Is the Mainstream Media a Threat to Freedom and Sanity?
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msm is a threat to everything that isn’t a complete satanic anti human death cult. now that might sound like i’m being dramatic and exaggerating BUT.. all of the g10ba1ists agenda is 100% exactly that. the environmental movement will actually destroy the earth for human habitation(intended) along with all its other goals such as ‘the great reset’ and ‘mass relentless immigration’ etc.. etc..
I was just listening to James Corbett talk about this earlier.
Were you by chance present at Corbett’s course on Mass Media via Renegade University???
@@TheMattj88 , thank goodnesss someone else says it! Sitting here listening to this like, “Holy hell, this is familiar.” Very glad to see Academy is listening to Corbett, though I can’t say it’s too surprising given the obvious concern with totalitarianism.
Keep up the good work. These videos are increasingly relevant.
It's beyond the point of just ignoring them or exposing their evil. It is morally reprehensible to not stop them.
But how
I have a suggestion: One easy individual step would be to throw away your smartphone. If enough people do it, it will strangle the precision of big data and change the current course of technological development. If enough people do it..
@@Vurti0 , sure, and if enough people stop volunteering to pay taxes it would deny governments much of their power to deceive and destroy. But, no one, or not enough, will. People talk a big game about fighting the totalitarians but no one does for fear.
@@freedomartsandcrafts7965, we must learn from the experience of our elders and ancestors. How did they resist oppression? They spoke out, sometimes at great personal risk. They formed groups. And they engaged in organized civil disobedience. They resisted on multiple levels, electorally, legally, culturally, politically, philosophically, spiritually, and so on. But, perhaps, the two most important things are to use one's interests or daily habits in service of resistance to totalitarianism, and to form groups to amplify a collective power greater than the sum of its parts. Modern life is so alienating, leaving too many of us with weak social ties. So, we must form groups, which can overcome weak social ties, and which can develop relevant ideas and strategies appropriate to our time and place. The important thing, as Albert Einstein suggested, is to not stop questioning. Then, as Ralph Nader often says, act for justice. Solidarity.
yep.. wise up & ignore them
For an example: CZcams removing the dislike count as an act of "Preventing targeted hate". Yeah right!
they also have the like-button do fireworks now, when its clicked. lol.
More like the big business paying to get on the front page getting down voted to oblivion aren’t happy with their investments.
Social media is the newest edition of this problem.
CZcams has its own "thought police"
I can think of no larger threat to humanity than the media
Corporate media
Obedience.
Mark Twain agreed
I can: the climate cataclysm.
Totalitarian governments ?
“Ownership of the media is always in the hands of the perpetrators.” - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
It's quotes like that, and even more direct and open, that have gotten Solzhenitsyn branded an "anti-semite," in recent years. There are more than a few uncomfortable things you folks are going to have to come to grips with. Let's see if you can overcome your own conditioning on some of the more taboo historical subjects soon enough to do any good.
@@bc2578 oy vey
@@bc2578 But the deception runs even deeper than that
@@patrickpoulsen1 sinagogue of satan
@@bc2578 It's a small, rootless, international clique...
"Madness is rare in individuals, but in groups, parties, nations and ages it is the rule."
-nietzsche
Thank you for posting all of these!
So right
Word!
I Love Nietzsche's philosophy.
Stay blessed.
Nietzsche… who went mad ironically.
very good quote
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance,
it is the illusion of knowledge."
-daniel boorstin
This risk applies to both mainstream and alternative sources of information. It's very tricky to find undistorted knowledge. One should somehow find a way to act as his/her own refinery of whatever information is consumed.
Hell yeah, kirby
@Tom Foolery relationship of west with middle east.
Its as Nietzsche said 'european morality is based on utility towards the herd'
modern education=illusion of knowledge
..maybe it's not how clever or stupid people are, perhaps it's being humble enough to accept you don't know best..
I love how much more explicitly Academy of Ideas is addressing the current paradigm and the problems of our world that are happening right now. His videos are more relevant than ever.
You are being fooled. The Academy blocks comments critical of the digital platform on which you are viewing this comment. Its analysis promotes the concepts that this company uses before the US Congress to justify and maintain its monopoly position in the media economy. The relevance of this video is mainly in demonstrating the success this company has had in gulling analysts like the Academy into disseminating the arguments that are at the heart of its strategy to maintain monopolistic control of the media economy, to the detriment of free speech and democratic governance.
