should humanity die?
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- Опубликовано: 18 янв 2023
- Should the human race end?
The extinction of the human race is one of the most grim narratives. From disease to otherworldly invaders, humans have imagined what it would look like to be wiped out. But one of these possibilities stands as the most chilling; self extermination. A species which destroys itself, launching their own weapons upon their own kind until none are left, something worthy of dedicated discussion and analysis. Devilman Crybaby explores this possibility in a world where demons exist, sometimes merging with humans to make devilmen, humans with the hellish power of these creatures. Akira is one of these, turned by Ryo’s manipulation into the host for Amon. They seek to reveal this hidden truth of demons existence, but things turn much darker for Akira with Ryo’s true intentions; the destruction of humanity. In this anime video essay we’ll discuss how this isn’t a concept unique to Devilman Crybaby, but explain how the series, rather than asking if humanity is inherently evil, assumes that point and moves forward, showing us the worst of our species. It is not if man is good, it is man is bad; now what? Would things be better without humans? Should humanity die? This is what we’ll analyze in today's anime video essay on Devilman Crybaby, the tale of Akira, Ryo, Miki and more.
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Hey everyone, ***please read this before commenting.*** What I'm stating in this video is not my personal opinion, it's simply something I gathered from the series and thought would be interesting to discussion. Obviously, I don't believe humanity is entirely awful and should end. But, I wasn't clear in both my analysis and presentation, and the fault lies on me for rushing out a video on such a serious topic, and not gathering everything I should have from the series to begin with. I'll be sure to do better on this in the future. If it wasn't for algorithm concerns, I'd have already taken this video down. Thanks for your time, and I'll be better with this in the future.
no worries Prof, i enjoyed it a lot, like always
I believe that when it comes down to it humans are inherently good
I mean, I've always contemplated this- especially after all of us in California couldn't stay in our houses for two weeks to stop the spread of COVID. I existed in isolation thanks to a crappy relationship for four years, my fellow humans couldn't do it for two weeks. I've never recovered from that disappointment or breaking of trust.
Still love your vid and thoughts regardless
Can you do a Video on Heaven's Lost Property?
As a childhood abuse survivor, I can say with certainty that humans get off on powertripping over those who are helpless or unable to stand up against them. It's a very animalistic thing, and humans haven't yet gotten beyond a lot of those instincts.
I don't overly care for dark media, because due to my experiences I can often get (yes that word that everyone now hates but was originally used for those of us with PTSD) *triggered*
That being said, I'm glad that certain types of dark media exist because most people really need to be pushed into thinking about these things so that a conscious effort can be made to do something about it, or at the very least people without those experiences can be made aware of it as an overarching issue.
Apocalypse Now is still one of my favorite movies of all times because, despite the fact that certain parts are difficult to watch, it does a great job at pointing out exactly what it is that is ugly about humanity. All that being said though, I tend to stick to more light-hearted escapism type of media as well as comedy. I'm raw daddy, lol (and I already think about this shit way too much anyways)
Yup body and animal instincts and minds of a God. Not sure both could coexist for long.😮
I.... Ungh...
I think people tend to view humanity with a very myopic set of lenses. Either humanity is the awesomest awesome sauce to awesome or they are the most despicable thing lower than dog shit possible.
I think people are miserable but deserving of pity. Alone, half animalistic beings with no source of objective meaning. Morality is more emotionally based ( though a shared experience), and like Lord of the flies, ( probably one of the best overview parables to humanity, demonstrating it's fear and lack of direction), there is no known watcher over the watchmen.
They're miserable by situation and nature and wonderful and awe inspiring by that very nature as well, and without the utter loneliness and lack of guidance, that awesomeness would lack meaning.
The thing about Akira at the end is that some of the demons embrace humanity's plight and he himself laments for winning the final battle a failure despite winning , mirroring the crucifixion, which is a win though defeat.
I should point out that Akira's win as a defeat is mirror to the crucifixion because through jesus's death, life is given (at least in the context of the religion), but at the of devilman, there's no continuation, only death, and without humanity, there's no meaning, ( which is very existential in that we are meaning creating creatures).
little can upset me in media but when I saw miki's head, I was enraged
Damn, LTG's famous speech turned out right all along, on mass scale even.
