There’s a news broadcast that ABC News did in 1986 about the Chernobyl disaster that you can watch on RU-vid. It’s informative, no hype, no fancy transitions, the talking heads are actual experts, and it spends the entire time calmly delivering information about this terrible thing. That kind of news is never coming back. There’s a 24 hour news cycle to keep alive and they need as many eyeballs on screen as possible no matter what it takes and I hate it.
Couldn't agree more, man. The flu season these past years also emphasized it, it's like some interactive theatre show. I am a sanitation worker, so i am considered to be essential, yet my reward for being essential is a minimum wage, so how does that even make sense? We're getting a 10% raise in January, not because they want to reward us, but because of inflation getting too high.
how is it humanly possible even working there? in many cities rich ppl are commute costs money alone with time..... so if can afford fare, workday comes pretty tough to fit in day... especially places like NYC /manhattan and London downtown "essential workers" amaze me coz no way these ppl can live aka rent anywhere in an hour commute there.
Look, if you want a way out of this mess, you buy an inflatable pool, and you fill it with plastic balls and make your own ball pit. Once you're submerged and hidden, you can be whatever, whoever, where ever you want to be. The ball pit is freedom, the ball pit is love.
As a former semi-professional Submissive, I have to say I like your style. I feel both informed, and like I've been mildly reprimanded for being a member of your audience. I will be back. I haven't yet decided if I'm watching an actual descent into madness, or a VERY good bit. I wish I had internet money to put towards your condo. My safe word is "more".
I can do nothing but nod helplessly in agreement, George. I don't know what to say. But you are absolutely right. It all is very frustrating. And infuriating.
My overall anxiety has gone way down from near-paralysing at the start of this year, to just a little bothersom by cutting out all the news feeds built into all my tech.
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Yes. Can definitely recommend just getting rid of it all. If something important happens, you will know either way.
@@madattaktube Same here! Feel so much better for it. It's funny though when people are talking about current events, and I have to say I have no idea what they're talking about, nor do I care. The looks on their faces, it's almost genuine offence. hahaha
Marshall McLuhan (20th century media theorist) anticipated the peril of our modern times, despite not even living to see the advent of the internet. He saw the trajectory we were on already via radio, television, and early computers. The fundamental problem (according to McLuhan) is simple, albeit not well or even widely understood: our brains did not evolve to make sense of the incredible excess of stimuli and information that modern humans are subjected to daily. He likened our modern distributed information technology to having our nervous systems splayed across the surface of the earth. This state of affairs produces a host of maladaptive attitudes (anxiety, depression, alienation, rage, and so on) in an organism that is psychologically defenseless against such a historically unprecedented volume of data and noise. What we need isn't faster and better access to information, although this is the direction technology always seems to push. What we need (for the sake of our individual and collective health) is a better filter. On the plus side, maybe we have a solution to the Fermi Paradox. All sufficiently advanced organisms invariably drive themselves crazy through uncontrolled access to irrelevant information.
Nah I'd say watching the news is a pretty smart move. Like you gotta pay attention to what's goin on in the world so you're not coaught off gaurd by some kind of major political, economical, or whatever catastrophe that directly affects your way of life.
The Day Today and Brass Eye showed me the truth of what the news is. Between them they made it all so transparent and I'm reminded of them any time I watch TV all these years later.
Speaking of getting paid an obscene amount of money, during the FIFA cup I've been looking up players net worth. Fuck. My. Life. I think I lost my last fuck to give...
You're my Jon Oliver. Only you're a real person that I could sit down and tip a pint with instead of me just strangling away. Excellent sentiment and considerations as always, Georg.
Yeah, i don't watch the news anymore. I'd rather talk to someone about what they know when it comes up. Also accepted the fact that i can't save everyone. I focus on my own well-being and then try my best to extend compassion to others. I spend money quickly because i recognise that money, constant unnecessary consumption and material wealth are just anxieties in physical form. I try my best to focus on my basic needs: good food, clean water, good shelter, challenging work = optimal environment. I stopped chasing universal truths for everyone and focused on questioning my own truths and logic. Realised how much of an idiot I can be and honestly I don't know anything. Accepting that was difficult, but rewarding. Thanks for speaking your mind, i feel safe enough to speak my mind too now.
6:50 I highly recommend reading Michael Parenti's book "Inventing Reality" for more on this. Because yes, the media, whether intentionally or not, reinforces the status quo.
The state of our world, summed up in a (paraphrased) quote from this video: "I don't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but I think the media's goal is to keep the status quo."
The news or perhaps society these days reminds me of the Oozlum bird, which, when startled, flies around and around in ever-decreasing circles until it disappears up its own arse.
The news is fundamentally made to depress us. e.g. Someone breaking their leg might be news, whereas the leg gradually recovering is not. Most positive things don't happen overnight.
Your insights and pacing are one in a million but your sense of humour that is the quick second jab before moving onto the next point is honestly so good. I have loads of hearty chuckles watching your lecture vids
Been watching you for a while man. Always enjoyed your presentation and uniqueness. With how bad everything is, just remember it will get bett--actually no it will definitely get worse. But these are the best times to embrace the absurd my friend. Keep doin what you're doing. Cheers
Working as an EMT, I would constantly have to take on overtime all the time. It's such bs I couldn't even afford to live. I'm now making more working in a lab for dairy where I didn't even need a degree
Well, as 90s swedish cultural critic Meja once remarked: "It's all 'bout the money... it's 'bout the dum dum dum-da-da dum... and I think we got it all wrong any way"
All these millionaires and billionaires talking about poverty, climate change, etc. telling us peasants we should care, we should do something, we should be punished….an they sit there with all their money and their private jets. They say they care but instead of giving away all their money to help they do “non profit” fundraisers to take our money, get tax right offs, free PR, etc. Any rich person has no right to complain about any issue because if they really cared they would give their money away and live a nice comfortable middle class life. They Bible says the rich usually don’t get into heaven, and I love that.
