You hand wringing cry babies. O-sweet oppression please remove this over abundance of options from my poor little brain as it will simply explode if I have to make another choice. I don't know if I want Coke or Pepsi, It means I'm a slave if I pick one. Will someone who thinks they are smarter than me please remove these capitalistic options and just make one Government Cola! Then and only then will the world be at peace and all the killing and hurtful hate words will stop. Fools.
we all have choices to make regarding our own life. I have found this to be an extremely difficult truth about life that has troubled me a lot. I welcome you to visit my channel to check out the advice I give from what I have learned. Thank you to everyone who has supported me! :)
I think people are misunderstanding this in my opinion,I think is not saying that choice is bad but that capitalism creates the illusion of actual choice and power
at 6:48 is that Ayn Rand? It's funny because when i heard this narrator say capitalism Rand's voice is all I could think of. I apologise if the is just because of their accents, I just thought I was funny...
So what's the alternative? Make sure people have nothing so they can make a revolution? That's funny cause that what lot's of country in the world have, nothing, and it's funny too, cause I don't see those country rising with better social change than in so called ''capitalist'' society. I don't say capitalism is perfect, but let's not illusion ourselves that by removing our individual choice and become only one social entity that's how we're gonna improve our society
@Elvyne963 Well, you could say external influences of capitalism have held those countries down. You have to look further back into history and at the topic more broadly. Positive change rarely happens quickly. There is no "alternative", for we cannot change society instantly. Society progresses slowly. All we can do is actively observe.
Individual choice is different than individual freedom which is different from freedom of choice.
I don't think it was blaming all our ills on capitalism it was pointing out that we are not free. That we blame ourselves for feeling terrible, not provding for our families, not being the perfect lover, the perfect weight instead of the system we are in. We also don't do anything to change it. If you are happy and content that is fine-nothing to change. If not why don't you try and change the system you live under?
It is common for socialists to blame all the ills of the world on "capitalism." The irony is that the bee hive has always been used by the rich as an ideal prototype for state socialist society. The "new socialist man" is essentially an unthinking drone. Good thing all his choices will be made for him.
Urgh.... That's so annoying. That wasn't even half of what I had ready to post but silly me didn't think about character limitations! I had good stuff to say too!!!
The only other system we have had int the 20th century was Communism, The RSA is not trying to bring back Communism but socialism, two different things in addition if you look at the other videos the RSA host you will see that they mention that 20th century communism was a sociological, ethical, economical catastrophe! I'm only 16 and in many ways naive and easily persuaded but I can understand that capitalism is very fragile and in many ways shaping us into thinking a certain w
@NoProbaloAmigo And here is the ULTIMATE irony of this critique. In a market of choice, or the false "limitless" choice, the free market allows for makers to produce a "simple" product, like an iphone, that many people buy because it "just werks."
And the last problem, is WHAT is a better alternative? Having OTHERS tell you what to buy?
@raydude111 There is no such concept as "limitless" choice in the current product markets, though. It also begs the question, HOW would you limit those choices, if you think it is desirable, and WHO would do so, and will we be better off or not?
Freedom is backward compatible. You have the freedom to choose to be less free, to have fewer choices to make. Then you don't have to threaten free people and limit their freedom.
The idea of choice tends to work for the middle class rather working. These mechanisms are in place to benefit certain people than others it's why Capitalist states are run down with a few who are at the rich end of society
It is not 'choice' that is the cause of anxiety, it is the bombardment of propaganda, in advertisement, which encompasses every aspect of people's lives and the deliberate instillation of fear mechanisms.
@krobie3 First, I agree that propaganda, advertising, and intimidation are used to coerce our consent. But It's not unreasonable to think humans might not be neurologically-equipped to properly cope with the sheer number of choices we face in a given day, much less a lifetime. 1000 years ago odds are the only choice you had to make was between survival and death. Today, the pressure of choosing what you want to do with your life (consider list of college majors) may very well be what kills you.
@krobie3 Compared to what?? At least we can view alternative "propaganda" through competitors. This "critique" sound WAY too much like it came out of the Frankfurt school.
so she's saying by taking away choice from people that we are somehow more free? everything is societies fault and you have no say in bettering yourself you merely think you do? i dont know what to think about that, i guess we all have our opinions.
this is just wrong, making choice (freedom) as disguise to controlling people is not the work of capitalism but the doing of corrupt government. the more the choices the better, people just have to learn their limits and what is reasonable for happy and fulfilling life for themselves.
@bauti1811 The impact of choice promotes many negative aspects in humans. Choice implies there is multiple levels of quality, or value to the object, and this builds up judgemental personalities, Jealousy, hate, theft, and dog-eat-dog mentality. Choice is not a bad thing, but it is not freedom. Like many things in life, choice should be taken in moderation, and not taken for granted. Capitalism is greed, and greed is the root cause to corruption. Capitalism was a choice of corruption.
@Zenettii False. If greed is the root cause to corruption, then China government has infinite greed, and yet with capitalism is reducing poverty with privatization. Look at Google: China privatization and convince yourself...CHINA CHOOSE CAPITALISMI AFTER THEY WERE COMUNISTS....then capitalism is better despite greed and further consecuences. You got that or you need to spell it? Maybe! China's state employees have robbed 70 billion in tha past 15 years and despite that LIFE IS BETTTER!!!!!!!!
@Reeenzor Maybe its a mixture of both capitalism and communism. I don't think China have done away with communism altogether. Look at how they built the stadiums for the Olympics. People who use to live there before they started the Olympic complex didn't have a choice the government told them to move. So by not giving them the choice would you say it helped more people?
@bauti1811 and yet we have a system that teaches the opposite. That there are no limits and what makes a happy and fulfilling life is success, measured by the posessions we have or a certain lifestyle or a great sex life, lots of friends, me time, quality time , successful career, downsizing, etc etc. We are not bounded individuals. Systems dictate behaviour. Even learning your limits will have come from the system we are in. Don't blame the system blame people for not learning their limits.
Or should I say, rather, that government interventionism has perverted capitalism and limited the number of opportunities for people. But I digress. I should also add that the speaker's perceiving all of society as deluded, weak, lonely, and susceptible to peer pressure in an attempt to paint capitalism as an inherently insidious system was a desperate and pathetic way to vouch for social change. She should have been more honest and forthright if she had actually wanted to abet social reform.
@CrackedBiscuit I think the point is that we blame ourselves and not the system we live under. There is a belief that is very strong and that belief is we are individuals and have free will. I gaurantee that given your birth and the society you were born into your life course can be predicted despite all the hard work you put in. If we put the same you as a russian peasant in the 1600s we could aslo predict your life's course. You are shaped by the society you live in. Change society change life
In defense of competitive capitalism, I submit that it is the only socioeconomic system in recorded history that has ever fostered unprecedented prosperity and human progress and enabled man to build wealth based on devotion to public demand. Its consumer conceit makes it a rather egalitarian system. Sadly, government-created monopolies, subsidies, regulations, and licenses have done their best to push verdant labor out of the market.
Emancipation, the act of choosing to value oneself and setting rational, measurable goals to will, can only happen through one's own volition. He might endeavor choose to start a family, begin a company, or incite a revolution. Whatever his goal, he can only will it by emancipating himself, and no socioeconomic system can constrain him.
