Spinal Catastrophism: The Secret Story in Your Bones
On September 28th, 2021, while doing some research, I happened across a lengthy post on r/paleontology. It was an iceberg style meme, common for the time, exploring some of the stranger points of discussion in the history of paleontology. On the line between the fourth and fifth layers, far left, not yet midway through the depths of the post, a single phrase caught my attention. Spinal Catastrophism. $17.95, shipping, handling, and a standard business week later, I hit a brick wall of some of the densest intellectual work I’d ever come in contact with.
I took this as a challenge: I knew I needed to understand what this book was about, out of my own scholarly curiosity and pride as a stubborn psuedoacademic. Whether or not anyone else cared, I wanted to be able to say that I had conquered this bony beast of a book, and claimed whatever treasures lied within. I’m proud to say, I think I did. And now I want to share my findings with you. This video will break down, as full as I am capable, the themes, arguments, and logical flow of this Secret History, and bring us to the mind-breaking twist that awaits us at the story’s end.
At least, up through the first 19 chapters. This video only covers through the Thoracic Retrospect, the rest of the analysis will be in part 2.
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I poopeed
I’m pinning this
Real
The spine made this possible
going to rn, cos u reminded me i can, tysm
Based
"Time is a secretion of the spinal column" is an argument I never expected in all of my future simulations
The backbone and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
Ergo politicians and HR staffers are the most evolved among us? :)
Chiropractic Society And Its Future
One way of putting it.
@@zyaffee Chiropractic - Using a hammer on a Worm. Messy?
Literally caused the fall of empires
As someone with scoliosis, the words Spinal Catastrophism instantly speak to me.
Me with a lingering back injury lol
As someone who heard my sacralized spine diagnosis as sacred-ized spine, same.
the author starts the book with a "to my scoliosis" lol
New trigger word unlocked
As a quadriplegic, this immediately spoke to me as well 🤙
You really have to admire the 1800s human's ability to extrapolate entirely distinct scientific theories into an entirely new type of schizophrenia
And sometimes a spine is just a spine. Ironically talking about how we give meaning to things that otherwise don't have a meaning kind of exemplifies the whole point of the meaning here, meaning that our meaning is kind of like a looking glass mirror. Edit, I wrote that before he got to Sigmund And now that I have watched through that part, I must say that if language is a virus it was recombinatided and retransmitted from the previously mentioned authors to Sigmund through time as a perfect example of Chronopathology.. so in a sense, it created itself.
Opiums a hell of a drug.
@@grgmcln I think cocaine is worse. It's impact on dopamine gram for gram injected direct to the jugular is well... Acid will steal your face, coke will steal your soul.
I think I understand as a guy with schizophrenia issues. I think of them as just different options, thus how I live in other's lives. Multiple selves is Multiple Realms, thus adding, dividing at the same time...existence is exhale not the breath of life. Life is the exhale of death. Then we wake up as something else...maybe a fish that lives long enough to learn how not to be eaten. Sounds like life to me. Am I a fish?
@@gen-zeke-8571Every day I wake up, a new individual. I don’t persist from today to tomorrow. I can’t maintain long term goals. I thought it was just my ADHD…. Is this schizophrenia? 🤔
just commenting to help with the algorithm because only 11 views on an in-depth 1 hour 40 minute video is criminal
I'll start single handedly reporting every comment *in* the videos I watch.
You are a good human
you’ve done a good thing, look at the views 5 days later
Lmao now in the top 5 of my channel
Now it has 1.4k likes. Well-done
It’s nice to see that schizoposting has deep roots in human history.
Great
It would be considered autism now. I mean if ADHD is considered autistic, you better believe all the positive attributes of schizophrenia are gonna be too.
Feels like I'm being brainwashed 🫠
@@lopiklop what is blud yappin about lmao
My friend The Occult in it's entirety might be best described as intellectual schizoposting line of thought has has gone unbroken since Egypt
So when people tell me that I’ve got no backbone, I’m just not traumatized enough for them?
pretty much
Yeah pretty much. But then you get fuckers like me who're so overly traumatized my spines been broken 😂
Then you shouldn't be alive. Still keeping yourself alive shows that your bone is still intact lol, damn phony showing off how broke you are but not so much lol
@@9elypsesWe call that “adaptation” 😂
TLDW: an academic schitzoposted a book about how the spine contains all knowledge, and through the study of the spine all things can be understood. Also the Progression of knowledge is both the cause for and result of trauma about every step along the evolutionary pathway to the point we are currently at. Put another way, there are echo’s of every point in time throughout the history of the universe, from the Big Bang, to abiogenesis, to the distant future, and the universe’s eventual heat death. These echos of the distant past and even more distant future can be understood through the study of things which have evolved. The spine is a thing that evolved, so we can find and understand these echos via studying the spine. I think I got it all?
