With increasing calls for classic movies and TV shows to be 'altered' to fit our current climate, I want to explain why our entertainment, our art, is not something to be messed with.
HBO drops Gone with the wind because it shows a more complex relationship between slaves and owners then just Good guy/Bad guy 🤦♂️ There is a book "Jack Hinson's one man war" Jack freed his Slaves at the vary start of the Civil war. He offered them the opportunity to stay on as paid workers (Many did). After the Union wrongfully killed his sons and hung their heads on his gate. . . Jake started his one man war. Soon after that (Knowing he was hunted by the Union army) He gave over ownership of his holdings to his former slaves. As I remember, his place after the war became a small Black owned Township. It is also worth the read to see why you don't kill the son's of a Scott Irish old man and hang their heads on his gate, something like 36 Union officers paid with their lives for that mistake
Right now I'm all alone in a hotel room, staring at the ceiling. I got the notification for this video ( thanks youtube for doing something right ) and now I feel better. Thank you drinker.
One of my proffesors once told me : "The moment art starts mixing with politics, it stops being art and becomes propaganda, cold and lifeless" damn was he right 😔
I absolutely hate it when people try to tell me "Art is political!". It CAN be but its not inherently political. It does my head in when people try to hamfist contemporary politics in their art or universes and then wonder why no one likes it. I see it with amateur artists and writers too.
@@ConkerBirdy but it is inherently so. Refusing to put contemporary politics in your art is as much a political statement as putting contemporary politics in your art. Just because you are sick of hearing it, doesn't mean it isn't true.
@@jakerockznoodles Yes, it is a statement. An artist who refuses is, in effect, saying "My art means more to me (& hopefully to the viewer) than the hot-button controversy of the week. I will not reduce my work to being a propaganda outlet. I wish to explore &/or articulate subjects other than [insert political issue here]." Most of all, to refuse to make one's art political is to declare that there is more to life than ideology.
Art and politics have always been intertwined. So it's has always been around this is not new. Art has always been censored in someway. The Sistine chapel, Michelangelo David, the Canterbury Tales all the way to the Birth of a Nation. People are just angry now because it Targeting things that they like. When it's mein kampf no one's says anything, but when it's gone with the wind, it's the end of civilization.
Although I am not happy to say that, but there is a third option. You can also change it, or to be more precise, you can change what is taught, whose statue is on display, etc. and ultimately what people think.
This video is Drinker's legacy. This is the best video Drinker has every done, and perhaps the best video he will ever do. This video right here should be preserved in the US Library of Congress and I hope Drinker has saved the original file in case TH-cam ever removes it. It should be regular viewing and watched 10, 20, 50, 100 years from now and beyond. Thank you, Drinker.
I thought HBO Max removing the movie was a bit silly... But... Its their choice. Whoever likes that movie can go buy it. It's not HBO's job to make it available to its subscribers.
@@Boobalopbop No one is saying it isn't HBO's choice to remove something...we're all pointing out how that removal is indicative of a deeper, and far more concerning, problem with society. This goes far beyond a telecom company simply removing a film from their catalog.
I know and she did a damn good job in that movie to. Dead ass my favorite character. Rhet is a simp and the girl is so forgettable I can’t remember her name
Even if they do see it, they honestly believe they're on the correct side of history, which is ironic given how little they care to learn from the past.
Would not matter. Thats why they took over our schools and hollywood first. The left are so brainwashed they are mentally incabable of seeing anything outside their programming. Sadly there is no coming back without violence. When one side uses violence and the other tolerates it the ouycome will always be the same.
*oh they might eventually be compelled to watch it or be brought to their attention...be totally horrified or offended by it and then have it flagged on social media groups that share the same groupthink as being totally hateful and racist and potentially dangerous to the easily offended*
It offends me that these meddling fools think the past is theirs to alter - they don't own any of this, from statues to movies to books and even Dr Suess. Brilliantly done, Drinker.
I thought the same about the statues when I first heard about them. After learning a bit more about them, I can understand removing them. They weren't there for hundreds of years or even made of stone. They weren't history; they weren't art. They were cheap, hollow, factory-made, metal representations of slave owners; erected in the late 1980's to mid 1990's as a giant middle finger to the black communities they were placed in. They were put up as if to say "know your place." I agree with you on movies and books though.
@@yobogoya4367 Curating the past is important as the vid says….even the bad bits to remind us of worse times. If those statues had been made of stone or stood for millennia it would not have stopped the brutal mob pulling them down….and they had gotten to the point of pulling almost all statues down, and ironically putting up one of a Marxist activist instead. The point of belonging in a democratic society is majority rule through elected representatives….not rioting activists deciding what to destroy and what to spare. Anyone who doesn’t get that needs to live somewhere else….
@@yobogoya4367 depends which statues though . It was kind of obvious that particular confederate statues were only being used as a pretext to go after any and every statue that a particular movement doesn’t think to be 100% pure. I mean , they did tear down plenty of statues of Jesus Christ . Not even Abraham Lincoln or the Founding Fathers were spared.
@@yobogoya4367 White slave owners: bad Muslim and black slave owners: good/never existed in the minds of idiots. Daily reminder that it's ok to be white
Underdawgification well Henrich was long dead by the time hitler came to power but that aside, your missing the point. Hitler started by burning books that everyone agreed weren’t good or at least weren’t worth defending. He ended up burning people who people saw as not good or at least not worth defending. What’s in the books shouldn’t matter, destroying them isn’t right. If you don’t like what’s in the book write one of your own disagreeing with it or just ignore it, destroying ideas is not only futile but extremely dangerous.
@WolraadWoltemade 1652 Burning any book is wrong because you are burning an Idea. NO idea is objectively wrong, it's up to us to prove, by the power of argument, that that an idea is abhorrent.
That’s a crime to ruin such a good quote with a SPELLING ERROR!!!!!! -Person who is about to receive a mean response from someone for being prudish. But don’t lie, you people know that you cringed a little when you saw that c there.
This video, even after 2 years, perhaps because of those 2 years, still leaves me speechless. This is something I plan to listen to round every year, because the past matters. No matter how joyful, how unnerving, how insensitive, how brave, how fundamentally present works of art are… to lose our past is to condemn our future. Thank you Drinker, be unapologetically yourself. Merry Christmas everyone/ and have a Happy New Year.
This is my favorite video on TH-cam as a whole. I watch it again every so often. It moves me more then most actual movies do these days. Art should never be changed by anyone other then the people who made it themselves. Anyone who would change someone else's art is no different then the Nazis that burned books. You have no right to destroy what someone else creates no matter if it offends you or if you just disagree or disapprove of it. Art is art and exists to inspire and provoke. God bless you drinker for giving such eloquent words to the world's art lovers.
"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." - Orwell 1984
That's what the SJWs are aiming for. The totalitarian ideal. What can we even do to stop it? I honestly don't know. They hide behind social protections, while they try to destroy everything we've built in the last centuries.
And it’s only going to get a shit-ton worse as time goes on. The only thing keeping society somewhat civil and organised is economic prosperity. Once the bloated and mismanaged economy starts to tumble and the globalised trading system it relies on falters, we’re going to have an economic meltdown the likes of which have not been seen since the Bronze Age collapse. And after that, the entire western world will go down one of two paths: neo-Bolshevism or neo-fascism. I prefer the latter over the former, but either way we’re in for a impoverished, confused and totalitarian future. So buckle up fuckers, this is just the beginning.
All this time and history to fall back on, yet people just do things the exact same way. Over and over and over. You can't fix stupid. Can't wait till I'm dead.
He doesnt have to. He wants to. Bill Maher said it a while ago but no one remembers. www.socialpoliticalcommentary.com/what-were-you-thinking-generation-context/
The past is a reminder of things good and bad that are long gone. I am a staunch advocate for leaving all records immaculate, since we have a lot to learn from those that were here before us. From the past we've learned how evil some people can be, how brightly the righteous once shined above adversity, and how creative some minds could be. Why strip the future generations of these things when there is so much to learn? The fact that there people in big companies afraid of these ideas from the past shows that not only they didn't learn, but don't want anyone else to do so or understand it, and that's what's truly dangerous.
it started like a Critical Drinker Review. Then It became a magnificent call for liberty, for the freedom of mind, for the expanse of human expression. It became.... Truth. I want these words.. I want to remember them and repeat them to others. this work is a shot across the bow of those that would have all conform. You are truly a friend of freedom. Rank your words among these, and such others. “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right - Tom Paine “Until we are all free, we are none of us free. ” ― Emma Lazarus “Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.” ― Thomas Jefferson The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellowmen.” ― Robert Ingersoll Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.” ― Edmund Burk Critical Thinker indeed.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell, 1984
I remember reading 1984 and brave new world in highschool and not really understanding a lot of the nuances like thought police and thought crime. Needless to say I now know everything those books were about thanks to modern day politics. It's shocking how many people don't realize what they are doing.
Drinker, I am 64 years old and have been a fan of movies since my mother made me sit down and watch "The Day the Earth Stood Still" when I was 7. I have followed your channel with great delight for over a year now and my son raves about you as well. Not only are you spot on about the neutering of our cultural history but it's clear you put a tremendous amount of work into this to get it right. Using each clip to increase the impact of your words must have been tedious but it sure paid off. Thank you for this heartfelt take on what's happening to our beloved visual arts. You sir, are an unmitigated genius.
Emotional video. I watched beauty and the beast animation in the cinema when I was 9 and it was the first time I ever went to a cinema. Made me study animation later. It was pure magic for me.
This should be required watching in many different circles: political, entertainment, education, etc. It speaks truth, and that in itself appears to be the actual victim in the end.
Hollywood has reserved for itself the right to alter the past in order to make its products more "palatable" to what it considers its customers. As one of those customers, I, in turn, reserve the right to reject those alterations and any other content I find objectionable for any reason. If I remember my basic economics theory correctly, Hollywood needs me a lot more than I need Hollywood.
The problem is that Hollywood has been pandered to, put on a pedestal and generally made to feel important beyond their actual worth to society. Art is important yet what they churn out nowadays is often far from a good product. Millionaire elites with very little formal education in anything other than drama studies etc. think they have the knowledge to talk down to us about everything deemed important by Twitter.
The alcohol is do dumb himself down enough to translate to the stupid people destroying shit. They probably still won’t understand, but I’m always appreciative of his efforts! Bottoms up fellow drinkers.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.“ - George Orwell
@@helgenlane Yeah, imagine a time like that! A time where, I dunno, the police arrest someone for saying 'trans men are women' in a tweet! Or SWAT teams are sent round a 5-year-olds house because she tweeted 'pink is a girl's colour' from her mum's twitter account! Or a 15-year old kid being arrested for handing out UKIP flyers to some of his friends at a school! Or maybe even 3,395 people being arrested by the police for, and I quote, "comments that cause annoyance, inconvenience or anxiety to another" (where 'another' refers to anyone who isn't a straight white male, of course) in a single year. Ha, imagine living in a world like that!
