The Metaphysics of Clown World
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- Along with a new Clown Pepe, the Clown World meme has taken on quite a bit of steam in the past few weeks. In this video I explain the meaning of Carnival, or the Circus, inversion festivals and of course the meaning of clowns.
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The music at the opening is Russian Eastern Overture, by Rimsky Korsakov.
Explaining the meme ruins it.
Over explaining the meme causes it to transcend reality.
Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog ;)
@@somethingweirds3375 its only gets me harder
rick johnson
*Hol up*
You have to explain it because it is becoming a weapon for fools
some deep shit bro
“A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke.”
-Soren Kierkegaard
[ ]Play Vidya
[ ]Proscratinate by any other mean
[ ]Get outside and pretend everything's just fine
[x] Watch a deep analysis about the meaning of Clownworld
In little over a decade, memes went from captioned cat pictures to commentary on the nature of our existence.
I'm not sure what's coming next, but at least it won't be boring.
It'll be better than Cable....Maybe that is what *"The revolution will not be televised"* 60's meme was all about....nobody is watching tv/cable anymore.
When memes are banned, the expression will morph into something else, and so on.
Meme technology will be the last significant achievement of western society.
A.I. can't figure out meme humor, therefore memes are bad.
@@fairbanksairriders gay "logic"
As an Orthodox Christian who performs as a clown, for who being a clown has been a goal since I was 3, but recently have been doubting whether I should continue performing, or if a calling exists within my clowning, you sir have just given me the answer to understanding that calling. Thank you. God Bless.
My son is an Orthodox Christian and a clown, I was excited to send him this video 🤡🙏🏻
Keep on honking
Lol I can't believe you did it. Mad lad
@Sargon Face Saaad No, I didn't! Oh that guy, I thought it was imaginary because I keep seeing it everywhere. 😋
@Jay L I can't tell if Poe or not.
I’m learning more from this channel (and others) than I ever did in college. Thank you Mr. Pageau!
The fact that one can learn more on a TH-cam spree than in college confirms my suspision that college is a scam.
@@marcus.the.3rd Or you didn´t listen properly in college
@@Freedyfilms Or college and education in general really is just shit.
@@winniethepoohbear1243 They obviously arent, it really depends on your interests. If you want to become a surgeon, good luck on youtube hahaha
You went to pretty shitty collage
Jonathan Pageau, High Priest of Kekistan
:)
I think he would be more of a monk in the religion of kek. Peterson is high priest. But theology comes out of monasteries
like your profile pic. i have it hanging on a wall :D
Cringe
Um, he's an Orthodox Christian, shouldn't he be the Patriarch of Kekistan?
I'm always appreciative of how Johnathan isn't afraid to look into the 4chan and political fringe corners of the internet. They, like Pageau are certainly digging at something society doesn't immediately understand and it's always a worthwhile investigation.
Thank you, Pageau!
@Thatshow ED that's precisely the point, they're afraid of 4chan because it's a censorless environment.
Truth isn't hard to reach, just remove censorship and it comes out, 4chan is simply the most mainstream uncensored media out there.
@@Alex-lu3pn Unfortunely it can be a extremely cancerous environment too, i visitied a few times and Lord, it was bad
Memers are the modern day jesters that trying to turn this inverted world back right-side up.
Mirth is King
GAMESTONK to the MOOONNNNN
The jester's job is to slay the "sacred cow" (whatever people place on a pedestal) but also ease the blow, of coming to your senses about a falsity in which you believed often incurs, with laughter. Suppressing this literal reality check will cause the most absurd things to squeeze out
No
The sacred memewarrior🤣
Not going to lie, I did chuckle at "feast of the ass" 4:18
Ha! I just commented on that - it took a lot of willpower for me not to make a very juvenile comment(s) 🤣
I suspect everyone with a healthy sense of humour had a flicker of a chuckle.
The metaphysics of eating ass
If this comment did not exist I would have created it 😂
I honked hard!
Love the intro, “ I guess we have to talk about clowns.”
*Cue Russian Eastern Overture in clown honks*
Me too. I genuinely laughed out loud
Had to pause the video for a solid minute before I could continue. Beautiful
Lmao
@@Paul-A01 This one got me
As a former class clown this makes a lot of sense.
Dude as a Brazilian you can imagine how interesting this is to me seeing as i live in the country which made "Carnival" more important and front stage in it's culture than any other, and it certainly has a lot of adverse effects because that's supposed to be a facet of culture, i imagine you should do it with moderation and balance like everything else. I wonder what do you think about Brazil and it's obsession with carnival.
um baguio é doido
SIMPLESMENTE INTANKAVEL O BOSTIL...
