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From Cybertruck to Trad Wives: The Future Is Weird

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Are we living in the future, and does the future suck? This is a video about technology and how technological advancement doesn't always seem to lead to social or economic progress. Our machines are more advanced than ever, but can we say, without qualification, that life is better than it was before? Progress is a tricky subject. In some ways human life is clearly better -- medicine, social progress -- but in other ways, maybe not so much: climate change, housing crisis. I'll unpack all of that in this video with the help of Hannah Arendt and Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Комментарии : 18

@BinaryDood 5 месяцев назад

"Technological revolution without social revolution will only exacergabte the vices of the system which came before it" comes to mind. Problem is things are moving too fast for the old organs of society to adapt and make sure they don't disrupt it completely. You need only read the (now multiple) e/acc manifestos to know what the mindset and ethos behind a lot of people releasing these distabilizng technologies are. And it aint pretty.

@Phd366 5 месяцев назад

I love this type of channels. I’m so glad I found you! It is current but also the deeper meaning of things. Love it! ❤ I really hope you keep going and growing. 😊

@GreatBooksProf 5 месяцев назад

I'm working on it! Thanks for the encouragement!

@TheRealNickG 5 месяцев назад

You came really close but never did actually go into a discussion about the relationship between technology and power, in the Foucauldian sense (probably because you've dropped his name so much in the past, you're still picking it up haha). Yes, a sense of control, but the way this new technology in particular makes power a "black box" that must "just be conformed to". Sort of like the sea of styles of angst toward heavy machinery and the the frontiers of mastering steel and steam produced a particular style of writing and topics for philosophy, a particular anxiety of this post modern shift is arising where the need to feel good about our technology and hauntological idealism ("reduce, reuse, recycle", "just say no", etc were all supposed to be solutions to problems, remember that?). Above all, once you are in the new and awesome gilded cage, I mean age, you are not really allowed to not participate or the power of the state, which is now partially behind the black boxes we are forced to interact with, will find ways to sanction you (credit score, professional standing, social media, etc).

@guillermoperis1673 5 месяцев назад

True, both are escapist. HOWEVER, if the futurist possibility actually came true, we would all be even MORE ISOLATED than today through technology (which is a lot to say). If the trad dream came true out of choice (as it is possible today), we would all be more connected. The difference is roots.

@filmandmediastudieschannel 5 месяцев назад

Great video! Thought you were going to go the direction of Dialectic of Enlightenment, so now I'm curious how Arendt's ideas on progress differ from Adorno and Horkheimer's...

@laljohnkhuptong2110 5 месяцев назад

Thank you for making it easy and comprehensive.

@GreatBooksProf 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!

@andrewmarkmusic 5 месяцев назад

I blame Hegel...

@GreatBooksProf 5 месяцев назад

😂

@er... 5 месяцев назад

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@me-nah3343 5 месяцев назад

Both of these movements are a response to modernity. But Trad-stuff is against social progress. It’s less of a neo-Luddite thing. It explicitly reacts to social progress, not tech. At least the stuff I’ve seen. They want regressive gender roles. And yeah, it’s about control and coping.

@GreatBooksProf 5 месяцев назад

Social progress is, I think, it’s more explicit target. You’re right that the gender role stuff is its core tenet. But when you watch the parenting dynamics, it’s pretty clear there is a tech component as well. The young have wooden toys, and play outside, or help in the kitchen. Nobody has video games. I think the social and the technological are married in these accounts. In order to turn back the clock, a kind of isolationism is necessary and that means no iPads… except for the purposes of content creation.

@wburris2007 5 месяцев назад

The self driving car is already safer than the majority of human drivers. You still need to pay attention, because of those rare cases where it will do the wrong thing, but mainly so you can't successful sue Tesla is something does go wrong.

@Ano2nymou5 5 месяцев назад

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@dorothysatterfield3699 22 дня назад

I think the target audience for both the Trad-Wife and the Cyber-Truck-Guy videos is bros who may look like adults on the outside but are perpetual 14-year-old boys on the inside. And, yes, it's about control.

@lionelchan1601 5 месяцев назад

I hate to be that guy... but who's this "we" white man? Yeah your vision roped the rest of us in to varying degrees, sure, and ultimately willingly. But it is your vision, your imposition, your confidence in it, and your limitations of listening to "global south" critiques of it.