I cannot believe that the beginning of curing my debilitating perfectionism was not brought about by my 10 years of therapy, but by the first 5 minutes of a video essay about a show that annoys me to no end.
I read the title as “the dyslexics of-“ and I was like “ah yes some representation”, watched the vid, then read the title again, just to realize the only dyslexic one here was me
A fun detail I’ve always enjoyed- the clip around 43:41, where Rick smugly asks if Jerry has anything to contribute to the family- it’s Jerry’s honey they’re all eating, the bottle is labelled as “Jerry’s own”, he’s already contributing to the family but it’s a simple pleasure rather than the most amazing thing in the universe so he’s looked down for it but in that moment he’s the reason they’re all happy at breakfast. It’s such a great moment and surprisingly subtle for the pickle rick show
I never noticed this before but you're absolutely right. Rick is so jaded and broken, he can't appreciate anything simple, nor acknowledge the value of it and those who made it happen.
@@LDVenus-kz2lc It just occurred to me why they might have picked beekeeping... imagine Rick trying to be a beekeeper for a moment. Actually, now that I'm picturing Rick dealing with a swarm of bees, maybe that was in the episode too.
CJ the X is the only TH-camr who could successfully make me care about Rick & Morty, while simultaneously curing my crippling slavery to ego which had manifested in the form of fear of the blank page. 15/10, will continue to rewatch into oblivion.
This is why I like the show. I've never tried to defend the fanbase because a majority of the loud ones I have always felt like they missed the point. I never thought the show was smart because of its "efforts to science" I thought it was smart because of how it took the meta concept and turned it on its head. Rick was never meant to be idolized, he's a cautionary tale.
I think this is wrong too. Dan even says in the video you're meant to want to be like Rick, he says that sometimes you do feel like you're the smartest person in the room. Rick and morty isn't about how Rick is entirely not admirable. It's about how inspite of all those good qualities he cannot appreciate life and how his irony is really weekness. It's easy to see how someone could idolize Rick, especially younger people like me. An interesting thing is that Rick's familiy is much like the fanbase. Idolizing him inspite of his obvious flaws.
@@poisonedbananabread1460 You're meant to like most protagonists on some level. It's like how you want to see Walter White's plans succeed even though he becomes a monster.
It's escapism, we all wanna act like that type of character for just a little cause it sounds fun (the idea of it not the actual consequences that come with it of course) and there is nothing wrong with writing a character like that in a sitcom which Rick and Morty is first and foremost, putting blame on the writers for what the fans themselves decide to do with him is weird cause you can make that argument for any type of cynical sitcom character like Rick
The part about how "i realized i was treating you shittily, so I'm going to treat you not shittily now. If you hurt someone's feelings that's gotta you get accountable, you don't remove yourself from the situation you fix yourself. Everyone's capable of mistreating the people they love in their life, everyone is capable of accountability and doing the other thing as well." That went so hard
But WAIT- Don’t you Know? The universe Does have infinite wisdom -But not to defeat you. Exactly the opposite it’s there for you to draw upon ,guided by your intuition, to create the best version of yourself, which creates in turn, in turn, the best version of your life, which involves surrounding yourself with all the best of what the world has to create the best reality - where you were meant to live. because once you’re centered and aligned with your true purpose and know your own truth the universe conspires with you to create a world that feeds your vision of your ideal lifestyle and existence. Everyone who has mastered their destiny is operating on this principle. Joe Rohan, Trump, Dolly Parton, Elon Musk, Walt Disney, Hunter, S Thompson, Hemingway, Thomas Jefferson…. Who actually came up with these very principles as a religion witch is the spiritual practice of being a UNIVERSAL UNITARIAN . It’s why I’m independently, wealthy, a world traveler, why I am able to spend time with the powerful and famous as well as the poor and lost. we all seek the same things, comfort, security, happiness. We all fear the same things Pain, loss, weakness, death. We all have traumas and triumphs , and regrets and fantasies. We are all deeply connected beyond all that divides us . we may have different cultures colors, beliefs, ages, geographic locations, but we all see the moon at night and have mornings and mothers and hearts and minds and when we know ourselves deeply enough, we know our fellow man . Because we all smile in the same language, and are guided by the rhythm of our hearts, which are powered by the universe,It is our power to use. Shift your focus, and suddenly you’ll see beyond all that limits you now. It’s mostly ourselves. Just as it’s ourselves who will be who saves us - We are the hero of our story. And the writer and director. So make it what it’s meant to be …
@@samueljohnson6934 man is tryna parasocially explode onto a digital face, and the paranoid delusions are what ticked it for you, dog you clearly are in the wrong neck of the woods. You just wasted a perfectly good gaslight. @Teodora Petkovic, I saw an article on Twitter about new algorithmic obstructions, depending on your recent voting patterns. You should look into this.
i take meds and havent had a manic episode in a long time, these videos allow me to safely experience the intoxicating, motivational bliss of delusions of grandeur. thank you.
I don't think I could have said it any better. That's the essence of what I find so particularly satisfying about these videos. Allows just a taste of that peak manic state... that immediately proceeds the drop off, then a very hard bottoming out.
46:38 the "You don't got a hug and a kiss in you bitch?" bit has unironically changed my life and improved my relationship with my mother. It started off small, as a relatable laugh, but this has genuinely evolved into something I subconciously hear in my head whenever I'm taking myself too seriously. If I ever get into a petty quabble with her, I just hear CJ, and I immediately laugh, calm down, and manage to ease the age-old tension between her and I with a hug and a simple apology for getting angry. I've watched this video over and over in times of turbulance and spirals, and it always picks me back up. Not to be gross and parasocial about it, but just wanted to make note of a simple line that has *genuinely* changed my life and outlook. Thanks CJ, love your music too! This video changed the way I create and I recommend it to everyone I know and love. It got me through college, thank you times a million, and hope the blessings carry forward.
I have ADHD and I've never finished the script of a video essay in my life because of perfectionism. The opening five minutes of this video caused me to have a panic attack. Watching the rest now. Subscribed.
I'm in the same boat. I want to create and make video essays but I hold myself to too high of a standard. wish you luck on your endeavors! (I also have ADHD so this seems to be a common problem)
It's kind of stupid looking back but the therapists casual gutting of Rick in S3E3 like......actually changed my brain chemistry in a huge way. Like the concept of using intelligence to justify sickness, and the realization that I was doing it constantly, paired with the simple idea of sincerely "going to work" on problems did so much good for me in the long run.
15:27 "Saying "Jesus Fucking Christ" isn't taking the Lord's name in vain; Arrogantly oppressing the downtrodden and forcing your personal values upon them in the name of God is taking the lord's name in vain." Loved this quote. Love the video.
To preface, I’m someone who is going through a religious detox, but I wouldn’t say I’m moving away from it, as much as reevaluating everything I learned. Feel free to ignore this if you have any religious trauma (trust me I understand). Any way my two cents: as far as my biblical knowledge goes, I think that’s the actual definition. There’s a lot about Christianity that I don’t fully understand, but rn don’t see Jesus as an oppressor. He didn’t fight for people to believe in him; faith (if taught properly) is about choice. People have a tendency of making the thing(s) they worship about themselves or their own glory which is kind of an oxymoron.
There are quite a few "chistians" that claim to love god and follow his teachings, but do their best not to follow what he taught by putting conditions on love and finding excuses to kill. What could be more taking the lords name in vain than being a fake christian?
“Your ego is a terrorist” is honestly the best line i’ve ever heard someone put it. Because when you really think about it all your ego does is stand in the way of your goals and tries to break apart your motivation for life. So in all reality yeah. Ego is like a terrorist that lives inside of your brain and tries it’s best to convince you that self destructing is better than adventuring and risking biting the dirt.
