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โ ๏ธ Disclaimer -- PLEASE NOTE that I make references to several very serious social issues twice in this video. A disclaimer is included in the video itself.
๐Featured content:
Squid Game (์ค์ง์ด ๊ฒ์) -- S1E2 (Hell)
Director: Hwang Dong-hyuk (ํฉ๋ํ)
South Korea's Hangover | Al Jazeera English | 101 East | S1E2
Director: Steve Chao
aljazeera.com/program/101-east/2016/2/5/south-koreas-hangover [Al Jazeera English has outstandingly covered South Korean culture and contemporary issues facing the country and its people]
๐Music:
"An der schรถnen, blauen Donau", Op. 314 ["By the Beautiful Blue Danube"], or "The Blue Danube"
Composer: Johann Strauss II
Date of composition: 1866
Source: European Archives (public domain)
๐Chapters:
0:00 Introduction -- Michel Foucault quotation
3:05 Bureaucracy -- A personal example; It's place in Squid Game
8:26 Why bureaucracy is so terrifying
13:53 Knowledge is power -- Information in Squid Game; The 'real' world
15:49 Different Game, Same Bureaucracy -- The absence of trust/faith/hope; Amorality in bureaucracy; SOJU!; Corruption and Inequality; Loneliness & Isolation
24:16 Thank you!
๐Reading / Sources:
* On Bureaucracy by Max Weber https://archive.law.upenn.edu/institutes/cerl/conferences/ethicsofsecrecy/papers/reading/Weber.pdf
* On Violence by Hannah Arendt
* Ethics: Essential Works, 1954-84 by Michel Foucault
Thank you as always for your support and time. Do follow me on Twitter and Instagram for updates and more personalised, calm posts @kidology_co and at kidology.co respectively.
Enjoy.
NB. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976: allowance is made for FAIR USE for purposes such as criticism, COMMENT, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. This video is intended for educational and commentary purposes only.
โ ๏ธ Disclaimer -- PLEASE NOTE that I make references to several very serious social issues twice in this video. A disclaimer is included in the video itself.
๐Featured content:
Squid Game (์ค์ง์ด ๊ฒ์) -- S1E2 (Hell)
Director: Hwang Dong-hyuk (ํฉ๋ํ)
South Korea's Hangover | Al Jazeera English | 101 East | S1E2
Director: Steve Chao
aljazeera.com/program/101-east/2016/2/5/south-koreas-hangover [Al Jazeera English has outstandingly covered South Korean culture and contemporary issues facing the country and its people]
๐Music:
"An der schรถnen, blauen Donau", Op. 314 ["By the Beautiful Blue Danube"], or "The Blue Danube"
Composer: Johann Strauss II
Date of composition: 1866
Source: European Archives (public domain)
๐Chapters:
0:00 Introduction -- Michel Foucault quotation
3:05 Bureaucracy -- A personal example; It's place in Squid Game
8:26 Why bureaucracy is so terrifying
13:53 Knowledge is power -- Information in Squid Game; The 'real' world
15:49 Different Game, Same Bureaucracy -- The absence of trust/faith/hope; Amorality in bureaucracy; SOJU!; Corruption and Inequality; Loneliness & Isolation
24:16 Thank you!
๐Reading / Sources:
* On Bureaucracy by Max Weber https://archive.law.upenn.edu/institutes/cerl/conferences/ethicsofsecrecy/papers/reading/Weber.pdf
* On Violence by Hannah Arendt
* Ethics: Essential Works, 1954-84 by Michel Foucault
Thank you as always for your support and time. Do follow me on Twitter and Instagram for updates and more personalised, calm posts @kidology_co and at kidology.co respectively.
Enjoy.
