Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
In this video we will talk about how society is regressing back to the Middle Ages from celebrity culture, Ozempic beauty standards, and Hollywood nepo babies to Lana Del Rey, Ariana Grande and horror aesthetics, social media, AI colonialism, and billionaires who want to be kings. We will also explain how late-stage capitalism is making our economy resemble Technofeudalism and how people like Peter Thiel, Trump, and Curtis Yarvin are trying to turn America into "Corporate Fiefdoms" or Network States. We will also talk about why the world feels like it's ending and climate change, and how this affects culture, art, philosophy, and modern music.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
02:13 Celebrities Are Medieval Elites
03:21 Nepo Babies and Patronage
05:19 Celebrities Romanticize Being Poor (Peasantry)
07:16 Ozempic Trend As Sumptuary Law
10:14 Bioengineering and Future Beauty Standards
11:48 "Golden Age of Capitalism"
14:59 The Middle Ages Have Returned
21:26 Lana, Ariana, Sad Girl, and Philosophy
25:26 Is Collapse The New "Grand Narrative"?
27:45 Social Media is The New Printing Press
30:17 AI Colonialism
31:54 Why is Everything A Subscription Now?
33:35 "Enshitification"
34:24 Techno-Feudalism
36:38 Peter Thiel, JD Vance, and "The Network State"
38:54 Curtis Yarvin: Dark Enlightenment
40:41 We've Been Here Before (KINDA)
43:19 Our Advantages Over The Middle Ages
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In this video we will talk about how society is regressing back to the Middle Ages from celebrity culture, Ozempic beauty standards, and Hollywood nepo babies to Lana Del Rey, Ariana Grande and horror aesthetics, social media, AI colonialism, and billionaires who want to be kings. We will also explain how late-stage capitalism is making our economy resemble Technofeudalism and how people like Peter Thiel, Trump, and Curtis Yarvin are trying to turn America into "Corporate Fiefdoms" or Network States. We will also talk about why the world feels like it's ending and climate change, and how this affects culture, art, philosophy, and modern music.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
02:13 Celebrities Are Medieval Elites
03:21 Nepo Babies and Patronage
05:19 Celebrities Romanticize Being Poor (Peasantry)
07:16 Ozempic Trend As Sumptuary Law
10:14 Bioengineering and Future Beauty Standards
11:48 "Golden Age of Capitalism"
14:59 The Middle Ages Have Returned
21:26 Lana, Ariana, Sad Girl, and Philosophy
25:26 Is Collapse The New "Grand Narrative"?
27:45 Social Media is The New Printing Press
30:17 AI Colonialism
31:54 Why is Everything A Subscription Now?
33:35 "Enshitification"
34:24 Techno-Feudalism
36:38 Peter Thiel, JD Vance, and "The Network State"
38:54 Curtis Yarvin: Dark Enlightenment
40:41 We've Been Here Before (KINDA)
43:19 Our Advantages Over The Middle Ages
Join this channel to get access to perks:
youtube.com/channel/UC6yAQDtDsoM0A9fJbhs_F3w/join
Instagram: @blakeantonioo
Tiktok: @facetattphilo
Society is collapsing, the world is ending, climate change, climate crisis, global warming, celebrity downfalls, pop culture analysis, video essay, culture critic, postmodernism, metamodernism, medieval, society is regressing, we are in the new dark ages, the dark ages are back, the middle ages have returned, rise of anti-intellectualism, novelty theory, carl sagan, fedualism, techno feudalism, neo fedualism, mark zuckerberg, elon musk, social media algorithims, medieval art, medieval philsophy, medieval religion, serfs, peasants, fiefdoms, network state fiefdoms, gen z, gen z literacy crisis, gen z trends, lana del rey, ariana grande, grimes, pop culture crisis, pop culture video essay,
