This was heart warming ! only 10 thousand pound will turn my life upside down now and will help me but I know people that are in despaired need for only 500 pound !
I remember a similar thing at Lilly Singh’s show where she asks us to introduce ourselves and shake the person’s hand in front of us. Should be more common practice in today’s world! Miranda July is an inspiring, insightful, humourous person whom I could chat with about stuff for hours. Kajillionaire was excellent.
what´s wrong with people these days?? why do they/you need to laugh like this? can´t people just listen?? not everything needs to be a stand up show, you know? you can see how uncomfortable she is in the beginning because the audience just won´t shut up and listen. she is so great.
i suspect she's in tune with that type of audience reflex. she seems to have a bit of vaudevillian sentiment and delivery - which is a selling point. especially toward people who might otherwise avoid awkward or difficult subjects. real stories and feelings are a hard message to sell. humor and beauty helps. the crux ascends beyond the nervous behavior of the masses. this show makes me well up inside. it's perfect in all its awkward laughter. blah blah blah :-)
All the people in the room were nervous/uncomfortable and for many people just talking to someone they don't know (a 'stranger') is a challenge. For these people touching and holding a 'stranger' is scary, nerve racking and unknown. Some people struggle to express any feelings at all, even to the ones they love and or know best.....Of course this can seem silly. Laughter is a way of expressing nervous energy. I suggest the majority of the audience were laughing for these reasons and not out of disrespect or an inability to listen.
I've felt for a while that the school of life is aimed at an exclusively middle-class audience and this just confirms it. Bidding over £100 for a pair of tweezers may be fun if £100 is loose change to you, but to anyone else it looks a bit tasteless. What does this show actually teach us about the need to open up to strangers? What efforts is SOL trying to reach the people who are most in need of liberation? I'm talking about those who have not had a decent education, who are struggling to makes ends meet. So many other kinds of suffering flow from economic stress. Alain de Botton was born into a very rich family and is steeped in academia, if he is serious about improving society he should be attempting to make his considerable wisdom 'trickle down' more.
For us middle-class is hard to put money on perspective sometimes, Alain does, he talks meritocracy, he's helping us middle-class feel less trapped and more emotionally prepared to get out of our silly sorrows and actually be kind and see options and creating community. If you can't reflect on this exercise or feel something new It's on you, keep criticizing because it's easy and free.
He does put out a lot of content for free. And you can't judge the entite SOL on a single lecture. Remember that people speak from experience, and if they've only had a middle-class experience, that is all they know. I like SOL and a lot of their lectures, but I don't agree with everything they say. Philosophy is for everyone, though admittedly, not everyone has ready access to libraries/classes/other ppl to talk to about philosophy.
potatowitheyes Think that this was happening while the audience followed Miranda July's instructions, and touched a complete stranger. Everyone was feeling nervous, but earnest, I think all of that was kinda nervous laughter, not "safe and condescending" laughter.
I like how the cringe this lecture gives off match succinctly the awkwardness of meeting strangers, at least for me. People have such fantastic live stories.
I found this talk to be mostly uncomfortable. I understand that it is rude to laugh but Im not sure how she didnt anticipate some nervous clammor after instructing the entire audience to touch each other. She didnt adapt to their responses or relate to possibly turn that into a memorable, funny, moment, she just sat uncomfortably and passive agressively told them to stop. Im saying she didnt really allow herself comfortable control of the audience. So she put a lot of distracting things in the talk - like the touching. Then when she interviewed I couldnt stop uncomfortably looking at the spinning tweezers. Meh
I have thought, of her other work that I am familiar with, that she deliberately creates discomfort and unfamiliarity. She then uses it to show humanity. Some of her characters are so lovely.
Maybe so.. I didnt get that from it.... Sn obnoxious crowd would have talked continually amomgst themselves and or walked out. An obnoxious crowd or imdividual would so either no interest or disdain. We interpreted their reactions and participation differently, that is all.... I currently still feel the same about it, but i have not watched since my first comment, maybe my interpretation of the events would change if i watched again...
It's "talking to humans," the board game--something only valuable as some kind of anti-fascist social experiment. The sustaining bit--a pure mass cringe--was unsettling, even disturbing. It would have served her right, but it's lucky someone didn't get punched. I don't give a shit why, some people don't like being touched. She knows they can't express refusal in time--it's a crowd--and doesn't care if she upsets someone really sensitive, or creates annoying peer pressure disputes--all to no end.
One of the best sermons I've ever experienced... and I've heard a lot in churches, believe me!
my life is crap but miranda july (and john green) always put a smile on my face
Are you alive
Wonderful! So much vulnerability and strength at the same time. Thank you ❤
This is so brillant and hilarious.
Mj is a genuis and a comic genuis.
This was heart warming !
only 10 thousand pound will turn my life upside down now and will help me but I know people that are in despaired need for only 500 pound !
This is so much better and different from what I expected
why do i love her so much?
Hey, she’s mine...!
Miranda July is so good at asking questions
what a talent.
