The Author Who Tried to END The World (Watchmen / Alan Moore) - Wisecrack Edition

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  • @UltimateKyuubiFox
    @UltimateKyuubiFox4 жыл бұрын

    Dr. Manhattan’s father was a watchmaker. Jon learned how to take things apart and put them back together again. When he does this to his atomically disassembled body and becomes Dr. Manhattan, he has turned a human being into a sum of parts. He now views human life as a mere assemblage of components. Like he learned to perceive a watch. That’s where we get the title of the book. It’s not just a play on “Who watches the watchmen?” It’s also because, to Dr. Manhattan, all people are like watches. They’re watchmen. And, in a sense, so too is that the perspective of Ozymandias with his plan. New York’s population is a small part of a larger calculation. Dr. Manhattan and Ozymandias are Watchmen (watchmakers), and they view all humans as simple watchmen (component parts strung together). The tragedy being, the moment Dr. Manhattan learns the holistic value of human life from Laurie on Mars, Ozymandias has committed an irreversible act based upon the opposite notion. It’s perhaps one of the starkest contrasts of the book-in the end, the god takes the perspective of a human, and a human takes the perspective of the god. The god is ultimately powerless and the human ultimately cataclysmic. Yet, in the end, it will have made little impact regardless. But what little impact it will make, Dr. Manhattan now values enough to kill Rorschach to preserve. Quite grim.

  • @KlaxontheImpailr

    @KlaxontheImpailr

    4 жыл бұрын

    UltimateKyuubiFox I feel like I should have seen this before.

  • @KlaxontheImpailr

    @KlaxontheImpailr

    4 жыл бұрын

    Is it weird that I find the next to last sentence kind of uplifting? Like this is the only thing Dr Manhattan could care about no matter how brief?

  • @emmanueloluga9770

    @emmanueloluga9770

    3 жыл бұрын

    Meh, good point. I think even better, is that once looked at simply Dr. Manhattan is the absolute embodiment of determinism. No other further explanation may be as simple. His choice at the end reflects the ultimate tragedy of such a philosophy/concept. This is evident throughout his actions and decision and prior view of human life. so much so that when he eventually gets a glimpse of the concept of free will from his epiphany due to his discussion with Laurie on Mars, this does little to overcome his innate existence based on determinism.

  • @zachariahhanson1792

    @zachariahhanson1792

    3 жыл бұрын

    Recursion, being/s and comparison.

  • @trentknutson2970

    @trentknutson2970

    3 жыл бұрын

    0.n.V J b. 5 :(-' K. 87. .?...6,4"46383 85c864 754c64.7 4..V4 v .b ,.3aaa

  • @TooSplicedUp13
    @TooSplicedUp134 жыл бұрын

    After seeing this, I understand now why Alan Moore hates adaptations of his work.

  • @WhatWouldNinjaDo1

    @WhatWouldNinjaDo1

    3 жыл бұрын

    Likewise

  • @spiderjerusalem4009

    @spiderjerusalem4009

    3 жыл бұрын

    he has been pissed of everything since the moment he started to realise hollywood.

  • @Peramiiy

    @Peramiiy

    3 жыл бұрын

    Nope not every adaptation, except for the JLU episode "for the man who has everything"

  • @thereread

    @thereread

    3 жыл бұрын

    After reading the work I felt that way

  • @mr.dalerobinson

    @mr.dalerobinson

    3 жыл бұрын

    He also rejected the idea of celebrity because he wasn't comfortable with its dark side. Its one of the reasons why he said he 'became a magician'. They wanted him to be another player on the talk show circuit etc and he made himself incompatible with the narrative. Thats his 'magic', he uses his words to create reactions from readers to create the world he is more comfortable with. When he says 'magic' it creates the result he wants from those who are wired with preconcieved opinions about it. theres more about it here kzread.info/dash/bejne/f3p80I-BqsTJqLw.html

  • @b_a_z_e_dv.2.067
    @b_a_z_e_dv.2.0675 жыл бұрын

    Alan Moore lives in my home town, and while I loved his work, I never found out till I notice him on the street.

  • @arsenylee7805

    @arsenylee7805

    4 жыл бұрын

    B_A_Z_E_D V.2.0 oh i began to be jealous.....how he looks like?is he unemotional?

  • @keikoyukimura06

    @keikoyukimura06

    4 жыл бұрын

    B_A_Z_E_D V.2.0 no one cares

  • @b_a_z_e_dv.2.067

    @b_a_z_e_dv.2.067

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@keikoyukimura06 ok.

  • @branwithoutclaws

    @branwithoutclaws

    3 жыл бұрын

    110 people care. What is wrong w people. That is pretty cool! You should get to know him somehow.

  • @john_unforsaken

    @john_unforsaken

    3 жыл бұрын

    Met him, shook hands etc, he is a good bloke. Lives about 10 min walk from me.

  • @jdjdknxxbx991
    @jdjdknxxbx9915 жыл бұрын

    "when everyones way of viewing the world one way ends, the world ends" that's mind blowing

  • @thesymphonyoflife3950

    @thesymphonyoflife3950

    3 жыл бұрын

    Technically, Moore wasn't wrong about the world ending as we knew it. He was just 3 years early.

  • @shrekstaint8709

    @shrekstaint8709

    2 жыл бұрын

    That because World is a term to suggest what a singular person lives in. Earth is the word to describe the planet we live in. World is subjective, Earth is Scientific

  • @cg1906

    @cg1906

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@thesymphonyoflife3950 id say that 2017 was the beginning of the end of the way we once viewed the world

  • @Kaiserboo1871

    @Kaiserboo1871

    Жыл бұрын

    @@cg1906 why

  • @alessandromorelli5866

    @alessandromorelli5866

    Жыл бұрын

    @@shrekstaint8709 I won't come in saying that you can't trust your senses on the veracity of the existence of Earth or anything other than yourself...however....that "scientific" fact holds no value to humanity. It's just what we make out of it what matters. If we didn't shape it, it would be as good as nothing for us.

