RadixJournal - December 16, 2019


Tommy Boy： The Poverty of the ＂Anti-Jihad Movement＂


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The group discusses Donald Trump's recent executive order effectively banning serious criticism of Zionism and Jewish influence on America's campuses. They further discuss the evergreen issue of social media deplatforming, as well as the hyper-real that is when you only have a life online.

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00:00:00.360 Final topic. It's literally illegal now. The group discusses Donald Trump's recent executive order effectively banning serious criticism of Zionism and Jewish influence on America's campuses.
00:00:17.340 They further discuss the evergreen issue of social media deplatforming, as well as the hyper real that is when you only have a life online.
00:00:27.360 OK, so the next topic is with regards to anti-Semitism and Trump. And Richard, I believe you have some news for us.
00:00:36.360 Yes. Well, Trump signed an executive order on negating birthright citizenship. Breaking news.
00:00:45.100 Oh, wait, that was just the lie that he told everyone before the midterms when he went on Axios television and announced that we have people looking into this.
00:00:55.780 And I can just do it with the stroke of a pen. But that was all a he had a bubble with us, as the Coctis might say.
00:01:04.720 And he instead issued a recent executive order.
00:01:10.000 He did it while he was surrounded by great lions of industry and sports like Alan Dershowitz and Robert Kraft.
00:01:20.580 I guess Jeffrey Epstein couldn't make it. He's otherwise disposed.
00:01:25.680 But he he he he he basically put forth an executive order that was actually kind of it was it was both very bad just from a superficial standpoint.
00:01:39.740 But I think kind of on a deeper level, very good.
00:01:43.320 And it was a condemnation of anti-Semitism in the universities.
00:01:48.260 The universities are certainly a hotbed of leftism of all sorts.
00:01:52.320 And that actually includes anti-Zionism and the BDS movement that is about boycotting Israeli industry.
00:02:03.160 And I have known about these things for, you know, back when I was at university.
00:02:08.760 I mean, 10, 20 years. I didn't know how impactful they are, but they clearly are making some kind of difference.
00:02:17.240 Otherwise, they would not be condemned directly by presidents.
00:02:21.260 And so he effectively outlawed these clearly free speech movements of saying, let's boycott this country because we oppose their foreign policy or their domestic policy.
00:02:35.160 And he is he is he is denying those.
00:02:37.500 And one aspect of this executive order was the declaration that Jews are not just a, I don't know, religious domination, denomination or something like that.
00:02:50.380 However, they were kind of incorrectly conceived, but they are a race.
00:02:54.240 And thus, something like the boycott Israel movement is race is a civil rights violation.
00:03:03.160 It goes in that, I think, is actually very interesting.
00:03:08.100 And that, I think, will have a myriad of unintended consequences.
00:03:13.760 I, on some weird level, I support this executive action, because things that were implicit are becoming explicit.
00:03:26.220 The first of those is the prohibition against criticism of Zionism, or you could say Zionist influence in America, or you could say Jewish influence.
00:03:37.000 We have known for a very long time that there are some things you cannot criticize.
00:03:42.760 You can have all sorts of opinions on Medicare or cultural issues, abortion and gay marriage or whatever, but you simply cannot criticize America's relationship with Israel, its funding of Israel's armed forces, its foreign policy, which seems to be at the very least skewed in the direction of Israel and to the detriment of having decent relations with countries like Iran or Syria and others.
00:04:12.760 If you criticize that, if you criticize that, if you criticize that, that was a step too far, you would be kicked out of the conservative movement, and you would be kicked out of left liberal movements as well.
00:04:23.520 You can do that at academia, which is an interesting thing.
00:04:30.140 And the fact that they made that implicit law explicit, I think, is a good thing.
00:04:38.020 I would prefer explicit, say, speech codes on YouTube, which we could at the very least follow, as opposed to this vague, you're inciting hatred against communities or however it's defined, where we don't know what we can and cannot say.
