The genre of video titled “Chosen Ones” (which I discovered about a year ago) seems to proliferate on YouTube in a semi-automated manner (i.e. AI-generated). From the few I’ve seen, Chosen Ones videos promote a form of ‘messiah complex’ to individuals who feel indirectly persecuted by society at large, and who tend towards a spiritualistic or neo-religious outlook.
Since “the Messiah” – a.k.a. Jesus – is an archetypal representation of a persecuted man, who was of course of good spirit, the correlations in this Chosen Ones narrative are not totally unwarranted. However, they are exaggerated and emphasised in an implicitly aggrandising way, as if to engender a kind of reverse-narcissism, and which also serves to undermine the validity of its themes (as will be mentioned below). Nevertheless, this exaggeration may serve useful as an inspirational device, given that one doesn’t identify with its messianic complex and doesn’t adopt its implicit flatteries.
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