Freeman Pennington well you are half right, socialism is part of the problem but it’s not the root of tyranny. Because the root of all human action is psychological. Socialism is merely a by product of a flawed idea that has its positives and negatives.
Freeman Pennington your extremist attitude and unbalanced behavior will not convince me otherwise. I don’t know you and you don’t know me. Let’s just leave it at that. ☺️
@@gopet400 some people like to watch the movie within the comfort of their home, not in the theaters. I too, because theaters usually smells awful In my area because the employees do not clean up after every sitting. I personally do not care about spoilers but some people do. Then again, if they are evading spoilers, chances are they should stay away from the internet
He's a lying, manipulative psychopath : He, Gamora and Peter Dinklage seem to be the last of their respective species/communities, ,and they all three fell victim to his failed politics... so he lied about all of it, it seems, and the Russos didn't carry that theme into the setting of _Endgame_ , so there's still infrastructure and normal peace in the world *after 5 years* , and it only seems that there's chaos on other planets, with Captain Marvel's comment, as it doesn't seem like Rocket wanted her to help with any big war on Earth... So yeah, and they used this subtle characterization to make a different villain, by hiding how much of a villain he is, so that's how he's a great one...
@@ntigdona7487 if you mean the non majority (less then the 50%) then no, if you mean the majority then yes. But majority always rules, and it can rule through numbers alone.
should check the Harambe video, most people want the kid dead, not the ape, that tell you as much as society, i was so sad, when i see elderly people begging for food in your country, i was there when Chavez was the dictator, and well, is sad what your going threw now, but like Benjamin Franklin says, every nation has the government it deserves, hopefully, you get a better one soon.
Kingsman and the new Point Break are both recent movies with the same subtext. "People are killing the earth." The newest Godzilla has it too without a clear villian. As a trope it's getting tired and overused. The only reason is Hollywood's love of the eco-extremists.
There was rumored to be a scene where we would see what happened to Gamora's planet. It would have been nothing like what Thanos described. Remember GoG described her as the last of her species. I do not think this was unintentional or a throw away line. I think it was planned.
Another problem with Thanos' plan is that it would straight up not work. Sure half off life would be gone, but the half that remains would (for the most part) replenish quickly enough. In a generation or two things would be roughly back to normal.
@Always watching Never thought to equate him as a lazy guy (I think it takes a lot of effort to go looking for galactic rocks and stuff), but agreed on the narcissist part and being catastrophically misguided. Dude's really damaged.
and many lifeforms reproduce in differing intervals and by differing multipliers. i would love to see the rythm thanos will be snapping from here onward troughout the universes life to keep all of them at bay. and not all spiecies are vulcans to reproduce once a 7 years. can you imagine a spiecies evolved from frogs or rabbit like creatures reproducing? then add the possibility of dear thanos killing half of whichever lifeform keeping them at bay. grand job, just what you said you wanted dear boy........
This channel should be an option for schools to teach, but not obligatory, since that kinda defeats the whole purpose. Unless that was a joke, in which case I got wooshed
You are doing the very same thing when you say that people cannot differ from your opinion. Stop making pretentious attempts to normalise a fantasy on the constrains of modern political correctness and pitifully shallow conclusion.
If Thanos simply genocided everyone, every single (previously) living being would be equal. "Equality of outcome" people should love that plan. No more hunger, poverty or disparity. Just an even, empty void. Social justice dream.
Me: Wow this channel is really good, analyzing the snap's ramifications in a very down to earth way like this Also me: *realizes this is the Common Sense Soapbox channel too* Me: *happiness noises*
@@Omen_Burrito So you want to say that there was no central planning over all the aspects of ones life in a ex socialist and communist country? So i guess Venezuela and North Korea is doing it wrong.
I really like how this video subtly defends the Republic system that the Founding Fathers put into place (for they were also under a centralized system, and made a system specifically to combat any central power) while simultaneously shooting down the defenses of the Communist, Socialist, and even radical Democratic systems that put minor populace, over the major. Communism and socialism are more obvious in their goals, but a democracy is always what has to start the road to socialism and communism. It's like putting a frog into a pot of boiling water. It will simply jump right back out. But if you put it in a lukewarm pot, and slowly heat it up until it's boiling, the frog will be boiled alive. Democracy is the lukewarm pot. Socialism and communism is the boiling point, and the frog is obviously the people. This is why America is a republic. The Founding Fathers did not want any one person or government in total control of the people. Why do you think they first established the Articles of Confederation, where the people had the most power? This is what people often overlook or ignore about our country and countries around the world.
Now I definitely need to learn how to add subtitles to a yt video so I can share this among my friends and family. This are the best 16 minutes on yt. The situation here in Brazil is so crazy! We have Venezuela next door and half of the population still think we need a self proclaimed hero to impose his rules and violence for the good of all. God help me.
This video is just beautiful, as a Venezuelan, I was really happy to see the clips of the protest in my country, to know that maybe we aren’t alone, and that there are still people who recognize the potential and the good will that still exist in the world, and the hope there is for the future. Thank you, I don’t have words to describe how happy this video made me
Living in Venezuela this video hit me strong, as the situation gets worsen day by day I am more interested in what lead us there in the first place. I just hate being so young I couldn’t do anything about it, really interested in learning what can I do as an individual to help
“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.” ― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
@@kingorange7739 No... a man with cancer should not have to pay to cure his cancer if he doesn't want it cured. Nor should anyone else be forced to cure it, whether or not he (or anyone else) wants it to be.
@@kingorange7739 Actually, many people have *not* wanted treatment yet have had it forced on them... particularly when they feel the treatment is more unbearable than simply living the best they can, for as long as they can. Here's a few instances of medical kidnapping - when doctors insist on providing treatment that is no longer wanted by the patient. www.kgw.com/article/news/investigations/medical-kidnapping-or-saving-her-life-a-13-year-old-with-cancer-is-caught-in-the-middle/283-914f00bb-3d5b-483b-b6b0-c17140caafa2 psychrights.org/States/Alaska/BretBohn/150203MedicalKidnapHappens2Adults2.htm Chemo, in particular, is *so* painful and exhausting, that many patients refuse to go through it again if their cancer in remission comes back. Some doctors attempt to force them, anyway. They have *no* right to do so.
This was very well done and i find that i agree with you very much. That ofcourse doesnt make it right or correct in any sense, but it is also the only possible path forward that doesnt kill us all off first in order to reach the goal. If humanity is to live on we have to solve this problem as the free people that we are without a dictatorship. There is also a good reason why we know that Thanos is wrong, because we value life over death and we always will, that goes for the rich oil owner down to the destitute farmer in communist North Korea. We all want to solve this problem, so we are all working on it, however if you are given a dictator that controls your life and promises that he will solve it, you have less minds working on it. So the chance that he is the person to figure it all out is 1/8,000,000,000 just today.
Thanos forgot that life itself is a fundamental resource. He erased half of all plants and animals too. Which means the ratio of individuals and food, a resource, remains the same. Still have hungry bellies. That's just pointless.
I think Thanos's big problem is that like his comic counterpart he's still a nihilist. He sees the worse possible endgame and acts on that. He has no faith in anyone...except perhaps Ghamora. He can't possibly imagine a world where we've solved the issues of our time. I don't Thanos is evil, I think that he is afraid.
Krazy Stargazer Most evil people ARE afraid. Hitler was afraid of... a lot of things, actually. Stalin was afraid - the USSR's most defining characteristic was negotiating from a place of severe national insecurity. Read the Long Telegram. ALL despots (which includes all communists) are deathly afraid of a backstabbing minion or an uprising of the populace. Comics Thanos (from my understanding of him) wasn't nihilist at all - he was just suicidal from living literal eons after making himself immortal. He'd come to the conclusion that death was a spurned lover, and was giving Her "gifts" in hopes of finally leaving this mortal coil. That isn't a philosophy of "nothing matters", it's a philosophy of "Help! I can't die and I am really sick of living!"