@@topicalturtle8685 in my country we have a criminal law that is literally called "insulting believers' feelings", so, yeah... For example, there was a woman prosecuted for having a picture of a Viking threatening a Christian church with a hammer in her social media profile. Or a guy who was sentenced for playing Pokémon Go in church and filming it on camera.
Drinks, I think this may be the best video you’ve ever done. I hear in your words your true belief in the humanities, which when forthrightly and honestly pursued, are the higher things in our lives, enriching and inspiring us all. I became a physicist, but I was not inspired by tables of data and swinging pendula. I was called to and sustained upon that difficult road by great stories, some historical some fictional. And that Picard quote was the perfect quote at the perfect time in the video. Credit to Jeri Taylor for her awesome writing. “With the first link the chain is forged; the first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied chains us all irrevocably... The first time any man’s freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged.” Where is that writing’s equal in modern pop culture?
Beneath the snark lives a beautiful mind. You have articulated something really special in this video. Well beyond anything i could have, yet said everything I didn't even know that I wanted to. Thank you. I hope more people hear this and share the message.
It comes to my attention that most people who are bitter are only bitter because how much everything could be better Now depending how you go about doing that effects how things play out, and how you deal with it
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell, 1984 (The Alliance is Stopping it as we Speak) Hope to meat in our new Para dine my Friend ;^)
This only reflects the times inadvertently, as it is triggered by a confused myopic rabble with limited self-awareness, exploited by media for personal gain, as opposed to a grand scheme, crafted by a nefarious inner-party of conspirators, to establish and maintain an global hegemonic equilibrium.
“The Savage nodded, frowning. "You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows or outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them...But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy." ..."What you need," the Savage went on, "is something with tears for a change. Nothing costs enough here.” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
This precisely describes the situation today, and in all ages. Do you think you know history? It has been altered and tampered with so much that we don't know who we are, what we are, or even when we are. With no understanding of, or connection to, the past, we flounder helplessly in an endless present that we are ill equipped to cope with. There is a lot of confusion, frustration, and hopelessness everywhere. We should at least be able to enjoy our favorite movies and TV shows; but no, even those are falling under the power of the censors and the remakers of history. How long before Rhett Butler is portrayed as gay, or Scarlett as a sassy lesbian black woman? Let's hope that Hollywood collapses long before they try that shit.
all according to plan: "Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution. Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." -George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
Hillary Clinton actually stated in her memoir that 1984 was about trusting authority and those in power. We live in bizarre times my friends. And now it's becoming dangerous before our very eyes.
"Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”
While I am happy for you to quote my favorite author (read Politics and the English Language to really cut through the BS), I'd suggest that Brave New World is more the template.
@Michael W. The thing about justice, and the derived "justified" isn't about someone not deserving the punishment, but it's about the right, and the lack of it, of inflicting it. Nobody has the right to kill Hitler
So true. I was trying to get my wife to get rid of all our media on hard disc the other day thinking they’re obsolete... oh how I’ve never felt so wrong.
Fahrenheit 451! Instead of memorizing books, we will trade books, movies, music privately on secret homemade networks like pirate wifi after the physical media is all gone. I have plans. They will not destroy our history.
Note that this video, done in all seriousness, as a warning against censorship, has more dislikes than any of his videos. That should pretty much tell you everything you need to know.
This reminds me of V for Vendetta. One of the things that made V himself was his obsession with collecting the past. He gathered records, movie posters, books, and even advertising that had been scrubbed. The only media he consumed was the media that he was told not to. It made him that much more bold, human, and dangerous to the authorities he challenged.
They act “woke” but they praise things like censorship and communism, idk if your left leaning or even american, but its embarrassing to share a country with what is seemingly becoming the fourth reich
They always do though. Every time these things happen in history the perpetrators believe themselves to be righteous and anyone opposed to their doctrine to be evil. It's always the case.
@@chowdah9715 This is what happens when you listen and,even worse,submit to the idiot.For the idiot knows no higher way of thinking.He thinks primitively.And primitivism is about imposing and imposing until he can put his foot on your face.He's like a dog that when it smells fear and retreat it becomes more and more agressive until it finally bites and eats you. And nowadays,the world is full of idiots...and the scariest of all,they're given attention.
John Jamison then dont vandalize the monument of the 54th MA regiment, one of the first african american regiments in the us army, or destroy the sculpture of the man who opened the first african american college in america. People who do these things are destroying history alongside being unbelievably ignorant.
The great thing about art, and movies in particular, is that they're a snapshot of the time and place in which it was made, warts and all. In addition to all our triumphs, we as a species have made plenty of mistakes, but that's the only way we'll ever get to know better. If we censor the parts we don't like anymore, all we've done is removed one more mistake that we can learn from.
As an artist i've always looked towards the past and I'm a big advocate for creativity and individualism. We humans tends to be for the David but also are more fearful for the Goliath. It's art that makes us human, that makes us have color in our white and black world. Filmmaking is my passion and I've loved it ever since I had my first memories. Seeing films makes me thing we could do anything and imagine such worlds. Art in my opinion is the spark of light in the world of darkness. it's how we express our uniqueness. But we do need order and for that we need balance...When people say we need this or that I see it as we just need to balance the two, but no one should touch art, art in it of itself doesn't need order, it's wild and can't be tamed or else it'll be depressed and becomes bland if tamed. We live in the startings of a dystopian world that we would never dream or want. It's the rise of authoritarianism and where the loud are the powerful and the silent are the plebs. I maybe another comment in this sea of my fellow advocates but what i do want is an understanding of peoples. Yes we have our differences or sensitivities but one thing we cannot touch to censor or take down is art. art is to understand, not the ripe up and banish it. Even the most evil of us can create an art form which we can understand and ponder about, negatively or positively. In the end all I want is for individuals to understand and not put down each other like our dictators and authority figures have done. Hopefully this can be a message for all sides of the spectrum. i hope we can bring the past but understand it's faults and achivements.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” -CS Lewis
This nearly brought a tear to my eyes. I've been watching you on and off for over a year now and have enjoyed all of your critiques and reviews, but this sir was inspiring as hell.
By far your best video. You really made me cry. You are so damn right about all you said. All our movies, our books and our music is what makes us who we are. We must not let them take this from us. I was born in the 80s, so I grew up with movies like Terminator, Alien, Star Wars, Star Trek and stuff. Really meaningful movies that had a story to tell and things to think about. Nowadays everything seems to be shallow and meaningless. It's not even entertaining anymore. Thank you so much for your work, and please keep on doing it. You're also a treasure. Drinking, intoxicated and rude... but still a treasure. I highly appreciate your work.
Orwell's ideas resonate more every day. People are so apathetic today, they capitulate so that they can ignore the problem. And so goes society and culture.
"Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.” - George Orwell, 1984
Might want to put a spoiler warning on that quote! (I'm joking of course, but seriously: The mentality of the party is becoming eerily "rationale" in pop culture)
Half the white population will become Winston, and the other half will be dead. No hope for us if the young continue along this path of indoctrination and weakness.
Every one of these women that think they're making their mark on history in film will be erased from history, as those that came before them have been. If history doesn't suit the narrative, change history.
@@joeyrozic1100 I'm going to name several from cinema alone. Sarah Connor, Trinity from the matrix, Princess Leia, there are so many good and strong female characters in films. Strong doesn't mean devoid of weakness and character flaws. It means standing up and fighting in spite of weakness.
@@hightechredneck8587 umm thats not true at all. Granted the result of ww1 ending led Germany down the path it took to starting ww2 when they invaded Poland but it certainly didn't start right after ww1. The chain of events that led to ww2 may have started after ww1 ended. I will say that.
@@Left4Deadluver No. The Treaty of Versailles created such an animosity in the German culture it was only a matter of time. It created the hard feelings, distrust, and desire for revenge that would take 20 years to boil to the surface. Humility in victory by Great Britain, France, and the US could have avoided that. They should have came to them as Brothers afterwards instead of punishing the losing side even further
I think all those years ago Trey Parker hit on something that's as close to an absolute law of satire as you can find: it's almost impossible to come up with an idea so absurd and extreme that _someone_ out there won't try to make it happen.
in the time of lockdown I have seen old South Park episodes and they seem more relevant and dead on today than when they were made. I'm starting to think that Trey and Matt are time travelers
I listened to Orwell's cautionary tale. That's why I stand firmly against this Political Correctness BS every single day. Every time I vote, every conversation I hold with people, every piece of art I produce, from the humblest of memes to the grandest high fantasy novel I am able to craft, all of it stands as a giant "fuck you" to PC culture, also known as Cancel Culture, also known as The Radical Left, this insufferable vocal minority of overgrown children and the cynical established elites, both corporate and governmental, who profit immensely from the divisions they've sowed between us.
First came across this video about a year ago and have probably watched it a dozen times or so since and cry every single time. The music and video and you're amazing words are so spot on. Thank you so much for what you do Drinker, we need you!
I have a hard drive of 1000 torrented movies in their best versions. been saving it for nearly 15 years. People say "bUt tHeRe's NeTfliX". I have deleted episodes, unedited movies, all the good shit. Smartest thing I've ever done.
Good on you: everyone talks about keeping their CD's and DVD's, as if keeping the content on separate individual discs somehow makes it "physical", but in reality, optical discs are frail and short-lived. It will be through massive data banks made up of individual drives with redundancies, both locally and through PtP with other such collections, which will ultimately save our contemporary works. Even now, various content, including old video games thought to have been lost in limited production and movie cuts which were never distributed have been saved through these methods of collection and transmission. Do not rely on stacks of discs and tapes to save that which you believe should live on, spread it to the world, and let the internet fulfill its grandest purpose: preserving memories and experiences otherwise lost to time.
@Klausbärbel Fömm You may well be correct, but we all need heroes. I'd pick "JL" over Patrick Stewart any day. Why? Heroes are in reality, imaginary: they cannot exist as coherent beings in this world. And because we can still somehow relate to them, they give us hope and reasons to strive.
The Simpsons called it again! When they were watching a censored version of Gone With the Wind in the seniors home, Hans Moleman said "Didn't that movie used to have a war in it?" and he's dragged away.
@@cgh7337 over time writers get replaced and eventually there end up being enough to play ball with the agenda of the powers that be to where the creator can lose control of their own creation
Rorshach was a broken, sad, insane man with more hygiene problems than all his fingers and toes and a moral compass that only had two directions on it. Evil, and slightly less evil. He was a good character. But quoting the ramblings that eventually went into his journal isn't the way to go.
@@chaveztyndale8468 On the other hand, as viewers we admire the fact that he was the only character who had principles and stuck to them. It doesnt mean we support murdering petty criminals, etc.
