Nietzsche's "Slave Morality" (& Vegan Gains): Is Philosophy a Science or Showbusiness?

13 January 2017 [YT link]

If you want to follow up on the bizarre theory of "the Chandalas" (Tschandala) and their alleged connection to Judaism, the name to google Koenraad Elst: he did exhaustive research on Nietzsche's use (and misuse) of Indian/Sanskrit sources.

DxE: Is Vegan Activism Science or Showbusiness?

13 January 2017 [YT link]

Please note that this is NOT the first video I've made on Direct Action Everywhere (many of the earlier videos give more of a balanced critique (or broad-ranging discussion), but there's no point in repeating that material here). You can see the list of such videos via this link: https://www.youtube.com/user/HeiJinZhengZhi/search?query=DxE



The shortest video I've made on this topic (with footage of their "disruptions"/protests) is titled, "DxE is a Joke: Vegans and "Disruption" as Protest.", and, as it comes right to the point in only 3 minutes, you might want to see that one, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osvas6zquD4

Adults Acting Like Teenagers: Freelee & Durianrider's "Legacy" in Veganism.

12 January 2017 [YT link]

This video opens with a facepalm: we're talking about fully grown men engaging in defamation just to get attention (no, Jeff Nelson is not the only one). Vegans have to start thinking about the future of the movement, and behaving in a manner that can build the movement: there's a difference between debate and defamation, and some degree of "due diligence" is necessary before you slander people on the internet. You don't have to respect me to realize this: you can have some respect for yourself, and some concern for the future of the movement.

Vegans: Beyond Abolitionism (Beyond PETA & Peter Singer, too)

10 January 2017 [YT link]

Support the creation of this content (for just $1 per month) on Patreon, here: https://www.patreon.com/a_bas_le_ciel

Check out ModVegan's channel, here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXwREs2xdJSI0Zj9nL2MzKA/videos



As mentioned in the intro, you can see photographs of my (very photogenic) life in China if you find me on "Nice" (OneNiceApp)… this is basically a competitor to Instagram. Some people have said that it's easier to find me if you search for my Chinese name (马大影, ma-da-ying) within the app. www.oneniceapp.com



The book discussed throughout this video is by Gary L. Francione & Anna Charlton, 2015, titled, "Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach".

So, you're starting a youtube channel? (Politics, philosophy, personal life, etc.)

09 January 2017 [YT link]

Advice Nobody Wants to Hear [Ep. 006] Episode Six.

The (Ongoing) Vegan Storybook Project & Reflections on University (in China & Canada).

09 January 2017 [YT link]

The whole conversation (with Jae Costly) is over an hour long, download the podcast now, from Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/a_bas_le_ciel

You can find Jae Costly's own youtube channel, here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdV8ScPyJfgPL9mNxnCGgRw/videos

A Vegan Critique of "Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach", by Gary Francione.

08 January 2017 [YT link]

Here's the link to an earlier video (mentioned in this one) directly replying to Gary Francione (using clips of one of his public lectures) on the issue of slavery, as he interprets in his theory of vegan activism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVk-mr9hRVs

Money: Ted Carr is lying to you. Vegans selling the "digital nomad" dream are lying to you.

06 January 2017 [YT link]

Earning a living ain't easy: not in Asia, not in Thailand, specifically, not in teaching E.S.L., and not by selling a dream on the internet, either.

No, You're NOT Vegan: Unnatural Vegan, Fully Raw Kristina, & Peter Singer

04 January 2017 [YT link]

Here's an earlier video directly quoting Unnatural Vegan's claim that it is okay to drink "ethically produced" COW'S MILK, and to eat honey, etc., https://youtu.be/txY9NE_6MvE?t=15m59s

(If you agree with that philosophy, we can have a debate about it… but, very clearly, that position is NOT VEGAN.)



Here's the link to the interview quoted with Unnatural Vegan: http://rvgn.org/2015/06/30/interview-with-an-unnatural-vegan/

Vegan Cheetah: What Is the Connection Between Us?