Yeah that’s the important stuff from part 1
😂😂😂 explain a bit more
@@ElementFreakYTPLEASE JUST HIRE AN EDITOR
No they cost money
Attack on titan lore
Dude I should NOT have done gummies before watching this video UPDATE: 2 weeks later and I do not remember this video or this comment but I was not wrong, this premise is bizarre even when you're not stoned
I’m just starting, doing the same. Will edit if mentally sound
smoked a preroll before watching this video and it sent me to the fucking shadow realm
Im alive, but fundamentally different I fear
You inspired me to have some before watching. Let’s see if I can become more unhinged.
Some of my memory has come back since. I remember thinking "Wow this actually makes sense!" but now that I've watched it sober I can confirm, it made more sense while stoned@@Euruzilys
I love that I live in a time where virtually every cultural niche has both exposure and an engaged audience. The future archaeologists of the internet archives will truly have an ocean to explore.
our society will radicalize before that
Don't worry, the future archeologists are already developing new organs to help them process this ocean, they'll be just fine!
Information will get locked up, if we head in the same direction as the last few decades. I bet you'd have to pay for access to view a person's facebook timeline. and Some people will have been deleted forever by an authoritarian gov, to change the narrative of the future. AI will be able to tamper with everything digitally documented. A new "fake news" will emerge.
Unfortunately as with all past knowledge, most of the obscure and not too many of the impactful works being created today will be wiped away or otherwise too deeply buried to ever be excavated.
@@cerdon4076 It's true. No matter how good our archival efforts are, some war or natural disaster or something other will damage or destroy servers. I guess I just hope we find a way to preserve as much of the internet as we can. It's weird to think but it's still very much in its infancy, and I have no idea what it'll look like in 50 years.
It took me forever to finally finish this book because I had to keep reading other books to understand it. Felt like a gateway drug to a thousand side-quests.
Since you've read this book, would you say it goes beyond being a self-referential self-fulfilling prophecy of brain twisting or not?
What a waste of time.
I'm just grateful for videos like this that can present me with some of the ideas in an overview so I can go "hmm, neat" and "wow, cringe" for a couple of hours without being fully exposed to the masturbatory verbosity of the original work. I can't let my misanthropy get too extreme, so l have to sample from a safe distance lol
@@hope1575 I'm already depressed from reading one article about this book. How the hell am I supposed to deal with philosophies that say "akschually we are evolving to destroy ourselves and the entire universe and consciousness is awful."
@Anne-wf1vo Depends on what you mean by dealing with them. On good days I just say "lol nah, that's stupid," and on bad days I say "yeah, that sounds about right." On medium days I try not to think about it or it turns into a bad day.
This dude heard the term "thinking with the wrong head" while thinking of spines, and unlocked something forbidden.
Isn't it funny how folk sayings have some deep wisdom in them
wrong head? so. the one below the belt?
Spinal catastrophism is the name of my band now. Thank you.
"Hey bud it's the venue catastropheprism won't all fit on the sign where should we split it?
we go by Spinal cat for short @@squidward5110
@@squidward5110 Castro ; )
Actually sounds like a cool name for a goregrind band
It’s gotta be the next tool album
i don’t think i understood a word of this but i still watched the whole thing
You’ll be amazed how much sticks. Look up minutia. Congrats you added to yours.😂
Honestly me too.
Intellectual word salad
@@tonikip7886 Nothing about that word salad was intellectual. Couldn't listen to more than 15 minutes.
@@jejethejeplalq821I think the biggest issue is that they could simplify this shit into words that anyone could understand. They just feel a sense of prestige by using big words. The opening 15 minutes of this video could have been simplified into about 5 minutes but these dudes need to make themselves feel smart
Considering the massive intellectual endeavor of this video, you have my fullest and utmost support of your continued work on this. This video is my introduction to your channel, so I don't know if all the rest of your work is interesting to me or not; what I mean to say is, regardless of whatever else you get into, this topic alone has got me fully onboard. I'm going to donate or patreon or whatever you have up. Thank you for this. Truly, incredibly fascinating.