@@chaveztyndale8468 The point was that you can live on your knees or die on your feet. Rorshach was a child of severe abuse so the only thing he possessed which couldn't be taken away in his childhood was his sense of right and wrong. But the point of his character and the end of the story was this: Yes, you may choose a pragmatic action to forestall an inevitable outcome -- and at the time, it seems the lesser of 2 evils. But compromise only postpones the inevitable -- and that postponement builds up a force which will make the tragedy far less survivable. Say what you will about Rorshach, but he understood human nature more than everyone but the Comedian. That's why the Comedian was killed -- he discovered the grand plan. We know from the end of the story that secrets can't be kept for long... and a lie which saves the world, can destroy it many times over when that lie is discovered by humanity. That was R's point: if you compromise now, you'll compromise again and again, until one day you look back and discover that your string of compromises has yielded hell in your wake -- a hell which eventually became the greater evil. That's why the phrase "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" was created: it's an allusion to all the compromises one makes in forcing your version of utopia upon an eternally flawed reality. Once you compromise, your normalize. The next compromise is just as easy as the last... and so on. Eventually, you're so invested in the long journey to your utopia that you've compromised the last of your humanity --- you'll eliminate anyone or destroy anything to achieve your ends. Rorshach wasn't broken or insane, he merely adapted to his circumstance -- he was exactly appropriate for he world within which he existed -- brutal and without pity. He understood the long view -- that when you compromise on your principles, the anchor of your conscience is snapped and your principles are set adrift. There's no way to predict where an unmoored conscience will alight. Too often, it ends in bigger problems than your compromises were designed to resolve. You'd do well to remember the context of Watchmen -- people were killing each other in the streets on the regular. Any man who lives on those streets wouldn't survive without being more brutal than all the rest. Especially a man who possessed a firm sense of right and wrong. Watchmen was a story about moral compromise and how different personalities behave under those conditions. It's also about the domino effect of small choices which propagate into world changing tragedies. The Comedian was a nihilist, Rorshach an idealist, Dr Manhattan was the useful idiot -- no matter how much power he possessed, he was easily manipulated into performing a role for smarter men. Owl was a man who had lost himself by shutting off an essential part of himself -- a lost soul. The women of the piece were at odds with their own nature and their relationships in circles they chose to travel within. Veidt was an utter pragmatist who allowed a single small event change his fate and the destiny of mankind. The Comedian was ultimately responsible for the choices Veidt made. His throwaway insult gave rise to the deaths of millions. That's why even the Comedian's dark comedic nihilism gave way to despair in view of the apocalyptic punchline for which he was responsible. So, by the end, Rorschach was the only character left alive who didn't compromise on his principles. And Veidt knew Dr. Manhattan would be forced to take care of that loose end as well. As readers, we were meant to be conflicted in the end. We were meant to ask ourselves: does the ends justify the means? For the Comedian and Rorschach, the answer was "no". The Comedian couldn't live with what he knew without eventually revealing it. Rorschach didn't find out until the end, and so he was eliminated as well. In the closing scene, we see Rorschach's journal on an inbox at a magazine. We know that eventually the secret will get out... and all that death will have been for nothing -- as people come to understand that they were fooled and they can merely return to their self destructive ways. I guess in a way, the end was saying that the ends could possibly justify the means... but only if the ends are relatively permanent. Otherwise, you've just compromised your morality and eliminated millions for nothing... much like fascism and communism has done. Veidt was just another in a long list of impermanent solutions designed to create a utopia but which are ultimately destined to fail.
As broken as he was you have to admire his strength of will. His fortitude to never bend or waver. Rorschach is one of the greatest hero's in my mind because he let nothing stop him, he wasn't rich or super powered. He did not have a large organization behind him. What he did have was the will to continue the fight no matter the odds. Even facing death he would not waver.
I just found you, Drinker, and I've been pouring over everything you've put out (I plan on buying and reading your works, btw), but I've got to say, this is your best video I've seen so far! I literally cried watching this one. You're so right on so many different levels. As a fellow artist, you've inspired me more than I can ever explain. Thank You!! ❤
mr snoop not ironic at all, he understands socialism from the inside out and saw it failings. Read his lesser known works like Homage to Catalonia and Road to Wiggin Pier
I will show this video to my young daughter, when she’s old enough. Hopefully it will be one of many messages I will give her to understand what the fuck is going on right now, and she will be able to choose her own path. To understand what matters, what is and was beautiful and still is, and being able to distinguish art from deception. Well done sir.
Dear Drinker, Thank you for this. I always knew that there was thoughtful intellect and wisdom under the haze that you say that you stay in in order to survive having to watch the fall of all you hold dear . I too have watched the destruction of entertainment rapidly excell especially in the last few years. How did this idiosy get so imbeded so deeply and quickly. Makes a movie buff want to cry. And what you said here aced it. I hope and pray that people will start doing what is needed to bring back America's brains .
Absolutely the best youtube video in several decades! Deserves a standing ovation by any and all means. I am bound to re-watch it multiple times for the sheer awe of the depth, attention, heart and soul that was invested into it. Just one note at 04:07 : the crusade to "legitimize personal uselessness", imho.
"They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up." - Martin Niemöller
Picard was always a traitous pompous ass as fiction and actor. If the speech were put into practice I would change my mind. However, looking at the early portayal of Ferengi, as whip wielding lying capitalist told all I needed. The most relevant episode of all of Star Trek was Turnabout Intruder. Last one written by Roddenberry to warn of the coming misandry.
This video is a work of art. 3 years later, I'm so glad to see how much influence you've gained, Drinker, my fine connoisseur of profound culture. We freedom, story, and idea-loving crazies need your voice!
Dude, I love your work, but this might be the best video you've ever made. I love your emotion and your caring and your words and cadence. This is incredible. Keep up the good work.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” “There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always-do not forget this, Winston-always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-forever. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking into the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.” - 1984 by George Orwell
I have plowed through many of the reviews you've done. This one! This one by far, is the best piece, evoking nostalgia and provoking critical thought in an almost poetic monologue. Bravo Mr. Drinker. I'll go away now.
In the end, it's all about immature people that can't cope with things. So instead of accepting them and discussing about how we evolved/changed since then, they instead change/censor/destroy it.
I gotta say, Drinker, I have watched this many times since you produced it, and it still ranks (in my ranking) the best thing you've done - and that is really saying something. Such amazing work!
I hope that never shall come true on the paintings, for that would make me sadder than I all ready am about that happening to movies, and I am pretty sad about that all ready.
Wasn't there a case where some wierdo vandalized a painting in a museum, because it depicted black people working in a field, and he yelled that it "promoted slavery"?
@@heidipeterson4504 It somewhat already happened. Even from centuries ago, a lot of paintings and buildings were modified to appease different interests. Sadly, a lot of people tend to dismiss history, and because of that, those things are prone to happen again and again.
This is what we get for raising a generation that was never allowed to lose, where every kid got a trophy for doing nothing and where score was never kept so no one was on a losing side. A generation of self entitled adult aged children who have no skills for dealing with failure or rejection so they lash out and demand just as they did all their childhood years.
I am a gen z, or whatever you wann call it. I remember the time when modern cinema was making me extremely enjoyed, it made me became a fanboy for the frenchises, defending their failures. Then I found Star Trek and fell in love with it. Experienced the old productions more and more. I remember me saying I couldn't watch any old productions because of the visual effects, now I have almost no will to sit down and watch new productions. I almost dislike every new productions. I said I remember being extremely enjoyed watching modern productions, but I have to say the feelings that I felt for Star Trek Deep Space Nine was something else that I have never felt before. The first time in my entire life I didn't want something to end, even though the visual effects were bad even for my new, changed standards. Now I see every modern people around me, my friends, my family members are becoming more and more difficult to convince, difficult to listen, difficult to even me a chance to show them the real good. I am looking around in my modern world, looking at people and seeing them doing illogical actions worshipping the modern trends. That's my suffering, that's how I changed, that's why old is better and that's why the past matters for me. Thank you for this video and I hope we will leave this modern nonsenses and move on to develop ourselves like how we did in the past.
Don't become too cynical and jaded. It's a tough path to walk down being stuck in the past. I'm as sick as anyone of the assembly line movies. But there are still good films being produced. 13 days about the soccer players from thailand getting stuck in the cave is quite good. Prey by Disney, the new predator movie is surprisingly good despite pushing the party line. I would recommend that. The Lincoln lawyer is good too.
@@aaronjackman4037 I know there are still good films, but it's not like the old movies. Today, especially Disney with Marvel and Star Wars, the companies are mass producing the productions which they never supposed to do. Even CGI looks extremely bad even with today's tech. I'm a fan of Star Trek, but the new ones just make me to hate the thing I loved in the first place. I'm not the cynical one, they are. They put a mask on the face of their production and expect us to beleive that thing we're looking at is Star Trek. It seems like it, because of that mask, but it's extremely off put to the point that the mask is now like a decoration. They are using the name just not to make a brand new story, which they think will not bring the same money.
@@yabada7866 I'm not arguing with you. Films aren't really made to inspire anymore they're fabricated to make money and create merchandising revenue. I just think that letting these films turn us into cynical jaded people is not the way to go either. I was born in the 2000's as well. I'm not going to let them make me too cynical. I don't know what you thought about infinity war, didn't really have any on the nose pandering moments like Endgame had, and actually subverted all my expectations by the end of it. I love the old war films like bridge on the river koi, a bridge too far, the great escape. The old films are genuinely something else If you look at media, like Disney and Microsoft own so much of the media industry. I don't know how they're getting away with it. It's not in the public interest for billionaires with agendas to control public perception and the flow of information. Even more worrying, like the video says, censorship is growing, and that's what it is. I don't believe in offending people deliberately or out of ignorance but sometimes a spade is a spade.
@@aaronjackman4037 I agree to an extend, yes you're right we shouldn't let fictional things control our life but they can be inspirational. Most of the audience is just ignorant that they will say "ah that makes sense" to every message the producers trying to give from their productions. They know people are idiot and they know they don't need the people who actually say meaningful things against them. Because these people are only the fraction of the population and those idiot audience/fans are not even gonna listen to them, because they're racist when they criticise the production they liked. Big companies are getting away with that, because again, the idiot audience.
@@yabada7866 No, I think a lot more people know that the quality of everything is declining, music, film, TV is declining than you're giving them credit for. We just all accept it. Maybe 30 percent, less actually think the new stuff is as good as some of the older classics
This, is probably the best video you have made Drinker! Everything you make leaves me in fits of laughter, but not this one. Poignant, honest, and redoubtable! Never settle Drinker; thank you 🙏
@@TehWinnerz Have you seen what they're doing at all? They are literally yelling for movies, books, statues, videos, and people to be torn down, silenced, edited, and even killed simply because they deem them problematic. They're even trying to get rid of Abraham Lincoln statues, you know that guy who freed the f****** slaves, for god knows why. If you don't think that's wrong then you're either ignorant or dumb.