01 January 2017 [YT link]

Shout out to "Redneck2Vegan" who had the patience to put together some clips of Cheetah claiming (as he has claimed, repeatedly) that a vegan diet is LESS healthy than a diet with small amounts of meat (I've heard him say, directly, that "lean meat" is healthier than "processed" vegan food, such as veggie burgers); rhetoric of this kind, obviously, has led to new levels of hatred and contempt being directed toward Cheetah by vegans who are actually vegan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ9KhLR5a9A

2017 Vegan Resolutions and Vegan Revolutions.

31 December 2016 [YT link]

This is a prelude to a patreon-exclusive podcast, hear the whole podcast by pledging $1 (to support this channel) here:

https://www.patreon.com/a_bas_le_ciel

(The real podcast is 1h30min (i.e., totally separate from and not overlapping with this 30 min. prelude).)

If you want to see photographs from my very-photogenic "home town" in China, sign get the app "Nice" at: www.oneniceapp.com

(You can search for my Chinese name, 马大影, to find my profile more easily.)

Vegan Anti-Minimalist Apartment Tour (Maximalist?).

30 December 2016 [YT link]

With some remarks on my life in Dehong, Yunnan, China (my diet, job, education, exercise, etc.). 中国，云南，德宏，芒市。纯素主义。

Defamation Destroys the Vegan Movement From Within: Jeff Nelson, Durianrider, Vegan Cheetah.

28 December 2016 [YT link]

Dealing with the latest flak from Jeff Nelson (Vegsource), and including an update on the legal case in Thailand (vs. Durianrider), toward the 42:00 mark.

Here's the link to the earlier video alluded to in the conclusions (with "Elitism" in the title): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1eiv0ifBh4

The Philosophy of Ted Carr. (vegan / vegans / veganism)

27 December 2016 [YT link]

This is partly a critique of a particular video, and partly a critique of Ted Carr's philosophy as expressed in many videos; if you'd like to hear the particular video quoted (from Ted) in full, here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcrJ4vib3_o

Rules for Radicals: A (Negative) Book Review (on Effective Activism, etc.)

21 December 2016 [YT link]

Here's the earlier book-review mentioned, by Sargon of Akkad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fyu2iaqrC_c&t=29s

Want to comment, ask questions and chat with other viewers? Join the channel's Discord server (a discussion forum, better than a youtube comment section). https://discord.gg/GYBsm4

Support the creation of new content on the channel (and speak to me, directly, if you want to) via Patreon, for $1 per month: https://www.patreon.com/a_bas_le_ciel

Find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/?hl=en

You may not know that I have several youtube channels, one of them is AR&IO (Active Research & Informed Opinion) found here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP3fLeOekX2yBegj9-XwDhA/videos

Another is à-bas-le-ciel, found here: https://www.youtube.com/user/HeiJinZhengZhi/videos

And there is, in fact, a youtube channel that has my own legal name, Eisel Mazard: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuxp5G-XFGcH4lmgejZddqA

vegan / vegans / veganism / animal rights / ecology

The Myth of Vegan Judaism; the Myth of Christopher Columbus.

21 December 2016 [YT link]

Here's the link to "Jewish Veg" on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/user/JewishVeg/videos

Dehong, the sound of birds singing downtown, in December (cinéma vérité?)

19 December 2016 [YT link]

Pause the video at 1:32 and you can see that the street-signs use three languages (blue "box" on right right hand side, with white lettering, at the top of a red-framed advertisement-stand), 1. 德宏傣语，2. 景颇语，3. 国语。

Apparently, I need a more expensive camera, because the colors of the trees, of the skies, etc., are all muted to an absurd extent in this video: the final shot of the temple (on the mountain/horizon) at 3:20 seems to just show the silhouette agains a white sky, but the sky at the time was streaked with gold and blue (this is December, so the colors of the sunrise were still ongoing, fairly late in the day). The trees, also, do not seem nearly green enough in this video (compared to how they appear), etc.

云南德宏芒市2016

Anti-Minimalist Autobiography (a Mid-Moving Memoir)

19 December 2016 [YT link]

Veganism: this ain't for you, this ain't about you, your issues aren't the center of the world.

19 December 2016 [YT link]

Dating Chinese Women, Dating Meat Eaters, Dating Vegans.

18 December 2016 [YT link]

WORST ADVICE EVER?

Permanent Vacation 2: Vegans Drop Out of School for Social Media "Activism".

