I look like a fucking potted plant.
No-Face is an incel.
Consumerism is a misplaced attempt to satisfy the needs of humanity.
Trash cans are portals to hell.
Landfills are holograms.
Garbage isn't real.
If garbage is real, then whatever I was talking to last night
wasn't God and I shouldn't have killed those people.
'Spirit' is a movie about a horse.
Spirit Day is an event nobody participates in.
'Spirited Away' is a movie that convinces basic bitches that they like abstract art.
We all love this movie, but we tend to fail to articulate why,
which is unacceptable.
Man does not live on vibes alone.
Bitches got No-Face stickers on their MacBook Pro,
but don't even know Sigmund Freud.
Part 1: Freud.
More like "fraud".
Got him!
Freud was a dumbass and I wish he was alive so I could kill him.
He was wrong about gender,
he was wrong about sex,
he was wrong about sexuality.
There is zero scientific evidence to back up any of his unhinged claims about our genitalia.
He based his psychoanalytical theories on vibes.
People are horny,
p. rhaps sexual libido can be used as a framework to explain all of human behavior.
Sure, but you just came up with that?
Everybody also needs to eat,
you could base all psychoanalytical theory off of that,
at least it accounts for asexuals.
Bigot.
But Freud was like, "no, I got this.
"I'm in a brain blast.
"Little boys see their mom's vagina and become terrified that their penis will be removed!
"Women envy the penis and they want to have sex with their fathers!"
What are you talking about?
Freud died of jaw cancer,
which he contracted from a lifetime of sucking his own dick and talking nonsense.
However, as we enter the realm of incels,
weird love-hate relationship with vaginas,
unhealthy obsession with sex causing psychological trauma...
suddenly Freud is marginally useful!
To be abundantly clear, I don't care about incels.
I have no disdain for them.
No sympathy.
No interest in them at all, as a subject.
I hope they go to therapy and get some dick someday,
I believe in all of you.
There are all sorts of lives worth living.
Sex is not the only deciding factor.
Obsessing over it will cause you to lose the plot.
Fetishizing any single thing will not bring you fulfillment,
unless it's me.
In 'Spirited Away', a young girl named Marinette Dupain-Cheng
lives a double life where she is, secretly, the superhero Ladybug,
saving Paris every single day.
Wait.
In 'Spirited Away', a little girl named Chihiro gets her parents turned to hogs,
and a witch turns her name to Sen,
and she starts a job at a bathhouse.
I'm leaving out a few details, but I don't think too many.
We first see the spirit named No-Face on a bridge,
where many specters are coming and going on business to and from the bathhouse.
But No-Face remains still and unchanged, like Jesus in "Troubled Times".
The second time we see shadow dark man incel,
he hasn't moved, but then he vanishes upon witnessing Sen's stealth mission.
When Sen returns to the bathhouse, he begins stalking her.
Sen is a human in the spirit world.
She's not supposed to be in this universe.
She snuck out of the bathhouse unseen in the dawn, where there is not another soul in sight.
She's not supposed to be outside.
She attends a secret rendezvous with her sexy dragon boyfriend,
and remembers her name and remembers her pig parents.
She's not supposed to remember any of this.
- Chihiro...
That's my name, isn't it?
Sen, unlike the clients and workers of the bathhouse
is doing something outside of the natural order.
This breaking of normalcy is what snaps No-Face out of pure neutrality,
the tantalizing concept of meaning.
He's attracted to it.
Part 2:
Women Can't Be Nice To Men Because A Man Might Interpret Basic Kindness
As An Indicator That He Might Be Able To Have Sex With That Woman
And Then If The Woman Rejects His Sudden Sexual Advances
Then The Man Can Become Scary And Aggressive.
Yeah.
Chihiro does not have a relationship with No-Face.
They aren't friends.
They never become friends.
Does that upset you? Did you think they were friends?
They're not.
He entirely one-sidedly constructs a narrative about her importance
to him without her consent or knowledge.
He's simping.
You know, like you do for me.
