Why be YOU, when you can be NEW – philosopher rants about capitalism for 45 minutes straight

🌕 why be you, when you can be new ... a classic question from the kids' movie Robots (2005)

This video could also be called ... explaining why Tyler Durden does what he does, and why the Space Monkeys in Fight Club follow him so faithfully

But I can't help but look at the words behind Tyler's monologue on advertising and entertainment: "We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.” And so with that, let's actually talk about advertising and the entertainment industry. Let's talk about all of the children's movies we were raised on, which pushed the idea of being special, unique, different, and most of all, capable of great things.

Just as Tyler Durden says, "You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”

Well, which is it?

The answer is that ... to Capitalism, we are nothing. We are the consumer and there will always be more. And we cannot stand for this. We have to punch up against the system and prove that we are the most necessary piece to the absolute puzzle that is capitalism.

If the purpose of life is to create art – then we all need the freedom to do so. Or else, all of our suffering is pointless.

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
Tyler Durden in Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
[1:09:52] in Fight Club the film (1999)
A variation in Ch. 19, Fight Club: A Novel (1996)

“Man, I see in Fight Club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy sh**t we don't need.

“We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.”

CHAPTERS
00:00 Tyler Durden, Fight Club monologue
01:09 Let's talk about Capitalism
2:05 So you want to be a "content creator" (how to sell your soul 101)
04:30 "Snowflakes" in Fight Club, vs. in Capitalism
06:41 Feeding the Almighty Algorithm
07:32 #reduceyourexpecationstozero
11:09 Life is suffering
13:10 Nietzsche's Overman / Ubermensch / Superman
13:59 Heideggar's Authenticity / Authentic Choices
17:54 Government Regulations & Freedom as an issue
25:05 ART – freedom & position action
25:28 is oppression natural? ... spoilers, it is
26:56 Achieving the freedom we need to do art
28:07 How our social structure resists freedom
30:18 Representation in a Democracy
33:37 Reject Oppression
34:16 Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence / Eternal Return
37:29 Copy Cats in Art – the good, the bad, and the inspiration
40:57 if art runs the world, why doesn't it pay well?
43:30 Until next time ... be Creative!!


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