@@StarWarsomania Thanos didn't become suicidal after living for a long time. You got his backstory wrong. It's true that he, like all members of his species, didn't age, but he wasn't really immortal. He could still be killed. He only became immortal after Mistress Death amplified his powers and granted him immortality. Jim Starlin's classic Thanos was a nihilist and he's an infinitely better character than his watered down MCU counterpart. He came to believe life has no intrinsic value because of the way he was ostracized by the society he lived in, and because, subsequently, he could never find any real joy in life. Here's a video that offers a good insight into Classic Thanos's mindset: th-cam.com/video/uTsOMbnTnAA/w-d-xo.html
@Tsuna Dragneel Endgame however prooves his bills tendencies. Remember when Scarlet Witch said that Ultron "Couldn't tell the difference between saving the world and destroying it?" Thanos is simular. In his "rational" mind it's "logical" to erase the current universe for a paradise
Great Video. As a MCU fan, i was worried about how they were going to create the character of Thanos. In the comics, the source material is interesting, but i wasnt sure how it was going to work if it was just as in the comics. Marvel Studios did justice to Thanos, in a very different way. The character maybe not be the greatest villain, but the debate that has been generated is something remarkable. I am clicking the suscribe button. Fantastic content.
A well crafted follow up on your previous video and a great examination of the dangerous and INCORRECT philosophy of a villain that too many people I personally know wrongfully sympathise and even agree with.
SacredEnix I only agree with some parts,like,running out of resources.....look,it doesn’t matter what’s you say....there’s NO,abusoltly no arguement that can say without recourses we can still live and will be fine....just...no.Though killing population is not the way to go.Theres other ways.
@@0Abraham16 but that's entirely what I and the author of the video is saying, we're not advocating to keep misusing resources, we're arguing that murder on an unimaginable scale would not solve anything, but create more problems. It saddens me that we even have to convince people that cosmic genocide and the extinction of half the species of flora and fauna is not a solution to anything
Now do the anime Dr. Stone next. It further further explores how far back civilization would regress if many humans all disappeared at once and the authoritarian nature of those who wish to "protect" nature by limiting human potential.
There's a reason Marvel did not want to focus on the technical and realistic aspect of the snap. This is because Marvel wants to justify Thanos' actions no matter how minuscule it is; keeping him as a lone hero who sees the necessity of his brutality.
@@rayr5950 This video is just a straw-man, lumping authoritarianism into one place and blaming the world's problems on it, while failing to admit that most of the worlds problems of today are not the fault of central planners (by the way, not defending Thanos, because he's just a dumb comic book villain whose ideas shouldn't be taken seriously.) China was used as an example in this, but it is not mentioned that China's standard of living has actually risen significantly under the Communist Party. Pollution in China is a result of them producing for Western countries in factories. And Communism, Fascism, and Socialism are all different from each other to begin with. Comparing eco-Fascism or Communism to Thanos' plan and then saying "this is why central planning is good" is just a straw man that doesn't take into account the shortcomings of Capitalism/economic freedom. You do realize that using this maniacal plan to kill trillions as a comparison to authoritarianism is a false equivalency?
@@KobyBrennero Seriously? A straw-man? The Chinese Communist Party is just like any other big government oligarchy of rulers and bureaucrats-a parasite on the economy. They just figured out that blood suckers at the top of government eat better in a more liberalised capitalist economy. Maybe you look favourably on total authoritarian socialism under Mao Zedong's maniacal plan where 45 million died in the "Great Leap Forward"? You can't not but notice how authoritarians of all stripes love to use euphemisms. No, comparing authoritarianism and mass murder is not a false equivalency, the body count in history proves that.
Ray R Yeah pretty sure places like Japan were able to rise from relative poverty without killing millions both in the past and present (NEVER go to China for an organ transplant!!!!) The one child policy was basically Thanos with gender preferences, and they’re starting to see the insane amount of problems it’s going to cause. I think any progress they’ve made is in spite of their government, not because of it.
Thank you for showing that article about Flint Michigan water crisis. There is corruption on all levels in that city that I grew up hearing about for over a decade. I moved away in 2011 and am glad I did.
Seriously Thanos was an idiot, with the great neigh infinite power of the Infinity Stones he could have just doubled or tripled the quote unquote 'finite resources' in the universe and had a net better result. By eliminating half the life he got rid of more than half the knowledge of how to use those 'finite resources'
Those finite resources being in close proximity to existing resources, correct? Wouldn't that effectively double or triple the mass of the planet (living space, farmland, oil, metal ores, etc.)? The change in gravitational pull on humans alone could be severely detrimental, not to mention how it would affect the orbit of the planet around the sun. And about the sun, are stars resources for some advanced alien race? If so, would those have to be doubled or tripled? Of the two choices, I think Thanos took the less dangerous route. Even if you attempt to change the fundamental laws of the universe and the forces within to account for the sudden increase in mass and energy, you might still cause more damage than the original thanos snap.
Rather than doubling resources, could he have instead halved the resources everyone needs, or simply reduce fertility rates of humans and intelligent aliens?
@@raptor9777 I think that would be the lame but more reasonable change. There was some of that in mass effect where one warring species of aliens was infected with a disease that essentially stopped the population growth, preventing them from risking war. Making half of the female population infertile would do the same thing in the long run while costing us almost nothing in the short term.
A S actually you can just create more resources except for some reason you normies don’t seem to know that because both Power Girl and Superman’s clone,( Superboy), have been able to do so many many times in the comics without the use of genocide.
I appreciate the take, I wish I had your optimism about environmental issues. Your insight about entrepreneurial solutions vs political ones does make me think more positively. I always expected a political solution but now I'm hopeful for other ones. Definitely subscribing
I just want to point out here that eliminating half of an endangered species (or any species for that matter) has a very high chance of bottlenecking that species. Which gives it a higher chance of going extinct.
Love how you use films everyone can or has seen to make these points, it makes the concepts much more accessible to many people. A lot of folks I know have never read a lot of economists, but most of em have seen marvel movies!
So Thanos snapped thinking to help balance the world is evil, ironman snap to kill is good. call me socialist if you want, i still think Thanos is good.
@@faznanbadri6854 You are a special kind of idiot. Thanos snapped and killed half the universe, Iron Man snapped and killed Thanos the guy who wanted to as of Endgame, kill a majority of the universe so no one could ever challenge him again. That's like saying law enforcement shooting a criminal and a criminal shooting civilians are the same.
*Sees Title* *Tune begins playing in head* This was a triumph. I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS. It's hard to overstate my satisfaction. -Aperture Science- *Black Order* We do what we must because we can. For the good of all of us. Except the ones who are dead.
I know the filmmakers were busy with the rest of the movie but givin how many real people believed in Thanos' plan makes me think they should've had more characters state him being wrong beyond Gamora's "you don't know that" line.
Most resources are either never really gone, or they can reproduce. Like how water goes through the water cycle, and how plants and animals just create new plants and animals. Water and food doesn’t just disappear because there are more people. Sure if there were too many people the world would get overcrowded, but that would take many more people than there are currently.
Dorkly's animation called: "If Thanos had an assistance" is a short version of this video. The snap would probably cause another world war for food and resources. Love this video!
God I wish Thanos realized he was wrong half way through the movie. A serious conversation between Thanos and all the Avengers trying to fix the Snap would be super sweet.
You really got me with that title, good sir, at first you tricked me into thinking that there were possibly millions of Thanosuu clones scattered across the Universe, only to realize that it was still true, figuratively speaking.
Feminism is essentially the idea that men and women should have equal rights, responsibilities and opportunities, which is very much in line with the belief in individuals that the video has, as it empowers women to have the same individual value as men
@@isakkallsmyr9854 more women supremacy and less right for men. Men and women are already equal under the law, so if feminists want more privileges for women, they must ask for supremacy not equal rights of both genders.
I had the same thought about that scene you mentioned about Thanos' true nature(where he says he should have killed 100% instead). That's part of why I liked the second movie more than I thought.
