Hey everybody, welcome to another exciting episode, another edition of A Week in Geekdom, and you know what time it is because, well, technically you already saw the title of the video, Graphic Collection Time. So let's go ahead and give you a tour of all the crazy books that are behind me and all that fabulous comic book collecting, and I am going to include some manga as well, because yeah, why the heck not. So my graphic novel slash manga collection tour video for 2019, let's do it. You know, it's a little random, but I do have to begin the video with this intricate artistic stack of books. Basically the first one is the art of the Aquaman movie, then is the ballpoint beauties from Frank Cho, the Stanley Romeo Juliet adaptation, and what the heck is this book? Anatomy of the Meta-Human, the Onipres Kaijumax deluxe edition hardcover, Sky Doll Volume 4, something like that, yeah, Sky Doll, and the Fantastic Four Behold Galactus Super Duper Gigantic edition, and some Japanese inspired displays, you know, with Gundam, Astro Boy, you got Franky over there, Godzilla, Revotech, the Random Groot, just, you know, just chilling.  Here we have Link, Connor from Assassin's Creed III, Injustice Wonder Woman versus Batman, Aloy, Liara from Kuribukiya, Mass Effect, my two Overwatch statues, Tracer, Mercy, and of course, Chunli, one of my favorite fighting games of all time, Street Fighter. So yeah, let's get into the books, shall we? All right, so let's begin with my favorite part, the manga section. It's divided into the following four cubes in this Calak shelf, and another separate one that I'm going to show off at the end of the video. But yeah, we start off with one of my favorite manga series of all time, Berserk. I absolutely love it, and as you can see, I am getting the deluxe editions and upgrading them as they come out. So we have up to Volume 39, Volume 40. It hasn't arrived for me as of this video, so just imagine a Volume 40 right there. Next up, this is a shared cube with three series that I like. Let me move this guy out of the way. What we have here is that time I got reincarnated as a slime from Kadansha Comics. We've got the Ancient Magus's Bride, Vol. 1 through 10. Over there, you got all six volumes complete of Spirit Circle. The first volume of Monster Infirmary. Here we get into my Shonen collection, basically Shonen Jump series. We got My Hero Academia, Volumes. Well, you can see, let me move these guys out of the way. From Volume 1 all the way up to Volume 20. And over here, three of my favorite manga and shows with their anime adaptations. We got Demon Slayer, Dr. Stone, and Hunter Hunter. So yeah, those four cubes are like my ongoing collected manga, if you will. So yeah, one quick look over here with Berserk over there at the beginning. So we move on to non-big two comics that I really, really fricking like. And this is in my top 10 comics of all time. It is Mike Pinoa's Hellboy. I do have those, but you know, Other Tales is fine. But the other ones, like the 1950s series, I'm kind of waiting to see if they put out the hard covers. So I never bothered getting the rest of them. So they're just sitting there a couple pops. Over here is the other world from the Mignolaverse. We got BPRD, Abe's Safety Inn over there. And of course, that's Plague of Frogs, 1946 to 1948. Again, Lobster Johnson, I'm waiting to see if they ever put out a collected edition hardcover. Witchfinder, the same thing. There's an omnibus coming out. So I'm waiting for that instead of continuing the series on trades. Next one over here is mostly IDW. Well, everything's IDW here. But my favorite thing ever, it is the Teenage Ninja Turtles, the IDW hardcovers. Just fantastic. Here we have the first nine. I only have one Transformers book. I need to change that because I know the series is great. I just haven't collected anything. Over here, we also have the Lock and Key. Let me get this guy out of the way. The Lock and Key trade paperback slipcase edition. All in one hefty package. Falling for Lionheart, great indie title. And over here, I know these two figures don't make sense being here, but whatever. My valiant collection. I don't have a lot. These are the only trades I got, but the hardcovers are what you guys like, right? XL Man of War, Bloodshot, Harbinger, Archer and Armstrong, Quantum Unwoody, Ninjak, Rai, and 4001 AD. And over here with the trades, Divinity, Faith, Valiant, Armor Hunters, basically the