Blaming a forlorn sense of alienation on socioeconomics is untenable and fails to recognize the weakness of the human condition. Regardless of whether capitalism existed, some people would always feel lonely and disengaged from their fellow man. A system of socioeconomics can not ameliorate the loneliness that is intrinsic is someone who has yet to emancipate himself.
@IMakeBoyzJizz Your statement provokes me to make a statement of equal usefulness: Your inability to sustain a little discomfort for the benefit of knowledge inclines me to dismiss you as an intelligent human being.
Proposition: rationalising global needs and organisation of productions and delivery arround it.
Exemples, one company with thousands of workers can produce all sosks needed for all.
We produce each year bilions of T-shirts every years on the same way.
Agricultural and Industrial workers represent arround 20% of the population and we still over produce. I see plenty of place to organise clearly on minded way an organisation for sharing work, penibility, ressources..saving free time for all
@azzazin007 without capitalism this website would be even bigger. remember people who made youtube did not start out try make a lot of money. It was based on the idea sharing and watching videos online at ease. I'm guessing you cannot wrap head around the idea making something happen without incentives.
@TheAndx17 How and why would it be bigger? Do you think google would keep it deliberately smaller for some reason, especially when more videos equate more money for the company. Anyway, I think the owners sold Youtube to Google for a cool 1.7 odd billion dollars - yeah so your argument makes quite a lot of sense
Brilliant. Psychological analysis of the problems of society rather than just statement of the problems of society. This is what I've been looking for. Lots of good points to work on here, and for me that starts with reducing my anxiety.
Also, a personal favourite moment was when the Lennon book bumps the guy reading Marx on the head. Subtle, but extremely profound statement.
@Tager253 RSA are about promoting social change, yet they only create an app for the phone that abuses young workers in Asia, sells purely because of social fashion, and desire to be in with the crowd. Why haven't RSA developed an app for Android, the OS that promotes freedom for all, open source rather than secretive propitiatory devices that you don't know the full potential of snooping capabilities
@citizencream Yeah, it is hillarious. This media was created by capitalism, and China privatized 42 state enterprises in 2005. Rusia and China explore comunism and after 70 years they "find" that capitalism is better...it is very funny. Nobody talks here about an alternative, only whip like children blaming the system for their destiny without an honest analysis (they do not study anything valuable to cash more income from the world or not saving enough to MAKE INVESTMENTS in their future).
@citizencream yeah, an add for the RSA application. So what? I did not know that RSA had an application, now I can instantly access their videos from an application.
@citizencream It may be true that the iPhone represents a pinnacle of capitalist venture, but it remains our choice to conceive it in that way. The iPhone is a technological creation. Technology advances irrespective of the capitalist impetus. We can conceive a new and less destructive way to organize our society without abandoning the fruits of the current paradigm.
@ddpsp That's simply not true. The reason why apple is so successful is largely due to competitive capitalism and private property. You "advance" of technology is simply NOT true over the long term. Also, it is a little absurd to say it "advances" irrescpective of the way we organize resources, because we DO know it advances BETTER than any other system known to man!
@NoProbaloAmigo The reason why apple is so successful is Communism. Apple's factories are located in China, a communist country where people routinely work 13 hour shifts 6 days a week.
@LaraDing China is NOT a "communist" country by any measure. It is a "state capitalist" system with a huge midmarket and small business market outside of much government control, which is a big problem, because legal rights and property rights cannot be properly enforced, think the US industrial revolution, WITHOUT a proper judicial system.
the capitalist society builds upon the illusion of choice through consumerism, but the real choice and probably the only choice, is not to choose the way they tell you to.
@citizencream you're not talking about capitalism you're talking about corporatism. We haven't had real free markets in a long while in the US, hell the pollution problem was allowed to get as bad as it is because the federal government sold out property rights and protection to industries.... don't judge the market so quickly as the enemy....
@citizencream False, it is not an illusion, you actually choice, the problem begin when you do not study harder enough to be valuable, therefore you got limited income. It is not capitalism fault, is your fault. There is not easy ways to have enough income...THIS IS COMUNIST FLAW: EXPLOIT EMPLOYEES AND USE ALL THE INCOME TO MANTAIN THE MASSES AND THE STATE....YOU HAVE FREEDOM TO BUY OR NOT...COMUNISTS DO NOT HAVE CHOICE, THEY ONLY HAVE TO OBEY THE STATE.
I don't think it's being able to choose as much as it is having so many unnecessary choices forced upon us. We're programmed by society to be consumers- to want to have the latest car, phone, clothes etc. You might think these things will make you happy but ultimately, they 'enslave you', as you said, because your life becomes all about being getting stuff.
@MasterRainwater1 I think she's alluring more to the illusion of choice. They let you think you can choose, which motivates you to work as hard as you can (or even harder) but have lots of (social) mechanism in place to stop you from making choices that would be bad for them
This is probably just a Goerge Soros funded propaganda operation Goerge soros was a member of the nazi party in germany during WW2, he is a billionaire, owns Media Matters, and donated millions to the Obama campgain in 08. The leftist model is a failure the evidence is all over the ash heap of history. Obama will inflate the dollar to pay for his government programs taxing the poorest people who depend on the strength of a single dollar. OCCUPY LEFTIST PROPAGANDA
@ 6:36 she claims that capitalism is founded on the idea that "everyone can make it". This is a straw-man argument. Capitalism holds that everyone has the *opportunity* to make it, not that they necessarily will. Furthermore, it is partly THAT very misunderstanding which leads people in capitalist systems to socio-economic anxiety that she finds disdainful. It's a disservice to raise our youth to focus only on the top of the stairs, instead of the steps that lead upwards...
@samrocks726 There is no consensus on what capitalism actually is, or what central tenets it's founded upon. Therefore her argument isn't straw-man. Furthermore, socio-economic anxiety would be present no matter which understanding of capitalism people hold. The anxiety is inherent to the system because humans are selfish. Give something an inherent worth, and people will want it, regardless of whether or not they believe it is something everyone could or should have it.
The problem is not capitalism, it's simply that the individual needs to be aware of the realities to which he or she is exposed. Someone from a very poor background is unlikely to rise to the highest government office in the land but it can happen (Elio di Rupo - Belgium). However, the idea that "anyone can make it" throws back to the individual all responsibility for failure when he or she doesn't make it. There are more factors at work. We just need to be conscious, informed, and realistic.
People need to take responsibility for their own lives. The fact of the matter is that there are always people looking to atomise other people for their own ends, whether with a big stick (dictatorships) or by overwhelming them with choices until they are happy for others just to take decisions for them (as in the Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer). I dislike Subway because they ask me what I want, as if I know anything about food preparation and how to combine flavours to produce great food.
When I was younger I lived next door to an all-american family. Their son went off to college and came back a year later. I was told he was sick so he had to move back to his home. I talked to him several times and he didnt seem at all sick. What I really think is that he had a mental break down because of the impositions of college life and working to pay for it. Sure, it could be many things, but that was the impression I had. He was a bee who thought he could be everything he wanted to beeee.