@@joyfulmindstudio lol
He's narrating it but Academy of Ideas as far as I'm aware is atleast a woman who runs it, maybe a few people?
Deaths from the vaccine being hidden by dodgy data?
czcams.com/video/Jxkb2yhdLiAp/video.html
When someone speaks in the abstract they end up not using “trigger words”. It’s a great way to talk about politics without activating a persons conditioning
When you realize 92% of the media is on the same political sentiment and prevailing establishment, you have to ask yourself how it got that way.
Money and influence.
@airlockengage The left and right are owned by the same corporate powers that own nearly every industry
Blackrck, The Vang uard gro up. The ultra wealthy .01% invest in, control, conquer and dominate every industry, every Corp and lobby govs to dictate policy regardless of who gets elected. The politicians bow to their lobbyists. They use these investment firms to call the shots and run the world through majority shareholdership of every industry.
Black Rock. They have majority shares in 90% of the world's mainstream media. To think haveing the same company that is on the board of the WEF with majority ownership of all our mainstream media outlets does not affect its operation is just nieve.
Smith/Mundt amendment 2013
It's the greatest propaganda machine since those seen from all sides in WW2
I would argue it is the greatest propaganda machine ever seen.
It was the media back than too
I'd argue its the same machine as those in ww2. Not on the same level but the SAME machine.
Agreed, and it's exactly as nefarious. Remember the allies were just as racist as the axis, complete with concentration camps for Japanese innocents - a fact govt and media love to sweep under the rug. Those were real people.
It's the greatest propaganda machine of all time.
It's so sad that majority of media consumers aren't intelligent enough to understand and appreciate these warnings. That said, the more lies the media try to get away with the more people I see waking up and that gives me a glimmer of hope.
Thank you for your content. You have opened my mind so much during the past few years and offered many invaluable insights.
I don’t think it’s that they aren’t smart enough, i think it’s that’s most people don’t bother to actually question what they’re being told, and most people in the USA have been indoctrinated, some have been indoctrinated beyond the point of no return
@@dravendavis8338
You have 12 men traveling through a dangerous rainforest.
2 out of the 10 realize they are lost.
1 of the 2 "woke" men realizes the present danger, and is trying his best to navigate through the rainforest.
The other is trying his best to not panic.
Hoping they'll make it through okay.
What happens when the other 10 men in the group realize the extent of the danger they're in?
How will they react?
They're domesticated cattle, the only thing they care for in this life are their bread and circuses.
@@vklnew9824 the herd huh lol
@@TheHardys01 are you on about woke or awake, sorry I'm not sure, but I get what you saying either way, good way of putting it.
To the person who cannot stand lies, deceit and deliberate misrepresentation. When you watch tv and most news outlets wondering why you feel sick during or after watching: It’s a fairly normal response to being gaslit and having your intelligence insulted, while at the same time not being able to answer back.
Thank you, exactly
So true ! Only remedy is to no longer watch or listen to these 💩 outlets .
“The most important thing we’ve learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your television set- Or better still, just don’t install The idiotic thing at all.
In almost every house we’ve been, We’ve watched them gaping at the screen. They loll and slop and lounge about, And stare until their eyes pop out....." ~ Oompa-Loompa Song from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of our own ignorance."
-thomas sowell
Reminds me of the Dunning-Kruger effect
@@sean7269 Socrates said the same 2.500 years before. One thing I know for sure. That I don't know anything
I look back at my younger, arrogant self and just laugh 😂
Thats brilliant and tottaly acurate
ive always said im just smart enough to know that im being lied to and that i really know nothing
Who cheers on violence? Who supports oppression? Who denies the obvious and twists the truth? Who subscribes to hatred? Who catastrophizes life? These are the sources to avoid.
All of them. ALL OF THEM.
@@xangarabana Demonstrably untrue.
Have a look at, for example, the Buenos Aries Herald under the dictatorship in Argentina.
Fox propaganda ministry stands out in these regards. Like a festered wound.
@Andrew Stevens cops were not the only ones attacked that day. "Murder the media" was a popular chant. Sadly, this video gives implicit sanction to that violence.
Free Julian Assange! Information is the currency of democracy.
