True, as alienation has its parallels in every (ancient, former) civil society we’ve known. The “loss of meaning” always exists for a number of individuals and groups. I’d posit that the “we” (majority) in any society turn to any ‘explanation’ to detach from this reality. After a certain period of “laissez faire” or hyper-conservativism (maintaining or revisioning status quo), decadence shows up as an increase of alienation. More people, more areas of life. Lessons from the numerous French revolutions… History doesn’t ‘repeat’, but our societal-behavioural patterns do indeed. Marx could only capture the timeframe he lived through, and (like earlier thinkers) tried to describe _the essence_ of causalities and solutions. Those guys wrote a LOT, and also adjusted their narratives with new knowledge and dialectics. Modernity was still “young”, so _progress_ was a believable path for early socialists. In our time, the framework (epistemology and ontology) of ecology and a globalised economy makes ‘progress’ moot, as there are no “white spots” left on our maps to “grow” and progress from (material, energy, ideology). To me at least, that spells the end of the modern era - and as earlier, it’s hard to “know” what the present is evolving into. Or hard to even acknowledge change we’ve clearly experienced. Too many Platonists, and too few Hegelians, maybe? Meta-modernism for me, though…😅

The level of his content IS the reason behind the 48k subscribers. Man i dont come from philosophy bg, I am studying through books and ytb channels but Julian's channel is ine of the most difficult to understand hahaha

@@matmolin Julian is a very courageous person, he discusses the contents of Marx, Hegel, Lacan in videos of even a few minutes... and they are very difficult authors to really understand, even for those who already know them and have studied them for some time, let alone the others... But he still manages to best summarize the concepts of their thought that others take hours to explain, and unlike Julian, often even badly... perhaps the topics he deals with are "niche", as they say here in Italy, but his work is truly very valid and deserves a much larger audience

@@andreitiberiovicgazdovici i truly recognize it. That's why I am here. I feel challenged to understand his content hahaha

It's an important part of the lectures! ❤

"What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?"

It's so cute

Fixing hair is pure ideology

if it isn't broke, don't try fix it

Lol

Stig of the mata

They will not succeed

Hey 😁 This is quite a common phenomena right now, and it seems to be part of the broad sweep of late-stage capitalism. It sounds like you're realising that the dream isn't great or true, but that feeling provides no comfort whatsoever - in fact it makes the lived experience worse. Religion takes that void of meaning and fills it with something. That something isn't real in the Lacanian Real sense, but certainly is real in the Lacanian Symbolic sense. If you are unfamiliar with these trends, I would suggest watching another of Julian's videos on those topics. If you can't find satisfying videos, shoot me a message here and I'll be able to find one that might be labelled differently 👍 More than happy to keep talking to you about this.

Oh so he didn’t experience poverty in London and he owned the means of production? That goes against all of recorded history about him! And to call him bourgeoise fundamentally misunderstands the meaning of the term. But go ahead work in chains and make future workers I guess you think that makes you better than everyone else.

what makes you believe you are in a position to tell people what to do