![CORPORATIONS + TECHNOCRACY [Corporations capitalise off social issues...and the future feels bleak]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fDZHlzVSehI/mqdefault.jpg "CORPORATIONS + TECHNOCRACY [Corporations capitalise off social issues...and the future feels bleak]
~โฆฟ Thank you so much to C H R I S T O P H E R for this fantastic topic suggestion! โฆฟ~
Could you talk about the disingenuous moral grandstanding behind the marketing strategies of corporations (e.g., Burger King selling gay pride burgers) when these types of corporations do the least possible for their own workers...[j]ust about the overall hypocrisy and the shamelessness of these corporations...and if corporations should be [morally neutral or withhold their moral position from the public] when that could set a bad precedent as corporations could be mistaken to be trailblazers - Christopher
~โฆฟ t i m e s t a m p s โฆฟ~
0:00 Salutations โ Do you prefer longer videos (50+ minute video essays) or shorter videos (20- minute video essays)?
6:46 The rhinoplasty video
8:30 Fast fashion and buying fast fashion (also at 1:45:39)
14:25 Voting for our next technocratic/epistocratic leader of the โfreeโ world โ Elon winsโฆover Zuckerbergโs toes (โVOTE RESULT: Elon Musk would be the most suitable leader in a potential technocracy.โ [Zahra Bahjawi])
25:15 Quiet quitting explained
34:10 The myth of Americans hating their jobs | Why I loved my retail job | Labour pre, during and post-pandemic
45:55 โHow do you feel about the people who just want to get their work done and go, no socialising intended?โ (Mexican Kitchen)
49:40 friendships at work and the daunting feeling of being โreplaceableโ
56:33 QUESTION TO CHAT: Who enjoys interacting with their co-workers? Thumbs up or down
1:04:45 Nosy, gossipy colleagues (and why I love them)
1:08:56 โDo you think millennials are overeducated?โ (Eckendenker)
1:21:24 Burger King โ What do you think of the โPride whooperโ? | Why corporations fail to genuinely connect to their consumers re. social issues
1:28:40 Marketing at Gen Z
1:34:30 Johnny Cash
1:35:07 Is corporate wokeness dead?
1:39:25 The corporate apology
1:43:16 โThis reminds me, corporations dont just profit off social issues, but issues themselves. Look at pharma in America profiteering off people BEING sick, so they want to keep people sick.โ (Jerry Vang)
1:50:31 Being a โconsumerโ vs. being a โGOOD CONSUMERโ
1:55:46 Are Gen Z distrustful of corporations? (โAs a Gen Z I think people donโt trust big corporations but trust small businesses too much.โ [Paradox Junky] | โGen Z are very materialistic but in a different way I think.โ [Veronica])
2:03:25 EA Games and Crunch Culture โ efficiency over art
2:11:41 QUESTION TO CHAT: If your employer had to pick either being socially conscious or rewarding its existing employees with benefits and rewards, which would you prefer it do? (โInclusive marketing is way cheaper than employee benefits!โ [hakkun1]) (and also 2:26:59)
2:13:35 โI donโt understand why you allow yourself to go to Primark.โ (Noah Brown)
2:19:01 โAsian governments banning the Sims is like China banning Winnie The Pooh because Pooh looks like Xi Jinping.โ (Jerry Vang) โ โYour social credit score would skyrocket.โ (Mexican Kitchen) | โPurge me Xi Jing Daddy!โ (Ellis Hayward)
2:24:53 Video game development then vs. now | Corporate monopolies and why we look to corporations vs. elected representatives
2:39:35 Iโm going in 7 minutes
2:40:15 Who is responsible for modern work/consumer culture (now and in the future)? Corporations or their customers?
2:46:14 Shareholders and their power
2:56:12 Feet (โWill we be seeing your grippers in the video?โ [Mexican Kitchen]) โ Why are feet so weird? | Joshua Kreggโs Tarzan feet | Veronicaโs ballerina feet | Liam Neesonโs feet
3:13:49 Teeth (โI bought this Kendall Jenner teeth whitening pen and it smelled so bad I had to throw it away.โ [Veronica])
3:21:11 Goodbyes and next video
~โฆฟ f i l m s s u g g e s t e d โฆฟ~
* Lightyear (2022)
* Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
* Morbius (2022)
* Marie Antoinette (2006)
* Crimes of the Future (2022)
* Super Mario Bros (1993)
~โฆฟ s o c i a l m e d i a โฆฟ~
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