Keep at it, it's not real, but it pays for the wine.
Just don't crawl into my window and...
touch yourself and whisper my name while I'm sleeping, or anything.
That would bother me.
The third appearance of No-Face is in a scene of racial discrimination,
where Fuck-Face will not serve Sen because she's human and smells bad.
The same reason we ignore the homeless.
- Fuck the poor!
- Fuck 'em!
These tokens buy bath water, so it's kind of like, bitcoin you send to Twitch streamers.
Sen needs one of these so she can do her job.
The guy is being a dick about it.
No-Face is observing, because he can move through walls, and shit.
Sen gives No-Face a nod, like-- Could you...
You know, this is racist. I got to do my job.
- Oh, yes!
- What, wh-- - Thank you very much!
No-Face complies and sends the token, and Sen thanks to racist and ignores him and runs off,
like a good little worker bee, because she's a good worker.
A good girl.
uwu
I don't like that when I'm not on the chair, I can't lift my legs in the sky.
What No-Face takes from this interaction is that Chihiro wants tokens,
and Chihiro needs No-Face to get tokens.
Both wrong.
She's not thinking about you.
That waitress isn't flirting with you, she's surviving in an exploitative
capitalist structure that requires her not only to do labor for money,
but also to maintain the emotional facade that she loves labor and she loves her corporation.
She loves every single customer, and if she doesn't do that,
she will be fired and has no say over this,
even though she's the one that causes the business to run
and the owner sits in an office playing with fake numbers all day.
Workers should collectively own businesses!
We should do the Hunger Games,
but instead it's 10 year olds playing Fortnite against each other,
but we still kill them if they lose.
If The Weeknd really wants to be the next Michael Jackson,
he should bleach his skin and kidnap a child.
All bears are Russian!
I won't be taking questions.
No-Face steals another big arm full of bathwater bitcoins and shows up to Sen's workplace, like,
"I got that bitch so many bitcoins.
"She's gonna fucking love me".
I figured it out. I figured out meaning.
Bitches love bitcoins.
She has to suck my dick if I comment a fire emoji underneath her bikini Instagram post.
Sen responds to the simp like, "what? What do you--
"No, sorry. I don't need that. I only need one.
"Yeah. Bye".
- What? Are they're all for me?
- Huh. - Thanks, but I don't need anymore.
- Uh... - No, I only need one.
Visible depression sets in.
Part 3: Fetishization.
All right, let's bring back the sexist idiot.
Freud thinks that when boys see a vagina they think,
"oh, shit, her dick got cut! Is my dick gonna get cut?"
He thinks this is a universal trauma in the male experience,
because he had that weird ass reaction, everybody else must.
No, Sigmund. You're weird!
But this concept has been abstracted so hard by
so many decades of psychoanalysts and academics that we have retroactively made it make sense.
We all, as human beings, negotiate with an innate emptiness inside of us.
A lack. If we don't deal with that in a healthy way,
we fetishize something else to deal with that emptiness.
We develop unhealthy fixations related to our lack that create dysfunction,
they serve both as a shield from our need and a twisted way to satisfy it.
As soon as Ghost-Man witnesses something besides deterministic meaningless neutrality,
he ascribes to it "the meaning of life", the solution to all his problems.
"Chihiro is the first interesting thing to ever happen to me.
"She must be the meaning of life.
"Chihiro wants a bitcoin. Giving Chihiro bitcoins is the key to meaning.
"Chihiro doesn't need bitcoins?
"Doesn't need me?"
She just nodded at you, bro.
Leave her alone!
So he sulks in a corner while Chihiro and the rest of the bathhouse give Water-God a bath,
and Water-God gives a bunch of gold to all the workers as a thank you.
No-Face witnesses the joy of equally distributed wealth
before the super corporation comes and robs their wages.
- Sake's on the house, tonight!
[ Applause ]
- But first, hand over all the gold you picked up.
And again, he learns the wrong lesson through fetishization.
"People want gold? I think I can make gold.
"Yeah! I can make gold.
