Jack London: The Call of Survival
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- Опубликовано: 11 мар 2024
- Jack London was arguably America’s first celebrity author. His life, though short, was one of adventure and often controversy. He was a poacher, a failed gold miner, worked in a cannery, spun jute, and rode the rails as a hobo, all before reaching the age of eighteen. He became a world-famous writer, an outspoken advocate for animal rights, workers’ rights, eugenics, socialism, and atheism. His work as a writer made him fabulously rich, and he flaunted his wealth shamelessly.
A lifelong unashamed love of drinking led to his admitted addiction to alcohol, and a frank discussion of alcoholism in his memoir/novel John Barleycorn. London wrote of the titular character, a euphemism for whiskey, “He gives clear vision, and muddy dreams. He is the enemy of life, and the teacher of wisdom beyond life’s wisdom”. In his book, he gave a new term to the English lexicon, describing the drunkard, whom, stupid with drink, “…falls frequently in the gutter, and who sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy, blue mice and pink elephants”. Seeing pink elephants has been a metaphor for drunkenness ever since.
London’s work was marked with a realism the reader often sensed and the writer had often experienced. His most evil character, the sadistic sea captain Wolf Larsen in The Sea Witch, was based on a seafarer he had known in his youth. The Yukon characters of White Fang and The Call of the Wild were based on people he knew during his own adventures in the north. Though he exuded a hale and hearty appearance, his health was often frail, and he was subject to several illnesses, most of them aggravated by his chronic drinking. He rose from rags to riches, though he never lost sight of the rags.
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www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...
Just a note on Audio: I've since changed to a Blue Yeti mic, as the Lav mic has been having some issues. Sorry about the audio issues, we did our best to clean it up. Future recordings will be much better (as I just got an awesome new lens for my DSLR as well).
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Thanks! He's amazing
Great to see you Eric! You're doing an Amazing work 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Appreciate it!
@@Biographics np
Nice to meet you, Eric! When Simon passed the torch to Karl, I was disappointed. But I became very fond of Karl. And now, Eric, gee, you have an awesome voice! 😊
Karl's awesome, and it's been really great working with him these last six months. I've pretty much worked all the kinks out of my audio now too, since I switched to my Blue Yeti. I've also added a new lens for my DSLR for newer recordings.
2:15 - Chapter 1 - A troubled childhood
6:25 - Chapter 2 - The gold rush
8:25 - Chapter 3 - Success in the magazine age
12:05 - Chapter 4 - Tales of death & survival
14:00 - Chapter 5 - Atheism , socialism , racism & eugenics
16:50 - Chapter 6 - A happy marriage
18:45 - Chapter 7 - Final days
20:30 - Chapter 8 - Jack london's legacy
22:05 - Conclusion
THIS IS A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT : Simon Whistler no longer presents this channel. This seems unlikely to change any time soon, as Simon works on multiple channels. This channel has the intermediary presenter Karl Smallwood, who is currently taking a break. Eric is presenting in his place. Simon IS NOT coming back. I am sure it is hurtful and insulting for those who put in hard work on these videos, for people to continuously ask where Simon is, when these people are doing the work and every bit as well as Simon ever did. However, no one is tied to a youtube channel, so if you dislike the lack of Simon, I am sure you can just... stop watching? I promise, no one needs to know you will be unsubscribing, nor does anyone need to see insults about the current presenters' accent/presenting style etc. Be kind.
I'm trying to be kind also mindful I can't know in advance if autism or something is involved in a case like this, but with all information you've tried to convey in hand, people displeased may want to inflict their displeasure on remaining team or owners preferably in a business/channel damaging way, also always possible unless owner isn't much of a business mind to scrape together resources to rebuy out channel and reinstate Simon or variations on those specifics even if current ownership is disinclined and immune to changes in mind or heart, etc etc (I would have thought obviously)
I like Simon as well, but that doesn't mean he has to do every channel on RUclips. I ended up following Karl, and I enjoy his content very much. I even went out and bought a copy of Robocop. But really, we were all told this when the change happened. If people are complaining at this point, do they really care? If they cared that much, they would have seen the handover video. Not picked up a random video months after the event.
Be kind, indeed. The whole world would be a better place if we all chose to be kind to everyone.
If Karl is taking a break, then can't you just stop making videos? Surely it's better to lose money in the short term than to lose viewers forever?
Simon always ducks out haha, whelp
wychowałem sie na Londonie-czym byłby dzisiejszy świat bez kamieni milowych literatury tego pisarza... dziś mimo wielu lat życia przymykam oczy i widze trzaska iskier w obozowym ognisku a w oddali wycie wilków... to był swiat który dziś już nie istnieje nigdzie indziej prócz mojej pamieci...
Nothing against Karl personally but as a non native English speaker I find him a bit hard to understand. Karl is still doing a great job! Yet for me Eric is easier to understand so I would be happy if he presented more.
Thanks to everyone who works for this channel for providing such quality content.
Karl is somewhere so we have Eric 🙂
Great Video and always like learning new things
I like this narrator. More of him if you please.
A well produced and written episode and very well told a credit to you all .
Thank you!
Hello Eric, lovely,soft, even voice (mr. SmallWood, I adore your voice and voice cadences ❤) you have. I very much enjoyed this video. Thank you all ❤
I just upgraded my audio set up and lens too, so it should sound even better with newer recordings.
Appreciate you 🙂
I have always enjoyed his stories. Never knew some of this. Thanks.
Great video as always. I’d love to see you do a video on Sirimavo Bandaranaike the first woman prime minister in history
Awesome as always thanks ❤ one of my favorite authors! I don't believe what he did but the call of the wild and white fang are awesome stories!
