Drowning in the Meme Pool

[itsjustameme]

That's a sub right there :)

cool video, nice points, good humor

what more can you ask for in a video

cheers

[piano99999]

i dont understand why sablechicken was hatin' on the chimp with the spear. Wasn't her argument just about schools not teaching kids critical thinking? and 'brainwashing'

[Kretain]

@piano99999 The thing is though, the christian way of seeing critical thinking is pretty much, take the word of the bible as is, don't think about it, just believe.

9 times out of 10, the fundamentalist lingo ir used to decieve, not to aid in conversation.

[fauyd]

You need to start doing videos with the two selves again. Is one supposed to be Az, and the other Jeff Smith-Luedke?

[DarkMatter2525]

I only recently discovered Philhellenes, and have been enjoying his creative style. What a treat to find an Azrienoch gem amidst his stuff. As usual, you've given me something to think about, Az, if I can manage to stop laughing at that priceless finale.

[kapazas2002]

this should be rolling up more often dark matter ... they love to hate me

[Mattprole]

Awesome and rarely appreciated argument. Of course..

[Trollschool]

It's insane how much more room you had back then - guess you put some of that stuff in storage.

Hope you get into some larger digs soon.

[martiangrundy]

Fuckin 'ell.

Check out 1:37 to 1:47. and a few other places too.

is he burnin fuckin truck tyres?

[plazpure]

17¢

[medicatedsaint]

The ending was priceless, absolutely priceless. YouTube is very enriched with you and phil on here. It will be a sad day when you guys decide to stop making videos.

[skypheonix07]

Lol @ the brilliant insightfulness and just plain brilliance of this of this video. I cannot wait to check out the rest of your channel my fellow spear swinging mutant monkey!!! 5 stars, faved and subscribed!

[FalleJr]

In my native language we don't have two separate words to distinguish apes from monkeys. But you do, so please use them accordingly.

[SergeiGurlukovich]

Well fuckin done, man. Intelligent and hilarious.

[EquisHalo]

lol. You're sexy.

[luffdani]

funny!

[exDeathex]

Hahahahahaha what an awesome video :D Fuck me sideways and call me grandma

[anakin1814]

Totally green screened: pwned.

[musosf]

Dude I knew that. Douche.

[anakin1814]

Wanker.

[musosf]

Tosser.

[anakin1814]

Um....iPod pusher?

[musosf]

Er...He of Vibrating Shorts?

[anakin1814]

Speaking of that...and to totally take Jeff's comments section hostage: How cool was it that via our little cell phones, we were both kind of able to be there for the other's experience on Friday night? Your Coldplay concert and my seeing Batman are intertwined for me now!

And who doesn't like a little vibrating shorts action?

[TheReasonWhyGuy]

green screen

[BrianTheMusicMan]

This guy is the shit.

[o00o814]

While there certainly is valid substance in what you have to say, the pretension you emanate renders you erroneous. You should work on freeing yourself further from the fabricated bubble of culture. Be sincere, my friend.. you have potential. Style or substance, take your pick.

[azrienoch]

Further myself from culture? You think that's possible?

[o00o814]

Your mind, yes. Very.

[azrienoch]

Sorry, but no. Can't leave it. My language is a product of my culture, and my thoughts are a product of my language. And I'm not sure what you're really on about with the pretentia. I mean, it's for the comedic effect of having the second me come out and behaving so crassly. Or did you not watch the whole thing?

[azrienoch]

I'm also not sure why pretention renders anything erroneous. "This is true, but you're a dick, so it's false." Kinda silly.

[pabzum]

Interesting views. But I think you're regarding mutational steps as bigger than they actually are. For a start, there are no "severe" mutations.

[morelshaman]

I must presume that you already know this, but i will point out for those unaware:

For you to accept or reject a meme is memetic it is not genetic.

Perhaps i misheard - are you saying that you are genetically predisposed to rebel?

Once again, this seems to be at most a genetically obdurate mind in a very specific genetically built brain.

You might like the book "Fluke" by Christopher Moore. Funny fiction that examines genes versus memes in an "impossible" scenario.

