Any one else see the irony of their sponsor, they speak half the video over how over complicated jargon is killing consumers, and then turn around and try to market a bunch of people who rely upon legal jargon
uhhh thats not what i got from this, the complicated jargon just mystifies things like the economy and that people take advantage of it but in the end of the day power is decentralized and power starts with the consumer and consumers need to take personal responsibility for it
I do not see how being sponsored by basically a legal advising website would be atrocious on a video on the topic of how legal or economic jargon could be used as a tool against consumers. If anything, the sponsor would be at the minimum an attempt to combat against the exhaustion of that type of jargon. On top of that, I have confidence that the people at Wisecrack are some trustworthy intellectual individual and that they wouldn't advertise to their viewers and subscribers anything that they have not either used themselves or have trust in. I honestly doubt that they would turn to such acts of desperation to be sponsored by something that they are ashamed of being associated with.I don't know the people at Wisecrack but that doesn't seem to be their style.
Yes, but I think that one would have to understand that it is not the express desire of the content creators to pedal miscellaneous web services or junk and that is in fact what enables them to churn a profit out of producing quality videos. Personally I think that the option to frame your video or banner the videos page with the sponsored advertisement would be a fair compromise so the creator doesn't necessarily have to dedicate a good minute of video to advertising.
Economics is a study of human behavior in relation of scarcity of resources. It will exist with or without currency. The active use of currency is purely a representation of wealth mean to simplify trade. If people, even in high up positions don't really understand economics, it's usually because it's not anything they actually have any part in creating. Economics exists purely as a consequence of trade of goods and services, not so trade can exist. The same is with Social constructs. Social constructs do not exist because they HAVE to, rather because they are an active consequence of people interacting and conforming in fear of alienation, therefore the term is coined to describe such phenomena. I hope someone finds this helpful.
Yes one day one will be selling there ass cause they dont have enough man power guns and paper notes n bullion is worthless to those armed organized etc.
Economics is an idealisation, a model or such behaviour, like all other sciences idealise their topics of study. However, unlike in many other sciences, the objects Economics studies have so many parameters that attempting to simplify systems inadvertently makes the theory less reliable. Economics, while it can be situationally useful, does not have the same ability to predict as Physics or Chemistry, exactly because it studies chaotic systems. It should always be taken with a grain of salt rather than treated as a universal constant.
I think it's quite ironic that the episode just point out that we tend to rely on the expert but what if the expert fail shit happens. Then at the end of the show it just promote legalzoom, an expert service for the people who needs legal service lol.
I didn't expect this to be as good as it was, and to be honest I thought there were better episodes of South Park to get all philosophical about. Even so, bang up job.
+Ralph Joseph Acobo kisscartoon??? nah man. I just visited that site after reading your comment and it clearly stated the site is close with a warning that site with io domain is fake. You might mistake that one. :)
It's a good surprise and a relief to see that some people are looking into South Park's deep meaning and philosophy, and not just how funny were this week's fart jokes. Thank you for your services! :-P
Can someone please explain how one of those guys in the treasury scene is OBVIOUSLY based on Steve Mnucin, but he wasn’t secretary of the treasury until 2017. Every detail looks just like him. Head shape, nose, square framed glasses, dark hair parted the same way, red tie, blue suit. 6:58
Daniel Landers A video from Wisecrack refers to It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia as the "Perfect Anti-Sitcom." I'm sure that has some interesting insights.
Avatar the last Airbender tackles themes like Environmentalism, Duty, Honour, Redemption, Autonomy, Totalitarianism, Imperialism , Spirituality, Revenge etc etc, I'm not saying Korra isn't deserving of a video, if anything each season of both shows deserves their own video, I think they should just start with Avatar the last Airbender first then move on to Legend of Korra
You know, in these videos you make about movies, games, and TV shows, either the funny or dramatic, they're great to learn about the philosophy of South Park's seasons/episodes involving religion, economics, society, celebrities, and politics.
I'd love it, but I bet they won't do it. Why? It's easier to point out the easy-peasy social criticisms of South Park and Rick and Morty. The people who make Wisecrack philosophy clearly don't open books like some of their co-workers.
I love the fact how half the episode is about techno jargon being too hard to understand and personal responsibility and "just trust these experts"; then it ends with an ad for experts you can trust, because the system is too hard to understand.
While I applaud your videos on the regular, this time you mixed something up. Kyle doesn't argue from the Keynesian perspective, he's arguing as an Austrian economist. Keynes argued that the market works like a machine which you can jumpstart while Austrians (e.g. Ludwig von Mises, Hayek, Rothbard) argue that it's more like an organic Biotop and should not be interfered with because of unintended consequences. The episode clearly hints at the government spending and the "quantitive easing" a.k.a money printing as the main problem. The allocation of resource should be derived from market forces (the people) and not by top down government decrees. Since southpark already used the Austrian economist view in previous episode (Walmart episode) this is more plausible.
LC Shaft Yep, Wisecrack missed that big time. It's a shame, too, as I really expected at some point in the video they would be presenting Austrian economic theory to their viewers. Both of the creators of South Park have said they are more or less libertarians. What Wisecrack could have said is that most US economic policy is based off Keynesian theory, but Kyle's philosophy in this episode comes from the Austrian school. Thanks for posting that, and I hope you get more thumbs up so people can learn what the real philosophy behind the episode is.
I laughed when the last word on the commentary is: "personal responsibility," Weber's main point, later reiterated by thinkers in the Milton Friedman - Deirdre McCloskey vein. What Wisecrack attributes to Weber through Randy's ideology is actually asceticism, seen in monastic orders, totalitarian states and a couple other places.
Jim Allocco thank you for your kind words. It's a shame because wisecrack seems to know libertarianism, as seen in the daredevil episode where they talk about personal responsibility and choice. I hope they get to see my link so they add a correction later on. But I have to admit, when every fake news organization sells central banking as the powerhouse of free markets, it's no wonder that they concluded that Keynes stands for it.
The analysis by Wisecrack of the episode and the issues it deals with is beyond superb, it's sublime. Everyone in the US should be mandated by law to watch this video at least twice.
RedLabs a young boy, whose father was absent because he died in the war, an overbearing mother, an authoritarian school system and a terrifying world in which the main character, roger waters, is forced to build a wall in his own mind to protect himself from all of the outside world that he perceived as either evil or scary. its the most genius album of all time.
It's basically about the Freudian concept of defense mechanisms. The wall represents a psychological barrier the protagonist puts up because things in the outside world bother him - his father's death, the schoolmaster abusing him, his mother smothering him, his anxiety about women, his wife cheating on him because he's gone a lot, his rock star lifestyle where he constantly feels mobbed by people who follow him so fervently that if he became a nazi, they would kill people for him, etc. He finally is forced to "tear down the wall" because he feels so much shame for his wall hurting people close to him. Idk if there's a lot of philosophy, it's more about psychological concepts than philosophical ones, but they are related. I would say there's existentialism and nihilism in it.