Your rant on Perfectionism is what pushed me to actually come out as a trans dude. I watched it while high so how it helped does not make full sense to me sober but thanks.
I has a similar realization. I convinced myself I couldn’t present fem or change my pronouns or whatever until I hit some arbitrary milestone that made me a “real woman” When I finally accepted that it didn’t matter and I could just start dressing and acting however I want, and I don’t have to get to some finish line, I feel like I finally find myself.
As someone who just needed to be given permission by some rando on the internet to try out new pronouns, I get it. The final egg crack is elusive but powerful.
yeah, I finished the video right before going to sleep and just closed my laptop when the credits started and today I opened it again, ready to click away and do something else but the the skit captivated me and I ended up watching the whole thing and then scrolled down into the comments to see if anyone else acknowledges it (which is why I'm here)
Im a junior in high school and I watched this video the summer before my softmore year. I used to have a lot of trouble getting started on writing. I would read the prompt over and over again and get stuck trying to find the perfect way to start my essay/paragraph. Watching this video really changed the way I look at creating art. Theres a quote from this video that basically says “youre not afraid to make bad art because you dont want bad art to exist; youre afraid to make bad art because you dont want to be a bad artist. Youre pride is getting in the way of your creativity.” I met a person my softmore year who isn’t a very good writer. Hes the type of guy who tries too hard to sound fancy and ends up saying things that dont make sense. when I worked with him I would have to revise everything he wrote to make it readable. But he inspired me because when it was time to write something he wouldn’t hesitate he would just start writing and that was something I couldnt do. Even though a lot of what he wrote was bad it was better than me writing nothing, and a lot of that writing ended up being really good after I went and heavily revised it. And so from that I learned to just start writing even if I have to start my esssay with “since the dawn of time…” and then go back and changing it later. You dont get better by thinking about doing it you get better by doing it and messing up and learning from it and trying again.
I love the ongoing trope in these videos of saying something, and then completely contradicting it an hour later, intentionally, to make the point more impactful. I rarely see that in persuasive art. Also, the Rick and morty skit at the end was spot on voice wise, I kept forgetting it wasn’t Justin roiland
@@geenskeen fellow person watching from the future, the instance i noticed of this was him glossing over the ricklantis mixup by saying it was an episode where nothing happens and its not even worth watching (35:37), only to later in the video go in depth about how its one of the best episodes for its exploration of themes and is incredibly popular amongst the fans (1:13:27) if its not this, beats me.
One of the greatest examples of a show being ruined by being forced to reveal canon truths is Twin Peaks. David Lynch and Mark Frost never planned to reveal who killed Laura Palmer. They considered that question to be the entire driving force of the show and a well for infinite mysteries and stories. BUT the executives at ABC insisted that they solve the murder, and the show ratings and quality immediately tanked after. There is still allot of charm and mystery to be had in the back half of season 2, but the bedrock was gone as they were trying to develop a new mystery on which the build the show.
I'm not sure I follow the logic. Although the latter half of season two was lacking, it didn't seem to be because the mystery of Laura Palmer was solved; the issues seem more to do with other writers and directors coming in and just not being Lynch and getting the tone and direction wrong. I mean the scenes with Windom Earle are still great, and the ending is incredible, with everything driven with that mix of mystery and purpose. Yet who happens to have taken over again by the end? David Lynch.
And then there's The Return, which completely upends everything, frequently doesn't seem to have anything to do with the first two seasons at all, and is completely, utterly brilliant.
Glad you got this back on. Sorry about the strike and hope less stuff like this has to happen to you in the future. You work hard and go 100 in everything. Never stop being you.
You're the first video essayist on TH-cam I've seen ACTUALLY ACKNOWLEDGE that Rick is in love with Birdperson. I was getting pissed off at all the TH-camrs completely glossing over it entirely or trying to paint it as purely "bro-y."
@@omnidiscord of course, but it feels like the only time anyone ever brings that up is when people are discussing canonically queer scenarios, and it can get frustrating. Especially when there are tons of examples of platonic friendships in media already.
i haven't engaged with the show or the fanbase (sigh) since s5 ended but oh boi the discourse around episode 5x08... there was no heterosexual explanation im glad cj brought it up
The fact that Jerry is an outsider I think speaks to how Rick doesn’t see the rest of the family as people but extensions of himself due to there biological relation so he tries to make them more like him while trying to get rid of Jerry which is the epitome of everything he hates and he demeans him so that he can feel more separated from his attributes
My playwriting professor told me once: "there is no such thing as right and wrong, there's only wrong and less wrong", which in itself helped me break free from my own perfectionism. It's not about nailing it each project, it's about making shit and working towards making less shit.
I kind of wish you would separate that rant about letting go of your ego and being satisfied with creating shit as long as it means you're creating and upload it as its' own video, because after watching this entire video (again), I restarted it _just_ to listen to that rant several more times because, no matter how many times I tell myself something similar, your way with words resonates with me far more than my own. Also "Don't negotiate with terrorists! Your ego is a terrorist!" is going to become my new life mantra.
I think its cool to use people to represent internalized self talk, and who better hype man against Perfection then a Bisexual Biploar Biracial Monarch of our Hearts and Souls. If you dont wanna right that threes company au Fanfiction... think of CJ the X throwing a plant at you and killing people until you do
Hey your speech about procrastination, ego, terrorism, and art moved me deeply and I actually have published a short story since seeing this video. Love you and your brain It's on McSweenie's Internet Tendency, it's my first time trying comedic writing :3
This might just be the most eloquent individual on TH-cam. No joke. I think you're what Ben Shapiro wishes he sounded like in his wildest wet dreams of impossibility. Holy shit you are brilliant
Ben Shapiro is to uptight and close minded to recognize this as something to aspire to instead of brush aside as too manic and self indulgently hyper analytically rambunctious to take seriously. Which may describe him , actually…oh the irony…
Even though I had not watched one second of Rick and Morty, I watched this from beginning to end and loved all of it. The energy, the writing, everything about it. This masterpiece cured my art block and lead me to watch all five seasons of Rick and Morty in 3-4 days
@@LOLmisscrazy yes!! I definitely made surface level judgments and thought it didn’t look that interesting, but after watching this I decided to give it a chance. I like it because it doesn’t take itself too seriously, but the characters are interesting and theres eps that still add to the storyline and deepen the characters
@@louisaruth what is too much work? More work will come from the new voice actor to match the character's vibes for sure Again, in no way I defend the scum that is Roiland, BUT it's a lie that his voice is not great for these characters and a big part of their appeal to audience. I separate his voice from the creation.
I am going to re-watch this to no end. Hope this gets even more views and likes than the first upload. Love your work and you, para-socially speaking. Keep on being awesome 💖
KEEP ON UPLOADING IT. This is the most eloquent, energetic, and straight-to-the-point analysis on Rick and Morty I've ever seen, it blew me away when I first saw it and it deserves to be up for people to see. BRILLIANT WORK!!
Your views of perfectionism it’s made me realize the reason I hide in my room and hate performing in front of others is because I hate getting positive recognition because I always assume the worst and that that person is untrustworthy trying to manipulate me and because loud noises and rooms and the fast paced congratulations reminds me of being abused lol
Hey, I'm probably not the first person to tell you this, but I got diagnosed with bipolar disorder at the end of 2021 and found your channel not long after. I've always practiced music (studied in it) but I could never be creative in my own way, but seeing your eccentric style and energy has been a stepping stone for me to embrace myself, however different I was from "normal" (and realizing how queer I really was from the beginning lol) and I'm just starting to actually feel like my art is screaming "me". So thanks I guess.