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@@BULLTRONHEROThat's craaazy
I for one, as a spine owner can certainly confirm that anywhere after 28 it is a catastrophy.
This is making my stomach flu so much worse but I can't stop watching. What the actual hell is this
Man why does it always come back to weird sex stuff with these esoteric anthropologists
THATS WHAT I SAID
@@ElementFreakYTno that’s what She said! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂❤🙏🏿
because biologically speaking humans are sex machines everything we may consider far more important is from a purely biological standpoint secondary all of our culture, opinions, philosophy, social systems, etc are sideffects of an organ that attempts make vague guesses at potnetial futures so it can better protect an transport genitals
@land….🤪😜🧐🥸😎🤓
Do the surnames check out?
This reminds me of a peculiar book I saw on Amazon and read simply because it sounded weird and interesting. It’s known as “The Filatory: Compendium I” and contains a chapter regarding the suspicion of one’s own body plotting and executing its own plans in spite of the mind. It characterizes the body itself as a type of super-agent and the mind as a mere means of accomplishing its goals. It was a fascinating read, though, apparently not well known.
Wtf lol
Checked this book no reviews or nothing how did u come across it ?
It's not really that crazy, just the natural implications of the Neo-Darwinian model of Evolution, which is the standard model within Biology as of now. The body as a whole is enslaved by the genes, the genes are the shareholders of the body and the brain is the CEO. "The Individual is just the fruiting body, most of the body is within the genepool (which is not directly seen)" If the CEO does not maximize shareholder gains, he will eventually get ousted. (Behaviour that does not result in sufficient reproduction will be selected against over the long-term) As the CEO is not always reliable, the Organism has some backup mechanisms to improve compliance, like disrupting the function on nervous system when fortuitous mating opportunities are presented (Love; Increasing Impulsivity, Anxiety about losing the opportunity, decreased visibility of drawbacks "Love makes blind") Or also when it backfires in the modern world, as it won't relinquish calories/fat, decreasing non-exercise-activity-thermogenesis when the balance nears or is below Zero, thereby hindering mating success.
Also population growth starts to decrease dramatically when reliable birth control methods become available, so many Individuals/Brains would choose less kids over more and it is the body which forces them to have more, by making them lustful and pull-out ineffective (partly due to inhibited impulse control when it most matters to the Individual) The body has to be forced to comply to the interest of the brain, by manipulating it with hormones or using non-organic physical barriers between the bodies. Similarly, with caffeine and other extraneous chemicals, we can also force the body to increase non-exercise-activity-thermogenesis. The greatest example of how Individuals struggle against their gene-masters, is that they desire to be immortal, but the genes require them to die for evolution to occur and the species/genepool as a whole to stay competitive against other species because of the Red Queen hypothesis "In order to stay in the same place, you need to run as fast as you can" See: Second-order selection against the immortal by Malmesbury
@@perverse_incewow that was amazing and interesting I thank you so much it's so hard to find unique and interesting ideas and perspectives
well I got 8 minutes in and had to google anorganic semiotics and was faced with what appears to be an interview conducted by telepathy so. you got me for the next hour m8
I found myself almost obsessively checking my posture when standing up straight was mentioned
Shrimp Check
@@ElementFreakYT If it were only so shrimple
parasites 😂❤😂
@@MathWhiz109I fish it were so... But it kinda is. I recommend looking into deep breathing exercises and cold therapy. Those two simple things have done wonders to straighten me out. 🤟🧙♂️🤙
I am absolutely OBSESSED with your verbal fluency, truly magnificent control over language in aid of illustrating obscure yet fantastical constructs, and have just truly just fell in love with your ability to convey ideas. I'm also only 13 minutes into the video, but felt profoundly compelled to pause it just to TAKE IN HOW MUCH I LOVED THE VIDEO. It's videos like this that make life worthwhile. The beauty of just illustrated self-reflection on self-reflection (on self-reflection, on self-reflection, ..., ad infinitum). There's something uncharacteristically *human* or special. So yeah, anyways, subscribed.
