at about 8:00 in, I think Matt makes a point that he could have run with more. The idea that today all thee wealthy buildings are just big glass cubes to hide the inequality speaks to how backward things were when wealth was legitimately scarce. In the medieval era, part of the power of wealth was to flaunt it. But today, the upper classes would be committing suicide if they flaunted their wealth, so aesthetics becomes a kind of enemy to them. Or rather, it becomes a contested field which they must control.
They still flaunt their wealth it’s just the class divide is so large we aren’t anywhere near where they are to actually see it. I don’t know if they’re really purposefully hiding it, we’re just so detached from even viewing their world that they’re free to do whatever they want. Hence Little St James et al
@@dansoderburg1854 Maybe. They certainly don't flaunt it like they did in the middle ages. Yes, there are acts of public philanthropy or whatever, but that's less about wealth itself and more about social capital. People aren't building enormous golden palaces or casting giant jewel encrusted crosses to show off their wealth and power, know what I mean? It is not socially acceptable to flaunt wealth in that manner.
@@heraclitusblacking1293 I don't know about that. Wasn't there an MTV series ages ago called Cribs, where rich people would take a camera crew around their gigantic mansions? I think the difference is that money used to belong to the crown, and the king (or president, or ruler in general) needs to live in the capital city. These days, money is concentrated largely amongst private individuals. They like their privacy, sure, which is why they all live in gated communities. However, they can't resist showing it off like the kings of old, which is why they'll invite camera crews and photographers to their homes to show everyone how wealthy they are via the internet. Now we have social media and camera phones, they don't even need camera crews and photographers anymore.
Me and the boys were talking about that the other day when we were grillin’, but I’ll tell you whyat, all this politics nonsense is beyond me. I just wanna grill with the boys!
"Consumption units" is the term you're looking for when you were explaining how if capital controls technology it will be used to completely capture citizens in subservience to the capital class. Alienation of labor will have reached the conclusion of it's ultimate logic. It will be modern serfdom without the labor. A UBI that is paired with defunding safety nets, all while tech monopolies are maintained will be the 1st step to that conclusion. Citizens are turned into consumption units for those monopolies and a dynamic of dependency on that monopolistic behavior for cheap goods tech produces will send us into a feed back loop, that will death spiral past a societal "event horizon" where that alienation from productivity will create tensions for a sef revolt or the resources will become exhausted that maintain this dynamic. Either way it would lead to mass human die off by genocide or revolutionary wars.
I love going from "I eat oysters because they are guilt-free" to "we need to film a gritty salo-styled Alf reboot over international waters like it's some fast fashion sweatshop all so we can murder a cat on camera"
matt it is important to not keep your ideas in a vacuum of abstraction. if you cant spread a virus it will die, ideas are no different. if you keep it to yourself even you will forget them due to lack of repetition due to how our brain works. it chucks away things as time progresses.
Every day I anticipate seeing fireballs streak through the sky as the Boston dynamics Terminators arrive in their spacex dragon landing craft to begin their takeover.
But why do the elves and/or leprechauns eat the cat's? It's because the cats are a strategically placed guardian alien species that have been subtly guarding human civilization since at least ancient Egyptian days!
It's one of the all time greats. Check out Network. Sorkin wishes he was Chayefsky, but Sorkin is a pale imitation. Chayefsky reflects reality and reveals contradictions in his subject matter, bringing them down to Earth. Sorkin elevates them to God status and creates a fantasy in the process.
@@murphadam420 I like Charlie Wilson's War, though I could do without the framing narrative. Other than that Sorkin is valuable mostly as a chronicle of the failings of neoliberalism. West Wing and The Newsroom are not dating well.
The aria when they first built it was actively dangerous. The way it was curved with all the glass would concentrate the hot ass sun towards the ground
I like the Gnosticism and esotericism. Not exclusively, but it's fun to think about, and a lot of what you were saying was clicking, or at least pushing me to think beyond as well.
I feel like the tension is just going to ramp up and up, until it eventually comes to a head, like it always does. We have no fucking idea what's gonna happen then 0_0
John Carpenter is a hero of mine, he rules. Any horror fans watch Society? It is a bit of a slow burn at first, but the final act is worth it. It's a very Chapo movie.
The most recent tremors movie set in the arctic is an effective absurdist comedy that has a lot of funny moments right to the end. And had great effects work practical and cgi blend. The character development of Burt Gummer was great.
49:00 Dan Aykroyd is a fellow aspie...we know the price, color, shape, and extra-cost options of everything and the greater significance of nothing. TrueAnon deal in social realities...or what might BECOME social realities. If they're geeks, they're connected, info age geeks: they analogize readily, they speak different dialects of nerd. Dan's an old school, object-oriented geek: their references are obscure, often generational, and they don't go far before they bottom out. It would be a drag of a show. Ending bit...yes, capital is holding all the cards right now. you almost have to hope they overplay their hand. but they're smart, and they're playing for keeps, and they know it, and they're the ultimate sociopaths...they can manipulate so much of the mass mind. it's the wall of inertia they live behind. it's the perfect security system.
It seems like twist in the Alf Reboot would be that the family is more dysfunctional than Alf even though Alf eats cats. Oh, and eating cats should get him high. So he has a bit of a junkie feel to him.
What exactly does Matt mean when he says Alf remake with hard-R? He said that also at the Chapo Trap House Newlewed Game once. Will Alf in particular use the N-Word with an hard-R in the movie or does he mean the movie will be Rrated?
Lmao we listened to we didn't start the fire as well but we did presentations where we each got a certain thing mentioned in the song. Me and my partner got the U2 bomber.
Someone should do a version of that with a more realisitic overview of world history andAmerica's role as the primary source of all evil in the world. "We didn't want peace ever" rhymes.
Dozens of new condo towers are going up where I live; 1 bedrooms that cost what a new-built 2-storey house cost here a decade ago. Every new building is a flavourless box, bland shiny rectangles of glass and metal--except for a handful that have scooped-out shells of older buildings as ground floor facades (under their flavourless rectangles of shiny glass and metal). I don't know what any of that means, other than me getting priced out of my lame-ass home, obviously.
after bernie lost matt seems to have ramped these little chats up. what else is there to do with your time when waiting for the end i type of mindset i guess?