[peteq1972]

Great stuff!

Dawkins reader? ;)

[flips300021]

Take that cigarette and puts it in ya mouth, you pull on a finger and then another finger and then your cigarette...The wall to wall is calling and then your cigarette...Who is that?

[misssoftglitterkid]

@flips300021 nice bowie quote, man

[flips300021]

Well spotted mate. Albeit i fucked up a bit on the actual lyrics really...Was a tad trolley'd :)

[soccergoalieforlife]

oh scratch that i just watched the video again i beleive i understand

[soccergoalieforlife]

oh so these"severe mutations"that you speak of can happen within anyone who questions their way of life in order to survive,so why would there be a need to change our outlook on the world when it comes to evolution or the topic that is discussed up here...wouldn't a creationist outlook perfectly sustain our survival as much as evolution theory?Maybe im fucking retarded and completely missing the point...im not trying to say i think creationism is true, im just trying to clarify things for myself

[soccergoalieforlife]

what isn't? i dont understand, are you saying: we change because what we know isn't sustaining our survival?

[azrienoch]

No, I'm saying that we generally just "do" stuff, and when we want to change it is often because we do not think our actions are "sustaining our survival."

[soccergoalieforlife]

i think i understand what your saying but if everyone sticks to their lineage for survival except for the "severe mutations" then where is point when the people who stick to their heritage progress in favor of the "severe mutations". Why would we change if what we know it is sustaining our survival

[azrienoch]

Because we think it isn't.

[sonata1992]

*Struggles to maintain worship of Lord Azrienoch in the face of sexy and assertive double*

[JasonVz]

You are into Absurdism, Camut et al

With your unkempt beard, greasy hair, and conspicuous nasal ring, you illustrate absurdism.

[Pastfeeling]

Whats with your look?

Whats with the inhaling smoke?

And I'm to think your smart?

Maybe,but,nah pure bullshit;)

[WtfJuju]

Ah! Understood. gj on the video ^^

[WtfJuju]

I've never met anyone who calls him self a philosopher. How did you get to a point where you felt you could or should call your self one.

[opinionhead444]

You sir, put the "surd" is absurdity.

[Sarahon06]

oh shit... this is bad. The other you is basically me. Scary.

[andrewrberkshire]

How do you keep making better and better videos everyday? Seriously man stop being so smart and still funny, you make everyone look bad! 5/5 and favourited again.

[kalsolarUK]

That was worth it just for the last 20 seconds - excellent! Damn, I'm still laughing!

[CelphaFiael]

Really puts the "dual" in individual.

[crazypants88]

Haha!

[jaejunha]

i can finally post text comments, couldnt b4 cause of safari, now firefox.

well, hey azrienoch, ur videos are awesome.. yup

[NOFseXy]

post a video on your thoughts regarding suicide

[threeofwands]

just noticed that your subscription number is at the historically exemplary figure 1776. noted it before it changed.

[mconn2112]

Az number 2 is my hero. Speaks his mind and then goes looking for booty. :P

[RonMeijers]

"Two ape is more ape than any man." Love that quotation! Thought it might be on topic.

[Mjhavok]

10,000-20,000 years later, Chimp A-Bombs.

:-S

[Mjhavok]

10,000-20,000 years later, Chimp A-Bombs.

:-S

[marshallbs]

Loved the ending! lolz

[mikecampochiaro]

Has the smoking ban hit your area yet? You can't smoke in bars in baltimore anymore and it's six fifty for a fucking pack. So I'm rolling my own now. What the hell is happening to our civil liberties?

[azrienoch]

Yeah. We've been thinking about moving, and I'm hoping it's to some backwards redneck place that won't catch on to the smoking ban-wagon for another 50 years. And I hope to be dead by that time.

[opinionhead444]

Immortality shall be yours then, maybe.

No, maybe you gotta die at 30.

[KelsoFabulous]

OH my Darlin Az :) Loving it!

[pyrrho314]

btw, I loved the subtle ending where you get up, not so sure your wife would sleep with him/you.