  • @jjmblue7
    @jjmblue75 жыл бұрын

    Hah, jokes on you, I was picturing Dr.Manhattans junk *before* you mentioned it.

  • @djsvideodiarys

    @djsvideodiarys

    5 жыл бұрын

    jjmblue7 Then you affected *his* mind. Magic.

  • @Zeithri

    @Zeithri

    5 жыл бұрын

    ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Don't worry. Dr. Manhattan's Junk pictured you long before you mentioned it.

  • @luciferangelica

    @luciferangelica

    5 жыл бұрын

    Zeithri wow, going deep!

  • @jjmblue7

    @jjmblue7

    5 жыл бұрын

    Nice.

  • @aleksandarpejcic2077

    @aleksandarpejcic2077

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@Zeithri :D

  • @DrWub
    @DrWub6 жыл бұрын

    He already nailed the fantasy villain look.

  • @Substantial-hf1rm

    @Substantial-hf1rm

    6 жыл бұрын

    Dr . Wub imagine his pubic hair.....

  • @joesiemoneit4145

    @joesiemoneit4145

    6 жыл бұрын

    to tohers he may look like jesus.. perception, dude!

  • @EagleZtoTheGrave

    @EagleZtoTheGrave

    6 жыл бұрын

    Joe Siemoneit John the Baptist...? lol 😁

  • @joesiemoneit4145

    @joesiemoneit4145

    6 жыл бұрын

    probably.. but jesus was the only religious freak i know ;)

  • @tedarcher9120

    @tedarcher9120

    6 жыл бұрын

    You should look up Aron Ra videos. He's awesome and also some sort of god-demon

  • @tojiroh
    @tojiroh6 жыл бұрын

    You want me to watch this video. I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

  • @frostywasp1743

    @frostywasp1743

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hehe Okay dude cut it out Are you serious?

  • @frostywasp1743

    @frostywasp1743

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@spiderjerusalem4009 no i got it. Nite Owl legit thought Ozymandias was joking and asked if he was serious after he reported to him his plan already happened a minute after they where seen on his base.

  • @trentknutson2970

    @trentknutson2970

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@spiderjerusalem4009 Æ1 f2f g o lll

  • @Delicashilous

    @Delicashilous

    Жыл бұрын

    HAUHUCJCJIDJSJYHAHAHAA

  • @grndragon7777777
    @grndragon77777774 жыл бұрын

    I believe that "end the world" means to end a way of thinking and change of an idea.

  • @jamesburk8145

    @jamesburk8145

    4 жыл бұрын

    end of one world, beginning of another.

  • @DawnHub666

    @DawnHub666

    4 жыл бұрын

    World was the wrong translation of aeon in the bible. It should of been aeon

  • @felicia6162
    @felicia61626 жыл бұрын

    Stephen King once explained that writing is both magic and time travel. Writing is able to take out thoughts from one time and place to another. We can see Anne Frank and Shakespeare’s thoughts and stories, despite their deaths, and the distance of time and place.

  • @TheJacklwilliams

    @TheJacklwilliams

    Жыл бұрын

    Beautifully stated. I’ll add, it is in and of itself, immortality. Your voice, lives on.

  • @SD-qt1fs
    @SD-qt1fs6 жыл бұрын

    Philosophy of Niel Gaimann should be the next one after Alan Moore.

  • @kayeplaguedoc9054

    @kayeplaguedoc9054

    6 жыл бұрын

    Yesssssss

  • @Wingedmagician

    @Wingedmagician

    6 жыл бұрын

    Perfect 👌

  • @irestone1

    @irestone1

    6 жыл бұрын

    yes please!

  • @franciscodetonne4797

    @franciscodetonne4797

    6 жыл бұрын

    Yes please

  • @NobodyC13

    @NobodyC13

    6 жыл бұрын

    Neil "Scary Trousers" Gaiman.

  • @jetspalt9550
    @jetspalt95505 жыл бұрын

    the problem with human imagination is reality has an annoying habit of getting in the way

  • @Stoney-Jacksman

    @Stoney-Jacksman

    4 жыл бұрын

    bro..that reminded me of this soundcloud.com/scruffnuk-dust/scruffnuk-new-tape-coming-up

  • @MissBaghira

    @MissBaghira

    4 жыл бұрын

    You said it perfectly!

  • @MonologueManiaWithER

    @MonologueManiaWithER

    4 жыл бұрын

    Disagree. Everyone perceives reality differently. Its the similarities shared in the multiple perceptions which most begrudgingly compromise to as reality.

  • @towermoss

    @towermoss

    4 жыл бұрын

    This is a hollow statement.

  • @thescarecrowman

    @thescarecrowman

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@MonologueManiaWithER We can perceive a hot stove to be cold, yet we will still burn ourselves when we touch it. Philosophical nonsense doesn't change how the world works.

  • @gewitterhund3164
    @gewitterhund31644 жыл бұрын

    "For the magician expectation creates perspective" Same applies to those who research quantum mechanics. So in this light the Clarke's quote "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" matches perfectly here.

  • @matthewhearn9910

    @matthewhearn9910

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ritual magicians have all been EXTREMELY into quantum mechanics ever since the field was first proposed. You see writings by Aleister Crowley and Jack Parsons about how exciting it was that science looked like it might give proof to the fundamental points of their philosophy. And the variety of magick that Grant Morrison practices, chaos magick, was mostly developed by physicians and mathematicians working in the field of quantum mechanics.

  • @pacotaco1246

    @pacotaco1246

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@matthewhearn9910 when you say physicians do you mean physicists?

  • @jejetube7667

    @jejetube7667

    Жыл бұрын

    @@pacotaco1246 he does

  • @jaylittle6465
    @jaylittle64656 жыл бұрын

    This just sold me Promethea

  • @0oidiedinatimemachineo024

    @0oidiedinatimemachineo024

    6 жыл бұрын

    its really good definitely check it out..its interesting writing basically explaining hermeticism and moores philosophy in comic format also the art and layout of each issue is fucking INCREDIBLE.