I used to think that as well but then I realized how toothless they where when he came to corporations sure they scream & shout of the government not to tread on them but they're more than willing to bend over and take it up the ass from a corporation that's why I became a technocrat
@@dinosaurusrex1482 not to be fair if North America and Canada and everything below Mexico to form a self-sufficient technate which will be run by scientists and other highly intelligent people no politicians whatsoever we would have all the means to make our own goods and would be able to become isolationist and not have to deal with the rest of the world or trade with them for that matter and without politicians getting in the way of anything technology would rapidlyadvance so in a way I guess you could say a technocratic republic will be the best way to get the kind of technology you would see in cyberpunk a lot faster than we would naturally develop it
@@dinosaurusrex1482 well there would be no reason for war because war is an irrational thing and it causes the world to be by being able to resolve conflict without War you protect the efficiency of society also for maximum efficiency the work week would be reduced to only 4 days and they would be staggeredto ensure employees have the most free time they can enjoy will also having the most work time they can need meaning businesses and factories would be open 24 hours a day 365 days a year quality of life would increaseit's not as bad as you think it is I mean look at Singapore they became a technocratic society and they're one of the economic Juggernauts of the world
What we should be worrying about is pollution, ignorance, arrogance, and our personal freedoms. Instead of reflecting people's prejudice and self pride with self hate, we should be working together.
Have you considered doing a video on the ethics of Jurassic Park bringing creatures back from the dark corners of time? Would make a good backdrop for the realities of DNA study and manipulation today. Great videos keep up the good work.
The reason why he decided to just destroy and remake the universe in his own image is that not because his plan failed. But rather it's because there's someone that will undo all his achievement that's made him mad. Thanos didn't fail on his own accord, in fact, that's what the first part of Endgame is basically all about, Thanos already achieved his goal and he destroyed the stones to make sure that his goal will forever be completed. However, he doesn't expect that time travel without the time stone is possible. Do I have to remind you that this draw a parallel to how a more powerful country want to keep smaller countries aligned to its economic ideal? Other countries don't want economic system that is "one-sized fit-all" so they experimented with their own, but more powerful countries won't let them succeed.
In war, if a unit losses 5% of its forces, fighting effectiveness drops by 50%. When losses are around 10%, the unit effectiveness is almost 0. It is probably similar in almost anything else in the world. A loss of 50% would be almost unrecoverable in the short to medium time frames.
Another video that perfectly sums up why the "Thanos Was Right" or "Thanos Has A Point" crowd are kind of dumb and why I really do not like either "Avengers: Infinity War" or "Avengers: Endgame" for being films that thing they are more topical than they actually are, yet severely overly simply such a complicated issue and ideas that the films barely explores.
@Christian Tompkins I've heard this argument before and it really doesn't dismiss on what I've just said. You don't just start a film or have moments of films in which a character starts philosophising and don't follow through from it or provide any counter-points points to such an idea. The main issue with "Infinity War" in particular is that it is a film in which the plot and story are constantly at odds with each other. The story and meat of the story is mainly through Thanos who has like 45 minutes of screentime, yet the rest of the 2 hours of the film really is nothing but the heroes explaining what just happened or what is going to happen.....literally adding nothing to the idea and making a lot of the themes severely underdeveloped since perspective is hardly there. That to me is just spectacularly lazy storytelling. This is why I love "The Dark Knight" so much mainly because it actually understands that in order for a story to be fully developed, you kind of have to explore or display different angles to it. If a film is nothing more than just character interactions with no real substance, there is no story.
@Christian Tompkins That doesn't really saying anything or counter anything with what I've just said. If anything, the film really should have just have just stuck with the nihilistic motivations and goals of Thanos from the comics since that would actually be an interesting or at least paralleled counterpoint to the point of the heroes that you are talking about without any of the environmental pretenses that the film version of Thanos displays, which film doesn't counter on as this channel has said in his previous video on Thanos sicne the whole "killing half the universe" is a very "no duh" and as I've said incredibly overly simple way of approaching the idea which just makes the films rather pretentious. Yet the film had Tony Stark who is the perfect counter-argument to what Thanos is talking and is everything that this channel is talking about, but the films do literally nothing with it. There is a reason why most if not all event comics are often not seen as stories that are remotely in leagues with "The Dark Knight Returns", "All Star Superman" or "Watchmen" since those books are actually rich and everything is there to develop its ideas in some way. A story in which most of the characters do nothing but explain what is going on and what is about to happen is not story or character development.
@Christian Tompkins If anything you telling me that these films in terms of themes have the "Man of Steel" problem of throwing way too many eggs in one basket to the point in which there is no story since the ideas are barely developed or are bogged down by other stuff that goes no where.
@Christian Tompkins Wow way too overly simply Thanos and the actual dimensions that he actually has in the comics that you pretend he doesn't have. The reason why Thanos is obsessed with Death is because of his growing fascinating with the nihilistic worldview after being an outsider on Titan. Lady Death just further enforces that obsession. A villain doesn't have to be sympathetic or have a point in order to be effective, just interesting and develop the themes in one way. I mean look at The Joker, whether it is Mark Hamill, Heath Ledger or the comic book version, he is not a sympathetic villain in the slightest, yet he is one of the most popular villains in pop culture. Even if the films i suppose to be going the "sympathetic" route like he is Space Magneto or Space Punisher, even with those characters go a lot deeper in explore the problems with their way about it beyond the whole "killing people is wrong" or "people are sad" (which are the "No duh" points that I am talking about that actually deep) and a sympathetic characters require pathos, logos or ethos in order to actually achieve being sympathetic as many writing professors and philosophy majors would tell you. All Thanos is when it comes to being "sympathetic" is a bunch of overly pathological nonsense that fails at being some sort of commentary with nothing resembling ethos or logos behind it which is clearly the intend if you read any interviews with the writers and directors of the film. If you have to resort to interviews like that to explain certain details in the film, you have failed as storytellers.
Thanatos as a tool to enlighten us all about 'Strong solutions' and how the tyrant is embeded within the ones that call for laws and punishment to make others conform to what they think is best. Love it.
On that note, I guess Thanos wasn't entirely evil, as he presumably snapped out half of Antifa, half of all rapists, murderers, and drug dealers... Not entirely evil, but still completely wrong.
Wonderful video essay, already loved your first one. One small criticism: calling the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics just a "Normal" Nobel-Prize is a bit misleading especially concerning the smaller controversies surrounding the prize.
Every time I see Thanos I think of Don Lemon... "What...WHAT!?!" We may have solved climate change or cured cancer if we hadn't legalized the murder of babies over the last 50 years, prompting the world to follow in our footsteps. The answer isn't less minds, it is more.
I don't think the ecology topic is a good example, I mean if we don't do anything or act too slowly, we're basically all going to die no matter your country... This is a new kind of problem we never faced before and I'm afraid technology and entrepreneurial solutions alone won't save us... I can see why everyone is concerned and why so many freaks out.
@@brieuxbayot6823 How can you conclude we're all going to die? Look at the long-term global temperature data, we dodged a bullet by warming the climate. (commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:All_palaeotemps.png?scrlybrkr=c390d58a) We'd been stuck in a pattern of cyclic ice ages since the Pleistocene, and the warming broke us out of that! I'd much rather worry about rising sea levels and needing to water crops more than big sheets of ice bearing down on my house and local farmland; of course, I live inland, where glacier activity would have more effect, whereas people more afraid of rising sea levels tend to live... hmm, by the sea. (www.nytimes.com/elections/2016/results/president - red is majority Republican / climate change shruggers, blue is majority Democrat / climate change alarmists) Coincidence? Not likely.
Thanos is a virtuous villain : after wiping out half of the Universe's life, as was his goal, he does not get corrupted by the absolute power he now possesses and proceeds to go to his garden to end his days. That shows absolute integrity.
