposite and helped and supported each other instead, and things like that. So no applause there, I would instead just shit on their work and I'm glad you do, but it is impressive to me nonetheless. Entire cities have been bombed with those ideas that had been disproven even then. And did we learn? Putin didn't. He thought he could break morale, because the people he wanted to reunite with the soviet people were obviously evil and brainwashed with western ideas that makes us turn our backs on each other when put in a rough spot. Just after a pandemic when we've shown to do the opposite, after a world war when England and even the nazis did the opposite when they were bombed. It's just a small percentage of people who are actually that way and some of them evidently have a lot of power and they project their fears and weaknesses on populations, gaslighting them into thinking we need forceful versions of law and order to be civilized, religion, authoritarianism, you name it, but the opposite is true. Living under them makes people backstabbers because those systems pushes them to and it's hard to feed your family or even exist if you don't give in, and losing everything pushes people back into their true nature: social empathic animals that are willing to give up everything to help others.
I still think some of the stories we need are ones that run with the anger and hatred and *direct it* the way the narratives of the powerful do. I still love that, as a great media example, Babylon 5 didn't shy away from that. The episode "And the rock cried out, no hiding place" positively REVELS in the liberatory essence of the Narn resistance brutally beating Refa, architect of the death camps on their world, to death. It's portrayed as an absolute, unquestionable, empowering good and we're all invited to empathise with that anger being let out, the pain paid back in full. We're weaker when we "tut tut" that sort of thing with an air of superiority.
I’m only part way through the video, but I’m loving it so far, and am wondering if all these points about alienation explain why I, as an introvert with an anxiety disorder, always seek the company of others (including people I don’t normally get along with) when I’m in the midst of a mental health crisis, despite the fact that I’m normally deeply uncomfortable around other people. Different forms of alienation really do seem to be the root of a great many of both personal and societal ills.
Good mental health requires supportive friends on a similar wavelength who have your best interests and heart and vice versa, many don't have that in their lives, many today with aspirations are chasing the mighty $$$ whatever excuse they make so often "don't have time" treat what friends there might me like we are the head of an HR department , as we age we loose more opportunity's and energy to deal with people.
Watching this again, for the engagement, and because it's funny, and also because alienation just got a fascist elected as pm of the Netherlands (in all likelihood; if he's able to form a coalition government with the other far right parties)
I think that the idea that being unable to fulfil immoral desires because of the "strictures" of morality causes alienation only applies to so-called sociopaths - people with a non-pro-social sense of morality. Most people have a desire to think of themselves as morally-good people, and not acting on the immoral desires they have (in other words, acting in pro-social ways, or at least not acting in anti-social ways) is a really effective way to do that. I think that this essay gets into some Critique of Pure Reason stuff. I seem to recall a fragment of a quote that talked about how concepts get to align with reality.
I laughed so hard when you said 'get it?!?!' because it's exactly what I would have done. And yeah! My next video's going to talk a lot about this, too. Go us! High five!
I feel alienated because after traveling here from my planet Mars and observing humans, I don't get it! These creatures have the potential to make a wonderful world. Instead, they waste their time hating, killing, and amusing themselves with stupid things like sports, social media, and the Voice on their TV!
This reminds me of hear no evil see no evil. When you have one person who doesn't want to admit he is blind and the other one doesn't care if others know if he can't hear. Leading to a hilarious result but also a very real different perspective and how we can have poisoned perspectives or even dogma. Sometimes we only have to open our minds to become accepting.
I laughed at your sarcasms, thank you for putting words on today's political subjects... in opposition with all the 30 years late bad themes we see coming from capitalist culture companies
This is why we must call for Direct Digital Democracy without Parties nor Politicians. Citizen initiated referendums with thresholds and a social contract means Communities can vote their own laws. As well as a Public Authority to audit police and prosecute bad actors in our own courts. It means we can Nationalise resources and give Indigenous peoples the right of Sovereignty over them as Guardians. This can be achieved through a General Strike or Velvet Revolution, much like the Occupy movement, peacefully occupying State Buildings until a People's Mandate can be implemented. With the appropriate checks and balances, you could have a national digital forum where qualified professionals can debate the issues in a public setting without all the disinformation and bad faith antics, hatespeech etc. Any vote would need to pass the 70% threshold, with a veto or _rewrite_ vote needing 30%. The issues would be debated, the public educated, and then a vote taken. Votes that fail will have to wait a year before trying again. Any new proposal (Citizen Initiated Referendum) would have to reach a threshold of support before it made it onto the register. This would all be subject to a Social Contract (New Constitution) that forbids human rights abuses and discrimination, that can be written in the same manner based on the core principles we all share. Councils and Boards could operate in a similar fashion at Scale. It works in a way that obligates people to better educate themselves ( that is to use logic and evidence in their reasoning ) for a better understanding of the issues, and then take collective responsibility for the outcomes. As opposed to the divisive US v them scapegoating and bi-partisan finger pointing the current Capitalist Pyramid Scheme runs on. Thorium energy renders the global oil monopoly obsolete An average person's lifetime's worth of energy with Thorium energy would cost just $100 It is safer, cleaner, and cheaper, allowing for desalination and carbon sequestration. It also can process toxic and nuclear wastes and in return produces the most effective cancer treatment known to man. In the case of a complete failure the liquid salt cools into a container and then solidifies, it will be low level radioactive for 300 years, as opposed to extremely radioactive for 25k years. Thorium produce grams to the tonne in comparison to Conventional Reactors. It's compact elements don't require a pressure containment like with conventional reactors and so can be transported to remote communities who would be able to process their own waste for energy. There is enough Thorium already mined for us to power the economy for another 1000yrs. It can also be used to power Hydrogen converters for carbon free combustion engines. It's the only technology that could scale to provide effective carbon sequestration. The cost is also a tiny fraction of current models. It also can't be weaponised. Thorium energy is our only hope to survive Climate Change It's crazy it isn't discussed more
Very intelligent and very funny. I enjoyed that very much. Thank you. I am also physically handicapped with chronic pain and discomfort from severe spasticity. It is truly wonderful and inspirational to see someone like yourself being creative and full of life despite your challenge of chronic pain. I get compliments sometimes on my ability to carry on despite my challenge. Its amazing what we can overcome as human beings because if we allow it our spirit is irrepressible. Thank you and keep up the good work by creating some sort of metric to keep yourself on track for optimal achievement hahaha….