How they decided on moving America to 3rd world nation is the saddest part
The point made about top down information flow being a tool of top down governance , i.e authoritarianism , is an extremely important basic principle of power you need to know when designing new systems of communication in order to foster libertarianism and fight authoritarianism. Anything centralised can and will be hijacked by power. That includes the hosting of any system as we saw with the taking down of Parlor. The move towards tech hosting with a handful of giants i.e AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure is an extremely dangerous centralisation of power. If they don't like your companys politics they can and will switch you off.
With the way it has been acting for the past few years, it is an absolute threat to our Liberties and Livelihoods.
I haven't seen any change. Maybe some people are more susceptible to bullshit and have found a great vein of it on the internet. The posting by AOI here is typical of the fear mongering that has gone on for decades now. Do you honestly think that if they became as big as a corporate MSM outlet they would act any different? If so how? What would these guys do that would be any different? Seems to me there's a lot of bedwetting over f**king nothing. Just wringing of hands and crying by some snowflakes who would love to get their hands in the till given half the chance and a lot of suckers who suck this shit up because their own lives are pathetically weak and powerless.
@@jeffmorrison5695 wow you're toxic af
Humans are primates and instinctively follow authority figures, like parents, teachers, “experts”, and rulers.
"They vomit their bile and call it a newspaper."
-nietzsche
You have some awesome quotes! You help me put it into historical perspective. It's a perennial human condition.
Beautiful.
Stay blessed.
Poetry!
The same can be said about mainstream education/religion/government/Science and even healthcare
"For most of us are submissive to a fault. We do what we are told no matter how absurd, idiotic or immoral so long as the command comes from a politician, bureacrat or scientist." The last 20 years have proven this is true.
@@mom1743During the pandemic, we've seen plenty of proof that most people will go along with what they're told and not question authority.
@@mom1743 most of US is not other people, it is your own group, it is the people that includes the person speaking.
They are talking about human nature, not assigning blame.....
This was proven in the MK Ultra experiments where 67% continued to harm innocent ppl at the behest of the white coat telling them to do so.
@@mom1743 You’re correct ! The Milgram Experiment is the one where obedience to authority was 67% of the participants. The findings were reproduced all over the world.
@@moony77 I particularly liked the French variation, "Game of Death" which was set up like a reality tv program.
"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth."
-plato
i'll compliment you with this one:
“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.” -George Orwell
Everyone needs to listen to this and be not deceived by the enemy.
Trouble is they not only need the ears to hear and eyes to see, but be WILLING to hear and see the truth
Indeed they are the enemy. They stir up hate, fear, division and threaten our freedom. In every sense of the definition these mainstream news outlets are terrorist networks. Also, they give free publicity to existing terrorist networks.
@@r0br33r Everyone needs the gospel and for the Spirit of God to draw them, open their eyes, and reveal God’s truth to them. But it won’t happen apart from conviction of sin, seeing their need for a personal Savior, humility, and repentance.
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Corinthians 2:14 KJV
@@DanHammonds
Yes, the msn is complicit in their support of an anti-American, corrupt, and very wicked government. God’s judgement is coming.
@@Zara-T_780 Perhaps you don’t understand.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Ephesians 6:12 KJV
We people need to come together and face these terrible people like we have in the past.
Yes! An existential threat! Needs dismantling ASAP.
“One must select wisely a source of news; otherwise it would be better to be uninformed than misinformed.”
--Ezra Taft Benson
-also myself
"If you don't watch the news - you're uninformed. If you watch them - your misinformed".
I think there's still value in checking the msm to find points of contrast with real news, if nothing else. Pretty much what it's important to listen to perspectives we don't necessarily agree with in order to build a more informed position.
dude was based.
@@ragmanx6256 you are spot on. To accept information at face value from a single source is to submit your will to that source.
The media was intended to be the watchdog of government, not the lapdog
Well said.
This
They are now the propaganda arm of the Democrats, who are pushing towards totalitarianism.
Media just wants to be consumed by feeding us what we love/love to hate.
Well the government was intended to be of the people, by the people, for the people....NOT of Big Pharma, by Big Pharma, & for Big Pharma. Big Pharma owns everything, especially Google which is and has long been a drug company.
Here in Australia the government have announced that the commercial TV and radio broadcasting companies will receive a 100% tax rebate for the last year for doing such a great job *propagandizing* during covid
You Aussies need to grow a pair and fight back. What's happened down there is a total disgrace and how your PM and all your state leaders aren't already swinging from lampposts is a stain on your national reputation.