"Absolute integrity" would have demanded Thanos include himself as a target of the snap. But I guarantee you he didn't. Classic "rules for thee, but not for me". That said, give him a few hundred years and he'll wish he hadn't destroyed the stones, because the population will re-establish itself and continue growing.
@@elguinolo7358 No, he wouldn't have done that. He knew the Stones needed to be destroyed or someone could undo the damage, so he *had* to remain alive to destroy them - but by doing so, violated his own principle.
Though advancement, knowledge, prosperity, and all that is linked to them, is scattered around our species and similar living things... Tyranny is not exclusively to a single individual or authoritarian party. Tyranny can be common knowledge. Just ask north koreans.
In the source material, the motivation for THANOS was as follows: he thought by killing half of all life, he could impress the living personification of death, and win her over. I can defend THANOS by saying that the screen writers had nothing to work with. There simply isn't any possible justification for the goals of THANOS.
This trope is getting old. Its seems like every other villian wants to destroy life to save the planet(s) I can think of several off the top of my head without doing any research. We get it Hollywood! Start with yourselves....
That's bad you should see the overlord anime Community but they think a genocide of maniac is a right thing because they think the whole planet is evil because of a couple people in a couple Nations so that counts as everybody on the planet praise Papa bone Daddy literally.
I think it’s interesting that a lot of people missed the fact that Thanos is basically an authoritarian communist. He’s not really in ecoterrorist, he reacted much of the same way China did when it came to populations scare
PLEASE! You have to put subtitles for other countries! I understand it, and I want to share it with the people in my coutry... But without the subtitles, they won't understand. :c
That whole video would have been far more convincing if we didn't have proof that europeans lived far better after "the black death". And it kinda ruin the all argumentation. I don't say that Thanos was right (strangely enough, killing people is still wrong) but the whole video is economic theory that just doesn't match the reality... But good video nontheless.
Black death had side effect of raising wages and improving work conditions for workers who survived it - decimated supply of workers improved their negotiation positions.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but they didn't live in a free market capitalist society back then. It was feudalism, which was a top-bottom economic system that already oppressed people and kept them from contributing individually to society. So the comparison doesn't work.
@@Asa-bh7zi True, correlation is not causation. But the arguments made by the historians kinda show a causation in this case. It is a simple offer/demand law : Less worker, more value for them, and they knew it. The benefits of unions without the need to organize. Wages increase, landlord and industry owner could not push workers one against the others. But if you have source pointing that this was just in continuity with a "rise" in civilization, I would be happy to read it. It could be really interesting.
@@jennyraylen8410 Interesting point. I am no economist, so I may have misinterpret some things. Perhaps you could enlight me. In my humble opinion, feudalism is not incompatible with free market. Feudalism is a society model for legal and military matters, not economy one. We could easily imagine a society with free market (anyone can just sell and buy freely, and become rich thanks to it) with feudalism (but you cannot by nobility, and will always be judged as less important than nobility). But maybe I am wrong. How would you describe the economic model back then? (I don't understand what a top bottom economic system means. When researching it, I only find advice on investment)
As a huge fan of your videos, I need to disagree. Power does not tend to corrupt and neither does absolute power corrupt absolutely. Power, absolute power only unveils the masked individual. It blows up the cover that controls the most primitive instincts of its wielder and showcases his true colors absolutely.
Why the hell would it matter if we had half the doctors? There would be half the patients. A Thanos snap would have little impact on the world after a few years, imo.
It was an example and if it were truly random what if all doctors in one country were snapped because of their low number, he was just trying to say specialized and important people could disappear
@@matoro2917 but their knowledge wouldn't, Thanos didn't destroy half the books and web pages, did he? We have a Thanos snap every 42 or so years (half the people who were alive before are now dead).
Do you like your electricity? Do you think the local electricity generating plant could do the same job with half the people? Do you think the local water purification plant could with half the people? Or the supermarket? Think, man, think.
A man who’s so blindly desperate to do the right thing ends up doing the wrong thing.
That is the tragedy of the tyrant.
Just like he says at beginning of infinity war
Agreed. Like injustice superman
Freeman Pennington well you are half right, socialism is part of the problem but it’s not the root of tyranny. Because the root of all human action is psychological. Socialism is merely a by product of a flawed idea that has its positives and negatives.
Freeman Pennington your extremist attitude and unbalanced behavior will not convince me otherwise.
I don’t know you and you don’t know me. Let’s just leave it at that. ☺️
The road to hell is paved with good intentions
Explains that there will be spoilers after showing a fading Thanos
Thanos dying is not a spoiler IMO.
Dude if you haven’t seen the highest grossing film of all time, chances are you don’t care and have no plan on seeing it.
@@gopet400 r whoooosh
@@gopet400 some people like to watch the movie within the comfort of their home, not in the theaters. I too, because theaters usually smells awful In my area because the employees do not clean up after every sitting. I personally do not care about spoilers but some people do. Then again, if they are evading spoilers, chances are they should stay away from the internet
To be fair, there's also a giant spoiler alert in the description as well.
That's why he's the villain
Hatmann Medic main What I want to know is why didn’t he use the glove to give himself a chin that doesn’t look like a wrinkly ballsack?
@@meglukes cause he looks hot with that 💦😍🍆
He's a lying, manipulative psychopath : He, Gamora and Peter Dinklage seem to be the last of their respective species/communities, ,and they all three fell victim to his failed politics... so he lied about all of it, it seems, and the Russos didn't carry that theme into the setting of _Endgame_ , so there's still infrastructure and normal peace in the world *after 5 years* , and it only seems that there's chaos on other planets, with Captain Marvel's comment, as it doesn't seem like Rocket wanted her to help with any big war on Earth...
So yeah, and they used this subtle characterization to make a different villain, by hiding how much of a villain he is, so that's how he's a great one...
Yeah. and Disney also tried their best to make he seem like a justified villain.
@@nicholasleclerc1583 tf does Peter dinklage have to do with this 😅😂😂
Another great video.
"Which is better? The tyranny of the many, or the tyranny of the few?"
"The tyranny of none."
@Lexington73300 Using the same logic, so does the tyranny of the many
democracy is the tyrany of the many in this senario!
when everybody is super, no one will be special, but everyone will be super!
Tyranny of the few is better than tyranny of the many, because then you have a chance to overthrow the tyranny or escape.
@@ntigdona7487 if you mean the non majority (less then the 50%) then no, if you mean the majority then yes. But majority always rules, and it can rule through numbers alone.
Here in Venezuela we *know* all what you said...is TRUE.
should check the Harambe video, most people want the kid dead, not the ape, that tell you as much as society, i was so sad, when i see elderly people begging for food in your country, i was there when Chavez was the dictator, and well, is sad what your going threw now, but like Benjamin Franklin says, every nation has the government it deserves, hopefully, you get a better one soon.
How do people in venezuela even have internet?
@@TheHeroRobertELee I looked it up. Apparently they have one of the slowest internet in the world so that's even more confusing.
i, as a Mexican, understand you too
@@島袋誠-z6k That is Slander.
I came for the theory of Thanos still being alive in the MCU. I stayed for the wonderful philosophy of a master philosopher. Subscribed!
lol
The fact that anyone tries to justify Thanos is terrifying.
jup
They don't justify Thanos. They justify taking extreme measures to stop "overpopulation", which isn't a real problem.
I think the problem is a bad video.
Kingsman and the new Point Break are both recent movies with the same subtext. "People are killing the earth." The newest Godzilla has it too without a clear villian. As a trope it's getting tired and overused. The only reason is Hollywood's love of the eco-extremists.
Thanos makes seem like overpopulation is a problem that will end everything, which is absolutly wrong.
There was rumored to be a scene where we would see what happened to Gamora's planet. It would have been nothing like what Thanos described.
Remember GoG described her as the last of her species. I do not think this was unintentional or a throw away line. I think it was planned.
@carlos Rivas That is an awfully big assumption for the premier law enforcement agency in the galaxy.
