The Dangerous Worship of Internet Aesthetics

Dark Academia and internet Aesthetics generally have taken over the internet, yet we haven't fully stopped to consider the consequences of this phenomenon. In this video, I deconstruct Dark Academia and ask if subscribing to internet aesthetics is really in our best interest. This was INSANE, and took me MONTHS to research, edit, and produce. Dark Academia isn't all it's cracked up to be... Here is the philosophy of Internet Aesthetics.

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0:00 Intro: What Makes A Thing Aesthetic?
5:58 Introducing Dark Academia
10:14 The Secret History: Darkness in Academia
14:14 The Bad Faith of Aesthetics
19:47 Interlude: Intelligence and Beauty
21:37 An Analysis of Goethe's Faust
23:16 Exploring the Magic of Aesthetic Perfection
25:03 Concluding Remarks

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List of books referenced in this video:
- The Will to Power, by Fredrich Neitzche
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- On the Aesthetic Education of Man, Fredrich Schiller
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- The Secret History, by Donna Tartt
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- Being and Nothingness, By Jean-Paul Sartre
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- Nausea, by Jean-Paul Sartre
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- Faust, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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- Theaetetus, by Plato
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Related Books:
- The Bell Jar, by Slyvia Plath
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- The Picture of Dorian Grey, by Oscar Wilde
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- Stepphenwolf, by Herman Hesse
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- Psychology and Alchemy, by Carl G. Jung
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Music:
Odin's Revenge, Streambeats
Ode to Joy, Ludwig van Beethoven
Spaces in-between, Omori OST
Autumn, Vivaldi
Welcome Again, Omori Ost
Jubilee Line, Wilbur Soot
"Some Random Piece from Gounod's Opera: Faust"
Acrophobia, Omori Ost
Pillows, Ibi

Movies:
Tolkien
Death Note
Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood


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