#you can go into the rest of what ur fascism says beyond simply it's nice little definition

[soup-mother]

while there are obviously very talented people talking about very important topics, a lot of "left wing" video essay YouTube basically just feels like a lot of people making exactly the same points using Ur Fascism by umberto eco and Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher as their main point of reference and adding maybe one extra original point. obviously there's more nuance than that it's just like... I'm genuinely pleasantly surprised when someone brings them up and actually goes beyond simply restating their ideas and into original and interesting thoughts.

just feels like you might as well credit Umberto eco and mark fisher as your coauthors for the video sometimes.