@alexjamesdf I do. The drive for the internet was a mobilization of resources between the state and private interests to research and create an expansive network. It does not necessarily require the command of capital and the profit motive to create such things in a post-capitalist society. Collective mobilization of resources toward greatly beneficial goals for the furtherment of the human race is arguably much more likely under an advanced social society. Eg: Space exploration.
choices don't have to produce anxiety. I can choose not to follow others. She seems to imply that everyone does. Only those who are not aware of what they are choosing make choices based on what others choose
@mattattam11 Not true. The idea of choice produces anxiety. We end up choosing for irrational reasons all under the impression that it was a free choice. What choice offers is the illusion that we are autonomous, while we are just as exploited as ever.
There is definitely value in exposing the fallacies of current systems, but its equally important to focus our time on potential solutions as well.
A huge factor in the power of choice is in the way one is raised. If Parenting were taught in high schools & University & treated as important & mandatory as Math & English, I think this would lay way to creating a population of overall better parents who can teach foundational beliefs that influence their children to ultimately make better choices.
Did Hitler go about Killing millions of Hews because he was OK with things as they were?? NO! That crazy asshole used Jews as a scapegoat so he could steal from citizens, consolidate power, and placed blame on a group that there was already hatred towards. Was Mao ok with starving millions because he was happy as thing were?? He viewed the millions of deaths as acceptable losses for the "greater good". WHEN PEOPLE ARE JUST VIEWED IN AGGREGATE, IT'S AMAZING WHAT HUMANS CAN DO TO ONE ANOTHER.
Leftwing Fascists pretend that PRIVATE enterprise is always a monopoly, when the only real examples of Monopolies IN THIS WORLD are GOVERNMENT MONOPOLIES. As if anyone in the Private sector could compete with the state that has trillions at their disposal. Economics 101, lefties don't want to know the way the world works,& by trying to perfect societies according to their own ideals leads to TYRANNY. When individuals don't want to go along with their plans, FORCE is needed to "perfect".
There are multiple monopolies, some are political, some economical, some are based on patent law.
Why do you hate political abuse of power this much, but corporate malpractices are OK? Corporations are nothing different - a corporation is a miniature dictatorship state.
You are right about the gateways to power abuse. I recommend to watch a video called "Philip Zimbardo: Why ordinary people do evil ... or do good" here on youtube.
Decision making is difficult. There is no way to remove anxiety from LIVING. To suggest there is a way to skirt this is absolutely irresponsible. As Progressives keep teaching falsehoods, more & more people growing up will only be filled by more FEAR and ANXIETY as they will be spun out of STATE institutions under educated, becoming wards of the state. Cattle ready for the hurding. If there is "Social" pressure, it's from the STATE & a powerful minority. LOOK AT HISTORY, IT ALWAYS IS...
It's amazing, this ENTIRE analysis is based in Fallacies. Capitalism's "cornerstone" isn't "everyone" will make it, it's that anyone can pursue there individual needs, not become a "rockstar". The notion that decisions cause anxiety is asinine. Anxiety comes from not being prepared for the real world. THANK LIBERAL EDUCATOR FOR THAT. The only thing that is obvious is the Author and this organization is Completely Fabian. They want to play the role of G-d. REAL LIFE VERSION of The Sims.....
most of this video/presentation is simply loose association about the causes of the symptoms/disorders that crop up in society without any argument for the claims that "one is not a master although one believes so" or that capitalism causes these things ... appealing to the fact that there are many choices and that this causes anxiety and capitalism presents apparent success is not any sort of argument, it's a series of assertions with no reasons to support the claims
@wigglethemiddle1 The point isn't that we need a government to choose for us, the point is that we don't ACTUALLY have choice, we only have the illusion of choice, which itself is an ideological tool to maintain the status-quo and stamp out real change.
oh no! the anxiety of choice! there are so many benevolent bureaucrats just waiting to help make those choices for us! Or an economic system that eliminates the range of choices a person may have ... secondly, to say that everybody can be a celebrity/famous is not the crowning achievement (or goal) of capitalism...it is the ability to invest in ideas and ways of life and experiment freely with these various modes of living ... it is dynamic and ever changing
Interesting, but this point of view is predicated on the idea that everyone is a victim of the fat cats and if they would only wake up they would make very different choices. It relies on society being some external force that acts on us, which is true, without accepting the society also springs from us and in that sense reflects who we are and what we currently believe..
@Gugguggug100 No, the argument isn't that everyone is a victim of the fat cats, it's that everyone (even the fat cats) are a victim of ideology. The ideology of choice. Even WHEN people wake up (the 'becoming a master' moment she spoke of) and realize capacity for choice, they're still powerless because the ideology of choice makes them think that they're making rational autonomous decisions when they are just as subservient and regulated as ever. Maybe more than ever, because of this.
@Zeeaworld most likely something like after effects or photoshop. There is an animator named cyriak and he started off only using photoshop and after effects to make pretty awesome animations.
Its not just all the choices but also the idea that there might be an ideal choice. The choice that helps you fit in with society instead of trying to change it.
No one in the ussr really believed in communism she said. They said they did because they wanted to fit in. thought it was the ideal choice.
"...Go back to bed America... Here's American Gladiators.. here's 56 channels of it.......... Here you go America.. you are free.. to do as we tell you..."
@cruyffianslip its the people who enjoy living life unchalleged. the government and coorporations will exploit that till the end of time. Your always free to choose what you want to do. All you have to do is have the ability to ask for sumthing else
@cruyffianslip This is probably just a Goerge Soros funded propaganda operation Goerge soros was a member of the nazi party in germany during WW2, he is a billionaire, owns Media Matters, and donated millions to the Obama campgain in 08. The leftist model is a failure the evidence is all over the ash heap of history. Obama will inflate the dollar to pay for his government programs taxing the poorest people who depend on the strength of a single dollar. OCCUPY LEFTIST PROPAGANDA
@stutek Its none of your business if other people want to eat junk food. No one is forcing you to buy junk foods. No one is stopping you from selling all your properties and give all the money to the poor.
It is my business since I can not afford healthy food. What most of you guys fail to realize there never was a free market. Free market is as unrealistic idea as working communism. Those are both nice utopian dreams.
@stutek Food is made by 2% of americans, is not enough to create jobs for everyone. Thousands has jobs to process food TO MAKE IT DURABLE (millions of tons could be wasted and their cost will rise). Investment and demand create jobs, FED with money is a cheap imitation. Processing fish or potatoes are not enough work. USA has 140 million workers and 154 millions can work, 14 millions do not have work because there is no demand: lack of credit and buyers. Artificial work will not solve this.
I agree. Your argument can be extended at least in 2 ways:
- We are productive enough and can afford to work less for survival and thus be more free. (The labor market is already dumping the excessive work potential, right?)
or
- We should produce higher quality food by utilizing shorter supply lines and local production, even if it costs more effort.
@stutek Actually Capitalism promotes Self Sufficiency in which people can rely on themselves instead of the state. If everyone knows how to fish then they don't need someone to give them fish. Government relies on provisions so they can control the people. Without citizens being reliant on the state, it's much harder for the state to force them to do what they want them to do. Greed = higher profits. More profits means making more money w/ less goods, AKA CONSERVATION..
