Post-Truth: Facts, Logic & Feelings

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  • čas přidán 2. 08. 2024
  • This meticulously researched video on post-truth is the culmination of my Master's thesis and is written in memory of Dr. Georgio Yakatura.
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    Page for Dr. Yakatura: gyakatura.blogspot.com/
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  • @slauthordraws3363
    @slauthordraws3363 Před 5 lety +13248

    Getting a completely unironic and informative video essay is actually the most unexpected Jreg content yet

    • @eoincampbell1584
      @eoincampbell1584 Před 5 lety +1452

      You commented before watching the whole video huh.

    • @slauthordraws3363
      @slauthordraws3363 Před 5 lety +716

      Eoin Campbell I do believe I am now obligated to subscribe to his Patreon

    • @asare240
      @asare240 Před 5 lety +69

      Yikes

    • @KyouUkaru
      @KyouUkaru Před 5 lety +199

      Ironically liked

    • @hellboy6507
      @hellboy6507 Před 5 lety +236

      He is almost always half serious half joking at any given moment.

  • @smushii3706
    @smushii3706 Před 4 lety +5434

    maybe the real Georgio Yakatura was the friends we made along the way

    • @matteopossamai1103
      @matteopossamai1103 Před 4 lety +113

      or maybe he's Beppe Grillo, an italian comician and politician

    • @Conleyr64
      @Conleyr64 Před 4 lety +7

      matteo possamai are all of his videos supposed to be sarcastic to prove a point? Or are they propaganda?

    • @williamjarlow4092
      @williamjarlow4092 Před 4 lety +8

      @@Conleyr64 Yeah, pretty much.

    • @DrSpooglemon
      @DrSpooglemon Před 4 lety +17

      @@Conleyr64 it's all centrist propaganda.

    • @georgioyakatura4789
      @georgioyakatura4789 Před 4 lety +29

      I don't know you.

  • @ffffffffffffffff5840
    @ffffffffffffffff5840 Před 4 lety +490

    The fact that I just checked the comments instead of actually fact-checking the video should tell you what's up

    • @chroni3659
      @chroni3659 Před 4 lety +22

      Yep. Even though he painted it clear as day that he might not have presented accurate information, I still just scrolled down and read the top comments

    • @iononionunion8682
      @iononionunion8682 Před 3 lety +11

      Yeah it’s because you use Reddit a lot

  • @kylehallman1283
    @kylehallman1283 Před 4 lety +2118

    "Everything I say is so layered in sarcasm that it has no meaning."
    ~jreg
    Citation: Just trust me dude.

    • @amadoucisse9143
      @amadoucisse9143 Před 4 lety +19

      He said something similar in a video about irony, but it was quite different.

    • @MK_ULTRA420
      @MK_ULTRA420 Před 3 lety +3

      @@amadoucisse9143 With enough irony you just _snap back to reality._

    • @MajkaSrajka
      @MajkaSrajka Před 2 lety +2

      Source: I made it up

    • @mateocosta1770
      @mateocosta1770 Před 2 lety

      I would argue that it includes a lot of information about the intention of the messenger, but yeah the content of the message itself is void.

  • @thejewcrew4585
    @thejewcrew4585 Před 5 lety +5695

    Jreg actually out here playing 15th dimensional chess

    • @scifience8297
      @scifience8297 Před 4 lety +12

      The Jew Crew I want to like this comment but it’s at 666 likes

    • @ronnickels5193
      @ronnickels5193 Před 4 lety +15

      83rd level underwater Chinese checkers.

    • @geemcspankinson
      @geemcspankinson Před 4 lety +5

      With chinese characters

    • @shaan702
      @shaan702 Před 4 lety +2

      Sci Fience it’s at 1.3k so you can go ahead and like it now

    • @phonehead7776
      @phonehead7776 Před 4 lety

      Jreg is a genius, seriously

  • @usahenry
    @usahenry Před 5 lety +1083

    This is the first Jreg video where I'm genuinely scared

    • @Garionica
      @Garionica Před 5 lety +82

      I feel you, brother.
      Good tip for the lazy: have an ad hoc method of who to believe and not to believe, but before you spread their ideas elsewhere you check their sources. It allows you to cruise the internet lazily while not spreading bullshit when one of your ideas happen to be trash.
      I mean, we could also verify everything, but if you're lazy at least you won't do harm.