All the power to you Xavier! I am a musician as well, and just finished a sold out show for a band I play in, I managed the rehearsals for the past 2 months and It almost drove me mad but man was it worth it in the end. Finding the "me" in whatever it is we do is the greatest cure and the biggest step in finding our place in the world. Wish you all the love ❤
this is easily one of the best video essays on this platform. ive watched it so many times. like sure, maybe i'm biased because i too am a psychotic nonbinary mess just trying to live before death sweeps me away, and because rnm is one of my favorite shows, but i'm always gonna keep coming back to this one.
As a girl who consciously avoided watching this show due to the Ricks in my life lording their fandom of it over everyone, thank you for this. I thought that the show was nothing but an irreverent mess of nihilism and white centrist circlejerkery but you’ve helped highlight everything that the show is and show how much so many watchers take the wrong message away from it. My girlfriend told me it was good and this solidified it, you are wonderful!
No seriously, I can't bring myself to create things because of my insecurities and the fear that I'm not going to produce anything worth meaning. The first two minutes of this video hit me like a truck and I sat for a bit just thinking about what they said.
I’ve never felt such a kindred spirit with someone because of their pure ability to ramble about seemingly unrelated media and spirituality/whatever video documentaries I watched last
35:37 "[In Ricklantis Mixup] Nothing important happens and it's not worth watching" 1:13:33 "[Ricklantis Mixup is] Commonly heralded as one of the best if not the best episodes of the entire show" *Me:* "CJ, how could you let this inconsistency slip into your script? This is so-" *Me:* (looks at the title, "The DIALECTICS of Rick & Morty") *Me:* "............. You win this round, CJ the X!"
This might sound weird, but watching this video has been a humbling experience. Not only because of your reminder of overcoming your own ego to be able to create, but also for your analysis of the show. Your take on the themes and narrative of Rick and Morty (and how the whole process is carried out by the creators) made me reconsider both my own thoughts and feelings on a series I, up until now, had considered "fell from grace", and my own views on how to approach criticism of works of fiction, specially the many more nuances serialized and episodic narratives have, good and bad.
i will absolutely watch this video again, you deserve my watch time for this masterpiece, made me appreciate this show after dropping off around s3. actually my fave video essayist rn, keep up the work immortal legend 🙏
the message you sold at the beginning of this video made me tear up. like your harsh realism is honestly comforting. genuinely feel better somehow. like i was just fully recognized and can stop being confused over my anxiety
"if you walk want to kneel at the altar, start doing it as one of many inadequate worshippers of a God that will never thank you" un-ironically one of the most impactful sentences that has guided my creativity. i'm so hopelessly thankful for that.
"prove you can actually execute an idea to its completion instead of telling your friends about how cool its GOING to be" is literally the antithesis of ADHD. Tell me I'm wrong.
Okay. I'll bite. You're wrong. Executive dysfunction is hard to deal with, for sure. And that's really the common root of problems related to ADHD. But, just like you still find a way to show up to appointments that you find important, you can make incremental progress executing on an idea as you find the spoons to act with. A ton of folks with severe ADHD do it every day. Does it take longer? Often, yes. Does it take organization, planning, and extra steps of work to be able to more sporadically dip in and out of the activity? Almost certainly. Does it come at a higher risk that you may come to dislike your idea or think of a better one before you finish it? Yep. And so on with the list of other similar questions... But you're also forgetting that many ADHD folks have access to hyperfixation and hyperfocus. And you can use that to your advantage. Many of them easily think laterally in a way that NT people often can't. And so on with the responses... We class ADHD as a neurodivergence instead of just a mental illness because folks who deal with it aren't just coping with destructive symptoms, but potentially constructive ones as well if they are allowed to apply them.
It's definitely something that a lot of people with ADHD I personally know (including myself) have to unlearn. The excitement that talking about something produces energizes us to create it, so in youth we often develop habits of talking about ideas with people before doing them. The problem is, as you grow older, people start to expect you to deliver on the ideas you discuss. When you lose interest in what you were making (as is also common with executive dysfunction) or simply promise more than you are capable of, and produce subpar results or none at all, they are disappointed, and the rejection sensitivity dysphoria makes that disappointment hit like a truck full of pricks. This becomes a terrible cycle where you believe nothing you create will ever be good, and either never create or hate everything you make, and in both cases hate yourself for it. The solution, in my experience, is to not do the telling your friends part. Keep your projects private until they are close enough that you know you can finish them well. There are better ways to get yourself hyped for a project.
"write with the door closed, re-write with the door open." meaning, vomit your art ideas, then make them pretty in post. you can't make vomit look pretty if you haven't vomited yet. idk why i used vomit as a metaphor.
Making art is like vomiting in a few ways. It just has to get out. Keeping it in because you're scared what others think when they see it, that will only make you sick. Maybe you don't want to be watched vomiting, I know I don't, but as you said, just do it with the door closed. The part where you show it to others and realize they like it more than you do is where the analogy kinda falls apart.
@@anzaia2164 lmao very true. i speak in analogies 70% of the time. i'm not sure why. i guess it's just fun and a good way for me to convey my understanding of certain things. i wonder if anyone could actually make vomit into art somehow. i doubt it tho lol
@@helenarosno I bet people have tried. And when they call it art, who are we to say it isn't? Art critics, I guess, lol. Also, same on the analogies. They're just very useful.
"Irony is not something you have unless you had sincerity, and it was devastated by reality." 1:09:17 that's fucking brilliant insight, jesus fucking christ, thank you
thanks for the rant on perfectionism. i have struggled with perfectionism and ocd my whole life, im so cripplingly afraid of making bad art or bad anything and its literally manifested as like agoraphobia. im like im gonna take a walk wrong and people will judge me :| . im gonna try to make bad art thats actually a really good goal i think. lliterally struggling not to delete my comment cuz im like its not perfect !! it is a disease when i first watched rick and morty i think this is exactly what captivated me. i was blown away by how stupid i found the show and yet it made me laugh my ass off and always at the dumbest like no-thought sillys . it made me realize i can literally just make art thats dumb and it counts as art no ones gonna give me a grade on it.
how do you have the ability to craft a sentence that makes me laugh progressively harder and harder as it goes on, only to conclude with a seriously brutal reality check "sacrifice is vulnerability, and vulnerability only exists to be exploited" will sit with me forever
You probably won't see this, two years ago your videos really hit me in the chest. Not that your videos single handedly changed my life - but your analysis and screaming at camera with wine , genuinely inspired me to climb tf out of where I was at and start taking my life and my art seriously again. I'm trans now. lmao I don't know if that's totally unrelated to your work either - thanks for the ideas! you're a wonderful creator . I mess with ur music too ! Thank you so much !
Rick is the scorpion and morty is the toad. In a extremely oversimplified way, Rick is bound by his nature to attack and defend while Morty his nature to serve ultimately at the folly of both.