Beautiful Boba! 🥰🐾 I'm digging the color scheme of this video! Though I do appreciate that you took off the glasses for most of it. Cool, but distracting. 👽🌝 Good alienation overview and it's great how you brought everything together at the end about repeatedly telling stories, finding ways to communicate so others understand. And I always love your sense of humor and way of speaking. 💖
Max Striner's book, "The Ego and It's Own/The Unique and their property", released me from the chains that bind when i was young. I am glad I read him before I read Marx. Now I am a well adjusted adult able to fit into many social groups while having a tight knit group of inner friends.
Yes I love that book and that philosophy. My Marxist friends always make fun of it, and I kind of get it, but, like, it just struck at something in my core when I read it.
I really wish I could explain to my dad any of this. He has an awful job at a construction company that pays him awfully, makes him do way too many things including managing computer stuff, going on long hauls sometimes taking hours to get parts from other cities. And having to help fix machines. And yet he's a conservative who complains about this job but never sees that these things are all caused by the capitalist system.
I love to hear you talk,,,, your style,,,, your technique.... And just use a person I guess is very alluring..... Anyway back to business..... This is the first time I've heard of you and this channel and I'm liking it so far.....
I tell you,,,,, you are a really cool person,,,, I wished we were friends,,,, just by watching this one show has turned keys and open doorways in my head,,,, I can tell we have a lot in common even though this is my first show I've seen ....I'm going to watch the rest of them,,,, I just wished well I guess I'll leave it at that cuz that's all it is ,is wishing ,,,,hoping,,, I got betrayed by my own family when it came down to money it is all but almost ruined my life I'm trying to get back in the swing of things and you have answered some things the other people have not been able to be nice if you respond but I know you are a very important person with a lot of followers and I'm the new guy..... I got to say,,,,,,,you are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen ,,,inside and out,,, your words ,,,your techniques,, the way you talk,,, what you talk ,,,about I can tell you do not judge,,. Very intellectual.,,, non-biased,,,, and I like to hear you make jokes,, and I would love for you to have dinner with me one night and cook the food together,,,, I'm sorry I don't mean to talk so much you have a wonderful day I hope you at least answer or give me a little heart or something
Alienation isn't bad in and of itself. The pervasiveness that it exists at, though, is pretty bad. Honestly, even a bit of adversity of alienation is good to overcome. Though I'm not even really sure how we fight this because it doesn't feel like there's much of a "we"
Okay but if we’re no more than our brains in our bodies, tell me why I found this video only right after talking to my husband about this very subject just the other day? Specifically about how so much of one’s identity is rooted in what is acceptable in a capitalist society and how so many of us must compromise our true self (our identity) just to survive under the harsh realities (and rigged system) of capitalism. Is the algorithm listening in to our conversations? Or is it manifestation? Spiritual guidance? The hive mind? I guess I’ll never know for sure lol Either way, this was a fascinating video and I really enjoyed it. You definitely got a new subscriber! 👽💙
What you said about public perception of events being greatly influenced by the language used to describe it made me think about how different Dutch media is from UK and US news. When I read something from the NOS (the Dutch broadcasting foundation), it's always so much more nuanced and less sensational than the BBC. And the BBC is much less sensational than most of the American news from what I've seen. I wonder how much that shaped the Netherlands. I guess it's a bit of a chicken and egg kind of thing. That concludes my ADHD rambling, thank you for reading.
On the mention of narratives, I know it was tangential, but I have to bring up an idea I have been toying with for trans acceptance. I am thinking of a story of a cis girl and transgirl who have been bffs like Will and Grace, and we sometimes have throw back references to when they thought the transgirl was a twink who loved drag but something was missing. Most of the time, the story is about gal pals,and the different issues girls have with dating and living life.
I just re-read Women who run with the wolves after 30+ years. She talks about feeling being born into the wrong family. This latest reading led me to think my entire family was born into the wrong society.
I’ve always identified more with boy things than girl things when I was a young neurodivergent babbi. I felt pushed into the category that the market expected to me to be and I felt super lonely and wrong. Videos like this help me feel a lot less alone in the world. There’s bunches of people that don’t fit boxes like me and I’m tired of viewing the world through boxes.
I was raised in a fundamentalist cult. So much of my understanding of the world as a kid and teen was informed by white supremacy, american exceptionalism, fire and brimstone, and strict black and white thinking. Deconstructing is making me realize that, though I don't believe any of that anymore, my body still kind of does? I feel like I'm fighting to take apart the identity that was placed onto me, but my new identity is still a baby and I don't know what it looks like. I WANT to be alienated from who I've been my whole life, but I'm incidentally alientaed by my new identity because it's new, and I'm an adult and the world isn't really built for adults to rebuild themselves in a second adolescence. :/
I've noticed how, if I knew a person and that person cut their hair and it was long, and then it becomes short, I've noticed I wouldn't recognise that person.
