THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE LIVE-STREAMED
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I enjoy this video and I'm glad you made this.
I am sorry but I have to take issue with your point of view. This idea of truth results in action implies that everyone experiences a particular experience in exactly the same way and also condemns those without direct experience to stand aside and letting only those with direct experience to act on behalf of others. Surely, you must see the problem that this way of thinking creates. Famously, Marlon Brando was asked to leave by African Americans during the civil right movement of the 60s because he was not black. That is hardly ground for achieving consensus.
In fact, I would argue that action in terms of social movements categorise issues into black and white by inadvertently destroying the nuances different people experience even in direct actions by individuals. Someone may immediately ask for divorce in the face of infidelity in marriage where someone else might seek a way to reinstate the promises of monogamy and yet another accept or even feel relieved by it.
No, the problem of our age is that certainty is hard to come by nowadays and people as well as myself want to be certain. The problem is that it is difficult to manufacture certainty when there isn't one. Therefore, people end up matching information to their own politics or the current trend amongst certain groups as a way of social conformity that is evolutionary necessary in the tribal context.
This is how the consensus of modernism has gradually crumbled by post-modernist critiques throughout time making strange bedfellows like Chomsky and Jordan Peterson who apparently are totally on the opposite sides of the spectrum in terms of politics and even exchange insults and yet both passionately reject postmodernism.
This is how the vacuum of middle ground has created a bizarre environment for the extremes of the opposite sides merging. For example, you find a lot of Trump followers who agree with the socialist Bernie Sanders.
As one commentator put it people are aware that things are not working, and the governments know that too and people know that governments know that people know too.
This is the root of the paralysis that was felt in the Soviet Union before its fall and what is felt in the U.S. at least since 2016.
This is why it has become extremely dangerous. The vacuum in the centre ground is where those with less inhibition for violence can take advantage of the situation as witnessed on January 6th. You could find perfectly reasonable people amongst the crowd who were driven to violence in almost collective psychosis and then rationalized their actions by claiming that the U.S. has always been violently revolutionary by pointing out the war of Independence and the Civil War in one breath.
This is the way revolutions have always been hijacked by their most violent factions with no regard for reality. This is the parallel reality that we are seeing popping up everywhere magnified by outrageous claims in social media platforms like twitter.
The revolution will not be sponsored by Brilliant?
@@Hesselaer 🤣😂
THANK YOU SO MUCH for this video. This has been a huge concern for me over the last year.
People think they are engaging in politics just by watching the “correct” political content on Google’s UA-cam/Amazon’s Twitch.
People take credit for “deprogramming” reactionaries by getting them to watch Breadtube instead of watching PragerU.
But in reality, the VAST majority of online politics isn’t politics at all. It’s infotainment.
There’s little to no real world action. There are millions of Leftists in a given audience, yet they have zero ability to exert power in any meaningful way.
In the end, you have a few streamers making million$ for themselves/major corps, and millions of fans feeling like they’re contributing to a political project, by arguing in the comments section..
Thank you for speaking this message. I know from first-hand experience that it’s not a popular one. Here’s hoping more people will log off and engage in their communities.
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yOu cRiTiCiZe cApItAlIsM, yEt yOu lIvE wItHiN iT, cUriOuS?
@@greensimpson3209except that's what Sisyphus is doing here. this isn't criticism of perceived hypocrisy - this is criticism of criticism of perceived hypocrisy itself being hypocritical.
@@_.violyse._ Yeah, but fighting fire with fire only makes more fire, moron
@@greensimpson3209 You criticize corporate greed, yet you own a Fortune 500 company. Curious 🤔🤔🤔
This is the equivalent of spending hours customizing and theorycrafting a character instead of actually playing the game.
Get away from me and my Sims habit.
this is such a good explanation. but people should be doing all that customizing and theory-crafting TO play the game. just to play it better. you gotta think about and analyze your game to improve it.
This is the equivalent of being a gear snob instead of practicing guitar
@@james-calSure, but at some point you gotta play the fucking game... And its not like the people he's shitting on in this video don't do any of the things you're saying we need to do more of. Except unlike Sisyphus, they're promoting their ideas and trying to get more people engaged so those ideas can gain traction and possibly be tested in real life. Ideas are useless if we never put them into action and see how they fare outside our minds and in the real world.
@@nickv1212 when it comes to leftists who are already politically involved and motivated yes the problem is getting in the game. but when it comes to most people, the people your gonna need to get on board if your the revolutionary type, the problem isny that they aren’t playing the game it’s that they are playing the wrong one. and that’s why i emphasize the importance of theory crafting even though when push comes to shove what really matters is what you do. because if you don’t do the prerequisite theory work to get to a solid understanding of the situation we are all in then the only game you are going to be playing is not that of direct action and community restructuring but that of your employer and the capitalist system. and yet that very system has extricated the intellectual, thinking deeply about philosophy, politics, science, spirituality, from the everyday life of the average person and placed it almost solely in the hands of hyper-specialized academics. as it did similarly with politics, extricating it from everyday communal life and placing it into the hands of politicians and bureaucrats. but i digress.
On reddit you see the same posts every week saying something like ''it isn't worth it to work anymore in the US''. But almost no incentive for direct action at all. It's just a place where unsatisfied salaried people go to wallow in their slacktivism. They get a slight rush from looking at stuff that ''opposes the system'', watch a netflix episode, and go to bed. Rinse and repeat.
@@YahdaNot true. Look at what UPS did. I hope that sets a precedent for how much power we the people can truly have if we got our heads out of our asses.
@@sludgerat666ups is the anomaly, if you work at a small business it’s much harder to become class conscious
Exactly. The doomerism and the dissatisfaction of people with their salary made me hopeless. I'm not sure when reddit became this toxic but since 2020, it has been the whole same climate doomerism, economic doomerism, and social collapse. Being hopeless and ranting about things will do nothing. Just try your best to save money now. Sure the boomer generation had it better, but every other generations had it worse.
Just imagine being born in 1910- you'll experience WWI, great depression, and WWII. Sure, the American dollar is getting weaker. We can't buy a house with a minimum wage job anymore. Countries have been paying off their American debt and things aren't being made in USA anymore. Of course it only makes sense to have a college degree, but people need to prioritize finance over college experience.
Reddit is truly exhausting. I can't believe I've been worried and hopeless for 3 years because of the posts I see everyday. Just like how people get good with Elden Rings or Dark Souls, I wish we're more determined to learn the rules of this world and be determined to break free from hopelessness we see day to day.
@@Yahda Honestly seems like you didnt even watch the video. Your only power is never venting, you're giving the system way more power than it deserves
@@Yahdaliterally one of the largest union strikes is happening right now in multiple industries. Bra
One of my favorite things Contrapoints has brought up is the concept of “political ideation” that a lot of online leftists will threaten Revolution but never actually engage in on the ground organizing or action.