events and the smaller series, Dr. Mirage, et cetera, et cetera. All right, we go down below to Marvel. And this is my Spider-Man cube. I used to have a lot more if you watched the previous videos, but I'm content with what I have. Basically, we take this out of the way so I can show you. Yeah. Here we have the amazing Spider-Man Obnibus, the first four, the Stanley and Ditko material, and John Bermida as well, and everybody else that was involved. And of course, the Roger Stern Obnibus, followed by the Strasinski run on the Ultimate Collection, or the Ultimate Collection, yeah, the Ultimate Collection trade paperbacks. Those are the first four. Over here, we continue with Marvel. Let's take this alias Obnibus out of the way. As you can see, amazing Spider-Man volume five of the Ultimate Collection. Only one brand new day. I used to have all the brand new day stuff. I only have this volume left. That is Spider-Man by Mark Miller. And just trades, lots of Marvel trades right there. Avengers, Angela, Black Widow, Exiles, Infinity Gauntlet, New Mutants, Red Hulk, the Jeff Parker stuff, Runaways. Then over here, this one's a little bit crowded. Let's take this out of the way, like a lot of collectibles like everybody else. One of my favorite Obnibuses of all time, the new Avengers Obnibus. I know we don't have more of them, but I still love this book so much. It means a lot to me. And one of my favorite events of all time, Secret Invasion, which is basically sort of a volume two. Just missing a few issues in between. We have more trades. Scarlet Witch, Secret Warriors from Hickman, She-Hulk, Silk, Spider-Man, Thanos, Immortal Iron Fist, Superior Foes of Spider-Man, Gwenpool, Ultimates, Uncanny Avengers, Yen Avengers, Vision, and the only Star Wars books I still own, the Darth Vader run and trades. Then we move on to the next shelf, which is very cosmic heavy. As you can see, the Cosmic Pops, if you will. Annihilation, Conquest, The War of Kings trilogy. Next to the first Avengers by Hickman Obnibus, Guardians of the Galaxy from Dugan, Infinity Wars, and Infinity Countdown, right? Let's see. Yeah. And Avengers No Surrender. Instead of continuing, because next would be DC, I'm going to go down below for another road of Marvel books. This is my Thor slash Inhumans shelf with more Pops. We got the Jason Aaron stuff, the two God of Thunders, the three Fimo Thor, Miss Marvel, the Inhumans, which I really love right there. So yeah, I think I, a memory serves me right. I think I have everything in Collected Edition. You got Origin of the Inhumans, then I see Stanley and Jack Kirby, then the Roy Thomas, Neil Adams, with the Beworthy Inhumans. You got it by Rite of Birth, then the Paul Jenkins stuff, and this crossover, then Inhumans from Charles Soul, Uncanny Inhumans, All New Inhumans, Karnak, Death of X, Inhumans versus X-Men, Royals, Ones and Future Kings, Black Bolt, and Death of the Inhumans. Might as well mention these guys, Axis, Hardcover, and Thanos by Donny Cates. Speaking of Cosmic and All Things Awesome, this is my fantastic Ford Cube at the Marvel Legends figures right there. These two omnies are the John Byrne Obnebuses, followed by Mark Wade, Jonathan Hickman, and the Silver Surfer slot Obnebus. And over here, Secret Wars from Jonathan Hickman. We move on to my favorite part of my Marvel collection, the Ultimate Universe, which I really love. This is Ultimate Spider-Man. I need to, let me get this out of the way, I need to get rid of those four books and upgrade to volume 11 of the Oversized. I never did it. So yeah, Ultimate Peter Parker and Miles Morales Obnebus with the crappy binding. Then we continue to Ultimate Fantastic Four, which bleeds into Ultimate X-Men. The Ultimates, Ultimate Comics, and Hickman was on it. Ultimate Comics X-Men. This, yeah, the Universal Horror monsters. I love these guys. Ultimate Comics Avengers Omnibus. That was my very first Omnibus, by the way. And then I also have Ultimate Comics Divided We Fall, United We Stand. All right, we are moving up to my Aquaman Cube. My favorite cube. Yeah, you know I was going to talk about it. Chronologically speaking, this is everything collected. The only thing I do not have that's in trades and stuff is the Death of a Prince, which is coming out in Deluxe Edition soon. And Sword of Atlantis, which is getting reprinted with more issues. I think I have everything. Right? The Search for Mira, Legend of Aquaman, The Atlantis