00:04:57.740 I support prohibitions that are in writing so that, A, it's made clear who you can and cannot talk about, and it's clear for the content creators of, OK, well, we can dance around this issue a little bit.
00:05:12.800 If we want to go wild in the subject, we can do it somewhere else.
00:05:16.760 The other aspect is...
00:05:19.180 I would like to say that I think that YouTube's policy is kind of like it's discrimination against people who are Asperger's, basically.
00:05:26.640 Because people...
00:05:27.760 Who are a race, by the way.
00:05:29.080 People who should be regarded as a race, a superior race. 1.00
00:05:33.360 But people who, like myself, who are interested in the truth and logic and reason,
00:05:39.420 I genuinely can't understand, unless you tell me, that something is hate speech.
00:05:45.160 Like, I've had two videos taken down from YouTube.
00:05:47.500 The first one, as far as I can work out, it was taken down because you can criticise in detail.
00:05:52.080 You can talk about race differences in IQ and whatever.
00:05:54.720 You can criticise a researcher who has done research on that that is fallacious and is nonsense.
00:06:00.320 But not if they're a woman and Asian. 0.92
00:06:03.300 This is Angela.
00:06:04.820 Angela's saying it, is it?
00:06:06.420 This is old darling Saney.
00:06:08.220 If they're a woman and Asian, then that's hate speech. 1.00
00:06:11.980 But if they're Steven Pinker, where I've done exactly the same thing, that's not hate speech because he's a man.
00:06:17.980 He's Jewish.
00:06:19.020 He's a man.
00:06:19.740 It's bizarre.
00:06:20.500 I've had a few...
00:06:21.680 I am generally on YouTube, and I don't think I'm going to be kicked off.
00:06:27.920 But I've had videos taken down that are fairly innocuous.
00:06:33.020 It's a Become Who We Are video that I did with Mark Brahman that had all this music and imageries of, like, Excalibur and the Stone and people looking off into sunsets and women in wheat fields and things like that.
00:06:45.380 That was taken down.
00:06:46.660 I know my...
00:06:47.700 A person I've spoken to, I like quite a bit, Xerious, has done nonverbal music, and that has been banned from YouTube.
00:06:56.700 I don't know how that is possibly hate speech by any definition.
00:07:01.840 So the policies are ambiguous, and I think they're probably ambiguous for a reason so that they can have arbitrary ability.
00:07:11.180 And it kind of psychologically damages people.
00:07:13.700 We don't know what we can do.
00:07:16.080 No.
00:07:16.720 Two videos that they demonetized as possibly unsuitable for all advertisers, I appealed.
00:07:21.800 They manually reviewed it.
00:07:23.040 They monetized it.
00:07:24.200 Both of those were taken down subsequently for hate speech.
00:07:27.740 So it's totally insane.
00:07:29.420 I've tried to argue with them.
00:07:30.660 I said, well, so you're saying something can be suitable for all advertisers and also hate speech?
00:07:35.860 Right.
00:07:36.120 And I've never received an answer about that.
00:07:39.480 The other one was the video I did of the speech to Patriotical Alternative.
00:07:44.500 That was up for months and months and months, and then suddenly it was taken down for hate speech, and I got a strike.
00:07:48.920 And I don't think I mentioned any protected minority in that speech at all.
00:07:54.600 I just said that left-wing people are spiteful mutants.
00:07:58.800 And I guess a spiteful mutant saw that and got upset.
00:08:03.500 Right.
00:08:03.740 They are the X-Men.
00:08:06.120 But it's – but I think on a – so again, to reiterate, I am actually happy that this is done just because it makes things that are implicit explicit.
00:08:18.020 It makes things clear and obvious.
00:08:19.940 You can't criticize the Jews, and the Jews are equivalent to Zionism, and the Jews are a race.
00:08:26.680 And the other aspect which I like about it is that it correctly understands Jews as a race.