I'm the same way 😅
I experience the same. For me it's because I have prosopagnosia so things like hairstyle and style of clothes is key to how I recognize people
@@gabeangel8104 This has a name!? Amazing. Also learned last week I'm dysgraphic. Was always so puzzled how can I struggle with writing and spelling while clearly not being dyslexic. Back at school in the 80's no-one knew a thing about learning difficulties. And even less about autism. Thanks Rainman for...nothing 😆
😢 I am the person who cuts their hair and gets not recognised
I try to find out more about prosopagnosia. The information I found is unsatisfactory. The series "My HoloLove" is about a faceblind person btw.
I was at the dying shopping mall last weekend. An aging old white dude was barreling towards the exit. I saw him in the distance. Racing fowards. His walker rammed up against the 1970s ass wall. He fell flat onto the ground. I just jumped up and ran to him heels and all. A man ran up alongside me. I tried talking to the aging man. Wouldn't get much from him. A black woman suggested we get the man to a bench. The lady was the the wife of the man who came to help with me. We got the man to the bench. He had a notebook on his walker. He was deaf or very hearing impaired. I asked him what he needed in writing. Gasping for breath, he wrote sodium low. I asked him in writing what he needed to eat and his reply was subway. I asked folks if there was a subway in the mall and realized, he was not asking for a brand he was asking for nourishing food with sodium. Sodium is important for muscle regulation. I ran off to the food court and found a shop that had sandwiches. It was ran by two asian dudes. I told them the situation and one dude jumped over and ordered and paid for the food and jumped back to make a sandwich, a philly cheese. Minutes later i brought the food back to the old man and he handed me a twenty. I just said thanks and ran back to the shop while he dug in.
Back at the shop the young man said everything was good when i tried to give him the money. I explained that the money was more hos than mine and he eventually took it.
Capitalism is no longer a social lubricant but a hinderance. In this odd weekend occurance money just slowed everything down and nobody really wanted it, i only happily accepted it from the old man because i wanted to show him respect. The biracial couple who stopped to help had no care for money, I could not take it and the young man argued against taking it.
Human beings just want human beings to live without emergency. Tell that to the assholes who think greed is a virtue. They live so far removed from the lives of the working class, from the youth, from the elderly, from couples with kids.
I love you, my neighbors love you. You love you.❤ a better world is not only possible, it is unbearibly close. It is just past the thinneat veneer of social construct. A better world is one millimeter away. Or for Americans like myself it is on the other side of a few sheets of paper.❤
Thanks for that story. Well described. I keep your reaction in mind in case I might be in such a situation.
That’s so unbelievably kind of you. My mother isn’t elderly but she’s physically disabled. She is able to leave the house on her own but she is constantly at a fall risk. I get so so so anxious when she has to go to doctors appointments on her own as I often have to work to support us and i can’t always personally be there to assist her.
I’m not that religious but I secretly pray sometimes that it doesn’t happen, and if my mom ever fell in public without me I’d hope someone as selfless as you would be there help her and to make sure she’s ok ❤️
my god, the line "a better world is not only possible, it is unbearibly close." just broke m in the best possible way, thank you!
I'd argue that capitalism was never a social anything, it's just that monarchy was so bad that anything felt better than the countless wars fought for inbred royalty. So now we have countless wars fought for inbred billionaires instead.
Don't forget that pretty much all indigenous tribes live in a form of proto socialism, because it's just the natural state of humans to live in a society where resources aren't hoarded and everyone's basic needs are met by default.
profusely welling tears
Yep, the glue of this society is fear.
I often think about the effects on my and societal health.
As a fellow ADHD/autistic socialist, I am often acutely aware of my own personal alienation as well as societal alienation.
It can feel overwhelmingly frustrating and lonely when we can't communicate this to others,
as well as be allowed to conceptualize different ways of being and moving through the world,
so I very much appreciate all your work for being able to do that well.
This is great, it's informative, entertaining, and funny …
And I think it goes well with the video _Life on Mars_ by *Sophie From Mars!*
Thank you ... 🛸💚🖤
It's hard to actually want equality for people and to deal with the inequality of society. I feel so distressed about politics right now because no-one seems decent and kind. It breaks my heart that society is so unkind and so many people are left to suffer for the benefit of those who just happened to be born into a life of wealth and entitlement. It hurts me that I live in such an unequal and divided society. People should never feel excluded, should never feel hurt or never feel 'less than' other people. It hurts my heart
@@gillb9222the most entitled brats are people like you folks! You talk like you are abow us that dont agree with you politicaly or any other way! Oh yeah, how much was Mica payed for her AD read?!🤔 CAPITALISM BAD! Just give me free money!
What breaks my heart the most is that everything related to the being humanitarian is now compared to complete and absolute misery because it sounds "communist". If I propose people that everyone should be happy so that you may have an enjoyable life, they usually fire back with "But they don't care about me, why should I care about them? In this world is every man for himself" and I find so baffling that they do not understand that that is exactly the point.
This is why we must call for Direct Digital Democracy without Parties nor Politicians.
Citizen initiated referendums with thresholds and a social contract means Communities can vote their own laws. As well as a Public Authority to audit police and prosecute bad actors in our own courts.
It means we can Nationalise resources and give Indigenous peoples the right of Sovereignty over them as Guardians.
This can be achieved through a General Strike or Velvet Revolution, much like the Occupy movement, peacefully occupying State Buildings until a People's Mandate can be implemented.
With the appropriate checks and balances, you could have a national digital forum where qualified professionals can debate the issues in a public setting without all the disinformation and bad faith antics, hatespeech etc.
Any vote would need to pass the 70% threshold, with a veto or _rewrite_ vote needing 30%.
