In this solo YouTube monologue, creator Max Harding reveals twelve previously unseen artworks and uses each piece as a springboard for a series of philosophical, ethical, and cultural commentaries. He begins by imagining the president unknowingly laced with LSD, weighing the potential for profound empathy against the danger of trauma, and asks viewers what they would do. He then reflects on a mountain‑climbing metaphor, arguing that believing you have already achieved a goal makes it easier to realize. He discusses self‑acceptance, claiming that fully accepting oneself renders insults ineffective. The video shifts to a social‑justice focus, highlighting child labor and proposing humor‑driven art as awareness. Harding critiques credential‑driven projects, championing pure curiosity as the engine of scientific breakthroughs like GPS and antibiotics. He examines the content‑creator dilemma, describing how the pursuit of views degrades quality and turns creators into “zombies.” He speculates on future neurotechnology that could create a hive mind, questioning whether he would join such a network. An artwork about animal rights prompts a vegetarian’s perspective on moral status of animals. He then attacks capitalism, portraying it as a system that reduces humans to marketable products while driving both progress and suffering. Finally, he poses a provocative “most moral diet” thought experiment, suggesting eating toxic waste could eliminate waste and questioning the ethics of such consumption. Throughout, he invites audience interaction and ends with a playful sign‑off from his dog.
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Millions of people have seen my artwork from around the world, and these are 12 pieces no one has ever seen and the stories behind them. The president will be laced with LSD. Do warn him. When people take LSD, it allows different brain regions that don't normally communicate with each other To communicate. Because of this, people on LSD are led to massive philosophical realizations because the emotional parts of their brain can speak to the logical parts, and all these different brain regions that get suppressed because of trauma now can finally communicate. So if the president was laced with LSD, would I tell him? I don't really know. Because on one case scenario, he may lead to these super deep realizations about life and get more empathy for all beings and become an overall better president. But on the other side, when you lace someone unknowingly, this can cause some very traumatic and severe effects. As much as this compound could help the president, it could also harm him just as much. It's like a weapon. A weapon can be used to save civilizations or take them down. But ultimately, I'd be kind of curious what was going to happen, and I wasn't the person that laced him, so I'd probably just see how things would play out. What would you do? Climbing a mountain is easy. Once you've climbed the mountain. I sat down for 3 hours straight contemplating what I should create. I did it as a challenge, but my camera died halfway through, so I don't have the footage. But in this state of consciousness, my awareness of the exterior world dissolved. I was in the mind sphere. It was as my reality was Idea after idea, I would find a gem I was set on to create, only to find larger and larger masterpieces. And through this deep concentration, as the timer beeped in the last minutes, I came up with a new idea, and it was this. Climbing a mountain is easy once you've climbed the mountain. Easy. This is a metaphor for everything. A tautology, meaning it's a self-referring system, that something is true because of itself. And this applies to all things. When you look at someone that's accomplished great feats that says that their accomplishments are easy, it's because they are. It's because they've already done them. We can all really accomplish anything we ever want, and one of the easiest ways to do that is to believe that you've already accomplished it in your head. Because once you've gotten to that point that you have this vision, that you have this destiny, everything else just falls into place. What do you guys think about this one? Comment down below. I only date six-foot guys. When I, when I thought of this, I was in the car and I started laughing out loud, so I knew I had to create it. Someone who fully accepts themselves cannot be insulted. Any form of suffering or desire for something else Is really you not being happy and content in this present moment. And if you're able to accept who you are, nothing can get under your skin because your foundation is titanium. You can start on Monday, underdeveloped countries. This one shows a really big problem that's within our world. There's hundreds of thousands of children around this globe we live on that are forced into child labor. They never get to experience and they never get to learn, and art is a really good way to spread awareness through humor. Yeah, and it's a really good way to show the world that we can do better. Humor, because recognizing this issue will allow us to conquer it. I believe that we all should have an opportunity to explore and learn for ourselves, because all around the world there's children that could have become the next Albert Einstein if they weren't making our damn iPhones. People keep wasting money on pointless science. Pointless science. The moon race led to the creation of GPS and solar panels. Quantum physics research led to the creation of MRIs. Studying mold created antibiotics. So I attended computer club and they were all talking about projects so focused On the external validation, trying to get into some type of school or internship, just obsessed with the money and the success of the project rather than the curiosity that should start it. So I made this and I sent it to computer science club to try to convince them that