The Philosophy of Joy (and how fascists weaponise it)

exploring the happiness philosophy of Sara Ahmed in tandem with Compulsion Game's We Happy Few. Take !! your !! joy !! All my links 😘: https://hopp.bio/Marceline ~~ Chapters: Intro: 00:00 - 03:30 Part I - Take Your Joy: 03:30 - 16:30 Part II - Happy Thoughts: 16:30 - 29:55 Part III - Happy Labour: 29:55 - 46:35 Part IV - Wakey Wakey: 46:35 - 1:02:01 Part V - Trans Joy: 1:02:01 - 1:20:40 Palatable Futures: 1:20:40 - 1:35:01 Bibliography and Further Reading: (with algo friendly mods in *, sorry, don't blame me blame the system) Books: Sara Ahmed, The Promise of Happiness (which most of the secondary source quotes in this video were also quoted from, hence them not being included below) Robert Chapman, Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism Nicole LePera, How To Do The Work Articles: "This Historian Has Seen the Future of Trans Health Care": https://www.them.us/story/jules-gill-... "Why is Britain’s mental health so incredibly poor? It’s because our society is spiralling backwards": https://www.theguardian.com/commentis... “The Mental State of the World in 2023: A Perspective on Internet-Enabled Populations”, A Publication of the Global Mind Project: https://sapienlabs.org/wp-content/upl... "Therapists and Fans are Turning Against Instagram’s ‘Holistic Psychologist’": https://www.vice.com/en/article/thera... "Your euphoria is showing, diva: why regurgitating platitudes has repeatedly failed to provide transsexuals with security in society": https://tr4nbie.substack.com/p/your-e... "A rebuttal to tr4nbie’s “Your euphoria is showing, diva“": https://substack.com/home/post/p-1667... "More than 26 000 Americans are unalived each year because of lack of health insurance": https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles... "On the Phenomenology of Giant Puppets Broken windows, imaginary jars of u****, and the cosmological role of the p***** in American culture": https://tinyurl.com/28nxfdud