@Bradwin84 Wrong. As Marx said: "Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish...and you ruin a good business opportunity." THAT is how capitalism works. Look around you, how much stuff you have that you don't need? Add up the price tags of everything around you, now calculate how hours of work it took to earn it all. They've conned us into working surplus hours for useless shit. THAT'S how the ideology of capitalism (commodity fetishism) keeps us dependent on the system.
Cool drawing, but most of this was a lot of generalizations and a bunch of crap. There is some evidence that a lot of choice is paralyzing, but to equate that with the lack of social change is really idiotic. Society has been changing. And mostly for the better. Sure some things are worse...but life expectancy is greater, people have more comforts in life, and better quality of life generally. This thought that capitalism is stopping some utopia is idiotic. Utopias will never happen.
This is the thing, you can CHOOSE not to be so impressionable by being more of an independent thinker and therefor freeing yourself of any anxiety, guilt or regret that you may feel otherwise. Of course this is something that cannot be taught but either comes naturally or can be learned over a period of time. Yes modern society gives us too many options, yes it's hard to ignore it's expectations and persistent intimidation's... but we can exercise our right to think differently!
You hand wringing cry babies. O-sweet oppression please remove this over abundance of options from my poor little brain as it will simply explode if I have to make another choice. I don't know if I want Coke or Pepsi, It means I'm a slave if I pick one. Will someone who thinks they are smarter than me please remove these capitalistic options and just make one Government Cola! Then and only then will the world be at peace and all the killing and hurtful hate words will stop. Fools.
inAseaOFidiots 1 day ago
@inAseaOFidiots Well, you proved one point: You didn't comprehend the material.
tenagnek 1 day ago in playlist RSA Animates
what a load of crap!
akorfmann 2 days ago
@akorfmann yeah but at least it was funny.
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@akorfmann Although your argument is very eloquent, you may want to fine-tune your logic.
tenagnek 1 day ago in playlist RSA Animates
we all have choices to make regarding our own life. I have found this to be an extremely difficult truth about life that has troubled me a lot. I welcome you to visit my channel to check out the advice I give from what I have learned. Thank you to everyone who has supported me! :)
mynextchapter 3 days ago
I think people are misunderstanding this in my opinion,I think is not saying that choice is bad but that capitalism creates the illusion of actual choice and power
pochopaz7381 1 week ago 13
@pochopaz7381 Exactly.
Vilibrato 6 days ago
@pochopaz7381 I think you're attempting to explain the illusion to people who are operating totally under that illusion.
tenagnek 1 day ago in playlist RSA Animates
at 6:48 is that Ayn Rand? It's funny because when i heard this narrator say capitalism Rand's voice is all I could think of. I apologise if the is just because of their accents, I just thought I was funny...
dzordevjt 1 week ago
So what's the alternative? Make sure people have nothing so they can make a revolution? That's funny cause that what lot's of country in the world have, nothing, and it's funny too, cause I don't see those country rising with better social change than in so called ''capitalist'' society. I don't say capitalism is perfect, but let's not illusion ourselves that by removing our individual choice and become only one social entity that's how we're gonna improve our society
Elvyne963 1 week ago
@Elvyne963 Well, you could say external influences of capitalism have held those countries down. You have to look further back into history and at the topic more broadly. Positive change rarely happens quickly. There is no "alternative", for we cannot change society instantly. Society progresses slowly. All we can do is actively observe.
Individual choice is different than individual freedom which is different from freedom of choice.
sgtclam 3 days ago
this is a fragment of a zizek's lecture!!!
romansuarezg 2 weeks ago in playlist RSA Animates
"Freedom of choice
is what you got,
freedom from choice is what you want" Devo
brainbeau 2 weeks ago
It's simple. You have to know yourself and your tastes - then choices become easy.
ObiWanShinobi1 3 weeks ago
I'm supposed to be doing my homework but I'm learning more from this instead.
lamborger 3 weeks ago 33
I was going this dislike this Video until about 9 minutes in. then I realized what it meant. Choice, Choice, Choice...What about Not making a choice?
JoelThedude4u 3 weeks ago
@JoelThedude4u not making choice is a choice also..
shidiquat 1 week ago
Now I feel bad...
eliotcougar 3 weeks ago in playlist RSA Animates
Oh gosh, I just love these RSAnimate videos! Thank you so much for sharing these :)
JONACAN 3 weeks ago
she sounds like the female Zizek.
AntonioRepiso 3 weeks ago 2
True freedom is not giving a *%&. Or is that apathy? Ahh who cares. :p
boedesign 3 weeks ago in playlist RSA Animates
I don't think it was blaming all our ills on capitalism it was pointing out that we are not free. That we blame ourselves for feeling terrible, not provding for our families, not being the perfect lover, the perfect weight instead of the system we are in. We also don't do anything to change it. If you are happy and content that is fine-nothing to change. If not why don't you try and change the system you live under?
alan5863 3 weeks ago
It is common for socialists to blame all the ills of the world on "capitalism." The irony is that the bee hive has always been used by the rich as an ideal prototype for state socialist society. The "new socialist man" is essentially an unthinking drone. Good thing all his choices will be made for him.
HolidayFortnight 3 weeks ago
man's hand,woman's voice ,,,but great video!!
Goldriver92 3 weeks ago
This video is absolute idiocy. Look up "RSA Animate - Choice, The Critique".
HumbleWillis 4 weeks ago
BIG UDDER ...LoL
pakong82 4 weeks ago in playlist RSA Animates
Urgh.... That's so annoying. That wasn't even half of what I had ready to post but silly me didn't think about character limitations! I had good stuff to say too!!!
retnuHnahtanoJ 1 month ago
@NoProbaloAmigo
The only other system we have had int the 20th century was Communism, The RSA is not trying to bring back Communism but socialism, two different things in addition if you look at the other videos the RSA host you will see that they mention that 20th century communism was a sociological, ethical, economical catastrophe! I'm only 16 and in many ways naive and easily persuaded but I can understand that capitalism is very fragile and in many ways shaping us into thinking a certain w
retnuHnahtanoJ 1 month ago
There is no such thing as "limitless choice."
NoProbaloAmigo 1 month ago
@NoProbaloAmigo And here is the ULTIMATE irony of this critique. In a market of choice, or the false "limitless" choice, the free market allows for makers to produce a "simple" product, like an iphone, that many people buy because it "just werks."
And the last problem, is WHAT is a better alternative? Having OTHERS tell you what to buy?
NoProbaloAmigo 1 month ago
@NoProbaloAmigo Did you just argue against yourself? This guy has too many choices obviously.
raydude111 4 weeks ago
@raydude111 There is no such concept as "limitless" choice in the current product markets, though. It also begs the question, HOW would you limit those choices, if you think it is desirable, and WHO would do so, and will we be better off or not?
NoProbaloAmigo 1 week ago
How about posting some videos that aren't so one sided?
caleborp 1 month ago
Freedom is backward compatible. You have the freedom to choose to be less free, to have fewer choices to make. Then you don't have to threaten free people and limit their freedom.