@@thadtuiol1717 so, you’ve already taken care of your own government then?
In america I have heard of the fall of Austrailia to Communism. I thought if the tough as nails Aussies can be this easily overcome. Our days are numbered.
@@aussiegirl3827 2nd Amendment baby, 2nd Amendment. You Aussies gave up your guns in 1997. We didn't. We won't. If they try that shit here they've done Downunder we will bury them.
@@thadtuiol1717 lol, thanks, that actually gives me a little hope, cheers mate🍺
The homeschooling movement must continue to grow rapidly to save our society. Public schooling is how mindless worker drones and prison laborers are made. The internet can be an invaluable tool for learning and communication and collaboration on projects great and small, and the tech network itself can become decentralized, as it must.
Wonderful Idea, I was thinking about this. I live in India, the Western Corporates are brainwashing the young and Destroying our precious culture which is 4000 years old. It takes so much time and effort to develop a sane culture.
"As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who is demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell him nothing, even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents and pictures. ...he will refuse to believe it... That's the tragedy of the situation of demoralization."
-Yuri Bezmenov [1983]
Sadly this is true... You can warn loved ones for a truck coming at them at full speed but if someone 'important' on the screen tells them there is no truck to worry about, they will just stand there.
@@inverted_real_it_y why do some see the truck and others not? I’ve asked myself many times.
@@salleee They see the truck, they just don't really want to acknowledge the danger. Acknowledging it would mean they have to take action and that would mean they are not like the rest. Most people are sadly not strong enough to take a stand on things that really matter.
@@inverted_real_it_y well that even makes it worse. I can see not seeing the truck but seeing it and not wanting to do anything about it is mind boggling to me.
@@salleee The widespread lack of courage is galling.
Short answer: Yes.
Also, they are not mainstream. The ideas they espouse are not shared by the majority of people. To refer to them as 'mainstream' is to endorse their corporatist message. Corporate media is a better term.
"The battle is won when the average American regards a corporate journalist exactly as they regard a tobacco executive." - Michael Malice
Agree 100% and I use state-sponsored media, or SSM, rather than mainstream for the same reason.
Wish I could like this more than once
Go buy his book "the anarchist handbook"
#CorporateHashtag 🤮
They're not even media any more, just propaganda. Corporate Propaganda is more appropriate. Equate them with something else that has the same initials.
It's true.
Meditation, 45 minutes every day.
Free yourselves.
The more you know yourself, the harder it is to manipulate you into doing things that goes against your values.
---
Sit or lay down somewhere comfortable.
Close your eyes. Slow, deep breath.
Don't count seconds. Just slowly.
If there's noise, you can "hum".
Move all of your body, from head to toe, one part at a time. Make yourself even more comfortable, slowly, very slowly.
Focus on your lungs filling up with air. Feel the air slowly going out.
Focus on your heart beating.
You're going to get bombarded with thoughts.
Good, bad, ugly, all of it. It is you.
Don't be too harsh on yourself. They are, after all, only thoughts. Trust yourself.
It could feel like a river flowing, or could feel like you're in a storm. Don't panic, let it be.
Let it come, let it go. Don't push it, don't cling on something, don't force it.
You're already in power. They are your thoughts.
Eventually your mind will lock onto something.
Pay attention.
You are quite literally telling yourself what's on *your* mind, and if you pay close attention, you're even telling yourself what you can do about it.
It could be something minor like.. You're upset you forgot to buy mayo, and you should make a list next time... Or it could be... Literally life-changing. Like.. An epiphany.. About you.
This is the power you have over yourself.
This power is yours. It was always yours, it will always be yours.
It will always be there.
Cherish it, protect it.
Cultivate it.
You're welcome.
Media is just one head of the beast.
Maybe the deadliest but nonetheless just one.
Very good video as always.
If our situation was completely hopeless their constant propaganda would be unnecessary.
You're right! Keep the faith and never let them demoralize you in this war of attrition. They've over played their hand. At this point, the constant bombardment of their lies will only serve to progressively awaken the remaining sleepwalkers. Never consent to their demands which only serve to further perpetuate delusion.
Good point! The fact is that they instill fear in the minds of the masses because they themselves fear that we can break free.
False.
They don't fear you at all.
In fact, they fear you so little they have publicly declared war on you and your children.
They propagandize you for the same reason Jesus said they do..