00:08:31.080 Now, I think – you know, we have this Protestant position in the United States and elsewhere of the separation of church and state, and kind of like religion is something you do in your home, and it's all individualistic, and you can convert, and so on.
00:08:48.040 And that's a very improper understanding of what religion is.
00:08:54.380 Jews are a race, but they're also a religion, and those things shouldn't be separate.
00:08:59.280 Much as I don't think we can understand, say, the history of Europe without understanding religious history and how that impacted us as a people, et cetera.
00:09:11.140 Jews are a race, and they're a religion.
00:09:14.040 They are not seeking converts. 0.98
00:09:16.740 This is not a loosey-goosey evangelical goofball religion that's going and converting Africans.
00:09:24.040 To convert to Judaism is quite an ordeal, and it happens extremely rarely.
00:09:28.920 It is – Judaism is a certain type of evolutionary strategy for a people, and it has been wildly successful in the sense that this people is still defined.
00:09:41.440 They were defined in the Roman Empire.
00:09:43.320 They were defined before that.
00:09:44.320 They're defined in the Middle Ages.
00:09:45.460 They are still a people in the way that, say, the Visigoths really aren't. 0.98
00:09:50.460 And so it is a race and a religion, and so I commend Donald Trump for doing this, for correctly identifying Jews as a race and not just as a religion and correctly identifying Zionism as one aspect, certainly not the only one, of an evolutionary strategy.
00:10:09.580 So, again, obviously this is dripping with irony, but I ultimately do think that this executive order was a good thing.
00:10:19.100 So, my first thought when you told us this was, could this benefit us?
00:10:25.140 Because we've all seen, you know, Jews write on Twitter, my fellow white people.
00:10:29.540 And then when people say back to them, but Jews aren't white, then people say, you're not allowed to say that.
00:10:34.580 And now it's been made explicit, so it's like, well, actually, you know, we can just point them towards this piece of evidence.
00:10:40.500 So, yeah, I'm with you on that.
00:10:42.320 Do you have any thoughts, Ed?
00:10:44.720 Well, yeah, I think it is good to sort out this ambiguity,
00:10:47.280 because one of the things they like to go on about, they say, oh, Dian Abbas and Bernie Grant were the first non-white MPs elected to the House of Commons ever in 987.
00:10:57.260 A, that's not true because there was a Sikh that was elected in about 1900 or 1892 or something.
00:11:01.920 And B, there's been lots of Jewish people that were elected to the House of Commons, and they're not white, and they're the descendants of immigrants.
00:11:09.320 Well, the disconnection to Israel is...
00:11:11.380 They openly identified. He said, well, while your ancestors were rolling in the mud, my ancestors were, you know, I don't know, bringing the Ten Commandments down from Mount Sinai.
00:11:20.980 Something to that effect, yeah.
00:11:22.880 His father was a convert, but yeah, he was ethnically Jewish, and lots of others as well.
00:11:28.840 So, of course, they're a separate, well, whether they're a separate race, they're a separate ethnic group that is perhaps within the Semitic race, I suppose you could put it like that.
00:11:40.140 But always a Klein, perhaps one could argue that. They are a Klein genetically, which they are, actually. 0.94
00:11:48.140 They're about 40% white, sometimes more than that, but then the rest is Smith. 0.94
00:11:53.480 So, yes, it's a sensible thing to do. It's a bit of truth in a world of lies, so that's quite good.
00:11:59.780 Last, something stated to be true and clear and direct, that's what we need.
00:12:04.860 Things should be clear and direct. You can't criticise, like, you know, in Thailand, everyone knows you can't criticise the king.
00:12:09.880 That's the prime. Whereas it's not clear here who you can, or in America, who you can within the law and cannot, de facto within the law, criticise.
00:12:20.400 It needs to be clear. You can't criticise the same thing, not allowed.