The issues would be debated, the public educated, and then a vote taken. Votes that fail will have to wait a year before trying again. Any new proposal (Citizen Initiated Referendum) would have to reach a threshold of support before it made it onto the register. This would all be subject to a Social Contract (New Constitution) that forbids human rights abuses and discrimination, that can be written in the same manner based on the core principles we all share. Councils and Boards could operate in a similar fashion at Scale.
It works in a way that obligates people to better educate themselves ( that is to use logic and evidence in their reasoning ) for a better understanding of the issues, and then take collective responsibility for the outcomes. As opposed to the divisive US v them scapegoating and bi-partisan finger pointing the current Capitalist Pyramid Scheme runs on.
Thorium energy renders the global oil monopoly obsolete
An average person's lifetime's worth of energy with Thorium energy would cost just $100
It is safer, cleaner, and cheaper, allowing for desalination and carbon sequestration. It also can process toxic and nuclear wastes and in return produces the most effective cancer treatment known to man.
In the case of a complete failure the liquid salt cools into a container and then solidifies, it will be low level radioactive for 300 years, as opposed to extremely radioactive for 25k years. Thorium produce grams to the tonne in comparison to Conventional Reactors. It's compact elements don't require a pressure containment like with conventional reactors and so can be transported to remote communities who would be able to process their own waste for energy.
There is enough Thorium already mined for us to power the economy for another 1000yrs.
It can also be used to power Hydrogen converters for carbon free combustion engines.
It's the only technology that could scale to provide effective carbon sequestration. The cost is also a tiny fraction of current models.
It also can't be weaponised.
Thorium energy is our only hope to survive Climate Change
It's crazy it isn't discussed more
@@gillb9222 ^
the shitty thing is, there's a layer of protection from alienation for ppl who sincerely see nothing wrong with the system and feel they deserve their current place in it (this includes ppl feeling like they don't deserve security until they earn it, and ppl who maintain security feeling like they've earned it above most other ppl). Sell-outs are weirdly protected from one of the layers of alienation'
What you may be describing is insulation. Yes, our society is built around and to appeal to neurotypical people, as well as materialistic/greedy people. Keeping people insulated discourages critical thinking and allows promotion of fears of the world around you I gather. However, a sense of entitlement is its own thing and wealth alone saps any humanity you may have had.
@@fieryrebirthselling your soul to the devil to pay the landlord
yea its a sense of peronsal responsibility, thats how cultures that have existed for millenia with families that became known for specific skills would use those skills to trade for other goods and services, thier is a satisfaction in the sense of community and responsibility to that, capitalism makes that possible, thats all it is, its a wonderful simple thing
Those who support the system will point to the sell-outs and say "look, they can do it, why can't you?"
I have been feeling a lot of alienation lately. Especially as a trans person not knowing whether people will even see me as Human let alone will get along with me is hard. Being alienated while in an apartment building full of people whose names I probably will never know sucks. But it's also a safety measure, I don't know how people will react to me. Also as an autistic person it's nearly impossible for me to just go up to a random person and strike up a conversation.
I’ve found having a dog automatically forces you to interact with your neighbors more often, since lots of people want your dog to meet their dog, so you exchange names and pleasantries, though it’s still pretty surface level. But I’m autistic and it’s actually overwhelming sometimes when people want to talk and meet when I’d rather just hide (especially when other people keep leaving their dogs off leash which can be potentially dangerous). But yeah, if you actually want a guaranteed way to get to know some of your neighbors (for better or worse) get a dog. 🐕
I see you. You are valid. You are enough. ❤
I think I already have that horrible stress inducing calendar as a visual representation in my head somehow and feel an impending sense of doom once it reaches late afternoon and I’ve done nothing “productive” or “valuable” with my time almost every single day off work I have and it slowly breaks my heart :,/
omg ok but hear me out: astronauts get POTS when they come back into gravity, I have POTS, therefore the only logical conclusion is that I'm an alien from outer space--
This makes so much sense
This made my life make sense
Here's to never shutting up. This is why I support your work, Mica: you give me hope that we can get this world into a better place as long as we just keep pushing in that direction and refuse to give up. (. . . well, that and to get my Boba footage fix, obviously . . .)
This is why we must call for Direct Digital Democracy without Parties nor Politicians.
Citizen initiated referendums with thresholds and a social contract means Communities can vote their own laws. As well as a Public Authority to audit police and prosecute bad actors in our own courts.
It means we can Nationalise resources and give Indigenous peoples the right of Sovereignty over them as Guardians.
This can be achieved through a General Strike or Velvet Revolution, much like the Occupy movement, peacefully occupying State Buildings until a People's Mandate can be implemented.
With the appropriate checks and balances, you could have a national digital forum where qualified professionals can debate the issues in a public setting without all the disinformation and bad faith antics, hatespeech etc.
Any vote would need to pass the 70% threshold, with a veto or _rewrite_ vote needing 30%.
The issues would be debated, the public educated, and then a vote taken. Votes that fail will have to wait a year before trying again. Any new proposal (Citizen Initiated Referendum) would have to reach a threshold of support before it made it onto the register. This would all be subject to a Social Contract (New Constitution) that forbids human rights abuses and discrimination, that can be written in the same manner based on the core principles we all share. Councils and Boards could operate in a similar fashion at Scale.
It works in a way that obligates people to better educate themselves ( that is to use logic and evidence in their reasoning ) for a better understanding of the issues, and then take collective responsibility for the outcomes. As opposed to the divisive US v them scapegoating and bi-partisan finger pointing the current Capitalist Pyramid Scheme runs on.