You can't really use that against Vaush though (who she implied is an example). There's tons of organizing and action stuff he's done throughout his career (i.e canvasing via progressive victory, which he consistently mentioned on his channel almost every video he uploaded during the campaign, and consistently told his audience to participate and protest).
A lot of them are from a upper middle class/rich backgrounds, and just feel guilty for having it easy. They like the idea of something being done, but aren't really willing to do it themselves. Like the "idea guy" in a group project. It's pretty interesting how unpopular leftism is among the poor/blue collar workers. Breadtube likes to shrug this off as "the poors just being brainwashed by capitalist media". Leftism might economically align with the interest of the poor people, but culturally not so much. Your average minimum wage worker does not care about pronouns or trans issues, which seem to take a huge portion of what the left talks about.
@@Forcoy vaush is a pdf file
Catgirls do be tryna smash though. Contra herself mocks that with her revolutionary character. What is revolution but violence?
@@massinakmin8340 The few clips used for this "evidence" are completely out of context, the main one being the sentence "child p**n isn't ethically bad", which in the *full* clip was followed directly by "if we tolerate child slavery", because yes. Child slavery is as bad as child p**n.
They're all out of context really, and you can compare the clips if you want to. They're publicly available, you can find them right now.
Bro just told us to touch grass for 22 minutes
Honestly I think he was telling us to go break shit. Kinda hard to tell tbh
@@skeetsmcgrew3282 what would that accomplish
@@sergiarts Idk, depends on what you break I guess. What does touching grass accomplish? I literally don't know wtf the point of this video was. If it really was to touch grass it's even more pointless than I thought
"Touch Grass" -Camus, Foucault, Luxembourg, Stalin, Buhddha, Martin Luther King Jr, Jesus Christ, The prophet Mohammed, Jordan B Peterson, Shidbot420, Ted Kaszinsky, Oprah, Mohammed ali, Adolf, [simultaneously from their graves]
An Indian here, Ambedkar’s work is still in use after about 70 years of independence. People have pictures of him hung up on the wall and he is prayed to like a God would be. Thank you for your work ❤
Jai Bhim
Its sad that now Ambedkhar's work is used by the right wing media saying he was on their side & sale propaganda on his name, while his ideas were pretty revolutionary and for the working class.
@@sami_is_freeYt Agree. People always find a way to abuse good things. That's just called being human.
@@sami_is_freeYtwhat did you expect? Capitalism commodifies everything
@@sami_is_freeYt How on earth did they manage to do that. It's akin to saying that the Italian left appropriated and now champions Mussolini's persona.
Hasan is who originally pushed me to read theory once I read theory I joined local political organizing groups and we’ve done a lot to change our immediate area… I know a lot of people who focus on online politics and don’t do anything outside of that but I hope to see more leftists get actively engaged in creating/joining organizers in their area…
Fantastic work man 👏
Same. Been reading Foucalt and others as well as engaging locally from his recommendations. I also thought it was a bit heavy-handed how many clips of his were in this essay.
Can you recommend a few books for me? I haven’t read any theory but I want to
Destiny is the only one who does it and the entire online left abandoned him for not being a tankie 😂
@@jar-jar3806 I recommend Michael parentis black shirts and reds, the che Guevara biography, obviously the communist manifesto and das Kapital also their are good works by Marxist economist Dr. Wolf
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago line, yes. We mustn’t let despair rob us of a future of forests. Thanks for so much unrecognized support to our mental health as well. Love from the desert to you and yours.
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What's that quote? Something about selling a rope?
@@lukesmith8896the capitalists will sell us the rope we use to hang them
@@lukesmith8896”The capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with” I think
@@MorbidMindedManiac Yeah, that's the one.
Probably honestly
Its the diffirence between being an advocate and an activist. Both have important roles.
If there were no advocates for one side of the political spectrum then the other side would dominate the entertainment sphere and disseminate their information to casual viewers without opposition. Keeping ideas in the mind of the general public can be a boon to generate inerest in change.
Activists are engaging with the political system dirrectly to make a change to it. The thing is that this can take a long time and is often not glamorous. So it can end up being invisable to the general public.
As long as advocates dont pretend that they are activists then I think the situation is alright.
Look at men's rights activists and advocates... They can and do help many individual men but largely fail to get much institutional changes. Maybe the movement will need more decades untill the goal of legal equality under the law and policy and in the court could be even approached... Or maybe some technological revolution will once again flip the board and men would for example have unilatoral invisible contraception they can easily use too; or machines will make humans obsolite in creation of new human lives (even if for a looong time good parenting still will require humans). It also depends on the place tbf. Some places still at least give men appritiation for what they do and not call them sociopathic mysoginists; don't blame them for trying to succeed or set up catch 22s (if you win use had unfair advatage, if you lose you failed despite your unfair advatage)
Well building a culture and a society that cares about men inside the society that already exist is probably the best way forward. Just need to outlast societies that fail to facilitate cooperation between the sexes, and between men, and you'll win in the long run.
Yeah there has to be people advocating to general audiences in order for them to accept activist opinions because everyone won’t wake up one day ready to start a revolution, it has to happen by educating people about why one would be needed
“The situation is alright.” Lmao, what a dumbass.
@@Non-LegitRight, as long as we all understand that education is not political action in and of itself. You are not engaging in politics by watching Hasan.
You’re engaging in politics by *logging off* and organizing in your community, giving material assistance to striking workers, feeding homeless people, and other types of direct action.
Consuming content on Google’s UA-cam/Amazon’s Twitch should be ranked even lower than voting, in terms of political engagement.
Besides, you don’t actually win people over by arguing in the comments section. Getting somebody to consume Hasan instead of Daily Wire doesn’t actually do anything.
You win them over by showing them how our political project will improve their lives, through example. By embodying our values in the real world.
It will more than likely be live streamed
I think the original quote "the revolution will not be televised" was referring to the fact that action for change appears first in the minds of the people
And Gil Scott-Heron agrees with you! (hes the singer of "the revoution will not be televised"):
Quoting the final stanza of song
"The revolution will not be televised
Will not be televised
Will not be televised
Will not be televised
The revolution will be no re-run, brothers
The revolution will be live [on twitch?]"
It's crazy that ppl think that can just do a revolution as if that's not just domestic terrorism... yeah I think most people are just gonna watch the news about it happening...
@@ginalleynah but lets replace that with whatever this sponsored white guy says
The Revolution of Dignity was actually live streamed quite a bit
The revolution will put you in the driver seat. Love that Scott-Heron hint in the title.
glad you noticed it too.:) the revolution will not be televised
the revolution, will be _liiiiiiive_
Have you literally never opened a history book? YOU will not be in the driver seat. Some bloodthirsty monster will.
@@urkince26 "You will not be able to stay home, brother
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and
Skip out for beer during commercials
Because the revolution will not be televised"
@@urkince26whose to say they wont be the bloodthirsty monster?
I respect the effort here, but I don’t think this video was well thought out. It felt like a collection of gripes and philosophical ideas packaged into a advertisement for your new biweekly political discussions. It lacked self awareness as well.
