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Early Watch: 'The Problem with Video Essays' (Patreon)

Published:
2025-06-11 15:40:13
Imported:
2026-06

Content

hello lovely patrons!

You get to see the next episode early - for everyone else it'll be a few weeks yet!

Please don't spoil the surprise at the end by posting about it just yet! And you'll notice the link to Part 2 doesn't work yet, don't worry, it will when the general release happens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsiKUsrqFkc

Comments

Abby C

I watched it on Nebula. I’m excited to see where you go next. I appreciate your rigorous intellect and integrity more than I can express. It’s bleak here in the US and you are a lovely shining light 💜

Xaris _

I love video essays a lot. There is a charm to the human aspect of being wrong about things. There's this feeling that all nonfiction is therefore fact. But no, people wrote this stuff. People can be wrong. I'm trying to read more nonfiction these days and it's hard for me to mentally process that I can think the author is wrong about some things and not other things, and still keep reading. It's a good muscle to have. And a good reminder to always think critically.

Gem

I feel it important to share that when you said "take up space" (regarding Descartes) my partner nearly choked to death on his dinner laughing, because of Katy Perry saying it on the blue origin 🤦🏻‍♂️

Captain Mikee

I've gone through several shifts in my life where I got really excited about someone's ideas and then later found major problems with them. Sometimes that's really exciting - I wrote a whole album of music based on Jared Diamond and Michael Pollan's ideas about agriculture - and then read Graeber & Wengrow's "The Dawn of Everything," which called those ideas out for being based on the creation myth of the Garden of Eden and not on reality. Now I'm super into Graeber, although I'm aware of some of the criticisms about that book and I'm trying to be open to the next update to my worldview. I highly recommend Dr. Fatima's latest video about Galileo and the limits of the scientific method: https://youtu.be/v7a65AvELdU Working from Paul Feyerabend's book "Against Method," she talks about how Galileo was wrong in a lot of ways, and his science was bad, and he didn't understand telescopes, but he helped the world get over the unacknowledged assumptions that prevented people from accepting Copernican cosmology. It feels like a strong parallel to what Abi's doing here. In general I think Dr. Fatima is really good at thinking about knowledge in a way that recognizes how many ways we could be wrong. I'm dreaming about a collab! 🙏☺️

Chris Tierney

The chair approach was a great touch. Also, what a great hat! Who made it?

RouxTheDay

Excellent as always! Looking forward to the next one and to everything you do!

Djoran Keil

Seconded on Dr. Fatima. She's excellent and deserves a sub at the very least.