  • @arlosteiner8382

    @arlosteiner8382

    5 жыл бұрын

    Promethea is great as it's basically just Moore telling you his beliefs

  • @bevrosity

    @bevrosity

    5 жыл бұрын

    enjoy! its my fav comic of all time, and i have read a lot of comics lol

  • @rumorcontrol7873

    @rumorcontrol7873

    5 жыл бұрын

    If you are in to Satanism sure, but get fucked if so

  • @dannyzep92

    @dannyzep92

    5 жыл бұрын

    Same. I bought the 5 hardcover books of the series and it's a fantastic read.

  • @SimplyMavAgain
    @SimplyMavAgain6 жыл бұрын

    Wait a second... are we Wisecrack? I only noticed now that Jared addresses *us* as Wisecrack.

  • @tralfamadorious

    @tralfamadorious

    6 жыл бұрын

    SimplyMav We are Wisecrack. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

  • @Zelkiiro

    @Zelkiiro

    6 жыл бұрын

    We do not forgive. We do not forget. We only wax philosophical about pop culture.

  • @VitorMouraoddvtr

    @VitorMouraoddvtr

    6 жыл бұрын

    .........magic

  • @simoncarlsson4841

    @simoncarlsson4841

    6 жыл бұрын

    Hey wisecrack, jared here.

  • @Lazypackmule

    @Lazypackmule

    6 жыл бұрын

    I mean, think about it Have you ever seen wisecrack and vsauce in the same place

  • @adil8402
    @adil84026 жыл бұрын

    Definitely one of the most profound videos I've seen in a long time. This is why I love Wisecrack

  • @chantingzhang
    @chantingzhang5 жыл бұрын

    As I watched this video a third time an epiphany came to me, I think Moore's prediction of "the world's end" was right, and he had at only missed the mark a year or two, not earlier, but LATER. the age of popular internet and the explosion of social media did indeed overwhelmed us as a species with excessive knowledge, exceeding what we can reasonably consume when we were first biologically conjured as cavemen, and the "realization" of the immaterial and the material being just as real did indeed dawned upon us, whether we like it or not, just as Moore predicted. Yet unfortunately, it did not occur in the way Moore, or any idealist thinker hoped, instead of waking everyone up to the possibilities of creating better things on the world through imagination, the same realization of the immaterial instead drove people into the realms of natural tribalism and fear. The extreme left started to see the entire world as a battlefield, everything can be perceived as oppression, and everyone an oppressor, closing off all possibilities communication to the other side, "helping" the oppressed without even listening to their true wishes or the effects of their own actions; mean while the extreme right started to see themselves as a tribe under siege, with everything new and unfamiliar opposing them and has to be crushed to preserve their identity, and started to see all educated elites swindlers peddling corporate interests, and fall back on their own visceral emotion as the judgement criteria for all things; meanwhile in the background, common reality started to decay and liquefy in alarming pace, as everyone retrieve to their own information bubble of social media and echo chamber new sources for "the truth" This is not merely happening in America, this is what is happening behind the global revolt against globalization and the new wave of anti-intellectualism. This is the nightmare version of everything Moore envisioned, the dark side of the coin of the immaterial, of imagination as perceived reality, I think Moore didn't predict this happening, he imagined people would be able to balance the material, and the immaterial, and thus becoming creative juggernauts while maintaining a firm grasp of objective reality, but it turns out, the minds of our human brethren are still too young, still too prone to the mechanisms of human nature: tribalism, conflict seeking, and fear. I only hope this is temporary, and the grasp of object reality will return to us all to balance the override of the immaterial.

  • @thunderousmountain3351

    @thunderousmountain3351

    5 жыл бұрын

    This is an underrated comment. My hope is that this Global Waking Nightmare is the catalyst for a metaphorical Great Awakening, a species-wide version of jolting upright in bed after a particularly horrific dream.

  • @seanburrows1220

    @seanburrows1220

    5 жыл бұрын

    I think it was more like “the end of the world... as we know it” and Moore was absolutely right. I see so many people slowly waking up to this though not many on the internet. Discussions about consciousness, reality, perception, awakening and enlightenment are commonplace; science and language is developing to describe consciousness in the individual which is in turn developing our understanding of it. When we apply “as above, so below” to consciousness we can conceptualise how we are a component of a grand collective consciousness and simultaneously an individual

  • @simonkim1997

    @simonkim1997

    5 жыл бұрын

    really interesting point

  • @josephcarlo85

    @josephcarlo85

    5 жыл бұрын

    This is a great comment man. Like Moore said, the world is both material and immaterial, and in this case, he was talking about the immaterial world. Or in other words, the way we perceive imagination will also change.

  • @daniel4647

    @daniel4647

    5 жыл бұрын

    I think he was right, at least to a lot of people. I've never read most of his comics, but I did read the source material as a teenager, Occult books. For a long time I thought it was all bullshit, but a little while after Trump was elected, my brain basically exploded for lack of a better analogy, overload by just vastly opposing concepts that where both equally true, and the world was destroyed, literally my entire concept of reality was gone in an instant. When this happened I realized that what I read as a teenager was not all bullshit but actually very accurate and insightful when interpreted correctly. This whole thing was a pretty big shock to me having spent most of my adult life a very rational science minded person. So to figure out what was happening I started looking around for other people who had this experience, and it turns out there are quite a lot of them. There seems to be something to what he's saying about this global awakening. I do think it will be more of a gradual change for most though, but I do think it has already happened, I think the people experiencing this ego death sort of experience has reached critical mass and the world will change quite a bit because of it. As always in our world though it will be a slow change and not without opposition or struggle, not an instant change. It's not so easy to tell anymore, but we're in a war right now, a spiritual war in many ways. Not only will it lay waste to all the dogmatic religions of old, but challenge the dogma of science as well. Once upon a time long ago, spirituality and science separated as science just went full speed ahead leaving spirituality in the dust, but it seems spirituality is catching up, and soon they must merge again so we may fulfill our destiny. The Magician dude is totally right, our imagination creates reality, in more ways than we probably understand right now. Thinking positive is not a joke, your mind literally shapes reality, so be mindful of your thoughts young Padawan. And I should probably learn to take my own advice hehe. Anyway, loved the comment, bit bleak but good, thanks for writing.