00:12:23.180 And keep in mind, you can criticise white people and the white working class, or underclass, you could even say, and not receive any kind of pushback.
00:12:34.740 That's fine. It's probably sort of Mary Douglas kind of degrees of power. 0.98
00:12:39.320 You say, I can't wait till these people die out, or the old white men are holding us back. 1.00
00:12:45.620 I mean, you can go upper class or lower class. 0.81
00:12:47.380 You can do that with reckless abandon and never lose your position for doing that.
00:12:52.360 I triggered some leftists on some Twitter debate recently where I'd argued about, you know, breeding patterns and this kind of thing.
00:12:59.380 I'd argue that, well, the wonderful thing about these spiteful mutants is they don't tend to breed.
00:13:03.460 And various spiteful mutants got very upset about that and were saying how terrible this was.
00:13:07.780 And then somebody accused that person of basically being a, you know, why haven't you got children?
00:13:12.320 They said you're a sort of failure as an organism or some term like that.
00:13:14.720 And the person said, oh, well, I've got more interesting things in life than having children or something like that.
00:13:21.040 And I said, okay, yeah, but you're not going to pass on your genes.
00:13:24.920 And then the guy said, yeah, well, have you heard of, I've passed on my genes, you haven't?
00:13:29.460 Yeah, well, have you heard of dysgenics?
00:13:30.840 And then he soon realized, and I just went, wow, just wow.
00:13:36.080 And he soon realized that he probably shouldn't have said that because he was, of course, implicitly saying, you know, you're dysgenic and whatever in this whole discourse.
00:13:43.920 And he deleted his comment.
00:13:45.080 He then deleted his comment.
00:13:46.820 He was triggered into his genuine worldview.
00:13:49.520 It's very interesting.
00:13:50.280 So, yeah, there should be a clear list of who you can and can't criticize, what words you can and can't say about who.
00:13:56.660 That would be a decent, honest decision.
00:13:59.040 During this, you know, signing ceremony of the executive order, actually, Mark Levin, who's this really annoying conservative voice, actually announced Trump as the first Jewish president of the United States, which I thought was also remarkable. 0.88
00:14:19.080 He kind of is.
00:14:19.800 He's not the king of the Jews. 0.94
00:14:21.180 That was Jesus Christ.
00:14:22.180 That's something very different.
00:14:23.560 But he is the king of Israel, as Trump announced in his tweet.
00:14:28.780 He is the ultimate Gentile man for at least Israeli nationalism. 0.99
00:14:39.380 He's obviously hated passionately by the kind of more assimilated, not exactly Zionist, sometimes Zionist, liberal Jews in the United States.
00:14:50.680 He's hated by them with a passion.
00:14:53.580 But in terms of the Bibi Netanyahu type Jew, the Israeli nationalist, a man who reaches out to Christian Zionists and sees them as the foundation of his voting bloc, Trump is the king of Israel. 0.76
00:15:10.220 And that is quite remarkable.
00:15:12.340 Not exactly what I voted for.
00:15:14.140 But maybe I should have been smarter.
00:15:17.220 I should have seen it coming because there were more than enough signs to see it coming.
00:15:22.080 Yeah, you should have voted for Hillary as we should have voted for Corbyn in an attempt to create a backlash. 0.96
00:15:28.780 Perhaps.
00:15:29.220 So regarding things being made clearer, we were going to talk about YouTube's terms of services being changed.
00:15:37.660 And I know we touched on the topic briefly a moment ago.
00:15:40.640 But five days ago, YouTube changed their terms of service to say that they could terminate accounts which aren't commercially viable.
00:15:47.900 No one seems to know what that means.
00:15:50.040 Have you read anything else about it?
00:15:51.520 I think this whole situation is terribly ambiguous and it is – I think YouTube is also pulled in different directions.
00:16:03.940 YouTube, when it first emerged, before it was bought by Google, really was, as the name implied, user-generated content.