    • @funnymank3897
      @funnymank3897 Před 5 lety +1

      Same

    • @liamnacinovich8232
      @liamnacinovich8232 Před 3 lety +1

      Now watch the frameworks video. That still has my worldview cracked in pieces

    • @tictac2therevenge291
      @tictac2therevenge291 Před 3 lety +6

      @@screwsinabell If you mention the subject to someone else you can also mention where you got the information and the fact that you haven't verified it elsewhere, and ideally they'll take it into account (maybe even correct you directly or at least give you counterarguments if they're better informed and the idea happens to be wrong). That's what I do, to still mention the idea but with caution

  • @joe-ke7pu
    @joe-ke7pu Před 4 lety +458

    I met Dr. Georgio Yakatura in Mid-February 2015 during one of his last seminars called "Internet Media and Reliability: Misinformation in the Age of Information". There weren't many in attendance so I got to talk him afterwards. We chatted for a while near the snacks table (Dr. Yakatura was not a healthy man). He told me one thing that has stuck with me forever. He said, "People will share information that they know is not true just so they can validate themselves. People will misquote famous people or even completely fabricate them just to tell the superior story." I never got to meet him again, but after that i started to campaign for the distribution of unadulterated facts.
    I am so happy that one of Dr. Yakatura's students is finally sharing some of his greatest wisdom.

  • @fakeorchestra4260
    @fakeorchestra4260 Před 3 lety +181

    Literally as soon as Georgio Yakatura came up, I thought to myself "That's probably a fake person" and quickly googled him, but then saw the blogspot about him and was like "Huh, maybe this guy is actually real but really unknown" and went to watch the video further. It is only after that I realised that the blogspot was fake.

    • @purplegoopguy
      @purplegoopguy Před 2 lety +46

      the fucking layers

    • @eljonrrodhe407
      @eljonrrodhe407 Před 2 lety +15

      The real guy is Beppe Grillo he is an ex italian comic and now politician

  • @DrFartfire
    @DrFartfire Před 5 lety +1571

    I wanted him to be real, Jreg. I wanted to read the essays and those studies.
    Why do i feel so lied to...? Why does this hurt?

    • @Zoxan96
      @Zoxan96 Před 5 lety +194

      The best thing is, the guy is an Italian comedian/politician. I was laughing so hard through the whole video!

    • @mr.atomiccragstan102
      @mr.atomiccragstan102 Před 5 lety +72

      Enigmaniac He founded the so called five star movement, an “apolitical party” which now pretty much runs the country along with the nationalist far right

    • @jongyon7192p
      @jongyon7192p Před 5 lety +128

      @@mr.atomiccragstan102 I don't trust any of these comments. I don't trust anything anymore.
      ...but I'm STILL too lazy to do my own research and google! So I'll just claim you're all lying and run off! YAY!

    • @greekmyths8804
      @greekmyths8804 Před 5 lety +25

      Georgio is real, jreg says so

    • @cleonanderson1722
      @cleonanderson1722 Před 5 lety +5

      Read some Baudrillard instead or something.

  • @davidberry1618
    @davidberry1618 Před 5 lety +3739

    Is it sad that it's been so long since I've seen satire done this good I couldn't really tell if this was until I checked the source?
    This is a comedy channel that in my mind should be viewed in every political science class.

    • @A_massive_wog
      @A_massive_wog Před 4 lety +32

      He is the Franz Gilderberg of his time.