Don't treasure yourself indeed.
I am really relieved to hear your perspective of Devil Man Cry Baby. I also hated it, but understand and appreciate what it wanted to do. I will say, that I take great issue with stories like this, because they constantly seem to make superficial judgements on human actions while then equating it with the worst of humanity. I think the story works better if one only watched the climatic ending, and nothing else.
huh, that's interesting that i stumbled onto this comment because when i first discovered this show a few years ago, i decided to only watch the climatic ending (not even the episode in full) because i don't do well with gore or sexual themes. perhaps the eerie, "there's nothing left" ending is what sums up the show, and one can already assume what went down that made that happen knowing that (especially when akira and ryo, childhood friends who were very, if not all powerful demons, were fighting at the end).
Thank you so much for talking about this and phrasing it so eloquently and consciously. This idea/question has stuck with me ever since I first watched the show. To the point I've even had a hard time mentioning it to other people, because I feel like it asks some very existential questions that I don't think any of us have the answer to yet. An amazing show that is unafraid to challenge the audience to think. Love your work can't wait to see what you make next!
You have an interesting perspective. My view of violence and death is very different from yours. Not that I enjoy it or seek it out, but that it’s part of life no different from the rest. I don’t think we can escape it regardless of what we do and a fear of it just leads us to be more hurt when it does happen. Living involves watching those around you die, sometimes early, sometimes violently. It doesn’t do us any service to them to stop appreciating the gift of life just because not everyone can continue to enjoy it with us. I don’t think that last part was your point exactly, but as we continue to progress as a society death less and less familiar to us and from my perspective it’s hurting our understanding of what our lives are.
Yeah and when you think of it we're probably giving ourselves too much importance. Not that that's unreasonable since we don't know any aliens or anything, but a lot of evolved species probably fall to our same traps. But we're still cooler to animals because we have autonomy over ourselves in ways they don't so we can really help each other.
I’ve been binging a lot of your content lately and I love seeing your courage to share yourself with the world. From different outfits, to opinions and personal experiences I’m amazed and only wish the best for you ❤
I don't hate dark media per se, but I resent much of it even at its best for how it often makes those who consume it quite cynical and nihilistic. And I think that kind of thinking is dangerous because I feel that while humanity is capable of terrible cruelty as much as it is great heroism, what most people actually want is not to harm others but not be harmed themselves.
I think so many people have heard of stories of acts of kindness punished rather than rewarded - real or fictional - that it has become far easier to internalize a default narrative of humanity, that we are cruel and savage. And as the fear of becoming harmed sinks into our minds like a toxin, it makes us less likely to reach out as we let ourselves fester and rot closed off from one another, stagnating but ostensibly safe.
We're not devils inherently... but it's so easy to be corrupted.
Humans are more devils than angels
Word Up!
@@tylerharris4392 Be the change you want to see in the world. As long as you do good, that's all that matters. Judging others wont help. Leading by example will, imo
Well said, your last sentence is truly great
I'd say devil's exists more than angels
I love your videos!! Don't have a lot to say but I started following you recently and don't regret it one bit.
Thank you very much, I appreciate what you do have to say : )
I truly love your channel and your thoughts. Fan for life.
Don't sweat it with the "Clickbait". RUclips doesn't work as a job if you don't do it. Even then, all it takes is to see your name come up and I'm clicking, regardless of the topic so I may be a bit biased.
Yep sadly its part of creators to clickbait, you can clickait even clever
here here
We are the shadow. We are water. We all have the potential to be saints and sinners.
There is one thing that humanity has been given (and gives) that makes everything worth while...hope....
i think this anime captures a important theme. gaze into the abyss and the abyss gazes back. everything you are, all the things you hate about yourself is in front of you reflected off the darkness. isolation, cruelty. desire, death. the 4 great tragedies all humans must go through. this will bring you one step closer to overcoming these tragedies. reminds me of berserk
Not going to lie, the way it sounds like at the end of this video is that is it better to die a martyr and than life to become a demon in life. Reminds me of that old priest in Vinland Saga how he believes true love & holiness is death/ego death and all other forms of love are different degrees of discrimination. To be honest, I never seen the anime, nor do I want to after watching this, but if demons exists, shouldn't heaven exist for humans as well? I am surprised this doesn't give some people comfort in that.