@@charlesng553 No China is their supreme overlord. Sure they talk a big game about social justice and everything but money talks and they’ll immediately stop pretending they care about that BS if it makes their bottom lines bigger. China is a racist country and don’t like seeing black people in movies so Hollywood either cuts out black characters from their Chinese movie posters or make them smaller and less noticeable. just check out Chinese The Force Awakens poster. They don’t allow homosexuality in their country so they edited out Freddy Mercury’s sexuality in the Chinese edit of the movie Bohemian Rhapsody. In this new Top Gun Sequel they took Taiwanese and Japanese flags off Maverick’s jacket cuz China hates those countries. This is just a few examples
Screw sjw, screw politics. Bring back entertainment even if its shit or good, it's meant for entertainment. If anyone hates it don't see it. I hate a lot of movies(certain remakes😅) but share my views and I don't beat down by views on to my peers, I just explain why I love it or why I hate it.
@@samdiego1965 china claims they're so anti racist and virtuous when talking about america and us, and then expect us not to know the sheer irony of it
Do not be dumb, Hollywood has no fucking agenda... They care only about making money. They make there decisions simply on what they think will be the most accepted and make the most dollar 💰.
Given today's climate, this video has aged well. Not only do I feel the same way, I also think censuring and altering the original works damage the product more than it benefits from it. It essentially removes the thing that made the original work resonate so much. As you said it in the video, art is an expression of who we are, who we were and who we might be, and if we water down it, it's going to end up being soulless.
People have been altering media they didn't like for thousands of years. Hell, the catholic church reinvented how angels behaved and looked because they didn't like how they were introduced in the old testament.
That is such a great powerful speech. This video itself is a work of art and it's more applicable today than when it was posted. I wish everyone could see this. They should show this as a PSA during the Super Bowl or something.
I've always felt that the past is one of our most invaluable resources in self-education. It encourages people to learn, to expand on what they know and think for themselves. To erase the past is to erase accountability and freedom of expression. Knowledge can not be entirely erased, no matter how much anyone tries.
When i learned in school, what happened in europe in the thirties i always thought:"How could the people not have see where all this was leading?" I guess the people then also thought to be in the right, no matter how ridiculous it sounds nowadays. A lot of them must have thought it would not concern them. In retrospect we have learned that there is no medium better suited to transport propaganda than film and radio broadcasts....and that it concerns everyone in society. #Reddragon Wisconsin
@Fighting 4 Liberty antifa isn't the government or local powerful religion. it's nowhere near the same thing as censorship. they aren't going to make the bible go out of print by making a political statement
Apparently Churchill is an evil naughty man now so I guess erase him and all his wisdom from history too. Looks like being instrumental in the destruction of Hitler and the Nazi's only gets you so far these days.
@@HisNameWasCrazy Churchill was a bad man, because he stopped Hitler, thereby creating what we see today. Compare 1930s germany to this shitty time and tell me which you prefer. Churchill sent men to die for this degenerate trash.
@@HisNameWasCrazy to be fair simply fighting against Nazis doesn't make someone automatically a good person (see the Soviet Union in general). And Churchill was most certainly a bastard, just in a bastard in the right time and place.
Wow, the first Drinker video to bring me to tears. Good job mate. So relevant and poignant. And using that quote at the end, from one of my favourite episodes of any Trek was perfect and heart wrenching. Thank you 🙏
what are we exactly? surely we will dimish but what do you see in the current "US" thats worth perserving? I'm not against keeping films as they are, but what do you see thats actually being hurt in the content of these altered works?
@@m150985 It isn't so much about the small edits they are aiming for, it is the bigger picture. This is the equivalent of the Nazis burning books, because they didn't want people having a different perspective to the one they were forcing onto the people with their own propaganda. This is 1984, The Memory Hole, where the past is continually changed, in order to control the way people think in the present. They wont stop with a few small changes either, they will use them to condition the public into their usual apathetic attitude, and then make bigger changes once we have accepted it. The Drinker makes this point in his video, this is just the beginning, but it certainly wont be the end.
michael miroshnik “Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
This is quite simply one of the best videos ever created on TH-cam. It’s brilliant, eloquent, insightful, passionate and beautiful. It’s such an incredible piece of art that I’ve watched a dozen times and plan to watch dozens more. So, so well done 👏👏👏
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Best work yet. Thanks drinker!
So there's still hope? That the past won't be watered down and erased?
HBO drops Gone with the wind because it shows a more complex relationship between slaves and owners then just Good guy/Bad guy 🤦♂️
There is a book "Jack Hinson's one man war" Jack freed his Slaves at the vary start of the Civil war. He offered them the opportunity to stay on as paid workers (Many did).
After the Union wrongfully killed his sons and hung their heads on his gate. . . Jake started his one man war. Soon after that (Knowing he was hunted by the Union army) He gave over ownership of his holdings to his former slaves. As I remember, his place after the war became a small Black owned Township.
It is also worth the read to see why you don't kill the son's of a Scott Irish old man and hang their heads on his gate, something like 36 Union officers paid with their lives for that mistake
Trust old Picard to tell it like it is
Right now I'm all alone in a hotel room, staring at the ceiling. I got the notification for this video ( thanks youtube for doing something right ) and now I feel better. Thank you drinker.
One of my proffesors once told me :
"The moment art starts mixing with politics, it stops being art and becomes propaganda, cold and lifeless"
damn was he right 😔
I absolutely hate it when people try to tell me "Art is political!". It CAN be but its not inherently political.
It does my head in when people try to hamfist contemporary politics in their art or universes and then wonder why no one likes it. I see it with amateur artists and writers too.
@@ConkerBirdy but it is inherently so. Refusing to put contemporary politics in your art is as much a political statement as putting contemporary politics in your art. Just because you are sick of hearing it, doesn't mean it isn't true.
@@jakerockznoodles Yes, it is a statement. An artist who refuses is, in effect, saying "My art means more to me (& hopefully to the viewer) than the hot-button controversy of the week. I will not reduce my work to being a propaganda outlet. I wish to explore &/or articulate subjects other than [insert political issue here]." Most of all, to refuse to make one's art political is to declare that there is more to life than ideology.
Art and politics have always been intertwined. So it's has always been around this is not new. Art has always been censored in someway. The Sistine chapel, Michelangelo David, the Canterbury Tales all the way to the Birth of a Nation. People are just angry now because it Targeting things that they like. When it's mein kampf no one's says anything, but when it's gone with the wind, it's the end of civilization.
Polish rich entertainment stars now
“If you have the right to be offended, I have the right to offend you”.
“Just because you’re offended, doesn’t mean you’re right”
I'm an equal opportunity offender
Good luck living happy life when u being offended about everything.
@@danieldz7906 Yeah you’ve completely and utterly missed the point, but thanks for playing
@@robferguson8696 u offend me with ure opinion :)
As a wise baboon once said:
"Yes, the past does hurt. But you can either run from it, or learn from it."
Thank you ☺️❤️
He's a mandrill, not a baboon :)
@@urissaresto and his name means "Friend"
"The past can hurt, but the way i see it, you can either run from it or learn from it".
You were paraphrasing.
Although I am not happy to say that, but there is a third option. You can also change it, or to be more precise, you can change what is taught, whose statue is on display, etc. and ultimately what people think.
This video is Drinker's legacy. This is the best video Drinker has every done, and perhaps the best video he will ever do. This video right here should be preserved in the US Library of Congress and I hope Drinker has saved the original file in case TH-cam ever removes it. It should be regular viewing and watched 10, 20, 50, 100 years from now and beyond. Thank you, Drinker.
Agreed. Simply an incredible work of art that never ceases to give me goosebumps, even after the 20th viewing.
Banning "Gone with the wind" where the first african american woman won an oscar because it "offends". The irony.
Democrats want to scrub history, so they can repeat it.
I thought HBO Max removing the movie was a bit silly... But... Its their choice. Whoever likes that movie can go buy it. It's not HBO's job to make it available to its subscribers.
@@Boobalopbop People should cancel subscription i hate HBO with passion i hated them before and now i loathe them.
@@Boobalopbop No one is saying it isn't HBO's choice to remove something...we're all pointing out how that removal is indicative of a deeper, and far more concerning, problem with society. This goes far beyond a telecom company simply removing a film from their catalog.
I know and she did a damn good job in that movie to. Dead ass my favorite character. Rhet is a simp and the girl is so forgettable I can’t remember her name
It is a shame that the people who really need to see the video never will.
Share. Share. Share!
Or they'll see the video and not listen.
Even if they do see it, they honestly believe they're on the correct side of history, which is ironic given how little they care to learn from the past.
Would not matter. Thats why they took over our schools and hollywood first. The left are so brainwashed they are mentally incabable of seeing anything outside their programming. Sadly there is no coming back without violence. When one side uses violence and the other tolerates it the ouycome will always be the same.
*oh they might eventually be compelled to watch it or be brought to their attention...be totally horrified or offended by it and then have it flagged on social media groups that share the same groupthink as being totally hateful and racist and potentially dangerous to the easily offended*
“the job of art is to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.”
- Jake Gyllenhaal quote from his dad.
It offends me that these meddling fools think the past is theirs to alter - they don't own any of this, from statues to movies to books and even Dr Suess. Brilliantly done, Drinker.
I thought the same about the statues when I first heard about them. After learning a bit more about them, I can understand removing them. They weren't there for hundreds of years or even made of stone. They weren't history; they weren't art. They were cheap, hollow, factory-made, metal representations of slave owners; erected in the late 1980's to mid 1990's as a giant middle finger to the black communities they were placed in. They were put up as if to say "know your place."
I agree with you on movies and books though.
@@yobogoya4367 Curating the past is important as the vid says….even the bad bits to remind us of worse times. If those statues had been made of stone or stood for millennia it would not have stopped the brutal mob pulling them down….and they had gotten to the point of pulling almost all statues down, and ironically putting up one of a Marxist activist instead. The point of belonging in a democratic society is majority rule through elected representatives….not rioting activists deciding what to destroy and what to spare. Anyone who doesn’t get that needs to live somewhere else….
@@contessa.adella "I'll take ridiculous things conservatives make up to try to win an argument no one is having with them, for $500 Alex"
@@yobogoya4367 depends which statues though . It was kind of obvious that particular confederate statues were only being used as a pretext to go after any and every statue that a particular movement doesn’t think to be 100% pure. I mean , they did tear down plenty of statues of Jesus Christ . Not even Abraham Lincoln or the Founding Fathers were spared.
@@yobogoya4367 White slave owners: bad
Muslim and black slave owners: good/never existed in the minds of idiots.
Daily reminder that it's ok to be white
“Where they burn books, they will too in the end burn people.” - Heinrich Heine
Makes sense. You'll run out of books eventually but the ideas in those books, they can be persistent.