Can y'all please do a video on Henry A. Wallace, George Westinghouse and Rutherford B. Hayes
As a young man, while working as a hotel bellhop, he met an android who traveled back in time from the 24th century.
😭I was hoping I was the first one to drop that reference.
Sam Clemens: Comment sniping is by no means an activity for a proper gentleman. Nonetheless, the deed is done.
What season of TNG?
@@Biographics it is a two part episode at the end of season 5, beginning of season 6. It's called Time's Arrow.
I met the actor who played Jack London in the episode of Star Trek the Next Generation called "Times Arrow." He really brought the character of Jack London to life.
Suggestion eric: Richard III the last Plantagenet king of England
Great video! I recently found your channel, and I love the production value. Keep up the great work.
Thank you.
Do Edgar Rice Burroughs or Rudyard Kipling!
Great video! Try Washington Irving next or Menander I Soter!
Thanks for the video 👍🏻
An entertaining presentation.
Thank you very interesting 👍
It's amazing how many talented individuals have skeletons in their closets (or "demons"). Call of The Wild is one of faves though.
No mention of Martin Eden?
Great sign off.
I thought that "seeing Pink Elephants" was a metaphor for alcohol withdrawal delirium 🤔
Alcohol withdrawal sucks. Recently had to endure it. No pink elephant though, but lots of sickness and a seizure
@@mikelfunderburk5912 I know how hard it is and how much it takes to break the cycle, I've struggled with alcohol addiction myself until recently. Today I'm 67 days sober. Stay strong and keep the fight going, one small step at the time!
wheres fact boy, did you put him with kevin?
This channel is turning into the Daily show. Like just pick a host 😂
Is Eric the new host?
i hope to be a success like jack but..........i honestly don't know what more i can do.
Keep working! The grind never ends.
A cannery is where they can things, not where they cane things.. lol
He even met Data from Star Trek.
What a hero
Cringe
Wow Karl smalldick (smallwood) isn't here, this channel might get a second wind yet
Suggestion to Eric:
please either put on casual clothes or sit upright, the mix of wearing a suit but casually leaning back into your seat is just a weird mix 😅. I don't mean this in a hateful way but just that something was bothering me in some way and I figured out it's that
After this recording, I totally changed the setup. I didn't realize I was leaning like that. I've also switched to using my blue yeti and a new higher quality lens with depth of field for my DSLR.
Omg...waaaaah
@@OldPirate1718 oh nooo constructive criticism, run and hide... seriously 🙄
Oh my God! The audacity !!! Get a frickin life ya weirdo
21:04 Isn't that what happened?
Wasn't Mark Twain a celebrity?
Eric is fine himself, but it's still not really the same without Simon, for many of us he was Biographics.
Where is Simon ?
Just as I was getting use to taking Smallwood, this gentleman arrives. Good voice sir, just need a little more personality.
In the pre Karl days this channel got millions of views, now it can barely break 20k. I'm glad to see the internet has rejected his smug insufferable face
Eugenics is a fantastic idea. Dysgenics is a terrible idea.
If all authors experienced life as Jack London there would be little need for imagination. Lets say it again a socialist writer for good or ill.
Lets point out that the core idea of eugenics...is a good idea, and ultimately WILL be implemented as we master genetics/gene therapy/artificial-human augmentation etc.
IT WAS everything that happened around European Eugenics that was bad: w/ or w/o it, those atrocities would have been committed (indeed in the late 1800s there were genocides that were purely based in race/ethnic discrimination, before genes/etc were understood.)
Even the point idea isn't good but creating a perfect species is impossible.
We all have our own subjective views on what a perfect human would be like
the very nature of trying to 'cure cancer' or hereditary diseases = a form of eugenics: its attempts to remove certain genes from the gene pool: ones that cause various disorders.
--> A gun in the hands of a honorable/ethical person = a tool for good
--> A gun in the hands of a dishonorable/unethical person = a tool for evil.
Its how the tool is wielded; AI, surveillance systems, public utilities, drones...its the same for countless tools/devices.
@@djdrack4681You make it sound nice but it was just an excuse to make one feel better than another ethnic group.
Humans always wanted to become healthier and stronger even before eugenics
@@balabanasiretiThat is what it quickly spiraled into: But even post-WWII Europe showed that it is possible.
Rates of genetic disabilities among children in central europe were lower (bcuz of what happened).
The idea of filtering out blindness, mental disorders, etc = good. Forcing people = the defining characteristic when good intentions --> road to hell.
Only thinking of eugenics (the philosophy of selective reproduction/gene therapy etc) as a NSDAP concept = flawed. US had its own Eugenics program, UK did, etc.
Its like thinking of Transhumanism as ONLY bad bcuz right now, gov/megacorps would like to utilize it for $ and surveillance/control...
When in fact transhumanist tech (IE storing mind in hard drive, printing a new body etc)...Is the only truly viable way we will colonize the galaxy and evolve past the possibility of extinction (and senescence)
Do Biographics a real service and don't bring back Karl Smallbrain.
Wtf, who are you? Where's Simon???
Once again, for those who clearly haven't been paying attention over the last YEAR, Simon no longer presents this channel. He has far too many other channels to work on. Currently this channel has an intermediate presenter, Karl Smallwood. This awesome dude however is covering while Karl is off having a break.
He's off picking blueberries in a faraway land!
Well, he wasn’t wrong. Women getting the vote DID lead to prohibition🤣
Yes because Wayne Wheeler had no involvement in prohibition whatsoever
Nice to see a new face on the channel though 🫡
Thank you.
Nice to see a new face on the channel though 🫡
Anyone except Karl Smallbrain, hopefully, he will never return.