Well said, I only wonder if the nazi presence in the movie was based off of the idea that humans could be coerced into the hatred that the nazi exuded. In other words everyone likes to think that under the rule of hitler they would have been defiant and self sacrificing but in reality people have too much capacity to be subjected by a leader. And that all of us have to wonder whether or not we have that capacity within us. I have to say its hard to pick a favorite psychological value out of the album I beleieve its all as good as the last and contingent on eachother. But "One of my turns", and "Dont leave me now" are I think the most honest about Rogers psychological state at the time. And his Mania and what I see as his Bi polar depression. Its all so incredible and its by far the best album ever made.
great job on covering this. the only thing missed by SP was when the chicken with its head cut off was in the ring. they needed to have the Board of Governors placing bets on which spot it would kill over since that’s all the "experts" do when trading in CDOs or other derivatives. under all the jargon is nothing but a wager, a straight up gamble and not a sophisticated one. that's what scares people "in the know"...that the global economy is in fact not understandable by anyone and the markets are more about big bets cuz money has to flow somewhere. and if you have billions your tolerance for risk goes up. "we lost 100 million on that 'strategy'...ok let's chat about it when I get back from the Hamptons."
I always love you and Wisecrack's videos, Mr. Jared. They're so insightful and entertaining. Have y'all ever thought about doing a special edition over the tv show Fargo?
Brandon Anderson Hey #Wisecrack here are some requests for Wisecrack Edition The Philosophy of No Country for Old Men The Philosophy of Metal Gear Solid The Philosophy of The Wire The Philosophy of Cowboy Bebop The Philosophy of Monster the manga/anime The Philosophy of Berserk The Philosophy of Trigun The Philosophy of Moral Orel The Philosophy of Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex
I love how the more frightening issue no one is talking about is how at the end of the day, money is nothing more than a figment of our imagination. And somehow we seem content with letting it be the base of our existence. Just like religion, for what we don't have answers for we make up our own truth and treat it as such. So sad.
Gustav Rider what you don’t get, which is what the op is saying is simple; something even a person with a small iq like yourself can understand. We don’t need money. It is us giving it artificial value which makes it guess what- artificially valuable ! The Internet was born out of necessity lmao. Keep dreaming
I finally got round to watching it recently and after I thought, ooh, I bet wisecrack have a Philosophy of: video and was very surprised to see they haven't.
As an autistic, I can confirm that the cube is better. For one, imagine that thing as a video game controller! It's also got more options. I can be silent sometimes and loud other times. I wish there was a mechanical keyboard switch fidget toy. I don't care if it's the clicky switches or not. I just know I love how mechanical keyboards feel. Actually, buckling switch fidget cubes. Mmmm. Model M in a cube! I could imagine the cube being great for playing Doom 1993. Of course, anything can play Doom!
I would argue it's different in different sagas. Each character with the deathnote has a very unique philosophy on how to use it. Definitely "infinite power corrupts infinitely" applies across the whole series
Hey, let me try giving you a condensed version without namedropping nor alluding to complex philosophical concepts. There are three major layers to NGE's narrative. The outermost layer, the text, presents the events of the show at face value. It is about humans attempting to create a God in the form of Evas in order to further their goals. Seele's ultimate goal is the so-called Human Instrumentality, which is a process by which the souls of all of living beings merge into a single entity-a primordial soup of consciousness represented by the LCL. Gendo Ikari's goal which is at odds with Seele's is to reunite with his dead wife whose soul became trapped in Unit 01, although the exact differences of his version of Instrumentality and means to achieve it are never properly explored in the show. But both require Unit 01, along with Shinji and a couple more catalysts, to go through a chain of events culminating in the Third Impact, a cataclysm of planetary proportions. At the end Rei, who acts as one of said catalysts, asks Shinji how to proceed, and he decides to reject the Instrumentality, stopping the process midways. By this time virtually all humanity has already been merged into the sea of LCL, but with sufficient will on their end they might be able to emerge again as distinct entities. (And likely be fucked over anyway due to the massively dysfunctional state in which the world ends up at that point.) This is all largely a superficial fantasy mumbo jumbo that doesn't make a lot of sense in scientific terms, but then again it doesn't have to because it merely serves as an appropriately surrealistic canvas for the deeper layers of the narrative. The second layer, the subtext, is constantly alluded to in the series and has to do with interpersonal and existential psychology and the concept of persona and self. Anno shows this on two different scales: the smaller-personal-where we look at characters' struggles to socialize and make sense of each other's feelings, and the larger-societal-where a techno-occultist organization tries to find the ultimate answer to life's grand questions and comes to the realization that personal agency was a mistake after all. The concept of A.T. (Absolute Terror) Field is a symbolic representation of another person's ego, or self, which as we all know can be scary to interact with, so we're always mindful of our own boundaries being overstepped. An individual possessing a sense of self-respect, an understanding of self-worth, supported by other people's affection and approval but not dependent on either becomes far less vulnerable, so their A.T. Field-the ego boundaries-expands and becomes stronger as a result. Asuka's realization that she wasn't abandoned, she didn't need to fight for her mother's approval, and her mother actually loved her all along empowers her A.T. Field to the point where Unit 02 can shrug off missiles and heavy artillery during the assault in the first part of EoE. For a mentally unstable, insecure, introverted teenager like Shinji, another person's self is a total mystery: nobody instructs him on how to interact with them yet everyone expects his understanding, tiniest mistakes are punished by verbal or physical abuse, negligence is the default behavior towards him, and the whole process just seems ultimately unfair and unrewarding. Every time Shinji begins to feel a little comfortable with his social life, difficulty ramps up again: first he needs to deal with his father and the Eva, then with cohabitation and classmates, then with Asuka and his puberty kicking in. Gradually we come to see that it isn't just Shinji: virtually every character in the series has to struggle with similar issues further colored by their own traumatic or otherwise life-defining experiences, and most of the time they these issues remain unresolved and are masked by a much more presentable facade. They're all fundamentally flawed people, they constantly make mistakes in social interaction, yet they all want affection and happiness and try to win them in the ways they know (mostly ineffective or ill-informed). Human Instrumentality is conceived by Seele to help people deal with this struggle in a very radical way: by erasing the ego boundaries between people so that there is no more need for guessing each other's feeling or intentions, inadvertently or intentionally hurting each other becomes impossible, and thus there is no suffering-only a global, unconditional acceptance of each other, a perpetual oneness of all humankind. Gendo, on the other hand, selfishly wants himself and his wife to exist as distinct entities so that they could still interact as two persons. But over the course of the series, Shinji himself grows up a little and becomes able to assert himself and find fulfillment in socializing with people, so when asked what he wants to become in the end, he decides he prefers being his own person-even at the risk of being subject to suffering once again. In other words, he resolves to accept himself as the individual (which the other characters applaud in the iconic scene), and so he once again manifests as a corporeal entity in the real world. Since the Instrumentality process has very nearly been completed by that time, other people have to make the same decision if they want to be reborn. The overall message here is to grow up and not be afraid of being hurt by other people because that's just a part of life and everyone eventually becomes able to deal with it. The last couple episodes of the series very strongly emphasize the point that we can only make sense of ourselves while having other people as our points of reference, i.e. in order to be different there has to be something distinct from you that you can compare yourself to. Even the most basic forms of reflection and introspection have us comparing our thoughts, actions, and aspirations to those of other people (living, dead, or fictional-doesn't matter), or our conceptions of our "ideal" selves, or some other internalized reference. Boundaries of self that make us our own person can only emerge when they can interact with another boundary-in other words, another person. So in order for Shinji to be Shinji, there needs to be someone else he can assert his person against, someone he can use to enable himself. The post-credits scene depicts Shinji and Asuka, once again in their corporeal forms, shell-shocked by having been torn away from the comforting womb of the Instrumentality back to the harsh reality of the destroyed world, as if waking up from a pleasant dream into a horrible apocalyptic nightmare. And so Shinji instinctively, without thinking, tries to assert his person by physically dominating Asuka, as he has already done in the past, in order to prove to himself that he is once again a separate entity able to reject and hurt another. Asuka, also on instinct, responds with a feminine caress-an opposing gesture of acceptance and comfort based on her lingering affection for Shinji. As both gradually find their bearings, Shinji is overcome with remorse and self-loathing, while Asuka, having just recently peered into Shinji's consciousness, and hence his memories, during their universally merged state, becomes disgusted at him fapping to her in the hospital room where she was lying unconscious, which provokes her scornful remark that ends the movie. So while they have recovered their persons, they immediately fuck it up like the humans they are. If there's any one scene I could choose to demonstrate Anno's directorial talent, it would be this one-an absolute masterpiece of understated delivery.
