I love this adaptation and I love this typically brilliant and provocative reflection that, as is often the case with your video essays, told me much about the work itself, and much about you as one thinking and working with and around the work, and then also much about myself that I needed to hear said, for it's too often the case for me, in whatever capacity, that a rush to yell a great insight or perceived truth is really only a rush to tell everyone that I understand this whistle like nobody else, and that I know a thing or two about it that someone else doesn't know, neither thing having damn all to do with the whistle and most likely damn all do with the actual way of things in the world, but probably having everything to do with my own banjaxed sense of self-importance and inability to tell the difference between an incredible history that needs to be told and an incredible history that isn't mine to tell even if i did know enough about it to tell anything of it to anyone, which I almost certainly don't. And in those instances of arse-headed arrogance and ignorance, well if I get away with a bedsheet whipped up and a shamefaced gibber at a breakfast thumb well sure I'm doing alright. But if I could have this wonderful essay of yours playing on a loop in any room I might ever Think Great Thoughts in, well I'd likely be doing even better. In any case, brilliant, as always.
Aw bro, thank you so much - but I won't hear any of this denigrating of Mr McMullan at all. I've spent a fair amount of time listening to him, and he's always got something insightful to say 🔥
@ I’d never really given a thought to the origin of ghost stories until your observation. I just sort of assumed they’ve existed in western culture always, but adapted differently over time. I guess it shouldn’t be a shock the 19th century Britain has such an outsized influence in the cultural sense though.
I love this adaptation and I love this typically brilliant and provocative reflection that, as is often the case with your video essays, told me much about the work itself, and much about you as one thinking and working with and around the work, and then also much about myself that I needed to hear said, for it's too often the case for me, in whatever capacity, that a rush to yell a great insight or perceived truth is really only a rush to tell everyone that I understand this whistle like nobody else, and that I know a thing or two about it that someone else doesn't know, neither thing having damn all to do with the whistle and most likely damn all do with the actual way of things in the world, but probably having everything to do with my own banjaxed sense of self-importance and inability to tell the difference between an incredible history that needs to be told and an incredible history that isn't mine to tell even if i did know enough about it to tell anything of it to anyone, which I almost certainly don't. And in those instances of arse-headed arrogance and ignorance, well if I get away with a bedsheet whipped up and a shamefaced gibber at a breakfast thumb well sure I'm doing alright. But if I could have this wonderful essay of yours playing on a loop in any room I might ever Think Great Thoughts in, well I'd likely be doing even better. In any case, brilliant, as always.
Aw bro, thank you so much - but I won't hear any of this denigrating of Mr McMullan at all. I've spent a fair amount of time listening to him, and he's always got something insightful to say 🔥
Now I guess I better find this one.
It's everywhere! Also, heads up - it's very British 🧐
@ I’d never really given a thought to the origin of ghost stories until your observation. I just sort of assumed they’ve existed in western culture always, but adapted differently over time. I guess it shouldn’t be a shock the 19th century Britain has such an outsized influence in the cultural sense though.