The World Is Not Ending
Added 2023-08-02 12:02:10 +0000 UTC
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In the past few years I've recently gotten into a couple of things. One, looking at mushrooms, I don't know enough about them to pick (yet) but I like to take a peak at them and send a pic to my beautiful ecologist friend. Second, is labor activism I got involved in some orgs around socialism then got really into my union. Combining the two in your video is finally making me feel that not all is for naught. Furthermore, as I am typing this I realize that these two grounds are literally interconnected. The campus my workplace is on is littered with mushrooms; way more than I've ever seen in surrounded areas and so too are the workers of my shop ready and connected to spring up. When I get the delight of seeing a new HUGE or small mushroom I am reminded of my fellow workers fighting back against our oppressive class. The acts can be big or small but it is still new life. Your metaphore is perfect and I cant thank you enough. P.S. I just started listening to The Mushroom at the End of the World <3
Triskaideka
2023-09-02 06:08:53 +0000 UTCI somehow missed this until this morning, and am now on my second watch. This has given me hope, but more importantly, direction and motivation for my to do list. Thank you
Charlie Hallam
2023-08-14 10:01:20 +0000 UTCAmazingly well done video. I was recently texting with a friend about how exploitative capitalism is and she gave the 'well yeah, that's capitalism, can't do anything about that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯' response. I immediately responded with "Well, do I have the video for you," and then I realized that it wasn't going live to the public until Friday.
Chibigodzilla
2023-08-11 00:50:51 +0000 UTCThank you for this video. Ever since i was introduced to the idea of building communities of care, parallel to the crumbling structures of powers of the current regime, to welcome others like us who are in need, it has felt a little easier to imagine a future, if not for myself, then at least for other human beings like myself. Your work doesn't bring me hope, exactly, but it brings me... focus? A sense of purpose. And that feels like the antithesis of climate doomerism. Anyway. Thank you for helping me imagine a world beyond the current system. I am doing my best to build and nurture the communities i have the chance of being a part of, and more and more i find myself wondering how else i can make it easier for not just me but others to build these new, parallel networks of mutual aid.
Mo
2023-08-09 19:19:03 +0000 UTCThank you so much for this video :3 admittedly, through following the development of this video through your streams and Red Planet and even like random appearances elsewhere, I’ve felt it (among other things of course) helped pull me out of a mega doomeresque spiral I fell into post 2021 and has helped maintain a conviction with which I wish to share with others in order to build, however small, systems of support through precarity :3 /gen thank you so much, and hoping your mushroom gardens and forage places bear as much fruit as the food and forest gardens I’ve been accepted to hold space to help foster >:3
蒲公英
2023-08-09 11:38:39 +0000 UTCThe final part of this video always makes me cry, it's excellent.
Discrot
2023-08-07 08:33:37 +0000 UTCis repeating "capitalists insists/convinced it's grown up talk etc." from 1:18:44 intentional? seems like an editing error while i'm at it, the text at around 1:57-1:58, in the 4th line "... considered dance. lines", an unnecessary period after "dance" sorry for being so late
rapchee
2023-08-05 08:52:37 +0000 UTCLovely as always, I think this might be my favorite one yet.
Marta Barrales
2023-08-04 21:59:52 +0000 UTCThis is fabulous. I think it pairs well with a recent video by another creator I support: “Why We Secretly Want the World to End” by Zoe Bee, which I just got to watching. Just brilliant, loving optimism from y’all.
Jenlifer Fronester
2023-08-04 20:04:41 +0000 UTCThank you for this one, Sophia. I have a partner who's really really into mushrooms and her and I talk about the future in relation to capitalism and climate change constantly. I just sent her a link to it (I'd watch it with her but I'm an ocean away atm) and I think she'll love it. I also think this video is gonna make a lot of connections for people and between people. Makes me think of mycelium lol. I'm gonna show this one to as many people as possible 💕
Kathryn Gibes
2023-08-03 22:44:15 +0000 UTCThis is a really lovely video, Sophie.