Underdawgification well Henrich was long dead by the time hitler came to power but that aside, your missing the point. Hitler started by burning books that everyone agreed weren’t good or at least weren’t worth defending. He ended up burning people who people saw as not good or at least not worth defending. What’s in the books shouldn’t matter, destroying them isn’t right. If you don’t like what’s in the book write one of your own disagreeing with it or just ignore it, destroying ideas is not only futile but extremely dangerous.
correct
Underdawgification but they burnt the books because it didn’t,t conform to their perspective also that kinda sounds like cherry picking
@WolraadWoltemade 1652 Burning any book is wrong because you are burning an Idea. NO idea is objectively wrong, it's up to us to prove, by the power of argument, that that an idea is abhorrent.
"Cencorship is like not allowing man to eat steaks, because babies couldn't chew it."
Mark Twain
You referred to ageism, manhood and meat eating in single quote - triple offender at least in SJW value system ;)
@@piotrd.4850 Good. (Also an offender to moral relativism. Bonus points!)
That’s a crime to ruin such a good quote with a SPELLING ERROR!!!!!! -Person who is about to receive a mean response from someone for being prudish. But don’t lie, you people know that you cringed a little when you saw that c there.
@@Frisbinator I did not even notice it. Benefit of having English as a second language. :D
That's a great one!
This video, even after 2 years, perhaps because of those 2 years, still leaves me speechless. This is something I plan to listen to round every year, because the past matters. No matter how joyful, how unnerving, how insensitive, how brave, how fundamentally present works of art are… to lose our past is to condemn our future. Thank you Drinker, be unapologetically yourself. Merry Christmas everyone/ and have a Happy New Year.
It is an excellent video for sure. I keep coming back as well.
I just watched this for the first time and couldn't be happier that Drinker is creating such success.
This is my favorite video on TH-cam as a whole. I watch it again every so often. It moves me more then most actual movies do these days. Art should never be changed by anyone other then the people who made it themselves. Anyone who would change someone else's art is no different then the Nazis that burned books. You have no right to destroy what someone else creates no matter if it offends you or if you just disagree or disapprove of it. Art is art and exists to inspire and provoke. God bless you drinker for giving such eloquent words to the world's art lovers.
I'm back to watch this video yet again. I find myself drawn to watch it every six months or so.
"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." - Orwell 1984
Orwell was a prophet... unfortunately
Unbelievable how relevant this is today.
That's what the SJWs are aiming for. The totalitarian ideal.
What can we even do to stop it? I honestly don't know. They hide behind social protections, while they try to destroy everything we've built in the last centuries.
And it’s only going to get a shit-ton worse as time goes on. The only thing keeping society somewhat civil and organised is economic prosperity.
Once the bloated and mismanaged economy starts to tumble and the globalised trading system it relies on falters, we’re going to have an economic meltdown the likes of which have not been seen since the Bronze Age collapse.
And after that, the entire western world will go down one of two paths: neo-Bolshevism or neo-fascism. I prefer the latter over the former, but either way we’re in for a impoverished, confused and totalitarian future.
So buckle up fuckers, this is just the beginning.
All this time and history to fall back on, yet people just do things the exact same way. Over and over and over. You can't fix stupid.
Can't wait till I'm dead.
The saddest aspect of this video is that The Drinker has to actually say it in the first place.
He doesnt have to. He wants to.
Bill Maher said it a while ago but no one remembers.
www.socialpoliticalcommentary.com/what-were-you-thinking-generation-context/
shortylickens69 and look at what bill mahar has become.
@@shaunb8889 A pundit?
The past is a reminder of things good and bad that are long gone. I am a staunch advocate for leaving all records immaculate, since we have a lot to learn from those that were here before us. From the past we've learned how evil some people can be, how brightly the righteous once shined above adversity, and how creative some minds could be. Why strip the future generations of these things when there is so much to learn? The fact that there people in big companies afraid of these ideas from the past shows that not only they didn't learn, but don't want anyone else to do so or understand it, and that's what's truly dangerous.
it started like a Critical Drinker Review. Then
It became a magnificent call for liberty, for the freedom of mind, for the expanse of human expression. It became.... Truth.
I want these words.. I want to remember them and repeat them to others.
this work is a shot across the bow of those that would have all conform.
You are truly a friend of freedom.
Rank your words among these, and such others.
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right
- Tom Paine
“Until we are all free, we are none of us free. ”
― Emma Lazarus
“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.”
― Thomas Jefferson
The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellowmen.”
― Robert Ingersoll
Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.”
― Edmund Burk
Critical Thinker indeed.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984
i finished the book a few months ago, this line gives me the shivers
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
- George Orwell, 1984
I remember reading 1984 and brave new world in highschool and not really understanding a lot of the nuances like thought police and thought crime. Needless to say I now know everything those books were about thanks to modern day politics. It's shocking how many people don't realize what they are doing.
It's unfortunate so many people see that book not as a warning, but as an instruction manual.
Glad I'm old won't have to see the madness that destroys our species
Drinker, I am 64 years old and have been a fan of movies since my mother made me sit down and watch "The Day the Earth Stood Still" when I was 7. I have followed your channel with great delight for over a year now and my son raves about you as well. Not only are you spot on about the neutering of our cultural history but it's clear you put a tremendous amount of work into this to get it right. Using each clip to increase the impact of your words must have been tedious but it sure paid off. Thank you for this heartfelt take on what's happening to our beloved visual arts. You sir, are an unmitigated genius.
Here, bloody here....
Emotional video. I watched beauty and the beast animation in the cinema when I was 9 and it was the first time I ever went to a cinema. Made me study animation later.
It was pure magic for me.
This should be required watching in many different circles: political, entertainment, education, etc. It speaks truth, and that in itself appears to be the actual victim in the end.
Well said, I watched it twice in a row just to hear it all again
Beautifully put sir.
Hollywood has reserved for itself the right to alter the past in order to make its products more "palatable" to what it considers its customers. As one of those customers, I, in turn, reserve the right to reject those alterations and any other content I find objectionable for any reason. If I remember my basic economics theory correctly, Hollywood needs me a lot more than I need Hollywood.
The problem is that Hollywood has been pandered to, put on a pedestal and generally made to feel important beyond their actual worth to society.
Art is important yet what they churn out nowadays is often far from a good product.
Millionaire elites with very little formal education in anything other than drama studies etc. think they have the knowledge to talk down to us about everything deemed important by Twitter.
I think this is one of the most intelligent commentaries on art I’ve ever heard. Thank you sir!
When a drunk makes the most sense....
En vino veritas
hes playing a character hes not really a drunk, yeah he likes to drink but hes sober when he makes these. he even admitted that he changes his voice.
The alcohol is do dumb himself down enough to translate to the stupid people destroying shit. They probably still won’t understand, but I’m always appreciative of his efforts! Bottoms up fellow drinkers.
@@chrisk.5964 well aware. I've seen his older videos and it's pretty obvious. Just playing into it 😅
@@kuzuboshii *In
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.“
- George Orwell
A human face stamped by a boot ... that is the future.
Can't wait for the day they will start putting people in jail for having "wrong thoughts"
@@helgenlane Yeah, imagine a time like that! A time where, I dunno, the police arrest someone for saying 'trans men are women' in a tweet! Or SWAT teams are sent round a 5-year-olds house because she tweeted 'pink is a girl's colour' from her mum's twitter account! Or a 15-year old kid being arrested for handing out UKIP flyers to some of his friends at a school! Or maybe even 3,395 people being arrested by the police for, and I quote, "comments that cause annoyance, inconvenience or anxiety to another" (where 'another' refers to anyone who isn't a straight white male, of course) in a single year.
Ha, imagine living in a world like that!
statues: check, road names: check, books: check, films & TV series: check
@@topicalturtle8685 in my country we have a criminal law that is literally called "insulting believers' feelings", so, yeah...
For example, there was a woman prosecuted for having a picture of a Viking threatening a Christian church with a hammer in her social media profile. Or a guy who was sentenced for playing Pokémon Go in church and filming it on camera.
Drinks, I think this may be the best video you’ve ever done. I hear in your words your true belief in the humanities, which when forthrightly and honestly pursued, are the higher things in our lives, enriching and inspiring us all. I became a physicist, but I was not inspired by tables of data and swinging pendula. I was called to and sustained upon that difficult road by great stories, some historical some fictional. And that Picard quote was the perfect quote at the perfect time in the video. Credit to Jeri Taylor for her awesome writing.
“With the first link the chain is forged; the first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied chains us all irrevocably... The first time any man’s freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged.”
Where is that writing’s equal in modern pop culture?
Beneath the snark lives a beautiful mind. You have articulated something really special in this video. Well beyond anything i could have, yet said everything I didn't even know that I wanted to.
Thank you. I hope more people hear this and share the message.
It comes to my attention that most people who are bitter are only bitter because how much everything could be better
Now depending how you go about doing that effects how things play out, and how you deal with it
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984 (The Alliance is Stopping it as we Speak) Hope to meat in our new Para dine my Friend ;^)
This only reflects the times inadvertently, as it is triggered by a confused myopic rabble with limited self-awareness, exploited by media for personal gain, as opposed to a grand scheme, crafted by a nefarious inner-party of conspirators, to establish and maintain an global hegemonic equilibrium.
“The Savage nodded, frowning. "You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows or outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them...But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy."
..."What you need," the Savage went on, "is something with tears for a change. Nothing costs enough here.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
This precisely describes the situation today, and in all ages. Do you think you know history? It has been altered and tampered with so much that we don't know who we are, what we are, or even when we are. With no understanding of, or connection to, the past, we flounder helplessly in an endless present that we are ill equipped to cope with. There is a lot of confusion, frustration, and hopelessness everywhere. We should at least be able to enjoy our favorite movies and TV shows; but no, even those are falling under the power of the censors and the remakers of history. How long before Rhett Butler is portrayed as gay, or Scarlett as a sassy lesbian black woman? Let's hope that Hollywood collapses long before they try that shit.
@@matthewlaurence3121 Let's hope you're right.
Had George Orwell lived through the last 70 years he would not have been able to distinguish them from his novel, 1984.
all according to plan:
"Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution. Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."
-George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
Hillary Clinton actually stated in her memoir that 1984 was about trusting authority and those in power. We live in bizarre times my friends. And now it's becoming dangerous before our very eyes.
WAR IS PEACE.
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY.
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.
"Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”
While I am happy for you to quote my favorite author (read Politics and the English Language to really cut through the BS), I'd suggest that Brave New World is more the template.
@@dopplereffeckt675 id say a mix of both. Mindless entertainment but behind the scenes an Orwellian nightmare unfolding.
Captain Picard's epic speech from "The Drumhead" still gives me chills. Thank you for that. True words.
That was depressing , somber and poignant , and at the end Chilling , Picards words send chills down the spine due to Stewart’s delivery.