The final, metatextual layer to the whole franchise is Anno's commentary on the state of Japanese society and then-emerging otaku culture. Being a smart and perceptive person and an otaku himself, Anno sensed what the whole thing was about, why it happened, what dangers it could pose, and what he wanted to say about it. One of the reasons many anime researchers often pose NGE as _the_ dividing line in the medium's history is that it was _actually intended_ to disrupt anime and the culture surrounding it as a whole-and succeeded in doing so. It was the first anime to peer so deeply into the viewer's psyche and poke at its very foundations, provoking an immediate and strong response in those it resonated with. In order to understand why this was necessary to begin with, we need a brief overview of the cultural and historical context that preceded it. 20th century Japan was one of the few nations to go through a series of rapid, all-encompassing, and at times devastating changes in culture, economy, political trends, and societal structure. They went from a secluded, traditionalist, bushido-idolizing nation to a brutal warmonger state in the early 20th century to a physically and mentally defeated country in the late 40s to the rapidly expanding "economic miracle" in the 50s to a deflated version of said miracle in the 90s. This continuous turmoil has wounded Japan's mentality and left its populace at large rather disoriented as to what is supposed to be the "Japanese" thing to do, how they should proceed as a nation, or who or what they should associate their hopes and aspirations with, because blindly mimicking the Western world or trying to combine it with traditional values helped the society move forward in some aspects but hurt it in the other. Movies such as Tetsuo: The Ironman and the later Godzilla films reflect this ambiguity and apprehension towards the future of the country and convey the idea of Japan losing its way. A popular concept of anthropomorphic robots or mechas fighting bad guys with sword-like weapons has always been Japan's way to express its longing for the samurai through the prism of rapid technological progress. "We build robots now, but they're still samurai, we swear!" By the end of the century, the wild ride of Japanese successes and failures and the unstable cultural identity culminated in two major events that left a deep impact on the mentality of the youth. In the late 80s, the economy which had been on a continuous rise until that point started showing signs of a bubble about to burst-which it did in 1991, leaving the adult members of the Japanese society rather disillusioned and sinking into chronic depression by millions. So what they did was pinning their hopes and dreams for the bright future onto their young, pressing them into receiving better education, getting jobs as corporate slaves, and working their asses off so that things could once again improve for everyone. Just a few years later, in March of 1995, the doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo executed the largest terrorist attack in Japan's history, and it did so with the help of... yes, that same bright youth the society was so hopeful of. What was considered the nation's future went against it, and nobody could see it coming. This served as an _incredibly_ painful wake-up call for Japan to see just _how_ alienated and disconnected it had been from its own repressed feelings: all the pent-up frustration and other problems the society didn't want to deal with exploded in its face. The blow to the nation's morale, already weakened by stagnating economy, was devastating. Both the adults and the youth were almost completely disillusioned with their prospects. The constantly rising burden of expectations, the dehumanizing approach to adult life which sucked all initiative and personality out of those who once were bright and cheerful, the thought of being locked into a terrifyingly depressive life, and finally the terrorist attack provoked a sharp spike in the already-rising escapist tendencies among the otaku. This couldn't go unnoticed by Hideaki Anno who had already been struggling with depression for several years by that point and was very receptive to the notion of running away from problems. NGE started airing just half a year after the terrorist attack, in October of 1995. Speaking through the most common medium available to reach his target audience, Anno rather forcefully attempted to yank the otaku out of their zone of comfort and demonstrate to them that society as a whole-adults included-is comprised of flawed and misguided individuals who also try and fail to make sense of themselves and their situations, and bullshit happens because nobody is perfect nor has a clear view of what's going on. But it's very possible to account for that if one keeps it in mind, so instead of escaping to the world of 2D fantasy, the audience should grow up, accept themselves, and try finding meaning and enjoyment in living their lives together with others as a functioning, non-alienated society. If even someone as pathetic as Shinji could do this and choose life over the comfort of escaping to permanent oneness, why wouldn't everybody else be able to? Obviously this message backfired quite a bit, and most otakus have turned NGE and its characters into an even greater fetish-the opposite of Anno's message-but for some it ended up an eye-opening experience that helped foster their personal development. This commentary and its feedback remain pervasive throughout the live-action inserts in EoE, Anno's later interviews, and, in an interesting way, the development of Rebuild of Evangelion. There is a strong case in favor of the apparent tonal shift between the original series and the remakes (as well as between the second and the third movies) going exactly in accord with Anno's initial plan. He is, after all, an auteur whose message shapes the narrative-not the other way around. So imagine that you are Hideaki Anno, and your message to the otaku community in NGE has largely fallen on deaf ears. If you could try it again with a remake, how would you go about it? Subtlety evidently didn't work well the first time, so you'd probably go with an even more forceful, borderline trollish message and an even more devious method this time around. In the first and second movie everything goes well, Shinji's emotional development going full steam into the bright future of ultra-expensive computer-assisted animation, we're presented with _heaps_ of extra fan service (including a character whose only role and defining trait _is_ providing fan service) and promised even more of it during the end credits, that pesky Asuka is promptly dealt with... So many things to fawn over, it's almost like the fans' dreams come true! And then Anno goes and pulls the rug from under them once again with a total subversion of every expectation with the third movie-even at the expense of narrative integrity-as if to purposefully spite the fans and destroy their desire to fetishize anything Eva-related ever again. I have strong reasons to believe this is basically him saying, "you still haven't grown up, you're still letting your fetishes shape and control you". Now, of course we still need to see the final movie to have the final say on the matter, but so far this is what it all looks like to me. (Welp, this didn't end up condensed at all...)