After sitting with your video for a little bit, sitting with information and not truth as you put it, I think your message in large is to not settle for deference politics as your sole means of political engagement. In other words, don’t spend all of your time and energy debating your roommate, devote some time to look for a different room instead. Rethink your content you consume. This is a good message.
That being said, I don’t see how you can concede that the theoretical aspect of political change still plays a key role while also claiming you can’t contribute to political action when your content consumption is coming through an “elite capture” mode that is providing the illusion of choice and the implications that come with that statement.
I think the idea of elite capture and it’s affect on the illusion of choice deserve it’s own video for sure and I’m glad you got this conversation going and have a method of action you laid out at the end of the video.
Still though, I find it hard to take much away from the video given it’s seeming lack of self awareness. For example, from a teaching/sharing information perspective, you do not differ too much from many of Hasan Piker’s segments on political action. I found his latest content on the Auto Worker Strikes quite inspiring, even compelling action and I’m sure many felt the same. It’s the sort of content that does not breed apathy or nihilism, not is it one divorced from reality, in fact, like a good philosopher, in his video on the subject he uses media literacy to seek the truth on the subject and it’s portrayal.
I think this is where your philosophical argument of truth vs the abstract loses it’s weight. You can get truth from these content creators you gently called out. Just because their corporate overlords conflict with their leftist politics doesn’t necessarily divorce them from truth. This is where I would expect you to come in and acknowledge your own position in the matter, given you function within the same elite capture system as those you are calling out. You did an ad read two minutes into your video on of the biggest social media platforms on earth. I’m surprised you missed this.
All of that said, I like the message of pushing yourself beyond your comfortability of satisfying your political itch through watching youtube and twitch personalities theorize debate and criticize all day and devoting time to action. don’t be disillusioned that you are making a change when you really could be more accurately described as what you mentioned early in the video, chasing shapes and color changes in the form of political content
and still, to argue that truth is stable and durable yet information is unstable and evades the ability for us to linger on it… you just didn’t make an argument for this to be true and proceeded on like it was a given.
I am no closer to political action after sitting through your video than I was before. I don’t know about you but that says a lot to me.
To quote the late great Harambe "My final message. Change da world." He literally made a video calling his own content worthless drivel for political cowards and then plugged his podcast at the end. I think I'm done with this channel
I was kinda wondering why this video left a mildly bad taste in my mouth. Like you said it's hard to take this to heart due to the lack of self-awareness. I'm kind of concerned with the amount of comments seemingly blindly following the channel which I feel could very well affect the channel. I do not think it would be beneficial to let this channel become an echo chamber for people to feel smart in. That's why I think your comment captured my interest as you criticized the same gripes I found myself having in such a constructive way.
Basically I wanted to like and comment on this comment so it stays visible
@@skeetsmcgrew3282but his podcast isn't political. Many a times he's talking about random stuff.
I don't watch him to consoom politics
Thank you for putting into such well-chosen words how I felt after watching this!
If he said "hey don't forget to do activism to live up to your morals" it wouldve been completely fine.
But, his points about elite capture lacked self-awareness and the callouts, while mild, felt unnecessary. If he took issue with online creators farming nihilism out of their viewers, which does happen in places like Chapo Trap House, why did he only show content creators that dont do that (idk what Destiny has been doing lately tho). Instead, he vaguely gestued in the direction of popular politics streamers, and took all the edge from the critique by saying at the end that he knows they add valuable content.
If this video will start a drama cicle that takes away viewers attention from activism (which I doubt will happen) it would be the funniest, most ironic shit imaginable... And a wakeup call that he is not above it all
Or, it just says a lot about you.
is anyone else tired of the meta bread tube videos lately? i appreciate the effort in this video and the arguments posed but I'm so stuck if hearing everyone's opinions on video essayists vs debaters and the"effect" their content has on action
i don't think it matters, i think if the content is inspiring us and getting each of us to talk and think differently, even on a tiny level and I'm tired of talking about whether what we talk about is actually making the revolution come sooner, especially if we don't have new things or nuances
really liked the ending and recommendations for where to go next
This really branches out from the debate bro discourse and applies older theory from the TV and print eras to the parasocial internet age. I fell this is plenty fresh and subversive.
I'm tired of the streamer/debate bro and video essayist war.
@@sarminder4357 ok you could go outside and focus on irl community action so you arent so exhausted from useless online discourse
“The revolution won’t be live-streamed. Watch my new stream tho.” 😂 Making a difference is so easy, you just have to scale it. If you’re one person, you can affect at least one other person in a positive way. Go outside and make some new connections, be a force for good in your own life.
i feel morally sufficient only watching these videos on a regular basis and feeling guilty and then going about my regular american life. any confession i make is in making a comment, and any penance is in watching more Breadtube. it is like Sunday Mass for me, and this is the bread. amen.
no but seriously if you work at Amazon, start organizing with your local district state representative (the guy who goes to your state's House of Representatives) and start talking to your coworkers. fuck billionaires and fuck Jeff Bezos.
This feels like what nietcheze pointed out. Socialism is a form of "degenerate Christianity" a way to sooth a feeling of weakness with easy outs. .
(My thoughts alone)
It's really fucking unfortunate too that even this criticism will be subsumed into that.
wait until you see what's on TV
How so though? Maybe action isn't for you but I don't see how if you genuinely believe in an alternative you wouldn't want to connect with others who want it as well
@@whoisgliese i was half joking. of course I desire to take the lesson from the video, and do the proper thing and burn down Amazon or something. the same way I wanna get better at playing guitar or skateboarding or read more books or workout.
but its so much easier to just watch another video. which is the point of this video.
This is a video essay saying video essays are useless, anyway give him money. Dude, you literally said that leftist streamers informed your political outlook. That's the point
He acts like he wasn’t pushed to consider activism through advocacy
So instead of watching UA-cam I should commit industrial sabotage. Yes.
unironically, yes
Absolutely
The Revolution Will Not Be Dissected in a Video Essay
Some of these streamers (ex Vaush, Xanderhal) openly push their viewers to do work with an org called progressive victory, could they do more? certainly! but I do think that's an important distinction. Great message at the end though!
xander is so annoying though, and 101 basic, like hasan in his general understanding and worldview. that's great that he plugs something for people to get away from him though
They've also done harm towards other leftist efforts.
It’s incredible how you can use so many big words yet say absolutely nothing at all.
It's amazing how you can watch a whole video and yet comprehend absolutely nothing at all.
Nobody ever claimed that the revolution would be live streamed, and if they do your a sucker for believing it. Hell Hasan says it all the time. Hes just an entertainer, thats what all the online political content is, entertainment. If the viewer is motivated to learn or read or be an activist outside of the digital space because of it thats awesome and that does happen it would be foolish to think otherwise. And those people are making real change in the world, but the system is so broken that its not gonna be fixed overnight, and to me that means your conclusion is a bit misguided. Nihilsm will get us nowhere.
