Lady Eboshi is Wrong is FINALLY public!

yeah, it's been down a long time now. you can see it on vimeo: https://vimeo.com/357117766

Ian Danskin

Is this video still available on Dropbox? It seems to have been taken down again from YouTube.

John Davis

This is what the US mainstream media is failing to understand when they invite someone onto TV to "debate" a climate scientist. It's hardly an American-only problem, but we're really feeling it right now in our Age of Anti-Intellectualism; the misnomer that there are "two sides to anything" - including, somehow, Objective Truth - is basically going to be the end of us all. If there is an "opposing side" to science, for example, it goes against the very definition of what "science" is. It feeds distrust of anything intellectual, anything provable. One reason this is so prevalent in the US is, I believe, the deeply embedded strain of religion. Christianity boasts of dualities; good and evil, God and Satan, always black and white. So it's easy to convince people en mass that dualities apply not only to matters of Subjective Opinion, and judgment in general, but also to matters of Objective Truth. This also speaks to the core issue of religions like Christianity, whose frustrating grouping of everything into black and white discounts the Objective Truth that most actions and most ideologies don't fall into the easy good/evil grouping. The real world is more about shades of grey, about nuance, rather than sweeping generalisations and groupings.

Ryan Aston

This is a very strong video, although I don't agree with your ultimate conclusion there; there's two things you're talking about in the video, and two things I think we can both agree on. 1, there is Objective Truth, and 2, there is Subjective Opinion. While both of the warring parties in Mononoke have based their ideology for war on their Subjective Opinion, the Objective Truth is that Lady Eboshi IS wrong, and her Subjective Opinion disregards and ignores the Objective Truth of the matter.

Ryan Aston

Thank you for stating that empathy doesn't equal no judgement. I'm tired of the idea that I'm giving people a free pass because I empathize with them or the reverse that empathy should be reserved for "good" people. I empathize with them; that doesn't mean they get no consequences.

They're basically identical.

Ian Danskin

Ian, which would be the preferred version of this video to watch, this one now up on YouTube or the version you uploaded to Dropbox?

Ryan Aston

Good and important, and correct, point I have been making myself for a while now. Everyone stops asking questions at some point; you can't break things down infinitely, eventually you reach a point you can't question anymore for any reason. That can be because you can't prove that the signals your senses put into your brain reflect any actual reality, and it can be because you'd be rendered immobile if you question wether a black hole is spontaneously gonna pop up under your feet. It can also be because you are forced to make decisions at some point, often quickly, and if you question everything to its roots all the time, often you'll miss the decision's timeframe and something even less desired than an imperfect, but probably desirable outcome will happen. If time didn't exist and we could know wether our senses actually reflect reality, this wouldn't be a problem - but both do, and will for every human, and the concept of morals emerges from that. Morals are the basis on whose ground we base decisions we don't question, at whichever point that is - which, bizarrely, makes morals the negative space of fact-checking. Good video. Thank you, Ian!

Nikki

this is a really great articulation of how complex and difficult things can be, great work!

Amee

<3 <3 <3

Ian Danskin

THIS IS AMAZING! I love that you do this work in the world. You articulate all the things I have thought of at great length about this movie. Thank you!!!!

Kait Hatch

Worth it.

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