@@moozooh These comments on Evangelion were deeply insightful and helped me see another perspective on its inner workings and its creator's intentions. I just wanted to say thank you very much for these, you are a very smart individual, and I hope that future is very bright for you!
I really don't think the economy is that hard to understand. We invest heavily in companies on the pretense that they control certain technological innovations and business practices that keeps our eanings safe. When those investments don't pay off, the government bails us out. Instead of bouncing from one economic bubble to another, we should instead systematically increase the value of a dollar through the development of disruptive Technologies like Universal internet, roof top subsistence farming and most importantly *_Zero Point Energy/Free Power._* Our scientists and Engineers should set the market trends by doing away with antiquated technologies like internal combustion engines-- thereby peacefully developing post-scarcity resource-based economies. But that takes inventors, rationalist pragmatist, men and women of self-esteem NOT ANTIFA!!✌ *_Who is John Galt?_*
BlackPrivileged John Galt realizes that financial markets provide substantially greater returns than the investment in real industry. John Galt realizes that its far easier to make money by lying to public investors, whose money is most likely in the care of a fund, of a "technological innovation" and raising capital through an IPO. If societal improvement is not the most profitable course of action for those with the concentration of capital, then don't expect it to occur without the iron fist of legitimate force.
BlackPrivileged First off, I'd like to apologize for the rather aggressive tone of my reply. I'm not a fan of objectivism, but that was incredibly uncalled for.
BlackPrivileged My main point was that the reliance on great men to solve society's ills is doomed for disappointment. While some people may account for the needs of their stakeholders, many won't. I'm saying that government regulation is needed to systemically turn buisness ethics into the only profitable means of conducting buisness.
This last semester, one of our side assignments during US Government was to watch and analyze the Margaritaville episode of South Park when we were studying monetary and fiscal policy lol
I can attest to working in corporate, that no one knows what is going on. Most of the time a company does something bad to the outside it seems like some greedy corporate suit is trying to screw people over when what actually happened was that someone forgot to carry a 1 in the thousands of documents keeping track of everything.
This episode's beginning also says something. People who need answers in time of crisis will blame 'the man', or seek answers in conspiracy theories or even worse, turn to religion
The bit about margaritaville and stan trying to get a refund on the blender is about the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis btw
No? Really? Wow!
And it's gone...
Sabrina Xkills poof
*my faith in this video when the legal zoom ad popped up
Panda Xkills how is that possiblé?
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But i have 100 dollars
"And it's gone" is one of my top 10 favorite South Park bits.
As an economics student, I find this funny and beautiful.
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Nss de eicis zhkxH
Rick Apocalypse I second that 😂
Any one else see the irony of their sponsor, they speak half the video over how over complicated jargon is killing consumers, and then turn around and try to market a bunch of people who rely upon legal jargon
matt clark I was thinking the same thing
uhhh thats not what i got from this, the complicated jargon just mystifies things like the economy and that people take advantage of it but in the end of the day power is decentralized and power starts with the consumer and consumers need to take personal responsibility for it
I do not see how being sponsored by basically a legal advising website would be atrocious on a video on the topic of how legal or economic jargon could be used as a tool against consumers. If anything, the sponsor would be at the minimum an attempt to combat against the exhaustion of that type of jargon. On top of that, I have confidence that the people at Wisecrack are some trustworthy intellectual individual and that they wouldn't advertise to their viewers and subscribers anything that they have not either used themselves or have trust in. I honestly doubt that they would turn to such acts of desperation to be sponsored by something that they are ashamed of being associated with.I don't know the people at Wisecrack but that doesn't seem to be their style.
Yowhatsup888 Thank you for beating me to it.
Yes, but I think that one would have to understand that it is not the express desire of the content creators to pedal miscellaneous web services or junk and that is in fact what enables them to churn a profit out of producing quality videos. Personally I think that the option to frame your video or banner the videos page with the sponsored advertisement would be a fair compromise so the creator doesn't necessarily have to dedicate a good minute of video to advertising.
I just love how deep southpark really is. Much more than satire
satire means it’s deep
@@jacksmith2870 not always. I’ve seen shallow satire.
@@liaminelli9085 well sure but there’s also unfunny comedy- depth in satire is the goal
Economics is a study of human behavior in relation of scarcity of resources. It will exist with or without currency. The active use of currency is purely a representation of wealth mean to simplify trade. If people, even in high up positions don't really understand economics, it's usually because it's not anything they actually have any part in creating.
Economics exists purely as a consequence of trade of goods and services, not so trade can exist. The same is with Social constructs. Social constructs do not exist because they HAVE to, rather because they are an active consequence of people interacting and conforming in fear of alienation, therefore the term is coined to describe such phenomena. I hope someone finds this helpful.
Yes one day one will be selling there ass cause they dont have enough man power guns and paper notes n bullion is worthless to those armed organized etc.
I really like this comment :)
Economics is an idealisation, a model or such behaviour, like all other sciences idealise their topics of study. However, unlike in many other sciences, the objects Economics studies have so many parameters that attempting to simplify systems inadvertently makes the theory less reliable. Economics, while it can be situationally useful, does not have the same ability to predict as Physics or Chemistry, exactly because it studies chaotic systems. It should always be taken with a grain of salt rather than treated as a universal constant.
I love how South Park can turn a comedy into a deeper meaning and how this guy can find it any time
This is one of my personal favorite and objectively best written episodes of South Park.
Yet another great episode Wisecrack. Keep up the good work.
This episode took on a whole new meaning with the ongoing battle of Gamestop stonks and the SEC investigation.
I think it's quite ironic that the episode just point out that we tend to rely on the expert but what if the expert fail shit happens. Then at the end of the show it just promote legalzoom, an expert service for the people who needs legal service lol.
Wenjie Zhu They pointed people to experts on navigating convoluted shit made by other "experts" how dare they!
I still think that wheel of headless chicken game at the Treasury Department makes perfect sense. COUP D'ETAT! xD
Wenjie Z.
These episodes totally help me make it through a work day.
I didn't expect this to be as good as it was, and to be honest I thought there were better episodes of South Park to get all philosophical about. Even so, bang up job.
Philosophy of filthy frank
middle schoolers
Toasterman 999 the philoshy of huffing gas and eating paint chips
Filthy frank is not that deep.
om yes he is
Toasterman strikes back I'm not denying you for I don't know filthyfrank,but would you mind telling me how he is deep?
Love these Philosophy of South Park episodes. Binged all 20 seasons a few months ago and fell in love with the show
back when south park only had 20 seasons
@@tammy2760 Yeahhh.....
Plot twist: Wisecrack passive aggressively takes on legal zoom by placing their advertisement on their episode about technostrategic discourse.
Oooh, south park! I member!