@@consciousgentile5141 In their persistent mockery, they show that they do indeed fear the followers of Christ. Like an insecure child mocks and bullies his or her peers, knowing that they will supercede and transcend the stubborn bully in the end. They're pulling out all stops because we are at the end, and they know it. I see it in their eyes, a bluff game of hubris.
@@consciousgentile5141 Oh yes they do!
As you’ve implied, this is a spiritual warfare and God wins! Satan knows this! It’s so easy to see the desperation in the massive, sloppy desperate lies! It’s almost laughable if it weren’t so deceptive to so many!
_"Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins their journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of following the crowd and by choosing knowledge over the veil of ignorance"_
*Henri Bergson*
I invesigated twelve different religions before I found what I was looking for in me. S'all good.
Yes, realized something was off at about age 6. I made it through the gauntlet of gaslighting into adulthood. Through painful teenage years being told I was devisive, cynical, a conspiracy theorist, or stupid. I was always told I would “grow out” of my questioning the status quo. Luckily I didn’t and in 2021 I feel more supported and validated than ever, because the deception I felt innately is now in plain sight for everyone to see.
Wow - reading this quote is like looking into a mirror and seeing the reflection of my soul. As long as I can remember, I have thought to myself that something IS amiss, and it has been revealing itself at an exponential pace since the November election. However, unless the awakened free people of America can earnestly close the gap between their awareness and their active defense of The Republic, we will not survive.
Wow wish there was a date for this, it's correct but it's just the beginning it's all about where you end up.
Altered States certainly open your eyes to the illusion of society
Really appreciate the fine paintings you incorporate in your videos, beautiful.
"We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares.
"But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another - slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we desire will ruin us."
From "Amusing Ourselves to Death".
"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path." - Buddha
Truth is a pathless land.
-krishnamurti
Word!
Salvation stands in your own Energy field. Build it with the purity of your heart, the quality of your thinking and the integrity and righteousness of your actions.
You see, Buddha and Jesus are not idols to worship rather states of mind to achieve.
It's never the messenger. It's the message always.
Stay blessed.
@@PJ-ns6um
With no destination I am never lost. A real traveller never arrives.
It feels good being lost in the right direction.
Truth, my beloved, will always defend itself.
Be it and nothing can harm you.
Silence is the highest form of grace. It is also the most spiritual instruction.
Meditate.
Peace and Love.
“I am the way, the TRUTH and the LIFE, no one comes to the Father but by me!” …Jesus
The news tells us if we don't get the jab, we have "a target on our back." I heard a woman say that. Unbelievable
OF COURSE A WOMAN SAID THAT. Media is AIMED at women (and men, fallen far enough to be mentally women)
And it is the government that takes aim with travel, shopping and employment
Yup, when I'm not being accused of killing people because I don't care or I'm being called a racist. Trying to keep my boiling point in check because I know these people aren't stable.
@@r0br33r Oh great omniscient one, why would I, a woman, be watching Academy of Ideas videos?
Well target 🎯 my back then. I will never get this stupid penis jab in my arm for anything or anyone. I'm stubborn and a real fuckin man with real strong scruples
Wonderful and incisive series. You hit the jugular of today's issues.
Great channel. And clearly taking a stand in an elegant and sober manner. Great work!
Yes. I just clicked on this video to say yes, they are not fulfilling they're duty, but worse, abusing their power.
Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible.
Yes.Thank you.
I didn't expect the final stage to come so hard and fast but I knew from day 1 of "two weeks to flatten the curve" meant a thousand-year reign of darkness. I also didn't expect the execution to be so sloppy, rushed, and bumbling. I really didn't expect the masses to be so easily fooled by obviously malevolent actors. The revelation showed us the plan and the enemies of humanity, many of which were our friends and family who were unable to override their programming.
It was very strange watching this wash over the people around me. I remember back in March 2020, it seemed like everyone was under a trance.
Man you’re so right about the execution it’s made me wonder if I’m in the twilight zone simply because of how sloppy and blatant they have been I still don’t see how more people aren’t awake already, we are getting there though I’m not a woe is me 1984 beta male cuck I know we shall prevail
RIGHT?! It’s frightening how in less than a YEAR they have successfully divided the masses. I mean totalitarianism takes time and that has been happening with social media platforms but this..... this is insane.
None of this is surprising if you have a cursory understanding of sociology and mass psychology.
