“A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke.” -Soren Kierkegaard

Explaining the meme ruins it. Over explaining the meme causes it to transcend reality.

@somethingweirds3375

5 жыл бұрын

Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog ;)

@rickjohnson1719

5 жыл бұрын

@@somethingweirds3375 its only gets me harder

@Samstar369

4 жыл бұрын

rick johnson *Hol up*

@peterjamesleeching829

4 жыл бұрын

You have to explain it because it is becoming a weapon for fools

@adamqadmon

4 жыл бұрын

some deep shit bro

In little over a decade, memes went from captioned cat pictures to commentary on the nature of our existence. I'm not sure what's coming next, but at least it won't be boring.

@tommyodonovan3883

5 жыл бұрын

It'll be better than Cable....Maybe that is what *"The revolution will not be televised"* 60's meme was all about....nobody is watching tv/cable anymore.

@jonsino4357

5 жыл бұрын

When memes are banned, the expression will morph into something else, and so on.

@honkhonkler7732

5 жыл бұрын

Meme technology will be the last significant achievement of western society.

@fairbanksairriders

5 жыл бұрын

A.I. can't figure out meme humor, therefore memes are bad.

@ClayWar237

4 жыл бұрын

@@fairbanksairriders gay "logic"

Love the intro, “ I guess we have to talk about clowns.”

@Paul-A01

5 жыл бұрын

*Cue Russian Eastern Overture in clown honks*

@Julie_youtube_

5 жыл бұрын

Me too. I genuinely laughed out loud

@papercut7141

5 жыл бұрын

Had to pause the video for a solid minute before I could continue. Beautiful

@wisefool8615

5 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@bradspitt3896

2 жыл бұрын

@@Paul-A01 This one got me

Jonathan Pageau, High Priest of Kekistan

@renaissancenovice7202

5 жыл бұрын

:)

@brotherbroseph1416

5 жыл бұрын

I think he would be more of a monk in the religion of kek. Peterson is high priest. But theology comes out of monasteries

@WTFSt0n3d

5 жыл бұрын

like your profile pic. i have it hanging on a wall :D

@_tobiasa.7724

5 жыл бұрын

Cringe

@andrewstallard6927

5 жыл бұрын

Um, he's an Orthodox Christian, shouldn't he be the Patriarch of Kekistan?

[ ]Play Vidya [ ]Proscratinate by any other mean [ ]Get outside and pretend everything's just fine [x] Watch a deep analysis about the meaning of Clownworld

Not going to lie, I did chuckle at "feast of the ass" 4:18

@rickrudd

5 жыл бұрын

Ha! I just commented on that - it took a lot of willpower for me not to make a very juvenile comment(s) 🤣

@Sensorium19

5 жыл бұрын

I suspect everyone with a healthy sense of humour had a flicker of a chuckle.

@kullenberg

5 жыл бұрын

The metaphysics of eating ass

@blackcat19778

5 жыл бұрын

If this comment did not exist I would have created it 😂

@liskurex

5 жыл бұрын

I honked hard!

Lol I can't believe you did it. Mad lad

@jameslynch8738

5 жыл бұрын

@Sargon Face Saaad No, I didn't! Oh that guy, I thought it was imaginary because I keep seeing it everywhere. 😋

@alexkairis3927

5 жыл бұрын

@Jay L I can't tell if Poe or not.

Memers are the modern day jesters that trying to turn this inverted world back right-side up.

@youngishmaelthebasedprophe4334

4 жыл бұрын

“memers” lmao

@myrealfakename6068

3 жыл бұрын

Mirth is King

@1walkerw

3 жыл бұрын

GAMESTONK to the MOOONNNNN

@alaricpalaiologos665

3 жыл бұрын

The jester's job is to slay the "sacred cow" (whatever people place on a pedestal) but also ease the blow, of coming to your senses about a falsity in which you believed often incurs, with laughter. Suppressing this literal reality check will cause the most absurd things to squeeze out

@SNAPLINKSLLC

3 жыл бұрын

No

As a former class clown this makes a lot of sense.

