ProfessorViral

A topic I've been thinking about again recently is forced freedom, the kinds of people who, for one reason or another, can't just live a normal life, whether it's physical or mental. Most of the "rewards" of society and work really don't feel like rewards to me, yet they're required to survive, especially in America where healthcare is tied to full time employment. I don't think I'm "right" about this or anything, but it does feel like for who I am (in this way and others, if you know) I'm forced to fight for freedom I don't necessarily desire the weight of. This is my exploration of that feeling from last year with Samurai Champloo

3 days ago | [YT] | 69

ProfessorViral

Do you feel like you have free time? The older I get, the more it feels like responsibilities keep piling up to the point that "free time" feels guilty, as if I should always be getting something done

5 days ago | [YT] | 64

ProfessorViral

I've been thinking about Girl's Last Tour a lot recently, the existential dread, and peace, of a world which has ended time and time again merging into a truly beautiful work of art. It's about the inevitable end and how we push forward into it anyway, the point of having a goal even in a world without purpose. It also features some fancy editing I did for the manga panels to appear on screen, which I was proud of!

1 week ago | [YT] | 76

ProfessorViral

Are you afraid of becoming a different person?

After so many years of building myself, and part of my livelihood around philosophy and stories, I'm often terrified at the idea of, whether through interest change or exhaustion, finding myself liking those things less. Although, actually writing this out, I do feel pretty secure in enjoying them, and feel it's just anxiety about current changes otherwise leading me to the fear.

1 week ago | [YT] | 82

ProfessorViral

*Why* is the internet? As in, what does it mean to you? Is it an escape from a suffocating physical space, a chance to reinvent yourself, the path to a career you don't hate, the way you met your best friends, anything else? What opportunities has it given you, and has it made your life better? Let me know down below (in a paragraph or two) for an upcoming video about the topic, but here are some general responses as well:

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 73

ProfessorViral

After a recent vacation, I was struck with a somber feeling of, almost loss when returning, fearful about how all good times must come to an end. It made me want to hold onto them for dear life, spend every day trying to capture what I loved most about my current life. But, this was me talking myself down from that before, and so I figured it was time to share it again

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 87

ProfessorViral

Hey everyone, here's a quick update for the next videos if you wanted to watch the media beforehand!

Next up will be Takopi's Original Sin, with a video looking at the 6 episode series quite generally, seeing how it creates a situation of impossible judgement, merging what once seemed black and white into endless grey in a total loss of innocence. It probably works best after watching the show, but it's only about 2-3 hours of watch time!

After that, I'm finally going to talk about one of my favorite movies ever, Wake Up Dead Man (the third Knives Out movie). I've been thinking about it nonstop since it came out last year, and how it makes a case not for any religion, but rather for religious practice, for the motivation which comes from reverence and ritual, and how a search for truth alone without any storytelling doesn't inherently make the world better for us. It's a movie that tears down the main character of the previous two entries, and centers around confession: can we say what needs to be said to make us, and the world, better? Currently working on the script, so it's not final, but I think it's going to be very good.

Moving on it might be the horror of old technology? But I'm still working out the kinks on that one. It has two parts, one about why old tech is so good for invoking horror, and another about why old tech fills me with terror: linking me to the past, to age, to change, my greatest fear. Hopefully I can make something good of it.

All in all, its a stressful time of my life, full of decisions I really don't want to make, but I hope I can come out of it for the better. I'm trying to set myself up so I can give my all to what I do here as much as possible, and maybe next year will be the year things finally turn in that direction again. We'll see. Until then, I appriciate all your love and support, and I hope you're doing well : )

Thanks as always
Viral

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ProfessorViral

Do you enjoy the beach? I think I like the idea of the beach, the idea of just laying there all day, reading every now and then, but I don't care for the water, and the actual experience ends up being messy with bad weather, packing the right things, avoiding too much sun, and so on

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 38

ProfessorViral

Do you find old technology creepy in any way?

I'm debating about making that the subject of a video because, to be honest, old Pokemon kind of scares me. There's something about the half empty, almost creepy spaces of the first two gens that sets something off in my brain. Then, the fact that I used to enjoy things which are so primitive sets off another fear, related to aging, which then, looking at how far technology has come in my life, sets off a fear about how unpredictable the future is. I think it might be a looser topic, but I want to see if I'm onto anything here.

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