  • @vicenteortegarubilar9418
    @vicenteortegarubilar94186 жыл бұрын

    This is MOORE of what I love from this channel. I don't only want MOORE' I need MOORE.

  • @conorgildea1163

    @conorgildea1163

    6 жыл бұрын

    This took me way to long to get the joke

  • @dadeleemurphy85

    @dadeleemurphy85

    6 жыл бұрын

    Lol. Womp Womp.

  • @Mananpicar

    @Mananpicar

    6 жыл бұрын

    Some people get by with a little understanding. BUT I WANT MOORE

  • @dadeleemurphy85

    @dadeleemurphy85

    6 жыл бұрын

    This is good, I'm going to treat you all to lunch . Dinty -MOORE beef stew anyone ? There's MOORE to it than Campbells .

  • @patrickholtz

    @patrickholtz

    6 жыл бұрын

    more! Moore!

  • @SylvEdu
    @SylvEdu6 жыл бұрын

    This video is one of the best explanations of the Bard class in D&D -- that words and art and song and memes have real magical power that influence the world in a perceivable way, and one need merely learn to tap into the power of consciousness to wield it.

  • @luciferangelica

    @luciferangelica

    5 жыл бұрын

    Azzy they base a lot of stuff in d and d, at least loosely, on real world myths

  • @burnintrees420

    @burnintrees420

    5 жыл бұрын

    DnD is the shit to introduce teenage minds to

  • @luciferangelica

    @luciferangelica

    5 жыл бұрын

    i also really liked the white wolf shit

  • @apokatastasian2831

    @apokatastasian2831

    5 жыл бұрын

    This is the bardiest thing i've ever read, no multi-classing or anything

  • @ZesPak

    @ZesPak

    5 жыл бұрын

    Playing a wizard now, deffo want to try out bard for my next character.

  • @boblordofevil
    @boblordofevil4 жыл бұрын

    This is my favorite work you've done so far. Excellent analysis, delving into the deeper ideas of the meta-narrative. Consistently balanced work. I came here to subscribe after watching many videos, and to comment on particular on the challenging material you've dealt with her with expertise befitting high academia. Looking forward to your work on The Sopranos.

  • @TomFinsterMusic
    @TomFinsterMusic5 жыл бұрын

    I love "V for Vendetta" - the comic is even better than the movie!

  • @dweetsauce8513

    @dweetsauce8513

    4 жыл бұрын

    “If the movie is the same as the comic, there’s no reason to watch the movie at all”. Just saying. Even though the movie isn’t like the comic, its still great.

  • @dwainpannell8366

    @dwainpannell8366

    Жыл бұрын

    Most comics are better than their media adoptions

  • @TighelanderII

    @TighelanderII

    Жыл бұрын

    @@dweetsauce8513 The number of people that will watch a movie is much larger than those that have read the comic.

  • @TighelanderII

    @TighelanderII

    Жыл бұрын

    I think an audio book or a radio play would have been a better choice than a movie.

  • @gurulaghima6518
    @gurulaghima65186 жыл бұрын

    Alan Moore signed my copy of watchmen babies

  • @austineaton2646

    @austineaton2646

    6 жыл бұрын

    Jeevan Singh When? I thought he doesn’t do that.

  • @WouterCloetens

    @WouterCloetens

    6 жыл бұрын

    Did he do it with magic? I.e. did you imagine it? 😉

  • @tameston5467

    @tameston5467

    6 жыл бұрын

    Jeevan Singh is that a Simpson's reference ?

  • @YasirMAnjum

    @YasirMAnjum

    6 жыл бұрын

    Which one is your favorite?

  • @V4W

    @V4W

    3 жыл бұрын

    David Lloyd signed my copy of V for vendetta... maybe one day i come across Allan Moore.

  • @silentknightjeffries8372
    @silentknightjeffries83726 жыл бұрын

    #MoreMoore That was amazing and slightly trippy. You have started me on my own path of research into hermeticism and reading more of Alans work.

  • @promethiamoore6462
    @promethiamoore64624 жыл бұрын

    I love these videos that you rewatch hundreds of times from time to time unconsciously

  • @MinaTess
    @MinaTess5 жыл бұрын

    Excellent video! You explained the subject (Alan Moore's viewpoint of hermeticism) extraordinarily well in a brief period of time, plus you kept me entertained. Thank you. 🤔

  • @RetroGamePlayers
    @RetroGamePlayers6 жыл бұрын

    First time I read the Watchmen I was transformed.

  • @withnail-and-i

    @withnail-and-i

    6 жыл бұрын

    Try the Saga of the Swamp Thing. I'd seriously place it on the same level as Watchmen when it hits its peak.

  • @WickedNemesis

    @WickedNemesis

    6 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely agreed.

  • @jgchalmers

    @jgchalmers

    6 жыл бұрын

    it was good, i liked the movie ending more tho

  • @onlythequestion

    @onlythequestion

    6 жыл бұрын

    I'll never forget turning the page to the blood-drenched devastation of NYC. That's powerful art.

  • @scifislack

    @scifislack

    6 жыл бұрын

    Same man, it's an incredible book.

  • @francisemv1788
    @francisemv17886 жыл бұрын

    More of this please.