The masses are not stupid. They are complicit. They are not incapable of seeing truth; they are unwilling to. And to defend those beliefs and the benefits subservience to it brings them, they inevitably defend and partake in it.
Its almost like it wasn't intentionally malicious and they dropped the ball because they truly thought they could stave Covid off. The rest has been trying to cover their butts for the terrible decisions made
People are always worried about privacy, when they should be more worried about censorship.
The power of censorship should not be ignored. Google/CZcams has completely removed the 'emancipation of authorship' in recent years.
Short answer YES. I unplugged from the Matrix around 2018 and Ive been MORE informed and happier by having a steady diet of diverse alternative media from people across the cultural spectrum.
Would you mind elaborating?
@@audreyaloha7749 Stop watching propaganda and you will feel much better!
Instead of getting spoon fed the overt propaganda of the mainstream media I've only been watching alternative independent sources each having various cultural slants and takes.
My information comes from adversarial anarchists, anti imperialists, some progressive, ALOT of Libertarian media, sometimes I'll tune into some conservative voices from time to time. A well rounded diet of media that is outside the control of the State and their propagandists.
@@HenritheHorse Who should we watch?
If I can make some suggestions to start you off:
Part of the Problem with Dave Smith
Jimmy Dore
Tim Pool
A libertarian anarchist, a REAL progressive, and a milquetoast fence sitter lol
“I will add that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than
he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he
whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts,
and the details are all false.” --thomas jefferson
It's that type of thinking that'll get your statue taken down . Truth!
@@roystevenson7097 based
I used to be a Hamiltonian. I’ve become a Jeffersonian
Leading to the know nothing party and onward to the trump party of Liars…. I’m nnnnot sur this quote is in context.
@@mtn1793 just got to sift through the propaganda (organised spreading of doctrine true or false) seems like it was the same in his day and age for him to notice.
This channel is a beacon of light as the storm clouds gather🙏
Well put together mate! You have a very succinct style of communication that is welcomed warmly and timely as always. Thank you so much ;)
"The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent.” -Malcolm X
Media has the power to influence minds, ideas, behaviors, and attitudes of the masses. This makes them too dangerous to not be held accountable for every lie
I think the comment section is the most powerful entity on earth
Including social media.
@@hab0272 I agree, that's why they're gonna go the way of dislikes, I think
It's never been more important to develop mental self defense, logic & critical thinking skills can quite literally save your life!
Doesn't matter what they might try, a prepared mind is ready for battle.
Yes, then form groups with like-minded individuals because none of us are going to be able to solve these social ills in isolation.
@@philmessina476 Echo chambers IRL won't teach you critical thinking. Try to know some people there who are NOT like-minded.
@Lynn Geek If you're thinking in those terms it's probably too late for you. But I agree the above post sounds more like a call to arms than a deliberative process to determine what's true. Then again, so does yours.
Any idea where to start? Books?
@Lynn Geek What an absurd screed. I'm glad you taught physics and not politics or history.
Invaluable content right here. Thanks you for your continued work.
These are such great videos and so necessary given what’s happening in the world!
"Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time,
and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools
and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the
knowledge of having Majority on its side." ----Goethe (1749-1832)
Truth does not require your participation in order to exist. Bullsh*t does.
Goethe was old than 83 years.
Huh, didn't know my only rule in life had an author...
_"The majority is always wrong"_
I thought that was me until today.
These days, "errors" are Propaganda fed to us via the NEWS MEDIA that sold out to criminals. Question Everything...MSM are not our friends.
@@martinwarner1178 Healthy old. Will you be capable of stringing two sentences together when you are old?
Will you be gifted with old age and brains? Think about it.
Wonderful work! As a former teacher ousted by the university and a local school district for disagreeing with Marx's dichotomy and blind egalitarianism, I find this channel a breath of fresh air--especially this video. I have tried telling my story online after seeking legal help, but you tell elements of my story I think better than I can.
Love you
Check out Viva Frei's channel. He's coupled with a human rights lawyer as a partner for social media content. That lawyer stands for actual human rights, like you.
You're a bot
@@Alex-hu5eg no I'm not
@@kiam533 it’s useless and arguably a major part of the problem
Yes.