    • @naomikasumier6843
      @naomikasumier6843 Před 4 lety +66

      I agree. I've learned a lot by questioning everything is said by "Jreg"

    • @jmarch_503
      @jmarch_503 Před 3 lety +32

      "Greg is a very well spoken student despite suffering from Autism" the source be like . also weird Spanish

    • @predawndisc7894
      @predawndisc7894 Před 3 lety +11

      @@A_massive_wog As a devotee of Beppe Grillo I looked up Franz Gilderberg but couldnt find anything. Are you playing Jregs game or am I overlooking something

  • @deelugo2905
    @deelugo2905 Před 4 lety +412

    This video left me with such a deeply unsettling feeling in the core of my spirit. I knew something was off because Jreg was being way too serious and I was already preparing for some batshit over the top idea, but when he said "What if what I was saying wasn't true?" I literally felt an emotion that I can't quite explain. I feel... Icky.

    • @ninjaman7775
      @ninjaman7775 Před 2 lety +37

      This feeling is actually known as miasma and was defined by Sigmund Freud. It's how our brain reconciles with information that challenges its core beliefs.

    • @ko-lq7vu
      @ko-lq7vu Před 2 lety +16

      @@ninjaman7775 but how do i know you’re telling the truth?

    • @pablopereyra7126
      @pablopereyra7126 Před 2 lety +22

      @@ninjaman7775 And also, how do we know Freud was saying the truth? I mean he could have just made it up, and who has the time to fact-check that? Although, me saying people are too lazy to research things is also something pretty convenient to believe, isn't it much easier to think what Im saying is the truth?
      ...
      This idea is fucked up man.

    • @ts4gv
      @ts4gv Před 2 lety +2

      @@ninjaman7775 thanks for this. Never heard the term.
      edit: here’s a good vid about “miasma” & other Freudian terms czcams.com/video/dQw4w9WgXcQ/video.html

  • @rcm926
    @rcm926 Před 3 lety +479

    At the start of the video: "Oh wow, is Jreg actually being a reliable academic political CZcamsr?"
    At the end of the video: "There is no such thing as a reliable academic political CZcamsr"

    • @YellowJelly13
      @YellowJelly13 Před 2 lety +2

      "There is no such thing as a reliable academic political CZcamsr"
      This. This. This.
      Those "acadamic" political youtubers aren't even actually academics 99% of the time. Fuck them.

    • @JoniWan77
      @JoniWan77 Před 2 lety

      @@YellowJelly13 You could say no academic is still an academic in the context of mass-media. They only truly are in the context of academic media. Outside of academic papers and presentations, inside an environment, in which rhethoric and conversation have different goals, different purposes and different modi, they necessarily warp into something slightly else. Henceforth, I wouldn't distinguish between true and false "academics" too much. It's neither a very good measure of their practical merit nor of the trustworthiness of what they say.

    • @YellowJelly13
      @YellowJelly13 Před 2 lety +1

      @@JoniWan77 no, they are quite literally not academics, as simple as that, regardless if they are immersed in mass media or whatever, that's the equivalent of saying you are an anthropologist because you live in a society

    • @JoniWan77
      @JoniWan77 Před 2 lety +1

      @@YellowJelly13 It was meant as an even-if. I don't know, whether all these CZcamsrs aren't academics or not and it isn't of much concern to me as it's practically impossible to know everyone, who was referred to by your comment. I was simply stating, that I don't think they should be considered academics in this space and context, even if they actually were. Henceforth I personally don't think the question of whether they are academics or not is a key question to their reliability. Videos of academics heavily invested in talking about politics and culture on mass-media, especially in a normative way, are in my humble opinion unreliable in a very similar manner.

  • @_synthicyde
    @_synthicyde Před 5 lety +634

    Unironically, this works as an amazing thesis on why post-truth actually works. The number of people who fell for this show that.

    • @joeribaars5481
      @joeribaars5481 Před 4 lety +24

      and then is the question is lying wrong if it's for a good cause using post-truth to make the world actually better place? what if a politician or a movement lies but achieves their goals? like cleaning the earth , end homelessness, create jobs or go to mars?

