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Cuck Philosophy does not miss (hexbear.net)

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[-] REgon@hexbear.net 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There is a direct correlation between how intricate a "breadtubers" set is, and how much substance the video has. The more involved and theatrical Philosphy Tube got, the more shit the videos became.

Or I guess there's a sweetspot because the Jordan Peterson one was pretty good as far as I remember it.

[-] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 25 points 3 months ago

Jordan Peterson is really easy to critique though, like babies first philosophy 101 class easy to critique. The fact that he became popular and was taken seriously is a whole indictment of the state of popular philosophy. Like, for god's sake, popular philosophy was in a better state when the existentials were at the helm, which is saying something since the existentialists were pretty shit most of the time.

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago

He isn't even a philospher, right? isn't he a psychologist? and a jungian one at that lol, uhhh yeah my shadow self is why I'm depressed, gotta go read the hero with a thousand faces to figure out why my childhood wasn't good.

[-] HamManBad@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

Yeah he was at the forefront of popular philosophy going from edgelord existentialist nerds to edgelord hacks completely devoid of meaningful philosophical consistency. Ironically, JBP is the embodiment of postmodernism

[-] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

He was a psychologist, but his books are much less about psychology and more about philosophy of society, the mind, and the nature of evil. There are elements of psychology to it, but it has more in common (from a literature perspective) with Marcus Aurelius than a Jung.

[-] ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Bring back Georges Batailles erotic fictions

[-] BearerOfPickles@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

yeah I find philosophy tube hard to watch. the host got things wrong sometimes but it wasn't that. it was too much theatrical nonsense every video

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah I stopped watching before she came out as bi (wayyy before she came out as trans too lol). Suddenly I saw philosophy tube was hosted by a lady and I was like "what has happened?" and I went back thru the catalogue

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago

I'd rather just someone talk and occasionally pop explanatory graphics on screen. Not a fan of theatricality

[-] spectre@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

Skullboy Shaun has had very few misses if any (to your point)

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah, I don't mind the theatricality, but I don't watch videos explaining philosophy for the costumes, I watch it for the philosophy and these people seem to think it's otherwise. And then they don't put any effort into the actual content and then I stop watching even though they got a kickass poseidon costume.