PaleGhost69 is the new season already announced/airing? I haven't watch any cartoon since kisscartoon site shutdown. :'(
ali NET it's back up man, I just literally finished watching the latest episode of Archer there.
+Ralph Joseph Acobo kisscartoon??? nah man. I just visited that site after reading your comment and it clearly stated the site is close with a warning that site with io domain is fake. You might mistake that one. :)
ali NET there are more versions of kisscartoon.
None link with kissanime however. It put me at doubt honestly with all the fake site. X(
The best part of waking up, is Wisecrack in your cup. Of Knowledge.
It's a good surprise and a relief to see that some people are looking into South Park's deep meaning and philosophy, and not just how funny were this week's fart jokes. Thank you for your services! :-P
love these
+OPEN MIND Thanks!
@Vinluv Handesbuk no one asked
Open Mind? Dich findet man immer wieder lol
Can someone please explain how one of those guys in the treasury scene is OBVIOUSLY based on Steve Mnucin, but he wasn’t secretary of the treasury until 2017. Every detail looks just like him. Head shape, nose, square framed glasses, dark hair parted the same way, red tie, blue suit. 6:58
I'll say it once, I'll say it again. The Philosophy of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
i'm sure you've seen the videos already, but there are videos on that exact topic on youtube, you should check them out
Looks like you got your wish
Daniel Landers A video from Wisecrack refers to It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia as the "Perfect Anti-Sitcom." I'm sure that has some interesting insights.
do a video on the philosophy of Avatar the last airbender
Michael Fields i think Korra might be a more fruitful source for a 'philosophy' episode
Avatar the last Airbender tackles themes like Environmentalism, Duty, Honour, Redemption, Autonomy, Totalitarianism, Imperialism , Spirituality, Revenge etc etc, I'm not saying Korra isn't deserving of a video, if anything each season of both shows deserves their own video, I think they should just start with Avatar the last Airbender first then move on to Legend of Korra
Michael Fields
Aka the philosophy of the original Star Wars trilogy.
DatBoy SoTalented Oh they should do videos on that too
Michael Fields
That would be great. I'm not sure which I would prefer though haha
A parallel can be drawn between the b-plot and the "Trial" by Franz Kafka.
Michas VS TheWorld Yes it can, yes it can.
I know right?
indeed, though it didn't end so fatally crushing for Stan at least.
I mean, he did smash the margarita machine... :p
I would love to see the Philosophy of Archer.
Thank you so much! This has been my favorite SP episode since the night it first aired.
Personally I find this video hilarious, this is the conclusion I got when I was studying economics to become an entrepreneur.
You know, in these videos you make about movies, games, and TV shows, either the funny or dramatic, they're great to learn about the philosophy of South Park's seasons/episodes involving religion, economics, society, celebrities, and politics.
"No kitty, these are my Cheesy Poofs. No kitty, that's a bad kitty!" lol
I like how the end add has something to do with the subject tackled. So much better then a random Vector add
Philosophy of Twin Peaks
This would be awesome with the 3rd season/reboot coming up.
Yes, this please.
I'd love it, but I bet they won't do it. Why? It's easier to point out the easy-peasy social criticisms of South Park and Rick and Morty. The people who make Wisecrack philosophy clearly don't open books like some of their co-workers.
just watch twin peaks then, the "philosophy" is basically just recap
Yeah, do Twin Peaks!
I love the fact how half the episode is about techno jargon being too hard to understand and personal responsibility and "just trust these experts"; then it ends with an ad for experts you can trust, because the system is too hard to understand.
While I applaud your videos on the regular, this time you mixed something up. Kyle doesn't argue from the Keynesian perspective, he's arguing as an Austrian economist. Keynes argued that the market works like a machine which you can jumpstart while Austrians (e.g. Ludwig von Mises, Hayek, Rothbard) argue that it's more like an organic Biotop and should not be interfered with because of unintended consequences. The episode clearly hints at the government spending and the "quantitive easing" a.k.a money printing as the main problem. The allocation of resource should be derived from market forces (the people) and not by top down government decrees. Since southpark already used the Austrian economist view in previous episode (Walmart episode) this is more plausible.
just forgot: if any of the viewers wants some further insight into the world of Austrian economics check out mises.org
LC Shaft Yep, Wisecrack missed that big time. It's a shame, too, as I really expected at some point in the video they would be presenting Austrian economic theory to their viewers. Both of the creators of South Park have said they are more or less libertarians.
What Wisecrack could have said is that most US economic policy is based off Keynesian theory, but Kyle's philosophy in this episode comes from the Austrian school. Thanks for posting that, and I hope you get more thumbs up so people can learn what the real philosophy behind the episode is.
I laughed when the last word on the commentary is: "personal responsibility," Weber's main point, later reiterated by thinkers in the Milton Friedman - Deirdre McCloskey vein. What Wisecrack attributes to Weber through Randy's ideology is actually asceticism, seen in monastic orders, totalitarian states and a couple other places.
Jim Allocco thank you for your kind words.
It's a shame because wisecrack seems to know libertarianism, as seen in the daredevil episode where they talk about personal responsibility and choice. I hope they get to see my link so they add a correction later on.
But I have to admit, when every fake news organization sells central banking as the powerhouse of free markets, it's no wonder that they concluded that Keynes stands for it.
Thank you for posting this and saving me the time of posting a similar message?
You really ought to call your fans "Wisecrackers." It just fits and it's funny.
Ah, there's nothing like coming back to this every time rich people freak out because something's wrong with the stock market.
The analysis by Wisecrack of the episode and the issues it deals with is beyond superb, it's sublime. Everyone in the US should be mandated by law to watch this video at least twice.
The Philosophy of Pink Floyd The Wall (the movie obvs)
RedLabs a young boy, whose father was absent because he died in the war, an overbearing mother, an authoritarian school system and a terrifying world in which the main character, roger waters, is forced to build a wall in his own mind to protect himself from all of the outside world that he perceived as either evil or scary. its the most genius album of all time.
Jesse Madison The main character is Pink, not roger waters
Canario Garcia Yes. a character named pink that is purely based off of roger waters.
It's basically about the Freudian concept of defense mechanisms. The wall represents a psychological barrier the protagonist puts up because things in the outside world bother him - his father's death, the schoolmaster abusing him, his mother smothering him, his anxiety about women, his wife cheating on him because he's gone a lot, his rock star lifestyle where he constantly feels mobbed by people who follow him so fervently that if he became a nazi, they would kill people for him, etc. He finally is forced to "tear down the wall" because he feels so much shame for his wall hurting people close to him. Idk if there's a lot of philosophy, it's more about psychological concepts than philosophical ones, but they are related. I would say there's existentialism and nihilism in it.