Thank you, I take that as a high compliment. I read this comment out loud and my girlfriend is looking at me weird.
I would frame it @@ElementFreakYT
I've been looking for a resource on time and perception long before this video. Never found something that fully scratched that itch. Suffice to say, a few excerpts of this video did, along with raising unrelated questions. I note the commonality of eastern European psychologists and the concept of a noosphere.
@@ElementFreakYT cat-astro-fism No hate. Thank you for this video it's amazing.
watch All Along the Watchtower by Galahad Eridanus, they both remind me of each other and it's a MIND-BLOWING video!
This reminds me a LOT of Disco Elysium. There's even a bit where you talk to your spinal cord and it describes each vertebrae as a tiny head waiting to pop out.
reminds me of the convo with the phasmid :,3
I fell asleep immediately upon putting on this video and had one of the wildest dreams of my life where the contents were an interactive PBS documentary on its topics. I've never had a KZhead video follow me into my dreams. I'm interpreting this as my subconscious mind screaming out for it to be true.
Lucid dreaming as a form of time travel. Congratulations on applying the subject matter firsthand, hope you enjoyed your visit back into the Jurassic Spinal Landscape.
I don’t even know what to say. This was like a gift. I find the spine and bipedalism fascinating subjects. Thank you for doing the heavy lifting by actually reading this obscure treatise, and then delivering it succinctly, with humor. Thank you. I would gladly pay for future installments.
it’s hard not to think of the body without organs throughout this whole discussion, especially when you brought up the nervous system! lines of flight are ingrained in our sensory experiences becoming language, pluripotentiality is built into our bones, our past anticipations of the future pattern the multiplicity of forces within the unconscious that compel us as intuition (biological foresight creating psychological foresight) and still it is the helpless, necessary organization of our bodies that leaves us paranoid and fixated on ourselves and our futures, anxiously yearning for the simple symmetry of echinoderms.
Without a perfect vessel a mind is discontent, yet without the vessel it was made in and for, a mind will surely be unhappy. To be conscious is to feel horror, as we exist to foresee it
Withheld from the natural environmental format and a lack of inter species sensory exchange via touching grass leads to the development of intensely brilliant (schizophrenic) ideas
@@Ryanhaughton_no u
Deleuze influenced Land who with Sadie Plant started the CCRU which 'invented' Barker. Deleuze at least indirectly influenced Moynihan.
@@buni2196I recognized 3 of those names... I'm gonna go eat something and touch grass _:(´ཀ`」 ∠):_
A large part of our facial bone structure is formed from the neural crest which originates from the structure that becomes the spinal cord. Most bone is formed from the sclerotome which has a completely different origin. So in a way the most visible personal representation of ourselves to the world is the spine usurping another tissue type of its role.
This feels like some evangelion lore
The more I listened, the more I was able to understand. No matter how long it takes, I'm excited for the next installment.
holy MOLEY, this has been an amazing ride of a video to take part in. Honestly, watching this helped me find the words for ideas I’ve felt for a while, yet no experience in research to verbalize. Very interesting! Thanks for the content!!
Literally CANNOT wait for part 2. Thank you. Watching this has made me even weirder when people try to hold conversations with me at parties.
This is one of the trippiest and mind-bending videos I've ever seen. Thank you for all the crazy weirdness. :)
what's the opposite of a dumpster fire? because this comment section is it.
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Finally, KZhead is recommending me things I want to watch.
Wow. This is an incredible video. I don’t usually comment on videos but the fact this only has 52K views and was so very well researched deserves every attempt to get you boosted on the algorithm. Absolutely can’t wait for the next part, excited to explore your back catalogue!
A little over halfway through and youve got my subscription. Can we all just take a moment to appreciate the excellent humor intertwined with the exposition? It's tasteful, quick, and adds to the impact, instead of subtracting from it.
I'm really not sure how much of this to take literally and what to take as a philosophical potential. Like some of it is extremely believable, especially many of the ideas that originated from multiple view points in several different fields. Other parts are harder to really grasp because how could we ever test them? Though maybe that's the point. Regardless this is an excellent video and will live rent free in my head for a very long time (before being forgotten and integrated into my subconscious as it continually folds inwards). Ps. Also I find it weird that the book refers to works as the most basic nerve structures because worms are infinitely more complex than jellyfish and their nerve nets
You’re on the right track, take everything in the video with a massive grain of salt.
