The Book Club
Paperbird uploaded another video, and through it I was introduced to this new YouTuber called The Book Club, aka Quentin Scobie, is I think his real name. Hilarious stuff. Everything's very thick in satire, but sometimes brings up some points that seem genuine, but definitely otherworldly (something about us all being immortal, and as soon as we realize that we can just go out and enjoy life, something like that).
I think I wanted to write about him, mostly because two points have been stuck to my mind since I've been watching him. One is that, damn, I wish I could do satirical/absurdist comedy as well as he does it, along with Paperbird. I remember doing exercises from The Artist's Way book by Julia Cameron, and one of them was asking me which five people I would meet with, dead or alive, to have lunch with or something, if I could. And then the next question was, no joke, ok now which five people would you really take? The idea being the first five people would probably be people who I think would be like, a proper response, like I don't know, Jim Trainor for me. And I thought yeah, Quentin Scobie would probably be in the second group of people for me. I think it's this feeling of being bigger than the world, like this is me, so take it or leave it. That sort of boldness that seeps through their art that makes me wonder what it's like to have balls that big.
The other point is that watching Q's videos has opened up a whole other world of the internet for me through the recommended videos. Like this channel called "Cuck Philosophy", where they ask questions like, how can Hegel's philosophy help us understand incels? Or something like that, I didn't really pay attention to the video. Also a lot of Slavoj Zizek. I guess he's like the next big philosopher. Or already is. And so I guess I was forced to re-think about, how much did I believe that ideas, and specifically philosophical ideas, I read could really change my opinion on how I lived my life? Because I don't know if it does it for me.
I used to really be into philosophy. But after reading a few big thinkers, listening to a few podcasts, trying to dabble in it again, ultimately I can say that I appreciate where philosophy has taken us, but I don't know if I can really believe in it to help guide my life, at least at this moment. What I mean by this is that, so from my understanding philosophy was very very important for early civilization to have an idea of how the world really worked. To answer questions with the power of logic. The art of making sense of the world around us. But to me, as the philosophy became more modern, it seemed to be about nitpicking words in other people's arguments, and overall just some clever wordplay to see if anything interesting might come out of it. Kind of like math equations, but with words. I guess I just personally don't believe in being able to see God through the rearranging of words.
So that's my current stance. But I think, through watching Q's videos, I'll probably think more about my stance on this. I was just watching this video by Zizek too, about how framing certain statements differently could get completely different responses, could come to mean something completely different. That's an idea I feel more familiar with, like NLP stuff.
So yeah, I guess this was just a blog post to say that I'll most likely be seeing these sort of ideas floating around on YouTube and in my head more. Don't have a clue where this'll go, maybe it won't lead to anything remarkable. But it also might.
I think I wanted to write about him, mostly because two points have been stuck to my mind since I've been watching him. One is that, damn, I wish I could do satirical/absurdist comedy as well as he does it, along with Paperbird. I remember doing exercises from The Artist's Way book by Julia Cameron, and one of them was asking me which five people I would meet with, dead or alive, to have lunch with or something, if I could. And then the next question was, no joke, ok now which five people would you really take? The idea being the first five people would probably be people who I think would be like, a proper response, like I don't know, Jim Trainor for me. And I thought yeah, Quentin Scobie would probably be in the second group of people for me. I think it's this feeling of being bigger than the world, like this is me, so take it or leave it. That sort of boldness that seeps through their art that makes me wonder what it's like to have balls that big.
The other point is that watching Q's videos has opened up a whole other world of the internet for me through the recommended videos. Like this channel called "Cuck Philosophy", where they ask questions like, how can Hegel's philosophy help us understand incels? Or something like that, I didn't really pay attention to the video. Also a lot of Slavoj Zizek. I guess he's like the next big philosopher. Or already is. And so I guess I was forced to re-think about, how much did I believe that ideas, and specifically philosophical ideas, I read could really change my opinion on how I lived my life? Because I don't know if it does it for me.
I used to really be into philosophy. But after reading a few big thinkers, listening to a few podcasts, trying to dabble in it again, ultimately I can say that I appreciate where philosophy has taken us, but I don't know if I can really believe in it to help guide my life, at least at this moment. What I mean by this is that, so from my understanding philosophy was very very important for early civilization to have an idea of how the world really worked. To answer questions with the power of logic. The art of making sense of the world around us. But to me, as the philosophy became more modern, it seemed to be about nitpicking words in other people's arguments, and overall just some clever wordplay to see if anything interesting might come out of it. Kind of like math equations, but with words. I guess I just personally don't believe in being able to see God through the rearranging of words.
So that's my current stance. But I think, through watching Q's videos, I'll probably think more about my stance on this. I was just watching this video by Zizek too, about how framing certain statements differently could get completely different responses, could come to mean something completely different. That's an idea I feel more familiar with, like NLP stuff.
So yeah, I guess this was just a blog post to say that I'll most likely be seeing these sort of ideas floating around on YouTube and in my head more. Don't have a clue where this'll go, maybe it won't lead to anything remarkable. But it also might.
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