Well said, I only wonder if the nazi presence in the movie was based off of the idea that humans could be coerced into the hatred that the nazi exuded. In other words everyone likes to think that under the rule of hitler they would have been defiant and self sacrificing but in reality people have too much capacity to be subjected by a leader. And that all of us have to wonder whether or not we have that capacity within us. I have to say its hard to pick a favorite psychological value out of the album I beleieve its all as good as the last and contingent on eachother. But "One of my turns", and "Dont leave me now" are I think the most honest about Rogers psychological state at the time. And his Mania and what I see as his Bi polar depression. Its all so incredible and its by far the best album ever made.
great job on covering this. the only thing missed by SP was when the chicken with its head cut off was in the ring. they needed to have the Board of Governors placing bets on which spot it would kill over since that’s all the "experts" do when trading in CDOs or other derivatives. under all the jargon is nothing but a wager, a straight up gamble and not a sophisticated one. that's what scares people "in the know"...that the global economy is in fact not understandable by anyone and the markets are more about big bets cuz money has to flow somewhere. and if you have billions your tolerance for risk goes up. "we lost 100 million on that 'strategy'...ok let's chat about it when I get back from the Hamptons."
I fuckin' looooove Wisecrack. Nearly as much as Southpark !
I would LOVE to see you guys try to explain the philosophy of Moral Orel!!!
0:29 “I just told you who I thought I was.... a GOD!!”
I loved this episode beyond words. South Park in its most pure form. THIS is what you show someone who asks “what is South Park like?”
Love you guys. Best channel!
well done. glad you put the ad at the end.
Goobacks (8x06) should be next if you're gonna keep up with individual episodes
agreed!
they took my jerb
I always love you and Wisecrack's videos, Mr. Jared. They're so insightful and entertaining. Have y'all ever thought about doing a special edition over the tv show Fargo?
pls do a philosophy of Full Metal Alchemist brotherhood
Brandon Anderson Hey #Wisecrack here are some requests for Wisecrack Edition
The Philosophy of No Country for Old Men
The Philosophy of Metal Gear Solid
The Philosophy of The Wire
The Philosophy of Cowboy Bebop
The Philosophy of Monster the manga/anime
The Philosophy of Berserk
The Philosophy of Trigun
The Philosophy of Moral Orel
The Philosophy of Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex
Brandon Anderson Yes please!
+Nicholas Bodo
Are those all Mongolian cartoons?
Brandon Anderson TRIGGERED
Ewok Rothaar No they're the stories that got me into anime and manga.
Love you wisecrack! A whole episode wisecrack of the best south park episode. Best of both worlds.
please do philosophy of the Young Pope
And it's gone...
He ends up at the federal reserve....
Release the chicken.
Cluck cluck cluck.
I love how the more frightening issue no one is talking about is how at the end of the day, money is nothing more than a figment of our imagination. And somehow we seem content with letting it be the base of our existence. Just like religion, for what we don't have answers for we make up our own truth and treat it as such. So sad.
Gustav Rider capitalism has done the opposite, it’s made life worse for millions of people.
Gustav Rider what you don’t get, which is what the op is saying is simple; something even a person with a small iq like yourself can understand. We don’t need money. It is us giving it artificial value which makes it guess what- artificially valuable ! The Internet was born out of necessity lmao. Keep dreaming
This is my favorite episode of South Park. I'm so glad they did a "Philosophy of" of it
Let me Guess.. you're going to tie this all into Existential Nihilism somehow ?
Malik Hoff its genuinely a popular subject in media today.
Maybe this south park philosophy is it's own series? They're always my favorite videos
do archer!!!!
Randy's economic recovery plan is crazy at best.
this video was great!!please do Philosophy of The leftlovers!!!
Southpark's best episode - got my professor to play this in Macro Economics
PHILOSOPHY OF TRUE DETECTIVE SEASON 1
I finally got round to watching it recently and after I thought, ooh, I bet wisecrack have a Philosophy of: video and was very surprised to see they haven't.
I love this SP episode and I love wisecrack even more for this!
Why would you spend time on analysing an entire episode of Southpark when you can just do a video about how cool and epic fidget spinners are?
Nydeh I love my autistic toys.
Fidget cubes are better!!!!
As an autistic, I can confirm that the cube is better. For one, imagine that thing as a video game controller! It's also got more options. I can be silent sometimes and loud other times.
I wish there was a mechanical keyboard switch fidget toy. I don't care if it's the clicky switches or not. I just know I love how mechanical keyboards feel. Actually, buckling switch fidget cubes. Mmmm. Model M in a cube!
I could imagine the cube being great for playing Doom 1993. Of course, anything can play Doom!
South Park is the true big brain adult animated TV show.
The Philosophy of Bob Dylan maybe???
weird, when i was a kid i thought this episode sucks and boring
but 10 years later looking back, wow! this episode is brilliant!!!
*the philosophy of death note?*
OMG yess PLEASE
death note versus code geass
I would argue it's different in different sagas. Each character with the deathnote has a very unique philosophy on how to use it. Definitely "infinite power corrupts infinitely" applies across the whole series
PLEASE KAMI-SAMA, THIS!
you will probably enjoy "mother's basement"'s disection of the OP. "what's in an OP, Death Note's religious symbolism" or something like that.
the irony of the ad at the end, priceless.
Looks like you are still missing the point of that Kanye West Zane Lowe interview.
thanks bro for the legal zoom discount. im going to need it and pass along this video and the link
The philosophy of Neon Genesis Evangelion
InternalCombustionGenie I will be really impressed if the actually manage to get the Philosophy of that Ending
Not to worry, it'll only be 4 h 30 mins long :)
Hey, let me try giving you a condensed version without namedropping nor alluding to complex philosophical concepts. There are three major layers to NGE's narrative.
The outermost layer, the text, presents the events of the show at face value. It is about humans attempting to create a God in the form of Evas in order to further their goals. Seele's ultimate goal is the so-called Human Instrumentality, which is a process by which the souls of all of living beings merge into a single entity-a primordial soup of consciousness represented by the LCL. Gendo Ikari's goal which is at odds with Seele's is to reunite with his dead wife whose soul became trapped in Unit 01, although the exact differences of his version of Instrumentality and means to achieve it are never properly explored in the show. But both require Unit 01, along with Shinji and a couple more catalysts, to go through a chain of events culminating in the Third Impact, a cataclysm of planetary proportions. At the end Rei, who acts as one of said catalysts, asks Shinji how to proceed, and he decides to reject the Instrumentality, stopping the process midways. By this time virtually all humanity has already been merged into the sea of LCL, but with sufficient will on their end they might be able to emerge again as distinct entities. (And likely be fucked over anyway due to the massively dysfunctional state in which the world ends up at that point.) This is all largely a superficial fantasy mumbo jumbo that doesn't make a lot of sense in scientific terms, but then again it doesn't have to because it merely serves as an appropriately surrealistic canvas for the deeper layers of the narrative.