[pyrrho314]

ack... "monkey"... I hate to be the pedantic one, but chimps are so different from monkeys... they're apes! they are our closest relatives on earth (possibly because we killed off the closer ones)... so distinct. There were no monkeys with spears!!! we're talking chimps people!!!

[azrienoch]

Yeah, I know, but I have an excuse. "Monkey" is more poetic, grasps the imagination better, and the 'm' and 'ee' sounds match "meme" better. "Chimp" is blunt and uninteresting. ;) See? I can be pedantic too, just in a different way.

[pyrrho314]

typical "peot"

see this is why I don't like to be the pedantic one.

[sablechicken]

Az they like to be called Chimps not monkeys...or so I've been told.

;)

[azrienoch]

You just turn right around and say, it's only a chimp if evolution is true. ;)

[HoldinCoffee]

Umm...shit; nevermind.

[TruthDevours]

Not every physical application requires an enormous amount of finesse. That's like trying to observe an infant crawling "the wrong way". These chimps will have great success using the spear in simple scenarios and experience great difficulty in the contrast.

Any thoughts on ant-fungus mutualism?

[d4dan]

Best Vlogger going.

[ImmortalBits]

lol.

[gratex]

there's always an intermediate step between no spear and spear, small steps that are not so conscious are the ones that spread more successfully.

[eequalsfb]

Fucking hilarious ending! 5 stars!

[CadicusTheDamned]

I like your doppelganger's attitude.

I wish I could figure out how to do that effect, but it probably requires a green screen and I don't have room for that.

You and Phil have good timing, BTW.

As far as Sablechicken is concerned, well, we need retarded people to make us feel superior.

You know every time you call chimpanzees monkeys, that it makes me wince? They're apes, not monkeys...

[azrienoch]

It's a fucking monkey! ;)

You can do a more crude version of the effect using a split screen. Record yourself twice, sitting on one side of the screen and the other, without moving the camera. Then use a non-linear editor to place one scene on top of the other, and crop out half the top shot. That's how I did it before this video in Discourse on Method. Yokeup did versions of that as well in his Godel video.

[CadicusTheDamned]

Yeah, the split screen method is what Czarmy uses and I could do that (I have adobe premiere), but you actually walked behind yourself, and I think that would require a green screen...

Let me check out your discourse on method video and see if I can find more clues...

BTW: I'm glad I saw the ;) or I would launch into a giant fucking rant about taxonomy...

[azrienoch]

Oh, definitely, in this one it's a green screen. I'm just saying, you don't need it to pull off similar effects.

[CadicusTheDamned]

I think the Discourse on Method video is actually probably my favorite video of yours, but I find that I agree with the gun wielding az simply because I know people should not trust their own minds, perceptions, and memories, much less philosophical logic. That would require a video to explain, however...

[azrienoch]

Hmmm... yes, it would. In particular, I'd like to hear whose mind we SHOULD be listening to...

[CadicusTheDamned]

Eh, fuck, don't put words in my mouth!

If we can't trust ourselves, how are we supposed to trust anyone else?

[azrienoch]

LOL! No, I agree: if we can't trust ourselves, we can't really trust anything.

I am sorry, though. Didn't mean to put words in your mouth. Okay, second try... perhaps you could elucidate this: "... I know people should not trust their own minds, perceptions, and memories, much less philosophical logic."

[CadicusTheDamned]

Ok, you're right. I can't trust my own mind. I have suffered from bouts of schizo-affective attacks. The whole nine yards, hearing disembodied voices, seeing and speaking to people that aren't really there, delusions of grandeur, etc.

While my problem is worse than most (although, thankfully, correctable with medication), I think the human brain, and hence our minds, is not the perfect device through which to observe objective reality.

Is that a fair diagnosis?

[threeofwands]

well, since the human mind is one of the many products of the reality it observes, and this reality is prima facie not perfect, then i would say that that the human mind is not a perfect device through which to observe it. it seems adequate in many respects, however.

[EMTRUE]

This video represents (for me) what you do in most of your videos.

You are all about smoke and mirrors imo.

