This is the best political analysis on the internet and no one will listen to me when I say go listen to Christman, he was so very prescient. I would guess like most geniuses he didn't fully believe all he said and wondered how others possibly could. But no, Matt, you were so insightful and this content really does mean something. Does to me.
Matt, you are a prophet. I am in constant awe of both your erudition and your capacity to articulate a conceptualization of the world that I myself share but am not able to spin into words. I feel less alone in the world listening to you. I wish you all the best in fatherhood.
I hope you get better man, I want you to hold that baby girl, I want to see how your worldview evolves when you have skin in the game of the future. I'm a new dad of a girl too, my heart goes out to you and your family ❤ You're gonna rise up like a phoenix from the ashes I just know it
As much as I love Matt, it would also be great if he ended up having a large, oafish son who ends up owning the largest chain of Sea-Doo dealerships in the country.
“None of it can be rationally reckoned with, and the attempt to do so drives you crazy. Why do we do that? Why do we make it so that things have to be fully rational? To ground us, right? It’s to ground us somewhere, but *being grounded means nothing if you can’t move.* You have to also be able to move.”
Parenthood changes us in more ways than we can ever imagine. It fully ties you into the great stream of humanity from the past and into the unknown future.
It also teaches you how much of an ignoramus you are about pretty much everything. At least that's my experience. If someone were to ask me about parenting (probably not a great idea) I'd tell them it's just making shit up as you go along
When you speak about your fear of your ability to avoid catastrophe in your own life, that really resonates w/ me & where I’ve been in my own life recently. Thank you for sharing this.
There was some study I heard about that showed people who publicly declare their intentions or goals are less likely to actually follow through them, as they get an immediate dopamine hit in their brain after the declaration, despite not actually having done the thing, and that dopamine reward for doing nothing makes the actual doing of the thing feel less dopaminergic and more taxing. Something like that.
Really looking forward to Matt and Chris's work on Spain. I lived there for over a decade in the 80s and 90s and am delighted by Matt's astute and accurate comments about the nature of Francoist & post-transitional Spain. As for the red faced Brit expats I can confirm Sexy Beast fucking nailed it.
Back in my limo days, I drove the Grateful Dead in a tour bus from the airport to the hotel in a bus when they came down to Austin for Willie's picnic 15-ish years ago. It was a lot of old folks pretty impressed with themselves, and one 14 year old boy who would have given his left arm to be anywhere else. Yes, it would lucky to have Matt as your dad. The inevitable disaster is still gonna happen. There's no escape.
matt's gonna hit the moment of crisis like 30 seconds after we do. i seriously doubt he's really that insulated. i think y'all overestimate how much each individual chapo actually pockets when all the dust settles. a senior IT engineer probably makes more than he does, and there *_a lot_* more of those.
Thanks for one last sermon before your extended break, you deserve it. This was a nice book-end to Chris Hedges' 'Our Collective Trauma is the Road to Tyranny,' which dropped yesterday. Shine on, shine on, you beautiful man you.
Worth a read? I've read a good amount of Hedges' stuff and don't know if there's anything new to glean from him beyond a reminder to wash my hair shirt.
1:41:04 if that sounds lame to anyone idk wtf they've been doing in the cushvlog queue for this long, that's the key takeaway of the entire series. we all joke about the essential nature of the grillpill mindset or w/e but that sentence is literally it, and it's probably the most insightful thing the entire chapo trap house cinematic universe has to offer. or at the very least, that's what it all essentially builds toward. that sentiment is true bravery in the face of total uncertainty, and cuts all of it down to what absolutely matters.
just gotta say your 30 years war series gave me a rope bridge of understanding between the renaissance/ high medieval period to the colonial era and also to understand the evolution of people that drove industrial revolution and laid the framework of this country. I was able to start to understand the moving pieces that led up to ww1. Something that had been a huge fuzzy area of understanding.
Another great rant. Treats is the correct term. I suspect Oreos and Rice Crispies have probably stopped a surprising amount of mass violence from happening in the states.
As much as I abhor the ludicrous spectacle of ‘debate me, bro’ culture, I can’t help wanting to set Matt up against Shapiro or Peterson or whoever and watch him grind them into paste.
Bob Welsh, founder of John Birch society, via Wikipedia: “ Early life Welch was born in Chowan County, North Carolina, the son of Lina Verona (née James) and Robert Henry Winborne Welch Sr.[3] As a child, he was considered gifted and received his early education at home from his mother, a school teacher. His boyhood home was in Stockton, North Carolina.[4] Welch enrolled in high school at the age of ten and was admitted to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at the age of twelve, the youngest student ever to enroll there.[5] He was a fundamentalist Baptist and, by his own admission, was "insufferable" in his attempts to convert his fellow students.[6]”
i don't think present day art has lost any of its truth-telling potency, it just doesn't contain the "truths" that the regressive right wishes to impose upon thw world, and that's why they don't like it. art hasn't gotten any worse, they just no longer hold the monopoly on its culture-shaping capabilities and that deeply upsets them.