@@SlothhhKinggg Not really. Its primal though. Primal enough for Toxic dumdums use it to justify racism, sexism and tribalism. instead of realising that we are actual factual human beings. Does apply to Rick. He is the Scorpion and the toad as hes miserable and useless. And has to believe life is meaningless when you've refused to be in society. I feel sorry for him.
these video essays genuinely help me make art and are just generally really useful for everything in my life and they're Very entertaining i immediately got attached to rick & morty as a show even though i've never watched it
“Sometimes I will eat a single piece of deli meat just to get my stomach to stop screaming at me. I don’t have an eating disorder I just wasn’t meant to have a body” never have related to something more in my entire life
For anyone interested in Borderline PD, and disorders with similar symptoms, there's a really, really good 30 second moment that starts at 1:14:43 that highlights the emotional and ideological extremes your mind constantly assaults you with. I wouldn't even consider it exaggerated. Sources: I used to be a counselor and I'm formally diagnosed with BPD.
swear on my life, the first 10 mins of this get me so hyped lol. such a wicked inspirational monologue. I'm almost embarrassed at how much it touches me lol. stay awesome CJ - your a true gift to the world
Don't remember what I commented on the last one, but still gonna post on this one! Roiland and Harmon's collaboration reminds me so much of my partner and I. He doesn't have a formal post-secondary education but he's so talented and has got so many ideas! They range from absolutely fantastic to unintentionally offensive. I've got some ideas myself, but for the most part I just use what I learned in school (as well as my perspective as a WOC) to bring things into narrative/structured focus. I truly believe that we work better as a team than separately, and it's so much friggin' fun!
That perfectionism part really helped because I was just thinking about how much perfectionism kills me, my self esteem, and my relationships so thank youuuu
this video validated and challenged my insanity it was great im happy to be a”follower that is just amassed as a small piece of capital” because the way all the content made gets my brain flowing and i find an aspect relatable (especially if relating it to sociology)
i went through DBT last year and it just wasn't clicking, and recently i found myself re-watching your essays because you've got such a good hold on the philosophy of dialectics. watching your stuff got me to take in these philosophies in a way that wasn't just painstakingly trying to apply them while in an emotionally-charged state (and failing 90% of the time). just a few weeks ago it's like a switch was flipped and DBT just...makes sense now. of course most of that is just me finally feeling ready to take it in, but i think the exposure from your essays helped along the way! this absolutely was not your intention, but the stuff you make will affect people in a lot of weird ways! the beauty of art and all that!
Honestly, I think watching media analysis video essays makes me better at analyzing media independently. Good ones can set methodological examples and draw attention to themes and symbols you may see in other media. Speaking of which, great video, beautiful writing!
You actually made me start writing ideas for my podcast because I was so judgmental of myself at first… and thank you for making me comfortable in my awkwardness:-))
I never got into Rick and Morty, it just didn't really vibe with me, so I really appreciate this video that allows me to understand how it is able to resonate with others so strongly. I like the compassion you put into your videos.
I genuinely wonder if cj defending miraculous is a joke to see if we will actually believe him just because he’s so convincing. Like this can’t be real
This is probably the 7th time I've watched this video but it's the first time I've seen it having watched Rick and Morty. CJ convinced me to watch it, and I binged it all in three days.
I hate that to keep this video available on the YT platform you had to edit and re-upload - but I parasocially love you for bowing to the age-restriction gods so that others can still have access to these ideas. Also, I feel personally called out by the first five minutes of this video.
I am so glad I ran across your channel CJ. Your videos are really helping me reframe my struggles and failings and foibles. You are a beautiful, insightful, sincere, sassy little blessing. Thank you for what you do.
The cheek of writing off The Ricklantis Mixup as not worth watching only to acknowledge it almost an hour later as one of the best episodes had me bellowing. Way to manipulate reality (frequently mischaracterised as 'gaslighting')!
I cannot believe that the beginning of curing my debilitating perfectionism was not brought about by my 10 years of therapy, but by the first 5 minutes of a video essay about a show that annoys me to no end.
it will come back. But it will never be as good as Mr. Poopy Butthole
god bless. Is it still curing? ;)
666th like
I wouldn't normally make comment of such a thing, but considering what content we are commenting on, it feels necessary. :,)
I'm the 1000th liker btw
BIG MOOD.
I read the title as “the dyslexics of-“ and I was like “ah yes some representation”, watched the vid, then read the title again, just to realize the only dyslexic one here was me
I wish this comment had more likes, pretty funny.
Hi fellow dyslexic
Bro I read that as 'dialectics' not 'dyslexics' and got confused on why you were calling yourself dyslexic.
@@imbitchin and on and on and on and on and on and-
This comment is great dyslexic representation tbh
CJ: Time for your weekly essay rewatch!
We, as a collective: Yes, honey
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I was like "I've seen this before?" "but it was posted today?" Annnd then he does his rhythmic rant opening and I just am in- REWATCH TIME!
This video is so dense it's worth a rewatch every now and then
Weekly? I’m on daily
here I am. again.
A fun detail I’ve always enjoyed- the clip around 43:41, where Rick smugly asks if Jerry has anything to contribute to the family- it’s Jerry’s honey they’re all eating, the bottle is labelled as “Jerry’s own”, he’s already contributing to the family but it’s a simple pleasure rather than the most amazing thing in the universe so he’s looked down for it but in that moment he’s the reason they’re all happy at breakfast. It’s such a great moment and surprisingly subtle for the pickle rick show
aw 🥲
I never noticed this before but you're absolutely right. Rick is so jaded and broken, he can't appreciate anything simple, nor acknowledge the value of it and those who made it happen.
I never noticed this before! Such a good detail
it's also shown later that he is a beekeeper
@@LDVenus-kz2lc It just occurred to me why they might have picked beekeeping... imagine Rick trying to be a beekeeper for a moment.
Actually, now that I'm picturing Rick dealing with a swarm of bees, maybe that was in the episode too.
“i don’t have an eating disorder, i just wasn’t meant to have a body” im so sorry but this is the funniest thing that’s ever happened
i relate to it way more than i should lol
I struggle with eating so bad and I completely relate lmao
I don't have depression, I just wasn't meant to be born 😅
@@hel2727 Me: "I don't want to die, I just don't want to be perceived or exist" 😂
@@atlys258 real 💀✋
CJ the X is the only TH-camr who could successfully make me care about Rick & Morty, while simultaneously curing my crippling slavery to ego which had manifested in the form of fear of the blank page. 15/10, will continue to rewatch into oblivion.
ahahah it's only a matter of time before we all start speaking like CJ
Every time I feel useless I could just watch the beginning of this video and feel better
@@log_e555 that's a future that I'm here for
@@log_e555 I am prepared for that
Ohhhhhhhh snap look what's back baby!!!!!
Let's GOOOOOOO
I love how ricks hate for serialisation goes as far as “No, his hair has always been grey, you don’t get to know what he looked like before that.”
But he used to wear blue jeans
😮
This is why I like the show. I've never tried to defend the fanbase because a majority of the loud ones I have always felt like they missed the point. I never thought the show was smart because of its "efforts to science" I thought it was smart because of how it took the meta concept and turned it on its head. Rick was never meant to be idolized, he's a cautionary tale.
Amen. Rick is a fuck up to me lol. I don't see how he's idolised.
I think this is wrong too. Dan even says in the video you're meant to want to be like Rick, he says that sometimes you do feel like you're the smartest person in the room. Rick and morty isn't about how Rick is entirely not admirable. It's about how inspite of all those good qualities he cannot appreciate life and how his irony is really weekness. It's easy to see how someone could idolize Rick, especially younger people like me.
An interesting thing is that Rick's familiy is much like the fanbase. Idolizing him inspite of his obvious flaws.
@@poisonedbananabread1460 You're meant to like most protagonists on some level. It's like how you want to see Walter White's plans succeed even though he becomes a monster.
@@patu8010 True
It's escapism, we all wanna act like that type of character for just a little cause it sounds fun (the idea of it not the actual consequences that come with it of course) and there is nothing wrong with writing a character like that in a sitcom which Rick and Morty is first and foremost, putting blame on the writers for what the fans themselves decide to do with him is weird cause you can make that argument for any type of cynical sitcom character like Rick
The part about how "i realized i was treating you shittily, so I'm going to treat you not shittily now. If you hurt someone's feelings that's gotta you get accountable, you don't remove yourself from the situation you fix yourself. Everyone's capable of mistreating the people they love in their life, everyone is capable of accountability and doing the other thing as well."