"Oh, my God, meaning!"
So he uses gold to entice a frog the same way he tried to entice Sen with bathwater bitcoins.
But, unlike Sen, the frog is not a chad.
He is a beta cuck.
I'm not really sure what those words mean.
So the frog thirsts after the gold and introduces No-Face to the concept of
control over other people and meaning through transactional functionality.
And then, No-Face eats them!
Just slurps them up like a wet noodle!
[ Swallows ]
Oh-oh.
Part 4: No-Face Invents Late Stage Capitalism
No-Face, the bolsheviks would be disappointed.
Now, what would Mao say?
Karl Marx was of the opinion we "live in a society".
And we do.
Shit isn't even stuff anymore.
McDonald's doesn't make burgers, it makes money.
'Spirited Away' is a commodity first and art after.
It wouldn't exist, nor persist, if it weren't for its capital value.
Even as I critically analyze it, we're making someone richer.
I monetize this YouTube channel by plugging my Patreon.
But even if I didn't ,
the fact that I have a small dedicated following
means that there's dormant capital in what I create.
Need to stretch my legs.
I'm stretching my legs.
Stretching-- This is the leg stretching part of the video.
Maybe capitalism starts great.
Industrial revolution, post World War II economic boom,
I'm loving it!
I go to work and I donate my labor and then they give me money,
then go home and then I go buy other people's labor and goods,
and then they take that money and then they go buy my labor and goods.
We create a perfect little cycle and we're all getting rich.
I'm loving it.
Through this experience we learn the wrong lesson and ascribe meaning
and priority to where it should not be.
Welcome to commodity fetishism.
Right now, through money and consuming, our lives are good.
This means that, if we prioritize money in consuming, our lives will continually get better.
So No-Face's on a massive spending spree and he's loving it.
The workers are loving it.
They're getting lots of gold, he's consuming.
This is gonna work.
I figured out the meaning to life again.
- Just keep the food coming.
I wanna eat everything!
Post World War II economic boom in the bath.
Let's go baby!
This is a party, yo throw down that jam,
pop a balloon, shoot your cousin!
Sen wakes up to the bustling stock market in economic boom and her friends are like,
"this is great, we got money flowing in,
"our work has value.
"Sen, come on get in on this, we're gonna get rich!"
So let's see what Sen thinks of that, roll the clip.
- Come on, Sen. Let's go get some gold.
- Come on, Lin! Let's go get some more!
- Wait for me!
[ Indistinct Chattering ]
Oh, okay. She still doesn't care.
Her parents are still pigs and her hot dragon boyfriend got a boo-boo.
She's got real problems.
So she's sprinting off to attend to her loved ones
and she accidentally stumbles into the No-Face stock trade blockade.
And last time, maybe No-Face was a little naive, but this time he's like,
"OK, OK, you ain't feeling me back in high school,
"but I got my money up, I've been hitting the gym,
"I got a small successful business, I'm moving tax brackets,
"I'm paying back my student loans, I got a bachelor pad,
"every one of my tweets gets 10 likes. I know what I'm doing, I'm doing yoga.
"I'm calling my mom every day. I'm gonna shoot my shot again".
He found the meaning of life.
He found out how to control the chaos all around and bathwater bitcoins weren't the key to meaning.
Money is!
"Chihiro, what do you-- What do you think?
"Are we friends now that I have modded your Discord server for a month?"
- I don't want any, but thanks.
I'm sorry, but I'm in a really big hurry!
She's not into you, bro. She's busy!
Part 5: Why Capitalism?
Why anything?
Why can you see the moon in the daytime, sometimes?
The moon is the nighttime, son!
Why didn't anyone teach me how to make an invoice until I was 23?
Why can't I just be okay?
Just sit with myself when there's nothing to do.
No distractions and just be okay.
Why does it hurt?
Just to be--
Why Robert Downey Jr. follow up 'Endgame' with fucking 'Doctor Doolittle'?
That's an argue that capitalism is good for two reasons:
It's realistic and it's fair.