Fuck. We're just swirling particulate. There's nothing in this world that you can consume and it will make you happy. But there is happiness out there.
Sometimes a whole freaking island spontaneously blows up, and it's at least interesting to learn of it. News of what the earth itself is doing can be worth paying attention to from time to time.
I wish I was a cat. Didn't Plato posit this once? Anyway, I feel this would be a successful philosophy. Not play a cat, or think about playing a cat, but being a cat.
People online: I can't afford food. I have two jobs and I get no sleep. There's a lump growing in my breast but I can't afford the doctors appointment and I don't even want to think about the cost of whether it's actually cancer. My son has diabetes and every paycheck goes towards his insulin that costs more every month. The only time I get to turn my brain off is when I'm watching videos of cats online that I can't have because my landlord has been looking for a reason to evict me; bulldoze the apartments so they can build smaller, more expensive apartments. NEWS WEBSITE OWNED BY NESTLE OR SOME OTHER CORPORATE CONGLOMERATE: WHY HAVING TWO JOBS AND A ZERO HOUR CONTRACT WITH NO PAID VACATION TIME IS ACTUALLY GREAT FOR MILLENIALS
Monkey falls out of tree; Creates art, war, splits the atom. But most interestingly, monkey falls out of tree and turns wolves into poodles. I mean like, the small ones that peek their heads out of rich weirdo ladies purses. That was a wolf. Now it’s on its way to get its nails painted pink. Ta-daaaa! Nah, we’ll be fine. Speaking of the news, though, did you know that Anderson Cooper worked for the CIA before getting his job as a CNN anchor? This is as true as the monkey stuff. A searchable fact. Cheers, y’all!
First time watching one of these complaint videos from you and I really like the novelty of you speaking less formally and keeping in the mistakes. Very charming, makes me wanna keep watching.
It's not a concerted effort to maintain the status quo. It doesn't have to be. Everyone wants to keep what they have so they refuse to upset the apple cart. That's why capitalism is a perfect system for those in power with wealth. It's self perpetuating.
It feels like you aren't miserable because you're smart and/or informed, but rather because you take on and feel the weight of things you objectively can't change or directly influence. It's not actual ignorance that makes people happy, it's their more limited and direct view of the world around them. I'm sure that most of these videos are more a 'personality' rather than just your actual thoughts as stream of conciousness, but if you focus more on yourself and what you can do to improve things in your immediate vicinity, you may find that not only will you be less miserable, but you'll spend less time focusing on news which is 95% fluff and shite. You can't end world hunger, but you can volunteer and donate to your local pantry or food bank. You can't cure all of the infirm, but you can take care of yourself and those around you. You can't end all wars and conflict, but you can be a mediator or spread kindness to help those around you feel better.
what do rich people even spend their money on? i calculated that if i want to buy the house that i want and live off 1500$ a month for the next 60 years and have some left over money to go on vacation every once in a while i roughly need 2 million dollars. no wonder the rich spend their money on prostitutes, plastic surgery, and drugs. what else are you supposed to spend your money on?? poor people??
On the subject of money from personal experience, Some care home staff get paid way too much. For example I knew one before my nan was killed in the same care home. That legit went to London , Blackpool,isle of Skye and Italy all in one week then came back for a few days and buggered off to America the week after that whilst staying in Paris on the way back.
Doc Brown: "Let's say that this line represents time. Here's the present 1985, the future and the past. Obviously, somewhere in the past, the timeline skewed into this tangent creating an alternate 1985. Alternate to you, me, and Einstein." Marty: "I don't get it, Doc. How could all this be happening? It's like we're in Hell or something!" Doc Brown: "NO, it's Hill Valley, Marty. Although I can't imagine Hell being much worse!"
I always thought studying it would be great. I'd like the theory, the insight. But we all know it never plays out well in reality. Journalism would be a torture to earn a living in. Mostly these days it means scrolling through reddit to steal "local colour" stories, and pandering to Murdoch's politics.
Registered Nurses in Hawaii make around $100k *base pay* without overtime. Lol! The pay is very much tied into the cost of living everywhere in the US. Alabama? $60k. California? $106k. See? If you can stand blood, it's a degree you can actually get in only three years. I'm not sure it was the best example of occupation.
Got it: no bin bags, no fecies in my hair when next time going to the bank job interview. I'll write it down. With my fingers, dipped in kitten blood, on the floor. Thank you, that should actually help.
Your point at the end reminds me of the introduction to "The Life You Can Save" by Peter Singer. It's written by the guy who produced The Good Place, who has also produced several other popular shows. He says that Singer's arguments for effective altruism and donating lots of money to help the poor in the most effective ways are very convincing, but I looked him up and couldn't find anything about him donating anything. Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence, I know, but I really would have thought that given they produced a show entirely about living ethically, read a book about how to live a maximally ethical life, and will have loads of money to give away would have something on the internet about their philanthropic efforts.
For the medical pay it all depends California has a very decent pay because of the strong union however everything else kind of suffers as a result. I wish he emts made that I think it's just minimum. I remember when I got hired on back in the day it was like 8:25 an hour for 12-hour shifts it was definitely an experience and was my motivator for going into a different field within the medical side.. u gh
My dream in life is for the producers of this garbage to one day sit down at a press conference where they go over their monthly viewership numbers and have it read 0. It would make me so happy if they realized they'd been screaming rage into the void for nothing.
