Summation and Reflection #2
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"Once you lose the sacrificial altar, the whole world becomes an altar" - Anonymous
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A gift is never innocent; it involves the challenge to reciprocate with a counter-gift. In the pre-modern world, this reversibility involved a different kind of consumption, sacrificial expenditure, well beyond the horizon of needs, production, or "consumption" in consumer society of late capitalism, which are all part of a recent project that is ultimately, and despite itself, a futile attempt to expurgate this reversibility at any cost.
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"People need collectivist producer capitalism where people genuinely care about what theyre doing. Where they take time and effort to make images of great beauty and with those images they generously share with others"
This touches on something that I've been fascinated with for a while now. I can't help but make a comment:
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Your videos have had a big influence on my thinking and on some of the things that I have been saying in my own videos on Youtube. Sometime it has been a struggle but it is worth the struggle to come up with something different.
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I love your videos. Can you make a list of your....top...20 books you think have changed the way you look at the world in a meaningful way? I would love to read such books.
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i've heard today a great quote from leonardo da vinci, supposedly, in which he said that death is not freeing of spirit/soul but freeing of matter that has been bound up by spirit into an individual... for a moment.
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a 1000 bland, cheap things is more profitable than selling one beautifully crafted artifact. When things are cheap the decision to buy without thinking much becomes so much easier.
I shall miss your ideas. Hopefully you are not abandoning uutuubz altogether.
2 years ago 2
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You have to understand that panem et circenses is enough for most people. You come from an academic faculty of arts culture, you are not only interested in things of that nature but have made it your occupation and passion. Most people are not like that. They are on this site merely for the circenses.
I have to disagree you on the capitalism issue. Capitalism is about profits. Your form of capitalism would soon mutate back to consumerism, because the manufacturing and selling of (cont.)
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The first half of this is the best of YouTube in my
opinion.
Like most you tend to assume that all of the technology will wait long enough for us to catch
up before nano tech, AI, spintronics etc reshapes
the world around us. The pace never slows
down and there is no breathing space to make
sense of it.
You are quite correct in that humans cooperate to survive, and the tech isn't what
is dangerous, the idea we can survive isolated
is the real danger.
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Book culture is coming to an end....over and dead...except for a tiny dwindling population of history buffs...
It's like vinyl vs digital audio....the new medium of communication is VIDEO.
Visual motion picture with bidirectional text does have its advantages...and they are legion.
Dinosaurs become extinct.
Reflect on this and return when you are ready.
Cashify 2 years ago
Better make sure that you keep studying or you will be working for those who can read.
watch?v=fPdbb7vJw8k
Professoranton 2 years ago
Oh and as far as your use of quotes and references goes....if you were quoting and referencing YOUTUBE users instead of historical individuals outside of the video community, I would prolly go look up every reference you made...i'm not going to go back to reading books though...too slow....written by people who did not have the web at their disposal, nor were they receiving feedback from a large and diverse audience while writing...authors seem very limited indeed, almost not worth citing.
Cashify 2 years ago
Good luck with that. I am planning on doing both, vlogging and reading.
Professoranton 2 years ago