That went so hard
“don’t try to get smart with the universe. the universe will always outsmart you.”
fawk.
But WAIT- Don’t you Know? The universe Does have infinite wisdom -But not to defeat you. Exactly the opposite it’s there for you to draw upon ,guided by your intuition, to create the best version of yourself, which creates in turn, in turn, the best version of your life, which involves surrounding yourself with all the best of what the world has to create the best reality - where you were meant to live. because once you’re centered and aligned with your true purpose and know your own truth the universe conspires with you to create a world that feeds your vision of your ideal lifestyle and existence. Everyone who has mastered their destiny is operating on this principle. Joe Rohan, Trump, Dolly Parton, Elon Musk, Walt Disney, Hunter, S Thompson, Hemingway, Thomas Jefferson…. Who actually came up with these very principles as a religion witch is the spiritual practice of being a UNIVERSAL UNITARIAN . It’s why I’m independently, wealthy, a world traveler, why I am able to spend time with the powerful and famous as well as the poor and lost. we all seek the same things, comfort, security, happiness. We all fear the same things Pain, loss, weakness, death. We all have traumas and triumphs , and regrets and fantasies. We are all deeply connected beyond all that divides us . we may have different cultures colors, beliefs, ages, geographic locations, but we all see the moon at night and have mornings and mothers and hearts and minds and when we know ourselves deeply enough, we know our fellow man . Because we all smile in the same language, and are guided by the rhythm of our hearts, which are powered by the universe,It is our power to use. Shift your focus, and suddenly you’ll see beyond all that limits you now. It’s mostly ourselves. Just as it’s ourselves who will be who saves us - We are the hero of our story. And the writer and director. So make it what it’s meant to be …
This was genius, this still is genius, and it will forever, no matter how many times they try to keep it down, remain genius.
They're not trying to repress anything. He just got hit with copyright strike. Most things are surface level.
@@rustytoyota that's okay, I'm just sad all those views went down the drain!
Oof. Doesn't necessarily seem like the most constructive comment. Yeah, it's pretty good though
@@samueljohnson6934 it's there for engagement, nothing else tbh
@@samueljohnson6934 man is tryna parasocially explode onto a digital face, and the paranoid delusions are what ticked it for you, dog you clearly are in the wrong neck of the woods. You just wasted a perfectly good gaslight. @Teodora Petkovic, I saw an article on Twitter about new algorithmic obstructions, depending on your recent voting patterns. You should look into this.
i take meds and havent had a manic episode in a long time, these videos allow me to safely experience the intoxicating, motivational bliss of delusions of grandeur. thank you.
I don't think I could have said it any better. That's the essence of what I find so particularly satisfying about these videos. Allows just a taste of that peak manic state... that immediately proceeds the drop off, then a very hard bottoming out.
46:38 the "You don't got a hug and a kiss in you bitch?" bit has unironically changed my life and improved my relationship with my mother. It started off small, as a relatable laugh, but this has genuinely evolved into something I subconciously hear in my head whenever I'm taking myself too seriously. If I ever get into a petty quabble with her, I just hear CJ, and I immediately laugh, calm down, and manage to ease the age-old tension between her and I with a hug and a simple apology for getting angry.
I've watched this video over and over in times of turbulance and spirals, and it always picks me back up. Not to be gross and parasocial about it, but just wanted to make note of a simple line that has *genuinely* changed my life and outlook. Thanks CJ, love your music too! This video changed the way I create and I recommend it to everyone I know and love. It got me through college, thank you times a million, and hope the blessings carry forward.
I have ADHD and I've never finished the script of a video essay in my life because of perfectionism.
The opening five minutes of this video caused me to have a panic attack. Watching the rest now. Subscribed.
CJ the X is an ADHD icon
I'm in the same boat. I want to create and make video essays but I hold myself to too high of a standard. wish you luck on your endeavors! (I also have ADHD so this seems to be a common problem)
bro you good
Ohmygod, I DO have little fits of panic & anxiety in my head considering not being a perfectionist
This channel has no videos
It's kind of stupid looking back but the therapists casual gutting of Rick in S3E3 like......actually changed my brain chemistry in a huge way. Like the concept of using intelligence to justify sickness, and the realization that I was doing it constantly, paired with the simple idea of sincerely "going to work" on problems did so much good for me in the long run.
15:27 "Saying "Jesus Fucking Christ" isn't taking the Lord's name in vain; Arrogantly oppressing the downtrodden and forcing your personal values upon them in the name of God is taking the lord's name in vain."
Loved this quote. Love the video.
I need that quote on a -shirt or, maybe, a protest sign.
I'm storing this line in my brain forever if I swear and someone has a problem with it
I wish 7th grade me had the vocabulary to express this
To preface, I’m someone who is going through a religious detox, but I wouldn’t say I’m moving away from it, as much as reevaluating everything I learned. Feel free to ignore this if you have any religious trauma (trust me I understand).
Any way my two cents: as far as my biblical knowledge goes, I think that’s the actual definition. There’s a lot about Christianity that I don’t fully understand, but rn don’t see Jesus as an oppressor. He didn’t fight for people to believe in him; faith (if taught properly) is about choice. People have a tendency of making the thing(s) they worship about themselves or their own glory which is kind of an oxymoron.
There are quite a few "chistians" that claim to love god and follow his teachings, but do their best not to follow what he taught by putting conditions on love and finding excuses to kill. What could be more taking the lords name in vain than being a fake christian?
“Your ego is a terrorist” is honestly the best line i’ve ever heard someone put it. Because when you really think about it all your ego does is stand in the way of your goals and tries to break apart your motivation for life. So in all reality yeah. Ego is like a terrorist that lives inside of your brain and tries it’s best to convince you that self destructing is better than adventuring and risking biting the dirt.
Your rant on Perfectionism is what pushed me to actually come out as a trans dude. I watched it while high so how it helped does not make full sense to me sober but thanks.
Just decided to come out instead of worrying how people perceived your identity, your identity was the art that you were sharing with the world
I has a similar realization. I convinced myself I couldn’t present fem or change my pronouns or whatever until I hit some arbitrary milestone that made me a “real woman”
When I finally accepted that it didn’t matter and I could just start dressing and acting however I want, and I don’t have to get to some finish line, I feel like I finally find myself.
As someone who just needed to be given permission by some rando on the internet to try out new pronouns, I get it. The final egg crack is elusive but powerful.
This makes me happy to read two years later.
Hope you are doing well.
"irony is not something you have unless you had sincerity and it was devistated by reality" damn
For anyone who didn't stick around until the very end for the Rick and Morty parody, you are truly missing out. Best part of the video
thank god for your comment
yeah, I finished the video right before going to sleep and just closed my laptop when the credits started and today I opened it again, ready to click away and do something else but the the skit captivated me and I ended up watching the whole thing and then scrolled down into the comments to see if anyone else acknowledges it (which is why I'm here)
“I don’t have an eating disorder, I just wasn’t meant to have a body.” I have never related to anything n my entire life.
The Al Gore Rhythm can’t keep you down!!
ded ☠
is that a fucking space jam two reference?
Hey shanspeare 👋🏾😊
@@matheussanthiago9685 I believe it's a way to say the TH-cam algorithm without saying algorithm.