As a palaeontology student I can tell you this book does the classic pseudo-scientific metaphysics nonsense of taking lots of scientific concepts and using outside of their correct context (and usually needs to explain them wrong in order to do so). The idea that the law of superposition is about depth is a misunderstanding, its literally only about things on the bottom being deposited earlier than things on top but that wouldnt allow for more woo about older things being deeper. Recapitulation theory was developed for embryology and has been debunked for nearly a century. Lastly, applying catastrophism and uniformitarianism outside of earth history is so absurd to me it betrays a deep lack of understanding of geology. Their special "geneological" approach feels like an excuse to say as many wrong things as possible without an ounce of sense or truth.
@jamestang1227 Thanks, this one goes in the next vid probably
While I did find the ideas of the book enjoyable, Let's not make the mistake of taking them at face value. The text is rich with pseudo-scientific mumbo jumbo and uses intentionally obscure vocabulary, exactly of the kind Alan Sokal warned us about. If you liked any of the ideas presented, by all means, feel free to do so, they are very cool, but don't mistake them for something they are not.
@@jamestang1227it sounds like you just don’t like having fun
Holy Hannah, I’m never one to comment on a KZhead video but this has become my Roman Empire. I’ve shared this with so many friends, as the ideas contained within the 1:40:00 runtime, are ideas I find incredibly interesting and can only lead to further rabbit holes. I love when people hyperfixate and share that with the world. The cadence and intonation of your speech is perfect to digest difficult concepts, and while I did find myself replaying the more wordy sections, (no fault of your own) it was never too wordy to comprehend. -I also appreciated the light notes of comedy sprinkled throughout. aNyWaYs- thank you for this masterpiece of a video essay, I will be back for more !
If you like this do some research about nick land accelerationism and the ccru ;it's something believe me
Watching this for the 3rd time because it has all the elements I crave in a video. I love the ideas expressed, the verbiage used, the hilarious side notes sprinkled throughout, and the visual and audio production quality. I also might buy this book now... Please make more book report vids. And invite me on your future podcast, because I need more obscure conversationalist energy like this in my life!!!
This whole video was incredible. I’m on my 4th watch in under a week to make sure I understand it fully. You sir have made a lifelong fan and I can’t wait for Part2.
although you are skeptical. i am convinced this is the most important collection of knowledge in existence! please show this man support so i don't have to read this myself... i will
The thumbnail reminded me to sit straight, thank you
Im glad I caught this back when you first put it out. I sent this to no less than 10 friends and all of them were so on board with your style. Cant wait for the next section on this journey into intellectual madness.
Holy shit. From Burroughs to Velicovsky to aquatic ape.. man this was WILD. Literally probably the BEST video on KZhead I’ve ever seen Thank you for work. So many new ideas..
Thank you for taking the time and effort to make a video essay with top quality content. I have been sinking in existential thoughts, and your video helped me connect so many ideas and revitalize my will to live and continue to stand up straight. Thanks again
this whole video is thoughts that run through my head most of the day, often through circular thinking due to OCD. All the key points resonate with my constant questions, surely not unique to myself, but the language of it is extremely digestible to me and I'm glad to see there's so much theory surrounding this extremely large-scale view of the mind and body. These ideas tend to be hard to sequence when they're repeating over and over, this video organises them so well. It's so interesting to see how this is alienating to many, not hard to understand, but rubs against a traditional view of the world that I lack for some reason. The fact such things exist, thought process like my own understood in such an esoteric study, it's so comforting, and makes me feel so much like other people in ways I feared I wasn't. I see the sillyness of it, but I'm even more critical when it appears in my own head and morphs from intrusive thought to intrusive feeling to intrusive mood, that this search to understand the world outside my scope isn't just my mental illness, but something validated by such a clean rhetoric. thanks so much :)
A lot of people would have just put up a static or looping background and talked over it, but your editing really helped with understanding the really, uh, dense subject matter. There's some neat ideas here, and I appreciate that you took the time to put it into other terms so it's more understandable.
I've been legit obsessed with this video. Ever since watching it fully in one go a couple days ago I keep viewing the things in the context of all these crazy theories presented, my favorite one being about the future bringing itself into place, and us having the ability of foresight. Thank you, author of this essay ❤
Your alternate definition of "Esoteric" had me cackling, I'm subscribed now. Amazing work, a great amount of effort was put into this and it paid off!
