Science Fiction with Damien Walter

"I don't know anyone who hates Interstellar!"

"How many people do you know who like Interstellar?"

"Loads."

"How many?"

"Lots."

"How many?"

"Seven."

"That's not loads."

"But it's seven short of everyone."

"Fair."

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PS - this face is so far the most popular...🤬

LINK https://youtu.be/TIdfzi5R1Lg

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There's a lot of good things about Blade Runner

But one of its lesser known uses is as a test to see if your friends / family / partner / boss

Are actually human

Just sit them down to watch and see if they show any emotion

Because the only difference, literally the only difference, between a human and a machine

is empathy

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LINK https://youtu.be/DvUEkEF9Nrg?si=xrHGD...

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Should I make this video essay?

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I'm testing a new thumbnail design theme featuring...me...over the next few weeks on the channel.

I've always assumed my face would deter people who weren't prepared for it 🤣

But my little team of advisors tell me it makes a significant difference in how new viewers perceive the videos "offer"

From "scifi slop" to "man with mic ranting"

So we'll see which works best. Place your bets ladies, gentlemen and non-binary persons.

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This is excrutiatingly bad.

It feels symbolic of our times that the people who have been failing to make Star Trek for over a decade have "failed upward" to fail at making yet more Star Trek.

And are somehow failing even harder.

I'm calling this one Star Trek : Hogwarts Academy. Because it's a cloying fantasy with space magic instead of science and because the background music is unremmitingly annoying.

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Little known fact. I grew up in a single parent family, in council housing, and worked my way through school and college.

So I really understand what it's like to be skint.

As a consequence, I also really struggle to spend money, sometimes called "poverty mentality" AKA I am super tight 🤣

This month I begin the GREAT CONTENT CONSOLIDATION.

Over the next few months all of the Science Fiction video essays and my courses will be on all the member platforms :

YouTube, Patreon, Substack and the website.

So anyone supporting the work or bingeing the videos gets everything, sorted into series / courses, and with the full text.

Also all the videos will be free (with ads) on both YouTube and Spotify.

AND the text essays will all be on Medium.

HOWEVER

If you're on a low income, retired, sick, less abled, don't have any money for any reason

Of if, like me, you're just super tight

You can access ALL of this FREE via Patreon. Just pop me an email (address in the comments) titled Free Patreon and you'll get a 12 month membership.

And if a few $ a month are not something you'll miss, help keep this wagon rolling via any of the membership platforms 🔗👇

Email for free patreon :
damo@damiengwalter.com

Patreon www.patreon.com/DamienWalter

Substack
open.substack.com/pub/damien

Website
damiengwalter.com/

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It's my job to look at things and try and understand them

And looking at year one of Trump 2, I've finally understood

Donald Trump is a man in a state of pure

Nihilism

He knows he's dying, even if he doesn't admit that knowledge to himself. He knows even if he lives to the end of his term he will be prosecuted as soon as he is out of power.

He hates the people who didn't vote for him only slightly less than the people who did vote for him, who he holds in utter contempt for being the weak suckers they are. He hates you. He hates the world.

He especially hates America, because it will still be there after he is dead.

He has surrounded himself with the most destructive, toxic people he could find. People who believe in nothing. People who share his nihilism.

Many of these people are genuine fascists. But for Trump they're just a way to scream his nihilism at the world.

And now they are set on destroying America, and anything else they can can clutch at, in an act of pure nihilist rage.

Trump wants to destroy America and raise up Mega-City One on its ruins, not for any real reason, not even for power. Just as a tantrum.

We need a Dredd sequel where the Judge hunts and "judges" the mega-city oligarchs for the crime of nihilist-terror*sm.

Life in the Iso-cubes. A nightmare sentence for a nihilist.

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PS - I'm oddly resistant to appearing in thumbnails, as I'm in the videos. But I've been told to try, so this is currently being tested out on the channel.

LINK https://youtu.be/nWokGcF1sA4

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What is fascism?

Most of human history.

Mussolini named "fascismo" after a symbol of ancient Roman power. To Make Italy Great Again, by living as the Romans lived.

Everything you hate about fascism? Basically just standard for the Roman Empire.

So when people wiffle about "fascism is a lazy word" etc. No. Fascism is ever present. We're always at risk of falling back into fascism.

I found this art while researching the new DREDD video. Painted by Colin Macneil from John Wagner's Judge Dredd story arc

AMERICA

America Jara, a woman who fought for democracy, crushed under the boot of fascism.

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LINK https://youtu.be/nWokGcF1sA4

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Watch this one while you can, don't know how long youtube will let it stay up

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LINK https://youtu.be/nWokGcF1sA4

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If I end up in a black site, tomorrow's video is why

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