As an Orthodox Christian who performs as a clown, for who being a clown has been a goal since I was 3, but recently have been doubting whether I should continue performing, or if a calling exists within my clowning, you sir have just given me the answer to understanding that calling. Thank you. God Bless.

@nguelda

Жыл бұрын

My son is an Orthodox Christian and a clown, I was excited to send him this video 🤡🙏🏻

@MrWepx-hy6sn

Жыл бұрын

Keep on honking

The game was honked from the start

@yourkingdomcomeyourwillbedone

4 жыл бұрын

Hnorrrrk

@ry4743

4 жыл бұрын

There will always be heros honking at the top.

Nobody: Jonathan: the world is a pie

@MisterWebb

5 жыл бұрын

A1R Flat

@rogueraiser

5 жыл бұрын

And endless

@thepaintjobber

5 жыл бұрын

And what do clows do with pies?

@Wingedmagician

5 жыл бұрын

This comment

@johnpatterson8697

5 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/g66D1ZaJiJq7fdY.html&t=56

I'm always appreciative of how Johnathan isn't afraid to look into the 4chan and political fringe corners of the internet. They, like Pageau are certainly digging at something society doesn't immediately understand and it's always a worthwhile investigation. Thank you, Pageau!

@John_Greek

5 жыл бұрын

The internet is the biggest influencer of symbols today, it’s only natural for 4chan and it’s content to be discussed.

@Alex-lu3pn

4 жыл бұрын

@Thatshow ED that's precisely the point, they're afraid of 4chan because it's a censorless environment. Truth isn't hard to reach, just remove censorship and it comes out, 4chan is simply the most mainstream uncensored media out there.

@vinip4

2 жыл бұрын

@@Alex-lu3pn Unfortunely it can be a extremely cancerous environment too, i visitied a few times and Lord, it was bad

I’m learning more from this channel (and others) than I ever did in college. Thank you Mr. Pageau!

@marcusiii9814

5 жыл бұрын

The fact that one can learn more on a KZread spree than in college confirms my suspision that college is a scam.

@Freedyfilms

5 жыл бұрын

@@marcusiii9814 Or you didn´t listen properly in college

@winniethepoohbear1243

4 жыл бұрын

@@Freedyfilms Or college and education in general really is just shit.

@Corrupted

4 жыл бұрын

@@winniethepoohbear1243 They obviously arent, it really depends on your interests. If you want to become a surgeon, good luck on youtube hahaha

@zacnieprawisz9171

4 жыл бұрын

You went to pretty shitty collage

I was at a hospital where a clown was trying to entertain visitors and patients. What's that about: laughing in the face of death?

@frydemwingz

5 жыл бұрын

thats metal

@VitoPlaysGames

4 жыл бұрын

They're not laughing at the face of death. They're laughing despite they may face death.

@Corrupted

4 жыл бұрын

@@VitoPlaysGames This. We are going to die anyway, spending your last months or years in a bad mood makes it even worse

@yourkingdomcomeyourwillbedone

4 жыл бұрын

When you’re laughing you feel no pain

@myrealfakename6068

3 жыл бұрын

"The only intelligent tactical response to life's horror is to laugh definitely at it." - Soren Kierkegaard

Dude as a Brazilian you can imagine how interesting this is to me seeing as i live in the country which made "Carnival" more important and front stage in it's culture than any other, and it certainly has a lot of adverse effects because that's supposed to be a facet of culture, i imagine you should do it with moderation and balance like everything else. I wonder what do you think about Brazil and it's obsession with carnival.

@budlight2969

3 жыл бұрын

um baguio é doido

@sucao1038

2 жыл бұрын

SIMPLESMENTE INTANKAVEL O BOSTIL...

@bigfest6498

Жыл бұрын

Isn't it interesting that y'all celebrate Carnevàl in front of a big ass statue of the Christ.

@kylewhite2985

Жыл бұрын

@@bigfest6498 Do "Yall" go to Mardi Grass? Do "Yall" take your kids to drag queen story hour? Do yall cut you kids peens off? Do yall give them hormone blockers? Do yall abort babies once a year? (Abortion is illegal here), Do yall voted for peedo Biden? Insn't it interesting Yalls have a statue of Baphomet in your capital? OH, do yall inbreed with your sisters? What else?

