The Stories We Tell

Today I am joined by Ben from the YouTube channel Dummy, where he talks about media theory, history, and business. In this episode we touch on a wide range of topics, from propaganda, to Noam Chomsky, an ecological approach to media literacy, the Israel-Palestine war, YouTube censorship, Trump 2.0, big tech, and much more!I also give a preview of what's coming down the pipe for this podcast. I got a lot of ideas!Ben's VideoMy videoOther linksSUBSTACKYOUTUBESUPPORT THE CHANNELINSTAGRAMEMAIL: remarkablebooksandfilm@gmail.comNEW DISCORD

'Little Miss Sunshine' teaches us to accept our absurd existence, and in this acceptance, we can find joy. In this video, I bring in concepts from Albert Camus, Friedrich Nietszche, and Marcel Proust to illustrate that the suffering we feel should not be resisted, but accepted, a powerful concept to anyone who’s gone through a dark time in their life.My other videos:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM-cp9Mw810https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Us5_-iiEbEhttps://youtu.be/DdCxER5hoLc?si=HzYPZEPW99Kx268Khttps://youtu.be/rRPkaVtx1_o?si=g9lWy-jbyWHT1l25Website: https://remarkablebooksandfilm.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thestorieswetell303/Email: remarkablebooksandfilm@gmail.comPodcast: https://remarkablebooksandfilm.com/podcastBuy used books from me if you live in Denver: https://remarkablebooksandfilm.com/buy-books0:00 - Sisyphus1:20 - The Power of Acceptance3:40 - Channel Intro4:22 - Dwayne; or Do What You Love & Fuck the Rest9:14 - Frank; or Forgive Yourself11:42 - Richard; or It's Okay to Lose14:47 - Sheryl; or Accept What You Cannot Control16:31 - Olive; or Embrace Yourself19:18 - Accepting the AbsurdSources'The Myth of Sisyphus' by Albert Camus'The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietszche'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' by Friedrich Nietszche'In Search of Lost Time' by Marcel Prousthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4pDUxth5fQ#philosophy #camus #nietzsche #videoessay #proust #filmreview #acceptance #mentalhealth #sisyphus

In part 2 of my 'Crime & Punishment' analysis, we will take a look at Dunya, and how she shows strength in the face of patriarchal dominance and ideals#crimeandpunishment #feminism #Dostoevsky #philosophy #classics #literature #russianclassics #videoessay #patriarchy My other videos:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzqZOPxcIfchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Us5_-iiEbEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM-cp9Mw810https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKBdxYqavCwhttps://youtu.be/DdCxER5hoLc?si=iOIlR2e3EFcUvfdshttps://youtu.be/rRPkaVtx1_o?si=g9lWy-jbyWHT1l25Website: https://remarkablebooksandfilm.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thestorieswetell303/Email: remarkablebooksandfilm@gmail.comPodcast: https://remarkablebooksandfilm.com/podcastBuy used books from me if you live in Denver: https://remarkablebooksandfilm.com/buy-booksSourceshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbweDNPP_Ak&t=1s‘Sonya, Silent no More: A response to the woman question in Crime and Punishment’ by Elizabeth Blakehttps://youtu.be/F1KKNKHJsuY?si=9IGHRsfxIeAAk7gMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOpf6KcWYywDostoevsky and Women by M. https://dostoevsky-bts.com/blog/dostoyevsky-and-women/Dostoevsky on Feminism by Thinking Housewife https://www.thinkinghousewife.com/2013/08/dostoevsky-on-feminism/Svidrigailov and the "Performing Self" by R.E. RichardsonArt used:Raskolnikov, Dünya, and Svidrigailov: https://carcinogenical.tumblr.com/Sonya: https://medium.com/@premiumeth/femininity-in-fyodor-dostoevskys-crime-and-punishment-7970cb924de1Timestamps:0:00 - Intro4:14 - Svidrigailov: Patriarchy as a Weapon16:58 - Luzhin's Miscalculated Risks25:10 - Dunya, Sonya & Feminism

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Us5_-iiEbEUnpacking Raskolnikov’s Egoistic Utilitarianism and Sonya’s love as a savior in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment.#CrimeAndPunishment #Dostoevsky #philosophy #classics #literature #russianclassics #Raskolnikov #Sonya #videoessay #utilitarianism #egoismMy other videos:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM-cp9Mw810https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKBdxYqavCwhttps://youtu.be/DdCxER5hoLc?si=iOIlR2e3EFcUvfdshttps://youtu.be/DdCxER5hoLc?si=HzYPZEPW99Kx268Khttps://youtu.be/rRPkaVtx1_o?si=g9lWy-jbyWHT1l25Website: https://remarkablebooksandfilm.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thestorieswetell303/Email: remarkablebooksandfilm@gmail.comPodcast: https://remarkablebooksandfilm.com/podcastBuy used books from me if you live in Denver: https://remarkablebooksandfilm.com/buy-booksSourceshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbweDNPP_Ak&t=1s‘Sonya, Silent no More: A response to the woman question in Crime and Punishment’ by Elizabeth Blakehttps://youtu.be/F1KKNKHJsuY?si=9IGHRsfxIeAAk7gMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOpf6KcWYywTimestamps:0:00 - Intro4:44 - Raskolnikov | Egoistic Utilitarianism17:26 - Sonya | Moral Integrity and Love23:24 - Love as a Savior

