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📚 You can read the video transcript and follow up on the sources we cited in the video, right here, on our website: www.justwondering.io/escape-resistance-and-solidarity/

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i wish there were more creators like you. this is unparalleled. sending love from a fellow vegan neurodivergent human of non-western world.

Thank you for another mind-blowing video! Your channel remains one of my favorites, and I hope more people get to know about it. Please keep up the great work!

Just wonderful. Thank you for this important and exquisite work.

Another excellent piece of work. I love the combination of visual images, music, and the human voice.

Thank you for your work!!

Im currently watching and this is amazing! I didnt realise this was out early for patreons. Hope youre all well ❤

Excellent video ! Clear and synthetic. Beautiful drawings !

This is absolutely superb...I will be sharing it on my website. I wish your beautiful stories and animations become more well known ❤

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You guys have done an amazing job breaking down these complex ideas. Really helpful!

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Thank you for these. They are beautiful.

So painful. ✨🇵🇸✨

thank you for making and sharing this! very cool. however... it seems to me that there is a strange and surprising, biased termination of critical thinking-through of our best empirically-grounded collective explanations, that is more often present among humanities/continental philosophy students and/or 'left-leaning', even 'woke' [non-derogatorily meant] groups, especially among those who lack a thorough education in philosophy of science and critical thinking. it's all cool that one can categorise certain activities, relations, structures as oppressive, as (neo)colonial, as anti-revolutionary, etc... we have the kind of nature that requires nurture, as lisa feldman-barrett puts it. what is natural is precisely that organisms develop differently due to their different histories, including the social and environmental aspects of that history. pretty much all biological theorists today are in agreement that the debate is solved because it is a case not of either/or but of both/and: nature and nurture always interact. developmental systems theory takes this interactionist reasoning further. developmental systems theory challenges the notion of two separable, interacting causes that could, in principle, be disentangled. it challenges the fundamental idea that nature and nurture can in fact be treated as separable sources of organismal form. the key observation is that development is a process that unfolds over time. the organism’s genes are always present throughout that process, as is the organism’s environment. the two cannot be separated in principle because you can never observe how the organism would have developed under the influence of only the genes in isolation from the environment, or vice versa. crucially, development is not a battle between internal biological starting conditions and externally imposed cultural deviations that push the outcome away from what it ‘would naturally have been.’ although we may for analytic purposes wish to identify different aspects of the system with the labels “nature” and “culture,” ultimately these do not amount to ontologically separate forces that exert independent influences robert sapolsky: "Instead of causes, biology is repeatedly about propensities, potentials, vulnerabilities, predispositions, proclivities, interactions, modulations, contingencies, if/then clauses, context dependencies, exacerbation or diminution of preexisting tendencies. Circles and loops and spirals and Möbius strips." susan oyama: “The biological, the psychological, the social, and the cultural are related not as alternative causes but as levels of analysis.” there is no 'me' over and above biology who is merely 'influenced' by biology and environment. that's again inviting unintelligible talk of dualism, essentialism and some obscure separation into a worldview, none of which seems convincing. (1) You do what you do - in the circumstances in which you find yourself -because of the way you then are. (2) So if you’re going to be ultimately responsible for what you do, you’re going to have to be ultimately responsible for the way you are - at least in certain mental respects. (3) But you can’t be ultimately responsible for the way you are in any respect at all. (4) So you can’t be ultimately responsible for what you do. The key move is (3). Why can’t you be ultimately responsible for the way you are in any respect at all? In answer, consider an expanded version of the argument. (a) It’s undeniable that the way you are initially is a result of your genetic inheritance and early experience. (b) It’s undeniable that these are things for which you can’t be held to be in any way responsible (morally or otherwise). (c) But you can’t at any later stage of life hope to acquire true or ultimate moral responsibility for the way you are by trying to change the way you already are as a result of genetic inheritance and previous experience. (d) Why not? Because both the particular ways in which you try to change yourself, and the amount of success you have when trying to change yourself, will be determined by how you already are as a result of your genetic inheritance and previous experience. (e) And any further changes that you may become able to bring about after you have brought about certain initial changes will in turn be determined, via the initial changes, by your genetic inheritance and previous experience. so all the oppression and whatever bad stuff, couldn't have been in any way otherwise, and no one is 'responsible', no one is in control. asserting otherwise just is appealing to some obscure, anti-sense-making magical non-explanations, table banging and arguing from incredulity. you either explain some intersubjectively experienced phenomena based on public data with concepts like; 1. mechanism [structured configuration, composed of entities + activities/processes, operations/dynamicity that result in the explanation of phenomena.] 2. brute happenings, occurrences, events either with or without causal structure -- either there is a humean mosaic of brute occurrences, which is (A, B, C, D, E, F) or there is causality, which is (A->B->C->D->E->F). 3. determinism or indeterminism (true randomness, which just means unexplainable, uncaused, brute happenings). or you just don't explain anything. but it doesn't make sense to blame or praise or reward or punish anyone for anything, if your reasons are some evolved behavioural tendencies, if you understand your options when it comes to explanation. determinism, indeterminism, doesn't matter, neither makes organisms magical gods. so hostility, feeling righteous or deserving or expecting any special treatment, entitlement etc.. just. don't. make. sense. that doesn't mean that it somehow doesn't make sense to wish for nice warmfuzzy experiences and imagine 'what if' and speculate, but understand that whatever was, is, will be, couldn't have been, cannot be, and won't be in any way otherwise than it ever was, is, will be. wherever you go, there you are, and that's it. so drop the righteousness, the sense of desert, entitlement and blame, because they just don't make sense.