Isn't it interesting that y'all celebrate Carnevàl in front of a big ass statue of the Christ.
@@bigfest6498 Do "Yall" go to Mardi Grass? Do "Yall" take your kids to drag queen story hour? Do yall cut you kids peens off? Do yall give them hormone blockers? Do yall abort babies once a year? (Abortion is illegal here), Do yall voted for peedo Biden? Insn't it interesting Yalls have a statue of Baphomet in your capital? OH, do yall inbreed with your sisters? What else?
@@kylewhite2985 buddy I agree with you 100%. My country has seen better days and I fear they'll only get worse. I was just making an observation.
Nobody:
Jonathan: the world is a pie
A1R Flat
And endless
And what do clows do with pies?
This comment
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I was skeptical that you would truly explain this meme. I was proved wrong. Well done.
I was at a hospital where a clown was trying to entertain visitors and patients. What's that about: laughing in the face of death?
thats metal
They're not laughing at the face of death. They're laughing despite they may face death.
@@VitoPlaysGames This. We are going to die anyway, spending your last months or years in a bad mood makes it even worse
When you’re laughing you feel no pain
"The only intelligent tactical response to life's horror is to laugh definitely at it." - Soren Kierkegaard
"When things are already upside down, sometimes the purpose of the clown is to put it back right again..." (paraphrased) Yes.
The game was honked from the start
Hnorrrrk
There will always be heros honking at the top.
I'm not going to lie: I've been waiting for this video...
Me too!!
I was one of the ones asking for it in the comments, never thought he'd actually do it. We don't deserve meme lords like Jonathon
I am not going to lie: ^^THIS^^ is definitely me when i'm waiting for a video on the metaphysics of clown PeP
Nobody:
I'm not going to lie: I've been waiting for this video...
Wonderful as always Jonathan :)
Talking of holy fools I can’t help but think of the traditional character Nasrudin. Here is an example:
Bedar, the Watchman, caught Nasrudin prising open the window of his own bedroom from the outside, in the depths of night.
“What are you doing, Mulla? Locked out?”
“Hush! They say I walk in my sleep. I am trying to surprise myself and find out.”
You're thinking of a trickster.
The George Floyd Inversion Festivals of May 2020 are making this timely once again.
Isn't the plot of The Purge just an inversion festival slightly more extreme than these riots?
@@TheBluntNinja perhaps
The pie shaped Earth theory. You heard it here first!
It’s right in your face!
Never seen a ball shaped pie so I'm behind the pie theory so far!
Oh no. It's happening. I've been...
*PAGEAU PILLED*
Same dude
Based
@Jay L why?
@Jay L Bruh
Ever since I was a toddler, I hated clowns. They freaked me out. I hated going into circuses to see them because there was something about them that was so unaligned with the world that it was too much to bear for my little brain.
SAME. I always cried when I saw clowns.
That's fucking weird. How are you scared of someone wearing a costume? Let me guess clowns. Clowns scare the shit out of you but horror movies are fun to watch?
I reacted to clowns and Father Christmas in the same way AS A TODDLER (according to mum). Thankfully the discovery of toffee-apples (for me) and candy-floss (for my little sis') made the weirdness worthwhile.
Same here
I live a mile away from a clown museum. The whole town is obsessed with clowns.
I think the most essential characteristic of a clown is a painted-on smile.
The behavior and act of a clown is indicative of the performer and audience's interpretation and reaction to a painted-on smile.
Reminds me feminists complaining about men telling them to smile. Yet they keep painting on frowns with this makeup.
Shhhh you'll actually do justice to the meaning of something.
That isn't aloud on this channel.
People just want to be entertained
Brilliant. I love how you cover so much history and ties it all together. I've always had trouble reconciling the church and some of the more folkish traditions, and this helps a lot. Also very good point about the futility of trying to suppress the clown only making it reappear elsewhere.
I love your channel! Intellectual and eclectic, and just plain fascinating!
The most underrated IDW member. Love your work.
The IDW is an overrated meme of people pretending to be the bleeding edge of dissenting intellectual thought
IDW and everyone involved is a piece of shit.