  • @Hewhowantstoknow

    @Hewhowantstoknow

    6 жыл бұрын

    *Moore

  • @DYFortescue

    @DYFortescue

    6 жыл бұрын

    Moore orf displease

  • @funny3291

    @funny3291

    6 жыл бұрын

    More Moore please

  • @halkeye20

    @halkeye20

    6 жыл бұрын

    More Moore

  • @joelhaggis5054

    @joelhaggis5054

    6 жыл бұрын

    DY Fortescue the existence of this comment is a highly underated phenomenom. (Do do dodo doo)

  • @JuanDavidBedoyaR
    @JuanDavidBedoyaR6 жыл бұрын

    We need more of this, thankyou for this awesome video

  • @DrTiagoLobo
    @DrTiagoLobo6 жыл бұрын

    This is the best choice of video you guys have ever made. Also, notice how this and the Full Metal Alchemist video are basically teaching one lesson. Different ways of seeing the world enrich it, and our understanding of it. And, ultimately, they all say the same thing, from different perspectives. Please Wisecrack, do more videos on these concepts. It's refreshing to see how Science, Religion, Philosophy, Mathematics, Hermetism, Art, etc. can all be used to study reality from different angles, and provide different levels of interpretation.

  • @BenMaxVideos
    @BenMaxVideos6 жыл бұрын

    I clicked so hard on this video I am so frickin' pumped please do more videos on comics/comic creators thanks bye

  • @damiensiemer9780
    @damiensiemer97806 жыл бұрын

    This is a fantastic video. I'm always impressed by your videos Wisecrack team, but this one really shines.

  • @thecomprehensionhub4612
    @thecomprehensionhub46123 жыл бұрын

    Kudos to the editing effects. Raw creativity

  • @Cthulhuman
    @Cthulhuman5 жыл бұрын

    As a student of Hermeticism this made me so happy. People are so blind to the "immaterial" aspects of life and because of this blindness they walk like those who are asleep, as though they are the body and nothing more. To be awake is to be aware of not just your body and your surroundings but of your MIND and your SPIRIT. To ignore both is a fallacy, you are not your thoughts, but instead are a receiver of thoughts from points throughout your body. You are judge over these thoughts and it is your job to tend to them. However, most people are unaware that they should be judge over their thoughts, and instead they perceive that their thoughts are their own. This then essentially makes all of man kind like sleep walkers that are being driven by these unseen forces thinking that they are in control all along. So be Woke and judge your thoughts as if they are suggestions from your neighbor instead of a creation of your own.

  • @tricky1800
    @tricky18006 жыл бұрын

    This is and forever will be one of my favorite videos of yours

  • @jimbolimboboy
    @jimbolimboboy6 жыл бұрын

    I’m 100% down for further analysis of Alan Moore! Would you guys ever be interested in running a book club as I’d love to read a chapter(s) along with weekly analysis by yourself in video / audio format. Hearing you talk of Promethea and jarousailm seems like there’s potential!

  • @prince_dogboy

    @prince_dogboy

    6 жыл бұрын

    jimbolimboboy i have to agree with you that a "book club" would be pretty cool.

  • @starwarsgeek1oo
    @starwarsgeek1oo5 жыл бұрын

    Jared I love your content! Kicking ass at Wisecrack man

  • @regretto
    @regretto5 жыл бұрын

    I forgot what it felt like to read watchmen years ago - like reading one of the greatest works of literature, which it is. thanks for reminding and telling more - the man is fascinating and his ideas are grandiose (i find). you've got one of the gratest channels on youtube, keep up the good work.

  • @RobRJW
    @RobRJW6 жыл бұрын

    I'm glad I've been watching your channel since 2015 because if this was my first video from you guys I would be having a existential crisis right now.

  • @meisam9592
    @meisam95926 жыл бұрын

    This demands a Terence McKenna episode.

  • @JBBost

    @JBBost

    6 жыл бұрын

    Oh shit!

  • @JBBost

    @JBBost

    6 жыл бұрын

    I'd like to see a Robert Anton Wilson episode!

  • @sebastiand2506

    @sebastiand2506

    6 жыл бұрын

    i was thinking the same

  • @XxCorvette1xX

    @XxCorvette1xX

    6 жыл бұрын

    Lol I learned about hermeticism through Terence. Fucking brilliant man

  • @MyStoryQuest
    @MyStoryQuest4 жыл бұрын

    This Video is PURE GOLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well Done!

  • @zulu2885
    @zulu28856 жыл бұрын

    This has been a transforming I saw myself evolve over the course of the video It was surreal Thank you for putting such immense thought and effort You have changed one soul for sure

  • @V4W

    @V4W

    3 жыл бұрын

    your thanks should go to Alan Moore...

  • @zulu2885

    @zulu2885

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@V4W i got introduced to him thhrough the video and have certainly been in awe ever since, there are very little access to comics in india but from whatever i found online of his work has made me a fan for sure

  • @arthameadors8952
    @arthameadors89526 жыл бұрын

    This is one of the best Wisecrack videos.

  • @solidkingcobra
    @solidkingcobra6 жыл бұрын

    Tom Strong, Promethea, Top Ten, and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen are one of his highly underrated works that everyone should check out.

  • @niirceollae2
    @niirceollae24 жыл бұрын

    woah.... thank you for making this video

  • @healitoon2769
    @healitoon27695 жыл бұрын

    This is my favourite wiscrack vid and I wish there were Moore

  • @ntnl1212
    @ntnl12126 жыл бұрын

    i miss thug notes

  • @XxzanesterxX

    @XxzanesterxX

    6 жыл бұрын

    ntnl1212 yeah whatever happened to my man anyway

  • @steliostoulis1875

    @steliostoulis1875

    6 жыл бұрын

    I don't

  • @afonsolucas2219

    @afonsolucas2219

    6 жыл бұрын

    Didn't they do a Ready Player One recently?

  • @ZombieHitler

    @ZombieHitler

    6 жыл бұрын

    Books suck. Get the book. Then be a Thug Paladin. Nigga you can get your ass whooped with class. Detroit is doing it, I think. Paintball wars. That's how easy it WAS to solve gun violence, for, with, and by America, but people still think we want to emulate Australia. They think they're tough just cuz they got big spiders. Buy a gun, prick.

  • @Snardvark25

    @Snardvark25

    6 жыл бұрын

    Jay Tee I can't tell what you're suggesting. Books suck so get a gun? Some people in Detroit playing paintball doesn't stop gun violence.

  • @richardadams1913
    @richardadams19136 жыл бұрын

    Holy shit this is my favorite video to date. I love Alan Moore!