I agree. Criticizing small progress just because it doesn’t completely solve the issue is still progress. All love to the person who created this video but you have to take steps to run a marathon. Making an effort is better than not doing anything. This video felt like a big contradiction to me. Maybe someone else with a different philosophy then me would agree with more of the points made in video this though. There were good bits of information but they got lost in the void to me. No hate from me just sharing my point of view. All love
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Watching this only intensified my apathy. Thanks.
Jeff bezos would be happy to read your comment
if you want that apathy to leave you need to go outside and do something with the people around you. And its hard but consuming political entertainment no matter how left wing was never a force for any meaningful change. Political entertainment has its place but only as entertainment.
Perhaps Sisyphus should take that advice @@hegaliandialectics4289
Intense apathy is almost an oxymoron but not quite
I found it a little sad that you give a shout out to Kurzgesagt in an essay criticizing media that disincentivize change, as Kurzgesagt's videos on climate change are a sad example of such media. (See for example Badempezada's or The Hated One's video about Kurzgesagt)
Oh nooooo! UA-cam channel has consistent beliefs, and got sponsors who also have those exact, consistent beliefs!!!
How do you make an entire video about how fruitless it is to pay attention to the surplus of online political discourse and then end the video with an announcement that you're starting a podcast doing more of the same?
The same way an employee goes to work complaining about the job.
did you watch the video? he was clearly talking about the fruitlessness of intracommunity drama
Trying to start another cycle (mentioned at 5:59 ), huh?
@@fatpenguin0089 That was one element of the video, yeah. Being all talk and no action was a major theme as well.
The Whole video was so lacking in awareness I started laughing.
I wish just once an anti-debate or anti-live streaming video essay had a single person involved even remotely educated on sociology and not just one semester deep into philosophy 101 assuming they understand everything.
I wish one streamer had more than a B.A. in Sociology
@@chadalpha7983 where did you get your masters from?
This isn't an anti-live-streaming video, and it's very obvious if you didn't just uncritically absord every sentence Vaush said.
@@raskolnikov3799 you're right, it's a nothing video. He discusses nothing, gives no advice on how to fix nothing, and concludes with nothing. If you didn't just uncritically absorb aesthetic lefty video essays, you would have noticed that.
@@raskolnikov3799Maybe if you people were actually willing to protect marginalized people instead of virtue signal, then you actually say something of importance.
"there will still be lead in our water unless we do something about the pipe" is true, but what i feel the role of influencer politics in this case is, actually making people realize that there is lead in the water, cant quite commit to action if the populus doesnt realize there is action ti be done
The thing is as capitalism is of course failing. There is arguably an understanding that the status quo is bad. What is needed is education so people can verbalize and view the failing of capitalism through a marxist lense.
@@hegaliandialectics4289 And that's what the content creators are for.
@@alexanderboulton2123 no the content creators create entertainment first education second. Political theory needs to be read physically as you can talk about socialism and watch videos or streams where vaguely left liberals speak about surface level politics or leftwing theory. But true education is needed for any sort of actual class consciousness. I should also mention that most of these “left wing” content creators are ultimately just a more progressive liberal. Not anyone truly interested in spreading radical politics or interested in radical change. Political entertainers are entertainers. There is nothing wrong with watching entertainment. But do not delude yourself into thinking it is anything more.
@@hegaliandialectics4289 you clearly haven't seen Hasan go on a 30 minute rant on why we should hang CEOs and how government owned industries is based
@@inventor4279 Hasan is certainly more radical than most for sure. But either way my original point stands. Watching entertainment; consuming leftist codified media is not praxis. Hasan has said as much himself. He is an entertainer. And again nothing wrong with consuming entertainment I do it myself at times. Just don’t imagine it as a way for you to do anything more than entertain yourself.
The amount of police officers being held accountable has sky rocketed since youtube allowed for the proliferation of police misconduct videos. So you wrong. It is having actual tangible effects.
This was directly adressed in the video..
@@FrozenRat161 clicked off half way through
@@FrozenRat161 timestamp
And the amount of criminals not being held accountable has also skyrocketed
This video is the epitome of what this video warns about.
Sisyphus55 isn’t a Politics channel, it’s a philosophy channel - to the extent that this video is just trying to outline information, its succeeding in its goal. Politics content is trying to catalyse change, and it’s ineffective in doing that.
@@spacemanproletariat4279 I'm not sure that's true. Perhaps it's bad form, but allow me to share an anecdote. Back during the gamergate days, I got swept up in a lot of reactionary and anti-progressive content. Thankfully that didn't last, and I got pulled in by progressive, left leaning content. If people don't loudly advocate for leftist positions, then you're just ceding the space to the right. I certainly wouldn't be as progressive as I am now.
@@Piratewaffle43 This video isn’t saying that advocates are not important tools in political change, nor is it claiming that those who engage with this online advocacy are wasting their time. The entire point of this video is to say that at some point there must be a time where we use the knowledge amassed from online advocacy and theory to make intentional changes in the world around us, rather than just learning about how we could. Watching livestream after video essay after reading another article or book on theory will only lead us to a point where we can successfully regurgitate the concepts and partake in theoretical discussions that relate them to the world around us. And, while that is incredibly important info to be able to have and spread (both online & irl), his point is that this alone will never lead to actionable change until you choose to apply your knowledge directly by blending your flavor of advocacy with activism.
The message of this video is to point out how it’s easy to forget that the ultimate goal is to be taking these nuggets of knowledge outside, and use them as motivation for joining social orgs that are working towards the progress we want to see. Info + experience = knowledge. There comes a point in the learning stages where you’ve absorbed enough theory to start understanding the utility of engaging in real world activism, rather than just talking about it. In virtual spaces where entertainment and engagement is king (partially bc capitalism, and partially bc info is only as visible as the creator is), there is certainly a level of investment on all creators’ parts to maintain your attention. That’s equally if not more true for the platforms we use to consume this content. It’s still the internet, after all. So, the point is to ensure that you’re being mindful about how much actionable change you are intentionally engaging in irl, instead of making the false assumption that watching video after video is taking important action that’ll create change.
You def can use advocates to get to a place of continued activism, we all have a learning stage, but it’s important to realize that that info means nothing if you plan to do nothing with it. All the dudes on the internet shouting about this stuff on livestreams *are* doing something with it by turning their voices and pockets into megaphones for the changes they want us to see an help enact. But if we’re just sat there staring at a screen (after having understood the point of their advocacy) then we have indirectly chosen complacency. Best way to counteract this is to use what you’ve learned to figure out what you care to see change, and then find groups, orgs, or even just small things you can personally do in your day-to-day to take action and make that happen. Pretty sure that was the point.
@@corn8591 I'm not saying that watching videos online is all people need to do, but rather that those videos can push people into effective action, such as voting.
@@Piratewaffle43 Yeah, but so can activism. And that’s arguably more effective because you get to help influence who shows up on the docket and what they push, to a certain degree. I agree with you completely that this type of online advocacy can be useful (up to a point), I was just trying to make it known that this video isn’t useless. It’s point may just have gotten lost because of its medium, which is unfortunate.