@VH 78 I think he's in it for the money because he's earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year off of his sponsors and his little cult of followers. If he was forever happy with his earnings, then he would be discussing EVERYTHING and ANYTHING that would even so much as potentially put his financial state at risk. There wouldn't be any limits to his conversation, because he's in it to explore the logic and reasoning as to why it's flawed, but this clearly isn't the case when it comes to the things that he refuses to discuss. Whenever he does discuss it, he goes off of an emotional basis such as the idea that people don't like 'x' group because they're "just jealous."
@@Gogglesofkrome When the counter-culture has become the mainstream, defending order and hierarchy is the only truly radical critique left to an intellectual.
Very good presentation, but you totally skipped the "evil clown", the "demonic clown", the "murdering clown" archetype.
John Lee Casey....the clown from Hell.
Did you see the DMT clowns?
Nowadays we murder the clowns for entertainment
Immorality edges-testers.
@@severusfloki5778 Unethical elitists
From your brother's book " ... Sabbaths and Jubilees may be considered ancient forms of vaccines that sealed off powers of pointless change, exile, flooding, and death through contact with manageable versions ..." - The Language Of Creation page 194. We need to know the boundaries of space and time, tease the boundary, become aware, then go back and hopefully flourish.
In some cases, like the USA, when the king is the clown (inversion), then those who care and give a damn about culture and politics, sober up, start paying attention, and not take things for granted. We get complacent then "Bam" , we get our socks knocked off, we question, reevaluate, become grateful for stable space, and we go back to the drawing board. Great video Jonathan.
“I thought my life was a tragedy but now it’s a comedy”
Rolling on a ball: to go forwards, you must walk backwards; to go backwards, you must backpedal.
Now this makes a lot more sense, just like the rowing of a boat...
"realize the cycleness" would be a great bumper sticker
Tracy Twyman samsara
At around 20 minutes, you forgot that in such amusement parks, edges such as death itself are also "tested". Not only everything moves in circle, but rollercoasters also give a near-death experience to whoever tries them.
Pleasure Island heehaw
Yeah, I thought of making a Pinocchio reference, but I was already struggling to keep things contained.
Ahahahahaha
that was The Byrds that had a hit with 'Turn, Turn' it was based on an earlier folk version developed by Pete Seeger.
Josh Martin saved me a comment...not the Sound of Silence !
Glad I’m not the only one that thinks this is important! :)
TheVimFuego haha right. but perhaps we care because we're still caught up in the 'revolutionary' spirit of change and prestige and 'difference,' and Jonathan doesn't notice cause he's moved beyond it ;)
really it's immaterial who did the song, the notions of change and fluidity were everywhere at the time. seems that Turn Turn and Times Are A Changin' are still the most potent representations of that moment
@@juicerinoTrue 'nuff! I have a particular thing for correctly crediting when it comes to music, something about respecting the artistic process or some such hippy cobblers. ;)
Trump Card reference made me flip! ;)
poppabirdy symbolism happens
On so many levels - the symbolism is truly LAYERED from the literal to the figurative...
Fantastic honking, well played sir
When you talked about Sinterklaas and his oranges hidden in shoes, I got goosebumps, because you explained something that was very dear to my childhood as a Belgian :)
Now you make me ponder again over the "Donkey procession" during (ezelstoet in dutch) which the small town next to my village has somewhere during march, the carnival season here. In the Ezelstoet, around fifty carnival wagons are processed (like any other carnival in Belgium), but in the middle there is a procession of (around five) donkeys. Children can ride these for a while if they want to.
As with any other carnival here, the people who organise it vote who becomes prince and princess carnival that year. They are the stars of the procession
The official explanation is that the farmers used to bring their fresh products into the markets and this carnival honours them. But symbolism happens :)
In which video does he talk about Sinterklaas?
@@jabrown It ought to be in the video of the symbolism of the Christmas tree.
@@lGalaxisl Ah, thanks. Will have a look at that.
"time eats away at space" that's interesting, looking forward to reaching that part of Matthieu's book
Time eats away at YOU....Me.....the physical you/me/everyone/everything in the universe....Time is the mind killer. Everyone wants heaven but nobody wants death.
That is why man invented *distractions* bread&Circuses, spectator sports ....Modern man invented the *McGruber Distraction!*
See: The 9-11 buoys.
Thank God for clowns that we can waste our time away being entertained
There's nothing like a hangover to remind you of the advantages of temperance and sobriety.
The joker destabilizes in times of peace, but brings peace in times of conflict.
Not to be helpful, or to cause chaos, but just because, for the clown, it's "fun".
Among our most necessary of archetypes, you ask me.
Another nutritious pill from the Pageau - Thanks, and sounds good man.