Chronicles, the Peter David stuff, which, man, got canceled but volume two. What the heck? Aquaman Tempest, Water Bear, all the way up to Kingdom Lost. We're missing one trade that goes between Water Bear and Sub-Diego. And we'll have this whole run completed. Hopefully that happens. We've got Aquaman by Jeff Johns, Omnibus. And then the Jeff Parker stuff, Cullen Bun, Abnet, Aquaman and the others. The Rebirth Aquaman, the Mira mini-series, Aquaman Suicide Squad, Crossover, Justice League, Aquaman Drowned Earth, and the first volume of Kelly Sudeconnick's run from Aquaman. Here we have the events, the crisis stuff, a crisis on Infinite Earth, Identity Crisis, Infinite Crisis 52, Final Crisis, Flashpoint. Then we move on to my Titans collection, which is, you know, it's lacking, it needs more stuff, but I'm happy with it. Just five from Wolfman and Bettis, Teen Titans from Jeff Johns, and then the start of the Rebirth era. And then it crosses over to the Bat stuff. So we have Batgirl, the Stephanie Brown run, and then we have the New 52 post-Symone, because I'm waiting to see if they ever do an Omnibus for Batgirl New 52. That I would get, because I love that run. There's the Burnside Babs, that woman from Greg Rocco, which is getting, you know, we're getting a New 52 slash Elegy Omnibus. That's exciting. Speaking of Batman, that's the start of the Batman collection right there.  Year one, basically the essentials. I don't have extensive runs on the character, just have like very famous storylines and stuff that I like. You got year one, Dark Knight Returns, The Long Halloween, Dark Victory, Haunted Knight, Arkham Asylum, Under the Red Hood, if you got Batman Hush. Then it moves on to the New 52 stuff, Batman Eternal, Batman Robin Eternal, the recently released Batman White Knight. The Batman Omnis that I own include Gotham Central, the Grant Morrison run, Missing Volume 3, which hasn't come out as of this video, Batman and Robin, the New 52 run from Tomasi and Gleason, and the rebirth Tom King Deluxe Hardcovers. This front row is my small Wonder Woman collection. You got the New 52 absolute Wonder Woman run. The first Alvin of Us from George Perez. You got the first two trades from the Greg Rucka run. And then you got Who is Wonder Woman and Love and Murder, which was After Infinite Crisis. You got the standalone Legend of Wonder Woman from Renee Deliz, Wonder Woman to True Amazon from Joe Thompson, Odyssey of the Amazons, Rebirth Wonder Woman from Greg Rucka, Wonder Woman and Justice League Dark, The Witching Hour. And then it sort of bleeds into Justice League Dark, the perfect spot to put them, right? Oh, and Justice League Odyssey. Here we have Demon Knights, New 52, Frankenstein, Agent of Shade, Eye Vampire, Doctor Fate, Shazam, the Jefflemere Green Arrow, the Rebirth Green Arrow, The Flash from Rebirth, Green Lantern, Rebirth. Then we got that crossover Godhead because I love the new gods. The Omega Man, Power Girl, Power Trip. This is the Jeff John stuff with Palmyardian Gang. You got the Demon from Jack Kirby, Prez from Mark Russell, the Paul Dini collection from Zatanna, that Black Canary in Zatanna blood spell original graphic novel, and the two Harley Quinn New 52 Omnics. Next up is my Superman collection, which is not a whole lot, just some very famous storylines like All Star Superman, Birthright, Red Sun, the Superman Batman Run Supergirl, Superman American Alien and the Tim Lassie and Gleason Rebirth stuff along with Super Saiyans. Next up, a couple more oversized additions. You got the Seven Soldiers by Grant Morrison Omnibus, Kingdom Come, the 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition, Multiversity, Dark Knights in the Middle. A couple more DC books, you got Harley Quinn and the Gotham City Sirens, or you know just the Gotham City Sirens Omnibus, the Deluxe Edition of Justice League of America the Male, Swamp Thing by Scott Snyder, New 52, you got the Three Heart Covers for Brightest Day, you got Gelsimona's Secret Six, Justice League vs. Suicide Squad for the Rebirth, Random Justice League, the first New 52 volume, and then the ending of that run with the Dark Side War collection right there, Heart Cover, followed by two Detective Comics Rebirth Oversize Heart Covers from Tideon and the Rebirth Deluxe Edition One Shot. The Green Lantern by Jeff Johns Obnins, one two and three, and the first volume of the Grant Morrison Run. JSA Omnibus' One, Two, and