Another problem with Thanos' plan is that it would straight up not work. Sure half off life would be gone, but the half that remains would (for the most part) replenish quickly enough. In a generation or two things would be roughly back to normal.
that's true
No kidding. Humans doubled their population from 3.5 billion around 1968 to 7 billion in 2011. Just over 40 years. It'd be a stopgap at best.
Always watching it’s funny how accurate and truthful your comment really is.
@Always watching Never thought to equate him as a lazy guy (I think it takes a lot of effort to go looking for galactic rocks and stuff), but agreed on the narcissist part and being catastrophically misguided. Dude's really damaged.
and many lifeforms reproduce in differing intervals and by differing multipliers.
i would love to see the rythm thanos will be snapping from here onward troughout the universes life to keep all of them at bay.
and
not all spiecies are vulcans to reproduce once a 7 years. can you imagine a spiecies evolved from frogs or rabbit like creatures reproducing? then add the possibility of dear thanos killing half of whichever lifeform keeping them at bay. grand job, just what you said you wanted dear boy........
Your channel should be obligatory at school
This channel should be an option for schools to teach, but not obligatory, since that kinda defeats the whole purpose. Unless that was a joke, in which case I got wooshed
I think that's the exact opposite of what the video is saying.
You are doing the very same thing when you say that people cannot differ from your opinion. Stop making pretentious attempts to normalise a fantasy on the constrains of modern political correctness and pitifully shallow conclusion.
Better: this should be allowed and encouraged
In India in my school it is
If Thanos simply genocided everyone, every single (previously) living being would be equal.
"Equality of outcome" people should love that plan. No more hunger, poverty or disparity. Just an even, empty void. Social justice dream.
@Explorek Your spelling has allowed me to experience some of the suffering of existence.
Whoever voices this does a great job. I always look forward to these videos.
Thanks :)
-- The guy who voices these videos.
Me: Wow this channel is really good, analyzing the snap's ramifications in a very down to earth way like this
Also me: *realizes this is the Common Sense Soapbox channel too*
Me: *happiness noises*
I can already hear the socialists and communists screaming
Why?
@@true_matt Cause this video is a critique of centrally planned things
if youre confused why, you dont understand socialism or communism as well as you think you do.
@@ouffouff7374 what? Any proof
@@Omen_Burrito So you want to say that there was no central planning over all the aspects of ones life in a ex socialist and communist country? So i guess Venezuela and North Korea is doing it wrong.
I really like how this video subtly defends the Republic system that the Founding Fathers put into place (for they were also under a centralized system, and made a system specifically to combat any central power) while simultaneously shooting down the defenses of the Communist, Socialist, and even radical Democratic systems that put minor populace, over the major. Communism and socialism are more obvious in their goals, but a democracy is always what has to start the road to socialism and communism. It's like putting a frog into a pot of boiling water. It will simply jump right back out.
But if you put it in a lukewarm pot, and slowly heat it up until it's boiling, the frog will be boiled alive.
Democracy is the lukewarm pot. Socialism and communism is the boiling point, and the frog is obviously the people.
This is why America is a republic. The Founding Fathers did not want any one person or government in total control of the people. Why do you think they first established the Articles of Confederation, where the people had the most power?
This is what people often overlook or ignore about our country and countries around the world.
Now I definitely need to learn how to add subtitles to a yt video so I can share this among my friends and family.
This are the best 16 minutes on yt.
The situation here in Brazil is so crazy! We have Venezuela next door and half of the population still think we need a self proclaimed hero to impose his rules and violence for the good of all. God help me.
He: Thanos died in End Game
Also he a second later: There'll be spoiler of End Game
Who doesn't know that...
Just dont watch the video
Going into Endgame you basically already know that Thanos dies, so don't act like it's this big shock reveal
This is a superhero movie. People die all the time. They get better.
@@vylbird8014 people die when they are killed
Shows how Thanos dies
"This video is definitlitely going to include spoilers for Avengers: Endgame"
Hey, at least he was honest.
I’m right here you know
See. Everywhere.
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Fight me again thanos
Uwu
This video is just beautiful, as a Venezuelan, I was really happy to see the clips of the protest in my country, to know that maybe we aren’t alone, and that there are still people who recognize the potential and the good will that still exist in the world, and the hope there is for the future. Thank you, I don’t have words to describe how happy this video made me
Living in Venezuela this video hit me strong, as the situation gets worsen day by day I am more interested in what lead us there in the first place.
I just hate being so young I couldn’t do anything about it, really interested in learning what can I do as an individual to help
“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
So a man with cancer should not have to pay for the cure for cancer?
@@kingorange7739 No... a man with cancer should not have to pay to cure his cancer if he doesn't want it cured. Nor should anyone else be forced to cure it, whether or not he (or anyone else) wants it to be.
I wonder if that was quoted to SCOTUS when they struck down the Obamacare mandate...
@@grantjohnson5785 lol. That’s borderline hysterical. It’s essentially suicide.
@@kingorange7739 Actually, many people have *not* wanted treatment yet have had it forced on them... particularly when they feel the treatment is more unbearable than simply living the best they can, for as long as they can. Here's a few instances of medical kidnapping - when doctors insist on providing treatment that is no longer wanted by the patient.
www.kgw.com/article/news/investigations/medical-kidnapping-or-saving-her-life-a-13-year-old-with-cancer-is-caught-in-the-middle/283-914f00bb-3d5b-483b-b6b0-c17140caafa2
psychrights.org/States/Alaska/BretBohn/150203MedicalKidnapHappens2Adults2.htm
Chemo, in particular, is *so* painful and exhausting, that many patients refuse to go through it again if their cancer in remission comes back. Some doctors attempt to force them, anyway. They have *no* right to do so.
This was very well done and i find that i agree with you very much. That ofcourse doesnt make it right or correct in any sense, but it is also the only possible path forward that doesnt kill us all off first in order to reach the goal.
If humanity is to live on we have to solve this problem as the free people that we are without a dictatorship. There is also a good reason why we know that Thanos is wrong, because we value life over death and we always will, that goes for the rich oil owner down to the destitute farmer in communist North Korea.
We all want to solve this problem, so we are all working on it, however if you are given a dictator that controls your life and promises that he will solve it, you have less minds working on it. So the chance that he is the person to figure it all out is 1/8,000,000,000 just today.
Thanos forgot that life itself is a fundamental resource. He erased half of all plants and animals too. Which means the ratio of individuals and food, a resource, remains the same. Still have hungry bellies. That's just pointless.
Nice argument against globalism and population control, it's rare to here this side
This channel is so good but too bad when he inevitably blows up all the socialists will attack
@@gabrielonibudo5710 Let them try.
Isnt it an argument _for_ globalism and _against_ population control
Did not expect the OoF.
I actually thought you were going to say Thanos was canonically alive.
I think Thanos's big problem is that like his comic counterpart he's still a nihilist. He sees the worse possible endgame and acts on that.
He has no faith in anyone...except perhaps Ghamora. He can't possibly imagine a world where we've solved the issues of our time.
I don't Thanos is evil, I think that he is afraid.
Krazy Stargazer Most evil people ARE afraid.
Hitler was afraid of... a lot of things, actually.
Stalin was afraid - the USSR's most defining characteristic was negotiating from a place of severe national insecurity. Read the Long Telegram.
ALL despots (which includes all communists) are deathly afraid of a backstabbing minion or an uprising of the populace.
Comics Thanos (from my understanding of him) wasn't nihilist at all - he was just suicidal from living literal eons after making himself immortal. He'd come to the conclusion that death was a spurned lover, and was giving Her "gifts" in hopes of finally leaving this mortal coil. That isn't a philosophy of "nothing matters", it's a philosophy of "Help! I can't die and I am really sick of living!"
That's despair, a lot worse than afraid.
StarWarsomania Thanos was indeed a nihilist. It's mentioned numerous times in the comics.