Rewatching this a 3rd time because good fast talky and inspiring thoughts make brain stimulated in a good way
monkey brain likey the fast words
true!!! I've basically started rewatching it like....... daily
*neurons activated to the fast pace of cool words spoken*
Im a junior in high school and I watched this video the summer before my softmore year. I used to have a lot of trouble getting started on writing. I would read the prompt over and over again and get stuck trying to find the perfect way to start my essay/paragraph. Watching this video really changed the way I look at creating art.
Theres a quote from this video that basically says “youre not afraid to make bad art because you dont want bad art to exist; youre afraid to make bad art because you dont want to be a bad artist. Youre pride is getting in the way of your creativity.”
I met a person my softmore year who isn’t a very good writer. Hes the type of guy who tries too hard to sound fancy and ends up saying things that dont make sense. when I worked with him I would have to revise everything he wrote to make it readable. But he inspired me because when it was time to write something he wouldn’t hesitate he would just start writing and that was something I couldnt do. Even though a lot of what he wrote was bad it was better than me writing nothing, and a lot of that writing ended up being really good after I went and heavily revised it. And so from that I learned to just start writing even if I have to start my esssay with “since the dawn of time…” and then go back and changing it later. You dont get better by thinking about doing it you get better by doing it and messing up and learning from it and trying again.
I love the ongoing trope in these videos of saying something, and then completely contradicting it an hour later, intentionally, to make the point more impactful. I rarely see that in persuasive art. Also, the Rick and morty skit at the end was spot on voice wise, I kept forgetting it wasn’t Justin roiland
i understand that this comment is super old, but i'd love to know what you are referring to here (re contradiction)
@@geenskeen fellow person watching from the future, the instance i noticed of this was him glossing over the ricklantis mixup by saying it was an episode where nothing happens and its not even worth watching (35:37), only to later in the video go in depth about how its one of the best episodes for its exploration of themes and is incredibly popular amongst the fans (1:13:27)
if its not this, beats me.
One of the greatest examples of a show being ruined by being forced to reveal canon truths is Twin Peaks. David Lynch and Mark Frost never planned to reveal who killed Laura Palmer. They considered that question to be the entire driving force of the show and a well for infinite mysteries and stories. BUT the executives at ABC insisted that they solve the murder, and the show ratings and quality immediately tanked after. There is still allot of charm and mystery to be had in the back half of season 2, but the bedrock was gone as they were trying to develop a new mystery on which the build the show.
I'm not sure I follow the logic. Although the latter half of season two was lacking, it didn't seem to be because the mystery of Laura Palmer was solved; the issues seem more to do with other writers and directors coming in and just not being Lynch and getting the tone and direction wrong.
I mean the scenes with Windom Earle are still great, and the ending is incredible, with everything driven with that mix of mystery and purpose. Yet who happens to have taken over again by the end? David Lynch.
TV killed Laura Palmer, she symbolizes the purity of cinema. Or something like that.
And then there's The Return, which completely upends everything, frequently doesn't seem to have anything to do with the first two seasons at all, and is completely, utterly brilliant.
Hey CJ, your point about perfectionism made me start working on three different projects I've been putting off for ages so, thanks
Day by day just tend to the seeds you wish to grow.
@@whootywhoo6274 💖💖💖
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@@Hussain_Zaki exub is such a gem.
Glad you got this back on. Sorry about the strike and hope less stuff like this has to happen to you in the future. You work hard and go 100 in everything. Never stop being you.
You're the first video essayist on TH-cam I've seen ACTUALLY ACKNOWLEDGE that Rick is in love with Birdperson. I was getting pissed off at all the TH-camrs completely glossing over it entirely or trying to paint it as purely "bro-y."
“Ha, GAYYYYYYYYYYY”
Never really thought of it but now that I am it just makes so much sense
I do still think there is value to admit that true platonic love is a thing and is very important, especially for men, though.
@@omnidiscord of course, but it feels like the only time anyone ever brings that up is when people are discussing canonically queer scenarios, and it can get frustrating. Especially when there are tons of examples of platonic friendships in media already.
i haven't engaged with the show or the fanbase (sigh) since s5 ended but oh boi the discourse around episode 5x08... there was no heterosexual explanation im glad cj brought it up
The fact that Jerry is an outsider I think speaks to how Rick doesn’t see the rest of the family as people but extensions of himself due to there biological relation so he tries to make them more like him while trying to get rid of Jerry which is the epitome of everything he hates and he demeans him so that he can feel more separated from his attributes
"A Case Against Perfectionism" really turned the year around for me. Playing this on loop.
me toooo
My playwriting professor told me once: "there is no such thing as right and wrong, there's only wrong and less wrong", which in itself helped me break free from my own perfectionism. It's not about nailing it each project, it's about making shit and working towards making less shit.
I kind of wish you would separate that rant about letting go of your ego and being satisfied with creating shit as long as it means you're creating and upload it as its' own video, because after watching this entire video (again), I restarted it _just_ to listen to that rant several more times because, no matter how many times I tell myself something similar, your way with words resonates with me far more than my own.
Also "Don't negotiate with terrorists! Your ego is a terrorist!" is going to become my new life mantra.
I think its cool to use people to represent internalized self talk, and who better hype man against Perfection then a Bisexual Biploar Biracial Monarch of our Hearts and Souls.
If you dont wanna right that threes company au Fanfiction... think of CJ the X throwing a plant at you and killing people until you do
I have never watched rick and morty but this is the best most thought provoking piece of media I have ever consumed.
The show does it better. But CJ isn't bad either
I watched about 15 minutes of this, then watched the entire series, then came back to this. Fun trip
@@chadalca17 wow
CJ is the only youtuber who can make an actually convincing Rick & Morty parody
Phineas and Ferb is also a great show that really makes the best of an episodic format. I’d love to see you talk about it even if only briefly.
Hey your speech about procrastination, ego, terrorism, and art moved me deeply and I actually have published a short story since seeing this video. Love you and your brain
It's on McSweenie's Internet Tendency, it's my first time trying comedic writing :3
Where can we read the short story?
i want to read the story where can i find it :)
Congrats!!
Yes! It literally changed me.
Can we get the story Link?
This might just be the most eloquent individual on TH-cam. No joke. I think you're what Ben Shapiro wishes he sounded like in his wildest wet dreams of impossibility.
Holy shit you are brilliant
Straight up Mr Shapie only says “Trans is bad, women rights is bad, gay people are bad.” And his followers go haywire 😭😭😭
😂😂😂😂😂
I actually checked the playback speed at one point during the video because I was starting to think I'd accidentally set it to 1.25x
Ben Shapiro is to uptight and close minded to recognize this as something to aspire to instead of brush aside as too manic and self indulgently hyper analytically rambunctious to take seriously. Which may describe him , actually…oh the irony…
@@icu3869 But this guy is smart and worth listening to. Ben is not.
Even though I had not watched one second of Rick and Morty, I watched this from beginning to end and loved all of it. The energy, the writing, everything about it. This masterpiece cured my art block and lead me to watch all five seasons of Rick and Morty in 3-4 days
Was it worth the watch?? I’m still on the fence
@@LOLmisscrazy if cj says it's good then it's good 😌
@@LOLmisscrazy yes!! I definitely made surface level judgments and thought it didn’t look that interesting, but after watching this I decided to give it a chance. I like it because it doesn’t take itself too seriously, but the characters are interesting and theres eps that still add to the storyline and deepen the characters
@@Maria-iv8te agreed, CJ has immaculate taste
@@atticuselm yes the shows he talks about are always thought provoking without being pretentious
"Irony is not something you have unless you had sincerity and it was devastated by reality."😭
Can Cj replace Roiland now? I’d love to see that honestly
it's the only way to save show
or just maybe separate the art from the artist? his voice was very good.