00:16:13.440 It was about people, you know, like us making these videos and, you know, expressing opinions and having fun, et cetera.
00:16:23.300 And YouTube, over the years, is increasingly going in the direction of, say, Netflix.
00:16:29.720 YouTube creates original content.
00:16:32.080 YouTube is now prioritizing mainstream content because the old line media, the CNN, Fox News, et cetera,
00:16:39.900 they want – they understand that YouTube is the dominant platform, much more – much, much bigger than TV at this point.
00:16:46.540 And they want to take a part of it.
00:16:49.200 And I think there are – and then there's the kind of woke leftists working in the Google bureaucracy who are, you know, arbitrarily, haphazardly censoring people and so on.
00:17:00.360 I think YouTube is being pulled in all of these different directions.
00:17:03.840 Just the other day, Susan – I can't pronounce – it starts with a W, I can't pronounce her last name – was on 60 Minutes,
00:17:12.980 which is an old line media program in the United States, maybe the oldest line news program.
00:17:18.500 And she was being berated by this woman named Leslie Stahl for not censoring enough, effectively.
00:17:25.800 Whereas, you know, our perspective on this is that the censoring is absolutely terrible.
00:17:30.000 So there is just – YouTube is being pulled in multiple directions.
00:17:34.240 I think maybe five or six years ago, YouTube and Twitter wanted to be these free speech platforms where they would not censor even if something was kind of false or toxic.
00:17:47.260 They have now been forced into a position where they are now the mainstream media, and they don't quite know what to do with all this.
00:17:57.700 So I think that there's just going to be more ambiguity going forward.
00:18:03.620 I want to stay on the platform because I don't think anyone – we don't want to be cordoned off into, you know, bit shoot.
00:18:11.140 It's great. I love it.
00:18:12.580 But we want to be where the action is.
00:18:15.560 We want to reach new people.
00:18:16.940 We want to reach smart people.
00:18:18.920 We don't want to just be in a ghetto like Gab or any of those things. 1.00
00:18:23.480 But it is going to be tough.
00:18:25.160 There's going to be more ambiguity, and I do think that on some kind of devious label, the ambiguity is a feature and not a bug of this system.
00:18:35.080 By keeping things ambiguous, they keep us on our toes and on eggshells.
00:18:40.700 We're afraid to talk about something that we might want to talk about.
00:18:45.020 We feel kind of beholden to them.
00:18:46.840 We want to stay.
00:18:47.680 We kind of want to go and so on.
00:18:48.880 I think it is a kind of psychological warfare going on.
00:18:53.920 And so I think this terrible, ambiguous status quo is going to exist for a long time.
00:19:02.220 But I would say this, the catalyst for all this really was Trump's election in the sense that, and it was Charlottesville to a degree, but it was really Trump's election in the sense that the concept of fake news, the concept of you have all of these bad actors using social media and hijacking the conversation.
00:19:25.280 And there are people who are in these silos where they're feeding each other kind of news, whether it's fake or not, or opinions, whether it's good or not.
00:19:37.080 And they're not getting the dominant narrative, but maybe they're also not getting the truth either.
00:19:43.020 And this is a kind of social phenomenon, which I think is genuinely problematic.
00:19:49.800 But that Trump winning by doing an end run around the mainstream media, that is the fundamental catalyst for all of this.
00:20:01.640 So I would publicly announce that I can't stand Trump.
00:20:04.980 I'm not trying to help him win.
00:20:07.120 So YouTube and Twitter, you should just keep us on.
00:20:10.680 We are, you know, we are not helping the dictator in chief, the orange man, who is bad.
00:20:19.400 So I think it's very clear that they don't want us to know what the rules are, because obviously, if they tell us the rules, we can make sure that we don't say the certain things, we don't get suspended.
00:20:27.600 And they do, you do feel apprehensive about uploading content, because some of the videos that I make, it might take me, you know, 10 or 20 hours to make one.