For me, the series didn't say to be a martyr, but that it didn't matter what we were, since everyone met the same end. Mikis story is one of a martyr for sure, as they quote living and dying by the sword in her family, but overall I believed the point to be that it didn't really matter. I don't feel that way myself, but it's what I gathered from the series
@@ProfessorViral So you do think it matters. Would you expand on that? For me, this is more of a question of the human condition in many stories and in real life, but unlike many other stories, it is one where both saints and sinners meet the same end or at least a similar end.
The result is a really earnest trying to make a heaven on earth, a pretty big theme in vinland saga, making a place that can e as fre of that sufering as possible.
c'mon algorithm, do your thing
Very interesting topic. I do agree that there's something awful to finding pleasure in the pain of others. However, I must admit to having found pleasure in those who've hurt me in my life suffering. I am an aggressive and angry person and, as such, I tend to think that such emotions are important to being a full human. To cut them off or to focus them purely into creating isn't healthy in my mind. Personally I think people have become too sheltered in modern times. Not all, of course. I am aware of those who aren't and go out and live. But I have definitely met my share of people online who have such poor social armour that they get upset over things like laughing because they committed a mistake. Something which is relatable and which I laugh about out of comradery rather than in an attempt to make them feel bad. Or when I laugh at a person who doesn't stop to consider that they're pushing me around, making me feel backed into a corner. It's as though there's a kind version of fascism out there, one in which people don't utilise violence but rather act nice and only nice, attempting to play one people's sense of shame. It's as though they have this drive to make everyone behave just like them rather than understand and accept others as who they are.
I admit that I also used to be such a person, used to try and be so kind with the hope that it would convince others to do the same... But I also would often "come undone" and snap and rage at people. Because, as it turned out, I wasn't that kind, I am not that kind and so attempting to live that way ends up making me want to die. I only hope that us humans stop trying to make everyone conform and obey, learning to accept people as who they are. Social armour is such an important thing to learn so we don't end up becoming fascistic in a whole new way. One which eradicates and erases any and all conflict. Trapping one's mind in a cage is so incredibly damaging if you ask me. We really need to do away with bs systems like seclusion rooms once and for all already. It really infuriates me that we even still have such barbaric things still in use.
I just wanna add that, when I talk about anger, I mean it as different from rage. To me rage is when you're taken over by the emotion and it has control of you. Anger is when you can express it based off of your own values, can leave that state as easily as when you went into it and express the amount you need to at any given moment.
Netflix's retake of Devilman Crybaby really got to me. The death of Miki Makimura made me so angry I punched the couch I sat watching it. Thankfully, I experienced joy watching Akira Fudo/Devilman punish the real demons who took Miki and the rest of their friends who were also murdered as their only punishment.
Yes.
These videos keep getting more and more serious. I enjoy watching serious anime, they are the exact opposite of comedy anime.
Weird to admit but its something I've thought about. I know its wrong and its not like I do anything with it but that thought of humanity dying would be better. Again I know this isnt even correct but telling all the counter arguments just doesnt change how I feel. It's not like its something I go around expressing or advocating either, but I wish didnt have to live with this as something my "heart" believes
To me, humanity being the architect of their own destruction is something inevitable, some say in the name of "advancement" some say out of spite, but we inevitably marched to our own ends through the choices we made for good for or ill. The choices in this anime in indeed for ill and very shortshighted in nature. So the question is not "should we deserve to die?" but "how should we die?" At least to me
I would like to present you a quote from Men In Black movie by agent K :
"A person is smart, people are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it"
This quote alone cements my disdain towards people as a collective because i have seen, and experienced it for myself that people as a collective can be stupid beyond measure in the name of pride and "materialistic survivor" and the current state of affairs are not helping either, as long as we are alive "physically" you will twist anything else for the worse.