Aww. *universal love field increases* Yes. We love Chris for his patient ear and we love you too Matt Christmas. You're just a guy, going through some shit and vlogging about it.
the generalization of humanity's past into a misery of violence and suffering is Matt's major blindness which, try as he might, ties him to a decidedly western-mythology based understanding. I would be so intrigued to hear how his perspective would broaden if he would factor in the reality that human existence was not ubiquitously unbearable before capitalism.
Not to be rude, but your writing is muddled and confusing. What exactly is a “western-mythology based understanding”? That could mean a myriad of different things. Please be specific.
I don’t think he’s ever projected violence endlessly into the past. I distinctly remember him saying in an earlier Cush Vlog that the de facto human state is being socially and environmentally integrated, but that climatic changes create the conditions for domination that spiral out into whatever we are in now.
How can you critique communisms failure to deliver to it's citizens and totally exclude China from this analysis? Only the Soviet model failed. Other communist projects have been subject to all-out attacks by much stronger external powers, bent on undermining them, to objectively assess their viability. Only Vietnam was able to withstand and successfully resist external pressures, and China was ignored in exchange for access to their cheap labor. Both of those communist projects are thriving and i would guess that the trajectory of the happiness quotient of their peoples are on the rise, relatively speaking. I think we tend to view and examine the human condition strictly from an anglo-euro-centric prism.
Dutch and Belgians legalized gay marriage before Spain. Spain still has a strong religious element - look at the back-and-forth of abortion law. Interesting still tho…and good health to you, sir.
America needs to devolve institutional power to the Native Americans whose land they live off, and figure things out. Looking forward to Matt's Spanish Revolution exploration, 30 years War was great. Raoul Peck is doing something on Orwell.
let it be known that one can easily be godless and gay AND still turn away from the treat-seeking impulse and seek fulfillment in the natural world and our fleeting and imperfect experience of it
I've thought for a long time in a genuinely sad and funny way that I really do want to become Amish I know I'm crazy but I have found it so hard to make real connections with ppl after COVID that I just feel so lost I want so much to connect to something real and it feels like nothing is real and I don't know if it's the right path any advise
maybe in the Amish you'll find meaning but of course the problem is that you'll have to adhere to a religious dogma, which probably will bring those feelings of alienation again after some honeymoon period or whatever. At the end of the day you need to remind yourself that you're ultimately reponsible for your own choices and that no one can really give you good advice on questions like these. my 2 cents brotha
i say this with an intent to shake you out of this trap you're setting for yourself: that's the mentality that'll get you sucked into a cult and spit out the other side a withered husk. if you're wrapped around the axle of some christian denomination, look up the quakers in your area. preferably one of the more moderate/inclusive gatherings, like the General Conference. the conservative gatherings can be just as oppressive and exclusionary and shame-based as any other garden-variety american religion, so i would avoid. speaking from experience of being from the country and adjacent to the amish, the grass always looks greener wherever you aren't. a lot of amish people i've talked to feel just as alienated and directionless as you do. religion isn't something you use to paper over a problem, whatever your religious preoccupations are should exist to _enrich_ good things you want to build on top of. otherwise you'll always just be running away from something.
This is the best political analysis on the internet and no one will listen to me when I say go listen to Christman, he was so very prescient. I would guess like most geniuses he didn't fully believe all he said and wondered how others possibly could. But no, Matt, you were so insightful and this content really does mean something. Does to me.
Matt Christman is one of the people this world NEEDS. I'm not exaggerating.
oof
@@reallyidrathernot.134thats the way she blows
This one was extra good. Btw I hope Matt dresses the baby in the iconic red tshirt and blue shorts outfit.
Track suit
Break the cycle
Mini Matt
Red Diaper baby
Chapo will finally become 3 men and a baby.
3 babies and a baby
my three dads
can't wait for his kid to one day ask "daddy why are you mad at the computer"
You know it's going to be a good one when Matt says he's wrapping up and there are still 30 minutes left in the episode. Best wishes with the baby.
Matt, you are a prophet. I am in constant awe of both your erudition and your capacity to articulate a conceptualization of the world that I myself share but am not able to spin into words. I feel less alone in the world listening to you. I wish you all the best in fatherhood.