Three, the Fourth World Omnibus by Jack Kirby, Mr. Miracle from Tom King, and this Jack Kirby 100th birthday celebration collection. Walter Simonson Orion Omnibus, the Darwin Cook Deluxe Edition of New Fronts here, Starman Omnibus, Missing Volume Three of course, but I might just get rid of these and get that Omnibus if it doesn't get cancelled of course. The Earth One stuff which I really like, Batman, Teen Titans, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern, Watchmen and before Watchmen the Minutemen and Silk Spectre, I think those are the only ones worth getting. And over here we start our Vertigo section mixed with the Hanna-Barbera universe or beyond Hanna-Barbera, I think it was called. So yeah, American Vampire Omnibus Volume One with Volume Six, Seven, and Eight, which hopefully we do get that second Omnibus eventually. I never could get my hands on the Animal Man Omnibus, so I got these for dirt cheap. It's the original trades for Grant Morrison's Animal Man and yeah, the Hanna-Barbera stuff, Scooby Apocalypse, Flintstones, Future Quest, Jetsons, Snaggle Plus, I do want to collect everything on that line because I love Hanna-Barbera. All 15 volumes of the Fable series, these are deluxe oversized, that is the complete series. Gilsamone's Clean Room, Dark Knight from Paldini, Day Tripper from Frawia Moon and Gabrielle Baugh, Flex Mentalo from Grant Morrison, actually all of these are Grant Morrison, Jotha-Barberian, Kid Eternity deluxe hardcover, Kill Your Boyfriend and Vim Manorama, all deluxe hardcovers. Next up, Jason Aaron's Scalped deluxe edition, you got Space Man from Brian Azzarillo and Edward Ariso, Preacher from Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon, Absolute Sandman, I only have the first two Absolutes, I still haven't gotten around to collecting the entirety of the series. I think it's six total, so yeah, there's a lot of collecting. These things can be a little bit pricey, especially when some of them go out of print, but fortunately they put them back in print, so that's great. I was going to collect the Alan Moore Swamp thing stuff, but I'd rather wait for the Absolute Editions because they look much cooler on the shelf, right? You got Sheriff of Babylon from Tom King, Scott Snyder's The Wake, Sandman Overture, you got the first volume of Transmete, We Three, Sweet Tooth, Why the Last Man and the Eye Zombie, Omnibus. Continuing our journey with Indies, if you will, we go over to some Dark Horse books. We've got Black Sad, one of my all-time top 10 comics ever, Breath of Bones, Black Hammer, Conan, back what it was with Dark Horse, Concrete Volume 1, I never got around to picking up more Concrete Volumes, Empowered, same thing, How to Talk to Girls at Parties, the first volume of Lady Killer, you got an Overwatch comic anthology, Sherlock Frankenstein, Fear Agent Library Edition, then over here the world of Edina from Mobius, the art of Overwatch, Hyrule Historia, Giant Days, Trade Paperback, and then this small boom section, Irredeemable, Klaus, one volume of Suicide Risk, I never got around to picking up the series because it is very hard to do so with one of the volumes terribly out of print, welcome back Volume 1, gotta finish that eventually, and then we move on to Image, Image Stuff, Alex plus Ada, Black Magic, Black Science, Birthright, Chew, Descender, some Rick Romander action right here, of course we had it here with Black Science, but Deadly Class, East of West, Death or Glory, God Country from Donnie Cates, Ghosted from Joshua Williamson, Fatal from Brew Baker, The Goddamned from Jason Aaron, Huck from Mark Miller, Esola at the Hex Top, Nabus, Skutty Young's I Hate Fairyland, Invincible, All 12 Oversize Heart Covers, one of my all-time favorites, Kill 6 Billion Demons, 1, 2, and 3, we have Lowe from Remender, Manifest Destiny, Monstrous, Moonshine, Murder Falcon, Nameless, Paper Girls, Peter Panzerfaust, got Postal, need to finish that, this long one is Private Eye, Rat Queens, I Kill Giants, Reborn from Mark Miller, Revival Deluxe Edition, Rumble, Saga, Skyward, you got Snot Girl, Strange Girl, Omnibus, Unnatural, Tokyo Ghost, The Walking Dead Compendiums, The Wicked plus the Divine, Witches, and Wayward, so non-image stuff, you got Mouse, Annihilator, you got the Archie stuff, F-Drive with Archie, and the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Rick and Morty, you got Superior over there, Scott McLeod, Understanding