The neutrino pill
criminally under-rated & under-viewed channel
Easily my most favorite meme. Somehow it just speaks to me.
The Joker - Alan Watts
You are brilliant Jonathan. Following you for years now, and studying Peterson religiously, I feel that I'm beginning to see the holistic connection between the Fool and the King, the Student and the Master, the Individual and the Collective, the Father (Culture) and the Mother (Nature)..
Not that each of those run in parallel exactly, but this cyclical nature of reality, where it's a unity and a pluarlity, simultaneously, paradoxically, and somehow is always in threat (unstable) and at peace (stable).. it's a very profound perception in the moment where I can in fact begin to percieve it.
Anyway, thank you for your craft an sharing what you've learned. It's always a pleasure.
great editing with the "clown rolling on a ball" to "redeeming features of the holy fool" lining up with the clown pepe video.
got that spot on.
I’ve always said Ferris wheels are a waste of time. ;)
Cyclical entropy. Life fighting back against entropy
Man I was dying for this video to come out!
In tarot the fool is number 0 - origin, new beginnings, innocence, idealism...
In reverse he symbolizes ignorance, stupidity, chaos, madness...
merry-go-rounds and farris wheels both spin counter clock wise.🤔🍻
Ferris wheel depends which side of the wheel you're on
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Wow thumbs up 4 u
Let us never forget that everything in Orthodox is meant for only one thing: for us to reunite with Christ in full. Please don't set anything as more important than Christ whether that be history, the liturgy, etc. We are here to try to grow closer to Christ and Orthodoxy is the greatest tool to do that.
People should convert to Orthodoxy because they want Christ. Any other reason is wrong. Everything in Orthodoxy is amazing and beauty but it shouldn't be our focus. Everything has to tie back to Christ and how to grow closer to him.
No criticism for Jonathan Pageau, I just saw a video about this topic and wanted to spread it here.
As a traditional Catholic, I 100% agree. Even my church which used to be a hierarchy under Christ has been hijacked by marxists in the past 70 years. Get back to Christ, go to confession, receive the Eucharist, and become a vehicle for good which will not only bring yourself to Christ, but deliver others to Him as well.
Why am I still a Traditional Catholic and not a member of the Orthodoxy? I really like Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle and some of the hierarchies of the Catholic Church which can hopefully turn around in my lifetime. But I 100% understand people and encourage people to explore Orthodoxy as a way to get to Christ.
German Carranza finalcall07 channel
Rituals. Rituals everywhere! Drink the blood. Talk to your schizophrenic father. Are you kidding?
@@TacticsTechniquesandProcedures Lol stop. Your understanding of God and His Church is on the level of a child.
@El Desdichado Protestants basically only care about emotion especially evangelicals. One of the major reasons I left Protestants and became Orthodox. Demanding people jump of joy and cry of amazement every single service/event is unrealistic.
Also Protestants believe in many half-truths and are profoundly ignorant of most things especially history and Church history.
Its fitting that they turn pepe, "Kek", into a clown considering Kek is the god of chaos.
Remember that the whole Kek narrative sounds cool, but really isnt based on anything real. 99% of people using Pepe just use him as a meme, theres barely any connection to anything political or religious. Its just a great meme for people who are deep into internet culture
Corrupted Corupted du hier 😁
I love how jonathon did a mashup of meme culture and symbolism
memes is our sybowism uwu
He actually did an amazing job.
Remember. Life is not a tragedy. It's a comedy.
Feast of the Ass ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
We need clowns at all future antifa street conflicts. Make it happen, boys!
The Proud Clowns are the only ones who can stand up to them!
@@ShoRyuBarbie Agreed!
Theyre all clowns
Could you make a video on the symbolic significance of cards... And possibly use some clips of Yu-Gi-Oh?
25:40 Really interesting. A not quite holy but definitely elevated public figure comes to mind as perhaps a somewhat modern example. He was an actual jester who acted as something more, but later the figure and memory of him was symbolically represented and used by artists to make or carry subversive or reformist political messages. See Stanczyk as a symbol: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sta%C5%84czyk
This brings a whole new understanding of The Joker. Especially in The Dark Knight
Discussing clowns without mentioning jesters is disingenuous. Catholicism is not the beginning of the world.
Absurdist nihilism
I' m getting ready to watch this video and I really hope there will be some mention of Federico Fellini. Fellini was obsessed with clowns and they're present in a bunch of his movies. He even made a movie titled The Clowns.