InspectorValter 1 month ago
The idea of choice tends to work for the middle class rather working. These mechanisms are in place to benefit certain people than others it's why Capitalist states are run down with a few who are at the rich end of society
09Afsha 1 month ago
What she's describing in the first minute is exactly how I felt trying to narrow down my list of graduate schools...
Andreas0424 1 month ago
Explains a lot of our western world in only 10 min.! Reminds me of Beck's "Individualisierungsthese". GREAT!
1kaffeemitsahne 1 month ago
It is not 'choice' that is the cause of anxiety, it is the bombardment of propaganda, in advertisement, which encompasses every aspect of people's lives and the deliberate instillation of fear mechanisms.
krobie3 1 month ago
@krobie3 First, I agree that propaganda, advertising, and intimidation are used to coerce our consent. But It's not unreasonable to think humans might not be neurologically-equipped to properly cope with the sheer number of choices we face in a given day, much less a lifetime. 1000 years ago odds are the only choice you had to make was between survival and death. Today, the pressure of choosing what you want to do with your life (consider list of college majors) may very well be what kills you.
Andreas0424 1 month ago
@krobie3 Compared to what?? At least we can view alternative "propaganda" through competitors. This "critique" sound WAY too much like it came out of the Frankfurt school.
NoProbaloAmigo 1 month ago
so she's saying by taking away choice from people that we are somehow more free? everything is societies fault and you have no say in bettering yourself you merely think you do? i dont know what to think about that, i guess we all have our opinions.
kungfufreddy 1 month ago
What choices did she make in her life to have this view of capitalism? How is her view correct?
ReeceofConsciousness 1 month ago
this is just wrong, making choice (freedom) as disguise to controlling people is not the work of capitalism but the doing of corrupt government. the more the choices the better, people just have to learn their limits and what is reasonable for happy and fulfilling life for themselves.
bauti1811 1 month ago
@bauti1811 The impact of choice promotes many negative aspects in humans. Choice implies there is multiple levels of quality, or value to the object, and this builds up judgemental personalities, Jealousy, hate, theft, and dog-eat-dog mentality. Choice is not a bad thing, but it is not freedom. Like many things in life, choice should be taken in moderation, and not taken for granted. Capitalism is greed, and greed is the root cause to corruption. Capitalism was a choice of corruption.
Zenettii 1 month ago
@Zenettii False. If greed is the root cause to corruption, then China government has infinite greed, and yet with capitalism is reducing poverty with privatization. Look at Google: China privatization and convince yourself...CHINA CHOOSE CAPITALISMI AFTER THEY WERE COMUNISTS....then capitalism is better despite greed and further consecuences. You got that or you need to spell it? Maybe! China's state employees have robbed 70 billion in tha past 15 years and despite that LIFE IS BETTTER!!!!!!!!
Reeenzor 1 month ago
@Reeenzor Maybe its a mixture of both capitalism and communism. I don't think China have done away with communism altogether. Look at how they built the stadiums for the Olympics. People who use to live there before they started the Olympic complex didn't have a choice the government told them to move. So by not giving them the choice would you say it helped more people?
Kiwichico 1 month ago
@bauti1811 and yet we have a system that teaches the opposite. That there are no limits and what makes a happy and fulfilling life is success, measured by the posessions we have or a certain lifestyle or a great sex life, lots of friends, me time, quality time , successful career, downsizing, etc etc. We are not bounded individuals. Systems dictate behaviour. Even learning your limits will have come from the system we are in. Don't blame the system blame people for not learning their limits.
alan5863 3 weeks ago
Or should I say, rather, that government interventionism has perverted capitalism and limited the number of opportunities for people. But I digress. I should also add that the speaker's perceiving all of society as deluded, weak, lonely, and susceptible to peer pressure in an attempt to paint capitalism as an inherently insidious system was a desperate and pathetic way to vouch for social change. She should have been more honest and forthright if she had actually wanted to abet social reform.
CrackedBiscuit 1 month ago
@CrackedBiscuit I think the point is that we blame ourselves and not the system we live under. There is a belief that is very strong and that belief is we are individuals and have free will. I gaurantee that given your birth and the society you were born into your life course can be predicted despite all the hard work you put in. If we put the same you as a russian peasant in the 1600s we could aslo predict your life's course. You are shaped by the society you live in. Change society change life
alan5863 3 weeks ago
In defense of competitive capitalism, I submit that it is the only socioeconomic system in recorded history that has ever fostered unprecedented prosperity and human progress and enabled man to build wealth based on devotion to public demand. Its consumer conceit makes it a rather egalitarian system. Sadly, government-created monopolies, subsidies, regulations, and licenses have done their best to push verdant labor out of the market.
CrackedBiscuit 1 month ago
Emancipation, the act of choosing to value oneself and setting rational, measurable goals to will, can only happen through one's own volition. He might endeavor choose to start a family, begin a company, or incite a revolution. Whatever his goal, he can only will it by emancipating himself, and no socioeconomic system can constrain him.
CrackedBiscuit 1 month ago
Blaming a forlorn sense of alienation on socioeconomics is untenable and fails to recognize the weakness of the human condition. Regardless of whether capitalism existed, some people would always feel lonely and disengaged from their fellow man. A system of socioeconomics can not ameliorate the loneliness that is intrinsic is someone who has yet to emancipate himself.
CrackedBiscuit 1 month ago
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Gregiathan33 1 month ago
i wish i could watch the entire thing but her accent irritates me.
IMakeBoyzJizz 1 month ago
@IMakeBoyzJizz Your statement provokes me to make a statement of equal usefulness: Your inability to sustain a little discomfort for the benefit of knowledge inclines me to dismiss you as an intelligent human being.
starkeclipse 1 month ago
Renata Salecl sure is depressing.
The entire talk is about people in a weak state of their lifes, doing weak actions.
From the man not having a sex life he can stand up for, to majorities just following others.
VersatilyAudacious 1 month ago
Proposition: rationalising global needs and organisation of productions and delivery arround it.
Exemples, one company with thousands of workers can produce all sosks needed for all.
We produce each year bilions of T-shirts every years on the same way.
Agricultural and Industrial workers represent arround 20% of the population and we still over produce. I see plenty of place to organise clearly on minded way an organisation for sharing work, penibility, ressources..saving free time for all
GaiaIsOurMother 1 month ago
If not for capitalism maybe youtube itself wouldn't have existed or def not as big as it is now
azzazin007 1 month ago 3
@azzazin007 without capitalism this website would be even bigger. remember people who made youtube did not start out try make a lot of money. It was based on the idea sharing and watching videos online at ease. I'm guessing you cannot wrap head around the idea making something happen without incentives.
TheAndx17 1 month ago
@TheAndx17 How and why would it be bigger? Do you think google would keep it deliberately smaller for some reason, especially when more videos equate more money for the company. Anyway, I think the owners sold Youtube to Google for a cool 1.7 odd billion dollars - yeah so your argument makes quite a lot of sense
azzazin007 1 month ago
Very good clip..
mraj79 1 month ago
Brilliant. Psychological analysis of the problems of society rather than just statement of the problems of society. This is what I've been looking for. Lots of good points to work on here, and for me that starts with reducing my anxiety.