Nah fr
I hope you get better man, I want you to hold that baby girl, I want to see how your worldview evolves when you have skin in the game of the future. I'm a new dad of a girl too, my heart goes out to you and your family ❤
You're gonna rise up like a phoenix from the ashes I just know it
As much as I love Matt, it would also be great if he ended up having a large, oafish son who ends up owning the largest chain of Sea-Doo dealerships in the country.
His kid becomes a mayor pete/kamala style lib.
Sea-Doos will be worth their weight in cigarettes as we transition to waterworld
@@jackclark4598 whoa that's like, at least 100 cigarettes
@@mitchellwood4133why would you breathe this evil into the worls
He’s having a girl.
I miss this dude's rants.
Damn some of this hits just too close to home today. Hang in there Matt.
Last 30 seconds of this hit different now. We love you too big fella get well soon!!!
Never stop. You are my guru.
Mine too.
Pathetic, go grab a book.
People keep saying he's having a baby, but I'm pretty sure they just misheard him talking about getting a BBL.
Caked-up Cushbomb
Bavarian butt lowering
sitting on treats@@QuarrelsomeLocalOaf
can't wait for the patreon-only pin-up calendar
“None of it can be rationally reckoned with, and the attempt to do so drives you crazy. Why do we do that? Why do we make it so that things have to be fully rational? To ground us, right? It’s to ground us somewhere, but *being grounded means nothing if you can’t move.* You have to also be able to move.”
Godspeed, Matt and family. A thousand well wishes
matt will be taking paternity leave to care for his boss baby
Matt Christman's black son
That has got to be the most cryptic way anyone has ever described having a child and taking leave, having kids is so Giger fr fr.
grogu christman
Ohhh...thanks for enlightening me. Talk about faith... but, then again, it's what we animals do...
His kid will be getting a new cushvlog everyday for the rest of their life
Parenthood changes us in more ways than we can ever imagine. It fully ties you into the great stream of humanity from the past and into the unknown future.
It also teaches you how much of an ignoramus you are about pretty much everything. At least that's my experience. If someone were to ask me about parenting (probably not a great idea) I'd tell them it's just making shit up as you go along
@@michaelslowminand the realization that all of human history is just parents making shit up as they go along
@@HortDawg lol fr fr
being born a human doesn't do that lol?
When you speak about your fear of your ability to avoid catastrophe in your own life, that really resonates w/ me & where I’ve been in my own life recently. Thank you for sharing this.
Prayers up
Matt is one of the major thinkers of our time. WRITE A BOOK MATT!
There was some study I heard about that showed people who publicly declare their intentions or goals are less likely to actually follow through them, as they get an immediate dopamine hit in their brain after the declaration, despite not actually having done the thing, and that dopamine reward for doing nothing makes the actual doing of the thing feel less dopaminergic and more taxing.
Something like that.
@@Dionysusdyingwow, sounds plausibly, thx
Welled up a bit with the love at the end. Thanks Matt. Wishing you all the best.
Really looking forward to Matt and Chris's work on Spain. I lived there for over a decade in the 80s and 90s and am delighted by Matt's astute and accurate comments about the nature of Francoist & post-transitional Spain. As for the red faced Brit expats I can confirm Sexy Beast fucking nailed it.
Imagine having Matt Christman as a dad...that's one lucky kid right there.
Understanding how fucked society is and then still having a heckin cute babirino is mind boggling to me idk
@@berdyderg900It's called having a certain amount of money means you don't have to deal with any of that...
At least for now.
Back in my limo days, I drove the Grateful Dead in a tour bus from the airport to the hotel in a bus when they came down to Austin for Willie's picnic 15-ish years ago.
It was a lot of old folks pretty impressed with themselves, and one 14 year old boy who would have given his left arm to be anywhere else.
Yes, it would lucky to have Matt as your dad. The inevitable disaster is still gonna happen. There's no escape.
matt's gonna hit the moment of crisis like 30 seconds after we do. i seriously doubt he's really that insulated. i think y'all overestimate how much each individual chapo actually pockets when all the dust settles. a senior IT engineer probably makes more than he does, and there *_a lot_* more of those.
Take care Matt! ❤
imagine what people would think of you if you watched this video on a public library computer
will Christman the Younger be the Prince Who Was Promised to immanentize the eschaton?
Rise and immantatize
Be well Mr. Chapo
Thanks for one last sermon before your extended break, you deserve it. This was a nice book-end to Chris Hedges' 'Our Collective Trauma is the Road to Tyranny,' which dropped yesterday.
Shine on, shine on, you beautiful man you.