00:20:35.520 And then I do sometimes think, what's the point if I upload it and it gets suspended?
00:20:39.840 What is the point?
00:20:40.700 And I know that a lot of content creators have sort of backed up, backed off themselves and moved over to other platforms such as BitChute.
00:20:47.780 Are you still on YouTube, Ed?
00:20:49.940 Are you still uploading regular videos?
00:20:52.240 I am, although I've got a sword of Damocles hanging over me till February for doing a video which they monetized and then left up for months and months and months and then decided to take a speech for no apparent reason.
00:21:02.220 But I think that it's, these things work in cycles.
00:21:07.160 I mean, Facebook was the big thing in 2006, 2007.
00:21:10.900 Now, no self-respecting teenager would be on Facebook.
00:21:14.200 It's for the old people and, you know, once people like my parents, i.e. their grandparents went on it, then YouTube is not fashionable anymore.
00:21:22.420 And I suspect that a similar kind of thing, YouTube's been going now for a decade, and I suspect that a similar kind of thing is likely to happen with YouTube as it is realized that it's less about, from the right-wing perspective, yeah, you can't express yourself, it's anti-free speech.
00:21:38.380 And from a left-wing sort of liberal perspective, they're into the novel, they're into the new, and it's not new anymore.
00:21:45.460 It's jaded, and it's associated with big business and whatever.
00:21:48.400 And so there'll be two directions in which it will probably go the way of MySpace or whatever.
00:21:56.540 I actually really disagree with that.
00:21:58.660 I think Facebook, despite the fact that Facebook is no longer cool, I do think that it's here to stay.
00:22:06.400 I think that chaotic period in Silicon Valley is now past.
00:22:10.760 And what is happening is consolidation on these platforms and also this just slow but steady linear decline of cable news, effectively.
00:22:26.680 People are, they are moving towards YouTube, they are moving towards, like, the apps that you can buy on their channel away from cable, you know, apps like HBO and Hulu and Netflix, et cetera.
00:22:42.780 And that we're kind of seeing a consolidation where 10 years from now, YouTube is probably going to be a lot more like Netflix, and it is going to be mainstream.
00:22:54.240 And actually paying for cable or not to mention, you know, getting a broadcast television signal will be over.
00:23:02.640 So I don't think it's just the latest trend.
00:23:05.440 I think it's going to be a holiday.
00:23:07.220 But then it won't be YouTube anymore.
00:23:09.280 I agree, I agree.
00:23:10.780 Therefore, there'll be something that will take that niche.
00:23:13.440 I hope so.
00:23:14.580 And perhaps that thing will itself then become monetized and will become degenerate and will fall.
00:23:20.980 But there'll always be a space.
00:23:22.200 There's a space in the market.
00:23:23.640 And I think we're in a situation now of this change.
00:23:26.780 I personally, I've only been on there for a year, but I much prefer watching things.
00:23:31.160 I mean, BitChute is a difficult search, and there's all kinds of problems with it. 1.00
00:23:34.360 But I much prefer watching content that's on there simply because it's on there, and I feel kind of violated having to watch something on YouTube.
00:23:41.980 And once people start uploading old TV programs and things like that, which are copyright infringements, onto BitChute, then there'll be, for me, there'll be no reason to go onto YouTube other than to, like, watch Sky News or something.
00:23:54.880 Which, of course, I used to, would have used to have watched on television.
00:23:58.740 Right.
00:23:58.840 So, I think, yeah, I think it will work.
00:24:01.500 But it will be sad because we'll be giving it over to the left.
00:24:04.300 I mean, you know, there are major left-wing YouTube channels, the Young Turks, the, you know, majority reporters.
00:24:13.100 I don't think I think that one's that huge.
00:24:14.000 Just say about something, something law.
00:24:15.800 If something isn't explicitly left-wing, then it will always become left-wing.
00:24:20.080 Yeah.