Thorium energy renders the global oil monopoly obsolete
An average person's lifetime's worth of energy with Thorium energy would cost just $100
It is safer, cleaner, and cheaper, allowing for desalination and carbon sequestration. It also can process toxic and nuclear wastes and in return produces the most effective cancer treatment known to man.
In the case of a complete failure the liquid salt cools into a container and then solidifies, it will be low level radioactive for 300 years, as opposed to extremely radioactive for 25k years. Thorium produce grams to the tonne in comparison to Conventional Reactors. It's compact elements don't require a pressure containment like with conventional reactors and so can be transported to remote communities who would be able to process their own waste for energy.
There is enough Thorium already mined for us to power the economy for another 1000yrs.
It can also be used to power Hydrogen converters for carbon free combustion engines.
It's the only technology that could scale to provide effective carbon sequestration. The cost is also a tiny fraction of current models.
It also can't be weaponised.
Thorium energy is our only hope to survive Climate Change
It's crazy it isn't discussed more
I've been participating in an ARG set up by a musician for his upcoming album. I joined a discord full of neurodiverse people who all happen to love this musician and want him to succeed (100% independent artist with chronic disease) and we've come together from all walks of life.
Hadn't even realised I needed this in my life, even had voice chat with members and connected via other social media.
The artist is Ren, the game is The Money Game. Nothing can be solved without the collective cooperation and we've bent the rules to defy sacrificing each other to win the daily prize. The real point of the game seems to be finding ways to unite and come together, rather than be selfish and ruthless (despite it being themed around Seven Deadly Sins)
The anticapitalist anarchist mindset are a uniting theme. Anyone is welcome to join especially if you are neurodiverse or adjacent. We're inclusive, and the Ren discord will be around well after the game is done xx
This inspired me to start speaking up instead of watching and feeling helpless, because those in power are messing up our world so badly. This gives me hope that we can make change one day. Thank you for changing my mindset I feel much less doomed :)
I’d never heard anyone explain how talk therapy can work for dealing with past trauma. But that explanation makes a lot of sense.
Excellent video all round - ties in very nicely with some stuff I’ve been thinking about recently.
Beautifully written and stated, thank you. Love the Neverending Story analogy at the end - it was one of my favourite books growing up, and one of my son's favourites when I passed it on to him (along with a question authority/the status-quo mind set).
Thanks! nice work
Thank you!!
This is the kind of content we all need more of. Thank you for explaining all this so well and bolstering hope. 💙(Side notes, the production value of this one was fantastic, and I'm very excited for the alienation and masking video!)
Yes I do feel like I’m being pulled in a million diff directions while the ticking clock of my life gets louder and louder and louder it’s the worst and I’m glad I’m not the only one goddamn that was a perfect description of trying to be become a functional not-miserable adult as a young person in the modern capitalist hell of a world and never quite living up to the ever expanding expectations and blaming urself for being inadequate at keeping up with everyone else in the rat race of society:,( sorry that got depressing but it’s true for me at least and I’ve gotta beleive for others out there too. This is a wonderful video as always dude , if u ever became a professor I think I’d have to go get another degree just to take ur classes lmao but seriously your videos are always insightful and interesting and relatable and fun to watch even if they’re on topics I’m already familiar with like this u always bring a fresh perspective I appreciate and value! Much love from the US!
"Convicted of occupying an oil drilling ship", "had to do communiity service".
That is a game-breaking exploit and we need to get the glitch hunters figuring out how to replicate it.
The strict work/personal hour boundries and demands of worker rights is why the millennial and Zs are called entitled and lazy by everyone else. Those generations just demand basic workibg rights
I'm 10 seconds in and I already fucking LOVE this video. Dropped a like without even hearing what you have to say because the production is great. I'm a production nerd (I know, considering my username this is SHOCKING), and that opening was well executed. I can see you were having a bit of trouble with the spill on the super reflective material you were wearing, but reflective stuff, much like wispy hair, is hard to green screen.
Fucking good show.
I also had much less time than I normally do so I appreciate that!
i literally just found your channel like 2 days ago and i've been working my way through all your video essays. i've genuinely learned so much about asd from you and ive been able to think deeper about how my adhd affects me from listening to your point of view on mental disorder stuff. and the way you talk is just so enchanting and relaxing on top of it all. thank you for all your hard work!!! cant wait to finish this vid!
edit: also i love your alien costume, its giving juno birch 👌👌
That's so kind, thank you!
@@Ember_Green you’re very welcome! ❤
RE "someone else already did an essay on this": Don't you dare worry about that, when I find a topic I like I WILL find ALL the essays on it and make a 100hr+ playlist to either binge throughout a week or have as my bedtime entertainment for months and I won't be satisfied before I understand everything in detail.
How can you believe that “some people owning things” is bad. But everything owned by the government, is better? When has that ever worked out for people in the past?
Lol u don't know what socialism is and it's very obvious. Love comments like yours. Now tell me to "get a job".
*_"Create the concepts you wish to see in the world."_* might be just the rephrasing necessary for me to use this "quote" again.
Finding out *"Be the change you want to see in the world"* was a misattribution to Mahatma Gandhi (et al.), but was actually a message originally created for selling greeting cards really killed me...
I've always felt like an alien. An older cousin once told me recently that when I was a really young kid, my whole family thought I was from some other family or planet.
Just started this video
I just wanted to say that the intro was ABSOLUTELY adorable lmao
Great video, as always. I'd say something more insightful but capitalism has alienated me from all my spoons at the moment so that's all I got.
The pun with retro sci-fi intro got me instantly subscribed 😂
absolutely on board with community.
I feel incredibly alienated by car based infrastructure
Buy a car
Amazing video. Great work. Thank you for making this.