@bigfest6498

Жыл бұрын

@@kylewhite2985 buddy I agree with you 100%. My country has seen better days and I fear they'll only get worse. I was just making an observation.

I'm not going to lie: I've been waiting for this video...

@amandafaulks2515

5 жыл бұрын

Me too!!

@papercut7141

5 жыл бұрын

I was one of the ones asking for it in the comments, never thought he'd actually do it. We don't deserve meme lords like Jonathon

@skooter21108

5 жыл бұрын

I am not going to lie: ^^THIS^^ is definitely me when i'm waiting for a video on the metaphysics of clown PeP

@Viriyascybin

4 жыл бұрын

Nobody: I'm not going to lie: I've been waiting for this video...

I was skeptical that you would truly explain this meme. I was proved wrong. Well done.

Oh no. It's happening. I've been... *PAGEAU PILLED*

@ztj95

5 жыл бұрын

Same dude

@Aereton

5 жыл бұрын

Based

@yeetman4953

5 жыл бұрын

@Jay L why?

@setiem13

4 жыл бұрын

@Jay L Bruh

The pie shaped Earth theory. You heard it here first!

@william_02

3 жыл бұрын

It’s right in your face!

@jordanemede

2 жыл бұрын

Never seen a ball shaped pie so I'm behind the pie theory so far!

Wonderful as always Jonathan :) Talking of holy fools I can’t help but think of the traditional character Nasrudin. Here is an example: Bedar, the Watchman, caught Nasrudin prising open the window of his own bedroom from the outside, in the depths of night. “What are you doing, Mulla? Locked out?” “Hush! They say I walk in my sleep. I am trying to surprise myself and find out.”

@gabrielorville821

4 жыл бұрын

You're thinking of a trickster.

"When things are already upside down, sometimes the purpose of the clown is to put it back right again..." (paraphrased) Yes.

Ever since I was a toddler, I hated clowns. They freaked me out. I hated going into circuses to see them because there was something about them that was so unaligned with the world that it was too much to bear for my little brain.

@jabrown

5 жыл бұрын

SAME. I always cried when I saw clowns.

@MusicForTheBroken

5 жыл бұрын

That's fucking weird. How are you scared of someone wearing a costume? Let me guess clowns. Clowns scare the shit out of you but horror movies are fun to watch?

@differous01

5 жыл бұрын

I reacted to clowns and Father Christmas in the same way AS A TODDLER (according to mum). Thankfully the discovery of toffee-apples (for me) and candy-floss (for my little sis') made the weirdness worthwhile.

@chrisconing8275

5 жыл бұрын

Same here

@chrisconing8275

5 жыл бұрын

I live a mile away from a clown museum. The whole town is obsessed with clowns.

I think the most essential characteristic of a clown is a painted-on smile. The behavior and act of a clown is indicative of the performer and audience's interpretation and reaction to a painted-on smile.

@mooredann69

5 жыл бұрын

Reminds me feminists complaining about men telling them to smile. Yet they keep painting on frowns with this makeup.

@Paid2Win

5 жыл бұрын

Shhhh you'll actually do justice to the meaning of something. That isn't aloud on this channel.

@yourkingdomcomeyourwillbedone

4 жыл бұрын

People just want to be entertained

From your brother's book " ... Sabbaths and Jubilees may be considered ancient forms of vaccines that sealed off powers of pointless change, exile, flooding, and death through contact with manageable versions ..." - The Language Of Creation page 194. We need to know the boundaries of space and time, tease the boundary, become aware, then go back and hopefully flourish. In some cases, like the USA, when the king is the clown (inversion), then those who care and give a damn about culture and politics, sober up, start paying attention, and not take things for granted. We get complacent then "Bam" , we get our socks knocked off, we question, reevaluate, become grateful for stable space, and we go back to the drawing board. Great video Jonathan.