"there will still be lead in our pipes even if we know about it" this analogy kind of snapped me out of agreeing with most of your points, because it makes it really clear how wrong you are about that. knowledge of lead being in our pipes, how harmful it was, AND seeing it, were all the reasons why we "fixed our pipes".
we can't pretend everyone in society is as media literate as us and understands that the pipes are dirty and need to be fixed. discussing the details of how and why the pipes are fixed, even within the circle of "fix the pipes", is obviously productive in some way.
idk as much as I agree with so much of this video, you seem to ignore a lot of elements of online political content that have meaningfully lead to change or at least, had an impact on the conversation. I feel like philosophical analysis applied to politics, while meaningful, misses a lot of this nuance.
Knowledge about the lead in our pipes is what made people fix the pipes, yes. But the pipes won't be fixed until someone comes and fixes them, that's the point of the quote.
Knowledge of the lead pipes is just knowledge. Sure knowledge of a problem is needed to fix it. But on its own it does nothing. We all know how fucked shit is. We all know how much worse it will get as capitalism continues to collapse. Knowing is not praxis. Consumption of media is not a force for change unless tied to a local movement. Unfortunately if any of us want to change anything we need to literally go outside. Thats it. “leftist” media is a dead end.
thank you, sisyphus, for always critically analyzing my habits and behaviours for me
The ruthless criticism of the self!
Now this is real
Oh boy, i love online videos by people who make videos online about why online politics are bad. Definitely no dramatic irony here.
Lmao true. Sad video essays is arguably doing less than these livestreamers
This video feels good because it's masturbatory. Beyond the fact that it does exactly what it advocates against, like commenting on livestreamers and being captured by the elite, it also fails to tell what the revolution is then if not these things.
Reality Check: leftist action either online or not, requires money. That's why it's so hard to organize. Not because we aren't doing anything. Media outreach and the occupation of platforms is the most cost effective way to change people's views on leftist ideas. And it isn't limited to that: there's been a surge in unionisation, people have put forward their hopes for political candidates like Bernie and new ideas have become accessible to local level politics, like the walkable cities, distain for lawns and personal transportation.
You're misinterpreting the video as a call out against other creators. It's not, it's a call out against viewers. Advocacy is great, advocacy is necessary, but at the end of the day, someone (that's you!) has to do political action or it will be pointless.
@@HunterTracks This Video Lacks so much self awareness told in the most Pretentious way possible.
@@HunterTracks He features live streamers directly and say they do nothing and talks about the act of balancing information and entertainment as if that's bad. He is absolutely calling ppl like vaush and Hassan out.
But live streaming is a big thing, ppl will always be more likely to absorb and watch entertaining information. A video that's 50% leftist info that reaches 1000 ppl is far more effective than one that's 100% leftist info that reaches 10 ppl. Plenty of these people actually end up helping leftism directly, like vaush went canvassing with progressive victory, there have been plenty of fundrasers etc.
Speaking as a 19yo Gen Z dude myself plenty of my friends have watched Hassan but wouldn't watch this pretentious cunt in a million years. The revolution will be live streamed because ppl watch way more live streams than pretentious, jargon packed video essays that come out once a month. Go outside and ask ppl how many of them know Hassan vs any video essayist.
@@alexandernahan6768Welcome to the channel, I guess? Sisyphus does this kind of presentation for all of his videos, I think that's just kinda how he's used to processing and presenting info.
it's not just the fact that it requires a good material basis, but the entire system is literally design to stomp any and all form of dissent.
There are like 20 people on the internet making this content its influence is vastly over played
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Depends on how many viewers see it, and how many act on it. 20 people is a lot of they have 500k subscribers each, and 1% of 500k is also larger than you’d think.
@Delmworks there are like 20 ppl across the entire political spectrum there are maybe like 6 "debate bros" online and 4 are leftwing I genuinely don't understand why people bitch about this so much
Says something is bad... PROCEEDS TO DO EXACTLY THAT SOMETHING.
vowsh will single handedly dismantle the structure of capitalism
And spend all the money 💰 his army of simps send his way 😏
Too bad all he wants is to dismantle underaged girls/boys….because he’s a pedo
This is known
many such cases.
@timmoxrevenge The correlation does seem very strong in leftist communities...
I mean, literally speaking any revolution will 100% be livestreamed if it involves mass participation in any way. If it focuses on a small group of prime actors (e.g. early stages of the French Revolution) it might not be though, assuming it doesn't evolve into something bigger.
I feel like this video ignores the de-radicalization and informational aspects completely. Many of these left-wing content creators try to get people to form a more coherent and logical way of thinking about social issues, which is IMO the best way to make someone pull themselves away from right-wing regressive thought. These channels have the important job of showing people what really is to blame for their problems (usually very wealthy people). You can only advocate for something if you know what you actually want. You cannot instantly just take action and get involved, without first establishing what change you want to see and why. Some need these channels to get them into a position from which they can be effective activists. These channels may not necessarily inspire activism, but they make people more willing to act by giving them a bit of direction.
They are essential to strengthen progressive movements by bringing in fresh blood with little previous political engagement, people who seek an answer to their woes about the world. If these channels don't answer them, right-wing ones will. And we won't like their answers. We need debate-bros and video essayists just as we need activists.
if vaush deradicalised you, you were just a polcomp ideology hopper, not an actual commited fascist
This is an extremely biased take. Conservatism isn’t radical by nature, nor is it regressive as progress is completely subjective depending on individual worldview. You could argue equally that left wing streamers are radicalizing former right wingers by turning them against the current political establishment via utopianism.
There are radicals on either side and both sides are bound by their respective moral standpoints. I do agree with focus being shifted upwards though. Something the left does much better than the right atm
@@Blakoss To be fair, every school shooter and white supremacist self-identifies as right wing, and the former president of the right wing party attempted a coup when he lost the election. Right wing politicians who don't support this are labelled "RINOs" or "cucks" by other party members.
For better or worse, this is what the American right-wing is associated with - extreme and radical politics.
@@Blakossthis answer is indeed biased, because in its current state, at least in US poliitics, conservatism is basically a radical ideology that stands in the way of human progress. You can't exactly "both-sides" the discussion on the revolution because conservatism does inherently tend to uphold the status-quo. And this video kinda talks about left wing creators mostly so that is what I also focused on.
@@BlakossExcept modern conservativism, especially in the US, is thoroughly anti-intellectual and contrary to all avaliable scientific findings and reality itself. It's largely based on reactionary conspiracy theories, outright fabricated lies and fear-mongering. If one side isn't even connected to reality and rational thinking, while the other is, there is no "both are radical". It's well established now that american conservativism is strongly fascistic, and heading towards anti-democratic theocracy. It's quite explicit, in fact.