That opening was great, thanks for easing us into a weighty topic.
I was thinking yesterday that I needed(/wanted) another ponderful video, and here we are with a new ponderful video! woho ! 🎉🥰
I came out as a trans woman recently, and I'm still sifting through my life and aspects of self. What parts are me, what parts are what I was told to be over and over, what parts are the structures I built to repress myself for survival from well before I can remember.
I read Nevada the other day by Imogen Binnie (everyone should read) and it has had me thinking a lot about this recently. Your video is helping me reinforce that and broaden it, thank you
Thanks for the book recommendation, I'm going to check it out. I hope things are going well for you on your journey, btw. 🙂
14:30 "So theses brains, right... what are they up to? What are they even here for?"
🤣🤣🤣
That timing was so perfect! You start with alienation, and then talk about our identities, and then suggest we take an objective look at our brains, and then you say that, in the way you said it! 🤣 That wasn't the only joke that had me laughing so hard I was in tears, but around Halloween, such things are just that little bit extra extra funny to me :) So I figured that if I pause the video to laugh my ass off and dry my tears from laughing I might as well type things.
Great and informative video giving lots of different views as well, by the way. And every time you comment on a philosopher philosophing I feel so vindicated. It's like you're almost reading the comments from my mind, with the sarcasm and all, and even the praise for, I think it was Hume, for getting the brain thing pretty much right. **small applause for ye olde deadge guy who wasn't completely stupid like most other philosophers**
And credit where credit's due, I think it's rather impressive that so many philosophers can overlook the most obvious things and then double and triple down on stupid things like the expectation that people don't change, or that we're all exploitative bad guys, even though _every_ single time in history when shit hits the fan we did the exact opposite and helped and supported each other instead, and things like that. So no applause there, I would instead just shit on their work and I'm glad you do, but it is impressive to me nonetheless. Entire cities have been bombed with those ideas that had been disproven even then. And did we learn? Putin didn't. He thought he could break morale, because the people he wanted to reunite with the soviet people were obviously evil and brainwashed with western ideas that makes us turn our backs on each other when put in a rough spot. Just after a pandemic when we've shown to do the opposite, after a world war when England and even the nazis did the opposite when they were bombed.
It's just a small percentage of people who are actually that way and some of them evidently have a lot of power and they project their fears and weaknesses on populations, gaslighting them into thinking we need forceful versions of law and order to be civilized, religion, authoritarianism, you name it, but the opposite is true. Living under them makes people backstabbers because those systems pushes them to and it's hard to feed your family or even exist if you don't give in, and losing everything pushes people back into their true nature: social empathic animals that are willing to give up everything to help others.
I still think some of the stories we need are ones that run with the anger and hatred and *direct it* the way the narratives of the powerful do. I still love that, as a great media example, Babylon 5 didn't shy away from that. The episode "And the rock cried out, no hiding place" positively REVELS in the liberatory essence of the Narn resistance brutally beating Refa, architect of the death camps on their world, to death. It's portrayed as an absolute, unquestionable, empowering good and we're all invited to empathise with that anger being let out, the pain paid back in full.
We're weaker when we "tut tut" that sort of thing with an air of superiority.
I hope Abi watches your channel. You complement each other nicely.
Those alien goggles 💜 Absolutely need to see that intro again before getting serious with this topic 👽
Your videos consistently provide opportunities for me to laugh and cry and reflect. Thank you.
I’m only part way through the video, but I’m loving it so far, and am wondering if all these points about alienation explain why I, as an introvert with an anxiety disorder, always seek the company of others (including people I don’t normally get along with) when I’m in the midst of a mental health crisis, despite the fact that I’m normally deeply uncomfortable around other people. Different forms of alienation really do seem to be the root of a great many of both personal and societal ills.
Same here!
Good mental health requires supportive friends on a similar wavelength who have your best interests and heart and vice versa, many don't have that in their lives, many today with aspirations are chasing the mighty $$$ whatever excuse they make so often "don't have time" treat what friends there might me like we are the head of an HR department , as we age we loose more opportunity's and energy to deal with people.
Watching this again, for the engagement, and because it's funny, and also because alienation just got a fascist elected as pm of the Netherlands (in all likelihood; if he's able to form a coalition government with the other far right parties)
I think that the idea that being unable to fulfil immoral desires because of the "strictures" of morality causes alienation only applies to so-called sociopaths - people with a non-pro-social sense of morality. Most people have a desire to think of themselves as morally-good people, and not acting on the immoral desires they have (in other words, acting in pro-social ways, or at least not acting in anti-social ways) is a really effective way to do that.
I think that this essay gets into some Critique of Pure Reason stuff. I seem to recall a fragment of a quote that talked about how concepts get to align with reality.
I laughed so hard when you said 'get it?!?!' because it's exactly what I would have done.
And yeah! My next video's going to talk a lot about this, too. Go us! High five!
I feel alienated because after traveling here from my planet Mars and observing humans, I don't get it! These creatures have the potential to make a wonderful world. Instead, they waste their time hating, killing, and amusing themselves with stupid things like sports, social media, and the Voice on their TV!
I'm coming back to watch this again. The video is still good on rewatch.
This reminds me of hear no evil see no evil. When you have one person who doesn't want to admit he is blind and the other one doesn't care if others know if he can't hear. Leading to a hilarious result but also a very real different perspective and how we can have poisoned perspectives or even dogma. Sometimes we only have to open our minds to become accepting.
That DAMN pun at the beginning. Well played 🤣
Great video. Really looking forward to the alienation vs masking one.
fantastic work - thank you!
Anyone else really loved Mica's work and vibe for a while, but actually fell in love watching her little alien dance in the credits?
