Big Oxygen

Pov: you played among us once

My philosophy is that the janitor doesn't get paid enough for this...

I think a weed sponsorship on this channel would be scarily lucrative for both parties

"I strongly considered spacing myself" "Fighting with dictionaries" This is the best comedy i've ever seen.

This is why I only get my oxygen from locally owned oxygen co-ops.

This is just a 25 minute long elaborate rant about gaslighting. I love it.

This is the single best story of philosophy I have heard ever… This needs to be a movie with an infinite budget for gods sake. This stuff is gold.

The change from "narrativist" to "friend" at the end there.... chilling

The artwork is beautiful, and the story is a great combination of insanity and humor

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." My favorite quotes always come from exurb1a

I think the coolest part about all of this is how the "The most tempting ideology is the belief that you have none." and "Is that not an ideology in itself?" lines explain everything. The Narrativist does not see any belief. He can write them all and yet cannot believe them. And yet... he still wanted to experience it. He believed his life could be improved by experiencing it. In the same way "The blind do not see black, they simply do not see" isn't a full truth because the blind can still imagine and visualize structures, the Narrativist does not have no belief, he simply has formed a primitive belief from his experience and orders. Perhaps an objective one, maybe a primitive one, but at the end of the day it is still an ideology. You cannot truly have no belief. The mission was doomed from the start. Edit: I wish to add onto this, something that I'm not sure if I can fully believe and yet with a shuttering breath I must accept... facts are malleable. As the Narrativist said, no amount of facts truly matter to someone if their beliefs can warp it however. Yet here I am, someone who comments far too often, and argues far too often to. I'm a believer of science, I constantly cite sources and try to convince everyone from the mildly deterred to the insane zealots to accept the truth and stop hating each other blindly, often in defense of equality or climate change or anything that we know accepting would only make things better. And yet, in my belief in science not an ideology in itself? I can tell myself I'm correct the entire time but the only thing that affirms that over anyone else are the writings of other people. I know it's true in my mind and yet others don't, and if others don't, does that make it true? Of course it does, we'd die without oxygen. But what if we didn't? The point of this addendum is not that I now accept that I'm a believer in religion just like anyone else. No, that's ridiculous, facts still exist. Reality still exists. But the point is to remove myself from my scientific pedestal. To realize that no amount of science can convince someone who's not open to being convinced. That in a sense, from the believer's point of view, a belief can warp any reality. It doesn't matter if I'm right, if I'm seen as wrong by some people, I will forever be wrong in the view of those people, no matter how many facts I recite. It's truly a chilling philosophy, but in itself, it's a reality. Will that stop me from trying to spread the truth? Of course not. But in the end I'm trying to work for a better tomorrow same as anyone else, it's just that better tomorrow is different for everyone, and even the desire for a better tomorrow in itself is a belief. It's just... something to keep in mind.

Goddamn I could listen to a 16 hour audio book of this, like with each of the crew being friends of the janitor and slowly going mad over each chapter. Goddamn I love absurdism

The naritivist is the best antagonist of any fiction I've ever seen....also the music perfect.

We need some more recognition for small oxygen

This is philosophy, this is art. Love your work. Please, never stop.

Your entire channel is like a psychedelic for me. Every time you upload I’m excited because I get to trip. Been a listener for a long time, I’m glad to see you still exist.

I feel like this guy watches a sci fi movie or two, plays some games, then takes a shit ton of acid and proceeds to write a script

Bro this could have easyly been a movie. Props for great content as usual.

I appreciate that this doesn't end with an advocation of any of the philosophies contending with each other. There's a strong hint that everybody just dies because objective reality is a thing, but it's exclusively in the image of the spaceship and doesn't show what's happening with the people. Even with the spaceship image at the end itself, it's unclear if it's being torn apart or if something else is going on, given the bands of light around it. Fiction that leaves its interpretation up to the reader is real interesting. Takes guts and leaves a lot of room for discussion and thought.

You literally made an entire movie which had a hell off a lot of philosophy, sociology and all that nonsense in. Truly, respect. o7