Self-Reliance is the Death of Conformity | Pan's Labyrinth

“There comes a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.” The world doesn’t want you to think. It doesn’t want you to question. It wants you to surrender your individuality to blind obedience, to live a faceless life of shallow comforts, to let yourself be governed. To pick a neat ideology with which to understand the world, and make your choices based on what it tells you. But Pan’s Labyrinth says fuck all that noise. A tale of self-reliance in the face of institutional evil, Pan’s Labyrinth is a disobedient masterpiece. PATREON:   / thestorieswetell303   SUBSTACK: https://windblowncuriosities.substack... TIP JAR: https://buymeacoffee.com/thestorieswe... BLUESKY: https://bsky.app/profile/storieswetel... INSTA:   / thestorieswetell303   TIKTOK:   / thestorieswetell303   EMAIL: [email protected] DISCORD:   / discord   MY FAVORITE BOOKS (affiliate link): https://bookshop.org/shop/thestoriesw... My other videos:    • How to Escape the Neoliberal Lie | Kendric...      • Breaking Bad's Brilliant Pilot      • The Grizzly Arrogance of Man      • Happiness Only Real When Shared | The Chri...      • Little Miss Sunshine | Accepting the Absurd      • A Psychological Schism Bridged by Love (Ra...      • Propaganda, Hollywood & Ideology | The Sym...      • Be (Mindfulness, Space & Absurdism)      • 17 books I'm reading before 2024 is over (...      • You Are Who You Choose To Be   #philosophy #byungchulhan #panslabyrinth #guillermodeltoro #videoessay #conformity #mindfulness #hustleculture #nietzsche #ralphwaldoemerson #selfreliance Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 2:54 - Channel Intro 3:37 - Act I: Monster as Metaphor 9:22 - Act II: Idea vs. Ideology 17:20 - Act III: At a Crossroads 23:12 - Act IV: You are Art. Art is Immortal. Imitation is Suicide 28:43 - Mindful Pause & Outro Sources and futher learning Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson The Transparency Society by Byung-Chul Han Vita Contemplativa by Byung-Chul Han Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault Eichmann in Jeruselem by Hannah Arendt Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche https://www.youtube.com/live/J1kXdA61...    • The Pale Man: Physical Fascism      • What is The Pale Man?      • Pan's Labyrinth: Disobedient Fairy Tale      • Pan's Labyrinth | Guillermo del Toro on th...      • Guillermo del Toro on Pinocchio, disobedie...      • Guillermo del Toro Breaks Down All of His ...      • Guillermo del Toro Interview on BBC Film 2010      • Video      • Guillermo del Toro Career Retrospective | ...      • BFI Screen Talk: Guillermo del Toro | BFI ...      • Guillermo del Toro's Personal Religion      • Guillermo del Toro: "Monsters Are Living, ...      • Anyone Can Be a Director      • Politicians Are Scarier Than Monsters      • The Craft of the Director: Guillermo del Toro      • 'Humanity is in the middle of a massive co...      • Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Guillermo del Toro ...      • Why GUILLERMO DEL TORO is not interested i...   Pan's Labyrinth Director's Commentary Art Used Title: Guernica by Picasso Act 1: The Head of Medusa by Peter Paul Rubens Act 2: Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich Act 3: The Nightmare, by Henry Fuseli Act 4: The Monk by the Sea by Caspar David Friedrich