00:24:20.360 Because for various reasons, things tend to get pushed.
00:24:23.320 People virtue signal, whatever, and this creates an arms race.
00:24:26.780 And so things tend to get pushed in an ever more left-wing direction.
00:24:30.440 And they're not being censored.
00:24:32.700 No.
00:24:33.160 And right-wing people, well, they can be censored on some things if they advocate terrorism or something.
00:24:38.000 And right-wing people will, are more kind of cognitively complex than left-wing people.
00:24:46.300 These, Jonathan Hyde, these five or whatever it is, moral foundations, and we have all of them,
00:24:51.340 whereas they only have three of them.
00:24:53.240 And so consequently, there's a degree to which we can empathize with them and they can't empathize with us.
00:24:58.120 And so things will therefore get pushed in a more left-wing direction unless it's explicitly stopped.
00:25:02.940 And that was the brilliant thing about the American Constitution or whatever,
00:25:05.580 that you have this explicit, no free speech guarantee since 1791 or whatever it is.
00:25:11.100 And that's it.
00:25:12.820 And so it's kind of explicitly, well, not left-wing, at the time it was a liberal perspective, of course.
00:25:19.480 But it's explicitly, if that wasn't there, you'd be down the road of Britain or Finland long ago.
00:25:24.860 So, you two might not know about this.
00:25:30.840 I would hope that you wouldn't anyway.
00:25:32.300 But the big thing on YouTube at the moment is makeup videos.
00:25:35.780 So there are accounts like Jeffree Star, Tati, James Charles, Nikkie Tutorials,
00:25:41.320 and they've got tens of millions of subscribers.
00:25:44.220 And, you know, there's so much revenue coming in through adverts and stuff.
00:25:47.760 So maybe YouTube will just end up being this platform that's full of videos of how to do the perfect winged eyeliner
00:25:52.720 or what I bought from Topshop, that kind of stuff.
00:25:54.580 I've actually seriously thought about just doing an unboxing video while we're doing a live stream.
00:26:01.440 So I'm just like, look at my new iPhone 11 or whatever.
00:26:04.280 And then we just talk about, like, race and integration.
00:26:06.680 When they banned me, I did this satirical video.
00:26:09.560 Or perhaps a YouTube video.
00:26:10.420 Or perhaps a makeup tutorial.
00:26:11.920 Which I talked about these toys belonging to my son, these two robots.
00:26:15.560 And I thanked all my son.
00:26:17.160 And I was like, yeah, all this, you know.
00:26:18.560 And I felt like I was inspired by this one I saw of this utterly vacuum.
00:26:22.720 It was girl who had 700,000 views or something for this inanity where she just talked about her feelings and stuff. 0.91
00:26:31.400 And she was sitting there with this sort of goth-looking weirdo.
00:26:35.320 And I wondered if I should culminate by saying, you know, I love you guys.
00:26:40.420 You're so fun.
00:26:41.060 I love you.
00:26:41.520 And then just going, I cut myself sometimes because I'm sad.
00:26:45.120 Okay, bye!
00:26:46.960 But then I thought that might get another strike, you know, so I better not.
00:26:50.700 It's a weird thing that is, you could say kind of, it's related also to the hyper-real, which is this concept.
00:27:00.040 I mean, Zizek has talked about it among others.
00:27:03.120 But it's not so much that social media or online video is a kind of extension of your life or a supplement.
00:27:11.880 It's almost a real replacement where you are living online.
00:27:16.720 And I see this a lot among millennials and Zoomers, probably a little bit less among my generation or certainly boomers. 0.97
00:27:25.640 But again, it's not just that they're online all the time or tweeting.
00:27:29.940 It's that that online clout that they create becomes their life.
00:27:35.560 And that online persona becomes more important, more developed, more complex than who they are as a person IRL.
00:27:45.420 And again, I think this is a very bad thing.