My issue with this perspective is threefold. First, humanity is not a monolith. I've never liked that MIB quote for a lot of reasons, but even if I accept it as true, it's still a moot point because people don't just behave collectively. They also act as individuals, and the quote even admits that individuals are smart. If people are foolish when acting en masse, but wise when they aren't, then we haven't really said anything about humanity's overall worth because it just evens out.
My second issues is that it's willfully ignoring actual reality. Show me a human atrocity and I can show you both an inspirational act of kindness or cooperation, as well as an act of utterly zero moral weight either way. Just because you've personally experienced the bad doesn't mean the rest doesn't exist. The debate over human nature has never made sense to me; it's an observable fact that people are equally capable of good, evil, and neutrality, both individually and collectively. Humanity is obviously fundamentally neither good nor evil.
Finally, to say that humanity deserves to die is an absurd overreaction. When you say that, I imagine you're thinking of the worst mankind has to offer, but what about everyone else? What about those who've done nothing wrong, or those who've done undeniably great things? What about children? When you condemn humanity, you're not just condemning a collective, but every individual as well. When you do that, not only are you saying all these innocent people deserve to die, but that they and every potential future generation shouldn't even have the chance to prove you wrong.
The level of groundless self-certainty this perspective requires is so tremendous that it couldn't possibly be right.
Yes, idc about this life. It shouldn’t have existed in the first place.
15:30 similar things happened during the French Revolution
Just opened ytb, the thumbnail was the first thing I saw :(
Dark edia is good, but i really usually like it having some hope and optimism. Honstly why i like urobutchers works, yes they are dark, and bleak, but they also reafirm humanities better qualities too.
I think dark media is good when it balances that with how yeah humanity sucks but still worth it.
And personally i like mor when we destroy ourselves in a story but there is also showcase we dont have to and can do better. Even if ell humanity isnt really a collective.
And that dark depressing stories yeah are needed but as a ho not to, and i dont know if devilman crybaby made that point. I really think ryu being more human would sell that he is also sad about the loss and he knew but denied love over that and regrets. also the pacing is a mess.
Nah this anime was fantastic
10:21 "Presenting us with an extended scene of anguish. This made his boring nature for so long, worthwhile" I get that this isn't your personal opinion, that this is just your analysis of what the show is saying.
In response to this, what the show is saying, the only thing I instinctively, immediately felt was disgust that the only thing "worthwhile" about a boring good person is when something tragic happens to them.
That is disgustingly indulgence drama. As if a person can't be worthwhile if they are just a good person, only when something "interesting" (i.e. bad happens) happens to them, like they're supposed to be punished for trying to live a good moral person.
Interesting
HELL YEAH!
I miss yugioh, doesn't matter if I die or not as I will never get that amazing content back
The game changed, I couldn't create for something I had no love for
@@ProfessorViral didn't expect a reply, I was kinda trolling lol but half serious too. I understand, just wish you woulda kept em in a Playlist or something but it's been years so obviously I'm over it
Edit: I do see a Playlist but last time I looked a lot of videos were private
Edit 2: beautiful, at least I can enjoy these. And I do still watch an anime video from time to time. It's obvious your passion for anime is great and I wish you best of luck with it
What anime is this?
Devilman Crybaby
Only the majority. The selected ones will live.
I greatly dislike this statement. There's no point in anything that discards a majority
Yes
I'm not mad but you did bait me lol good video tho. You got me I'm subbing
RUclips hasn't been kind to my specificly named videos, I had to start playing their game unfortunately. But, glad it was worth it at least haha
The click bait is forgiven. I didnt think this would be a Crybaby video until i started watching it but you did help consolidate the feelings i had for this anime. Im the same as you, i fucking hated this show until the last quartet of episodes. The pacing is awful, the violence and sex are so abundant and gratuitous i wonder how ANYBODY can watch this and saw they enjoy it, and its ending is big doomer. Im staring to understand that grimdark pieces of media like this are not my cup of tea. I wondered what the animators and directors thought in their hearts for things like the ending of ep. 9 for example. I... dont think we should shy away from the absolute bottoms of humanity, like youve said. We need to see how evil we can be before we can even START to understand what it means to do good, we need to know that. But fuck this was so hard to watch
One of my favorite scenes is the last bit while Akira is fighting Lucifer, and even then, hes trying to pass the baton. I think, that that may be the best message the show is trying to present. The little sprinkle of hope and humanity (despite it being expelled) really is what made me think about this anime well after i finished it. I personally feel humanity is inherently good, so watching this had big question marks over my head. But I do, or rather we do as people, need to understand the importance of series like this. Because this is also a "potential of humanity."
