Hi. My name is Elliot Dawson.
I'm here at the Incheon International Airport.
Today, I am going to be flying to the JFK International Airport.
"JFK," of course, being an acronym for Jesus Fucking Krist.
On my path to Jesus, I am going to be reading the good book.
And by the good book, of course I mean "Das Kapital" by Karl Marx.
In English it's called "Capital."
How much of this great book can I read on my
intercontinental trans-pacific flight?
The answer might surprise you.
Welcome to the "Das Kapital" International Flight trans-continental big long 15 hour bullshit flight challenge!!!
[ The International ]
Deanne: So how's it going?
Ellie: It's going. Uhm ...
I've learned about use value and exchange value.
I'm not very far yet. On page 35 out of 549.
Uhm ...
Marx over here making me fuckin' work for my money.
Like, there's straight up math in here. Mathematical equations.
I haven't read this paragraph yet, I don't know if you can see,
but there is, like, chemistry later on.
I don't know. It's rough.
So far, it's okay.
We're doing good!
Uhm ...
We're now over Alaska
and he's talking about gold and stuff.
Deanne: Gold?
Ellie: Yeah, gold. It's the money commodity.
I'm on chapter 3 page 74 of 549
Uhm, I haven't read  much. I got bored, my head started hurting, I'm very uncomfortable.
It's a mess. Uhm ...
He was talking earlier about coats and linen
and like ... I don't know what to tell you, Marx.
Money.
Labor!
VALUE!!!
Deanne: All right, sounds like a really boring read.
Ellie: There uhh ...
It's actually interesting because I kind of like Marx's writing.
Insofar that, like ... it's going to be ... he ...
positions ideas in interesting ways.
Like, it almost seems like he wants to teach you the wrong way to think about something
so that he can better teach you the right way to think about something.
It was like ... like
in talking about, like,  coats and linens, he's like
isn't it absurd to exchange linens for coats? I know it's absurd! Here's how it's really done.
And I'm like ...
damn Marx, I don't think I needed to read 5 paragraphs of the wrong way
before you told me the right way, but you know. Uhm ...
I find it funny.
There's also when he uses uhm ... like, characters as examples.
He'll say, like ... he's talking about how money is used to buy commodities
and he makes this linen weaver, or something like that,
and he goes to the market to sell his linen and then he gets £2 for it.
And then, because that linen weaver is SUCH a family man, he buys a bible
or something like that.
And, I don't know, I just like the extra characterization of the linen weaver.
Unnecessary. But it makes it more interesting.
Deanne: Fair enough.
Ellie: That's where I'm at now.
Deanne: I guess you just gotta keep chugging along as best you can.
Good luck.
Ellie: Yeah ... yeah.
Deanne: I'm just over here watching Charlie's Angels
so ... I think we're both losing in this scenario. To be honest.
Ellie: We're over America though!
Deanne: Yeah!
I thought you were supposed to be reading your book? Where is  your damn book?
Ellie: No, I'm watching Great Gatsby.
Deanne: Are you serious?
Ellie: It's a book.
Deanne: Ugghhhhh, okaaay???
Ellie: It's abut the same thing.
Deanne: I guess.
It's bad though.
It's a bad book, it's a bad movie.
Ellie: Well, so is Capital!
Deanne: Wow! Got 'em.
[ Bread and Roses ]
Ellie: Hi! Ellie again! Coming at you from Prospect Park in Brooklyn.
Behind me I have Abraham Lincoln
who famously received a letter from Karl Marx
in which Marx was all like
'I think the emancipation proclamation thing you did is
pretty cool. Good job with that Mr. Abraham Lincoln.
I'm Karl Marx or something like that. I don't know.'
That's not what this video is about.
This video is about whether or not I successfully
was able to read Marx's Capital on that airplane.
The answer is ...
no.
Leaving us to wonder what the actual point of this video even was?
But the point is right here.
With a surprise second point being over here.
And together they form the line of the video.
Now that's what I call
Capital!
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