@@Teuwufel too much work and not worth the effort... fuck justin roiland, fuck rick and morty... only CJ can save the show now
@@louisaruth what is too much work? More work will come from the new voice actor to match the character's vibes for sure
Again, in no way I defend the scum that is Roiland, BUT it's a lie that his voice is not great for these characters and a big part of their appeal to audience. I separate his voice from the creation.
@@Teuwufel i don't care. end the show. it's not worth it if CJ doesn't get the job
I am going to re-watch this to no end. Hope this gets even more views and likes than the first upload. Love your work and you, para-socially speaking. Keep on being awesome 💖
Yeah I'll watch it again.
KEEP ON UPLOADING IT. This is the most eloquent, energetic, and straight-to-the-point analysis on Rick and Morty I've ever seen, it blew me away when I first saw it and it deserves to be up for people to see. BRILLIANT WORK!!
I've never simultaneously hated and loved anything as much as the way CJ speaks and moves. It's abrasive and loud and hypnotic. A true artist
Your views of perfectionism it’s made me realize the reason I hide in my room and hate performing in front of others is because I hate getting positive recognition because I always assume the worst and that that person is untrustworthy trying to manipulate me and because loud noises and rooms and the fast paced congratulations reminds me of being abused lol
omg real
paranoia is a bitch
YES!! That's why I can't preform in front of people as well
Hey, I'm probably not the first person to tell you this, but I got diagnosed with bipolar disorder at the end of 2021 and found your channel not long after. I've always practiced music (studied in it) but I could never be creative in my own way, but seeing your eccentric style and energy has been a stepping stone for me to embrace myself, however different I was from "normal" (and realizing how queer I really was from the beginning lol) and I'm just starting to actually feel like my art is screaming "me". So thanks I guess.
Congrats on the self discovery! Even a diagnosis may not feel great, but maybe that too is another layer of discovery. Good luck with your music!
wait people don't normally talk and think like this?
@Space Scribs children do but they're usually not that bright
All the power to you Xavier! I am a musician as well, and just finished a sold out show for a band I play in, I managed the rehearsals for the past 2 months and It almost drove me mad but man was it worth it in the end. Finding the "me" in whatever it is we do is the greatest cure and the biggest step in finding our place in the world. Wish you all the love ❤
I can't wait to (re)watch this video-essay about the Dialectics of Rick and Morty by a content creator who's work I have enjoyed previously
hope this does better than the last upload this is still exquisite to watch and i always think of the 'mortifying' joke
omg i was loosing my shit i knew i watched this video before lol
this is easily one of the best video essays on this platform. ive watched it so many times. like sure, maybe i'm biased because i too am a psychotic nonbinary mess just trying to live before death sweeps me away, and because rnm is one of my favorite shows, but i'm always gonna keep coming back to this one.
As a girl who consciously avoided watching this show due to the Ricks in my life lording their fandom of it over everyone, thank you for this. I thought that the show was nothing but an irreverent mess of nihilism and white centrist circlejerkery but you’ve helped highlight everything that the show is and show how much so many watchers take the wrong message away from it. My girlfriend told me it was good and this solidified it, you are wonderful!
How can a video essay be this inspiring? I, cripplingly depressed, actually wanna do stuff now. Thank you, CJ.
In the first two minutes of this video CJ has done more to help me overcome my severe performance anxiety than 15 years in therapy.
No seriously, I can't bring myself to create things because of my insecurities and the fear that I'm not going to produce anything worth meaning. The first two minutes of this video hit me like a truck and I sat for a bit just thinking about what they said.
This essay means so much to me, I'm glad it's been re-uploaded because you deserve compensation for all the work that went into this
I’ve never felt such a kindred spirit with someone because of their pure ability to ramble about seemingly unrelated media and spirituality/whatever video documentaries I watched last
35:37 "[In Ricklantis Mixup] Nothing important happens and it's not worth watching"
1:13:33 "[Ricklantis Mixup is] Commonly heralded as one of the best if not the best episodes of the entire show"
*Me:* "CJ, how could you let this inconsistency slip into your script? This is so-"
*Me:* (looks at the title, "The DIALECTICS of Rick & Morty")
*Me:* "............. You win this round, CJ the X!"
This might sound weird, but watching this video has been a humbling experience. Not only because of your reminder of overcoming your own ego to be able to create, but also for your analysis of the show. Your take on the themes and narrative of Rick and Morty (and how the whole process is carried out by the creators) made me reconsider both my own thoughts and feelings on a series I, up until now, had considered "fell from grace", and my own views on how to approach criticism of works of fiction, specially the many more nuances serialized and episodic narratives have, good and bad.
i will absolutely watch this video again, you deserve my watch time for this masterpiece, made me appreciate this show after dropping off around s3. actually my fave video essayist rn, keep up the work immortal legend 🙏
the message you sold at the beginning of this video made me tear up. like your harsh realism is honestly comforting. genuinely feel better somehow. like i was just fully recognized and can stop being confused over my anxiety
Gotta say that end credits skit was incredibly well done, the voices were spot on with the acting!
"if you walk want to kneel at the altar, start doing it as one of many inadequate worshippers of a God that will never thank you"
un-ironically one of the most impactful sentences that has guided my creativity. i'm so hopelessly thankful for that.
"prove you can actually execute an idea to its completion instead of telling your friends about how cool its GOING to be" is literally the antithesis of ADHD.
Tell me I'm wrong.
Okay. I'll bite. You're wrong.
Executive dysfunction is hard to deal with, for sure. And that's really the common root of problems related to ADHD.
But, just like you still find a way to show up to appointments that you find important, you can make incremental progress executing on an idea as you find the spoons to act with. A ton of folks with severe ADHD do it every day.
Does it take longer? Often, yes. Does it take organization, planning, and extra steps of work to be able to more sporadically dip in and out of the activity? Almost certainly. Does it come at a higher risk that you may come to dislike your idea or think of a better one before you finish it? Yep. And so on with the list of other similar questions...
But you're also forgetting that many ADHD folks have access to hyperfixation and hyperfocus. And you can use that to your advantage. Many of them easily think laterally in a way that NT people often can't. And so on with the responses...
We class ADHD as a neurodivergence instead of just a mental illness because folks who deal with it aren't just coping with destructive symptoms, but potentially constructive ones as well if they are allowed to apply them.
yeah you are.
@@missdiction4455 Has he said that he does before though?
@@gogauze I know ADHD people that can create more effectively and way faster once they actually get interested into what they're doing
It's definitely something that a lot of people with ADHD I personally know (including myself) have to unlearn. The excitement that talking about something produces energizes us to create it, so in youth we often develop habits of talking about ideas with people before doing them. The problem is, as you grow older, people start to expect you to deliver on the ideas you discuss. When you lose interest in what you were making (as is also common with executive dysfunction) or simply promise more than you are capable of, and produce subpar results or none at all, they are disappointed, and the rejection sensitivity dysphoria makes that disappointment hit like a truck full of pricks. This becomes a terrible cycle where you believe nothing you create will ever be good, and either never create or hate everything you make, and in both cases hate yourself for it.
The solution, in my experience, is to not do the telling your friends part. Keep your projects private until they are close enough that you know you can finish them well. There are better ways to get yourself hyped for a project.
"write with the door closed, re-write with the door open." meaning, vomit your art ideas, then make them pretty in post. you can't make vomit look pretty if you haven't vomited yet.
idk why i used vomit as a metaphor.
Making art is like vomiting in a few ways. It just has to get out. Keeping it in because you're scared what others think when they see it, that will only make you sick.
Maybe you don't want to be watched vomiting, I know I don't, but as you said, just do it with the door closed.