"realize the cycleness" would be a great bumper sticker

@TheJosue_Gonzalez

4 жыл бұрын

Tracy Twyman samsara

The most underrated IDW member. Love your work.

@Gogglesofkrome

5 жыл бұрын

The IDW is an overrated meme of people pretending to be the bleeding edge of dissenting intellectual thought

@Paid2Win

5 жыл бұрын

IDW and everyone involved is a piece of shit.

@Gogglesofkrome

4 жыл бұрын

@VH 78 I think he's in it for the money because he's earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year off of his sponsors and his little cult of followers. If he was forever happy with his earnings, then he would be discussing EVERYTHING and ANYTHING that would even so much as potentially put his financial state at risk. There wouldn't be any limits to his conversation, because he's in it to explore the logic and reasoning as to why it's flawed, but this clearly isn't the case when it comes to the things that he refuses to discuss. Whenever he does discuss it, he goes off of an emotional basis such as the idea that people don't like 'x' group because they're "just jealous."

@kyledonahue9315

2 жыл бұрын

@@Gogglesofkrome When the counter-culture has become the mainstream, defending order and hierarchy is the only truly radical critique left to an intellectual.

Brilliant. I love how you cover so much history and ties it all together. I've always had trouble reconciling the church and some of the more folkish traditions, and this helps a lot. Also very good point about the futility of trying to suppress the clown only making it reappear elsewhere.

Fantastic honking, well played sir

I love your channel! Intellectual and eclectic, and just plain fascinating!

The George Floyd Inversion Festivals of May 2020 are making this timely once again.

@TheBluntNinja

3 жыл бұрын

Isn't the plot of The Purge just an inversion festival slightly more extreme than these riots?

@budlight2969

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheBluntNinja perhaps

"time eats away at space" that's interesting, looking forward to reaching that part of Matthieu's book

@tommyodonovan3883

5 жыл бұрын

Time eats away at YOU....Me.....the physical you/me/everyone/everything in the universe....Time is the mind killer. Everyone wants heaven but nobody wants death. That is why man invented *distractions* bread&Circuses, spectator sports ....Modern man invented the *McGruber Distraction!* See: The 9-11 buoys.

@yourkingdomcomeyourwillbedone

4 жыл бұрын

Thank God for clowns that we can waste our time away being entertained

Pleasure Island heehaw

@JonathanPageau

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I thought of making a Pinocchio reference, but I was already struggling to keep things contained.

@runawaysuzie

5 жыл бұрын

Ahahahahaha

Rolling on a ball: to go forwards, you must walk backwards; to go backwards, you must backpedal. Now this makes a lot more sense, just like the rowing of a boat...

great editing with the "clown rolling on a ball" to "redeeming features of the holy fool" lining up with the clown pepe video. got that spot on.

Trump Card reference made me flip! ;)

@michaelparsons3007

5 жыл бұрын

poppabirdy symbolism happens

@AngstG

5 жыл бұрын

On so many levels - the symbolism is truly LAYERED from the literal to the figurative...

Man I was dying for this video to come out!

Another nutritious pill from the Pageau - Thanks, and sounds good man.

@mrsubject1

5 жыл бұрын

The neutrino pill

that was The Byrds that had a hit with 'Turn, Turn' it was based on an earlier folk version developed by Pete Seeger.

@TheDrb27

5 жыл бұрын

Josh Martin saved me a comment...not the Sound of Silence !

@MatthewJohnCrittenden

5 жыл бұрын

Glad I’m not the only one that thinks this is important! :)

@juicerino

5 жыл бұрын

TheVimFuego haha right. but perhaps we care because we're still caught up in the 'revolutionary' spirit of change and prestige and 'difference,' and Jonathan doesn't notice cause he's moved beyond it ;) really it's immaterial who did the song, the notions of change and fluidity were everywhere at the time. seems that Turn Turn and Times Are A Changin' are still the most potent representations of that moment

@MatthewJohnCrittenden

5 жыл бұрын

@@juicerinoTrue 'nuff! I have a particular thing for correctly crediting when it comes to music, something about respecting the artistic process or some such hippy cobblers. ;)