@@StarWarsomania Thanos didn't become suicidal after living for a long time. You got his backstory wrong. It's true that he, like all members of his species, didn't age, but he wasn't really immortal. He could still be killed. He only became immortal after Mistress Death amplified his powers and granted him immortality. Jim Starlin's classic Thanos was a nihilist and he's an infinitely better character than his watered down MCU counterpart. He came to believe life has no intrinsic value because of the way he was ostracized by the society he lived in, and because, subsequently, he could never find any real joy in life. Here's a video that offers a good insight into Classic Thanos's mindset: th-cam.com/video/uTsOMbnTnAA/w-d-xo.html
@Tsuna Dragneel Endgame however prooves his bills tendencies. Remember when Scarlet Witch said that Ultron "Couldn't tell the difference between saving the world and destroying it?"
Thanos is simular. In his "rational" mind it's "logical" to erase the current universe for a paradise
Great Video. As a MCU fan, i was worried about how they were going to create the character of Thanos. In the comics, the source material is interesting, but i wasnt sure how it was going to work if it was just as in the comics. Marvel Studios did justice to Thanos, in a very different way. The character maybe not be the greatest villain, but the debate that has been generated is something remarkable. I am clicking the suscribe button. Fantastic content.
This channel is so underrated. The content, quality..arguments made..the entire perspective.. blow my mind.
A well crafted follow up on your previous video and a great examination of the dangerous and INCORRECT philosophy of a villain that too many people I personally know wrongfully sympathise and even agree with.
SacredEnix I only agree with some parts,like,running out of resources.....look,it doesn’t matter what’s you say....there’s NO,abusoltly no arguement that can say without recourses we can still live and will be fine....just...no.Though killing population is not the way to go.Theres other ways.
@@0Abraham16 but that's entirely what I and the author of the video is saying, we're not advocating to keep misusing resources, we're arguing that murder on an unimaginable scale would not solve anything, but create more problems. It saddens me that we even have to convince people that cosmic genocide and the extinction of half the species of flora and fauna is not a solution to anything
Thano’s ideas are profoundly anti life despite what people who espouse them will say. Thank you for videos and this channel
Now do the anime Dr. Stone next.
It further further explores how far back civilization would regress if many humans all disappeared at once and the authoritarian nature of those who wish to "protect" nature by limiting human potential.
There's a reason Marvel did not want to focus on the technical and realistic aspect of the snap. This is because Marvel wants to justify Thanos' actions no matter how minuscule it is; keeping him as a lone hero who sees the necessity of his brutality.
Yes, because that's why they kill him in the end and clearly state over and over again that he hurt people and needs to die.
Individuals, Freedom, Self Responsibility.
By themselves: 😀
Together: 😍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thank you for going after the dismal sciences and egotistical eco-fascists :)
i'm not sure is that facist or not?but it sound like communism to me.
@@lealien9247 What's the difference? Fascist, Communist, Socialist...they all sprang from he same evil Collectivist seed.
@@rayr5950 This video is just a straw-man, lumping authoritarianism into one place and blaming the world's problems on it, while failing to admit that most of the worlds problems of today are not the fault of central planners (by the way, not defending Thanos, because he's just a dumb comic book villain whose ideas shouldn't be taken seriously.) China was used as an example in this, but it is not mentioned that China's standard of living has actually risen significantly under the Communist Party. Pollution in China is a result of them producing for Western countries in factories.
And Communism, Fascism, and Socialism are all different from each other to begin with. Comparing eco-Fascism or Communism to Thanos' plan and then saying "this is why central planning is good" is just a straw man that doesn't take into account the shortcomings of Capitalism/economic freedom. You do realize that using this maniacal plan to kill trillions as a comparison to authoritarianism is a false equivalency?
@@KobyBrennero Seriously? A straw-man? The Chinese Communist Party is just like any other big government oligarchy of rulers and bureaucrats-a parasite on the economy. They just figured out that blood suckers at the top of government eat better in a more liberalised capitalist economy. Maybe you look favourably on total authoritarian socialism under Mao Zedong's maniacal plan where 45 million died in the "Great Leap Forward"? You can't not but notice how authoritarians of all stripes love to use euphemisms. No, comparing authoritarianism and mass murder is not a false equivalency, the body count in history proves that.
Ray R Yeah pretty sure places like Japan were able to rise from relative poverty without killing millions both in the past and present (NEVER go to China for an organ transplant!!!!) The one child policy was basically Thanos with gender preferences, and they’re starting to see the insane amount of problems it’s going to cause. I think any progress they’ve made is in spite of their government, not because of it.
This is possibly your best work yet.
Long, but very detailed, well reasoned and explained. Good job.
Thank you for showing that article about Flint Michigan water crisis. There is corruption on all levels in that city that I grew up hearing about for over a decade. I moved away in 2011 and am glad I did.
Seriously Thanos was an idiot, with the great neigh infinite power of the Infinity Stones he could have just doubled or tripled the quote unquote 'finite resources' in the universe and had a net better result. By eliminating half the life he got rid of more than half the knowledge of how to use those 'finite resources'
His steps were illogical but you just can't create more resources
Those finite resources being in close proximity to existing resources, correct? Wouldn't that effectively double or triple the mass of the planet (living space, farmland, oil, metal ores, etc.)? The change in gravitational pull on humans alone could be severely detrimental, not to mention how it would affect the orbit of the planet around the sun. And about the sun, are stars resources for some advanced alien race? If so, would those have to be doubled or tripled?
Of the two choices, I think Thanos took the less dangerous route. Even if you attempt to change the fundamental laws of the universe and the forces within to account for the sudden increase in mass and energy, you might still cause more damage than the original thanos snap.
Rather than doubling resources, could he have instead halved the resources everyone needs, or simply reduce fertility rates of humans and intelligent aliens?
@@raptor9777 I think that would be the lame but more reasonable change. There was some of that in mass effect where one warring species of aliens was infected with a disease that essentially stopped the population growth, preventing them from risking war. Making half of the female population infertile would do the same thing in the long run while costing us almost nothing in the short term.
A S actually you can just create more resources except for some reason you normies don’t seem to know that because both Power Girl and Superman’s clone,( Superboy), have been able to do so many many times in the comics without the use of genocide.
I appreciate the take, I wish I had your optimism about environmental issues. Your insight about entrepreneurial solutions vs political ones does make me think more positively. I always expected a political solution but now I'm hopeful for other ones. Definitely subscribing
I just want to point out here that eliminating half of an endangered species (or any species for that matter) has a very high chance of bottlenecking that species. Which gives it a higher chance of going extinct.
I think dorkly animated this very well
with the Thanos gets an assistant
You should do a video essay on how EVERY SINGLE video game that has some kind of economic practice, uses free market capitalism.
Love how you use films everyone can or has seen to make these points, it makes the concepts much more accessible to many people. A lot of folks I know have never read a lot of economists, but most of em have seen marvel movies!
This channel is not getting enough recognition. Very informative channel, the one I would say “ worth subscribing “
"Resources are finite little one"
Only as finite as our ability to innovate.
In the movie Thanos got snapped in the end... in the real world you can’t just snap your enemies.
So Thanos snapped thinking to help balance the world is evil, ironman snap to kill is good. call me socialist if you want, i still think Thanos is good.
@@faznanbadri6854 You are a special kind of idiot. Thanos snapped and killed half the universe, Iron Man snapped and killed Thanos the guy who wanted to as of Endgame, kill a majority of the universe so no one could ever challenge him again. That's like saying law enforcement shooting a criminal and a criminal shooting civilians are the same.
@@enumaelish9193 but Iron Man did not enforced law.
@@faznanbadri6854 You’re not a socialist. Just genocidal.
*Sees Title*
*Tune begins playing in head*
This was a triumph.
I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.
-Aperture Science- *Black Order*
We do what we must
because we can.
For the good of all of us.
Except the ones who are dead.
We're experiencing this today, with the "shutdown" of the economy...
I trully apreciate the gesture of showing Chávez as a dictator and on the same level as Thanos. Thank you
Dr. Strange
could have saved Tony
And let whole Universe die? 🥴
Use the time Stone like he did in the past and bring back Tony.
