Our Culture is Dying and So Are We

Our culture is rotting from the inside out for reasons beyond anyone’s control. The Max Murphy Show is a series of artfully crafted visual & audio essays by Max Murphy. Episodes cover an interesting range of topics drawing from philosophy, psychology, media, and more! Silly but serious, The Max Murphy Show offers an oasis of insightful storytelling in a chaotic media landscape. Get more on The Murphy Memos: Sources: Overview of the Overjustification effect by Edward Deci @jonasceikaCCK’s amazing video on The Simpsons & the death of parody was a huge inspiration @EmperorLemon’s Simpsons video was an amazing resource for learning more about the the decline of the Simpsons @supereyepatchwolf3007’s video was also super helpful for finding good clips of The Simpsons (and all around an amazing video) Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis by John Vervaeke, Filip Miscevic, and Christopher Mastropietro The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan Chapters 0:00 Intro 3:15 Understanding Zombie Language 12:09 Zombie Culture 25:25 The Algorithmic Mirage 33:48 Spiritual Damage #videoessay #philosophy #existential #medialiteracy #culturalcritique