>>148 The main point I was trying to get across in that video is that engaging in any way whatsoever brings you into the dialectic. A good example would be "alt-media" in the 2010s. In the early 2010s there was a lot of talk about how the internet was going to make "old media" redundant. In 2025 "alt-media" has become little more than someone reading articles or watching news broadcasts from homogenised, mainstream "old media" sources and then giving their own commentary. This is equally true of the left and the right, the extremes and the moderates on both ends. 90% of what people like Vaush or Matt Walsh do is react to the mainstream media and whatever else is being produced or done by massive multi billion dollar media conglomerates. Stick on a 3 hour Vaush stream and it's literally just him watching CNN, Fox News or reading Politico. It's the digital equivalent of listening to your unhinged grandad rant incoherently at the TV screen as a kid and then thinking that by doing so you're somehow getting an "alternative perspective." Your unhinged grandad probably thought that he was a free thinker, that he couldn't be fooled and didn't buy into any of their propaganda, that he was beyond the influence of any newscaster or big corporation, but he was under the assumption that he was supposed to sit placidly by and simply agree with everything that was presented to him. What he didn't realise is that your feelings on the topic are largely irrelevant, because you're still being told WHAT to care about. Even if you have a negative or skeptical perspective on whatever you're being presented with it's still something that's being fed to you, you're still captured by it so whatever your perspective may be is really irrelevant, because you effectively only see and engage with what the media wants you to see and engage with. The media tells them to walk one way so they turn around and sprint in the opposite direction, but their every movement, thought and emotion is still dictated by that very media. You're never really free unless you just completely tune out.
>>149 I'm well aware of that, I'd be the first to criticise media prior to 2008. That being said I think their are significant years and eras where things accelerated. 2008~ is one of them because that's when smartphones started to become big. 2023 would be a similar year because likewise AI started to become big then. Over the last year a lot of the "content" I've been consuming has actually been radio shows from the 30s to the early 50s.
The main point I was trying to get across in that video is that engaging in any way whatsoever brings you into the dialectic. A good example would be "alt-media" in the 2010s.
In the early 2010s there was a lot of talk about how the internet was going to make "old media" redundant. In 2025 "alt-media" has become little more than someone reading articles or watching news broadcasts from homogenised, mainstream "old media" sources and then giving their own commentary.
This is equally true of the left and the right, the extremes and the moderates on both ends. 90% of what people like Vaush or Matt Walsh do is react to the mainstream media and whatever else is being produced or done by massive multi billion dollar media conglomerates.
Stick on a 3 hour Vaush stream and it's literally just him watching CNN, Fox News or reading Politico. It's the digital equivalent of listening to your unhinged grandad rant incoherently at the TV screen as a kid and then thinking that by doing so you're somehow getting an "alternative perspective."
Your unhinged grandad probably thought that he was a free thinker, that he couldn't be fooled and didn't buy into any of their propaganda, that he was beyond the influence of any newscaster or big corporation, but he was under the assumption that he was supposed to sit placidly by and simply agree with everything that was presented to him.
What he didn't realise is that your feelings on the topic are largely irrelevant, because you're still being told WHAT to care about. Even if you have a negative or skeptical perspective on whatever you're being presented with it's still something that's being fed to you, you're still captured by it so whatever your perspective may be is really irrelevant, because you effectively only see and engage with what the media wants you to see and engage with.
The media tells them to walk one way so they turn around and sprint in the opposite direction, but their every movement, thought and emotion is still dictated by that very media.
You're never really free unless you just completely tune out.
>>149
I'm well aware of that, I'd be the first to criticise media prior to 2008. That being said I think their are significant years and eras where things accelerated. 2008~ is one of them because that's when smartphones started to become big. 2023 would be a similar year because likewise AI started to become big then.
Over the last year a lot of the "content" I've been consuming has actually been radio shows from the 30s to the early 50s.