When you talked about Sinterklaas and his oranges hidden in shoes, I got goosebumps, because you explained something that was very dear to my childhood as a Belgian :) Now you make me ponder again over the "Donkey procession" during (ezelstoet in dutch) which the small town next to my village has somewhere during march, the carnival season here. In the Ezelstoet, around fifty carnival wagons are processed (like any other carnival in Belgium), but in the middle there is a procession of (around five) donkeys. Children can ride these for a while if they want to. As with any other carnival here, the people who organise it vote who becomes prince and princess carnival that year. They are the stars of the procession The official explanation is that the farmers used to bring their fresh products into the markets and this carnival honours them. But symbolism happens :)

@jabrown

5 жыл бұрын

In which video does he talk about Sinterklaas?

@lGalaxisl

5 жыл бұрын

@@jabrown It ought to be in the video of the symbolism of the Christmas tree.

@jabrown

5 жыл бұрын

@@lGalaxisl Ah, thanks. Will have a look at that.

“I thought my life was a tragedy but now it’s a comedy”

@youngishmaelthebasedprophe4334

4 жыл бұрын

If you comment Kl0wn world but spelled right it’s deleted now

At around 20 minutes, you forgot that in such amusement parks, edges such as death itself are also "tested". Not only everything moves in circle, but rollercoasters also give a near-death experience to whoever tries them.

Very good presentation, but you totally skipped the "evil clown", the "demonic clown", the "murdering clown" archetype.

@tommyodonovan3883

5 жыл бұрын

John Lee Casey....the clown from Hell.

@BrianScalabrineMVP

5 жыл бұрын

Did you see the DMT clowns?

@yourkingdomcomeyourwillbedone

4 жыл бұрын

Nowadays we murder the clowns for entertainment

@severusfloki5778

4 жыл бұрын

Immorality edges-testers.

@yourkingdomcomeyourwillbedone

4 жыл бұрын

@@severusfloki5778 Unethical elitists

Already liked it. Only watched the intro yet. I really like your videos on recent event lately.

There's nothing like a hangover to remind you of the advantages of temperance and sobriety.

Jonathan, I just want to say thank you. Your work is so valuable.

Easily my most favorite meme. Somehow it just speaks to me.

@runawaysuzie

5 жыл бұрын

The Joker - Alan Watts

Great stuff. Just ordered your brother's book. Looking forward to it.

I love how jonathon did a mashup of meme culture and symbolism

@Anthroroxy

4 жыл бұрын

memes is our sybowism uwu

@wesleyfilms

2 жыл бұрын

He actually did an amazing job.

Cyclical entropy. Life fighting back against entropy

So stoked for this video.

very nice, keeping up to date with the memes.

great video jon! your speaking has improved so much. amazing quality on the audio and visual as well... loving these!

Excellent info Jonathan. Really enjoyed this one.

I’ve always said Ferris wheels are a waste of time. ;)

criminally under-rated & under-viewed channel

It's going to be a great learning lesson brah! Great analysis and curved motions.

I've got the feeling that he's always about to laugh while telling his story.

Thanks for this Jonathan, glad to see you accepting the responsibility lol. Great stuff

@kennorthunder2428

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Haha.

@yourkingdomcomeyourwillbedone

4 жыл бұрын

‘Responsibility’ now there’s a joke

Well, I just didn't expect to enjoy this so thoroughly. Many thanks.

The visuals have really come into their own! They look great

thank you so much dude, this saved me from a mini-existential crisis just now 💞

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

@yourkingdomcomeyourwillbedone

4 жыл бұрын

Wow thumbs up 4 u

Thank you for this lecture Jonathan! I especially appreciated the pie symbolism. I remember a video between J Peterson and J Rogan about the figure of the commedian as a trickster, a messager between this world and the world of the gods, and the fact that the hero is always preceded by the trickster!

Always fascinating listening to you.

You are a real champ. This was was a great talk.

Thank you Jonathan to make this subject more clear.

