Hey, just wanted to say I love your content. I'm not sure why RUclips isn't recommending it more, but I'm always here for it. Thanks for continuing your production.
Some of your videos seem like you read the blog I had 15 years ago, revamped them with current events, expanded and expounded on them. Quickly becoming one of my favorite channels, and one of a handful I have alerts for.
Is the old blog still up? I love reading older blogs from the 00s (10s too but 00s more lol it’s interesting to read blogs retrospectively, way more interesting than news articles)
I am not so sure about this. I resonate with the ideas of Gustave Le Bon and his book The Crowd: a study of the popular mind, 1895. A quote”The power of words is bound up with the images they evoke, and is quite independent of their real significance. Words whose sense is the most ill-defined are sometimes those that possess the most influence. Such, for example, are the terms democracy, socialism, equality, liberty, etc., whose meaning is so vague that bulky volumes do not suffice to precisely fix it. Yet it is certain that a truly magical power is attached to those short syllables, as if they contained the solution of all problems.”
This is one of the main problems of society nowadays. I love your take, we definitely have to take the other side perspective and become capable for arguing from both sides in order to be heard and trust. I think humor fits here nicely. Because it lowers the defense of people and doesn't make them feel dumb to accept something they otherwise wound not accept. Another option I been exploring is an unifying myth. I found inspiration on Pachacutec, the Inca who started the Tahuantinsuyo empire. He went for tribal fights among different groups to start sharing his technology in order to expand it's reach. Thank to his leadership and process of amalgamation, he managed to set the roots of the biggest empire in LATAM. But I'm still doing some research on what exactly happen to him. It's said that he had a dream where his mission to create the Nation of Nations was revealed and then he just act on it but... The must be more to the story and transformation that he had. If I manage to synthesize that, I think we can wake up people to the fact that the internet is already a new nation above all
Your best option is not to try to win an argument or persuade people to a particular point of view. It is better to have an openness to the other person and try to work together for a higher truth.
I think it's simpler than that. People just don't seem to be able to accept they may be wrong or have been fooled. A psychological barrier then forms which enables them to believe mythical strawmen counter-arguments or whatever people conjure up to support the mental bubble which keeps their current worldview cohesive, sparing them of the mental/emotional labor of any fresh introspective process or additional personal responsibility.
I'm sorry for the amount of solicited advice in your videos. I for one would only like to say thank you! It was almost otherworldly listening to you reasoning and how it so perfectly resonated with my own thinking on the subject that I, at the end, could predict your next line of reasoning. Phenomenal video, very thankful!
It is possible, but rare, for someone to be presented with facts/data and swap view (mythology) 180°. I know of a case that happened over a mere 2 weeks.
I like the way you think. But I do not believe in your strategy to dismantle the native strawman. I'd rather adopt the remote strawman and use its internal logic to destroy it from within. Mathematicians call this a proof via contradiction. If you manage to add humor and ridicule in sizable chunks, then you win an audience. And always attack the gang leader. Always.
Hey, just wanted to say I love your content. I'm not sure why RUclips isn't recommending it more, but I'm always here for it. Thanks for continuing your production.
Because it challenges the establishment-approved narratives
Some of your videos seem like you read the blog I had 15 years ago, revamped them with current events, expanded and expounded on them. Quickly becoming one of my favorite channels, and one of a handful I have alerts for.
Is the old blog still up? I love reading older blogs from the 00s (10s too but 00s more lol it’s interesting to read blogs retrospectively, way more interesting than news articles)
@@Ryan_Back Long gone. Will probably revamp some for a future blog, eventually.
I am not so sure about this. I resonate with the ideas of Gustave Le Bon and his book The Crowd: a study of the popular mind, 1895. A quote”The power of words is bound up with the images they evoke, and is quite independent of their real significance. Words whose sense is the most ill-defined are sometimes those that possess the most influence. Such, for example, are the terms democracy, socialism, equality, liberty, etc., whose meaning is so vague that bulky volumes do not suffice to precisely fix it. Yet it is certain that a truly magical power is attached to those short syllables, as if they contained the solution of all problems.”
It would helped in understanding if some examples were given.
I was also thinking this! But I suspected Ashley was reluctant to give any to avoid coming across as partisan.
This is one of the main problems of society nowadays. I love your take, we definitely have to take the other side perspective and become capable for arguing from both sides in order to be heard and trust. I think humor fits here nicely. Because it lowers the defense of people and doesn't make them feel dumb to accept something they otherwise wound not accept.
Another option I been exploring is an unifying myth. I found inspiration on Pachacutec, the Inca who started the Tahuantinsuyo empire. He went for tribal fights among different groups to start sharing his technology in order to expand it's reach. Thank to his leadership and process of amalgamation, he managed to set the roots of the biggest empire in LATAM. But I'm still doing some research on what exactly happen to him. It's said that he had a dream where his mission to create the Nation of Nations was revealed and then he just act on it but... The must be more to the story and transformation that he had. If I manage to synthesize that, I think we can wake up people to the fact that the internet is already a new nation above all
Your best option is not to try to win an argument or persuade people to a particular point of view. It is better to have an openness to the other person and try to work together for a higher truth.
This started really well, but I would have preferred some concrete examples. I think that would have really driven the point home.
I think it's simpler than that. People just don't seem to be able to accept they may be wrong or have been fooled. A psychological barrier then forms which enables them to believe mythical strawmen counter-arguments or whatever people conjure up to support the mental bubble which keeps their current worldview cohesive, sparing them of the mental/emotional labor of any fresh introspective process or additional personal responsibility.
Hi, an example at the opening would have been good. The Devil is in the details, as they say.
S ~ the straw man
A ~ the wicker man
R ~ the camp
M ~ cultural myth ~ physical tool
I'm sorry for the amount of solicited advice in your videos. I for one would only like to say thank you! It was almost otherworldly listening to you reasoning and how it so perfectly resonated with my own thinking on the subject that I, at the end, could predict your next line of reasoning. Phenomenal video, very thankful!
humour can help
and humility!
Where in America is Ashley's accent from, does anyone know?
Upper Midwest, maybe Minnesota
@@ckq Many thanks!! It sounded slightly Fargo-esque to me, so seems I was close. She has an unusual but wonderful cadence.
@@jasonmehlhorn4359- Now I can unsee her tone to be Fargo-esque :D
@@hellojuned Sorry about that! LOL!!
Perfectly explains what's happening in Pakistan right now.
It is possible, but rare, for someone to be presented with facts/data and swap view (mythology) 180°. I know of a case that happened over a mere 2 weeks.
Remember confirmation bias……. The way that we value evidence that either confirms or denies the theory.
The mythology you describe, in part sounds like an egregore
Thanks!
is the matrix a mythology?
I like the way you think. But I do not believe in your strategy to dismantle the native strawman.
I'd rather adopt the remote strawman and use its internal logic to destroy it from within. Mathematicians call this a proof via contradiction. If you manage to add humor and ridicule in sizable chunks, then you win an audience. And always attack the gang leader. Always.
Thanks!
Thank you!