📌 Referenced articles & useful links: Viviane Eng. “The PEN Ten: An Interview with Mosab Abu Toha” (2022) pen.org/the-pen-ten-an-interview-with-mosab-abu-toha/ Mosab Abu Toha. “A Palestinian Poet’s Perilous Journey Out of Gaza” (2023) www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/01/a-palestinian-poets-perilous-journey-out-of-gaza What a Gazan should do during an Israeli air strike read by Mosab Abu Toha kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rKibfpRo1pa8eo0.htmlsi=-ioD5N1xppY6OPcS You can also follow Mosab Abu Toha on social media @mosab.abutoha.

"As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on -- in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here." ~ Morris Schwartz “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” ~ Helen Keller "Peace is knowing who you are and what it is you truly must do, no matter what the trial may be; peace you know will see you through. Peace is having a truth that will always prevail as faith is believing; peace is within to console the sound of a heart who's suffers from sickness and feels that sometimes no one cares. Peace will bring you through many storms of life and deliver you from the wicked who seek to hurt you. God says peace be still and no evil can harm you; for the prince of peace brings justice and redemption through eternal life." ~ Twila Williams "Quality of soul... it is our earthly floor, and heaven's door." ~ Paul Jung “We can’t hold on to anything -- a beautiful sunset, a sweet taste, an intimate moment with a lover, our very existence as the body/mind we call self -- because all things come and go.” ~ Tara Brach “What is lovely never dies, but passes into another loveliness.” ~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The melody that the loved one played upon the piano of your life will never be played quite that way again, but we must not close the keyboard and allow the instrument to gather dust. We must seek out other artists of the spirit, new friends who gradually will help us to find the road to life again, who will walk the road with us." ~ Joshua Loth Liebman "The pain passes, but the beauty remains." ~ Henri Matisse “Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.” ~ Emily Dickinson

Thanks you so much for these video. I always came back to this video and appreciate donna's ideas.

Great video

Thank you for sharing this poem. Refaat touched us all with his wisdom, humanity & creativity. They can kill the poet but the poetry lives on. For Refaat, the children of Gaza & Palestinians all kzfaq.info/get/bejne/abSnib1927fZe6c.htmlfeature=shared

Thank you for this ♥️♥️♥️ it broke my heart 💔💔

It made me cry...

thank you for this, and thanks for including those links in the description. i have been sharing the vegans for gaza one. peace and love, free palestine 🍉

Love the Illustration, just facinating. Kept me hooked throughout.

This is such a great video and view on bodies. Thanks for the help on my essay.

Maybe it is worth paying attention to how animals communicate with each other, e.g. what communication between lions and antelopes in the savannas looks like...

powerful, informative, so creative. Thank you for your outstanding consciousness raising.

Such a beautiful and personal telling, and at the same time, with such power of mobilizing for a better future!

I love the artwork so much and the philosophy behind it too!

thank you so much for this video!!! really aspirational and needed

thank you. I'm looking forward to re-watching this with loved ones!

Thank you so much for this! <3 Looking forward to a version with endnotes: I’m very keen on finding literature on all of this - let me know if anyone can recommend something!

incredible.

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Thank you so much for this beautiful video and essay. I feel I want to reflect on the metaphor of Mountains in the essay. Something about it is unsettling, and I think of mountains as how the planet talks. Perhaps we can dance with them in very different ways. They are so generous.

Brilliant synopsis, thank you, more visioning please!

Amazing. Love the illustrations as always ❤

Thanks to Mother Nature for everything.

Very moving ~ 🙏🏼

Love the music, animations, drawings and tone of voice. Great intro to OOO! Could this be a reduction of OOO ? ;)

Coyote is here. I say f*** speciesism. Weeds are my kin. I say, we need to punch holes in the fabric of the system. Out of the cracks, niches become. My words are weeds. I see them floating. They tackle the system and multiply. The future is triffish. Keep it 14-14.

very nice, thanks a lot for sharing!

Incredibly well explained! ❤

Hi! This might be irrelevant .But do you think marxism is somehow relevant in your anti-speciesist project? Btw,thought-provoking video as always. Thank you.

The video essay's text is up on the website with transcript in English and Romanian, selected bibliography and ALT texts included for the illustrations. 🔗 Link - www.justwondering.io/animal-ontology-and-philosophical-ethology/

well here we are on the edge of the web, hopefully sometime soon you will be closer to the centre. Best wishes and thank you for sharing this awesome video❤