liking everything is a sign of stupidity: a rant
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ม.ค. 2025
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Hey y'all, I really appreciate all the discussions y'all have been leaving. I would love to go in-depth into this and there's a LOT I didn't say. This video is kind of just a shallow brain dump, turned on the camera and started talking kind of thing. A lot of it was jumbled through a spurt of emotions. I just had to talk about something frustrating in my personal life, so there are many gaps in the content of this video and its presentation. I appreciate y'all taking it for what it is though, and I'm so glad it resonated with some.
I recently read that Netflix executives are requiring writers to: "Remove nuance and visual cues, Have characters announce what they're doing, and Announce when characters enter a room" etc…. Something about "casual viewers" who aren’t glued in to their show and them wanting the audience to know what’s going on at all times! lol like, they want to baby step us thru the story?! We no longer have to "think" critically about characters or any other story?! 😅😅
Yeah but who takes Netflix originals seriously anyway?
@@notjimmy6486 Exactly. Not Netflix shows makes us dumber, the people getting dumber that they require to be told everything what's happening.
The movie Idiocracy has never been so relevant more then today.
I went into this video thinking it was going to be pretentious af but you’re 100% correct. There is good art out there, but people are only watching what is trending and convenient.
Dude. It’s been a while since I’ve listened to someone be passionate about something and be brave enough to actually say what they think about it. Well I guess I’ve seen that recently, but it’s only been people that aren’t smart and or are just doing it to spread negativity for the sake of it. So good job.
oh this is interesting - I love your passion and enjoyed listening to you talk! and I agree with the sentiment, it’s important to develop our own unique perspective & taste & stand by the art that resonates with us. but I had an instinctual discomfort / resistance to the phrase “I hate stupid people,” - tho like, I do get what you mean. I think I’ve grown to see “stupidity” as a positive, freeing thing - like, silliness. fun and childish whimsy. I guess I interpret what you dislike as boring, passive, or conformist people? (at least, this is what I dislike 😂)
istg love you for pointing this out, i think people (me literally included) are so brainwashed by their little glowing rectangles that tell them what to like and what to do, what to consume that they just kinda stop thinking critically about the stuff they consume and that's when they lose their identity and criticism because they don't even rethink what they believe they just do and istg people cannot even understand other perspectives anymore cuz they're so hyperfixated in their bubbles it honestly just sad at this point
Rather than liking everything, I think everyone just things are meh and don’t look at actual good art. They don’t have time, attention, or will for it when large companies are shoving advertising for their “meh” product that people recognize. I don’t think it’s stupidity, I think it’s laziness born from exhaustion. It’s so much energy to find good things out of mainstream, people are already exhausted from not making a livable wage and doom scrolling. Both of which are arguably products of a broken class system.
I think you are closer to the truth than the girl posting. I don't think she's figured out what her thesis is. I think more about music than movies, so let's take a look at that. I call it "wall-paper music". Nobody hates it (maybe me...); nobody loves it. It's just there, like a screen-saver, because if something isn't running in the background, the system malfunctions. (Reminds me, not to get too tangential, of a theory Chesterton had that the function of dreams was to give the human brain something always to witness.) Anyway, just there. Nobody cares or has strong feelings (except me) about this dross. Movies are different inasmuch as you don't have them thrust at you whether you like them or not. If you don't like Eminem, don't work in a kitchen. "Music" (contemporary top 40) is something we are forced to suffer. Movies can't make us suffer unless we are willing to blow the rent check on two tickets, a large popcorn and two severely watered-down Pepsis, which millions of Americans seem willing to do. Movies really are different. They serve a different function. People don't seek out music. Not generally, or if they do, their tastes have become so differentiated that those people look outside the mainstream where nothing has, or is affected by, influence. But music, when it was relevant to popular culture, served a different function from movies anyway. Movies are, fundamentally, stories and they serve a function similar to that of novels, which they have effectively supplanted. Ayn Rand said that the purpose of a story is to make abstract principles concrete through a narrative - a struggle between opposing forces, usually. Of course, that's a generalization. Sometimes a movie can just be entertaining, or funny and so on. But what we have with movies now is something that looks, to me, less like entertainment and more like Soviet-style propaganda. I never got the appeal of going to movies, but people go and are influenced by them. People get their political leanings from movies without even knowing it. Circling back, like Jen Psaki, I agree with you that people don't go to these movies because they "like" them. I think people go because they want to put their over-taxed brains on park and just watch some cars ram each other or watch the Incredible Hulk snap two sky-scrapers in twain and laugh at the detached one-liner that the good-looking leading man says as the dust-cloud forms or whatever rot is on the screen. And also, movies are for joiners. If you go to the latest Marvel slop, or Star Wars, you can talk about this or that scene with a co-worker or a buddy. You get to have something in common with someone else. I suppose that is what movies do and why people pay ungodly sums to see them.