17 December 2016 [YT link]

Fame is fleeting: the objectives of veganism ARE NOT. Micro-fame is one thing, and the movement is another; but one manages to massively distort the other.

This video is (perhaps?) the sequel to, "Don't Drop Out of University (to move to Thailand… because you're vegan)", a video still worth seeing, here: https://youtu.be/G2umtvqBEnM

[On Community:] O skupnosti: politika veganstva. [A Vegan Manifesto.]

10 December 2016 [YT link]

Slovenian translation by Lara, English by Eisel Mazard.

ASOIAF: Political Realism and Revenge (+ Trump vs. the Boiled Leather podcast).

09 December 2016 [YT link]

B.L.A.H. = Boiled Leather Audio Hour (Sean T. Collins), an ASOIAF podcast that recently took up a controversial position against Donald Trump.

A.S.O.I.A.F. = "A Song of Ice and Fire", i.e., the books of George R.R. Martin (G.R.R.M.), also known under the title "Game of Thrones", used by the T.V. adaptation to refer to the series as a whole.

Vegan Youtube "Activism": the Politics of Performance, the Future of an Illusion.

09 December 2016 [YT link]

The mask becomes the face.

Stop Treating Women Like Infants: Wengie is 30, Ivanka Trump is 35.

07 December 2016 [YT link]

Weight Loss with Wengie! Lies, Lies, Lies!

06 December 2016 [YT link]

30 LAZY LIFE HACKS for WEIGHT LOSS That Actually Work!!! How to Lose Weight Easily Without Trying

Vegans, Alone in the Crowd: A Conversation With KiwiBanana.

05 December 2016 [YT link]

A conversation reflecting on the lonesome situation of many vegans (not all!) on and off the interent… and the possibility that Thailand (or somewhere… anywhere…) could be a crossroads for us to meet up in future.

You can find KiwiBanana's channel here:

https://www.youtube.com/user/mizawizakiza/videos

You can find the link to my Patreon page (advertised by "RawAccess" in the intro) here: https://www.patreon.com/a_bas_le_ciel/posts

Insanity & Politics: A Vegan Stabbed Himself On Camera.

05 December 2016 [YT link]

Not clickbait, but let's be clear: this video is a discussion of issues within the vegan movement (and it DOES NOT contain footage of the stabbing alluded to).

Campus Radicalism is Rubbish, Innit? (Vegan / Vegans / Veganism)

05 December 2016 [YT link]

Q&A about my "Core Message", Domestication vs. the Wild, etc., with Alejandro.

03 December 2016 [YT link]

Support the creation of more content on vegan politics via Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/a_bas_le_ciel

It'll cost you one dollar per month, you get exclusive content, you get to talk to me… and if nobody donates, this content will cease to exist.

IMHO, the Political Approach to Veganism is Less Depressing than the Alternatives.

03 December 2016 [YT link]

A response to "The Vegan Activist" (Michael Goodchild). This refers back to an earlier video titled, "Effective Activism: The Boycott Mentality", and you can click on the link to that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHH0-TS8viM

I don't want to learn Chinese, I'm doing it anyway.

02 December 2016 [YT link]

This is an excerpt from a much longer (Patreon-exclusive) video-and-podcast.

Why I'm Against Trolling: Veganism is Not a Game.

02 December 2016 [YT link]

Quote, "I do not regard youtube as real activism, however, I regard youtube as creating connections between people who can really co-operate and can be part of a real movement in the future…"

(@5:30) --and, reciprocally, this is why I regard the trolls as doing something really negative (not merely neutral) within the would-be movement.

Here's the link to the children's storybook I wrote (mentioned repeatedly in this video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcK4Y8_d5XQ

Kat Napiorkowska is against "vegan terrorists" & "black-and-white" morality.

02 December 2016 [YT link]

Minimalism is rubbish, innit? (Philosophy & Politics, I.M.H.O.)

02 December 2016 [YT link]

Warning: those of you who are taking a shot of vodka every time I mention Laos WILL GET DRUNK.

Vegan Cheetah Eats Cheese: Violence & "The Man of Principle" Problem.

01 December 2016 [YT link]

Reflections on Teaching English in Asia (DON'T MENTION CAMBODIA)

01 December 2016 [YT link]

The only vegan options at Kunming's train station (Yunnan, China).