Loved the conclusion!! The rainbow flips but the light never goes out. This kind of talk was what was missing in the Peterson / Zizek debate

Intro showing comfort with the medium of video. FeelsGoodMan

The joker destabilizes in times of peace, but brings peace in times of conflict. Not to be helpful, or to cause chaos, but just because, for the clown, it's "fun". Among our most necessary of archetypes, you ask me.

Thank you for enlightening us . Great teaching I enjoyed video .

merry-go-rounds and farris wheels both spin counter clock wise.🤔🍻

@jordanemede

2 жыл бұрын

Ferris wheel depends which side of the wheel you're on

This is excellent! Thank you very much for your work!

Very, very interesting. Thanks Jonathan.

Jonathan thank God we have you to give us understanding.

Excellent video

Holy shit..... This is crazy... My mind is blown.... Well done.

Its fitting that they turn pepe, "Kek", into a clown considering Kek is the god of chaos.

@Corrupted

4 жыл бұрын

Remember that the whole Kek narrative sounds cool, but really isnt based on anything real. 99% of people using Pepe just use him as a meme, theres barely any connection to anything political or religious. Its just a great meme for people who are deep into internet culture

@peterdietrich1657

4 жыл бұрын

Corrupted Corupted du hier 😁

You are brilliant Jonathan. Following you for years now, and studying Peterson religiously, I feel that I'm beginning to see the holistic connection between the Fool and the King, the Student and the Master, the Individual and the Collective, the Father (Culture) and the Mother (Nature).. Not that each of those run in parallel exactly, but this cyclical nature of reality, where it's a unity and a pluarlity, simultaneously, paradoxically, and somehow is always in threat (unstable) and at peace (stable).. it's a very profound perception in the moment where I can in fact begin to percieve it. Anyway, thank you for your craft an sharing what you've learned. It's always a pleasure.

Great job! The video is just on point. God bless!

This is actually quite fascinating. I think this sheds more light on the curious appearance of the archetypal jester during so many people's DMT trips.... There's something incredibly interesting about that

I wasn't aware of this meme. TY for the info.

This brings a whole new understanding of The Joker. Especially in The Dark Knight

@MusicForTheBroken

5 жыл бұрын

Discussing clowns without mentioning jesters is disingenuous. Catholicism is not the beginning of the world.

@1x93cm

5 жыл бұрын

Absurdist nihilism

Thanks for this! I learned so much! I would say, who knew that clowns could teach you so much, but that seems to be part of their purpose-- to teach you the things you refuse to know if you're too caught up in yourself, the structure, the hierarchy of order. It's almost like they are a pressure valve of society. Probably also indicative of our society that there is so much animosity and moral pearl-clutching toward jokes, comedians, etc. It comes out one way or the other, and if the social order is warped and in need of fixing, the clowns are what are needed to set things right again. Long live the clowns!

This may be one of the most underrated/under valued channels on youtube.

Cool video! I’d love some more elaboration on what happens when the carnival has become the norm, and how the clown can turn it back around!!

I' m getting ready to watch this video and I really hope there will be some mention of Federico Fellini. Fellini was obsessed with clowns and they're present in a bunch of his movies. He even made a movie titled The Clowns.

Still coming back to this !

Wow, great video

Great video, thank you!

Thank you, Jonathan. This brings so much clarity to the way this archetype shows up in our culture, including some of my favorites- the song “Jokerman” by Bob Dylan and the character of The Comedian in “The Watchmen” graphic novel/movie. I would very much like to understand how this relates to the many reports that the visions experienced under DMT tend to have a carnival or clown-like expression.

I've always thought that clowns represent the element of random chance and Murphy's Law. Like, you can't take anything too seriously because the trickster of random chance will always dance a caper on the best-laid plans. This is way more fascinating than I anticipated.

2:30 Me hearing where “Carnival” came from makes instantly think of a Clown World Creepy Pasta 🍝 story 💡 idea of a paranormal carnival 🎡 that sets humans up for other crazy crap!.... 😂😂🤣

Do u even honk bro??

This was fantastic.

yeah Matthieu's book is fascinating, would recommend

most soporific video I've watched in a long time

Great video!! Thanks.

"Who can it be knocking at my door? -Go away, don't come 'round here no more."