Comics, my favorite things is Monsters, Beinkel, Ghost in the Shell for some reason, should be elsewhere with the other manga, Through the Woods, Essex County, The Sculptor, this one's Summer Sheets, and Too Cool to Be Forgotten, and I totally forgot to talk about human rights, Muse, Castle on the Stars, Outside of Focus, an Overwatch art book, Still Out of Focus, and Usagi Yajimbo. On this other shelf, we've got some completed manga, as of this video, Volume 14 hasn't come out, but yeah, that will be coming out soon, and I will complete that series, Prison School, you got Wolf's Mound, it's a Mega Man pop, my small Inyo Asano collection, Niji Gahara Holograph, Good Night Poon Poon, followed by Olympus, which is not by Asano, Junji Ito's stuff, Tsumaki, Tomie, Gio, Fragments of Horror, we got Cat Diaries, Smashed, Shiver, Frankenstein, my only Gundam volume, here we got Aokirisawa's Pluto, Ran of the Great World, Death Note all in one edition, and if we look in the back, all of Monster from Naokirisawa, and finally, One Piece, I am collecting One Piece, so there's a lot of One Piece over there from only one, all the way up to Volume 66, as of this video. There's a random shot of some art books and other collectibles that do not fit on the Calyx, so I have here, on this closet, some other Marvel and DC books right there, and my final stack of manga, you got Samurai Deeper Kyo over there, completed, you got two volumes up to your eternity, Fire Force, up to Volume 6, My Hero Academia Vigilantes, first five volumes, and this is really cool, you got Onagai Teacher, this really cool Japanese edition of Naoto number one, thank you Alex so much, that's awesome. You know it's a small collection, I don't have a lot of books, just some random stuff that I do like, actually yeah I know how that sounds, there's a ton of books there, but it's a nice little small collection that I like, obviously there aren't bigger ones out there, but yeah, I love, genuinely love every single book that I have on display here, just wonderful stuff from Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, manga, you got Hellboy Stuff, IDW, Valiant, really awesome stuff all around, and the figures which I also love, and there you have it folks, the collection tour of graphic editions, manga, and everything else in between for 2019, did I miss anything, I'm pretty sure I did, I'm pretty sure you have opinions and stuff I'm missing, leave those in the comments down below, if you want me to review any of the books mentioned in this video, let me know in the comment section as well, guys thank you so much for following, commenting, liking, subscribing, following me on your favorite social media platform, all that fun stuff, thank you so very much I've got to go, I'll catch all of you on our next video


Dwi'n ddod i'r Gweithio Prif Weiniddo, sy'n ddod i'r cyfnod yma. Felly, rydyn ni'n gwybod i'r thymau o'r ffwrdd, bydd yn ddod i'r Gweithio Prif Weiniddo, ac bydd'r ffodol. Y ffwrdd ymddir yw'r Prif Weiniddo, sy'n ddod i'r ffwrdd, yn gwybod i'r gweithio'r ffwrdd. Rydyn ni'n gwybod i'r miliwn i'r cyfnod sy'n gyffredigu mecanolio. Yn gwybod i'r gweithio? How will they occupy the vacant towers when they sink demoralised into alcoholism and crime? This was in fact one of the reviewers of our book, Judge Richard Posner, in the US, speculated that precisely this would happen in our projected utopia. People would sleep in, brawl and get drunk. Now, in how much is enough, Robert and I argued that the decline of work is a cause for rejoicing, not dread. Because what it really means, as Kane said, is that mankind is solving its economic problem. To an ever increasing degree, we are doing things because we want to, not because we have to. And that must be a good thing. So our main problem now is a technical one, of distributing the expanding leisure among the population as a whole, i'w ddigwyddio'r ffordd o'r llei'r wahanol, i'w ddigwyddio'r ffordd o'r llei'r rhaid. Ond y ffordd yn erbyn yn edrych, ac yn ymddangos cyflotyddol. Felly mae'n ffordd o ddigwyddio'r ffordd o ffordd o ddegwyddio a'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r llei'r ffordd o'r llei. Mae'r ysgol yn gwahanol o'r ddweud ac o'r ffordd o'r llei o'r ddylun i'r ddweud. Mae'r deimlo yw'r mewn ddweudio'r llawr. Mae'r lleiwhau yw y Cymru yn y gallu gwirionedd gan gynnig o'r rhan o'r adref ychydig o'r argyrcwm eich bateriaeth. Ddyn nhw'n gynghwyl yn y prydwyddoedd, mae