Also very ironic that I just want to watch the final baton scene on youtube but the only thing I get instead is the OST song or the ending of ep. 9 where Miki's death happens. So i have to rely on having Netflix to experience that scene again. Humanity
I think the question should be, why should humanity continue to exist? I cannot think of a good reason.
Hey bud you should go watch Bocchi the Rock! and maybe it'll cheer you up.
It’s truly a shame to me that you didn’t emotionally connect with Devilman, this is one of my favorite anime. I think it’s taking the easy, shallow interpretation to dismiss it as nihilistic and meaningless, especially when one examines what it’s actually trying to say. Akira and all of his loved ones did die, but the actions he and others took did matter in the end, because he taught the Devil how to love. Love is the center of Crybaby, and understanding how it functions as a tragedy is extremely important rather than writing it off as edgy and pointless. It’s fine to not like it, it’s not for everyone, but I do think it deserves more credit than just being depressing or upsetting.
Oh there is no doubt about it. Devil man Crybaby is a absolute mess!
The pacing is clunky, stuff happens for absolutely no reason and out of nowhere, and it is unbelievably bleak and nihilistic. This and Happy sugar Life are two of the most bleak, humanity equals 💩, anime out there.
Yet it’s also one of the few anime that doesn’t try and claim that humanity should be saved despite being so terrible and for that I can begrudgingly respect it.
It does make me wonder think that hero’s always try and save humanity, but never provide a good reason why they deserve to be saved. Humanity is hopelessly flayed, endlessly greedy, completely delusional, and paradoxical in there hypocrisy. They committed the worst acts imaginable, revel in there own madness, and debauchery, let themselves be controlled by there worst possible impulses, creating things that only serve there own interests or just cause destruction outright. Yet have the absolute Gaul, to act like they are complete pure saints, when everything they do would cause a devil to give pause.
So what is it? What is the one things humans have that make them deserving to exist? Why do they deserve to exist on this planet and do they contribute anything beneficial to the world?
I’m not sure on the answer…
yes next question lol.
Devilman crybaby is an allegory like hamlet, it’s a warning but it’s the sad reality that satan want this but through Jesus Christ all are possible if your not Christian I don’t blame you I saw the tragedy anime too
Nah
clickbait will make me leave a insulting comment, than never ever watch any video of this channel. Giving in in such methods brings u one step closer to be, being a bad person. grettings
Spoilers:Elnino is coming tell your loved ones you love them try to make things right if possible its well past midnight.
Yes, it should. But not only humans but all life here, forever. Everything we do is a distraction of death, misery and loneliness. Your body is everything in this world, your looks, your personality, the ,,comfortable” environment you grew up in. But hey we will just come up with thousand more copes till we eventually perish but who cares, right ?
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Yes we should
Yes why not lol
Yes I believe humanity should die
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I agree, just put us in a enternal life not a pointless evil life, if i was a god i would have made humanity way much better instead of making people suffer i rather make them happy.
you just watched a show then projected it onto real life
NO!
Nope Lucifer is not satan Yahove is read the complete Bible include the missing books again👽👻
Humans should do better, humans should be better but they're not and that's their choice. It's not the fault of some God who insist on letting imperfect creations continue to be imperfect then blaming them for the misery he's actually responsible for. It's not the fault of some outside interferer that goes by the name Satan or Lucifer or Saturn or El or Yaldabaoth. The evil in humanity is not some devil corrupting the whole world or some complacent careless God just letting evil persist because it's apart of his plan. There is no God. There is potential in humanity that has always been there, we have often acknowledged it but we never truly cultivated it or nourished the potential within our race. Complacency and evil are far more potent attributes that shine in humanity, those two shine brighter than our collective potential. We may be a race that can do some good, but consistently humanity chooses to allow great evil or do nothing about the great evil.