[azrienoch]

Okay, once and for all: what's your beef? You say things like this with no explanation at all. You do realize I don't sit here and say to myself, "Shit, she's right... hope nobody finds out," right? Speak up!

[EMTRUE]

What are you saying?

You don't like when someone mocks you?

[azrienoch]

No, I don't like it when somebody complacently trolls my videos and ignores my questions. So again, what's your beef?

[EMTRUE]

I'm sorry for your lack of understanding, but I have implicitly answered your questions.

[azrienoch]

Oh, I get it that you think I've mocked you, but if you remember the last time you did this, I asked you where and how I've mocked you, and you never answered. Simply saying that I've mocked you isn't good enough; explain yourself. For the third time, what's your beef?

[EMTRUE]

Whether or not you have ever mocked 'me' has nothing to do with this.

Az you already know, if you never really give answers, no one can claim you are wrong.

[azrienoch]

Look if you want me to take you seriously, you're going to have to do better. If I just up and called you a liar one day for no apparent reason, you'd ask, "What'd I lie to you about?" If I've wronged you, I need to know what it is I've done, or there's nothing I can do about it and you'll sit and stew in hatred.

[EMTRUE]

You mock people and one by one, telling them they are wrong. The fact that you do it through creative means doesn't make me want to gush with enthusiasm though. In the end, you offer nothing of substance, no answers to be critiqued.

It's just about "pwning" people, whatever the hell that means. I can't seem to join the crowd of admirers. As much as you have been annoyed with my comments, that is approximately how I feel from your vids.

[azrienoch]

Ah, see, that's much more clear now. I'm not seeing this through your eyes, and I can't agree that I don't offer alternatives (especially when the video where you had your first outburst was in a line of videos that not only critiqued, but offered an alternative way to engage one another, but hey). In this video as well, I offer an alternative way of looking at the sablechicken video. Never once did I mock Phil's perspective (only jokingly at his inner voice).

[EMTRUE]

My attempt to mock you was poorly done because it lacked creativity or entertainment. Still, I don't wish to entertain in a way that's "hurts" others.

That's my "beef".

[thequestionmarkofGod]

This was incredibly touching, brilliant and at the end quite the laugh.

I found it very interesting, that you touched on her actions as a necessary part of evolution, as I had been considering(should I get to it...erg) making a video to Sable expressing that very idea. Her actions are a form of adaptation to her changing world, a world no longer as suitable for her kind as it was for generations past. Her words, her resistance, her fight against the change is in essence her spear.

[davidbpearson2]

There is some metal crap in your nose.

[azrienoch]

There's an 'a' in your last name.

[davidbpearson2]

Your name has every vowel except a "u."

[azrienoch]

Think it might have something to do with egocentrism?

[davidbpearson2]

And I wasn't taking to you, but the other guy with metal crap in his nose.

[azrienoch]

Ohhhh, okay.

[WiseMonki]

hehehe... i always enjoyed the doppelganger effect in your videos. btw - what if the 'monkeys' had a monolith, similar to Clarks 2001? i suppose it may add a whole new dimention to your allegory. kindest regards,

[x71isnwor]

LOL..

[goldengun85]

Wow...that was really good!!! I was dying laughing at the end! It's incredible how good you are with these effects...if I ever need something special I know who I'm going to ask for help!!

[angryislander56]

Women always like the bad guy!

There is a little baffled monkey in most of us.

Really funny video.

[naganokumas]

Well done!

Memes means Heinz.

[iamjackscolin]

Wow, that double AZ really worked well on all levels. Visually and in the performance. I think you're alter ego is a better actor than you. He's certainly funnier. And I think substantially hotter.

[azrienoch]

Yeah, that's what had me worried.

[2bsirius]

You make such great videos! I loved the special effects and the humor, but I especially appreciated the point you made that evolution isn't about progress. Yes, it isn't about progress. It's about imitation. Exactly! This was both brilliant and deep! Thanks for making it and for making SENSE! Rare and wonderful...I wish my inner voice were as funny as yours...

[azrienoch]

Thanks 2bsirius. See, I'm actually more like the second Az, but I have posturing to do on youtube. This affords me all sorts of me's I could be!