And no, the left doesn't deal in utopias. Utopias are impossible, but there are ideal so be strives for. For example, true democracy is impossible, because it requires people be perfectly educated and rational. Every worthwhile ideal is vulnerable. But democracy must still be strived for, as best as we can, because anything short of that is horrible. It's an ideal of trurh and justice that has to be constantly and permanently worked towards, that we will never reach or maintain. But we must still try, and that is what the left deals in. Fighting for justice, truth, reason and liberation - forever, without ever reaching perfection. In fact that is how life itself must be lived. We never "get there".
Love the direction that your channel is going sisyphus. Excited to see how things build going forward
How will any change happen if people don't know anything to begin with ? Streamers may feel redundant but at least it gives people some grasp of political ideologies and education
They do not inform people of anything or misinform their audience about what is actually going on. Search Vaush or Hasan UAW elections or New River Valley auto strike. I guarantee you'll come up empty. You can't tell me none of them had an opinion on whether Volvo auto workers in the new river valley auto plant should have voted down the fourth sellout contract or not. Or if they supported Socialist Will Lehman for UAW and if not why. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. These guys aren't reporters they are streamers and it shows. They do this stuff for clout and attention. The Socialist stuff might as well be a gimmick.
You made some decent points about the spectacle and self censorship, but the rest of the video is dumb. It devolved to “just revolt lol” without explaining how that is remotely possible on a large scale or appetising for most people currently. Deference politics is still needed for aggitation and pushing people down the pipeline into radicalisation. If you’re advocating for activism or “direct action”, that isn’t useful either within the current framework. You’re basically doing the same thing you’re critiquing others for.
"thanks to my sponsor briliant and listen to my new podcast."
I mean really what a load of horsesh*t.
bro said absolutely nothing 🔥🔥🔥
Ok, now let's finally group up and overthrow capitalism brick by brick.
good luck eradicating the narcissistic behavior inherent in humans that leads to capitalistic problems in the first place!
Bro I think you just put yourself on a watch list
No?
Yeah, now it'll work for sure😒
I like how this could mean: taking down the 'wall' of capitlism brick by brick. Or brick by brick in the sense of bricks sailing through windows.
I think this video is looking at the surface of the pipeline only, and saying it doesn't go far down enough. Online content creation is meant mostly to inform, which is also extremely important. We need to know which actions to take within politics. The secondary reason is to entertain, which helps more people get into politics.
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Your editing has fr entered w new level man good shit
the new editing style is so sick ! keep it up !
I had given into nihilism years ago and have felt worthless since. This video hit me at the right time, I'm moving in with close friends in California to try to find myself and try to find a way to be happy with myself. Thank you. This has only encouraged me even more to go through with it and made me want to have a better mindset going into this
there are plenty of organizers in California these people can be very kind, caring, and helpful in my experience
Look into absurdism 💖
You will find fulfillment. Don’t give up
Aye that's super dope!! I mean not the feeling worthless part, the part where you're actually doing something about it. I know how easy it can be to just... _not_ when you feel like that, so kudos to you for fighting that feeling. You got this 🤗
@@mothmansavedme genuinely great advice. Sometimes if you don't laugh, you'll cry... so you might as well laugh 😂
I join the DSA bc of Hasan and vaush.
18:03 so hes a Canadian... Lesbian? The lore just gets deeper and more mysterious
LOLLL
What an amazing video!!! Music, animation, suspense 100%
Im sorry dude but this is a five year olds understanding of political advocacy. The idea that informing people--moving people over and giving them a leftist perspective ofthe world--is bad is simply wrong. I can speak from personal experience in my own life. Online leftist political information has made me more and better informed of the ills of the world and is why I do real world acivism. This isnt a zero sum game, you can both consume political content and work in the real world. People like you act like youre above it all--better than the people who make and watch content--when in reality your inability to recognize its value shows just how large your ego and desire to be better than everyone else is.
In summary, content that informs people of leftist principles moves people to our side. Many of those people will go on to participate in advocacy work. People who would not have otherwise and therefor bringing about a net benefit. I hope you don't let your superiority complex prevent you from recognizing this simple calculus.
Found the Hasan fan
you are delusional.
Activism should be reserved for people with knowledge and a sense of direction. Your insecurities and your inability to look at the bigger picture, which you so kindly displayed in your own post, proving you are actually intellectually inferior and an ego driven maniac - which is fine, just either keep it to yourself, or if it bothers you, solve it. You should help yourself before you can help others. You are the problem, really.
Nobody said moving people to the left was bad. Did you watch the video? When did it say that
@@stop4500 Live streaming is a big thing, ppl will always be more likely to absorb and watch entertaining information. A video that's 50% leftist info that reaches 1000 ppl is far more effective than one that's 100% leftist info that reaches 10 ppl. Not to mention plenty of these people actually end up helping leftism directly, like vaush went canvassing with progressive victory, there have been plenty of fundrasers etc.
Speaking as a 19yo Gen Z dude myself plenty of my friends have watched Hassan but wouldn't watch this pretentious cunt in a million years. All media needs to balance info and entertainment, quit this hollier-than-thou attitude.
Organize. Join active orgs. There are anti imperialist orgs, political parties, unions, student orgs, in your country.
Wish my country had any of that. The only 'left' political organizations are full of "old school" misogynist men and homophobes. Eastern Europe of course. The people who are not like that usually leave and move to western europe. This might be a dead end here.
My dude, did you just spend 20 minutes explaining how live streaming to reach a lot of people and broadcast information is ineffective just to, at the end, to state that you are going to use your channel to reach a lot of people and broadcast information to them? Wtf did I just watch?
But hey, I hope that brilliant sponsorship pays well...
Imagine giving money to a 37 manchild who build-up an audience so he doesn't have to get a real job.
@@purpleblastoise Not sure who you are talking about or what that has to do with my comment but I hope you have a great day.
The visuals have improved so much in the past year your visual presentation skills were already very unique and understandable but now they are also so visually appealing. Keep up the great work!
This is something I have noticed a lot of the last decade or more, a lot of talk but little action in the real world. It is always amazing when something actually leeches out into the real world and in some ways folks tend to get uneasy. I think part of that is because some people actually 'did it' rather than just talk about it. It is a sense of guilt or disgust that they went beyond the virtual world into the real.
In many ways it is like the Marcus Aurelius quote "Don't just talk about what is means to be a good person, be one", it is that last bit that large parts of the internet has removed or subverted into inaction.
A tough problem to over come.
Spreading information is just as necessary as acting on that information. Just like numbers with number theory; if we didn't have numbers we would not have a lot. If we didn't have theory there would be no successful revolution.
Vaushist theory (Ben shabibo bad stink man pt 1, 1:15:23)
@@thekingoffailure9967 indeed comrade
@@1cjckc9oook96 😩
Number theory? Are you a mathematician?
@@theflaggeddragon9472 Almost
The comparison to healthcare workers, since the stress and immediacy of those circumstances is very, very far from people who, sans praxis, participate online "progressive" communities, is not only a stretch, but shows how people will generally just consume content and not do really do anything, since they won't be nearly sufficiently motivated liked said workers.
