à-bas-le-ciel: vegan politics and the politics of veganism

The shallow end of the pool is not an obstacle to reaching the deep end: one doesn't obscure the other, one doesn't prevent you from reaching the other… you shouldn't despise what's shallow when it helps you to arrive at the profound.

The youtuber now known at "LOVE SOO" is now ex-vegan… but let's deal with the really profound, underlying issues here, my people… THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE ARE UGLY AND ALWAYS WILL BE. #vegan #vegans #veganism #vegandrama

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AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon.  Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

The moral of the story here is that youtube is really just a blank sheet of paper: you can learn a lot from working with it, or you can squander the opportunity, learning nothing at all.

Originally uploaded as a livestream (on à-bas-le-ciel) under the title, "Theo Slade: it's always unreasonable to expect reasonable criticism."

LINK: https://youtube.com/live/pxbF2bDTFdI

This was uploaded elsewhere as a video under the title, "The internet is a blank sheet of paper: you can learn A LOT from a blank sheet of paper."

LINK: https://youtu.be/NQxkFC_B_iw

Only 22 minutes long, BTW… short by my standards!

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AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon.  Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

Socrates died for your sins, and unlike Jesus or Santa Claus or whatever, he had the good taste and refinement to stay dead, so that we could all keep on sinning. #vegan #vegans #veganism #veganmovement #veganfuture

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AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon.  Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

Some people are vegan for the lies, and some people are vegan for the truth.

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AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon.  Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

It has been more than ten years since Freelee's video dared to ask the question of whether or not meat eaters deserved to live, with the reciprocal (more blunt) implication being that all non-vegans should be compelled to be vegan or else (in her words, not mine) deserved to die. Within the vegan movement, people still talk about this video as if it were yesterday, but it was many yesterdays ago, and I'd have to presume that people under 25 would now have no memory of it at all. Of course, it must live on through satire. #satire #comedy #satireisnotcomedy #vegan #vegans #veganism #charliekirk #erikakirk

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AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon.  Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

"I'm making a statement about a type of danger that doesn't arise from false facts. It doesn't arise from factually incorrect information. It's a more profound problem in our attitude." A fifty minute lecture on how to think about politics, in ways both shallow and profound. And, yes, it just happens to include a critique of Colleen Patrick-Goudreau.

"The problem is not that you believe the wrong things, but that you blame the wrong things: this is an error in the precedence of your reasoning."

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AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon.  Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel

Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings).

https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/

https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts

AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon.  Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

"For me, the difference between 'vegan' and 'plant based' is not the difference between 'ethical veganism' and 'health based veganism'. Veganism proper: it's never going to be satisfied with a merely personal decision to be vegan."

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AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon.  Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

Implicitly, this is a significant contrast to my old "manifesto" titled On Community, although it does not address the thesis of that video, directly, in any way: if you regard this as a manifesto, it is addressed to the youtuber (or podcaster) as a solitary intellectual dissident, cultural critic, commentator and comedian --not as the center of an incipient community, pulling together like-minded people (as per "the spirit season one") with an ambition to accomplish something more than they could ever attempt alone.

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AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon.  Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.