    • @It-Will-All-Be-Okay-I-Promise
      @It-Will-All-Be-Okay-I-Promise Před 4 lety +17

      joeri baars When it comes to things like that context is the most important thing, according to morals lying is wrong no matter what, but humans are more than morals. The end shouldn’t justify the means, but when it comes to such good things it’s hard to argue that they don’t, it really comes down to what you do to attain the good thing. Lying is not the same as Genocide, they’re both morally wrong but one is worse obviously.

    • @ognotapussyslayer5917
      @ognotapussyslayer5917 Před 4 lety +6

      I'm scared. Genuinely

    • @TheGoobsters
      @TheGoobsters Před 4 lety +1

      Define "works" tho

    • @AnimeFan9833
      @AnimeFan9833 Před 4 lety +5

      ​@@ognotapussyslayer5917 I find it kinda comforting. I always thought of post truth as a problem but now it just appears to be a byproduct of the way we seek truth.

  • @angryyordle4640
    @angryyordle4640 Před 5 lety +685

    I love the patron names.
    "Anarcho-Nazgul"
    "He who naenaes on the centrists"

    • @astillia6073
      @astillia6073 Před 4 lety +9

      NAZGULS ARE NAZBOL GANG

    • @tezix5172
      @tezix5172 Před 4 lety

      nazguls are just nazis but they "borrowed" the idea of gulags

  • @Pensive_Scarlet
    @Pensive_Scarlet Před 4 lety +76

    I had one of the greatest nights of my life with Georgia Yakaturo. She showed me how post-sex is superior to regular sex.

  • @naooho9392
    @naooho9392 Před 4 lety +365

    "I won't abuse that trust"
    Starts telling all subscribers to start committing centricide.

    • @briandiehl9257
      @briandiehl9257 Před 4 lety +30

      And? Whats wrong with that

    • @wompwomp7177
      @wompwomp7177 Před 3 lety

      @@briandiehl9257 can you explain to me why you want to do that

    • @wompwomp7177
      @wompwomp7177 Před 3 lety

      @@briandiehl9257 how does violence make any situation better?

    • @briandiehl9257
      @briandiehl9257 Před 3 lety +2

      @@wompwomp7177 its a running joke

    • @wompwomp7177
      @wompwomp7177 Před 3 lety

      @@briandiehl9257 i try to convince people why socialism and communism
      is wrong but I feel like this channel is just straight satire on behalf of the idiotic Marxist views that universities are trying so hard to popularize

  • @wil97nh
    @wil97nh Před 5 lety +4935

    I fact checked this video because of course I did it was terrifying. You used the French wiki for post truth and straight lied about what you were citing. This whole video is filled with un-citable nonsense. In other words I loved it, I'm chilled to the bone

    • @AlejandroPerez-mg3fc
      @AlejandroPerez-mg3fc Před 4 lety +1256

      I don't have the energy to fact check what you said, so you are as believable as him

    • @omegahaxors3306
      @omegahaxors3306 Před 4 lety +831

      @@AlejandroPerez-mg3fc I checked: He is telling the truth, but I am lying.

    • @corentinesummers8259
      @corentinesummers8259 Před 4 lety +35

      @Omega Haxors Who? /s

    • @SuperLukeKirby
      @SuperLukeKirby Před 4 lety +250

      I just checked, most of what he said is true, despite what you said and well cited. Stop trying to spread disinformation.

    • @Btn1136
      @Btn1136 Před 4 lety +128

      I don’t believe you. I just can’t decide if you want to be chilled to the bone or you want people to think you’re the kind of person that gets chilled to the bone over such a thing because you are a such a “sensitive intellectual”.

  • @JeremyGluckStuff
    @JeremyGluckStuff Před 5 lety +4177

    Is watching a Jreg video considered self-harm?

    • @valemortez
      @valemortez Před 5 lety +158

      Like some sort of disassociative self harm in which viewing going through psychological self harm, harms you too?

    • @gianfrancoAA
      @gianfrancoAA Před 5 lety +177

      It depends, are you a centrist?

    • @gigabeef1239
      @gigabeef1239 Před 5 lety +216

      It's post-self-harm.