Powerful topics man! I still want to put the revolution online but the lawyers say I shouldn't do that.
Editing Tip: If the echo in your microphone is not an intentional part of your style (which I'm not hating on if it is) and you would like to remove it, you can get one of many free or paid VST echo and background-noise-removal plugins that uses machine learning to isolate voices. Something like Goyo or Waves can help immensely to clean up the audio, and even something like Adobe's "Podcasts" system, which has now been integrated into the Premiere Pro Beta (if you happen to be on a licensed copy of Premiere) has pretty reliable methods for removed reverb and echo. Love the visuals 🤠👍
i like the sound
How does a 20 minute long video manage to say almost nothing in that span of time.
Taiwo did a lecture at my school and it was so cool. It was exciting to hear you talking about this topic
I grew up on politics. I live in rural Oklahoma my first introduction to politics was the 2016 presidential election. From there i grew and learned every thing i could i fell in love with politics. A way to make the world a better place for so many people. It became my dream to become president of the u.s. so maybe online politics isn't the way to change things but it can inspire people who will. But thats just my thoughts.
If you are serious, then start doing your part in real life. Like helping your local community. And build your rep from there.
Just dont get stuck in "tutorial hell". You are already inspired enough.
@Mr.Coffee576 Ya, that's the plan. I'm planning on going to college for political science and trying to learn as much as possible. I know a lot already, but there's always so much more to learn.
@@Zoomist45 Thats a good plan. Best of luck. 🙂
@Mr.Coffee576 thx man best of luck to you too in whatever you decide to do.
Politics don't vibe
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One of the biggest reasons why I respect Vaush as a political streamer and commentator is the fact that he galvanized his large fanbase to join a political organizing group called Progressive Victory, which played a noticeable role in last year's midterms. Progressive Victory turned Georgia into Bleorgia. Connecting so many onlinepeople with others in their area and across the country, pooling their resources, skills, and information in order to canvass and support progressive political candidates is direct action, is praxis. This, in addition to great charity streams like the $250,000+ raised for the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund about 2 years ago, are examples of political streamers mobilizing their fanbases into direct tangible action.
I guess even the brain dead can make a difference
i'm almost positive destiny was the one who organized and mobilised the most amount of people to do canvassing in georgia
Destiny was the one who organized that event.. Vaush is the guy who thinks all truths are subjective and sits on twitch all day trying to find any legitimate moral arguments towards possession of cp.
@@pank3245 let's not portray vaush in bad faith the same way he does with dest (talking about the cp stuff)
@@pank3245Oh great more people using an out of context clip made by nazis to smear vaush. Just say you personally don't care about Trans and poc people so long as you get to say "Vaush bad."
Another great video, as always. This topic, in particular, is a very important one
Large portions of your video made me recall Fritz the Cat. Definitely worth a watch if you've not seen it yet
I don't think I agree. I think it genuinely creates awareness. While it may not change anything. With apathy also comes compassion. Which is the only thing that might help cushion the blow of the impossibility of a genuine revolution
This is a great video about something I’ve had on my mind recently. Funny thing-I had Taiwo as a political philosophy professor last year-he’s a terrific lecturer and taught me so much in just one class!
You productivity has been off the charts lately!
As an IWW member I can personally say I got my go pro and streamer backpack at the ready🗣️💪
least elaborate way of telling twitter users to go outside and touch grass
VOOSH VOOSH VOOSH VOOSH!!!!
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I’m excited for planted. Keep picking up new interests and hobbies!
I love the retro pyshcadellic aesthetic of this video. Really cool!
Nah, I'm from Minneapolis, believe me they gonna live stream the whole damn thing
You are looking at this from really negative perceptive. Engaging, consuming in the political content is actually a good thing. It builds your political identity and that is very important that people should be engaged or watch with debates even if that doesn't change the world or bring any revolution. Otherwise there will be a Political identity crisis and as Hannah arendt mentioned in "The origins of Totalitarianism".
So it's a good thing that youth is watching these content even if it won't bring revolutions it is worth it.
It is a good thing if the facts that you are getting are actually facts and true, also most people don't even build a political identity they just root for one team never trying to understand the different and complex reasons of the other team .If you want to get interested in politics but do not want to change the world for the better then I suggest you should not have any opinion politically or have a "political identity". Social media is not the best place to have debates, watching content like debates where people discuss it in person is far more effective. I also believe that the majority of the youth would never be able to understand this at all, and is unreasonable to think they should, it is unnecessary for youth to understand their political identity since most of them don not want to become political commentators or politicians , some actually want to change the world in a different way.
@@73-sphysics that is really pessimistic way to look at things. If you think this way nothing will make sense. And that's exactly the attitude that leads to Totalitarian Governments. Thinking that you have to become reactionary to build a political identity is the exact thing that leads people feeling empty without the third Labour " that is talking about politics". You need to be engaged in political content to some extent at least even if it doesn't change the world.
Bc guess what our desk job also don't change the world but we do it for financial benefits, don't we ?
"Not having anything to do with politics" is the mindset that was born after era of enlightenment and biggest flaw of Liberalism, bc it lead to fascism.
People not engaging in any way towards political content is a dangerous thing.
Streaming and online debates are new form. His Criticism is negative and is postmodern.
@@thatoneguyfromearth i agree with you, but also, we're in a sisyphus55 video comment section. I love his content, but he is king of the pessimists - i wouldn't expect anything less than intense negativity from him and the comments below.
Ultimately, we need information to find the truth, even if information in itself isn't the truth. We need advocates to find activists, even if advocates themselves aren't activists. Something being inadequate is not the same as it being bad. But nuance is hard in a pessimistic world - especially in a UA-cam video designed to grab people's attention (which is, ironically enough, what sisyphus55 was railing about - funny how that goes). Anyway, I hope your day is going well! :)
@@thatoneguyfromearth I do not really know what I said that was so pessimistic, sometimes things are not said with a negative connotation, but rather is said to be realistic and truthful.
I do not think, that thinking in a way that could possibly benefit the world is going to cause Totalitarian Governments to exist.(although I am not as well educated on this topic nor on this video in general, so maybe it could)
"You need to be engaged in political content to some extent at least even if it doesn't change the world ". I completely agree with this sentence, I believe to make decisions on who to vote for or what group you want to support is important, and that you must somewhat know of politics in the present, but I still don not believe that we should rope the youth into politics. Do not misinterpret this, it is important to let your kid learn for himself and learn him about politics, but making life more complicated at such a young age even at 21 is not benefiting anyone, and will not make the world better.
Another reason I did not agree with the idea of politics being discussed online goes back to my first sentence ."It is a good thing if the facts that you are getting are actually facts and true", there are to many articles that are incorrect which spreads false news, even the BBC gave false news to the public, my point is that not everybody you watch is truthful, but rather is done to get a lot of views and or support.