Ooga booga Kali Yuga
"Ooga Booga Kali Yuga" is my new favorite combination of words.
Just wanna say this was a great video on a topic I've never heard about. Your summaries are well-worded, your commentary is insightful and funny. Overall very fun, thank your for this great work.
"Does the set of all sets containing themselves contain itself?" It can in a Platonic sense, in that there's nothing fundamentally contradictory about it, but no, not in the physical sense applicable to our mind's ability to model itself in some sort of recursive cascade. However, the question that truly reveals the paradox at the heart of mathematics is, "Does the set of all sets _not_ containing themselves contain itself?"
Awww this was such a cool video !! It’s all connecting , I’m excited to see part two no matter how long it takes to wait .
As someone who is obsessed with really weird philosophy, spinal catastrophism is probably the weirdest and most interesting one ive found, like deleuze is nothing compared to the weirdness of this shit but I love it and cannot stop thinking about it.
Its more like esotericism
@@gerardlabeouf6075 esotericism says nothing about the content of the material merely its presented form, most "esoteric" works are philosophy ie Bataille and CCRU and what they draw from
Deleuze's philosophy is actual philosophy though! This is theory-fiction.
@@scriabinismydog2439 kind of but not really; hyperstition and hypergenealogy are definitely philosophical projects, they just are not traditional, truth over production is a territorial method of the west and this method follows a creative method, following with flows and energy forms of wills.
I hope this keeps climbing up in the KZhead algorithm, as someone who was just recommended this right now.
My very* basic comprehension of some of this came from the artist who said, "art is an explosion", or rather from an extrapolation of that phrase. Art imitates life, life is an explosion, a slow one from our perspective. And it is also coalescence. It is the disintegration of the whole of time into many interations of its principles. We experience fractures of time
Urbanomic just posted this vid, interested to see a long form video on this book (hopefully will get through your video later :) ) the author has a newer book that's definitely easier to read (and longer with even more info and research). Definitely looking forward to his future books! This book did inspire me to read more modern research and thought on related subjects.
I listened to it 3 or 4 times now and it gets more interesting every time. Thank you for this gem. Already waiting for the 2nd part
The first two videos I found on your channel are on Cosmo Sheldrake and Spinal Catastrophism. I love you, I adore you, and I am subscribing to you.
Bro had a bone to pick with history
This was incredible to listen to and I will be returning to listen and investigate more for myself. So much of this is so intuitive and interrelated with so much I’ve learned, thought and experienced in my life. Thank you for creating and compiling all of this! :)
this is simply one of the most interesting videos I have ever watched!!!! I cannot wait until you cover this book more as I think my tiny mind could not handle reading it myself.
No better way to kick off the new year than listening to this
The fact it struck you so suddenly means it was meant to be communicated to the vast, thank you.
Loved this video, never seen any of your videos before and I've worked through 5 of them over the course of the week it took me to finish this one 😂 I could only watch this one when i could 100% focus. Cannot WAIT for the next one.
This deserves more recognition. You and this idea, This is so interesting.
Good choice of music, and a classic meme that should be more well known. good job on the video
This is amazingly interesting! Definitely gonna rewatch to help it all sink in a little more. Thanks so much. Maybe another subject off the original iceberg you found this one on.
First time seeing your channel. This video got me Subbed for life, my friend. My brain was begging for more when I realized I was at the end, but I realize how long it can take to put something together, especially of this nature. You are touching on many things I feel I wanted to know more about, but wasn't sure how, or didn't have the words to inquire. Take care of that hand. I highly anticipate your continuation on this subject.
Your video was recommended. Never heard of this ... concept before and started watching out of curiosity. ... It is ... unbelievable. Great work. Don't worry about spelling, you showed the names, that's good. Many, many Thanks for sharing. Think I'll (need to) watch it several times.
Been waiting for you to post again, just didn’t know it would be this much
I came across this topic for the exact same reason as you did. I saw the term and absolutely needed to know what it was. Thank you!
Delighted to learn that I may be an awful little spine worm in a meat suit! Finally, some good news for me, a worm enthusiast.
You have just found your catalyst, this is the kind of video that'll continue to be popular on your channel.