Worth a read? I've read a good amount of Hedges' stuff and don't know if there's anything new to glean from him beyond a reminder to wash my hair shirt.
@@QuarrelsomeLocalOafhe's talking secular again... Check it out 🙂
@@QuarrelsomeLocalOafit's worth checking out, the Hedges Report podcast is great.
Get well soon, bro!
I did it all for the Cushvlogs!
1:41:04 if that sounds lame to anyone idk wtf they've been doing in the cushvlog queue for this long, that's the key takeaway of the entire series.
we all joke about the essential nature of the grillpill mindset or w/e but that sentence is literally it, and it's probably the most insightful thing the entire chapo trap house cinematic universe has to offer. or at the very least, that's what it all essentially builds toward.
that sentiment is true bravery in the face of total uncertainty, and cuts all of it down to what absolutely matters.
just gotta say your 30 years war series gave me a rope bridge of understanding between the renaissance/ high medieval period to the colonial era and also to understand the evolution of people that drove industrial revolution and laid the framework of this country. I was able to start to understand the moving pieces that led up to ww1. Something that had been a huge fuzzy area of understanding.
I wonder if Matt will finally learn to love Toy Story without shame once he’s a Dad.
“Money, one way or the other if you’re a man…Money, One Way Or The Other.”
never quit spittin the lords truth in these streets bruh
This MFer trying to imminentize the escaton
Pioneer yeoman farmers also relied on vast consumer product networks from Chicago, other industrial cities right? For nails, fencing, farm gear, etc.
Love you all and to the big man congrats!
Another great rant. Treats is the correct term. I suspect Oreos and Rice Crispies have probably stopped a surprising amount of mass violence from happening in the states.
Sure but how much have they caused? You're not convincing twinkies are a net positive for humanity
@berdyderg900 yeah twinkled have definitely caused at least one mass murder by now.
@@berdyderg900yep Twinkies have at least one on-record murder on their hands
Shame he didn’t get all the way through saying “clickin’ crypts” when listing example treats
As much as I abhor the ludicrous spectacle of ‘debate me, bro’ culture, I can’t help wanting to set Matt up against Shapiro or Peterson or whoever and watch him grind them into paste.
Excited for the Spanish Civil War 4 parter! Good luck on your baby!
Bob Welsh, founder of John Birch society, via Wikipedia: “
Early life
Welch was born in Chowan County, North Carolina, the son of Lina Verona (née James) and Robert Henry Winborne Welch Sr.[3]
As a child, he was considered gifted and received his early education at home from his mother, a school teacher. His boyhood home was in Stockton, North Carolina.[4] Welch enrolled in high school at the age of ten and was admitted to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at the age of twelve, the youngest student ever to enroll there.[5] He was a fundamentalist Baptist and, by his own admission, was "insufferable" in his attempts to convert his fellow students.[6]”
Congrats Big Daddy Christman!!
i don't think present day art has lost any of its truth-telling potency, it just doesn't contain the "truths" that the regressive right wishes to impose upon thw world, and that's why they don't like it. art hasn't gotten any worse, they just no longer hold the monopoly on its culture-shaping capabilities and that deeply upsets them.
Thank you for that
Congratulations to Matt on whatever he’s logging off for. Sounds like something positive. Never forget to grill.
Would love to hear a full lecture on Treat Theory
love you too
Love you too , Matt
Get well soon Matt!!
Tl;dr: our treats are too tasty
You were spitting facts on this one.
I tune in from time to time in these, usually something fascinating is said, does he do any writings?
He knows how to speak to our inner angst
@@fishingsouthwestflorida1586Definitely, Does he offer much in terms of prescription to problems? Like should we become farmers and monks or what
spitting facts *and* feelings
Now I want a Chicken Dipper or maybe even a Cluckin' Crisper.
aww i miss my little baby
The Christman beard has finally filled in well. The hairline has moved from the top of his head to his chin.
Oh Chrstman i love when you hit this mode. great one
The hyperbolic time chamber
I needed some slop today, thank you based god
We love immanetizing the eschaton, don't we folks?
Aww. *universal love field increases* Yes. We love Chris for his patient ear and we love you too Matt Christmas. You're just a guy, going through some shit and vlogging about it.
Lol. Feeling naked all of a sudden. Where did our usernames go? /reaching for a towel or fig-leaf/
Love you buddy
identifying those who seek to destroy you is half the issue
If this was the last episode of this he ever did it would a good one to go out on.
WHAT DID YOU KNOW
@@warmlycalculated390 oh goddamn it, I’m a fucking shiner aren’t I?
Bars
Matt's my fave and should play Tom Scharpling in The Animated Adventures of Tom Scharpling.