exploration and true passion leads to places that we don't realize. Things as arbitrary as trying to race to the moon created technology that's helped us worldwide navigate this bizarre land. We can't always connect the dots, so follow pure curiosity because that's where true greatness emerges. The content creator dilemma. Quality of content equals 1 over views. This simple math equation shows that the more you increase a person's incentive to go for views for content, it lowers the quality. I've seen this time and time again with my friends. Yeah, I've seen it too. Friends and with my family and with complete strangers. They start making art, they start making videos because they truly love it. The exploration, the ideas, the greatness. Then they have a video go viral and they become like drug addicts. This has happened with myself. An obsession of complete content maximization. How can we get these viewers addicted to the screen. And the original reason, the original passion, the seed that led to this blossom has been plucked from the dirt. It's been plucked from these people's minds. They become brainless zombies chasing something that they don't even really care about. If you could become more intelligent, creative, fulfilled, and more connected to your loved ones, would you? Of course! Join the hive mind! No. Dude, I love hive minds. Theoretical sense, if there was an opportunity to better every aspect of your life, would you want to? Leave behind your sense of identity for a life that you're more fulfilled more connected, more purposeful, more creative? With the future of neurotechnology, we're going to be able to connect the electrical impulses between our neurons to other people's. By measuring what's going on in one person's brain and stimulating in another, we're going to advance technology drastically, and we're leading towards a world where hive mind technology will be accessible. It's a complete possibility. One of my dear friends' number one goals is to create a hive mind through this technology. They're currently developing it at UPenn. So would I join a hive mind if I can become more intelligent, have more love, creativity, and be more connected to others? Of course, if it is really that good, I would join a hive mind. It's probably one of my biggest dreams, not gonna lie. You'll run into a brick wall an infinite amount of times until you learn how to walk around it. This is an art piece that came to me in a vision while I was skateboarding. It was clear as day what I needed to create, this feeling I was experiencing. Experiencing, I could finally communicate it with the world. If you have a problem in your life and you don't face it, it is going to come back and slam you in the face over and over and over, nonstop, until you learn to walk around it, until you learn how to overcome it. We must face our problems or you are endlessly going to be Stupid animals don't deserve rights, unlike me! I drew this art piece while I was in philosophy class. I was thinking about, do humans truly deserve rights? And why do we deserve rights over other animals? I don't really know, but I wanted to play on this I've personally been vegetarian since I was in 2nd grade because I didn't want to harm any animals. I really feel as we're a lot more similar than we realize, but this entire question of who deserves rights and who doesn't, I don't have the answer, but I wanted to play with the idea to see if anything clicked. What do you guys think? This is how capitalism sees us. Simplified human. Breed. Eat. Shit. This symbolizes how this system reduces what we are into a product that they can market. Our deepest desires and our insecurities they target for Product incentive. And the more you exploit these people that are insecure, the more likely you're going to win this game of capitalism. For every winner, there has to be a loser. I can see how capitalism drives technologies that can help the world and help people like you and I because of this constant demand for more, more, more, for Progress, progress, progress. But is this worth it with the amount of suffering that is happening? I'm not sure, because maybe these technologies will lead to a utopia, or they may lead to our very own dystopia. We just gotta wait and find out. What do you guys think? If you could eat Anything. What is the most moral diet? Your own waste? Raw minerals? Meat? Your favorite food? Plants? Money? Yourself? Shrooms? Landfills? Guns and nukes? Black holes? Books against your beliefs? Murderers? Genetically modified diseases? Corpses? So what would you eat? Personally, I would focus on consuming things that are threatening the human race, our survival, like landfills, nuclear weapons, pollution, any form of toxic waste. If I was able to consume this into my body, it would be so beneficial. Imagine we could have people eating these toxic chemicals for dinner, being able to process them. We would be able to get nutrients from anything. You would no longer have to worry about your basic need of food. You would no longer have to pay for anything to eat because you could just eat your walls. You could eat the floor. Anything you want. But in this sense, do you think more people would become like cannibals? I, I personally don't think so. I think if anything, people would tend to become more herbivores, because if you truly have the option to eat anything, it seems even like less just to eat conscious things. But it's an entirely New question, if we consider nutrition. If there's a nervous system that's able to truly digest anything, I would assume that they would require a different type of nutrients than the average day human, but I don't know what that would entail, and I don't know what an unbiased diet would cause. This would play with a lot of questions. But what would you do? And what do you think about all my art pieces? I appreciate you guys. My dog says subscribe.