    • @oh_no_martians
      @oh_no_martians Před 5 lety +84

      I think of it more as assisted masochism

    • @dragonnestking3418
      @dragonnestking3418 Před 5 lety +26

      Only if your a fucking centrist.

  • @latoshi3671
    @latoshi3671 Před 3 lety +25

    I immediately recognized Georgio's picture as Italian comedian Beppe Grillo and had to go check if it was real because passing himself as "political expert Georgio Yakatura" is something he would absolutely do

  • @dieantler
    @dieantler Před 3 lety +11

    The fact that this whole video is an example of post truth…..

  • @tamro9701
    @tamro9701 Před 5 lety +943

    wow i feel so big brained like the centrist i was meant to be, i looked up georgio BEFORE the plot twist. i am a true intellectual

    • @PASTRAMIKick
      @PASTRAMIKick Před 5 lety +60

      I called it as well but didn't want to spoil it, but the subject of the video is the perfect opportunity to do something like this.

    • @hydro5378
      @hydro5378 Před 5 lety +25

      @@PASTRAMIKick Same here, this guy came out of nowhere, he was on 11k subs a month ago. What a fucking brilliant mind.

    • @elzian4975
      @elzian4975 Před 5 lety +37

      I googled him, didn't find anything and concluded that I must have spelled the name wrong, how big brain am I?

    • @hydro5378
      @hydro5378 Před 5 lety +12

      @@elzian4975 you google him, so i'd say you watch rick n morty as well?

    • @DJstudio777
      @DJstudio777 Před 5 lety +3

      You didn't find this site? gyakatura.blogspot.com/

  • @laffy7204
    @laffy7204 Před 5 lety +873

    Since when did Jreg start being serious...
    *Several minutes later*
    Nevermind

    • @liamnichols2775
      @liamnichols2775 Před 5 lety +81

      I think the plot twist shows his seriousness more,
      when we cant trust our entertainers and political commentators, how do we know we got the right side or perspective of the story? We don't have time to fact check our sources, be it journalists, chat shows or comedians; and that's a problem. Bias and misinformation is everywhere, and just like how we didn't have the time to comb through Jreg's satirical Essay neither do we have the time to comb through an argument of Ben Shapiro. It's a good warning to be careful of the media we consume. Unwavering faith in a commentator is dangerous; through them what we see and how we portray it is controlled, so we need to be smart about it. Variety helps, seeing the other side helps, (sorry I'm really sounding like a Centrist here) and seeking information beyond the reaches of CZcams helps.Clicks are power in the world of news and we need to realize that.

    • @val26874
      @val26874 Před 5 lety +9

      Serious ain't always somber. Check out Pratchett's later works.

    • @laffy7204
      @laffy7204 Před 5 lety +10

      @@liamnichols2775 You be surprised how some people have entire youtube channels dedicated to debunking the crappy arguments. There are quite a few (mostly) reliable sources that we could listen to instead of trying to debunk every cheeky argument made from Ben Shapiro or Jordan B Peterson. I think you're over-exaggerating the how much control news outlets over the audience. We should educate people on how to narrow the sources we use to make sure any genuine agent would avoid bad outlets that only seeks to confirm a specific group's bias. The main news outlets that we usually see fake news on are secondary sources that are money driven, which means that it's inevitable that bias and distortion would plague these sources. That's why having someone else interpreting it may help you disect it more critically. On that note, if they get it wrong, someone else reliable contradicts it, you can then use your critical thinking skills to determine which has the better supported arguments. In spite of the counter-intuitive nature of the matter, we need role models to help us develop critical thinking skills, though we'll have to actively develop those skills and learn the formal education on whatever subject we desire to dabble in. Once you have those critical thinking skills down, you can use what you have learned to tell if someone is to be dishonest or in bad faith. Most of the time, developing a sharp sense of reasoning and filtering out bad ideas is far better than just poring through scientific articles that we are unqualified to read just so we can derive a few measly and most likely skewed conclusions from them. That isn't to say that researching on topics you're interested in isn't useful, it's perhaps necessary to gather the information to make an educated opinion. Nevertheless, if there's one advice that can help anyone, including the lazy, the dishonest, and the bad faith actors from their bad roles, is to experiment and find news sources, sources that you have never considered before. And more importantly, play devil advocate