*"Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice."*
- Henry Louis Gates
@Michael W. It's never justified
Michael W.
Would you rather be judged by a court or by a mob comrade?
@Michael W. The thing about justice, and the derived "justified" isn't about someone not deserving the punishment, but it's about the right, and the lack of it, of inflicting it.
Nobody has the right to kill Hitler
@@tylerulfmann4586
Depends on the court.
@Michael W. Sometimes abortion is justified. Your mother should reconsider.
My collection of VHS, DVDS, Blu-rays and books never felt so precious.
So true. I was trying to get my wife to get rid of all our media on hard disc the other day thinking they’re obsolete... oh how I’ve never felt so wrong.
So true
I said the same today to a friend who uasually makes fun of me having my little collection.
Found a DVD of Gone With the Wind a few months ago (unopened). Never knew how much it mattered. We got it for the sake of having it... not anymore.
Fahrenheit 451! Instead of memorizing books, we will trade books, movies, music privately on secret homemade networks like pirate wifi after the physical media is all gone.
I have plans. They will not destroy our history.
Note that this video, done in all seriousness, as a warning against censorship, has more dislikes than any of his videos. That should pretty much tell you everything you need to know.
This reminds me of V for Vendetta. One of the things that made V himself was his obsession with collecting the past. He gathered records, movie posters, books, and even advertising that had been scrubbed.
The only media he consumed was the media that he was told not to. It made him that much more bold, human, and dangerous to the authorities he challenged.
*It's funny how the people burning books, tearing down statues, censoring art, moivies, and TV shows still think they are the good guys*
They act “woke” but they praise things like censorship and communism, idk if your left leaning or even american, but its embarrassing to share a country with what is seemingly becoming the fourth reich
They always do though. Every time these things happen in history the perpetrators believe themselves to be righteous and anyone opposed to their doctrine to be evil. It's always the case.
@@chowdah9715 This is what happens when you listen and,even worse,submit to the idiot.For the idiot knows no higher way of thinking.He thinks primitively.And primitivism is about imposing and imposing until he can put his foot on your face.He's like a dog that when it smells fear and retreat it becomes more and more agressive until it finally bites and eats you.
And nowadays,the world is full of idiots...and the scariest of all,they're given attention.
tearing down a statue that was raised specifically to taunt black people during the civil rights era is not wrong.
John Jamison then dont vandalize the monument of the 54th MA regiment, one of the first african american regiments in the us army, or destroy the sculpture of the man who opened the first african american college in america. People who do these things are destroying history alongside being unbelievably ignorant.
The “Go Away Now” never sounded as sad it did here...
Agreed
It hit me hard
If it bothers you guys, then....
Go away now!
Brought a tear to my eye.
@@shane5896 Almost.
The great thing about art, and movies in particular, is that they're a snapshot of the time and place in which it was made, warts and all. In addition to all our triumphs, we as a species have made plenty of mistakes, but that's the only way we'll ever get to know better. If we censor the parts we don't like anymore, all we've done is removed one more mistake that we can learn from.
As an artist i've always looked towards the past and I'm a big advocate for creativity and individualism. We humans tends to be for the David but also are more fearful for the Goliath. It's art that makes us human, that makes us have color in our white and black world. Filmmaking is my passion and I've loved it ever since I had my first memories. Seeing films makes me thing we could do anything and imagine such worlds. Art in my opinion is the spark of light in the world of darkness. it's how we express our uniqueness. But we do need order and for that we need balance...When people say we need this or that I see it as we just need to balance the two, but no one should touch art, art in it of itself doesn't need order, it's wild and can't be tamed or else it'll be depressed and becomes bland if tamed. We live in the startings of a dystopian world that we would never dream or want. It's the rise of authoritarianism and where the loud are the powerful and the silent are the plebs. I maybe another comment in this sea of my fellow advocates but what i do want is an understanding of peoples. Yes we have our differences or sensitivities but one thing we cannot touch to censor or take down is art. art is to understand, not the ripe up and banish it. Even the most evil of us can create an art form which we can understand and ponder about, negatively or positively. In the end all I want is for individuals to understand and not put down each other like our dictators and authority figures have done. Hopefully this can be a message for all sides of the spectrum. i hope we can bring the past but understand it's faults and achivements.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” -CS Lewis
“Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told. Obedience is doing what is told regardless of what is right.”
H.L. Mencken
@@MolecularArts that's a good quote
That quote could apply to so many groups honestly and over the decades too.
CS Lewis will probably be banned soon if some of the groups running around today have there way
Indeed.
"Don't corrupt the host to pacify the parasites."
This nearly brought a tear to my eyes. I've been watching you on and off for over a year now and have enjoyed all of your critiques and reviews, but this sir was inspiring as hell.
By far your best video. You really made me cry. You are so damn right about all you said. All our movies, our books and our music is what makes us who we are. We must not let them take this from us. I was born in the 80s, so I grew up with movies like Terminator, Alien, Star Wars, Star Trek and stuff. Really meaningful movies that had a story to tell and things to think about. Nowadays everything seems to be shallow and meaningless. It's not even entertaining anymore.
Thank you so much for your work, and please keep on doing it. You're also a treasure. Drinking, intoxicated and rude... but still a treasure. I highly appreciate your work.
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." - George Orwell, 1984
Orwell's ideas resonate more every day. People are so apathetic today, they capitulate so that they can ignore the problem. And so goes society and culture.
"Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.” - George Orwell, 1984
Ouch...
Might want to put a spoiler warning on that quote! (I'm joking of course, but seriously: The mentality of the party is becoming eerily "rationale" in pop culture)
Half the white population will become Winston, and the other half will be dead.
No hope for us if the young continue along this path of indoctrination and weakness.
Exactly sir. The last chilling lines of that book.
@john egan well, freedom IS slavery.
Never has a TH-cam video moved me quite as much as this one.
Man going back and listening to this again got me emotional for some reason.
Cheers to a much needed voice, giving a much needed message.
People who say that Diversity and Great Female characters have been lacking in Cinema don't watch as much films.
You need to understand that nothing say say holds logic thats not the point. They say whatever it takes to get what they want!
Every one of these women that think they're making their mark on history in film will be erased from history, as those that came before them have been. If history doesn't suit the narrative, change history.
@@joeyrozic1100 I'm going to name several from cinema alone. Sarah Connor, Trinity from the matrix, Princess Leia, there are so many good and strong female characters in films. Strong doesn't mean devoid of weakness and character flaws. It means standing up and fighting in spite of weakness.
They should watch more indies instead of being spoon fed corporate slop.
Censorship is by it’s very nature, the destruction of diversity.
*Constantly appeasing people and not telling them no so they won’t get angry, is literally one of the main causes of WW2*
WW2 began almost the same day WW1 ended.
And instead of Churchill and Roseavelt we get Trump and Johnson. smh
@@hightechredneck8587 umm thats not true at all. Granted the result of ww1 ending led Germany down the path it took to starting ww2 when they invaded Poland but it certainly didn't start right after ww1. The chain of events that led to ww2 may have started after ww1 ended. I will say that.
Gives Germany Sudetenland - "Peace for our time
"
Giving in to demands from the outrage mob has about the same effect.
@@Left4Deadluver No. The Treaty of Versailles created such an animosity in the German culture it was only a matter of time. It created the hard feelings, distrust, and desire for revenge that would take 20 years to boil to the surface. Humility in victory by Great Britain, France, and the US could have avoided that. They should have came to them as Brothers afterwards instead of punishing the losing side even further
Watching this in 2021 & this is one of the most inspirational/motivational videos I’ve seen all year.
I never fail to be impressed by the depth and thoughtfulness you give to your videos
South Park 1997:
"The Happy, Non-Offensive, Non-Denominational Christmas Play"
The parody has become reality.
Just like PCU :(
I think all those years ago Trey Parker hit on something that's as close to an absolute law of satire as you can find: it's almost impossible to come up with an idea so absurd and extreme that _someone_ out there won't try to make it happen.
*"winter holiday play" please. We're diverse here.
The best satire is satire that holds up
in the time of lockdown I have seen old South Park episodes and they seem more relevant and dead on today than when they were made. I'm starting to think that Trey and Matt are time travelers
"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." Orwell weeps in his grave. He warned us. We didn't listen.
I think the genres of Animal Farm and 1984 ought to be changed to true events
I listened to Orwell's cautionary tale. That's why I stand firmly against this Political Correctness BS every single day. Every time I vote, every conversation I hold with people, every piece of art I produce, from the humblest of memes to the grandest high fantasy novel I am able to craft, all of it stands as a giant "fuck you" to PC culture, also known as Cancel Culture, also known as The Radical Left, this insufferable vocal minority of overgrown children and the cynical established elites, both corporate and governmental, who profit immensely from the divisions they've sowed between us.
First came across this video about a year ago and have probably watched it a dozen times or so since and cry every single time. The music and video and you're amazing words are so spot on. Thank you so much for what you do Drinker, we need you!
Wowww the first few minutes of this needs to be a quote. It PERFECTLY describes what's happening.
I have a hard drive of 1000 torrented movies in their best versions. been saving it for nearly 15 years. People say "bUt tHeRe's NeTfliX".
I have deleted episodes, unedited movies, all the good shit. Smartest thing I've ever done.
I guess I'll be hanging onto my grandma's Fawlty Towers DVD collection
My man
:D your a modern day Marion Stokes!
Hook me up brother hook me up.
Good on you: everyone talks about keeping their CD's and DVD's, as if keeping the content on separate individual discs somehow makes it "physical", but in reality, optical discs are frail and short-lived. It will be through massive data banks made up of individual drives with redundancies, both locally and through PtP with other such collections, which will ultimately save our contemporary works. Even now, various content, including old video games thought to have been lost in limited production and movie cuts which were never distributed have been saved through these methods of collection and transmission.
Do not rely on stacks of discs and tapes to save that which you believe should live on, spread it to the world, and let the internet fulfill its grandest purpose: preserving memories and experiences otherwise lost to time.
Masterful. Using Jean-Luc Picard at the end: an icon of a franchise that has been utterly trashed by this nonsense.
By the very man himself
@dereksjourney He is old.
One of the best quotes from one of the best episodes. Drinker truly is a man of culture.
Speaks volumes
@Klausbärbel Fömm You may well be correct, but we all need heroes. I'd pick "JL" over Patrick Stewart any day. Why? Heroes are in reality, imaginary: they cannot exist as coherent beings in this world. And because we can still somehow relate to them, they give us hope and reasons to strive.
this is why i buy physical media. i anticipate streamed content will get edited over time, but they can't fuck with my discs.
I was genuinely moved by your commentary. The editing was perfect. A piece of art in its own right.
The Simpsons called it again! When they were watching a censored version of Gone With the Wind in the seniors home, Hans Moleman said "Didn't that movie used to have a war in it?" and he's dragged away.