Petter Ericson
2023-08-03 19:27:32 +0000 UTCI’ve already been having conversations like “I have a video to send you” for a variety of contexts. My sister because she’s doing climate science but her particular academic bubble limits what she gets to see as a possible solution. My friend I went to the climbing gym with yesterday because I can tell he’s cynical and stressed and needs to see more possibilities. My spouse because we’re both working on our relationships with reproductive labor as they pertain to our relationship with each other. I hope this comment captures a fragment of my appreciation for the work you put into this.
Hey_Zelda
2023-08-03 14:34:31 +0000 UTCThank you (and Nat!) for making this video. I'm lying awake thinking about the climate crisis at 5 in the morning but not feeling completely defeated for the first time in years. I wouldn't say I feel hopeful, but I do feel angry and...determined. The answer being "build community" is a scary one for me. I live in the rural US south, my partner is high risk for covid, and I have bad social anxiety. I am pretty cut off from the kind of supportive community you talk about. But I think I have to try to find something like it and that feels a little more possible than it has in a long time. Pretty fucking incredible that you unlocked some of these feelings I didn't know I could have anymore with a video essay. Plus, I live in Louisiana, so bonus points for teaching me about what mushrooms are illegal for me to grow at home!
Karis Ritenour
2023-08-03 11:27:31 +0000 UTCAmazing
oxyhyxo
2023-08-03 05:53:21 +0000 UTCGod this video is good. When I first watched Abigail Thorn’s video about climate change years and years ago when I first really started understanding the problem it changed me. And this has changed me again. Both for the better. Edit: I wrote that before I saw the ending. The ending made me cry. Goddamnit.
Markisgay
2023-08-03 03:47:17 +0000 UTCLoved this so much, incredibly inspiring, thanks for making it!! Also your description of the worm reminded me vividly of the leviathan described in "Against History, Against Leviathan".
Libby Horacek
2023-08-02 23:51:53 +0000 UTCI don't know if a video essay ever made me cry or want to applaud at my computer screen before this one. Thank you so much for this. This was amazing and important, and despite it not being the stated goal, managed to give me hope.
Lynneiah
2023-08-02 19:25:36 +0000 UTCI cried multiple times while watching the video. Thank you Sophie the inspiration that this video gave me was not a new feeling to me but really you've helped catalyze in me my belief in myself and my community's ability to take care and provide for one another despite our precarity. I feel very seen by your loving description of the caring and reproductive work that your friend(friends) do(es) I am one who can tend to overstrain myself at times in providing for others and undervalue the support that I provide to people. And hearing about others engaging in acts of care validates me in the work I've done and reassures me that I don't need to be the super-commie girl who can do all the reproductive labor for my community and that I can rely on them and others for support when I am the one who needs it. (from each to each and all that) Thank you so much for this, I wish you the most Love and Strength Commrad. Let's build a better world.
E.E.
2023-08-02 18:20:18 +0000 UTCLets go!
AneBOII
2023-08-02 18:12:35 +0000 UTCHey, this was a great one. The end made me cry a bit tbh, especially as I recently made a game about walking through the forest to deal with all the sad feelings that come with the general state of the world, and your mushroom foraging metaphor hit home in a similar way. I hope everyone gets to forage with people and build close communities
Liana
2023-08-02 16:23:20 +0000 UTCI really enjoyed this. Thanks for making it :)
5099 5618
2023-08-02 15:58:47 +0000 UTCreal good video Sophie
LeondeBowa
2023-08-02 15:56:48 +0000 UTCooph, that beginning chapter, too real
LeondeBowa
2023-08-02 15:56:30 +0000 UTCYeaheah!
E.E.
2023-08-02 15:45:03 +0000 UTCGet hype
Noorah
2023-08-02 15:19:26 +0000 UTCLET'S GOOOOOOOO
Malachi Biffle
2023-08-02 12:15:53 +0000 UTCReally excited for this!
Tuur Verheyde
2023-08-02 12:03:22 +0000 UTCSo happy it's finally done and out on yt 🥰✨😻
Mingo
2023-08-02 12:03:21 +0000 UTC