2:30 Me hearing where “Carnival” came from makes instantly think of a Clown World Creepy Pasta 🍝 story 💡 idea of a paranormal carnival 🎡 that sets humans up for other crazy crap!.... 😂😂🤣
The justification for inversion festivals (let out a little bit of chaos in order to prevent overwhelming chaos in society) sounds like the foundation of the justification for The Purge. If anyone is not familiar with the movie and TV series, purge night (a night where all crime is legal, including murder) is justified with the notion that if people purge their anger on one predetermined night then they will be better people for the rest of the year.
Side note: I would love to hear Jonathan analyze The Purge series.
Thanks for this! I learned so much! I would say, who knew that clowns could teach you so much, but that seems to be part of their purpose-- to teach you the things you refuse to know if you're too caught up in yourself, the structure, the hierarchy of order. It's almost like they are a pressure valve of society. Probably also indicative of our society that there is so much animosity and moral pearl-clutching toward jokes, comedians, etc. It comes out one way or the other, and if the social order is warped and in need of fixing, the clowns are what are needed to set things right again. Long live the clowns!
Thanks for this Jonathan, glad to see you accepting the responsibility lol. Great stuff
Yeah. Haha.
‘Responsibility’ now there’s a joke
Jonathan thank God we have you to give us understanding.
29:24 This is when he explains about Clown Pepe and the meaning of the Clown World.
I've got the feeling that he's always about to laugh while telling his story.
I always thought it was simply the inversion of the hierarchy by intersectionality SJWs putting the clowns in charge. Pepe as a clown is the aware Kekistani mocking the SJW by embodying the implication of viewing the world as oppression Olympics.
I've always thought that clowns represent the element of random chance and Murphy's Law. Like, you can't take anything too seriously because the trickster of random chance will always dance a caper on the best-laid plans. This is way more fascinating than I anticipated.
Thank you for this lecture Jonathan! I especially appreciated the pie symbolism. I remember a video between J Peterson and J Rogan about the figure of the commedian as a trickster, a messager between this world and the world of the gods, and the fact that the hero is always preceded by the trickster!
"Help Security to the Western world" The Clown blurted "They are turning her into a Papa John's!"
you cant consent to being pizza
Her new cheesy limbs provided a convenient and portable source of nutrition.
Loved the conclusion!! The rainbow flips but the light never goes out. This kind of talk was what was missing in the Peterson / Zizek debate
thank you so much dude, this saved me from a mini-existential crisis just now 💞
Intro showing comfort with the medium of video. FeelsGoodMan
Do u even honk bro??
As a person was raised to see the celebration of Halloween as evil I find your observation that it's a parody of lesser monsters that keep the real greater monsters at bay having a ring of truth.
But does this mean that goodness needs to play around with small evils in order to avoid stark religious contrasts and thereby prevent evil to become more stark as well?
Seems so.
A clown can say anything without responsibility. It's an act and whole the flat World is a stage.
Thank you for enlightening us .
Great teaching I enjoyed video .
This is actually quite fascinating. I think this sheds more light on the curious appearance of the archetypal jester during so many people's DMT trips.... There's something incredibly interesting about that
The visuals have really come into their own! They look great
Great stuff. Just ordered your brother's book. Looking forward to it.
Jonathan,
I just want to say thank you.
Your work is so valuable.
Thank you, Jonathan. This brings so much clarity to the way this archetype shows up in our culture, including some of my favorites- the song “Jokerman” by Bob Dylan and the character of The Comedian in “The Watchmen” graphic novel/movie. I would very much like to understand how this relates to the many reports that the visions experienced under DMT tend to have a carnival or clown-like expression.
Great job! The video is just on point. God bless!
What about the "Willy Wonka" character? Could it be considered a clown? And the inside of the factory, the carnaval?
I do believe Willy Wonka is a clown/trickster archetype character. All he does is point out the flaws in each of the children's character. The kid who is humble and does not take himself to seriously, is the one who is able to pass his "test".
But I'm not sure if the factory would be the carnaval.
The factory seems to be more of a trial, and an illusion to the spiritual/astral world… the first thing they do is to cross a river on a boat, just as in Greco/roman mythology way to Tartaros or as in many biblical stories, when the characters have to cross a river in order to start their journey.
Also, the tunnel scene is clearly about that "cycleness" that Jonatahn tells about
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@farenheit041 to better test you I guessed
“You get nothing! You lose! Good day, sir!”
Already liked it. Only watched the intro yet. I really like your videos on recent event lately.