The simpsons have been a part of the mob for a while now.
@@heroesytumbas yeah, Groening & Co sold their souls a long time ago. Caving into that Apu bullshit was the final straw for me w/ that show.
@@heroesytumbas You either die a hero...
That's hilarious hahaha
@@cgh7337 over time writers get replaced and eventually there end up being enough to play ball with the agenda of the powers that be to where the creator can lose control of their own creation
"Never comprimise, not even in the face of Armageddon" - Rorschach
Rorshach was a broken, sad, insane man with more hygiene problems than all his fingers and toes and a moral compass that only had two directions on it. Evil, and slightly less evil. He was a good character. But quoting the ramblings that eventually went into his journal isn't the way to go.
@@chaveztyndale8468 On the other hand, as viewers we admire the fact that he was the only character who had principles and stuck to them. It doesnt mean we support murdering petty criminals, etc.
@@chaveztyndale8468 I think what the idea behind the comment (Rohrschach or not) is exactly what it says... never compromise your morals.
@@chaveztyndale8468 The point was that you can live on your knees or die on your feet. Rorshach was a child of severe abuse so the only thing he possessed which couldn't be taken away in his childhood was his sense of right and wrong.
But the point of his character and the end of the story was this: Yes, you may choose a pragmatic action to forestall an inevitable outcome -- and at the time, it seems the lesser of 2 evils. But compromise only postpones the inevitable -- and that postponement builds up a force which will make the tragedy far less survivable.
Say what you will about Rorshach, but he understood human nature more than everyone but the Comedian. That's why the Comedian was killed -- he discovered the grand plan.
We know from the end of the story that secrets can't be kept for long... and a lie which saves the world, can destroy it many times over when that lie is discovered by humanity. That was R's point: if you compromise now, you'll compromise again and again, until one day you look back and discover that your string of compromises has yielded hell in your wake -- a hell which eventually became the greater evil.
That's why the phrase "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" was created: it's an allusion to all the compromises one makes in forcing your version of utopia upon an eternally flawed reality. Once you compromise, your normalize. The next compromise is just as easy as the last... and so on. Eventually, you're so invested in the long journey to your utopia that you've compromised the last of your humanity --- you'll eliminate anyone or destroy anything to achieve your ends.
Rorshach wasn't broken or insane, he merely adapted to his circumstance -- he was exactly appropriate for he world within which he existed -- brutal and without pity. He understood the long view -- that when you compromise on your principles, the anchor of your conscience is snapped and your principles are set adrift. There's no way to predict where an unmoored conscience will alight. Too often, it ends in bigger problems than your compromises were designed to resolve.
You'd do well to remember the context of Watchmen -- people were killing each other in the streets on the regular. Any man who lives on those streets wouldn't survive without being more brutal than all the rest. Especially a man who possessed a firm sense of right and wrong.
Watchmen was a story about moral compromise and how different personalities behave under those conditions. It's also about the domino effect of small choices which propagate into world changing tragedies. The Comedian was a nihilist, Rorshach an idealist, Dr Manhattan was the useful idiot -- no matter how much power he possessed, he was easily manipulated into performing a role for smarter men. Owl was a man who had lost himself by shutting off an essential part of himself -- a lost soul. The women of the piece were at odds with their own nature and their relationships in circles they chose to travel within.
Veidt was an utter pragmatist who allowed a single small event change his fate and the destiny of mankind. The Comedian was ultimately responsible for the choices Veidt made. His throwaway insult gave rise to the deaths of millions. That's why even the Comedian's dark comedic nihilism gave way to despair in view of the apocalyptic punchline for which he was responsible.
So, by the end, Rorschach was the only character left alive who didn't compromise on his principles. And Veidt knew Dr. Manhattan would be forced to take care of that loose end as well.
As readers, we were meant to be conflicted in the end. We were meant to ask ourselves: does the ends justify the means? For the Comedian and Rorschach, the answer was "no". The Comedian couldn't live with what he knew without eventually revealing it. Rorschach didn't find out until the end, and so he was eliminated as well. In the closing scene, we see Rorschach's journal on an inbox at a magazine. We know that eventually the secret will get out... and all that death will have been for nothing -- as people come to understand that they were fooled and they can merely return to their self destructive ways.
I guess in a way, the end was saying that the ends could possibly justify the means... but only if the ends are relatively permanent. Otherwise, you've just compromised your morality and eliminated millions for nothing... much like fascism and communism has done. Veidt was just another in a long list of impermanent solutions designed to create a utopia but which are ultimately destined to fail.
As broken as he was you have to admire his strength of will. His fortitude to never bend or waver. Rorschach is one of the greatest hero's in my mind because he let nothing stop him, he wasn't rich or super powered. He did not have a large organization behind him. What he did have was the will to continue the fight no matter the odds. Even facing death he would not waver.
I just found you, Drinker, and I've been pouring over everything you've put out (I plan on buying and reading your works, btw), but I've got to say, this is your best video I've seen so far! I literally cried watching this one. You're so right on so many different levels. As a fellow artist, you've inspired me more than I can ever explain. Thank You!! ❤
This reminds me of 1984 - people destroying art and evidence of past things to erase the past.
"I told you so."
-George Orwell
"I was right" - A. H.
orwell was a socialist, ironically
@@mrsnoop1820 , socialism is more humane.
mr snoop
not ironic at all, he understands socialism from the inside out and saw it failings. Read his lesser known works like Homage to Catalonia and Road to Wiggin Pier
more like
''I tried to warn you''
1984 is not a science fiction novel, it's a testimony.
“Those who forget history are forever doomed to repeat it”
I will show this video to my young daughter, when she’s old enough. Hopefully it will be one of many messages I will give her to understand what the fuck is going on right now, and she will be able to choose her own path. To understand what matters, what is and was beautiful and still is, and being able to distinguish art from deception. Well done sir.
The scariest things are the sheepeople who down voted this .
_”If you want to know who rules over you, look to those you cannot criticize.”_ ...(attributed to Voltaire)
IIRC, it was actually Publius, or at least some Roman guy.
The Romans had a lot of things worked.
@ Not always. The truly powerful make sure nobody _needs_ to know their name. Jacob Rothschild.
@@Wilantonjakov Rothschild? Well well, it seems one of the truly insidious and powerful assholes gave us the quote that denounces itself.
Salkafar ...The quote may be a lot of things, but “outdated” will never be one of them.
Jesus Christ the children with leukaemia and cancer are masterminds
Dear Drinker, Thank you for this. I always knew that there was thoughtful intellect and wisdom under the haze that you say that you stay in in order to survive having to watch the fall of all you hold dear . I too have watched the destruction of entertainment rapidly excell especially in the last few years. How did this idiosy get so imbeded so deeply and quickly. Makes a movie buff want to cry. And what you said here aced it. I hope and pray that people will start doing what is needed to bring back America's brains .
Absolutely the best youtube video in several decades! Deserves a standing
ovation by any and all means. I am bound to re-watch it multiple times for
the sheer awe of the depth, attention, heart and soul that was invested into it.
Just one note at 04:07 : the crusade to "legitimize personal uselessness", imho.
"They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up." - Martin Niemöller
But it is the communists that are coming for us.
Why would they go after Jews 3 times in a row?
@@chaimgoldstein5215 because they are sneaky? I dunno...
@@chaimgoldstein5215 lmao
There is a 6000 petition to remove statue of Ghandi due to people saying he was racist and a fascist!
Captain Picard's speech is more important now than has ever been.
"THERE....AHHH.....FOOOR........LIGHTS!!!"
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
TNG Picard, not that shadow of a feeble man from the new series
At this rate we will never get anywhere near Capt Picard or Star Fleet ideals.
Picard was always a traitous pompous ass as fiction and actor. If the speech were put into practice I would change my mind. However, looking at the early portayal of Ferengi, as whip wielding lying capitalist told all I needed.
The most relevant episode of all of Star Trek was Turnabout Intruder. Last one written by Roddenberry to warn of the coming misandry.
This video is a work of art.
3 years later, I'm so glad to see how much influence you've gained, Drinker, my fine connoisseur of profound culture. We freedom, story, and idea-loving crazies need your voice!
Dude, I love your work, but this might be the best video you've ever made. I love your emotion and your caring and your words and cadence. This is incredible. Keep up the good work.
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last"- Sir Winston Churchill
Churchill was one for some amazing quotes!
For a piece of shit liar and murderer, dude's speechwriter did come up with some catchy quotes 🤷♂️
@@jasongrahm6068 You know nothing.
"Crikey look at this little rippa!" - Steve Irwin
@@jasongrahm6068 at least he didn't resign as PM during WW2 and had the guts to fight the Nazis. Not saying he isn't flawed though...
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
“There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always-do not forget this, Winston-always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-forever. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking into the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.”
- 1984 by George Orwell
1984 coming to us in these days and times.
Nailed it
Absolutely, George Orwells warning of thought control in his novel 1984 coming to fruition in 2020.
Stop copying and pasting other peoples comments for likes.
This guy thinks reading Orwell makes him woke. Well most likely just googled quotes from it but I digress. Sad.
I have plowed through many of the reviews you've done. This one! This one by far, is the best piece, evoking nostalgia and provoking critical thought in an almost poetic monologue. Bravo Mr. Drinker.
I'll go away now.
True words. People need to wake up and realize that their freedom of expression is taken away piece by piece through social media
Appeasement only makes the aggressor *more* aggressive.
So true. A good ass kicking is the only sane response to this insanity.
Britain once had a leader that understood that.
Just like Hitler.
The leftists/SJW/marxist/communists are literally Hitler.
Exercise your 2A if you live in the USA
Give them absolutely no quarter!
Blood in the water never makes a shark calm down.
Drinker, you inimitably astute interpreter of moving pictures, this is the most important video you've ever made.
In the end, it's all about immature people that can't cope with things. So instead of accepting them and discussing about how we evolved/changed since then, they instead change/censor/destroy it.
I gotta say, Drinker, I have watched this many times since you produced it, and it still ranks (in my ranking) the best thing you've done - and that is really saying something. Such amazing work!
Can you imagine going into a museum and putting black paint over old paintings that aren't politically correct now? Yeah, same thing with movies.
I hope that never shall come true on the paintings, for that would make me sadder than I all ready am about that happening to movies, and I am pretty sad about that all ready.
People have already been tearing down statues. I love art it absolutely hurts my heart.
Nice analogy.
Wasn't there a case where some wierdo vandalized a painting in a museum, because it depicted black people working in a field, and he yelled that it "promoted slavery"?
@@heidipeterson4504 It somewhat already happened. Even from centuries ago, a lot of paintings and buildings were modified to appease different interests.
Sadly, a lot of people tend to dismiss history, and because of that, those things are prone to happen again and again.
"All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."