  • @TheMAU5SoundsLikThis
    @TheMAU5SoundsLikThis5 жыл бұрын

    Really enjoyed this!

  • @GokuSnake
    @GokuSnake5 жыл бұрын

    Hey Wisecrack. You're my favorite KZread channel. I always learn while eating dinner and watching you. Can you please do a video on House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewesky?

  • @gonzapra1
    @gonzapra16 жыл бұрын

    At 2:23 the ad ends.

  • @SLFKimosabae
    @SLFKimosabae6 жыл бұрын

    Good stuff. I own Jerusalem but couldn't make it passed 20 pages or so. Didn't know what I was getting into at all. Gonna have to give it another go. Moore breakdowns like this and less Rick and Morty, please.

  • @diezmayfield7339

    @diezmayfield7339

    5 жыл бұрын

    I see what you did there ;)

  • @medes5597

    @medes5597

    5 жыл бұрын

    Jerusalem was designed that way. The first 50 pages are deliberately hard to get through (Moore called it "an anti idiocy device") which he later regretted. Once you get past that and get into it, Jerusalem is an amazing work.

  • @user-uq4gr5nl5o

    @user-uq4gr5nl5o

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@medes5597 That seems counter productive, considering he wants to change everyone's mind and not just some people's.

  • @medes5597

    @medes5597

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@user-uq4gr5nl5o his idea, not mine. Take it up with him. Probably why he regretted it though.

  • @Punaparta

    @Punaparta

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@medes5597 He himself described it as being "to keep out the scum".

  • @dirtydanandthebasketballbo305
    @dirtydanandthebasketballbo3055 жыл бұрын

    Such a good video man!

  • @nil_blank
    @nil_blank6 жыл бұрын

    Such a good dive. Thanks!

  • @LouchiLouchiano
    @LouchiLouchiano6 жыл бұрын

    I have been trying to explain this to people and it scares me. But this guy has done what I don’t have the tools and know how. Thank u

  • @thewolfin

    @thewolfin

    6 жыл бұрын

    It scares you because it scares them

  • @remonbasu7286
    @remonbasu72866 жыл бұрын

    Thank you wisecrack,Very cool! But for real tho Amazing analysis into what Moore is trying to preach,I don't necessarily agree(nihilistic as I am) but I will love to look into his works for the sake of art (and morbid curiosity).

  • @_step_0_
    @_step_0_5 жыл бұрын

    Great topic, more content!! Wonderful video :D

  • @markw8825
    @markw88256 жыл бұрын

    Incredible work. Well done.

  • @KristenPimley
    @KristenPimley6 жыл бұрын

    I didn't realize that Wisecrack's audience was mostly men until I saw the sponsor! Cool product. Edit: I'd also love to see the relationship between Laurie and Sally Jupiter explored. It was the highlight of Before Watchmen for me.

  • @avinashsekhon1024

    @avinashsekhon1024

    6 жыл бұрын

    Kristen Marie Pimley it’s probably cause 80-85% of KZread’s viewers are men

  • @insertnamehere373137

    @insertnamehere373137

    6 жыл бұрын

    Kristen Marie Pimley Before Watchmen had its ups and downs, but the Silk Spectre and Minutemen ones were pretty darn good

  • @Illier1

    @Illier1

    6 жыл бұрын

    Fun fact Hims hair loss meds have ED as a side effect, which they use the opportunity to sell you the penis pills. Also I wouldn't reccomend taking any meds you get online from doctors who are paid to try and sell you the product.

  • @Monkeyshaman

    @Monkeyshaman

    6 жыл бұрын

    Kristen Marie Pimley or their audience is solely young women struggling with social cues gifting their dads a getting old, growing bald kit for his seventieth.

  • @andersonandrighi4539

    @andersonandrighi4539

    6 жыл бұрын

    *Avinash Sekhon* I don't thnik so. There are 1.57 billion active youtube accounts. It is more like 50/50

  • @rustecohle591
    @rustecohle5916 жыл бұрын

    Please do the philosophy of: Huey freeman Spike spiegel or cowboy bebop

  • @luciferangelica

    @luciferangelica

    5 жыл бұрын

    Brent Pilgrim good idea. boondocks is brilliant!

  • @bevrosity

    @bevrosity

    5 жыл бұрын

    they just recently did bebop

  • @EnricoRodolico
    @EnricoRodolico4 жыл бұрын

    15:20 I'm pretty sure it's "Professor Einstein," not "Her father in his time."

  • @M05tly

    @M05tly

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wouldn't the point be that their neither and both at the same time?

  • @EnricoRodolico

    @EnricoRodolico

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@M05tlyper=her? Facer=father? How are those phonetically related?

  • @pedroalmodovar6087

    @pedroalmodovar6087

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah I was thinking the same

  • @nodiggity9472

    @nodiggity9472

    3 жыл бұрын

    Einstein had no academic Degrees or Doctorates, so that would be "Mr Einstein".

  • @joadic
    @joadic6 жыл бұрын

    Please make more of this stuff!!!

  • @jacksonw453
    @jacksonw4534 жыл бұрын

    Alan Moore never ceases to blow my mind

  • @alanjudd7537

    @alanjudd7537

    3 жыл бұрын

    So Your Mind is Blown' you can get Tablets for that' though they are cheaper from Down the Vets. Just Don't touch the purple ones

  • @sermycahwhent4165
    @sermycahwhent41655 жыл бұрын

    This is the 1st video I've ever seen of yours and I have to say you're a freakin genius dude. You've made me look at what I'm reading now Providence a whole different way because he's doing the same thing with language youre talking about Thank you so much for outting this video out

  • @shainzen
    @shainzen5 жыл бұрын

    Fraking amazing episode!!!!!

  • @lizardking939
    @lizardking9396 жыл бұрын

    Excellent work!