00:27:49.340 But I think just in terms of niche culture, I mean, look, if this video gets 10,000 views, I'd be perfectly fine with it.
00:27:56.680 If it gets 20,000, great.
00:27:59.020 If it gets 100,000, oh, my God, we must have really been, you know, hot.
00:28:03.460 Yeah.
00:28:04.320 But keep in mind that, you know, that's pretty much all this will get.
00:28:09.460 There are people doing insane, oh, IRL in real life. 0.95
00:28:13.380 There are people doing insanely stupid, weird personal confessionals or makeup tutorials or unboxing of electronic items or so on 0.98
00:28:24.020 that have audiences in the tens of millions on a consistent basis, much more than CNN or The New York Times. 0.99
00:28:32.680 Unlike myself and Richard, you're wearing some, you've got some slap on there.
00:28:37.900 And did you have the foresight to film yourself putting it on?
00:28:42.460 I didn't, but maybe I should start filming myself putting my makeup on and I'll just talk about repatriation or something at the same time.
00:28:48.760 Yeah.
00:28:48.920 And I'll subtly, subtly, you know, I think that's the thing to do, talk about something that's base while putting on base.
00:28:58.660 So there are videos on YouTube which have, like, 50 million views where they're just talking about something so basic,
00:29:05.100 like I was going to make this eyeshadow palette and then somebody else did it with the same colours and now I've fallen out with them.
00:29:10.860 And people are so engrossed in this drama.
00:29:12.760 And it's a reflection of our society, really, that people are watching just such garbage and they're so engrossed in it. 0.96
00:29:20.120 But it's not just that. 0.98
00:29:20.760 It's not, because, look, garbage TV is not new. 0.77
00:29:23.320 You know, people, guys watch football games or whatever.
00:29:27.440 But it's that their online life has replaced their real life.
00:29:32.160 So there have been studies of, like, millennials have no friends and, you know, literally have no connection.
00:29:41.560 But they have these false, hyper-real friends online where they care about this, like, tranny putting on makeup or they care about some personal confessional. 0.98
00:29:53.940 That is their friendship.
00:29:55.140 Because so much of our own friendships are pretty mundane and we talk about nonsense, but they're now viewing it.
00:30:02.680 You get that to a lesser extent, though, with television, though, didn't you?
00:30:06.920 I mean, you have people, the lonely people for whom the newsreader was kind of like a friend.
00:30:14.500 Or people who, when they used to have the clothes down at night on the BBC at about half past 11, they used to go,
00:30:20.640 and the weather tomorrow is predicted to be blah, blah, blah, and, OK, and anyway, lads, I hope you're having a good time.
00:30:27.600 The football battler.
00:30:29.100 And good night.
00:30:30.840 And then there'd be God save the Queen.
00:30:32.680 And then the television would shut.
00:30:34.620 And people would stay up for that.
00:30:36.580 So Her Majesty could put you to bed.
00:30:39.500 Now that they don't have it anymore, of course.
00:30:41.040 But so, yeah, it's just become extended from television or radio to this new medium.
00:30:50.100 I don't know.
00:30:51.220 It's a hyper real existence where you have no friends in real life or no connection to community,
00:30:57.560 but you have a simulacrum by photographing yourself, like doing something, putting it on Instagram,
00:31:04.240 or listening to the mundane personal confessional of someone that you feel like you know, but whom you don't.
00:31:12.980 And again, it is a truly bizarre thing.
00:31:17.640 We have these conferences that these people who I watch on YouTube or they watch me and we meet and we normally get along.
00:31:24.800 So it's just a real thing as well as a hyper real.
00:31:28.880 So can we wrap it up?
00:31:30.760 Because I have to get a question.
00:31:31.360 That's it.
00:31:31.780 I think we can just say, boom.
00:31:34.400 First episode.
00:31:35.260 So let's get started.
00:31:35.940 Let's get started.
00:31:36.360 Let's get started.
00:31:36.960 Good.