The part where you show it to others and realize they like it more than you do is where the analogy kinda falls apart.
@@anzaia2164 lmao very true. i speak in analogies 70% of the time. i'm not sure why. i guess it's just fun and a good way for me to convey my understanding of certain things.
i wonder if anyone could actually make vomit into art somehow. i doubt it tho lol
@@helenarosno I bet people have tried. And when they call it art, who are we to say it isn't? Art critics, I guess, lol.
Also, same on the analogies. They're just very useful.
i can't believe you got me in the mood to write a miraculous ladybug fanfiction in the middle of a Rick and Morty analysis video.
God (Cj) works in mysterious ways…
"Irony is not something you have unless you had sincerity, and it was devastated by reality." 1:09:17
that's fucking brilliant insight, jesus fucking christ, thank you
Don’t worry I’ll watch it 10 more times
Same
Coming back to this because of recent events that I dont think need to be mentioned
thanks for the rant on perfectionism. i have struggled with perfectionism and ocd my whole life, im so cripplingly afraid of making bad art or bad anything and its literally manifested as like agoraphobia. im like im gonna take a walk wrong and people will judge me :| . im gonna try to make bad art thats actually a really good goal i think. lliterally struggling not to delete my comment cuz im like its not perfect !! it is a disease
when i first watched rick and morty i think this is exactly what captivated me. i was blown away by how stupid i found the show and yet it made me laugh my ass off and always at the dumbest like no-thought sillys . it made me realize i can literally just make art thats dumb and it counts as art no ones gonna give me a grade on it.
Go you!!!!!! Anything worth doing is worth doing badly!!!!!!
how do you have the ability to craft a sentence that makes me laugh progressively harder and harder as it goes on, only to conclude with a seriously brutal reality check
"sacrifice is vulnerability, and vulnerability only exists to be exploited" will sit with me forever
The skit at the end is… so much better than anything I could have expected
I clicked for Rick and Morty and stayed for your energy. Really enjoy the analysis so well spoken, detailed and chaotic at the same time.
CJ is literally the biggest creative vigor, dude,,,always feel the want to create no matter what it is after watching
This is like your one video i havent watched so like.... what a better time than now
You probably won't see this, two years ago your videos really hit me in the chest. Not that your videos single handedly changed my life - but your analysis and screaming at camera with wine , genuinely inspired me to climb tf out of where I was at and start taking my life and my art seriously again. I'm trans now. lmao I don't know if that's totally unrelated to your work either - thanks for the ideas! you're a wonderful creator . I mess with ur music too ! Thank you so much !
Not even 5 min in and I feel like I've been scolded but also supported and encouraged at the same time. You have my attention..
Rick is the scorpion and morty is the toad. In a extremely oversimplified way, Rick is bound by his nature to attack and defend while Morty his nature to serve ultimately at the folly of both.
One of my favorite fables, and a very deep and real one at that
@@SlothhhKinggg Not really. Its primal though. Primal enough for Toxic dumdums use it to justify racism, sexism and tribalism. instead of realising that we are actual factual human beings.
Does apply to Rick. He is the Scorpion and the toad as hes miserable and useless. And has to believe life is meaningless when you've refused to be in society.
I feel sorry for him.
@ELIZABETH LEE I wasn't talking about the show, just my opinion. And what other people's opinions are, is not my problem.
these video essays genuinely help me make art and are just generally really useful for everything in my life and they're Very entertaining i immediately got attached to rick & morty as a show even though i've never watched it
Irony isn’t something you have unless you had sincerity and it was devastated by reality. This line resonates.
I love how every CJ the X video eventually becomes an advertisement for Miraculous Ladybug.
It always comes back to Miraculous Ladybug
“Sometimes I will eat a single piece of deli meat just to get my stomach to stop screaming at me. I don’t have an eating disorder I just wasn’t meant to have a body” never have related to something more in my entire life
For anyone interested in Borderline PD, and disorders with similar symptoms, there's a really, really good 30 second moment that starts at 1:14:43 that highlights the emotional and ideological extremes your mind constantly assaults you with. I wouldn't even consider it exaggerated.
Sources: I used to be a counselor and I'm formally diagnosed with BPD.
swear on my life, the first 10 mins of this get me so hyped lol. such a wicked inspirational monologue. I'm almost embarrassed at how much it touches me lol.
stay awesome CJ - your a true gift to the world
Don't remember what I commented on the last one, but still gonna post on this one!
Roiland and Harmon's collaboration reminds me so much of my partner and I. He doesn't have a formal post-secondary education but he's so talented and has got so many ideas! They range from absolutely fantastic to unintentionally offensive. I've got some ideas myself, but for the most part I just use what I learned in school (as well as my perspective as a WOC) to bring things into narrative/structured focus. I truly believe that we work better as a team than separately, and it's so much friggin' fun!
goddamn you’re good.
"irony is not something you have unless you had sencerity and it was devastated by reality" damn... that struck hard
That perfectionism part really helped because I was just thinking about how much perfectionism kills me, my self esteem, and my relationships so thank youuuu
this video validated and challenged my insanity it was great
im happy to be a”follower that is just amassed as a small piece of capital” because the way all the content made gets my brain flowing and i find an aspect relatable (especially if relating it to sociology)
unless youre actually insane, you probably arent insane.
i went through DBT last year and it just wasn't clicking, and recently i found myself re-watching your essays because you've got such a good hold on the philosophy of dialectics. watching your stuff got me to take in these philosophies in a way that wasn't just painstakingly trying to apply them while in an emotionally-charged state (and failing 90% of the time). just a few weeks ago it's like a switch was flipped and DBT just...makes sense now. of course most of that is just me finally feeling ready to take it in, but i think the exposure from your essays helped along the way! this absolutely was not your intention, but the stuff you make will affect people in a lot of weird ways! the beauty of art and all that!
This video needs a part 2
Maybe after season 10 is wrapped up he’ll come back
Honestly, I think watching media analysis video essays makes me better at analyzing media independently. Good ones can set methodological examples and draw attention to themes and symbols you may see in other media. Speaking of which, great video, beautiful writing!
You actually made me start writing ideas for my podcast because I was so judgmental of myself at first… and thank you for making me comfortable in my awkwardness:-))
Creativity contagiousness!!!!
I never got into Rick and Morty, it just didn't really vibe with me, so I really appreciate this video that allows me to understand how it is able to resonate with others so strongly. I like the compassion you put into your videos.
I genuinely wonder if cj defending miraculous is a joke to see if we will actually believe him just because he’s so convincing. Like this can’t be real
This is probably the 7th time I've watched this video but it's the first time I've seen it having watched Rick and Morty. CJ convinced me to watch it, and I binged it all in three days.
45:34 they actually released Jerry's Game as an app and it is genuinely just popping balloons.
Well, of course I'll rewatch. I've never even seen Rick and Morty, but I always appreciate CJ's insight and perspective.
I hate that to keep this video available on the YT platform you had to edit and re-upload - but I parasocially love you for bowing to the age-restriction gods so that others can still have access to these ideas.
Also, I feel personally called out by the first five minutes of this video.
Rick ignored his call to action in his own story when he decided to stay with his family and thus was forced into action by himself
I am so glad I ran across your channel CJ.
Your videos are really helping me reframe my struggles and failings and foibles. You are a beautiful, insightful, sincere, sassy little blessing. Thank you for what you do.
The cheek of writing off The Ricklantis Mixup as not worth watching only to acknowledge it almost an hour later as one of the best episodes had me bellowing. Way to manipulate reality (frequently mischaracterised as 'gaslighting')!
I've rewatched this numerous times. Still worth rewatching.