VIDEO ESSAY ON YOUTUBEMindfulness, space, absurdism & writing. You don't have to be anything. You only have to be.#meditation #mindfulness #absurdism #nature #buddhism #space #philosophy #camus #sisyphus #videoessay My other videos:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM-cp9Mw810https://youtu.be/DdCxER5hoLc?si=iOIlR2e3EFcUvfdshttps://youtu.be/DdCxER5hoLc?si=HzYPZEPW99Kx268Khttps://youtu.be/rRPkaVtx1_o?si=g9lWy-jbyWHT1l25Website: https://remarkablebooksandfilm.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thestorieswetell303/Email: remarkablebooksandfilm@gmail.comPodcast: https://remarkablebooksandfilm.com/podcastBuy used books from me if you live in Denver: https://remarkablebooksandfilm.com/buy-booksSources:https://bigthink.com/hard-science/the-universe-may-be-a-giant-neural-network-heres-why/https://www.bbc.com/news/health-43674270'The Art of Living' by Thich Nhat Hanh'The Myth of Sisyphus' by Albert Camus'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' by Friedrich Nietzsche

FULL VIDEO ESSAY ON YOUTUBE! The greatest art makes you question. Question who you are, what you believe. Question the assumptions you make about the world around you. Question the fabric of reality, the nature of being. Question free will or fate. Question systemic influences of behavior, or intrinsic human desires.It does not answer, because in answers we find a more shallow understanding of ourselves and of the world’s complexity.The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen is one of these great pieces of art. Its questions are not concerned with your preexisting notions of the Vietnam War, nor will it dichotomize the opposing sides into good and bad, right and wrong. The complexities of the War are not simplified, and our American-centric perspective is challenged at every turn. If you read closely and mindfully, you may finish the book having examined the very nature of your way of thinking, our collective desire to neatly place thought into ideological boxes that give us an easy position on any issue.#vietnamwar #books #booktube #ideology #videoessay #zizek #slavojzizek #capitalism #philosophy #vietnam #literature #thesympathizer #propoganda #hollywood #communism #consumerism #vietnamesebooks0:00 - Intro1:12 - A Man of Two Faces7:50 - Asian-American Rage14:44 - Independence and Freedom21:31 - Question Everything32:45 - Conclusion

THIS EPISODE IS AVAILABLE AS A VIDEO ESSAY ON MY YOUTUBE CHANNELThe Iron Giant and Spirited Away's No-Face have more in common than you might think. I'll explore how their identity is shaped by empathy, and how this relates to my own struggles with identity.#film #studioghibli #theirongiant #ghibli #filmreview #videoessay Website: https://remarkablebooksandfilm.com/Instagram:   / thestorieswetell303  Podcast: https://remarkablebooksandfilm.com/po...Buy used books from me if you live in Denver: https://remarkablebooksandfilm.com/bu...0:00 - Intro1:00 - Finding Identity5:31 - It Came from Outer Space9:45 - Xenophobia14:46 - Full Circle

Director Céline Sciamma decided upon two key omissions early in production of Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019). First, that there would be few smiles from the all-female cast in what became the first 70 minutes of runtime. Second, that there would be no music, save two scenes where it crystallizes with the power and emotion of a thunderstorm. “…you will have to find the musicality of the film elsewhere,” Sciamma said in an interview with IndieWire. “In the rhythm of the scenes, in the bodies of the actors.”The film follows Marianne, a french painter commisioned to secretly make a portrait of Héloïse, the daughter of an aristocrat who resides in a castle on the island where the film takes place. The painting must be created secretly because Héloïse refused to pose for the previous painter in protest of her upcoming arranged marriage. She is quite literally trapped, her anger an everpresent flame beneath a steely expression.Over the course of the film, desire between Marianne and Héloïse swells like the tumultuous ocean which they gaze upon while stealing longing glances at each other, until the swells coalesce into a grand wave of passionate hunger, a necessity for each other’s touch. Portrait portrays the yearning and desperate lust of an early relationship better than any film I’ve seen, all upon the tragic backdrop of the lovers’ knowledge that what they’ve captured cannot last. For Héloïse is betrothed to another, a Milanese aristocrat who she barely knows.The lack of music in most of Portrait is jarring, and requires magnificent performances from the actors who play Héloïse (Adèle Haenel) and Marianne (Noémie Merlant) to provide rhythm to the love that we experience through them. Sciamma pulls off her unconventional approach, which she describes as purposeful, “to put the viewer in the same physical condition and frustration” as the forbidden lovers. Sciamma meticulously establishes the two characters, draws out their building desire through furtive glances and suppressed smiles. Indeed, we don’t see them kiss until nearly 80 minutes into the film. That’s not to say there is no intimacy, but rather points to the mastery of the craft that Sciamma exhibits in showing such intimacy outside of traditional means. The tender framing, the lush sound design, the warm cinematography, the careful dialogue. All of it adds to a tension which grows so tight that by the time they finally embrace and commit to their love, emotion pours out like a gushing river in which the viewer cannot help but be swept away.