Rick and Morty: On War (Season 5 Episode 1 Breakdown)

this video is brought to you by wren what's up guys michael here to tackle the fabulous chaos of rick and morty season 5 premiere mort dinner rick andre a lot happens particularly for an episode that largely takes place inside the family home we meet rick's best nemesis yet a hypersexual sea lord i'm going to make the land what who happens to control the police police take this piece of to jail ugh i told uh i told you he's an ice-cold dick killer also jerry says the most chilling words any child could ever hear we've been watching pornography together i might never come back and morty once again tries to shoot his 14 year old shot i just want to say that you're really great i know the timing never really worked out with us but you're really great and i wish i got to know you better but the most interesting part for us was the development of the hoovy verse a world behind a magical narnia door where time moves fast what starts innocently enough with rick recruiting morty to use the portal to age some wine so time moves faster in there it's like a narnia thing i'm not a beaver who believes in jesus christ morty but yeah it's pretty much a narnia thing butterfly effects into a high-tech civilization founded on a collective hatred for your favorite high school neurotic more than just a fun subplot this storyline can teach us a lot about how civilizations develop with the help of a couple dead philosophers so join us as we explore whether aggression and war are at the heart of all human societies and don't worry it should be totally fun let's get into this wisecrack quick take on rick and morty season 5 episode 1 how violence builds society and as always spoilers ahead but before we get into it i want to give a shout out to this video sponsor ren now i don't know about you guys but the constant bad news about climate change sucks and the worst part is i feel like there's nothing i can do about it and this is where ren comes in rent is a website that helps you 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skeleton and his creepy now-born son who stabs him in vengeance for being a deadbeat dad in his dying words hoovey establishes morty as the foundational cause for his family's woes was it my fault who's them who's the boy from the magic door he then bleeds out beneath the sky of thunder and lightning end scene now if philosopher thomas hobbes had adult swim and a decent bong he might have gotten a real kick out of this moment see he thought the heart of why human society's form is to defend themselves against a common enemy small side note here hobb's idea of a state of nature was violent and chaotic unlike the peaceful hoovey verse morty first encountered which more resembled the state of nature imagined by philosopher jean-jacques rousseau that is a fundamentally innocent one anyway philosophical caveats aside hobbs believed that a common and foundational enemy whether real or imagined is the main rallying force that gets us all to work together and form societies and in rallying against an enemy we as members of a society necessarily sacrifice some of our rights to a sovereign in order to be better protected from these external boogeymen or in this case boogie boys we see the beginning of a civilized society on morty's third visit to the hoovie verse the hoovies have started cultivating land and even domesticated a bird the move to an organized agrarian lifestyle was of course a very real stage in the development of human society after morty offs the new hoovy patriarch his sons mobilize an opposition against their now sworn enemy constructing what eventually amounts to a full-blown medieval kingdom complete with them creative weapons towers and very devoted watch guards papa why do we guard the gate because one day the dark child shall return and we will be ready on morty's next visit he's seemingly pummeled to death but this doesn't end the society's orientation towards violence against this mythic adolescent enemy we finally beat him but let's always remain vigilant eventually the king's son speaks out he's fed up with the morty obsession you have wasted our lives our very futures on a fantasy clearly people have been subjugated to build this kingdom in the hopes of protecting themselves against and we can't stress this enough a 14 year old whose only friend is his grandpa eventually the hoovies progressed so far that they become cyborgs one of whom ponders who would we be without you morty are we anything beyond our hatred hobbs might say nah but why do we stay stuck in this pattern especially when war is painful it involves some very non-delicious snacks for answers to that it's worth looking to notable french disciple of power lsd enthusiast and one of my personal bald icons michelle foucault in his lectures society must be defended foucault analyzes 17th century historian honoree de blanviers who argued that war isn't really about individual battles that interrupt civilized society but rather is the fundamental schema for organizing civilized society as such as foucault explains it is a war that begins before the battle and continues after it is over it is war insofar as it is a way of waging war a way of preparing for and organizing war in this way war became a sort of permanent state that permeates the entire social body we see this as the hovies continue to industrialize in their perpetual war against morty with the core of their social order resting on their relentless need to be prepared to fight their foe even when some of the hoovies eventually do rebel against the prevailing social order they do so through the only mechanism they know more war and violence according to foucault the constant state of war informs everything from religion to economy to education and its permeation across society war becomes an excellent mechanism for controlling a populace the sort of subtext of sovereignty it doesn't benefit those in power to simply give up the ancestral whovian hatred for morty and build a peaceful society doing so would mean giving up control of its populace who in becoming robotic emissaries of the war obsessed state have sacrificed their rights and autonomy to those in power none more so than adam whose entire life has been dedicated to the project of destroying morty he's the natural culmination of the hoovey versus progression from peaceful farmers to angry peasants to mobilized warriors of course things go even further when the hoovies acquire cybernetic capabilities and literally become morty murder cyborgs the project of killing morty then has literally destroyed organic life leaving behind only robotic agents of war and aggression here foucault's ideas are exaggerated and literalized hovi society is literally nothing more than its preparedness to battle morty pretty bleak as befits any rigorous harman effort of storytelling this even connects to the episode's main plotline in which nimbus and rick each define themselves by their antagonistic relationship their attempts to find peace between earth and ocean flounders you get it flounders like yeah like the fish in part because their antagonism is foundational to their identities much as the hoovey verse was defined by hatred of morty do you think he will show you mercy and if you think this all sounds a little bit like a certain post 911 warmongering american national identity we're certainly not going to say you're wrong but what do you guys think are the hooves an excellent example of the violent fate that inevitably befalls any society more obsessed with vilifying its enemies than you know neighborly good deeds or did we wander through a portal of overthinking yet again let us know in the comments big thanks to our patrons for your support hit that subscribe button like you're unproductively avenging a 100 year old family grudge and don't forget to ring that bell and as always thanks for watching [Music] later [Music] you

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Length: 9min 44sec (584 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 26 2021