Mazaltov Matt! It's wild becoming a dad!
3:15 singing stops
1:11:50 Eerie stuff.
Congrats on the bb Matt! Will miss you on the pod and socials. But you gotta do good dad work
What is your most frequently ordered item on door dash?
Matt you should read Abolition of Man
I take my hat off to him, he's a helluva preacher
22:06 Not being from the US, I can only imagine what an Extreme Gobbler consists of...
Is he really becoming a dad?
the generalization of humanity's past into a misery of violence and suffering is Matt's major blindness which, try as he might, ties him to a decidedly western-mythology based understanding. I would be so intrigued to hear how his perspective would broaden if he would factor in the reality that human existence was not ubiquitously unbearable before capitalism.
Not to be rude, but your writing is muddled and confusing. What exactly is a “western-mythology based understanding”? That could mean a myriad of different things.
Please be specific.
@@lexerdaniel4843MYRIAD!!!
I don’t think he’s ever projected violence endlessly into the past. I distinctly remember him saying in an earlier Cush Vlog that the de facto human state is being socially and environmentally integrated, but that climatic changes create the conditions for domination that spiral out into whatever we are in now.
Yo, shout out Norman Borlaug
"The IQ meritocracy built the world and now it's destroying it."
Agree with this point, but the whole “warriors and scribes” shit about IQ was nonsensical.
This is pure sermon (in the best way)
American Beauty
10/10 for the Blazing Saddles reference.
Baseball
Be the hurricane you want to see in the world.
How can you critique communisms failure to deliver to it's citizens and totally exclude China from this analysis? Only the Soviet model failed. Other communist projects have been subject to all-out attacks by much stronger external powers, bent on undermining them, to objectively assess their viability. Only Vietnam was able to withstand and successfully resist external pressures, and China was ignored in exchange for access to their cheap labor. Both of those communist projects are thriving and i would guess that the trajectory of the happiness quotient of their peoples are on the rise, relatively speaking. I think we tend to view and examine the human condition strictly from an anglo-euro-centric prism.
Dutch and Belgians legalized gay marriage before Spain. Spain still has a strong religious element - look at the back-and-forth of abortion law. Interesting still tho…and good health to you, sir.
A beautiful god exists. Hell does not exist. I don't ignore the work that has to be done here on earth. Cya all on the flip side.
~'We are to alchemize our discomfort into some constructive end' MC going Stoic. 1:18:36
America needs to devolve institutional power to the Native Americans whose land they live off, and figure things out. Looking forward to Matt's Spanish Revolution exploration, 30 years War was great. Raoul Peck is doing something on Orwell.
Not too many left podcasters begin with a song, they should be more like Matt
Looking forward to Virgil filling in when Matt is away.
TREATS! Im lacking in...
I knew Matt was a Cake fan
What an unexpected goldmine this is
Why is Matt leaving the podcast?
let it be known that one can easily be godless and gay AND still turn away from the treat-seeking impulse and seek fulfillment in the natural world and our fleeting and imperfect experience of it
🔥🔥🔥
I've thought for a long time in a genuinely sad and funny way that I really do want to become Amish I know I'm crazy but I have found it so hard to make real connections with ppl after COVID that I just feel so lost I want so much to connect to something real and it feels like nothing is real and I don't know if it's the right path any advise
maybe in the Amish you'll find meaning but of course the problem is that you'll have to adhere to a religious dogma, which probably will bring those feelings of alienation again after some honeymoon period or whatever. At the end of the day you need to remind yourself that you're ultimately reponsible for your own choices and that no one can really give you good advice on questions like these. my 2 cents brotha
@@recoilAbs thank you this was actually what I really need and I do take all that in mind life is just really complicated thank you again
My advice: don't become Amish. Past that, I dunno.
i say this with an intent to shake you out of this trap you're setting for yourself: that's the mentality that'll get you sucked into a cult and spit out the other side a withered husk.
if you're wrapped around the axle of some christian denomination, look up the quakers in your area. preferably one of the more moderate/inclusive gatherings, like the General Conference. the conservative gatherings can be just as oppressive and exclusionary and shame-based as any other garden-variety american religion, so i would avoid.
speaking from experience of being from the country and adjacent to the amish, the grass always looks greener wherever you aren't. a lot of amish people i've talked to feel just as alienated and directionless as you do. religion isn't something you use to paper over a problem, whatever your religious preoccupations are should exist to _enrich_ good things you want to build on top of. otherwise you'll always just be running away from something.
I like the part where he morbed everyone
Matt is quitting chapo?
Yes. The slop factory is closed!
i want to hear him talk about the brothers karamazov
Is Saban done?