[touchingstoves]

I felt like a bit of a misfit today. This video made me feel better.

[crazypants88]

Haha awesome editing skills, or whatever you call it.

[bickleschmickle]

The fucker is always right.

[azrienoch]

Damn him!

[CousinoMacul]

Ook ook! Me like spear. Me like u wyfe. Ook ook!

[falconelly]

As the door closed and you chipped in, the last thought may have been protection. (lol)

[PrimaryPurpose]

Some monkies just don't get it! New meme phrase of the week :)

<3<3<3<3<3<3

[Cristofer7]

my god U make great vids...

[matrixcmitech]

az rules az uzual

[thinkmorepink]

The editing was on point, great video az. Oh, and really funny ending, hehe.

[coaxx]

good video, funny ending :)

[philhellenes]

I dread to think where your skillz will be soon. Each time I think you can't, you get better and better. At the start ("Yes Phil, what WILL the philosophers say...") I thought, oh oh, then I listened (totally disagreeing, ofc) but still moved that you'd try to add a rosy tint to my glasses. Then your handsome (but somewhat unethical) friend stepped on cam.

You know, with just a little more make up he'd look JUST like you, but Ill never like him as much. :)

[azrienoch]

Thanks phil. But disagreeing? In what way?

[alienjesus2012]

that was a great effect

well done

[PaulsEgo]

bahahah

thats the good stuff.

[azrienoch]

Thanks! I didn't know you watched these.

[RosieDesire]

LOL.... I about pissed myself.... brilliant!

[dQuarters]

Just great.

[jogayot]

such dedication... to a friend, i mean.

[nicanicabad]

you just

hmph

I'll use the word worship

yea

worship

[faitheist]

good video, i got a chuckle

[howtofoldsoup]

If she won't fuck him, I will. GrrRAAOOoo...

Great vid.

[azrienoch]

Naughty kitty totally works.

[threeofwands]

Beautiful ending, Az. Best to ya'll!

[stony4321]

Ha ha ha! Give it a shot. Some how I will remember the phrase when it's not appropriate.

[DerCrossi]

Yeah, I am SO archiving phil's and your video here, this is great entertainment!! :D

*download*

Love you both!

[randyhelzerman]

AWSOME dude you had me wondering through the whole video when the other shoe would drop w.r.t. those mysterious extra puffs of smoke wafting over the video :-)  Hope you enjoyed your 3-some with your wife....

[azrienoch]

See, Randy, it's not technically a threesome. I'm just twice the man than most. ;)

[TrueNorth15]

but if you did it with him wouldn't that be more like masturbation?

[TheDude0fLife]

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. ~ Frank Zappa

Is religion art?

[hunniebee173]

That's great!

[maksiiiskam2]

How many more of you are there?

[azrienoch]

How many do you want me to try to get?

[maksiiiskam2]

How many could you get?

[azrienoch]

As many as my RAM will allow.

[maksiiiskam2]

What do you mean? Are you saying you mind-uploaded yourself in your computer? that's how you did, that's the best explanation.

[rUTokKIN2ME]

I'd like to order a couple for myself. Just so I have someone to bounce ideas off of when I can't sleep. How much would one of those go for? And is there a warranty?

[TOMMYfromtheBRONX]

LOL , AWESOME STUFF MAN

[SomeBSUTubeName]

That chimp made an infomercial and sold the stick to other chimps and now is up to his armpits in bananas and chicks.

[0ThouArtThat0]

haha, that was some great anthropology right there.

[heavenundertheearth]

Az,

Nice Video what moviemaker software do you use?

Thanks man.

[azrienoch]

Sony Vegas 7.

[Mjhavok]

Did it fall of the back of a truck?

[azrienoch]

Yes.

[DeadMindWorking]

That horrible video has spawned quite a few decent videos, I guess this is the silver lining....quite a thin lining though.

[TheKidFrom13thStreet]

Try watching that ending while having just downed a good portion of a bottle of Mountain Dew.

Lolz were most definitely had.

[BrightAbyss9]

some monkeys don't have time to care - they have jobs and are slaves to the market..