I do appreciate your effort, endurance. Looking forward to part 2.
Best schitzopost I’ve seen to date, fantastic work
What the heck this video is so good why doesn't this have a million views? Genuinely well edited and entertaining
This is a WILD theory I had never heard of before and likely never would have if not for your video, which was fascinating and very enjoyably presented! Commenting so the algorithm keeps working in your favor and more people join us on this journey of "wait how did he get from that to this tho???" Great job.
Not quite 10 2x speed minutes in I decided to read the book. I don't get a chance to find something potentially legitimately-engaging anymore; and while nothing you've gone over is revelatory or unknown, I'd like to give it the chance to expose its depths in the intended way instead of in secondhand summary. Thank you for making the video and presenting the work to a wider audience. I'm going to go ahead and let the video play out muted so you get your view anyway.
Very considerate, I’m glad you gave the book a chance
Just comment to support you and your sacrifice to the algorithm. Great video, very detailed thank you
Eagerly awaiting part 2. Your narration skills and style make for an awesome listen. Thanks and keep it up!
Wow. You know that person at the party that has a lot of interesting things and ideas to share, but is also batshit crazy. You just can't stop listeing? Well. I feel like I am just now waking up from the 1.5hrs session of immersion into borderline insanity and I love it. Really great video! What a rollercoaster.
A monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what’s the problem? In all seriousness, this video is quite the journey. What a way to kick off the new year lmao. I haven’t Googled this many terms watching a KZhead video in a while. Incredible work!
And I’m not nearly done unraveling it all, I’m sad I could work through to the conclusion in one vid
@@ElementFreakYTBro! we definitely understand ❤😂❤I shared this vid about 10mins in to it. When I do my video, I’ll def be referencing this deelishousness❤
A monad is a burrito, and that's that.
@@ElementFreakYT Many thanks for the Visceral Donkey work. Part 2. Imagining it may take tenacity Ala 'The Bride', punching her way out of a Coffin? Take all the time you need.. but the air is running out!
I cannot wait to see this in collective in full
I was completely lost the entire time and had no clue what you were talking about but you sound like you know what you're doing, so 10/10 fantastic video
This video was extremely fascinating from start to finish. You hit us with a bunch of bizarre ideas but presented it all in a digestable way
Hopefully your laborious work feels fulfilling enough to continue. I certainly enjoyed it
This is an extremely creative and interesting book, I love it.❤ I've already read some of it. thank you for reminding me to finish it.
Huge amount of content and philosophy covered. This has enough truth to make the best sifi and comedy in one work. Much appreciated for all your efforts.
New fan. Happy to be here. Thank you, stranger. Much love 🌻
I’m gonna be honest, I have literally no idea what any of this means, its significance, whether its right/wrong, and I am no where near qualified enough to understand it. However, your presentation and research skills are incredible, and I throughly enjoy your passion for delving into such obscure and esoteric topics. Bravo!
this was incredible cant wait to see the next one. subscribed
Thank you for your time and introspection. Very fascinating piece of work and also love your voice and your humor😂 take care of that hand. I bet your nervous system didn't like that at all. As a person with incredible back pain and nerve damage due to unknown causes I look forward to the next installment 😁peace and Freak out
The webisite you sponsored is amazing.
I don't know what this vid is about, but I'm liking and commenting because surely this vid deserves more of them
First off, excellent breakdown of a theory that I first saw very briefly discussed on Dino Diego‘s iceberg videos. Secondly, this entire theory reminds me of that 4chan post where some guy posits that all of history has been a conflict between psychopaths and schizophrenics.
Welcome to continental philosophy
This looks fun. I tried to make it through the video but your advice to attempt the material on our own kept popping into my head. I stopped at 27 minutes and I'll revisit the whole thing after I've made it through on my own. Literally never heard of this but I'm intrigued
This is genuinely my favorite KZhead video now
Highly fascinating video! Also you pronounced catastrophism correctly the first time (2:37)
A brain seeking autonomy will find nothing but pain and fear. Realize that you are more than your consciousness, you are an entire body. Be your whole body, all at once, all the time. Feel that you exist everywhere that you feel, its all you. This is freedom, the only freedom a mind can achieve, a feeedom rooted in the rejection of escape
the mengelswesen of escape...😄👍
thank you squibwarb