@@tikoblocks3224 Directors said Damage from Infinity Stones is absolute permanent, Thanos-Hulk-Tony
Dr strange saw how many possibilities? And only one where they won. If he saved tony Thanos would’ve won. Done
@@BZman7 he didnt have the time stone
I spent most of this video's run-time expecting it to transition to a SkillShare ad.
I clicked on the notification so fast.
This is your first video I've watched and you're already my favourite channel
Thanks for this video. Nihilism and authoritarianism are the true villains of Avengers Infinity War and Endgame, Keep up the good work.
I know the filmmakers were busy with the rest of the movie but givin how many real people believed in Thanos' plan makes me think they should've had more characters state him being wrong beyond Gamora's "you don't know that" line.
Thank you for what you're doing. Amazing video, as usual.
Most resources are either never really gone, or they can reproduce. Like how water goes through the water cycle, and how plants and animals just create new plants and animals. Water and food doesn’t just disappear because there are more people. Sure if there were too many people the world would get overcrowded, but that would take many more people than there are currently.
You should cover Mass Effect 3's endings. BTW destroy should be the canon ending imo.
Dorkly's animation called: "If Thanos had an assistance" is a short version of this video. The snap would probably cause another world war for food and resources. Love this video!
God I wish Thanos realized he was wrong half way through the movie. A serious conversation between Thanos and all the Avengers trying to fix the Snap would be super sweet.
Had it been IW Thanos, that would of been possible.
You really got me with that title, good sir, at first you tricked me into thinking that there were possibly millions of Thanosuu clones scattered across the Universe, only to realize that it was still true, figuratively speaking.
Feminists hate your video, they say "How do you dare not to allow Daddy State to have more power?".
how dare you assume the All Powerful State's gender, you might hurt its feelings
You don't know anything about feminism
@@thegoldenrabbit8024 Please explain.
Feminism is essentially the idea that men and women should have equal rights, responsibilities and opportunities, which is very much in line with the belief in individuals that the video has, as it empowers women to have the same individual value as men
@@isakkallsmyr9854 more women supremacy and less right for men. Men and women are already equal under the law, so if feminists want more privileges for women, they must ask for supremacy not equal rights of both genders.
I had the same thought about that scene you mentioned about Thanos' true nature(where he says he should have killed 100% instead). That's part of why I liked the second movie more than I thought.
libertarianism is the way, amazing video.
I used to think that as well but then I realized how toothless they where when he came to corporations sure they scream & shout of the government not to tread on them but they're more than willing to bend over and take it up the ass from a corporation that's why I became a technocrat
@@nerofoxkrell technocrat sounds like a type of cyberpunk
@@dinosaurusrex1482 not to be fair if North America and Canada and everything below Mexico to form a self-sufficient technate which will be run by scientists and other highly intelligent people no politicians whatsoever we would have all the means to make our own goods and would be able to become isolationist and not have to deal with the rest of the world or trade with them for that matter and without politicians getting in the way of anything technology would rapidlyadvance so in a way I guess you could say a technocratic republic will be the best way to get the kind of technology you would see in cyberpunk a lot faster than we would naturally develop it
@@nerofoxkrell a world run by scientists? That doesn't sound dangerous in any way.
@@dinosaurusrex1482 well there would be no reason for war because war is an irrational thing and it causes the world to be by being able to resolve conflict without War you protect the efficiency of society also for maximum efficiency the work week would be reduced to only 4 days and they would be staggeredto ensure employees have the most free time they can enjoy will also having the most work time they can need meaning businesses and factories would be open 24 hours a day 365 days a year quality of life would increaseit's not as bad as you think it is I mean look at Singapore they became a technocratic society and they're one of the economic Juggernauts of the world
Great video as usual! :)
Basically, communism bad.
Capitalism good.
Hell yes.
What we should be worrying about is pollution, ignorance, arrogance, and our personal freedoms. Instead of reflecting people's prejudice and self pride with self hate, we should be working together.
As usual great video and i am crying over it
Have you considered doing a video on the ethics of Jurassic Park bringing creatures back from the dark corners of time? Would make a good backdrop for the realities of DNA study and manipulation today. Great videos keep up the good work.
The reason why he decided to just destroy and remake the universe in his own image is that not because his plan failed. But rather it's because there's someone that will undo all his achievement that's made him mad. Thanos didn't fail on his own accord, in fact, that's what the first part of Endgame is basically all about, Thanos already achieved his goal and he destroyed the stones to make sure that his goal will forever be completed. However, he doesn't expect that time travel without the time stone is possible. Do I have to remind you that this draw a parallel to how a more powerful country want to keep smaller countries aligned to its economic ideal? Other countries don't want economic system that is "one-sized fit-all" so they experimented with their own, but more powerful countries won't let them succeed.
In war, if a unit losses 5% of its forces, fighting effectiveness drops by 50%. When losses are around 10%, the unit effectiveness is almost 0. It is probably similar in almost anything else in the world. A loss of 50% would be almost unrecoverable in the short to medium time frames.
Another video that perfectly sums up why the "Thanos Was Right" or "Thanos Has A Point" crowd are kind of dumb and why I really do not like either "Avengers: Infinity War" or "Avengers: Endgame" for being films that thing they are more topical than they actually are, yet severely overly simply such a complicated issue and ideas that the films barely explores.
@Christian Tompkins I've heard this argument before and it really doesn't dismiss on what I've just said.
You don't just start a film or have moments of films in which a character starts philosophising and don't follow through from it or provide any counter-points points to such an idea. The main issue with "Infinity War" in particular is that it is a film in which the plot and story are constantly at odds with each other. The story and meat of the story is mainly through Thanos who has like 45 minutes of screentime, yet the rest of the 2 hours of the film really is nothing but the heroes explaining what just happened or what is going to happen.....literally adding nothing to the idea and making a lot of the themes severely underdeveloped since perspective is hardly there. That to me is just spectacularly lazy storytelling.
This is why I love "The Dark Knight" so much mainly because it actually understands that in order for a story to be fully developed, you kind of have to explore or display different angles to it. If a film is nothing more than just character interactions with no real substance, there is no story.
@Christian Tompkins That doesn't really saying anything or counter anything with what I've just said. If anything, the film really should have just have just stuck with the nihilistic motivations and goals of Thanos from the comics since that would actually be an interesting or at least paralleled counterpoint to the point of the heroes that you are talking about without any of the environmental pretenses that the film version of Thanos displays, which film doesn't counter on as this channel has said in his previous video on Thanos sicne the whole "killing half the universe" is a very "no duh" and as I've said incredibly overly simple way of approaching the idea which just makes the films rather pretentious. Yet the film had Tony Stark who is the perfect counter-argument to what Thanos is talking and is everything that this channel is talking about, but the films do literally nothing with it.
There is a reason why most if not all event comics are often not seen as stories that are remotely in leagues with "The Dark Knight Returns", "All Star Superman" or "Watchmen" since those books are actually rich and everything is there to develop its ideas in some way. A story in which most of the characters do nothing but explain what is going on and what is about to happen is not story or character development.
@Christian Tompkins If anything you telling me that these films in terms of themes have the "Man of Steel" problem of throwing way too many eggs in one basket to the point in which there is no story since the ideas are barely developed or are bogged down by other stuff that goes no where.
@Christian Tompkins Wow way too overly simply Thanos and the actual dimensions that he actually has in the comics that you pretend he doesn't have. The reason why Thanos is obsessed with Death is because of his growing fascinating with the nihilistic worldview after being an outsider on Titan. Lady Death just further enforces that obsession. A villain doesn't have to be sympathetic or have a point in order to be effective, just interesting and develop the themes in one way. I mean look at The Joker, whether it is Mark Hamill, Heath Ledger or the comic book version, he is not a sympathetic villain in the slightest, yet he is one of the most popular villains in pop culture.