Your presentation brings clarity to our moment.
this channel is such a gift, never STOP Loving my beautiful brothers and sisters, the mightiest torrent can start with a single raindrop, it only take ONE of us to change this world forever, our time will come, TOGETHER, we can reclaim our birthright
Bob&MrTao,xx
Had to pause your video to see what the breaking news on CNN was about. Young Fauchi (sic) is merrily announcing that the new, highly contagious 'variety' is almost certainly, already circulating in the US. He helpfully added: 'but we need to prove it, so we don't need to panic right now!' The news anchor commented that all those US citizens on their Thanksgiving break will find this disturbing news highly alarming and may want to change their travel plans and cut short their holidays.
The news Is just here to control 🛂.
Faux-chi
Scariant
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds;
it will be seen that they go mad in herds,
while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”
― Charles MacKay
Ditto my Man !!!
Thank you for that video!! People are indeed broken down, infantilised and terrified, lost the will to think for themselves and outsourced their own thinking to the TV and other media. Have we lost the game ???
To me it seems that we have and that brings me deep sadness 😥
No we haven’t loss the game.
These presentations are truly well done. Accurate awareness is found here. Serious thanks for objective acuity. All have a fabulous day.
Even Göebbels couldn't have dreamed of what the "mainstream media" has become...
It’s worse than what you propose. It’s at the point now where they must be stopped.
I like that your videos force me to pay full attention to it.
This is really a place of free flow of ideas. Beautiful video Academy of Ideas!
Uploaded on my birthday!!! I’m 21 today, best birthday gift I’ve gotten all day is this video!! Thank you for all you do
Wisdom is the best gift. HBD
So glad to see a young person trying to understand and make sense of this world that we have created. Happy birthday.
This isn't even a question anymore
“The further a society drifts from the Truth, the more they will hate those who speak it”. If anyone can tell me who spoke this quote I would appreciate you sharing it with me so in the future I can properly credit this person.
This needs to be required listening for everyone.
*“It’s time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.” - Marcus Aurelius*
Of course it is.
They need to be dismantled and punished without quarter.
It's worth noting that journalists are under attack all over the world. Often the excuse given is that they are part of the lying media.
@@seansmith3058 cool story, bro.
@@leonardticsay8046 As lame attempts to be insulting go that's right there with snowflake and soy boy. Give yourself a hand 👏
Also, if you don't think wannabe authoritarians use anger at the media to their own advantage you obviously have been asleep over the past five years, something that wouldn't surprise me one bit.
Anyone who liked the original comment above should come out and say just who it is they think should be "punished" and how they would go about it. On Jan 6th they brought a hangman's noose.
@@seansmith3058 soy boy. Lulz. Nah, man. You won the lame insult contest.
I am a huge fan of Andy Ngo and James o’ Keefe from projectVeritas. Those guys are real journalists. Andy Ngo gets harrassed and beaten by actual fascists. O Keefe was just raided by the FBI. The mainstream media Biden lapdogs need to be defunded.
Not all media is bad. Just the big outlets who can abuse their legacy status. MSNBC attempted to dox jurors on the Rittenhouse case. Those “journalists” were attempting to intimidate the jury. MSNBC was banned from the trial. Good for them.
Shame on you for attempting to smear me as an authoritarian. Are you a “journalist”? I bet you’d be on board with doxxing gun owners too. Just like Gawker and the Journal-News (Rockland County NY).
Leftist news outlets are not and should not be untouchable.
@@leonardticsay8046 You don't get to decide what a lame insult is after making one that by now is also a cliche. I didn't even begin to insult you, but if you think those con men (speaking of manipulation) are actually journalists you've insulted your intelligence better than I ever will.
The cooking process in news rooms happens like this: They take the main ingredient, the truth, then season it to saturation with biased adjectives so that the main ingredient essentially becomes unrecognisable. That is what comes hot off the press like fast-food for people to devour resulting in unhealthy brains. The media is not entirely to be blamed. People have a choice to still use their reasoning powers to ascertain and decipher the truth hidden in the daily dose of propaganda. But drowning in the deluge of daily information torrents people no longer feel they have the time to analyse information they are fed.
We need to share and propogate this video/idea. THAT IS HOW WE FIGHT! The truth is our weapon. Thank you AOI
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I like that we are not talking anymore - "what IF somebody wanted to force a totalitarian state on us, but now it's - "they ARE trying to do that, but will they succeed?"
It's a rather wild assumption at best. I honestly think most authorities have little clue what they are doing but no ill will.
I do think the trauma of previous totalitarian regimes is very real and even affects the younger generations judging by the fear about it.