The second layer, the subtext, is constantly alluded to in the series and has to do with interpersonal and existential psychology and the concept of persona and self. Anno shows this on two different scales: the smaller-personal-where we look at characters' struggles to socialize and make sense of each other's feelings, and the larger-societal-where a techno-occultist organization tries to find the ultimate answer to life's grand questions and comes to the realization that personal agency was a mistake after all. The concept of A.T. (Absolute Terror) Field is a symbolic representation of another person's ego, or self, which as we all know can be scary to interact with, so we're always mindful of our own boundaries being overstepped. An individual possessing a sense of self-respect, an understanding of self-worth, supported by other people's affection and approval but not dependent on either becomes far less vulnerable, so their A.T. Field-the ego boundaries-expands and becomes stronger as a result. Asuka's realization that she wasn't abandoned, she didn't need to fight for her mother's approval, and her mother actually loved her all along empowers her A.T. Field to the point where Unit 02 can shrug off missiles and heavy artillery during the assault in the first part of EoE. For a mentally unstable, insecure, introverted teenager like Shinji, another person's self is a total mystery: nobody instructs him on how to interact with them yet everyone expects his understanding, tiniest mistakes are punished by verbal or physical abuse, negligence is the default behavior towards him, and the whole process just seems ultimately unfair and unrewarding. Every time Shinji begins to feel a little comfortable with his social life, difficulty ramps up again: first he needs to deal with his father and the Eva, then with cohabitation and classmates, then with Asuka and his puberty kicking in. Gradually we come to see that it isn't just Shinji: virtually every character in the series has to struggle with similar issues further colored by their own traumatic or otherwise life-defining experiences, and most of the time they these issues remain unresolved and are masked by a much more presentable facade. They're all fundamentally flawed people, they constantly make mistakes in social interaction, yet they all want affection and happiness and try to win them in the ways they know (mostly ineffective or ill-informed).
Human Instrumentality is conceived by Seele to help people deal with this struggle in a very radical way: by erasing the ego boundaries between people so that there is no more need for guessing each other's feeling or intentions, inadvertently or intentionally hurting each other becomes impossible, and thus there is no suffering-only a global, unconditional acceptance of each other, a perpetual oneness of all humankind. Gendo, on the other hand, selfishly wants himself and his wife to exist as distinct entities so that they could still interact as two persons. But over the course of the series, Shinji himself grows up a little and becomes able to assert himself and find fulfillment in socializing with people, so when asked what he wants to become in the end, he decides he prefers being his own person-even at the risk of being subject to suffering once again. In other words, he resolves to accept himself as the individual (which the other characters applaud in the iconic scene), and so he once again manifests as a corporeal entity in the real world. Since the Instrumentality process has very nearly been completed by that time, other people have to make the same decision if they want to be reborn. The overall message here is to grow up and not be afraid of being hurt by other people because that's just a part of life and everyone eventually becomes able to deal with it.
The last couple episodes of the series very strongly emphasize the point that we can only make sense of ourselves while having other people as our points of reference, i.e. in order to be different there has to be something distinct from you that you can compare yourself to. Even the most basic forms of reflection and introspection have us comparing our thoughts, actions, and aspirations to those of other people (living, dead, or fictional-doesn't matter), or our conceptions of our "ideal" selves, or some other internalized reference. Boundaries of self that make us our own person can only emerge when they can interact with another boundary-in other words, another person. So in order for Shinji to be Shinji, there needs to be someone else he can assert his person against, someone he can use to enable himself. The post-credits scene depicts Shinji and Asuka, once again in their corporeal forms, shell-shocked by having been torn away from the comforting womb of the Instrumentality back to the harsh reality of the destroyed world, as if waking up from a pleasant dream into a horrible apocalyptic nightmare. And so Shinji instinctively, without thinking, tries to assert his person by physically dominating Asuka, as he has already done in the past, in order to prove to himself that he is once again a separate entity able to reject and hurt another. Asuka, also on instinct, responds with a feminine caress-an opposing gesture of acceptance and comfort based on her lingering affection for Shinji. As both gradually find their bearings, Shinji is overcome with remorse and self-loathing, while Asuka, having just recently peered into Shinji's consciousness, and hence his memories, during their universally merged state, becomes disgusted at him fapping to her in the hospital room where she was lying unconscious, which provokes her scornful remark that ends the movie. So while they have recovered their persons, they immediately fuck it up like the humans they are. If there's any one scene I could choose to demonstrate Anno's directorial talent, it would be this one-an absolute masterpiece of understated delivery.
The final, metatextual layer to the whole franchise is Anno's commentary on the state of Japanese society and then-emerging otaku culture. Being a smart and perceptive person and an otaku himself, Anno sensed what the whole thing was about, why it happened, what dangers it could pose, and what he wanted to say about it. One of the reasons many anime researchers often pose NGE as _the_ dividing line in the medium's history is that it was _actually intended_ to disrupt anime and the culture surrounding it as a whole-and succeeded in doing so. It was the first anime to peer so deeply into the viewer's psyche and poke at its very foundations, provoking an immediate and strong response in those it resonated with. In order to understand why this was necessary to begin with, we need a brief overview of the cultural and historical context that preceded it.
20th century Japan was one of the few nations to go through a series of rapid, all-encompassing, and at times devastating changes in culture, economy, political trends, and societal structure. They went from a secluded, traditionalist, bushido-idolizing nation to a brutal warmonger state in the early 20th century to a physically and mentally defeated country in the late 40s to the rapidly expanding "economic miracle" in the 50s to a deflated version of said miracle in the 90s. This continuous turmoil has wounded Japan's mentality and left its populace at large rather disoriented as to what is supposed to be the "Japanese" thing to do, how they should proceed as a nation, or who or what they should associate their hopes and aspirations with, because blindly mimicking the Western world or trying to combine it with traditional values helped the society move forward in some aspects but hurt it in the other. Movies such as Tetsuo: The Ironman and the later Godzilla films reflect this ambiguity and apprehension towards the future of the country and convey the idea of Japan losing its way. A popular concept of anthropomorphic robots or mechas fighting bad guys with sword-like weapons has always been Japan's way to express its longing for the samurai through the prism of rapid technological progress. "We build robots now, but they're still samurai, we swear!"
By the end of the century, the wild ride of Japanese successes and failures and the unstable cultural identity culminated in two major events that left a deep impact on the mentality of the youth. In the late 80s, the economy which had been on a continuous rise until that point started showing signs of a bubble about to burst-which it did in 1991, leaving the adult members of the Japanese society rather disillusioned and sinking into chronic depression by millions. So what they did was pinning their hopes and dreams for the bright future onto their young, pressing them into receiving better education, getting jobs as corporate slaves, and working their asses off so that things could once again improve for everyone. Just a few years later, in March of 1995, the doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo executed the largest terrorist attack in Japan's history, and it did so with the help of... yes, that same bright youth the society was so hopeful of. What was considered the nation's future went against it, and nobody could see it coming.