Also, a personal favourite moment was when the Lennon book bumps the guy reading Marx on the head. Subtle, but extremely profound statement.
OrgasmandTea 2 months ago in playlist The Cost of Consumerism
what's funny about this is it ends with an ad for an iPhone. talk about irony.
citizencream 2 months ago 68
@citizencream
There's no way of spreading any good message without using the system, it is basically unavoidable.
TheUnchainedMind 2 months ago in playlist The Cost of Consumerism
@citizencream the speech is not from RSA, but only this video..
Eliq09 1 month ago
@citizencream its not an ad for iPhone STUPID ! its a App for more of what you just saw
Tager253 1 month ago in playlist Liked videos
@Tager253 RSA are about promoting social change, yet they only create an app for the phone that abuses young workers in Asia, sells purely because of social fashion, and desire to be in with the crowd. Why haven't RSA developed an app for Android, the OS that promotes freedom for all, open source rather than secretive propitiatory devices that you don't know the full potential of snooping capabilities
Zenettii 1 month ago
@Zenettii We do have an RSA Vision android app too I'm afraid we've just not updated the ad, sorry about that.
theRSAorg 1 month ago
@citizencream Yeah, it is hillarious. This media was created by capitalism, and China privatized 42 state enterprises in 2005. Rusia and China explore comunism and after 70 years they "find" that capitalism is better...it is very funny. Nobody talks here about an alternative, only whip like children blaming the system for their destiny without an honest analysis (they do not study anything valuable to cash more income from the world or not saving enough to MAKE INVESTMENTS in their future).
Reeenzor 1 month ago
@citizencream yeah, an add for the RSA application. So what? I did not know that RSA had an application, now I can instantly access their videos from an application.
MOVEeveryonegoesnuts 1 month ago
@citizencream It may be true that the iPhone represents a pinnacle of capitalist venture, but it remains our choice to conceive it in that way. The iPhone is a technological creation. Technology advances irrespective of the capitalist impetus. We can conceive a new and less destructive way to organize our society without abandoning the fruits of the current paradigm.
ddpsp 1 month ago
@ddpsp That's simply not true. The reason why apple is so successful is largely due to competitive capitalism and private property. You "advance" of technology is simply NOT true over the long term. Also, it is a little absurd to say it "advances" irrescpective of the way we organize resources, because we DO know it advances BETTER than any other system known to man!
NoProbaloAmigo 1 month ago
@NoProbaloAmigo The reason why apple is so successful is Communism. Apple's factories are located in China, a communist country where people routinely work 13 hour shifts 6 days a week.
LaraDing 1 week ago
@LaraDing China is NOT a "communist" country by any measure. It is a "state capitalist" system with a huge midmarket and small business market outside of much government control, which is a big problem, because legal rights and property rights cannot be properly enforced, think the US industrial revolution, WITHOUT a proper judicial system.
NoProbaloAmigo 1 week ago
the capitalist society builds upon the illusion of choice through consumerism, but the real choice and probably the only choice, is not to choose the way they tell you to.
citizencream 2 months ago 45
@citizencream you're not talking about capitalism you're talking about corporatism. We haven't had real free markets in a long while in the US, hell the pollution problem was allowed to get as bad as it is because the federal government sold out property rights and protection to industries.... don't judge the market so quickly as the enemy....
Shugo941 1 month ago
@citizencream Thats actually not real capitalism. Its crony capitalism which what western society is today.
MrLettuceguy 1 month ago 2
@citizencream False, it is not an illusion, you actually choice, the problem begin when you do not study harder enough to be valuable, therefore you got limited income. It is not capitalism fault, is your fault. There is not easy ways to have enough income...THIS IS COMUNIST FLAW: EXPLOIT EMPLOYEES AND USE ALL THE INCOME TO MANTAIN THE MASSES AND THE STATE....YOU HAVE FREEDOM TO BUY OR NOT...COMUNISTS DO NOT HAVE CHOICE, THEY ONLY HAVE TO OBEY THE STATE.
Reeenzor 1 month ago
@citizencream if its the only choice then its not a choice though?
kungfufreddy 1 month ago
@citizencream You mean choose communism, or socialism?
MuffintopWarrior 1 month ago
@citizencream
the hardest choice possible in this society
supertaco116 2 weeks ago
so being able to choose what you want enslaves you...????
MasterRainwater1 2 months ago in playlist The Cost of Consumerism
I don't think it's being able to choose as much as it is having so many unnecessary choices forced upon us. We're programmed by society to be consumers- to want to have the latest car, phone, clothes etc. You might think these things will make you happy but ultimately, they 'enslave you', as you said, because your life becomes all about being getting stuff.
nozombiesallowed 2 months ago in playlist The Cost of Consumerism
@MasterRainwater1 I think she's alluring more to the illusion of choice. They let you think you can choose, which motivates you to work as hard as you can (or even harder) but have lots of (social) mechanism in place to stop you from making choices that would be bad for them
brambo3636 2 months ago in playlist The Cost of Consumerism
@MasterRainwater1 Yeah exactly, and war is peace, 2+2=5.
trapedd 1 month ago
'It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.'
- Jiddu Krishnamurti -
youralmostthere 2 months ago in playlist The Cost of Consumerism
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This is probably just a Goerge Soros funded propaganda operation Goerge soros was a member of the nazi party in germany during WW2, he is a billionaire, owns Media Matters, and donated millions to the Obama campgain in 08. The leftist model is a failure the evidence is all over the ash heap of history. Obama will inflate the dollar to pay for his government programs taxing the poorest people who depend on the strength of a single dollar. OCCUPY LEFTIST PROPAGANDA
theygunaHATEME 2 months ago in playlist The Cost of Consumerism
@ 6:36 she claims that capitalism is founded on the idea that "everyone can make it". This is a straw-man argument. Capitalism holds that everyone has the *opportunity* to make it, not that they necessarily will. Furthermore, it is partly THAT very misunderstanding which leads people in capitalist systems to socio-economic anxiety that she finds disdainful. It's a disservice to raise our youth to focus only on the top of the stairs, instead of the steps that lead upwards...
samrocks726 2 months ago
@samrocks726 There is no consensus on what capitalism actually is, or what central tenets it's founded upon. Therefore her argument isn't straw-man. Furthermore, socio-economic anxiety would be present no matter which understanding of capitalism people hold. The anxiety is inherent to the system because humans are selfish. Give something an inherent worth, and people will want it, regardless of whether or not they believe it is something everyone could or should have it.
yhallotharlol 2 months ago
The problem is not capitalism, it's simply that the individual needs to be aware of the realities to which he or she is exposed. Someone from a very poor background is unlikely to rise to the highest government office in the land but it can happen (Elio di Rupo - Belgium). However, the idea that "anyone can make it" throws back to the individual all responsibility for failure when he or she doesn't make it. There are more factors at work. We just need to be conscious, informed, and realistic.
simonsaintgilles 2 months ago
People need to take responsibility for their own lives. The fact of the matter is that there are always people looking to atomise other people for their own ends, whether with a big stick (dictatorships) or by overwhelming them with choices until they are happy for others just to take decisions for them (as in the Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer). I dislike Subway because they ask me what I want, as if I know anything about food preparation and how to combine flavours to produce great food.