ydych yn meddwl o'r cyfrifio'r cyfrifio yn ei wneud o'r holl. Oni'r hyn yn y llwy fydd yn digwyddol i'r cyfrifio'r cyfrifio'r wneud. We play squash in order to keep fit. We party in order to network. We invest quality time in our children in order to keep them sweet. No wonder a life of leisure fills us with dread. So how can we recover genuine leisure? A first step, I suggest, would be to recall the original meaning of the word. Leisure, in the ancient world, schole in Greek, otium in Latin, was not just time off work, but a distinct form of activity in its own right. It was what was done freely for its own sake, rather than for the sake of something else. Leisure was a privilege of landed gentlemen. Slaves proverbially lacked it, as to a lesser degree did paid labourers, whose waking hours were devoted to servicing the needs of others. Athenians called work of this sort banausic, or mechanical, a word suggestive of civility and stultification. Recall those arts mechanical which tend to deform the body, wrote Aristotle, and likewise all paid employments, for they absorb and degrade the mind. Now, the Greeks were well aware that slaves and workmen had to rest, perhaps even unwind occasionally, but that for them was something altogether distinct from leisure. Recreation, as we might now call it, was simply the flip side of work, a necessary respite from its pain and constraint. Leisure, in the true sense, had nothing restorative about it. It took place beyond the work, recreation cycle. It was human activity unleashed for many external purpose. Leisure could thus be strenuous in the highest degree, indeed far more strenuous than work, without losing its leisure character. The modern identification of leisure with recreation, as embodied in the leisure centre, simply shows how far the concept has strayed from its original and deeper meaning. Leisure in the ancient world took many forms. For most Athenians it was synonymous with athletics and oratory, the conventional occupations of the property delete. But for a dissident minority, leisure meant philosophy, the love of wisdom, an activity quite unlike the academic discipline that now bears its name. Philosophy was free, open-ended speculation, unconstrained by dogma or money. Plato contrasts it with the law, in which the goal is to win your case and win it quickly. Aristotle describes it as a celestial activity, full of pleasures, amazing in purity and intensity. Its very uselessness is its glory, he says, for it does not become liberal and exalted minds to think continually of what is useful. This is how we should envisage leisure, not as jacuzes and flat screen TVs. Now, the classical idea of leisure that I've just outlined is a hard sell in today's world, as Robert and I found out after we wrote our book. For a start it's unappealingly high-minded. There's no room in it for the artistic pursuits that we value so highly today, let alone for good, plain fun. And, of course, it was an elite privilege. Aristotle's celestial philosophers would have lived on the labour of others, mainly women and slaves. Now, all this is true, but it's also beside the point. In an affluent and diverse society, leisure needn't and shouldn't be limited to philosophising or confined to landed gentlemen. It can and should be open to everyone and consist in all manner of pursuits. But the objection to our proposal ran deeper than this. There was a sense that it just wasn't serious, wasn't real politics. In our utilitarian public culture, calling on people to do something simply because it's good to do is somehow disreputable. Anything not done for the sake of something else carries a suspicion of vanity and self-indulgence. Now, in fact, of course, the exact opposite is true. The real vanity of vanities is doing everything for the sake of something else. This is the state of mind of the compulsive investor, who, as Cain's put it, does not love his cat but his cat's kittens, nor, in truth, the kittens, but only the kittens' kittens, and so on forever forward to the end of captain. We must free ourselves from the tyranny of useful activity. All that is deepest and most serious in life is useless. Sorry, that sounds like a bit of a flip paradox, but I mean it quite literally. I think it's a sign of the corruption of our moral language by utilitarianism that the word useless has a dismissive overturning. No, that's useless, worthless. But of course, in fact, useless