  • @OrionCanning
    @OrionCanning6 жыл бұрын

    This is definitely what I am interested in seeing more of. I have read some of Moores writings on magic and I think it's basically true. It's very similar to memetics, ideas like racism or captalism are completely made up by humans, but they can be spread virally. Paradigm shifts occur when the amount of people who believe an idea to be true reaches a critical mass that allows for those ideas to be actualized in society, usually via laws and regulations, which are another sort of spell. Laws give justification for enforcement of those ideas upon other people and therefore reality, though more often than not many people are only superficially forced to follow a law while not believing in the ideas behind those laws. Laws are fought through civil disobedience, symbolic action that defies the so called truth behind laws, or the other side of the coin, being a criminal, which is just another way of saying the same thing. The only line between criminality and civil disobedience is generally whether the act is harmful to others or not, either intentionally, or through neglect or recklessness. But ultimately the line is defined by what people will allow, and what people believe to be true, or can be convinced to believe, specifically what people believe counts as harm to others. Fascist rule exists by creating a stranglehold on reality through laws and control of what people are told is true via media and education, in conjunction with laws and policies that are essentially criminal in of themselves, due to the amount that they bring harm to others. The battle over reality takes place in courtrooms, on TV, in movies, and in classrooms on a macro level, and on a micro level through everyday conversations about these ideas, whether face to face or online. Though a widely distributed idea in any form, whether blockbuster film, tweet, or comic book, can have a macro level effect.

  • @bruhbro9951

    @bruhbro9951

    6 жыл бұрын

    Orion Canning i

  • @OrionCanning

    @OrionCanning

    6 жыл бұрын

    U

  • @caramelconundrum9280

    @caramelconundrum9280

    6 жыл бұрын

    Yes

  • @alexl1178

    @alexl1178

    6 жыл бұрын

    All of this is very tiring, isn't it?

  • @OrionCanning

    @OrionCanning

    6 жыл бұрын

    Kuroda Cursus the comic books and movies are cool, but yeah, the constant stream of corporate and political propoganda got old a long time ago.

  • @crackedpince-nez131
    @crackedpince-nez1316 жыл бұрын

    Grant Morrison next? (Then Lynch?)

  • @bevrosity

    @bevrosity

    6 жыл бұрын

    Cracked Pince-Nez i say more wizards as well.

  • @RideASpaceCowboy

    @RideASpaceCowboy

    6 жыл бұрын

    Yes!!! I'd love to write a philosophy of Grant Morrison! "Supergods" is my favorite autobiography I've ever read, simply because it's so insane. One chapter he talks about ascending to heaven and meeting alien angels, the next he's talking about how the original Spider-man movie performed, and the next he's talking about meeting Jesus.

  • @ProjektBurn

    @ProjektBurn

    6 жыл бұрын

    Cracked Pince-Nez so much yes! Grant is the polar opposite of Moore when it comes to magick. They both come at the same thing from different sides. And both openly express magick in everything they do.

  • @crackedpince-nez131

    @crackedpince-nez131

    6 жыл бұрын

    Ian Katz-Mager Man I miss there being a Disinfo Con. I remember I saw that video when I was 16 and just starting to introduce Crowley and Spare into my life. Abducted by aliens in Kathmandu Valley!!

  • @cyco7229

    @cyco7229

    6 жыл бұрын

    Lynch, and Jodorowsky

  • @chloezaffran3552
    @chloezaffran35525 жыл бұрын

    I loved this video, it got me to read Promethea and got my mind blown apart in several ways. I'm not even done reading the whole comic yet!

  • @davidcarzell9081
    @davidcarzell90815 жыл бұрын

    Saw this coming.... You crushed this. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @IanDWolfe
    @IanDWolfe5 жыл бұрын

    I’ve watched this three times. Really interesting

  • @Haggismchaggish
    @Haggismchaggish6 жыл бұрын

    more please!

  • @matthewfurnari-omara2079
    @matthewfurnari-omara20795 жыл бұрын

    Way to make this manageable! It's a challenging topic.

  • @helionomicon7455
    @helionomicon74556 жыл бұрын

    Congrats! A difficult topic well explained!

  • @nateblack8669
    @nateblack86695 жыл бұрын

    Robert Plant's evil twin.

  • @zaidanahnaf9431
    @zaidanahnaf94313 жыл бұрын

    Imagine Alan Moore adaptation directed by Stanley Kubrick

  • @poiserosie6493

    @poiserosie6493

    Жыл бұрын

    Cool

  • @lonewolfjuannieves7059
    @lonewolfjuannieves70594 жыл бұрын

    Love this one ❤️ a bit more each time I see it.

  • @rogeriorodrigues4210
    @rogeriorodrigues42105 жыл бұрын

    You totally killed it at 1:17 [...] If you want Moore (Suspense theme) hahahaha Great video by the way!

  • @EdStar36
    @EdStar365 жыл бұрын

    wow KZread recommendation been on point

  • @ethanrummel7638
    @ethanrummel76386 жыл бұрын

    I think is idea of language as magic is pretty similar to some of the ideas of Wittgenstein, that we are all playing 'language games' where by we do not simply communicate our perception of reality by imbue it with meaning and form by our means of communication. The whole world ending thing though is crazy.

  • @jesusomarcastanedamendez6371

    @jesusomarcastanedamendez6371

    6 жыл бұрын

    Actually Moore describes the end of the world as Nietzsche describes the death of God, something necesary to take humanity on a higher ground.

  • @Singedthebrony

    @Singedthebrony

    6 жыл бұрын

    It makes more sense if you think of it as the world (as we know it). The world will still be here, but everything that humans experience will be different.

  • @inventor121

    @inventor121

    6 жыл бұрын

    Well I'm pretty sure all it takes is a few choice words from washington for the world to end

  • @inventor121

    @inventor121

    6 жыл бұрын

    Well now I know what they mean by all intellectuals go to hell. And here I thought we were just starring in a crazier version of Idiocracy

  • @blehhblehh2477

    @blehhblehh2477

    6 жыл бұрын

    Well, you can't deny that if we all suddenly stopped seeing things only one way, which is each individual's way, and perceived and interpreted in multiple, which is everybody else's way, while still including yours, the current state of the world would end, either for better or for worse.