They still want to help people, they just think this is the best way.
People are selfishly motivated,
so they should be incentivized to work hard for their own personal benefit.
We should compete with each other to incentivize improvement and innovation.
We should have the freedom to keep everything we earn and use that shit as we please.
These are ideas about how capitalism and consumerism were meant to serve us,
we made them for us.
The problem is...
capitalism doesn't know that!
Capitalism is a kill-bot and its only prime directive is create profit
and we trebuchet that shit into society one faith!
But the kill bot promptly set the world on fire and now three people have all the money!
Turns out the only thing capitalism is good at is generating capital,
so what if we generate more capital if we disregard other people's well-being.
What if we generate more capital if we scorch our planet and destroy our futures?
What if the ultimate way to generate capital is if people who already have a lot of capital
consolidate it, hoard it and exploit workers to continue its growth.
No-Face is trying to fill a hole inside of him called "meaning",
and the only techniques he has to do so are transaction, consumption and money.
And those are material things trying to fit in an immaterial hole,
so the capitalism kill-bot rages without regard to its initial purpose
and it burns the world to a wasteland.
What does Chihiro think of all this?
I don't know, she's doing something else.
- I picked up some new friends, see?
- He's a monster! He's already swallowed three people.
Late stage, capitalism No-Face has become a monster at this point.
He eats people if they upset him because the only language he understands is consumption
and he can't distinguish between lives and commodities anymore.
What's this remind you of?
He ends up sitting in his filth, terrorizing every being around him.
A blight on the ecosystem pleasuring himself repeatedly by eating gourmet foods
and asking for Sen again, and again, and again.
- Where is Sen? I want Sen!
Gross, dude.
Take a shower, get off 4chan.
This apparatus is running overtime trying to satisfy a need,
it's not designed to fill.
So it will never be done.
It's like trying to fit a round peg in a square hole.
Wait, that would fit.
It's like trying to consume ethically under capitalism.
The bathhouse workers want to not die and they're running
out of food to feed him and they know that he eats people when he gets mad,
so they start going like, "we should--
"we should throw Sen in there".
So they do, and this is the first and only time that Chihiro and No-Face have a conversation.
Part 6: Confronting The Simp.
I just found this over there.
I think it's for a camera or a head, one of those.
Ow!
When No-Face finally gets Chihiro in a room, he starts acting all horny again.
- Try this, it's delicious.
Come closer Sen.
He tries to access the object of his fetishization through the only ways he knows how,
consuming, delicacies, money, and Sen's not into it.
He tells her she's special and he's not doing this for anyone else,
like it matters to her at all.
- Want some gold?
I'm not giving it to anybody else.
What would you like? Just name it.
- I would like to leave, sir.
I have some place I need to go to right away, please.
He demonstrates to her face that she has power over him
and the only thing that he wants is to satisfy her desires.
He wants her pleasure for himself.
But this idea that she wants or doesn't want anything from him is already a false paradigm.
He has no control over whether or not she feels pleasure,
she has no interest in him.
She doesn't know him!
Every single thing that Sen says to No-Face
throughout the entirety of the film is a formality,
just "hello", "thank you", and really simple questions like:
"Do you have a family? You should leave".
Even when he starts getting scary and aggressive upon her rejection,
she just flatly asked, "are you gonna eat me?"
- Take the gold, take it! - Are you going to eat me?
Like it's just something she has to know for herself.
And she confronts him with the inhumanity in the
systems that he's built for himself of consumption, bribery and exploitation.
When she says, "what do you want?"
because this clearly isn't giving him it.
- I'm lonely.
- What is it that you want?
- I want Sen.
I want Sen!
His response is "I want Sen", but that's not what he wants either,
because Sen is very much not fulfilling his needs right now.
So he freaks out and becomes violent,
because he experienced the moment with somebody else of just basic
humanity and his perception of their relationship got way out of control,
and now she doesn't want to have sex with him,
and how dare she?!
- Sen, what did you do to me?