simonsaintgilles 2 months ago
That's Jarvis Cocker, as he is in the "Common people" video, in front of the supermarket !
simonsaintgilles 2 months ago 2
@simonsaintgilles I took her to a supermarket, I don't know why but I had to start it somewhere~
zoh87 2 months ago
sounds like Zizek
ItsAroundMidnight 2 months ago
@ItsAroundMidnight
She's actually from Slovenia and married to Zizek.
unorthodoxtrotsky 2 months ago
Wonderful, eve-opening speech! and of course great animation by RSA! <3
MrGameboy0895 2 months ago
shall we call choice.. the spectacle?
sacrebeat 2 months ago
thanks god she don't speak with british accent, otherwise I won't understand.
masonev 2 months ago
When I was younger I lived next door to an all-american family. Their son went off to college and came back a year later. I was told he was sick so he had to move back to his home. I talked to him several times and he didnt seem at all sick. What I really think is that he had a mental break down because of the impositions of college life and working to pay for it. Sure, it could be many things, but that was the impression I had. He was a bee who thought he could be everything he wanted to beeee.
Drvelasco45 2 months ago
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Velislavable 2 months ago
Impressive!
ehabq 2 months ago
bravo
pandorasbox006 2 months ago
for some reason, i think rsa is a very left wing organization
xsumuhdihx 2 months ago
Britain is the dried out shriveled husk from which the USA was born
neversadducee 2 months ago
yeah yeah.... and in the end an advert of I phone.... wtf???? the absolute contradiction!
pipelakk 2 months ago
Amazing. Cool. Do you think the internet would exist without capitalism?
alexjamesdf 2 months ago
@alexjamesdf I do. The drive for the internet was a mobilization of resources between the state and private interests to research and create an expansive network. It does not necessarily require the command of capital and the profit motive to create such things in a post-capitalist society. Collective mobilization of resources toward greatly beneficial goals for the furtherment of the human race is arguably much more likely under an advanced social society. Eg: Space exploration.
MichaelJ9999 2 months ago
that is a very hairy arm for a woman
RoayaPixel 2 months ago
@RoayaPixel the same guy draws the pictures for each different speaker
hersheykiss3659 2 months ago in playlist RSA
@RoayaPixel The audio is taken from a lecture. It's not the person drawing who is speaking
bobocruze 2 months ago
Slavoj Zizek at 1:43?
Hirfel 2 months ago
choices don't have to produce anxiety. I can choose not to follow others. She seems to imply that everyone does. Only those who are not aware of what they are choosing make choices based on what others choose
mattattam11 3 months ago
@mattattam11 Not true. The idea of choice produces anxiety. We end up choosing for irrational reasons all under the impression that it was a free choice. What choice offers is the illusion that we are autonomous, while we are just as exploited as ever.
Hirfel 2 months ago
527 peoples hate when a mom talking about choice
phonyaashim 3 months ago
There is definitely value in exposing the fallacies of current systems, but its equally important to focus our time on potential solutions as well.
A huge factor in the power of choice is in the way one is raised. If Parenting were taught in high schools & University & treated as important & mandatory as Math & English, I think this would lay way to creating a population of overall better parents who can teach foundational beliefs that influence their children to ultimately make better choices.
Warren2TheG 3 months ago
Brilliant Talk brilliant animation Brilliant all round i'd say.
belmontjam 3 months ago
Did Hitler go about Killing millions of Hews because he was OK with things as they were?? NO! That crazy asshole used Jews as a scapegoat so he could steal from citizens, consolidate power, and placed blame on a group that there was already hatred towards. Was Mao ok with starving millions because he was happy as thing were?? He viewed the millions of deaths as acceptable losses for the "greater good". WHEN PEOPLE ARE JUST VIEWED IN AGGREGATE, IT'S AMAZING WHAT HUMANS CAN DO TO ONE ANOTHER.
Bradwin84 3 months ago
Leftwing Fascists pretend that PRIVATE enterprise is always a monopoly, when the only real examples of Monopolies IN THIS WORLD are GOVERNMENT MONOPOLIES. As if anyone in the Private sector could compete with the state that has trillions at their disposal. Economics 101, lefties don't want to know the way the world works,& by trying to perfect societies according to their own ideals leads to TYRANNY. When individuals don't want to go along with their plans, FORCE is needed to "perfect".
Bradwin84 3 months ago
@Bradwin84
There are multiple monopolies, some are political, some economical, some are based on patent law.
Why do you hate political abuse of power this much, but corporate malpractices are OK? Corporations are nothing different - a corporation is a miniature dictatorship state.
You are right about the gateways to power abuse. I recommend to watch a video called "Philip Zimbardo: Why ordinary people do evil ... or do good" here on youtube.
stutek 3 months ago
Decision making is difficult. There is no way to remove anxiety from LIVING. To suggest there is a way to skirt this is absolutely irresponsible. As Progressives keep teaching falsehoods, more & more people growing up will only be filled by more FEAR and ANXIETY as they will be spun out of STATE institutions under educated, becoming wards of the state. Cattle ready for the hurding. If there is "Social" pressure, it's from the STATE & a powerful minority. LOOK AT HISTORY, IT ALWAYS IS...
Bradwin84 3 months ago
It's amazing, this ENTIRE analysis is based in Fallacies. Capitalism's "cornerstone" isn't "everyone" will make it, it's that anyone can pursue there individual needs, not become a "rockstar". The notion that decisions cause anxiety is asinine. Anxiety comes from not being prepared for the real world. THANK LIBERAL EDUCATOR FOR THAT. The only thing that is obvious is the Author and this organization is Completely Fabian. They want to play the role of G-d. REAL LIFE VERSION of The Sims.....
Bradwin84 3 months ago
@4:25 - RELIGION!!
BigMTBrain 3 months ago
most of this video/presentation is simply loose association about the causes of the symptoms/disorders that crop up in society without any argument for the claims that "one is not a master although one believes so" or that capitalism causes these things ... appealing to the fact that there are many choices and that this causes anxiety and capitalism presents apparent success is not any sort of argument, it's a series of assertions with no reasons to support the claims
wigglethemiddle1 3 months ago
@wigglethemiddle1 The point isn't that we need a government to choose for us, the point is that we don't ACTUALLY have choice, we only have the illusion of choice, which itself is an ideological tool to maintain the status-quo and stamp out real change.
Hirfel 2 months ago
oh no! the anxiety of choice! there are so many benevolent bureaucrats just waiting to help make those choices for us! Or an economic system that eliminates the range of choices a person may have ... secondly, to say that everybody can be a celebrity/famous is not the crowning achievement (or goal) of capitalism...it is the ability to invest in ideas and ways of life and experiment freely with these various modes of living ... it is dynamic and ever changing
wigglethemiddle1 3 months ago
this videos are so prefect!
kikerfly 3 months ago
Interesting, but this point of view is predicated on the idea that everyone is a victim of the fat cats and if they would only wake up they would make very different choices. It relies on society being some external force that acts on us, which is true, without accepting the society also springs from us and in that sense reflects who we are and what we currently believe..