    • @shodanxx
      @shodanxx Před 5 lety +4

      It's actually a serious issue and a boundary pushing video but delivery is a fun and sarcastic tone

    • @Zorro9129
      @Zorro9129 Před 5 lety +3

      @@laffy7204 You cannot develop critical thinking skills from consuming political rants, though. One must read "the classics," as they used to be taught, or otherwise a wide variety of literature that places reality in many different lenses. Then, having built a balanced worldview, you can venture forth into philosophy and then on to politics.
      Naturally though, it shows how destructive bad schooling can be as it instills a warped set of values, and how crappy democracy is bound to be. Also, while you can find someone "reliable" in a particular field, no one has all the answers and even the wisest men make critical mistakes.

  • @vow4621
    @vow4621 Před 3 lety +22

    Reminds me of an exchange from DS9.
    "They're all true."
    "Even the lies?"
    "Especially the lies."

  • @ericklopes4046
    @ericklopes4046 Před 4 lety +154

    I was suspicious from the very beginning. When he dumbed down post truth to fact vs feelings and gave a questionable quote from a dude I never heard about then I noticed what he was doing.
    But the experience you get from watching this video is pretty much what proponents of the term have been trying to express. JReg doesn't hide behind layers of irony, he is the total sum of those very layers. But he always unironically does a great job. I genuinely like JReg, I have a special affection towards his work, and a special place in my heart for it.

    • @ericklopes4046
      @ericklopes4046 Před 3 lety

      @STD092812 ❤️

    • @ahmedamine24
      @ahmedamine24 Před 3 lety

      Express your love by donating to his patreon and spreading his videos. Operationalization. Intersubjectivity. It's true because you can track it with numbers.

  • @lazergurka-smerlin6561
    @lazergurka-smerlin6561 Před 5 lety +423

    "Facts are indifferent to your feelings" - Shen Bapito

  • @redsnake69
    @redsnake69 Před 5 lety +839

    This video is so meta and this channel so hidden in layers of irony that any comments I could make would be meaningless.
    Even this one.

    • @bravetherainbow
      @bravetherainbow Před 5 lety +31

      The word "even" has a conventional implicature that your comment is more likely to be meaningful than others simply because it's trying to be meta or whatever. I just can't accept the truth of that implicature.

    • @brodyselby8406
      @brodyselby8406 Před 5 lety +3

      If you like that sort of shit look up Reactor.

    • @vain.a2
      @vain.a2 Před 5 lety

      @@bravetherainbow poo balls shit idiot

    • @shittymcrvids3119
      @shittymcrvids3119 Před 5 lety +1

      chicken nugget

    • @clairofan22tv20
      @clairofan22tv20 Před 4 lety

      Jreg

  • @Masiyooo
    @Masiyooo Před 4 lety +22

    never in my life have I been so afraid, as I was when I hovered my cursor over the "Search Google for 'Georgio Yakatura'..."-button, standing on the edge of finding out whether I've been bamboozled or not.

  • @MineCartable
    @MineCartable Před 4 lety +43

    "You've watched my whole backlog of videos! You know me!"
    You're right I do know you, and kind of questioned why I'm taking you seriously since I know the kind of videos you post. Sat through 7 minutes thinking that there had to be an important reason why so much of this video was straight-edge.
    Glad to see that there really wasn't.

  • @tyhall9530
    @tyhall9530 Před 5 lety +672

    Wow Giorgio Yakatura is like my favourite sociologist how did you have a chance to work with him truly amazing respect and also RIP he will totally be missed

    • @jongyon7192p
      @jongyon7192p Před 5 lety +50

      I'll never forget how the media ignored him, and how he'd get harassed for the things he said.
      He was a little racist, though...

    • @greekmyths8804
      @greekmyths8804 Před 5 lety +18

      We Can bring him back, all you have to do... is believe...