literally just means without use. And I think it's self-evident that the most important things in life, I mean love, art, truth, are useless in that sense. I mean they may be incidentally useful, but that's not why they're valuable. Another problem confronting me and Robert was one of terminology. In our book, we define leisure in a slightly unusual technical sense to refer to what is done specifically for its own sake, not as a means to something else. So leisure in this sense could consist of paid work, provided it's undertaken primarily for its intrinsic rewards and not as a means of making money. So many writers, for instance, would carry on writing even if they aren't nothing for it or could earn more doing something else. They are engaged in leisure in our sense of the term. Conversely, many leisure activities are not leisure in our sense, either because they're undertaken instrumentally, playing tennis to lose weight, for instance, or because they're too passive to counter action in the full sense at all. Now, if leisure is defined in this way, it's clear that our journey to a more leisure future could take one or both of two forms. We could reduce the amount of time spent in paid work as compared to unpaid but intrinsically valuable activity, or we could come to see paid work itself as intrinsically valuable, as good work, in President Higgins' phrase. This latter development is arguably already underway. More and more jobs in our part of the world have a vocational aspect. They are viewed by those who do them not just as a living but as rewarding, fulfilling, etc. Now, there is an element of false consciousness in this. I would call a human resources manager at Orange who claimed to live and breathe the brand. And there's a lot of this kind of talk in management literature. But it's at least plausible that a lot of modern jobs are more intellectually and spiritually satisfying than the monotonous physical labour that constituted work for most people in the past and still does in most parts of the world. Now, if this hunch is correct, then what we may be seeing is not so much the displacement of work by leisure as they're coming together in a new work-leisure hybrid. I can take my job, for instance, I teach philosophy at Exeter University. This time I'm teaching four hours a week.  The rest of the time I'm essentially doing things that I want to do and that I probably would be doing anyway, even if they weren't part of my job. So is this work or is it leisure? The distinction no longer seems a particularly interesting one. Now, lecturing is not a new profession, of course, but the number of university lecturers has expanded enormously over the past 40 odd years, as has the number of people employed in intellectual services in general. So I think we're seeing more and more of this kind of work in the affluent world. In short, whether we treat automation as an opportunity to expand leisure at the expense of work or to liberate work from the tyranny of the job, as the social critic Friedrich Hof Bergman put it, doesn't make all that much difference ultimately. The important point is that we are, well, we're in a position to spend an increasing proportion of our waking time doing things that we want to do and not things that we have to do. And we only have to hope that a hankering after the lost virtues of hard work, the old Adam in us, as Cain's put it, doesn't hinder us from claiming the leisure that's ours for the taking. So I offer these brief reflections as an example of how we might go about undoing what President Higgins has called the disjunction between mainstream economic theory and ethical reasoning. Without ethical guidance, wrote the German philosopher Edmund Husserl, the rationality of science is like the rationality of the Egyptian pyramids. Much the saying could be said about the rationality of the modern world economy. The organisation of means is impressively sophisticated, but the ultimate end, the ever-increasing expansion of output, is insane. Modern economic theory participates in this insanity by bracketing out questions concerning the ends of life. Our book puts those questions back at the centre. It aims to revive the older idea of economics as a moral science, a science of human beings in communities, not of interacting robots.


