Is Reality Real? Intro to Phenomenology | Plastic Pills

Hello. This video is about reality and whether we actually live in it or while believing to live in it do we otherwise  live in a world of images wholly mediated by machines and programs whose purpose is to  anesthetize us to our actual conditions and if you were in a matrix simulation is this  the kind of thing that you would click on to pass the time Why did you click on this, by the way? Did a machine show it to you?

Don't mind that. This is real, okay? Me?

You can trust i'm authentically trying to find meaning that's resistant to the feeling that this is all  a superficial show that some indifferent god left on repeat and then walked out of the room. It's about a reality that doesn't feel exactly real Disregard that. And fair enough, you might say: What does it matter what the world feels like?

Reality's independent of my feelings about it. But I think, you know, if reality is real you're a part of it you're one of its many aspects so you reasonably  have some access to the sense it makes or doesn't make For my part there's something of a thesis  that I have about reality and it's that it feels thin these days Don't worry we're gonna get that fixed Reality feels thinner in fact than we believe it should be or thinner than it could  be and as this is sometimes a philosophy channel there are a bunch of words that i could put up  here to explain what reality has been thought to be The thing is though I don't really like those  kinds of explanatory videos so much and I don't really much care for any of these particularly  either Anyway, what are the symptoms of a thin feeling reality? That same movie over and over again.

Feeling like we're trapped in a loop where every story is the same one over and over and over and  over again Where content splits off as an endless repetition of itself. . .

. The incommensurability of  value: where these are worth one and a half million three million, twelve million dollars,  what's value then? 22 million humans liked this advertisement.

Yes--22 million people were grateful that they were being advertised to. Where your choice of leaders for the global empire  is either a deranged reality TV host "I'm a very stable genius" or an easily confused septuagenarian "Back in 2009, during the so-called 'great recession,' the president asked me to be in charge of managing that piece Then President Trump. Excuse me--Freudian slip--that  was the last president.

He caused--anyway. That w--Pre-President Obama when I was Vice President It's that obvious thinness where brands are people, people are brands and these days millions of people's social  interactions in a day amounts to this: "Oh we're not even close? " Or this: "Kanye West uh is is saying that Kid Cudi is fake for being friends with Pete Davidson or not Pete Davidson, sorry, for being friends  with Billy Eilish This: Jean Baudrillard Or this: "So, first we had COVID.

. . Now World War III, and they just  announced that they're gonna cancel Shrek 5 so worst week ever.

You guys saw that? Was that on my side of the stream or your side? That was weird.

Ah, I see, that's what the pill does. Wait so is he. .

. ? What the hell is going on?

You know, no no person, individual, actually believes, you  know, these are real social interactions but What else are you gonna do? Turn it all off? We live in a society--and this is it!

and we should be grateful because no previous generations had all this so you had  better enjoy it. I said you better enjoy it. Okay.

so this is the show the machine gods put  on for you before they walked out of the room. I mean as a matrix is this really  the best they could do? Is this the best of all possible matrices?

Because I'm not  even very creative and I still feel like I could make up a better one than this but as  it is I guess we generally believe in this one. We're trapped in reality as little habit  machines repeating habits pretending someone out there knows exactly what is going  on but that doesn't always feel like enough We imagine something "out there" bestows this with  value: an original world that gave rise to this simulated one. There's real meaning if not here  then in the past, or in the future, or somewhere just beyond what everybody else can see.

So there's this intellectual property called The Matrix which asks a pretty interesting question: What if all of it was fake? Now the story's answer to this is yes everything is fake, every doubt you have you're  right to have because life today is largely a consensual hallucination produced by machines and  not just machines made of metal but machines of an indifferent routinized logic in order to control  you. Sound familiar?

"I hope that people come to know the meta brand and the future that we stand for" But this film, unfortunately, both times it was made very quickly annihilates all the really  interesting questions that might follow like: Is reality a misrecognition? What if it reality, all of it, was only ever images? Is some version of the lie actually the truth?

And maybe most importantly:  Is "the truth" itself the lie? Maybe we voluntarily believe the lies because we know the truth isn't true Is that not the reality of the Matrix? The questions we could be asking is now that we've  seen through the, the thin surface to the code giving rise to it now that we've awoken to reality,  decided on the red pill, you know, yadda yadda yadda now what are we gonna do about it?

What in our lives might change tomorrow to cope with that realization? No No No No. Basically  The Matrix tees up a whole bunch of worthwhile philosophical questions about what it  means to live in this modern condition, the search for meaning and answers it, with what?

before we move on i would RELIGION? AGAIN? PLATO YOU MOTHER F-- Before we move on, I would like to thank my sponsor for this video: Gucci.