Pirates of the Caribbean broke down when I was on it once. We were stuck for what must’ve been an hour, the pirates looping “Yo Ho-Ho” the entire time. It was nightmarish.

And know here comes the "Post-Kyle-or-Lindsay-video period of looking blankly at a wall and re-think life"

When "pics or it didn't happen" becomes not good enough...

i don't know WHO kyle sold his soul to to become so brain-crappingly GOOD at making videos (and video essays in particular), but I'm glad he did because holy shit i LOVE his freaking channel more than life itself

the funny thing is that the Western has never really realistically depicted the 'West' but yet when we think of the Wild West, we might as well just have thought of Westworld

Came for the Westworld, stayed for the oh my god I’m going to be replaced by robots, aren’t I?

“We now face the danger, which in the past has been the most destructive to the humans: Success, plenty, comfort, and ever-increasing leisure. No dynamic people has ever survived these dangers.”

I have been watching a lot of older videos of this channel. And they are so great. I was expecting another new video and this doesn't disappoint.
As a fan of Eco and Crichton, Disneyland, the original film Westworld and the new show in HBO this essay is really enjoyable.

"It's not TV . . . it's DiGiorno."

I double like this since the Western as a genre is so far divorced from historical reality, but it stands in for a national history that we yearn to have. And its a great story, too! It has become Mythic and serves as a way to define the American identity.
  You see this kind of fabrication of a romanticized history all over the place, too. A lot of Scottish lore (like the clan-specificity of tartan patterns) was something added after-the-fact during the Romantic period by folks like Walter Scott to promote a Scottish cultural identity. And even though I know these stories are recent inventions, I still love the cultural variety it promulgates and indulge in those stories whole-heartedly and un-ironically.

There's another example of hyperreality that I wish you could take a look at someday: professional wrestling.

A) God damnit Kyle your videos are so well done and smart.
B) God damnit Westworld is so good.
C) Sorry for swearing so much god damnit.

America: Obsessed with creating a reality that doesn't exist out of the eternal dissatisfaction with the one that does.

Maybe it's because I'm getting older but the only question I ever get out of explorations of the American psyche anymore is: Why are we all so goddamn unhappy ?!?

We sit inside the screens
And contemplate the view
That's painted on the screens
More beautiful than true

When you consider how much study has shown that memories and eyewitness accounts and history are really just...not as real as we have been assuming for a long time, the idea that film may not be a reliable source of "truth" becomes a little bit less surprising, I guess.

I'm not really certain what the conclusion here was but the fact that it's 2 AM might be clouding my interpretive engine.

I am fortunate enough to have visited the real Luxor temple in Egypt, and the Luxor Casino in Las Vegas, both sacred sites for very different reasons (Nomi Malone sulked on a bench in Showgirls at the latter, the former commemorated Rameses II).

the good dan Brown

"The Good Dan Brown"...

Goddamnit, Kyle. There's a good reason I love you so much.

Okay Kyle you made me cry.