Even if the films i suppose to be going the "sympathetic" route like he is Space Magneto or Space Punisher, even with those characters go a lot deeper in explore the problems with their way about it beyond the whole "killing people is wrong" or "people are sad" (which are the "No duh" points that I am talking about that actually deep) and a sympathetic characters require pathos, logos or ethos in order to actually achieve being sympathetic as many writing professors and philosophy majors would tell you. All Thanos is when it comes to being "sympathetic" is a bunch of overly pathological nonsense that fails at being some sort of commentary with nothing resembling ethos or logos behind it which is clearly the intend if you read any interviews with the writers and directors of the film. If you have to resort to interviews like that to explain certain details in the film, you have failed as storytellers.
@Christian Tompkins Fair enough, I personally don't it entirely works, but more power to ya.
Thanatos as a tool to enlighten us all about 'Strong solutions' and how the tyrant is embeded within the ones that call for laws and punishment to make others conform to what they think is best. Love it.
Thanos: "I'll snap half of existence away, to save the day, for the rest."
Antifa: "I'll destroy everything you love."
On that note, I guess Thanos wasn't entirely evil, as he presumably snapped out half of Antifa, half of all rapists, murderers, and drug dealers...
Not entirely evil, but still completely wrong.
Wonderful video essay, already loved your first one.
One small criticism: calling the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics just a "Normal" Nobel-Prize is a bit misleading especially concerning the smaller controversies surrounding the prize.
"The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel" doesn't really roll off the tongue, tbh.
@@FEEonline I guess it really doesn't do that.
Every time I see Thanos I think of Don Lemon... "What...WHAT!?!"
We may have solved climate change or cured cancer if we hadn't legalized the murder of babies over the last 50 years, prompting the world to follow in our footsteps. The answer isn't less minds, it is more.
This video has a surprisingly optimistic take on the issue. It's rather refreshing to see.
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Awesome work as usual Sean. Maybe even better than usual.
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Wow beautifully put. Please continue what u Re doing. Great great, truly great job
Great video ! This is very true today, with the rise of "eco-fascists" all around the globe
I don't think the ecology topic is a good example, I mean if we don't do anything or act too slowly, we're basically all going to die no matter your country... This is a new kind of problem we never faced before and I'm afraid technology and entrepreneurial solutions alone won't save us... I can see why everyone is concerned and why so many freaks out.
@@brieuxbayot6823 What problem?
@@brieuxbayot6823 How can you conclude we're all going to die? Look at the long-term global temperature data, we dodged a bullet by warming the climate. (commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:All_palaeotemps.png?scrlybrkr=c390d58a) We'd been stuck in a pattern of cyclic ice ages since the Pleistocene, and the warming broke us out of that!
I'd much rather worry about rising sea levels and needing to water crops more than big sheets of ice bearing down on my house and local farmland; of course, I live inland, where glacier activity would have more effect, whereas people more afraid of rising sea levels tend to live... hmm, by the sea. (www.nytimes.com/elections/2016/results/president - red is majority Republican / climate change shruggers, blue is majority Democrat / climate change alarmists) Coincidence? Not likely.
"People have been killed for as little as selling loose cigarettes"
Now that's foreshadowing
Thanos is a virtuous villain : after wiping out half of the Universe's life, as was his goal, he does not get corrupted by the absolute power he now possesses and proceeds to go to his garden to end his days. That shows absolute integrity.
"Absolute integrity" would have demanded Thanos include himself as a target of the snap. But I guarantee you he didn't.
Classic "rules for thee, but not for me".
That said, give him a few hundred years and he'll wish he hadn't destroyed the stones, because the population will re-establish itself and continue growing.
@@grantjohnson5785 he did not exclude himself. He had 50% chance of being wiped out like any other being.
@@elguinolo7358 No, he wouldn't have done that. He knew the Stones needed to be destroyed or someone could undo the damage, so he *had* to remain alive to destroy them - but by doing so, violated his own principle.
People seem to forget that Thanos is called "The Mad Titan"
Though advancement, knowledge, prosperity, and all that is linked to them, is scattered around our species and similar living things...
Tyranny is not exclusively to a single individual or authoritarian party. Tyranny can be common knowledge.
Just ask north koreans.
In the source material, the motivation for THANOS was as follows: he thought by killing half of all life, he could impress the living personification of death, and win her over. I can defend THANOS by saying that the screen writers had nothing to work with. There simply isn't any possible justification for the goals of THANOS.
You gave a spoiler warning after revealing that Thanos died. That itself is a major spoiler.
What an astonishingly beautiful video. Well Done. And this video will be shown in my classroom. Thank you.
This trope is getting old. Its seems like every other villian wants to destroy life to save the planet(s)
I can think of several off the top of my head without doing any research. We get it Hollywood! Start with yourselves....
That's bad you should see the overlord anime Community but they think a genocide of maniac is a right thing because they think the whole planet is evil because of a couple people in a couple Nations so that counts as everybody on the planet praise Papa bone Daddy literally.
I think it’s interesting that a lot of people missed the fact that Thanos is basically an authoritarian communist. He’s not really in ecoterrorist, he reacted much of the same way China did when it came to populations scare
Thanos sounds lile Xi jipig lol
Just look at:
HK protests
and ..... Coronavirus.
PLEASE! You have to put subtitles for other countries! I understand it, and I want to share it with the people in my coutry... But without the subtitles, they won't understand. :c
Working on it.
That whole video would have been far more convincing if we didn't have proof that europeans lived far better after "the black death". And it kinda ruin the all argumentation.
I don't say that Thanos was right (strangely enough, killing people is still wrong) but the whole video is economic theory that just doesn't match the reality...
But good video nontheless.
Black death had side effect of raising wages and improving work conditions for workers who survived it - decimated supply of workers improved their negotiation positions.
Correlation is not causation - civilization was already rising.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but they didn't live in a free market capitalist society back then. It was feudalism, which was a top-bottom economic system that already oppressed people and kept them from contributing individually to society. So the comparison doesn't work.
@@Asa-bh7zi True, correlation is not causation. But the arguments made by the historians kinda show a causation in this case.
It is a simple offer/demand law : Less worker, more value for them, and they knew it. The benefits of unions without the need to organize.
Wages increase, landlord and industry owner could not push workers one against the others.
But if you have source pointing that this was just in continuity with a "rise" in civilization, I would be happy to read it. It could be really interesting.
@@jennyraylen8410 Interesting point.
I am no economist, so I may have misinterpret some things. Perhaps you could enlight me.
In my humble opinion, feudalism is not incompatible with free market. Feudalism is a society model for legal and military matters, not economy one. We could easily imagine a society with free market (anyone can just sell and buy freely, and become rich thanks to it) with feudalism (but you cannot by nobility, and will always be judged as less important than nobility).
But maybe I am wrong. How would you describe the economic model back then? (I don't understand what a top bottom economic system means. When researching it, I only find advice on investment)
The discovery of this channel provides an infinite amount of information
You talk a lot about entrepreneurs but didn't even bother to include Elon Musk? Please...
As a huge fan of your videos, I need to disagree.
Power does not tend to corrupt and neither does absolute power corrupt absolutely.
Power, absolute power only unveils the masked individual. It blows up the cover that controls the most primitive instincts of its wielder and showcases his true colors absolutely.
Why the hell would it matter if we had half the doctors? There would be half the patients. A Thanos snap would have little impact on the world after a few years, imo.
It was an example and if it were truly random what if all doctors in one country were snapped because of their low number, he was just trying to say specialized and important people could disappear
@@matoro2917 but their knowledge wouldn't, Thanos didn't destroy half the books and web pages, did he? We have a Thanos snap every 42 or so years (half the people who were alive before are now dead).
People who didn't actually listen to the video and just wanted to argue for their backwords world views
@@c_xela I listened to the video... Are you referring to yourself?
Do you like your electricity? Do you think the local electricity generating plant could do the same job with half the people? Do you think the local water purification plant could with half the people? Or the supermarket? Think, man, think.
Your videos are always incredibly well made and very thought provoking. Can't wait for the next video.