Yes, they will. For all of man’s accomplishments will inevitably crumble to dust. But there’s no reason to accelerate the process.
Flatebo famn fucking right
This is what we get for raising a generation that was never allowed to lose, where every kid got a trophy for doing nothing and where score was never kept so no one was on a losing side. A generation of self entitled adult aged children who have no skills for dealing with failure or rejection so they lash out and demand just as they did all their childhood years.
Another good quote "it can't rain everyday"-the crow
I don't think Drinker realizes what a fucking genius he is.
I am a gen z, or whatever you wann call it. I remember the time when modern cinema was making me extremely enjoyed, it made me became a fanboy for the frenchises, defending their failures. Then I found Star Trek and fell in love with it. Experienced the old productions more and more. I remember me saying I couldn't watch any old productions because of the visual effects, now I have almost no will to sit down and watch new productions. I almost dislike every new productions. I said I remember being extremely enjoyed watching modern productions, but I have to say the feelings that I felt for Star Trek Deep Space Nine was something else that I have never felt before. The first time in my entire life I didn't want something to end, even though the visual effects were bad even for my new, changed standards. Now I see every modern people around me, my friends, my family members are becoming more and more difficult to convince, difficult to listen, difficult to even me a chance to show them the real good. I am looking around in my modern world, looking at people and seeing them doing illogical actions worshipping the modern trends. That's my suffering, that's how I changed, that's why old is better and that's why the past matters for me.
Thank you for this video and I hope we will leave this modern nonsenses and move on to develop ourselves like how we did in the past.
Don't become too cynical and jaded. It's a tough path to walk down being stuck in the past. I'm as sick as anyone of the assembly line movies. But there are still good films being produced. 13 days about the soccer players from thailand getting stuck in the cave is quite good. Prey by Disney, the new predator movie is surprisingly good despite pushing the party line. I would recommend that. The Lincoln lawyer is good too.
@@aaronjackman4037 I know there are still good films, but it's not like the old movies. Today, especially Disney with Marvel and Star Wars, the companies are mass producing the productions which they never supposed to do. Even CGI looks extremely bad even with today's tech.
I'm a fan of Star Trek, but the new ones just make me to hate the thing I loved in the first place. I'm not the cynical one, they are. They put a mask on the face of their production and expect us to beleive that thing we're looking at is Star Trek. It seems like it, because of that mask, but it's extremely off put to the point that the mask is now like a decoration. They are using the name just not to make a brand new story, which they think will not bring the same money.
@@yabada7866 I'm not arguing with you. Films aren't really made to inspire anymore they're fabricated to make money and create merchandising revenue. I just think that letting these films turn us into cynical jaded people is not the way to go either. I was born in the 2000's as well. I'm not going to let them make me too cynical. I don't know what you thought about infinity war, didn't really have any on the nose pandering moments like Endgame had, and actually subverted all my expectations by the end of it. I love the old war films like bridge on the river koi, a bridge too far, the great escape. The old films are genuinely something else
If you look at media, like Disney and Microsoft own so much of the media industry. I don't know how they're getting away with it. It's not in the public interest for billionaires with agendas to control public perception and the flow of information. Even more worrying, like the video says, censorship is growing, and that's what it is. I don't believe in offending people deliberately or out of ignorance but sometimes a spade is a spade.
@@aaronjackman4037 I agree to an extend, yes you're right we shouldn't let fictional things control our life but they can be inspirational. Most of the audience is just ignorant that they will say "ah that makes sense" to every message the producers trying to give from their productions. They know people are idiot and they know they don't need the people who actually say meaningful things against them. Because these people are only the fraction of the population and those idiot audience/fans are not even gonna listen to them, because they're racist when they criticise the production they liked. Big companies are getting away with that, because again, the idiot audience.
@@yabada7866 No, I think a lot more people know that the quality of everything is declining, music, film, TV is declining than you're giving them credit for. We just all accept it. Maybe 30 percent, less actually think the new stuff is as good as some of the older classics
This, is probably the best video you have made Drinker! Everything you make leaves me in fits of laughter, but not this one. Poignant, honest, and redoubtable! Never settle Drinker; thank you 🙏
"Our art is who we are." Well, that is precisely the reason why they want to destroy it.
destroy what exactly? art? you think the LEFT want to destroy art? most of the musicians, artists and creatives in the world are left-leaning
TehWinnerz radical cultural marxist want to destroy our culture
@@Germane075 how? whats 'your culture'?
@@appocalypsechild you calling him racist without any sort of evidence just exposes yourself
@@TehWinnerz Have you seen what they're doing at all? They are literally yelling for movies, books, statues, videos, and people to be torn down, silenced, edited, and even killed simply because they deem them problematic. They're even trying to get rid of Abraham Lincoln statues, you know that guy who freed the f****** slaves, for god knows why. If you don't think that's wrong then you're either ignorant or dumb.
Hollywood sees this and says: “But what will China think?”
Its not China that is a threat to filmaking and pop culture. Its the SJWs and the incessant desire to pander to all.
@@charlesng553 No China is their supreme overlord. Sure they talk a big game about social justice and everything but money talks and they’ll immediately stop pretending they care about that BS if it makes their bottom lines bigger. China is a racist country and don’t like seeing black people in movies so Hollywood either cuts out black characters from their Chinese movie posters or make them smaller and less noticeable. just check out Chinese The Force Awakens poster. They don’t allow homosexuality in their country so they edited out Freddy Mercury’s sexuality in the Chinese edit of the movie Bohemian Rhapsody. In this new Top Gun Sequel they took Taiwanese and Japanese flags off Maverick’s jacket cuz China hates those countries. This is just a few examples
Screw sjw, screw politics.
Bring back entertainment even if its shit or good, it's meant for entertainment.
If anyone hates it don't see it.
I hate a lot of movies(certain remakes😅) but share my views and I don't beat down by views on to my peers, I just explain why I love it or why I hate it.
@@samdiego1965 china claims they're so anti racist and virtuous when talking about america and us, and then expect us not to know the sheer irony of it
Do not be dumb, Hollywood has no fucking agenda... They care only about making money. They make there decisions simply on what they think will be the most accepted and make the most dollar 💰.
Given today's climate, this video has aged well. Not only do I feel the same way, I also think censuring and altering the original works damage the product more than it benefits from it. It essentially removes the thing that made the original work resonate so much. As you said it in the video, art is an expression of who we are, who we were and who we might be, and if we water down it, it's going to end up being soulless.
I’d love to play this on the big screen at the Oscars or golden globes. Can you imagine!? I wonder would it change anything?🤔
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power" -Abraham Lincoln
The irony was Lincoln revealed himself to be a tyrant by taking 1 giant shit on the Constitution.
These lunatics won’t stop with just altering or banishing our most beloved movies or Tv shows. This is just the beginning.
It’s communism
Haven't you read Foucault, bro? They want to destroy the entirety of Western society and its values.
Sadly, I believe that you are correct. :[
People have been altering media they didn't like for thousands of years. Hell, the catholic church reinvented how angels behaved and looked because they didn't like how they were introduced in the old testament.
No my friend, lets hope this is their end...
That is such a great powerful speech. This video itself is a work of art and it's more applicable today than when it was posted. I wish everyone could see this. They should show this as a PSA during the Super Bowl or something.
I've always felt that the past is one of our most invaluable resources in self-education. It encourages people to learn, to expand on what they know and think for themselves. To erase the past is to erase accountability and freedom of expression. Knowledge can not be entirely erased, no matter how much anyone tries.
Never thought "book burning" would happen in my country in my lifetime.
When i learned in school, what happened in europe in the thirties i always thought:"How could the people not have see where all this was leading?" I guess the people then also thought to be in the right, no matter how ridiculous it sounds nowadays. A lot of them must have thought it would not concern them. In retrospect we have learned that there is no medium better suited to transport propaganda than film and radio broadcasts....and that it concerns everyone in society. #Reddragon Wisconsin
Maybe books about adults doing sex things with children deserve to be burned, but that would be antisemitic.
@@dansmith1661 If you're referring to Lot's daughters getting him drunk and having their way with him, it gets called out as folly in the text.
@@SarajevoKyoto No
@Fighting 4 Liberty antifa isn't the government or local powerful religion. it's nowhere near the same thing as censorship. they aren't going to make the bible go out of print by making a political statement
"Appeasers are people that hope the crocodile eats them last." - Churchill
The compromise with evil is the compromise between food and poison, drop by drop until you're dead." ~ Ayn Rand.
Apparently Churchill is an evil naughty man now so I guess erase him and all his wisdom from history too. Looks like being instrumental in the destruction of Hitler and the Nazi's only gets you so far these days.
@@HisNameWasCrazy Churchill was a bad man, because he stopped Hitler, thereby creating what we see today. Compare 1930s germany to this shitty time and tell me which you prefer. Churchill sent men to die for this degenerate trash.
@ GentleGamers...That's why you use startpage or duckduckgo for any search, goo-gul is cancer .
@@HisNameWasCrazy to be fair simply fighting against Nazis doesn't make someone automatically a good person (see the Soviet Union in general). And Churchill was most certainly a bastard, just in a bastard in the right time and place.
Wow, the first Drinker video to bring me to tears. Good job mate. So relevant and poignant. And using that quote at the end, from one of my favourite episodes of any Trek was perfect and heart wrenching.
Thank you 🙏
The world needs to hear this... thank you.
"slowly but surely it diminishes who we are..."
yeah, that is the intention.
He who controls the past controls the present. He who controls the present controls the future.
what are we exactly?
surely we will dimish but what do you see in the current "US" thats worth perserving?
I'm not against keeping films as they are, but what do you see thats actually being hurt in the content of these altered works?
Slowly turning every person into a object, an identity, not an individual.
@@m150985 It isn't so much about the small edits they are aiming for, it is the bigger picture. This is the equivalent of the Nazis burning books, because they didn't want people having a different perspective to the one they were forcing onto the people with their own propaganda. This is 1984, The Memory Hole, where the past is continually changed, in order to control the way people think in the present. They wont stop with a few small changes either, they will use them to condition the public into their usual apathetic attitude, and then make bigger changes once we have accepted it. The Drinker makes this point in his video, this is just the beginning, but it certainly wont be the end.
michael miroshnik
“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
Why do I feel like TH-cam is going to remove The Critical Drinker's account abruptly without any given reason?
why, Don't Know!
Because they silence people all the time now. This platform is insanity. Cold, measured, insanity.
Because it's your "feeling".
no one cares about your 'feelings'
No way! Are you from the future too?
This is quite simply one of the best videos ever created on TH-cam. It’s brilliant, eloquent, insightful, passionate and beautiful. It’s such an incredible piece of art that I’ve watched a dozen times and plan to watch dozens more. So, so well done 👏👏👏
Two years after watching this for the first time, and that last 30 seconds still hits like a hammer, and still applies as much now as it did then.