Once he mentioned the clown turning things upside down and he mentioned a certain flag...
I understood.
Great video. The Wheel of Fortunes will turn again, and hopefully we can all survive it.
"The world has gone mad today
And good's bad today,
And black's white today,
And day's night today,
And that gent today
You gave a cent today
Once had several chateaux.
When folks who still can ride in jitneys
Find out Vanderbilts and Whitneys
Lack baby clo'es,
Anything goes..."
- Cole Porter - Anything Goes
Some weird synchronicity: Jordan Peterson, who can be interpreted as one of the "jester" in the "postmodern court" of our times, exposing its absurdities and flaws, had to adopt a carnivore diet the moment he assumed that role. It's like all this Intellectual Dark Web stuff is the "carnaval" (the feast of meat, a Jonathan said) before the great "postmodern Lent". I wonder how that "Lent" will look like, but I'm afraid it won't be light, but darkness.
@Daniel MK Peterson is neither a Jester nor a Hero, he's more of the wise old man, trying to bring balance to things, as the either the world crumbles and the jester laughs or it's saved and the hero stands atop the corpse of the dragon.
And, at least I, my friends, am just a jester, a mere joke teller, for people only laugh or frown upon the things I say. For the last thing it wants to be, is wrong, as do I.
"Who can it be knocking at my door? -Go away, don't come 'round here no more."
time is unchanging, it's only our perception of time that changes. e.g., commenting to a friend or co-worker "this week flew by." when actually the week was still 7 days long and each day was still 24 hours and each hour was 60 minutes, etc.. it's only how we perceive and experience time that changes.
The rainbow is the symbol for the first major promise: that never again would there be an event to wipe out humanity, after the great flood.
The rainbow crown symbolizes that total destruction will *not* happen, no matter how much it may look like it will.
until Christs return and judgement day which is not far off. Clown world is the end of harvest festival as the age approaches its end and the wheat is separated from the chaff.
There is also a Carnival King. At first people bow down to him, praise him to the skies, sing him songs, confess their love for him, ask for a baby from him, praise him as a great new leader out to change the world and make everyone happy. Only to dump him from his throne into pig crap, kick him, and make fun of him. Only to elect the next Carnival King.
Here in the U.S. there is an endless procession of Carnival Kings. Michael Jackson, Brittany Spears, Donald Rumsfeld, Barack Obama are just a few examples. Rock stars, pop stars, movie stars, politicians, etc. etc. -- just about anyone famous is to be later torn down and pounded on without mercy. Whether they were good or bad in their role, talented or talentless, matters little.
Once one sees this mechanism, it soon gets very boring. I am bored of all the "kings for a day."
Zizek embodied the clown in the Peterson debate thus the discussion had the air of the carnival.
Ex-honking-zactly!
I even made a meme out of it
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@Straight White Male Of course they do. If Jesus had given the money changers a sermon about how righteous their economic activity was instead of chasing them from the temple, do you think he would have been killed? They would have given him a six-figure Patreon salary and charged admission to watch him debate other pharisees.
@@nathanhostetler6950
>freshman-level critique
Yeah, totally reasonable and unbiased sum-up. Good work, Nathan.
>that isn't even a tract on the actual philosophy behind Marxism
>C o m m u n i s t M a n i f e s t o
Do you looked up what "manifesto" does mean on dictionary? It's fun, go try it. You may also try to read the book first-hand and back up your "freshman-level critique" argument, dismantling Peterson's claims. But I do not insist: I've never seen one utopia fanboy doing anything that reasonable, so I do not expect from you.
>argued that we must be at the happiest moment in human history
He never argued that we are at our _happiest_ moment.
>because we produce the most flatscreen TVs ever
...and he never argued _that._
He argued that our technological advancements put us in the best place of history in terms of conditions. This does not by any stretch mean that "flatscreen TVs" constitute "happiest moment".
Face it, it is just too hard for you to clean your room so you find joining army of Peterson's "hatebois" a better of option, eh?
@@a124kun But JP is wrong in one sense our technology is just making us weaker. Like pfa/c8 chems going in the water, human attention spans shorter etc etc I could go on an on.
@@dis4980 I agree with you, but don't think that Peterson is making the opposite claim.
I love your incredible insight and your ability to translate that insight to me. The only critique I have of this excellent video is a songwriter correction. Pete Seeger wrote Turn Turn Turn not Simon and Garfunkel ♥️
This is absolutely fucking brilliant.
Rene guenon has an intresting essay about carnivals in one of his books.