What this suggests, to me, is that there is a "class system" (I mightn't have put it that way, but you mentioned it) that is a natural, unchangeable fact of human existence. The Greeks used the words "Hoi Polloi" and, I believe, "Hoi Aristoi" to distinguish between the drooling masses and the best of us. America was founded as a rejection of that idea and, since America has had such a powerful impact on modern society at large, it is safe to say that 20th Century sensibilities recoil at the distinction itself. And yet, here we are, in 2025, 250 years after Lexington and Concord, after John Locke and Adam Smith and Thomas Jefferson and James Madison threw off the shackles of feudalism, after the Industrial Revolution and all this and that, and people are lining up for bread and circuses and would probably be fine with feudalism.
A "livable wage" wouldn't fix the problem of masses of people having no taste. Doing a very rough crunch, Americans spend an average of $275/month on just tickets. That's not concessions, which can double that cost. If you've got $275 to spare in a month, lack of money ain't your problem.
Anyway, those are my thoughts, let me know what you think in the comments section below, follow me on Facebook, like me on X, don't forget to subscribe to my channel and smash that Like Button!
Bro who tf is this random girl with less than 2k subscribers that just popped into my feed spitting STRAIGHT FACTS LMAO LOVE HER
thank you for putting this out on the internet. I hope this video has good reach and people get their brain cells back.
People just dont care about what you care about, it doesnt make them stupid. Kinda like how cafes that focus on artisinal coffee goes out of buisness because they forgot to cater to their audience.
She is not calling people stupid who care about things that are different from what she cares about, she is calling people stupid who care so little about the world around them that they just accept everything that’s put infront of them without any criticism.
i think in this case stupidity is equivilant to ignorance and staying inside one's box
Wow, I love the honesty. Remember, guys: stupid is a choice.
This is really validating. Like I fully acknowledge that I probably sound pretentious as hell when I go on rants about how much something could have been done better. I love movies, tv and especially video games and love to analyze what makes good media good. But lots and lots of stuff right now is just not good, for so many different reasons. Sure, some things are personal taste, but some of it is stuff that people could see if they just cared and weren't so complacent with mediocre slop. And it especially grinds my gears when people try to tell criticizers to stop?? But things could be so much more interesting if we all held directors and writers and these giant companies to higher standards. I don't get it.
smart and based. truly a yass queen moment.
YOURE RIGHT!!! IT'S OUR FAULT!!!!! THE POWER COMES FROM THE PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!! also yeah why did everyone get so stupid and start merging personalities after covid????? maybe "reinvention" (avoidance) gone bad? if anyone has ideas pls reply, i'd love to discuss. i'm guilty of having gone away from myself over the past 3-ish years but i'm getting back to pre-covid, pre-social media ME and sticking to my values/what i genuinely love and it feels good, but also creeps me out that i'm seeing the disease in just about everyone around me.
all i can say is i completely agree with you and im subscribing.
Ik this video isn't about AI, but I think it feeds well into the idea of AI too. All these companies are rushing out AI and shoving it down our throats, and they're getting away with it because we're eating it up even though it's terrible. Not even talking about the ethical side of it, it's just super flawed because it's not finished yet. It makes tons of mistakes and puts out bad content, but we eat it up anyway because it's the shiny new thing. This along with the points you made about art give companies the idea they can just throw out anything. We need to expect more from them.
Liking all kinds of arts is good and important if you ask me. The consumption "simply" doesn't have to be mindless. Also you can still blame cooperations and capitalism as they have had (still do) an extreme impact on our habits and psychology
It's about time to be edgy and dislike everything again like proper hipsters used to.
@@heppolo right like, if this is what it’s like , then bring back pretentious gatekeeping. it was annoying and exclusionary but it preserved a lot
@@eilonwy2I would never wanna be one of those types cause that sounds awful but I always hope when I like something good that's obscure that some of those hipsters will be on the front lines preventing it from getting smeared. Sure they'll look insufferable but their sacrifice will not be in vein
i misunderstood that you were talking about sm else and disagreed, but yeah this is kinda truw
I don't like the live action remakes because it's lazy it's just a cash grab disney is getting repetitive with it and live actions are hard to make so that's probably why they're crappy . i havent actually seen the live actions cuz i dont support them .I don't like them recoloring a character not because the character is originally white but because it feels lazy and halfassed representation instead of an old story remade with one character race changed for brownie points .we could be getting another masterpiece of diversity like into the spiderverse . also you're not hating you're giving criticism . criticism isn't necessarily negative
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Okay. Bro. It sounds like you have stumbled on a topic that interests you. A philosophical topic. Likely, some people have already thought about these things. Maybe try reading a bit.
@@HegelUnderstander i have a philosophy degree!
@@eilonwy2 Surely well deserved. I guess I just don't like rants, sorry for the snark on that end.
I'm frustrated that you make many dynamic statements that are begging to be fleshed out and then just let them circle the drain.
"Art is not subjective." Okay, I would love to hear about it, but there follows no qualification. Instead you start to make a case for why there are some descriptive qualities about art that are arguably objective in some sense. This makes me feel like you didn't even want to argue that art isn't subjective to begin with, and that you just said it because it fits your 'aesthetic'.
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