31:30 Yup, I am here for the alienation and masking video! 💖♾️
I'm here for 'philosph' being a verb.
I laughed at your sarcasms, thank you for putting words on today's political subjects... in opposition with all the 30 years late bad themes we see coming from capitalist culture companies
This is why we must call for Direct Digital Democracy without Parties nor Politicians.
Citizen initiated referendums with thresholds and a social contract means Communities can vote their own laws. As well as a Public Authority to audit police and prosecute bad actors in our own courts.
It means we can Nationalise resources and give Indigenous peoples the right of Sovereignty over them as Guardians.
This can be achieved through a General Strike or Velvet Revolution, much like the Occupy movement, peacefully occupying State Buildings until a People's Mandate can be implemented.
With the appropriate checks and balances, you could have a national digital forum where qualified professionals can debate the issues in a public setting without all the disinformation and bad faith antics, hatespeech etc.
Any vote would need to pass the 70% threshold, with a veto or _rewrite_ vote needing 30%.
The issues would be debated, the public educated, and then a vote taken. Votes that fail will have to wait a year before trying again. Any new proposal (Citizen Initiated Referendum) would have to reach a threshold of support before it made it onto the register. This would all be subject to a Social Contract (New Constitution) that forbids human rights abuses and discrimination, that can be written in the same manner based on the core principles we all share. Councils and Boards could operate in a similar fashion at Scale.
It works in a way that obligates people to better educate themselves ( that is to use logic and evidence in their reasoning ) for a better understanding of the issues, and then take collective responsibility for the outcomes. As opposed to the divisive US v them scapegoating and bi-partisan finger pointing the current Capitalist Pyramid Scheme runs on.
Thorium energy renders the global oil monopoly obsolete
An average person's lifetime's worth of energy with Thorium energy would cost just $100
It is safer, cleaner, and cheaper, allowing for desalination and carbon sequestration. It also can process toxic and nuclear wastes and in return produces the most effective cancer treatment known to man.
In the case of a complete failure the liquid salt cools into a container and then solidifies, it will be low level radioactive for 300 years, as opposed to extremely radioactive for 25k years. Thorium produce grams to the tonne in comparison to Conventional Reactors. It's compact elements don't require a pressure containment like with conventional reactors and so can be transported to remote communities who would be able to process their own waste for energy.
There is enough Thorium already mined for us to power the economy for another 1000yrs.
It can also be used to power Hydrogen converters for carbon free combustion engines.
It's the only technology that could scale to provide effective carbon sequestration. The cost is also a tiny fraction of current models.
It also can't be weaponised.
Thorium energy is our only hope to survive Climate Change
It's crazy it isn't discussed more
Thank you Mica 💜
Very intelligent and very funny. I enjoyed that very much. Thank you. I am also physically handicapped with chronic pain and discomfort from severe spasticity. It is truly wonderful and inspirational to see someone like yourself being creative and full of life despite your challenge of chronic pain. I get compliments sometimes on my ability to carry on despite my challenge. Its amazing what we can overcome as human beings because if we allow it our spirit is irrepressible. Thank you and keep up the good work by creating some sort of metric to keep yourself on track for optimal achievement hahaha….
I get the alienated joke! I do! I get it! - S.
Beautiful Boba! 🥰🐾 I'm digging the color scheme of this video! Though I do appreciate that you took off the glasses for most of it. Cool, but distracting. 👽🌝 Good alienation overview and it's great how you brought everything together at the end about repeatedly telling stories, finding ways to communicate so others understand. And I always love your sense of humor and way of speaking. 💖
I think you did really well pronouncing Gattungswesen :)
Its almost flawless!
Max Striner's book, "The Ego and It's Own/The Unique and their property", released me from the chains that bind when i was young. I am glad I read him before I read Marx. Now I am a well adjusted adult able to fit into many social groups while having a tight knit group of inner friends.
Are there any nuggets of insight to share?
Yes I love that book and that philosophy. My Marxist friends always make fun of it, and I kind of get it, but, like, it just struck at something in my core when I read it.
I really wish I could explain to my dad any of this. He has an awful job at a construction company that pays him awfully, makes him do way too many things including managing computer stuff, going on long hauls sometimes taking hours to get parts from other cities. And having to help fix machines. And yet he's a conservative who complains about this job but never sees that these things are all caused by the capitalist system.
the aesthetic of the thumbinal, the theme and your costume made me believe it was a SophieFromMars video
It's a remake of a 5 part series I made 3 years ago that flopped
😂 love the intro!! Great video, important one. Lots to think about
hmm, excellent first vid of yours to stumble across. 😸 i like your presentation, i am going to show this to some people to help their....cognizance
Dang, I really did think that was an alien. You got me.
Love the Idles reference in the shelf. You're absolutely... ❤
German here
You did really well with the Gattungswesen .
Don't be so hard to urself , that makes you look so German .😂😂
Much love from Germany
absolutely flawless.
actually interesting and entertaining, well done. some big ideas and some pleasantly plain language
Thank you!
Reading Eugene McCarraher's work might interest you-"The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity".
I love to hear you talk,,,, your style,,,, your technique.... And just use a person I guess is very alluring..... Anyway back to business..... This is the first time I've heard of you and this channel and I'm liking it so far.....
I tell you,,,,, you are a really cool person,,,, I wished we were friends,,,, just by watching this one show has turned keys and open doorways in my head,,,, I can tell we have a lot in common even though this is my first show I've seen ....I'm going to watch the rest of them,,,, I just wished well I guess I'll leave it at that cuz that's all it is ,is wishing ,,,,hoping,,, I got betrayed by my own family when it came down to money it is all but almost ruined my life I'm trying to get back in the swing of things and you have answered some things the other people have not been able to be nice if you respond but I know you are a very important person with a lot of followers and I'm the new guy.....