I remember a similar thing at Lilly Singh’s show where she asks us to introduce ourselves and shake the person’s hand in front of us. Should be more common practice in today’s world! Miranda July is an inspiring, insightful, humourous person whom I could chat with about stuff for hours. Kajillionaire was excellent.
what´s wrong with people these days?? why do they/you need to laugh like this? can´t people just listen?? not everything needs to be a stand up show, you know? you can see how uncomfortable she is in the beginning because the audience just won´t shut up and listen.
she is so great.
i suspect she's in tune with that type of audience reflex. she seems to have a bit of vaudevillian sentiment and delivery - which is a selling point. especially toward people who might otherwise avoid awkward or difficult subjects. real stories and feelings are a hard message to sell. humor and beauty helps. the crux ascends beyond the nervous behavior of the masses. this show makes me well up inside. it's perfect in all its awkward laughter. blah blah blah :-)
All the people in the room were nervous/uncomfortable and for many people just talking to someone they don't know (a 'stranger') is a challenge. For these people touching and holding a 'stranger' is scary, nerve racking and unknown. Some people struggle to express any feelings at all, even to the ones they love and or know best.....Of course this can seem silly. Laughter is a way of expressing nervous energy. I suggest the majority of the audience were laughing for these reasons and not out of disrespect or an inability to listen.
Isn't it nice how we have come together to try and open up our minds, sharing different perspectives.
She is funny, I think at some point was funny and then just couldn't stop.
So amazing and inspiring. These are life-changing videos...
Getting Portlanders to interact with a stranger is like trying to get water out of a rock.
I've felt for a while that the school of life is aimed at an exclusively middle-class audience and this just confirms it. Bidding over £100 for a pair of tweezers may be fun if £100 is loose change to you, but to anyone else it looks a bit tasteless. What does this show actually teach us about the need to open up to strangers? What efforts is SOL trying to reach the people who are most in need of liberation? I'm talking about those who have not had a decent education, who are struggling to makes ends meet. So many other kinds of suffering flow from economic stress. Alain de Botton was born into a very rich family and is steeped in academia, if he is serious about improving society he should be attempting to make his considerable wisdom 'trickle down' more.
For us middle-class is hard to put money on perspective sometimes, Alain does, he talks meritocracy, he's helping us middle-class feel less trapped and more emotionally prepared to get out of our silly sorrows and actually be kind and see options and creating community.
If you can't reflect on this exercise or feel something new It's on you, keep criticizing because it's easy and free.
He does put out a lot of content for free. And you can't judge the entite SOL on a single lecture. Remember that people speak from experience, and if they've only had a middle-class experience, that is all they know. I like SOL and a lot of their lectures, but I don't agree with everything they say. Philosophy is for everyone, though admittedly, not everyone has ready access to libraries/classes/other ppl to talk to about philosophy.
This is hard to watch because of the over the top and unfitting audience laugher.
potatowitheyes Think that this was happening while the audience followed Miranda July's instructions, and touched a complete stranger. Everyone was feeling nervous, but earnest, I think all of that was kinda nervous laughter, not "safe and condescending" laughter.
potatowitheyes perhaps it was staged to bring light to the 'annoying laughing man on a table' bit ?
yeah, that was a strangely sustained response. and i dont know why it irked me. but it did.
Miranda is extremely cute
I like how the cringe this lecture gives off match succinctly the awkwardness of meeting strangers, at least for me. People have such fantastic live stories.
first time I saw her me you and everybody we know movie dang she was awesome.
I would go to this kind of a event.
this is delightful
0:21 - spotted jarvis cocker!
Just amazing!
How do people not _get_ this? Maybe they need to loosen their expectations?
is that...jarvis cocker 0:21
yep, i mean...if not, it's it's double!
YES!
I worked on one of your movies as a toddler lol
nice
Imagine going to an auction only to win tweezers
oh, I feel really like a stranger...
Cute...KAWAIII! ...and shy...and cute just for that!
lovely.
Is that Jarvis Cocker in the audience (the one that gets hugged in the intro)?
does she have an earpiece in her ear? sounds like it
I found this talk to be mostly uncomfortable. I understand that it is rude to laugh but Im not sure how she didnt anticipate some nervous clammor after instructing the entire audience to touch each other. She didnt adapt to their responses or relate to possibly turn that into a memorable, funny, moment, she just sat uncomfortably and passive agressively told them to stop. Im saying she didnt really allow herself comfortable control of the audience. So she put a lot of distracting things in the talk - like the touching. Then when she interviewed I couldnt stop uncomfortably looking at the spinning tweezers. Meh
i got the same feeling, very umconfortable talk.
I have thought, of her other work that I am familiar with, that she deliberately creates discomfort and unfamiliarity. She then uses it to show humanity. Some of her characters are so lovely.
despite how negative the audience hating is, I really appreciate how British it is
what is this, this is weird?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Sure being at the event is best, watching it online is challenging without some stranger holding my arm loses meaning.
Maybe so.. I didnt get that from it.... Sn obnoxious crowd would have talked continually amomgst themselves and or walked out. An obnoxious crowd or imdividual would so either no interest or disdain. We interpreted their reactions and participation differently, that is all.... I currently still feel the same about it, but i have not watched since my first comment, maybe my interpretation of the events would change if i watched again...
It's "talking to humans," the board game--something only valuable as some kind of anti-fascist social experiment. The sustaining bit--a pure mass cringe--was unsettling, even disturbing. It would have served her right, but it's lucky someone didn't get punched. I don't give a shit why, some people don't like being touched. She knows they can't express refusal in time--it's a crowd--and doesn't care if she upsets someone really sensitive, or creates annoying peer pressure disputes--all to no end.
hermoso
Jeez, is this in Norway?
Damn sup jarvis