Evil shadow man big mouth can kill things, dangerous situation!
So the tension gets ramped up.
A chase sequence takes place and Sen...
avoids him easily.
- No-Face!
Over here!
No-Face never even gets close to proving an actual threat to Sen.
She just runs away from him, and evades him,
and he slams into walls and whines and shows his impotency extremely quickly.
[ Gasps ]
- I'll get you for this, Sen.
Within a couple minutes, Chihiro's just casually walking towards the
exit of the bathhouse and just checking behind her
to make sure that he's pathetically still trying to kill her while he limps along.
And this is the part that most people think that Sen and No-Face become friends.
That after he stops indulging those toxic habits,
they get to actually engage on a real level and become companions.
That's not what happens.
- Hey, over here! - Sen, don't call him over.
- I think being in the bathhouse makes him crazy.
He needs to get out of there.
She's just getting away from the bathhouse.
It's just pragmatism, she's doing her job still.
In fact, Chihiro's gonna get on the ambient liminal train to save
her snake boyfriend and she's not planning on taking No-Face with her,
she was gonna leave him in the ocean.
- Here comes the train, come on.
But when she's getting on the train,
he shoves this big dumb oval face behind her and she's like,
"oh, you want-- You want to come?
"All right, don't be weird".
- We'd like to go to Swamp Bottom, please.
- Oh, you want to come with us?
- Yes. - Sit here.
Behave yourself, okay?
The closest No-Face ever gets to being Chihiro's friend is quietly sitting beside around the train,
once.
Part Conclusion:
No-Face Means Absolutely Nothing To Chihiro & It's Hilarious.
The train takes them to granny's home.
No-Face hesitates before entering the abode, but granny, specifically, invites him in.
[ Door Opens ]
- [Granny] Come in.
Hurry up, I don't have all day.
- Come on.
[ Door Closes ]
Granny offers him food.
- I'm sorry she turned your parents into pigs,
but there's nothing I can do.
Granny thinks he's helpful.
- No-Face, where did you learn to spin thread?
You're really good at this.
Sen doesn't think that. The only thing she's ever said to him is,
"thanks", "I don't need that" and "I got somewhere to be".
No-Face finds meaning without fetishizing.
He smiles with a little drool come in his mouth again,
but this time it's not delusional.
But my favorite part is the conclusion of this relationship,
or lack, thereof, where he says goodbye to Chihiro.
- It's time to go home.
Her sexy dragon boyfriend returns to her and they're all over each other in the moonlight.
It's romantic as fuck.
Right in front of No-Face's non-face.
And she says goodbye to granny and No-Face forever.
She's like, "I'ma ride my mystic river crush into the enchanted
night and experience intimacy and self-knowledge.
"Okay? Bye".
And No-Face is happy to stay with granny.
This is his great triumph.
He stops obsessing over this unattainable idea of a person
and he looks in front of him and finds a life worth living right there.
- No-Face, why don't you stay with me?
- I could use a good helper. - [ Assenting ].
And Chihiro doesn't even say "bye" to him.
- Granny, thank you so much. I'll miss you.
Granny, take care!
Thanks for everything.
He's right there beside granny.
He's finally found his place in the world.
He's finally let go of her and he's waving goodbye--
She's never going to see either of them again
and she's like, "bye granny", and flies away!
Because No-Face is completely insignificant to Chihiro.
She doesn't care about him.
She feels no fondness.
She was never really threatened by him.
He wasn't an obstacle towards anything, he meant nothing to her.
He just had to figure that out,
but that wave...
There's something so transcendentally comedic and beautiful about this ending
with her arms wrapped around her sexy slender mythological boytoy
in front of this blob of thirst and simping,
that's been following her and trying to make her important in his life;
and, as they're about to fly away, just to forever depart and put a bottom on this whole situation,
she's just like, "bye granny" and just--
[ Laughter ]
The disrespect!
If your name's on screen you're a patron.
You give me money!
I like you better than the regular subscribers and--
You should give me money more often.
Alright, goodbye!