  • @welcometotheforest9522
    @welcometotheforest95225 жыл бұрын

    Seriously My Favorite Video Yet

  • @apostolidispeter2499
    @apostolidispeter24996 жыл бұрын

    Love this video, more plz!!1!

  • @vakreswar
    @vakreswar6 жыл бұрын

    Please do Philosophy of Grant Morrison

  • @RUSTYdiscogs
    @RUSTYdiscogs6 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for talking about Miracle Man.. It isn't mentioned enough IMO

  • @benjamingarces3127
    @benjamingarces31276 жыл бұрын

    WE NEED MORE OF THESE. YES, CAPS LOCK WAS NECESARY

  • @AFox739
    @AFox7396 жыл бұрын

    A second comment I'd like to make as a result of my own previous statement. The funny thing is, Alan Moore's mind expanding nature of his stories is present in, among other things, the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. My mind literally expanded immensely when I read Volume II of the series, and realizing the sheer brilliance of the series lead to a love of writing and storytelling I've maintained ever since.

  • @tylerclausen9128
    @tylerclausen91286 жыл бұрын

    Hi Wisecrack folks, Are there still new episodes of Thug Notes being made? I miss it!

  • @aaronyandell2929

    @aaronyandell2929

    6 жыл бұрын

    Tyler Clausen Sparky Sweets may have split off to do other stuff? It's a shame, really. His series is good stuff.

  • @tylerclausen9128

    @tylerclausen9128

    6 жыл бұрын

    Aaron Yandell I hope he comes back soon and continues his literary style!

  • @vaylonkenadell
    @vaylonkenadell6 жыл бұрын

    Moore's ideas about the connection between language and magic seem somewhat related to the concept of the "hypersigil" as popularized by Grant Morrison. Furthermore, Evangelion also touches the topic of human evolution as the joining together of all individual consciousnesses...

  • @AbandonedVoid

    @AbandonedVoid

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, that's because they both stem from chaos magick. Austin Osman Spare, Peter J. Carroll, Discordianism, and so forth. They also do work with the concept of a collective unconscious.

  • @vaevictus4637

    @vaevictus4637

    5 жыл бұрын

    It's not JUST about a collective consciousness. That's incredibly short-sighted. It's about Holism.

  • @Sammy-cm9ce
    @Sammy-cm9ceАй бұрын

    I'm vibing so hard with Alan Moore rn 🔥✨

  • @JedidiahOjeh
    @JedidiahOjeh5 жыл бұрын

    Need more of this

  • @alastairsnook851
    @alastairsnook8516 жыл бұрын

    If you are interested in this guy then you should read his book 'Jerusalem'. It's an enormous semi-mythical saga of the town of Northampton, (England). It's my home town, and the book offers a really interesting look into Moore's nature, philosophy and sense of humour.

  • @devinmayhew2872
    @devinmayhew28726 жыл бұрын

    I love how you guys presented him as a "wizard" so I would think he's a loon, then proceed to convince me of his beliefs and wonder why more people don't agree. Wisecrack, slowly making us loons. Anyways, do Philosophy of True Detective

  • @colejohnston4346
    @colejohnston43466 жыл бұрын

    Obviously we want more. My mind is on the verge of of boggled by your question

  • @martinvalentini9420
    @martinvalentini94204 жыл бұрын

    your content its one of the best balanced between being deep and entertaining, i can't stop watching, and I'm a picky bastard, I dont even comment videos ever

  • @RealSancez
    @RealSancez6 жыл бұрын

    If you do V for Vendetta, please don't do the movie, do the comic book.

  • @whitetuxmafiaandfilms5042

    @whitetuxmafiaandfilms5042

    6 жыл бұрын

    Sancez thugnotes did it

  • @memes_for_kings

    @memes_for_kings

    6 жыл бұрын

    Sancez agreed

  • @rolingk267
    @rolingk2676 жыл бұрын

    Could you guys do the Philosophy of Urusawa's "Monster"?

  • @darrickfranklin7096

    @darrickfranklin7096

    6 жыл бұрын

    Roling K Well it would be sort of the same as the philosophy of The Joker Atleast the interesting parts with Johan who is a nihilist.

  • @robertacojones8824

    @robertacojones8824

    6 жыл бұрын

    It would be far more interesting 20th Century boys

  • @legendbemyname1638

    @legendbemyname1638

    6 жыл бұрын

    Roling K yes! So underrated

  • @EagleZtoTheGrave

    @EagleZtoTheGrave

    6 жыл бұрын

    Revoking this channel if they don't... lol

  • @BaTa-de6jn

    @BaTa-de6jn

    6 жыл бұрын

    Roling K Why do people like Monster so much ? Not that it was bad manga or anything , but since there are so many other Urasawa works out there you might think that someone would mention something else (Billy bat , Yawara , Pluto , Master Keaton etc) . Can someone explain why ??

  • @maximilianovaldes3694
    @maximilianovaldes36945 жыл бұрын

    This is one of the videos I love

  • @samvanderplas7619
    @samvanderplas76194 жыл бұрын

    Had to watch this one twice and i'm just now starting to get what Moore was trying to say about the fundamentals of reality. We are only as real as we imagine ourselves to be

  • @Nemo.404
    @Nemo.4046 жыл бұрын

    I know it's a pretty long shot, but i would love to see a "philosophy of fooly cooly (flcl)" episode, i want to hear your opinion about that anime

  • @rivalross8784
    @rivalross87845 жыл бұрын

    Please please please do a philosophy of “Happy!” The sci-fi channel show, staring Christopher Meloni

  • @itsmytoast666
    @itsmytoast6665 жыл бұрын

    Damn. This is definitely one of those videos I am going to have to watch a few more times. Hey Jared, have you been on the h3 podcast? If not, when will this happen?

  • @liltaco4119
    @liltaco41192 жыл бұрын

    3:14 I kid u not, these exact words came out of my mouth literally during this exact moment.