@Hab027
That is a general rule of humans, as ignorence is exponentially more prevalent than malevolence, but how have they kept peace for so long? (As in not blow up the planet with nukes) We all learn about the cold war in school and how the shared fear of nuclear liquidation kept countries from blowing each other up, but how has it been kept at bay ever since? BTW, I'm no geopolitical expert. We also see the spontaneous emergence of trends, but that will occur naturally everywhere.
@@andredelacerdasantos4439 i think when a country starts a nuclear war it might destroy an enemy but the price paid will be too high.
What trends are you referring to by the way?
In the beginning it was for the search for truth, now it only serves as a political tool to sway opinion and social casting.
Is that a snarky comment about this channel?
What exactly was the search for truth?
I've noticed this shift too. Perhaps its a way to become more relevant in this day and age.
I don't think the love for truth and individual thinking is completely gone though.
Channels like Academy of Ideas are so important in today's world. It is not unimaginable that the government will ban these type of channels in the future.
Love the Norman Rockwell around 11:42. He's still one of my favorites. Such an instantly recognizable style. A master of tone and expression.
"What conceals the truth is not where one should look to find the truth."
-a course in miracles
Have an original thought
10:07 What a beautiful painting!
Your concluding quote from Nietzsche is terrifying. Great video.
Thanks for the awakening message.
So long as we continue spending the majority of our time online, nothing will change for the better. A synthetic larp driven reality will be our inverted reward.
AGREED
LARPing is gay. But I guess you gotta do what you gotta do.
Larp can make one feel heroic like one is slayin evil monsters and sh!#. It's an epic overlay on dull reality and all about the vibe.
I am still astounded that it is "legal" for an ISP to omit search results. We have the right to the "Pursuit of Happiness" no longer, in America.
As an unwitting employee of THE UNITED STATES, you have NO rights as long as you claim representation of their strawman.
@@chrismay2298 If only that were true, the solutions would be so simple.
It's the search engines, not the ISPs, who filter out most results. But I completely agree. What they did is a crime
My simple answer. Yes, it is a threat. And it always has been.
Beautiful! Full of hope 🙏
Short answer: Yes
Long answer: Yeeeesssssssssssssssssssssss
"There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance."
- Goethe (1749-1832)
Hands down the most important discussion right now
Great discussion. Well done.
Clicked so fast lol
Yeah, the Internet allows you to share your thoughts as long as the billionaires of Twitter, Facebook, Google, et al. let you.
And they let you less and less.... switched to telegram but appears some 'fishy' things happening there too!
@Lynn Geek Top tips. Appreciate it, thx.
@@bittersweet2253 As soon as I found out Bit Chute's servers are located in the UK I knew that site was compromised. The UK is one of the leading globalist countries, so no way they would let a true independent video-sharing platform take root there.
@@thadtuiol1717 is Dubai in UK that's where telegram is based I think?
@@thadtuiol1717 I smell lot of Bitchute users are rightwingers
YES.
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
Excellent, much needed work. Thank you.
The mind is the battlefield, the heart is what we battle for.
Yes; it always was and always will be.
The videos your channel makes are a crucial counterpoint to the misinformation put out by the very same all to powerful news outlets discussed in this video. The work you do is vital for keeping the average person from being manipulated by the biased and sensationalized news. I think almost everyone watching would like to say thank you guys for the work you do, and keep it up!
Great content as always. Sad that those who are deceived will never understand this.
All we have to do is shut down the socials and the NEWS. Let us do it!
They are a threat for as long as we continue to refer to the collective of what remains of legacy corporate media as ‘mainstream’. Especially when their combined total audience reach across all platforms and networks is roughly equivalent to that of a comedian and fight commentator’s random midweek podcast.
this is very true. we need to stop giving these disgusting old platforms any power and stop acting like they are big, when they are not and platforms such as youtube and alternative media are getting way more views and hits daily. only sad political bums over 50 watch mainstream news anyway, sadly netflix and other movie platforms today are still creating absolute trash. even if legacy system preserving media is gone, aka nbc, abc, fox, and cbs....there is still big tech trying to create violent content and broadcast it through streaming. all to traumatize and essentially make us weak.
But they do still command public opinion, principally because even though they are the equivalent of town criers with bell and tricorn hat, the over news sources are so diverse there is little conscensus.
More people need to see the videos on this channel and open their eyes to what’s going on