01 December 2016 [YT link]

在昆明火车站我们可以找比较少种纯素食物。

Vegan Cheetah is Wrong: What Patreon Means to Me & the Vegan Movement.

30 November 2016 [YT link]

Apart from Vegan Cheetah himself, can we try to list all of the vegan voices disucssed in this video? Happy Healthy Vegan (HHV), Unnatural Vegan, Jeff Nelson (Vegsource), Nina and Randa, Vegan Gains, Erin Janus, Bite Size Vegan, That Vegan Couple, Vegan Revolution, Joe Vegan, Durianrider, Freelee…



AND, YES, FINALLY, HERE'S THE LINK TO MY PATREON PAGE, IF YOU WANT TO PAY ONE DOLLAR ($1) TO SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL AND TO SEE PATREON-EXCLUSIVE CONTENT (VIDEOS, PODCASTS AND MORE)!!!!!!! ;-)

https://www.patreon.com/a_bas_le_ciel

Vegans over 200 pounds, represent (Vegan weight "loss").

28 November 2016 [YT link]

Joe Vegan Will Fail: His Fantasy Farm Ain't Gonna Happen.

27 November 2016 [YT link]

Joe Vegan's proposed animal sanctuary (originally projected as costing only $600 per month!) is not feasible, his claims about it are not credible, and his wishful thinking about the subject (after the collapse of his "drama" channel) increasingly resembles the fantasy of the permanent vacation (in Thailand) that he escaped from, just a few chapters earlier in this same story.

If you're looking for the link to my earlier video (alluded to here) on the high cost of keeping horses and pigs alive (in a so-called sanctuary), it is titled, "The $600 Sanctuary Delusion": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLqPmh05WWU

In terms of the ethical questions I raise (on this channel) about animal sanctuaries in general (and not about Joe's project in specific), check out the following video (only two minutes long) and the links to earlier videos in its description: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG5UeDlFlQU

Getting the "Thumbs Down" (On Youtube) Is Actually A Wonderful Thing.

27 November 2016 [YT link]

Here's the link to the video I mentioned (only two minutes long!) that has far more thumbs-down than thumbs-up… but is, from my perspective, even more worthwhile for that reason:

[Title:] "Animal Sanctuaries", Oppression vs. Liberation, Or What?

[Link:] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG5UeDlFlQU&t=15s



Quote, "The audience that needs to hear it, by definition, is not the audience that wants to hear it."

Beautiful (vegan / vegans / veganism)

26 November 2016 [YT link]

[纯素／云南] "Traditional" Vegan food in Yunnan, China: the Basics.

26 November 2016 [YT link]

Booty-Call Text-Messages at 2:00 AM (Hating the Player AND the Game)

26 November 2016 [YT link]

https://www.patreon.com/a_bas_le_ciel/posts

^ No, the patreon-exclusive content doesn't entirely consist of morality lectures and Q&A sessions on effective activism. There are also opportunities for me to burden my audience with horrible anecdotes from my personal life.

Veganism and Ecology in Party Politics: How to Build the Movement, Step by Step.

25 November 2016 [YT link]

Yes, this video is partly a critique (of what's wrong with The Humane Party, what's wrong with The Green Party, and even the trouble with Communist influence on ecology in the western world) but it is, also, in large part a positive guide ("step by step") on pertaining to the future of veganism-and-ecology in party politics.

My Flirtation With an Ex-Vegan (& hypothetically dating ASOIAF / Game of Thrones fans).

24 November 2016 [YT link]

Eating meat "on doctor's orders", WHEN YOU KNOW IT'S WRONG!

https://www.patreon.com/a_bas_le_ciel

^ That's the link, in case the unending supply of personal anecdotes and morality lectures (provided on youtube) isn't already sufficient for you. ;-)

Vegan Lobbying: A Voice for the Voiceless, or "Corporate Shills"?

23 November 2016 [YT link]

The wonder that was Freelee (RT4 in the past tense).

23 November 2016 [YT link]

An analysis.

Buddhism: Ancient Meditation & Modern Misrepresentation.

20 November 2016 [YT link]

"À-bas-ciel is recorded before a live, studio audience…"

https://www.younow.com/EiselMazard

^ That's Younow (not youtube), where I have live-streaming sessions, and the audience can chat with me in real time (etc.).