Gugguggug100 3 months ago
@Gugguggug100 No, the argument isn't that everyone is a victim of the fat cats, it's that everyone (even the fat cats) are a victim of ideology. The ideology of choice. Even WHEN people wake up (the 'becoming a master' moment she spoke of) and realize capacity for choice, they're still powerless because the ideology of choice makes them think that they're making rational autonomous decisions when they are just as subservient and regulated as ever. Maybe more than ever, because of this.
Hirfel 2 months ago
@Zeeaworld most likely something like after effects or photoshop. There is an animator named cyriak and he started off only using photoshop and after effects to make pretty awesome animations.
DahPurpleHippo 3 months ago
Well said.
Allow me to ask this: what program they use to do the moving effects?
:/
I lked the flying bees and everything, such pro work
Zeeaworld 3 months ago
@vangelicmonk
Its not just all the choices but also the idea that there might be an ideal choice. The choice that helps you fit in with society instead of trying to change it.
No one in the ussr really believed in communism she said. They said they did because they wanted to fit in. thought it was the ideal choice.
callous21 3 months ago
did you use real white boardmarker? please give us animation how to make this animation :)
TheHakim03 3 months ago
did you use real white boardmarker?
TheHakim03 3 months ago
Watch zizek's
Finch33093 3 months ago
boring...nothing new, just dont conform with the society and follow what your heart says.
iamthedarklord1314 3 months ago
What kind of social change does she want?
austeritydidactic 3 months ago
So, Slovenians want to back to Communism/Socialism ;)
DADODAMIR 3 months ago
@DADODAMIR
Wrong Slovenians want to make choices that matter and not to deal with all the crappy spam.
stutek 3 months ago
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DADODAMIR 3 months ago
it's hard to listen to someone talk and read at the same time
sirshitsalot007 3 months ago
thank you
solidbeliefs 3 months ago
This is the most offensive video I have ever seen in my life.
MisbehavingMal 3 months ago
@MisbehavingMal
um, how?
the81kid 3 months ago
brilliant animation.
ismaellanda 3 months ago
Love RSAnimate films...
In the words of wonderful Bill Hicks...
"...Go back to bed America... Here's American Gladiators.. here's 56 channels of it.......... Here you go America.. you are free.. to do as we tell you..."
cruyffianslip 3 months ago 16
@cruyffianslip people are being kept asleep by the food and water.. blame americas facist goverment.... not the people
TheIgnoramus 2 months ago
@cruyffianslip its the people who enjoy living life unchalleged. the government and coorporations will exploit that till the end of time. Your always free to choose what you want to do. All you have to do is have the ability to ask for sumthing else
Johnywang1 2 months ago
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@cruyffianslip This is probably just a Goerge Soros funded propaganda operation Goerge soros was a member of the nazi party in germany during WW2, he is a billionaire, owns Media Matters, and donated millions to the Obama campgain in 08. The leftist model is a failure the evidence is all over the ash heap of history. Obama will inflate the dollar to pay for his government programs taxing the poorest people who depend on the strength of a single dollar. OCCUPY LEFTIST PROPAGANDA
theygunaHATEME 2 months ago in playlist The Cost of Consumerism
@ThisSentenceIsFalse haha, victim of their own crime
01rai01 3 months ago
Not the big scary supermarket with all these foods and things. PLEASE JUST GIVE ME SOME OATMEAL AND NOTHING ELSE AND THEN ILL BE HAPPY
MrEvrAfter 3 months ago
@MrEvrAfter i LUV the sarcasm :)
juicyappleish 3 months ago
I don't understand why retarded commies like this salecl woman have followers.
juicyappleish 3 months ago
@juicyappleish
yeah, eeeeeeeevil socialists. just go back to your capitalist cubicle.
the81kid 3 months ago
@juicyappleish
Because if free markets would work, the crap on the shelves of supermarkets would be weeded out long time ago and our food would be healthy.
Communism doesn't work because it promotes laziness.
Capitalism doesn't work because it promotes greed.
stutek 3 months ago
@stutek Its none of your business if other people want to eat junk food. No one is forcing you to buy junk foods. No one is stopping you from selling all your properties and give all the money to the poor.
juicyappleish 3 months ago
@juicyappleish
It is my business since I can not afford healthy food. What most of you guys fail to realize there never was a free market. Free market is as unrealistic idea as working communism. Those are both nice utopian dreams.
stutek 3 months ago
@stutek Food is made by 2% of americans, is not enough to create jobs for everyone. Thousands has jobs to process food TO MAKE IT DURABLE (millions of tons could be wasted and their cost will rise). Investment and demand create jobs, FED with money is a cheap imitation. Processing fish or potatoes are not enough work. USA has 140 million workers and 154 millions can work, 14 millions do not have work because there is no demand: lack of credit and buyers. Artificial work will not solve this.
Reeenzor 3 months ago
@Reeenzor
I agree. Your argument can be extended at least in 2 ways:
- We are productive enough and can afford to work less for survival and thus be more free. (The labor market is already dumping the excessive work potential, right?)
or
- We should produce higher quality food by utilizing shorter supply lines and local production, even if it costs more effort.
stutek 3 months ago
@stutek Actually Capitalism promotes Self Sufficiency in which people can rely on themselves instead of the state. If everyone knows how to fish then they don't need someone to give them fish. Government relies on provisions so they can control the people. Without citizens being reliant on the state, it's much harder for the state to force them to do what they want them to do. Greed = higher profits. More profits means making more money w/ less goods, AKA CONSERVATION..
Bradwin84 3 months ago
@Bradwin84
Wrong if capitalism would promote self sufficiency we all would have our own energy source, water source, food production etc.
Profit oriented thinking:
- increases customer dependency,
- monopolizes knowledge and resources,
- rids itself of as much responsibility as it can,
- and tries to get rid of competition.
stutek 3 months ago
@stutek Right on man
Hirfel 2 months ago
@Bradwin84 Wrong. As Marx said: "Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish...and you ruin a good business opportunity." THAT is how capitalism works. Look around you, how much stuff you have that you don't need? Add up the price tags of everything around you, now calculate how hours of work it took to earn it all. They've conned us into working surplus hours for useless shit. THAT'S how the ideology of capitalism (commodity fetishism) keeps us dependent on the system.
Hirfel 2 months ago
Cool drawing, but most of this was a lot of generalizations and a bunch of crap. There is some evidence that a lot of choice is paralyzing, but to equate that with the lack of social change is really idiotic. Society has been changing. And mostly for the better. Sure some things are worse...but life expectancy is greater, people have more comforts in life, and better quality of life generally. This thought that capitalism is stopping some utopia is idiotic. Utopias will never happen.
vangelicmonk 3 months ago
This is the thing, you can CHOOSE not to be so impressionable by being more of an independent thinker and therefor freeing yourself of any anxiety, guilt or regret that you may feel otherwise. Of course this is something that cannot be taught but either comes naturally or can be learned over a period of time. Yes modern society gives us too many options, yes it's hard to ignore it's expectations and persistent intimidation's... but we can exercise our right to think differently!
butonlyifitscool 3 months ago 3