Matt Skinner

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  9. Posted · Edited by Matt Skinner

    The film There Will Be Blood is a great example of orange excess. The main character, Daniel Plainview, takes the son of a fellow oil worker (who dies from an accident at the beginning of the film) and carelessly raises him just so he can tell people he’s a “family man” and dupe them into his oil deals more effectively.

    Towards the end (in the second clip) his grown-up, now-deaf son wants to start his own oil company, which to Daniel just means more competition, so he basically disowns his son while tauntingly revealing the truth that he’s adopted.

    Daniel might have some stage red in him as well, but overall the film is a great depiction of toxic industrialist ambition.

    Also, if someone already shared this film, sorry for repeat. Relatively new to the forum and didn’t feel like going through the whole rest of this thread.

  10. Posted · Edited by Matt Skinner

    For years his notion of objective morality, “some ideas are good and some are bad,” subtly fucked with my head and pervaded all aspects of my personality. Like I think it even affected things like my taste in music because I believed there’s truly “good taste” and “bad taste” and just really facilitated neuroticism and lack of authenticity. That might sound like a stretch, but one’s understanding of morality has systemic effects on the psyche.

    @Leo Gura’s videos about moral relativism and “should” statements have been very healing for me. Sam seems to confuse ideas that are a natural result of high consciousness with his notion of “good” or “right” ideas, same with labeling low-consciousness ideas as “bad”.

    Basically there’s a subtle insertion of judgement in a lot of his discourse that I think is dangerous, even though he means well.