This served as an _incredibly_ painful wake-up call for Japan to see just _how_ alienated and disconnected it had been from its own repressed feelings: all the pent-up frustration and other problems the society didn't want to deal with exploded in its face. The blow to the nation's morale, already weakened by stagnating economy, was devastating. Both the adults and the youth were almost completely disillusioned with their prospects. The constantly rising burden of expectations, the dehumanizing approach to adult life which sucked all initiative and personality out of those who once were bright and cheerful, the thought of being locked into a terrifyingly depressive life, and finally the terrorist attack provoked a sharp spike in the already-rising escapist tendencies among the otaku. This couldn't go unnoticed by Hideaki Anno who had already been struggling with depression for several years by that point and was very receptive to the notion of running away from problems. NGE started airing just half a year after the terrorist attack, in October of 1995. Speaking through the most common medium available to reach his target audience, Anno rather forcefully attempted to yank the otaku out of their zone of comfort and demonstrate to them that society as a whole-adults included-is comprised of flawed and misguided individuals who also try and fail to make sense of themselves and their situations, and bullshit happens because nobody is perfect nor has a clear view of what's going on. But it's very possible to account for that if one keeps it in mind, so instead of escaping to the world of 2D fantasy, the audience should grow up, accept themselves, and try finding meaning and enjoyment in living their lives together with others as a functioning, non-alienated society. If even someone as pathetic as Shinji could do this and choose life over the comfort of escaping to permanent oneness, why wouldn't everybody else be able to? Obviously this message backfired quite a bit, and most otakus have turned NGE and its characters into an even greater fetish-the opposite of Anno's message-but for some it ended up an eye-opening experience that helped foster their personal development.
This commentary and its feedback remain pervasive throughout the live-action inserts in EoE, Anno's later interviews, and, in an interesting way, the development of Rebuild of Evangelion. There is a strong case in favor of the apparent tonal shift between the original series and the remakes (as well as between the second and the third movies) going exactly in accord with Anno's initial plan. He is, after all, an auteur whose message shapes the narrative-not the other way around. So imagine that you are Hideaki Anno, and your message to the otaku community in NGE has largely fallen on deaf ears. If you could try it again with a remake, how would you go about it? Subtlety evidently didn't work well the first time, so you'd probably go with an even more forceful, borderline trollish message and an even more devious method this time around. In the first and second movie everything goes well, Shinji's emotional development going full steam into the bright future of ultra-expensive computer-assisted animation, we're presented with _heaps_ of extra fan service (including a character whose only role and defining trait _is_ providing fan service) and promised even more of it during the end credits, that pesky Asuka is promptly dealt with... So many things to fawn over, it's almost like the fans' dreams come true! And then Anno goes and pulls the rug from under them once again with a total subversion of every expectation with the third movie-even at the expense of narrative integrity-as if to purposefully spite the fans and destroy their desire to fetishize anything Eva-related ever again. I have strong reasons to believe this is basically him saying, "you still haven't grown up, you're still letting your fetishes shape and control you". Now, of course we still need to see the final movie to have the final say on the matter, but so far this is what it all looks like to me.
(Welp, this didn't end up condensed at all...)
@@moozooh These comments on Evangelion were deeply insightful and helped me see another perspective on its inner workings and its creator's intentions. I just wanted to say thank you very much for these, you are a very smart individual, and I hope that future is very bright for you!
One of my favorite South Park episodes
I really don't think the economy is that hard to understand.
We invest heavily in companies on the pretense that they control certain technological innovations and business practices that keeps our eanings safe. When those investments don't pay off, the government bails us out.
Instead of bouncing from one economic bubble to another, we should instead systematically increase the value of a dollar through the development of disruptive Technologies like Universal internet, roof top subsistence farming and most importantly *_Zero Point Energy/Free Power._*
Our scientists and Engineers should set the market trends by doing away with antiquated technologies like internal combustion engines-- thereby peacefully developing post-scarcity resource-based economies.
But that takes inventors, rationalist pragmatist, men and women of self-esteem NOT ANTIFA!!✌
*_Who is John Galt?_*
BlackPrivileged ii
BlackPrivileged John Galt realizes that financial markets provide substantially greater returns than the investment in real industry. John Galt realizes that its far easier to make money by lying to public investors, whose money is most likely in the care of a fund, of a "technological innovation" and raising capital through an IPO. If societal improvement is not the most profitable course of action for those with the concentration of capital, then don't expect it to occur without the iron fist of legitimate force.
Scott Lin A good capitalist must account for the humanity of others... I'm sure you've heard of stakeholders Theory before.
BlackPrivileged First off, I'd like to apologize for the rather aggressive tone of my reply. I'm not a fan of objectivism, but that was incredibly uncalled for.
BlackPrivileged My main point was that the reliance on great men to solve society's ills is doomed for disappointment. While some people may account for the needs of their stakeholders, many won't. I'm saying that government regulation is needed to systemically turn buisness ethics into the only profitable means of conducting buisness.
I love it when you guys do episodes on south park.
And Obama takes all the credit.
Ron Nickels I though Trump was the one taking credit for it. like he had done anything
To be fare he didn't cause two trillion dollar wars. He did kill, Children after receiving a Nobel Peace prize
But muh trump
likenem they weren't American children so who cares. Out of sight out of mind
trump just killed women and men in yemen sooooooooooooooo fuuuuuucccckkkkk offfffffff!
Yessss more south park plzzzz
Please teach us the philosophy of The 120 Days of Sodom!
Stiltzkin Vanserine seconded!
It's worth binge-ing the entire season to watch this video.
Wisecrack knows that season 20 is shit that's why the make no video about it.
They did a video on season 20 but for their "What's Wrong With" videos. You should check it out...
One of my favorite episodes. Thanks for this guys!
ive always thought that this was the smartest episode the guys have ever done
This last semester, one of our side assignments during US Government was to watch and analyze the Margaritaville episode of South Park when we were studying monetary and fiscal policy lol
This is my favorite episode. Thanks for this.
South Park Season 20...how is this not a wisecrack thing yet!?!?
I can attest to working in corporate, that no one knows what is going on. Most of the time a company does something bad to the outside it seems like some greedy corporate suit is trying to screw people over when what actually happened was that someone forgot to carry a 1 in the thousands of documents keeping track of everything.
Margaritaville and With Apologies from Jesse Jackson are the best South Park episodes ever.
please do elder scrolls philosophy. i know its a big series so any video on it would be greatly appreciated.
Technostrategic discourse is a fine example of technostrategic discourse.
God how I love you for quoting Weber and Keynes in a RUclips video on Southpark!
My favourite episode. Hands down.
you guys should really do season 20. They hit on some pretty cool stuff.
I knew it! I knew South Park was genius!
This is the most brilliant South Park by a mile.
10/10 best Segue to the ad.
explains that technical jargon contributes to a system of consumer submission....... brought to you by lawyers
One of the best episodes of the series.
didn't expect the legal zoom part ...wait is it .? An ad ? on the end of the video .. its evolving !! LESLIEEE !
PLEASE " THE PRESTIGE " WOULD BE AWESOME FOR A WISECRACK EPISODE!!
as a catholic i loved this episode, i'm glad you didn't lampoon us too or make fun in this video. great as always.
This is my favourite episode of that season.
This episode's beginning also says something. People who need answers in time of crisis will blame 'the man', or seek answers in conspiracy theories or even worse, turn to religion
Just so everyone knows, forming an LLC is actually super easy and only requires 1 form depending on what state you're doing it in.