Children are currently sex trafficked. Entire cities of civilians are drone striked by American terrorism. Central American countries are ran by puppet leaders that are installed by the CIA to promote American democracy in other nations that aren't America. Child labor laws are terrible in a lot of countries around the world. Starvation is a real problem still in 2023 and yet every year people in developed nations can sit on holidays and eat feast of turkey and ham and Mac and cheese, while around the world people live in utterly unlivable conditions dying of starvation. Or maybe it's the poverty in the developed nations like America and India that just goes unaddressed. Stuff like the caste system in India being around still today where people are considered unclean based off of literally imaginary rules. Or maybe it's the corporations that help pollute the world and destroy the planet that never seem to face any legal consequences from governments. Maybe it's the FDA being allowed to let millions of people eat cancerous unsafe food that slowly kills people, so the pharmaceutical industry can then profit too.
With all the evil that is going on in the world you can't point at human problems that are caused by humans and say "it's Satan's fault." There is no God, so why blame a made up evil when the made up God doesn't exist. Humans are their own problem. You all know it to be the truth. From a macro level to a microscopic level humans are ruining their own world. We march and run towards self imposed annihilation, but yet we still have videos and Twitter post wondering "what's the real problem?" It's obvious. Humans truly are self destructive, their capacity for progress is dwarfed by their capacity for self imposed annihilation. Maybe if there was an overseer or some objective meaning to the reality we live in we would be a more stable bunch. But regardless of our lack of meaning, WE SHOULDN'T BE THIS HORRIBLE, LIFE SHOULDN'T BE THIS HORRIBLE. If we all perish, if it really does end and it's our fault then I guess we fucking deserved it.
No one even ask to be born but once they are it's too late. You then have to navigate this insane asylum called life. No god, no true objective meaning, no understanding of what happens beyond the grave. Just a shitty matrix of circumstances with no real reason, no true explanation for any of this.
Exactly I didn’t want to exist, that’s why i hate everything i wanted to stay who i was, not becoming a human.
Honestly I’m kind of bummed that people look at such a beautiful life affirming piece of work and see edgy college freshman nihilism. Also this show is metal af and queer af so that’s a positive as a metal queer
Having queer representation is good, I am as well. But it doesn't save the show, I still didn't enjoy it. At the end of the day, I likely missed a lot in the show, and thats my fault. But it's also because the show didn't grab me, because it was rushed and forced
@@ProfessorViral I don’t think it was rushed and I don’t know what you mean by forced but that wasn’t my point. I mean the emotional climax is the literal Christian devil learning to love and be loved. That’s what Devilman is about the connections we build. It was too little too late in this timeline but maybe in the real world we can save ourselves by becoming gay devilmen and doing ultraviolnce together 💕
And a serious thats about the potential of Mankind that's going to have its third season in April is dr. Stone
Pp
If i could dislike this video i would cause i felt like you missed the entire point if the anime. Things are nihilistic but it's presents hope in humanity that they can do good even if life seems bleak. Furthermore your wrong on the ending. God trapped the world into a time loop. This is just one cycle among many.
Not watched the video, but that title is some goofy aa doomer shiz. I'm out. That's all I had to say. Yep.
Nah don't listen to this dude. This show is nihilistic to a point. Humanity also doesn't end. God traps the world into a repeated cycle.
@@pixelcount350who cares bro, if we bored of life and don’t find it interesting then we should die when we want to, nevermind it’s a sin.
@@octanesweat7065 ?
@@pixelcount350 when you said don’t listen to this dude.
@@octanesweat7065 I still don't understand what you're saying.
Yes.
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At the end of the day, I disagree with DMCB. While what it presents of humans is shockingly true to some traits, I think the only healthy path forward is to believe we can prove it untrue, which forces us to try
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