I got to say,,,,,,,you are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen ,,,inside and out,,, your words ,,,your techniques,, the way you talk,,, what you talk ,,,about I can tell you do not judge,,. Very intellectual.,,, non-biased,,,, and I like to hear you make jokes,, and I would love for you to have dinner with me one night and cook the food together,,,, I'm sorry I don't mean to talk so much you have a wonderful day I hope you at least answer or give me a little heart or something
I get it and APPRECIATE the first 10 seconds SO much!! 😆💖
It's always amazing when people talk about stuff they don't understand and draw the darnest conclusions as a result of some wild mental gymnastics
Funny, I find it amazing that anonymous accounts on youtube think they know better than my philosophy professor.
@@Ember_Green Plato said to Diogenes
OOF...
The way you spoke about alienation & agency may have helped me relate a few ideas I've been thinking/reading about for a while;
• a certain level of alienation is inevitable given our fuzzy consciousness, subjective "self" → reminded me of how surrealists theorized visual/literary/linguistic "abstraction" and resisted "pure form" like abstract expressionism.
• The theory contained within _How Emotions Are Made_ was arrived at by probing our ways of perceiving, built on a cognitive science framework → whereas surrealist painters & writers (+ theosophist-artists like Hilma af Klint, Georgiana Houghton, etc.) starting from a Freudian, psychoanalytical framework, sought to probe the human mind, put visual/linguistic form to the unconscious.
• You mentioned near the video's end that "The Left™©® needs to get better at telling stories" & I 1000% agree → surrealists put semi-abstract form to unconscious phenomena/ideas in hopes of arriving at a deeper understanding of themselves, the world, their place within it, and how to conceive of all this →→→ this was in furtherance of the Surrealist movement's radical, explicitly stated goal of potentiating a social revolution, building towards total sociopolitical & intellectual liberation.
• this surrealist process taking place between unconscious/abstract & experiential/representational reminds me of your idea of mediating/limiting alienation, resisting capitalism's colonization of our minds through intentional de/re-construction of our "ways of seeing".
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I have a little more to say, including several extremely relevant passages from Alex Reid Ross's chapter 'Surreal Antifascism, 1921-45' in _¡No Pasarán! Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis_, but I'll add all that tomorrow since I don't have the book on hand.
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Alienation isn't bad in and of itself. The pervasiveness that it exists at, though, is pretty bad. Honestly, even a bit of adversity of alienation is good to overcome.
Though I'm not even really sure how we fight this because it doesn't feel like there's much of a "we"
Thank you for this video
Okay but if we’re no more than our brains in our bodies, tell me why I found this video only right after talking to my husband about this very subject just the other day? Specifically about how so much of one’s identity is rooted in what is acceptable in a capitalist society and how so many of us must compromise our true self (our identity) just to survive under the harsh realities (and rigged system) of capitalism. Is the algorithm listening in to our conversations? Or is it manifestation? Spiritual guidance? The hive mind? I guess I’ll never know for sure lol Either way, this was a fascinating video and I really enjoyed it. You definitely got a new subscriber! 👽💙
23 seconds in and omg this is so good
I love the philosophy turn in this video.
Lover your video Mica, great worl!
@47:12 mind blown. Gratitude for this today.
What you said about public perception of events being greatly influenced by the language used to describe it made me think about how different Dutch media is from UK and US news. When I read something from the NOS (the Dutch broadcasting foundation), it's always so much more nuanced and less sensational than the BBC. And the BBC is much less sensational than most of the American news from what I've seen. I wonder how much that shaped the Netherlands. I guess it's a bit of a chicken and egg kind of thing. That concludes my ADHD rambling, thank you for reading.
I'm excited for that alienation and autism video if/when you make that
00:09 Those are rookie levels of detune! I can still identify the notes 😂
im at the 50 minute mark and i ONLY JUST REALIZED THAT THE ALIEN OUTFIT WAS RELATING TO THE WORD ALIENATED
On the mention of narratives, I know it was tangential, but I have to bring up an idea I have been toying with for trans acceptance.
I am thinking of a story of a cis girl and transgirl who have been bffs like Will and Grace, and we sometimes have throw back references to when they thought the transgirl was a twink who loved drag but something was missing. Most of the time, the story is about gal pals,and the different issues girls have with dating and living life.
Good stuff. Had a couple of breakdowns while watching, but, like, I liked it.
pressure havent included yet
blood presdure pushing out
object presdure pushing in
I just re-read Women who run with the wolves after 30+ years. She talks about feeling being born into the wrong family. This latest reading led me to think my entire family was born into the wrong society.
"Philosophed", love that.
I think about this ever day, I think about this all night long, I stay awake not sleeping because I'm thinking about this
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You are super talented and I love your channel!
Lots of neural pathways to bad azz Lucy Lawless!!!😂❤
This video is amazing, just found you😊.
25k subscribers?!!! i remember when you had 700
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The ads and the timing of their placement on this video are literally proving your point. I had to block several of them for spreading hate phobia
17:02 Those poor kittens 😭😭😭
"I've been alienated." 👽😆💖
Just that intro earned the 👍
SEIZE THE MEANS OF PHONES!
I’ve always identified more with boy things than girl things when I was a young neurodivergent babbi. I felt pushed into the category that the market expected to me to be and I felt super lonely and wrong. Videos like this help me feel a lot less alone in the world. There’s bunches of people that don’t fit boxes like me and I’m tired of viewing the world through boxes.
This is Amazing ! thank you for this video for this art