What is going on guys welcome back to the channel and I appreciate you being here today I am back with another fortnite video and today I bring you some newly datamined outfits and other bits coming with the battle royale update which come today Now I will state before I go any further that these images of these new outfits and so forth were datamined by two epic Buddies on Twitter who are great at what they do if you'd like to give them a follow on Twitter You can read a link within the video description So the latest fortnite update has not long dropped and with it has come some cool new features Which we will get into in a second firstly let's check out these new datamined outfits So firstly we have the female version of the epic venturion outfit Which in my opinion looks great for sure people much prefer the female version I really do we then have what looks to be some kind of mr. Since they're evil baddie villain type dude, but I think this looks epic as heck loving the design of this thing I really am we then have a female basketball player Looking sexy as we know we then have two thieves or prison escapees looking good And then we have the male basketballer looking decent too, but I'm much preferred a lady Okay, so we're going to move on to some real unique looking items We they have this explorers backpack bat bling looking good. We then have the safe bat bling cool I'm guessing this is for the thieves We then have what looks to be some kind of poison ivy pickaxe looking epic We then have a basketball hoop pickaxe looking awesome. We then have a golden owl pickaxe wicked We're going to move on to gliders and this one I believe well it looks like a painting on straps. Maybe this is the glider for them thieves We saw earlier. Maybe this insinuates. They have stolen this painting and using it as a collider We then have another basketball hoop, but this one's actually for the glider looking amazing and lastly We have this poisonous plant strap a glider looking cool Some seriously amazing unique looking items here for sure people next up We have four new emotes basketball boogie down laugh and zippy now when these items will arrive people We do not know expect them any time over the next month as they do release them But quite slowly as you know So just check your shop if you are interested in any of these and every reset and one might be there before you know it Okay, so we're going to move on to the changes within the latest version 4.3.0 patch many changes have been added into the game So let's check them out. Firstly, it's important to note weekly challenges now reset on first days as they used to Instead of Tuesdays, which has been the time for them since season 4 has started Then now will be every single Thursday But it's mod is here for a week or probably a little longer if you guys remember that fast-paced game mode with many buffs to chest loot And so forth maximum time length is 15 minutes absolutely nuts You can see details of this on screen now where also changes have been made to the actual shop You can now preview the glider animations before you buy them now This is a feature I would have loved a while back before purchase many many gliders Also, you can see the back buildings paired with outfits and see what they look like before purchasing them unnatural outfits themselves So that's pretty neat and also people a feature which did once come but was taken away by epic Which was the feature to return items you have purchased while the feature is back people You now have three lifetime return requests and that is it and I believe it's only items you've brought within the past 30 days To trade items back for the book simply press your start button or menu tab button Go to settings scroll across to the very end and here we see it states unintentional purchases in cases where you unintentionally purchase an item with the box you have three lifetime return requests only items purchased within the last 30 days are Allegable consumable items such as a battle pass battle pass tears and llamas are nuts Refundable and there you have it guys You can now trade three items you've brought within the past 30 days back for them the box shame It's not items you brought since playing the game. I don't see why isn't that you want to have three anyway So what difference will it make my hate is what it is and on that note guys besides shopping trial is now being added Also, we have come to the end of the video if you guys enjoyed it leaving a like truly helps me and my channel out And hopefully guys I will see you on that next one