"Bc guess what our desk job also don't change the world but we do it for financial benefits, don't we ?" Exactly, desk jobs, firefighters, policemen and doctors do things for financial benefits, but what does politics do, what does knowing about politics really do that affects your life in such a way that you need to know about it, it definitely does not make life easy.( it does help to decide who you want to vote for but it is still not more important than financial benefit)
The main reason I said that people should not interact with politics especially if they do not know what it consists of, is mainly to just control the excitement that follows any political discussion, people despise one another for their difference in ideologies and political viewpoints, which disgusts me.
Online debates are not even debates anymore. People do not talk live to each other, but rather record a video say what they think the other person meant that is reacting to another person looking at another person talking about politics. It is ridiculous to even call it a fair and equal discussion.
Sorry for the long comment, I am new to these political discussions so most of what I say is coming from a place of the self, these discussions recently interested me, but I am one in a 100 thousand that is actually intrigued by this, which is why I think that the youth will struggle to really grasp politics in general .Most kids do not even do their homework, and now we want them to discuss these issues.
When all is said and done I hope that we can really find a middle ground on this topic, and I look forward to your response.
(like I said I am new to this so I am interested in what group you fall in the left or the right?)
Pretty much all these streamers/political influencers just promote ideology not any actual nuanced political thought or debate. Guys like Hassan and Vaush just pull an opinion out of their ass, sometimes ones that contradict other supposed opinions of theirs without any logic or reasoning behind it. “This is how it is, I am 100% correct and if you think any different you are (insert bad person archetype). Same exact stuff on the right leaning side.
You’re not going to any type of critically thought out political identity by watching these ideologues. Read actual political and philosophical source material and sort your own opinions rationally rather than having garbage opinions spoon fed to you with no reasoning or substance
The revolution will be live-streamed. Most definitely. Vision Pros on sale now. Welcome.
the editing is really good how did you learn the scrapbook text thingy
You're saying a lot of fancy words without conveying anything meaningful. A flashy load of form over substance with a huge lack of self-awareness & humility. This is art-school, quasi-academia pretentious know-it-all'ism. You should make an edit where you acknowledge this video should have been about critizing yourself, not other content creators. Would be refreshing.
come on dude, why do you not engage with this shit blizzard?
There is no way you made this whole video just to market your own streaming. This is the most ironic thing I've seen in a long time
wow ive been watching you for years and i haven't watched a vid since 2021 and your editing and art got so much better!
These are very valid criticisms that I feel are unfortunately made ironic by your statement at the end of the video. Using your own personal privilege and platform to help incite change is a great and noble goal, and forgive me if I misunderstood any of your criticisms but.... Is that not precisely what you criticized other left-wing streamers over? You provide an argument that online political streamers don't do enough to help facilitate the revolution, and then come back by saying that what you're personally doing is somehow different from what they do when in fact you also sit behind a screen and talk to a camera. You also disregard the informational aspect of online politics- Take Hasan for example. I watch his content on occasion, and from what I've gleaned from it, his main objective is education. It is using his power and platform to educate his viewers, provide counterpoints to any conservatives who come wandering by, and provide examples of actionable steps viewers can take to facilitate political change within their locality. He has provided thousands of dollars in fundraisers to numerous political organizations and charities, talked to multiple politicians on stream who currently hold real world power, and streams live from real world events such as the SAG AFTRA strikes. Call me dumb, but I really don't understand how what you're doing by releasing this video is in any way, shape or form different to what online political streamers do. It seems a bit like throwing more hay into the fire.
I believe his main point was how participating in drama gives the illusion of action
The Revolution will definitely be live streamed.
By thousands
And unwatched
Not if Google and Amazon have anything to say about it.
Pragmatism has always been the area where progressives lack in quality. Vaush brings this up alot. Great video! ❤
pragmatism only exists in the left, the right relies solely on dogmas
Vaush is the most inept of all the streamers
@@chadalpha7983 How so?
At least he is organizing people to go vote and campaign @@chadalpha7983
remember the video is about all these streamers do nothing vaush brings it up and does nothing just like his viewers
Love the title modernizing Gil Scott-Heron “the revolution will not be televised”
18:45 someone in the Q&A stream: hey we can see your Wi-Fi password, you should change that
Ben: [plasters his closet in stickers]
we live we love we lie
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Absolute YIKES on Kurzgesagt.
your "sources" makes as much cohesive sense as the ventriloquism in this video, snif
THISSSSS!!!! THIS IS EVERYTHING!!!
Philosophy and Psychology are my biggest what-ifs of this college as I pursue Accountancy. However, this course can be my pre-law as I become a part of the world's progression to a better one if I ever become a lawyer. Especially here in the Philippines where educated people are needed for a change.
Thank You for inspiring people everyday Mr. Sisyphus especially to people like me!
Thank you for plating your part in bettering your country. Things are looking pretty shaky here in the US. Keep fighting the good fight homie
@@sludgerat666 thank you!
If you want to fight for actual change then get organized! Join your local IMT section
Yes 😎✊🏼
What is IMT
@@charlesbaicy3295 The International Marxist Tendency is a self financed Marxist organisation working for socialism all over the world.
@@charlesbaicy3295 The International Marxist Tendency. We are a communist organization present in some 40 countries at the present. If you want to get organized and build a professional revolutionary party, join us!
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You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out
"I am outraged! This is unacceptable, and we will not stand for it! We have to do something now!
*(nothing happens)*
Vaush
Now that I have your attention, you can't just craft a one-size-fits-all approach to promoting change. To push for change, you have to understand exactly what it is that needs changing. The best approach to effecting real change is a bespoke approach. You have to tailor your methodology to the task at hand. Identify a problem, and the solution will become apparent.
The second most important thing, as much as it sounds like I'm contradicting myself, is a solid moral framework. You can't do the right thing without knowing what the right thing is, and you can't prove that something is right without being able to explain why. Otherwise, all of your guiding principles will be ungrounded and arbitrarily defined. Your ethics will die with you. Others may pick up your banner, but your axioms will be grapevined until they're unrecognizable.
A willingness to make universal moral statements is the bitter medicine that the left has to swallow. Your enemies do it, after all. That's why they're growing in popularity. Their answers may be insane and misanthropic, but at least they _have_ answers. People crave truth. We strive for meaning. We crave something to believe in. And in these times, we're starving of it. The average person can't subsist on facts alone. Those facts have to mean something. The right has truth, even if it doesn't have facts, and that's why they're growing across the world.
The key isn't substance over style, it's substance AND style.
I had to stop reading this comment after the 4th sentence as reading something that says nothing begins killing me with boredom.
10/10 aesthetics, 0/10 substance
Economics tip:
Money is not capital. Economics uses the word “capital” for objects that facilitate the production of goods and services. While you might have to pay to make things, money is inert. The machines and other tools used to make things that are in turn sold for profit, that is capital. This is why Marxism places such an emphasis on “the means of production”…if money were capital then social change _would_ be as simple is finding the right set of rich people to follow and give attention to.
Not important to your overall point, but it helps to use the jargon correctly if you hope to convince people