    • @Feds_the_Freds
      @Feds_the_Freds Před 5 lety +1

      G *e* orgio

    • @owenb111
      @owenb111 Před 5 lety +10

      @Domz 230 Do any of us truly exist?

    • @maryfreegirl2029
      @maryfreegirl2029 Před 2 lety +1

      Nice pfp

  • @El_zapiz
    @El_zapiz Před 5 lety +274

    I'm Italian, and when I saw a picture of Beppe grillo used as Georgio yakatura I instantly understood this video
    You are a genius

    • @rishigauswami1987
      @rishigauswami1987 Před 4 lety +23

      @@BasedVegeta he just understood that Giorgio Yakatura was fake and deduced that the video was a very well done satire
      I knew Beppe Grillo before so this happened the same way for me
      I think it ruined the experience of the satire tho

    • @GlobusTheGreat
      @GlobusTheGreat Před 4 lety +5

      I honestly figured it out immediately from the moment he mentioned "Georgio Yakatura" just based on my understanding of Jreg and the fact that he was making it seem like he was playing it straight.

  • @georgiykireev9678
    @georgiykireev9678 Před 2 lety +6

    I know I'm 2 years late to this, but I have something interesting to share.
    In the Russian language, there are two words that would be translated as "truth": pravda and istina. Their primary meaning differs quite subtly, however in a sentence akin to "I am telling the truth" they become quite different. Pravda pretty much just means you are not lying. Istina, however, means that you are certain that what you are saying is an undisputable fact. It's like a distinction between objective and subjective truth, except with certain emotional connotations added on top and packaged into separate words entirely. Interesting that this distinction was built into the language centuries ago, long before conflicting worldviews and ideological chaos became real concerns

  • @shinobix4925
    @shinobix4925 Před 2 lety +7

    Ending a video essay by letting the viewer know that you may or may not have been completely lying for a significant portion of the video at various point is one of the most terrifying things you could physically do. Had you simply said you made it all up then we would all laugh and just dismiss everything. Had you said nothing then we would all just leave the video believing we had grown smarter. But you didn't give us either of those luxuries, instead you left us with a lot of interesting ideas but made it so each one was tied to a burning doubt as to whether it actually means anything, and worst of all, you made it so that the only way to alleviate this crushing doubt is by doing the one thing all Political-Video-Essay Watchers fear the most, doing our own research

  • @adinosaurwithaflamethrower1227

    Jreg's viewers:
    "We've been tricked, we've been backstabbed, and we've been quite possibly, bamboozled."

    • @schr4nz
      @schr4nz Před 4 lety +40

      "And we like it..."

    • @sirmount2636
      @sirmount2636 Před 4 lety +24

      “We’ve been shmeckledorfed!”

    • @therealgaben5527
      @therealgaben5527 Před 4 lety +5

      When your the 1.1k like

    • @AbandonedVoid
      @AbandonedVoid Před 3 lety +4

      @@sirmount2636 "That's not even a word and I agree with you!"

    • @Konzon
      @Konzon Před 3 lety +2

      And we keep coming back.

  • @filippodibenedetto767
    @filippodibenedetto767 Před 5 lety +563

    You almost got me Jreg until I realized the image you showed of Giorgio Yakatura was actually Italian comedian Beppe Grillo

    • @type-moonfag4413
      @type-moonfag4413 Před 5 lety +30

      (And ex politician)

    • @mr.atomiccragstan102
      @mr.atomiccragstan102 Před 5 lety +93

      That gave it away for the whole Italian viewer base. Not a lot of us here but it’s still something

    • @dreriffic88
      @dreriffic88 Před 5 lety +32

      I figured it out when he showed the wiki article on post truth in French and it said the 14th century and put a picture of the French revolution, and again when it said Quebec's silent revolution was in the 20s lol.

    • @ianilus4783
      @ianilus4783 Před 5 lety +5

      @@type-moonfag4413 per fortuna

    • @type-moonfag4413
      @type-moonfag4413 Před 5 lety +5

      @@ianilus4783 dai... era divertente anche come politico, anche di più

  • @JamScamly
    @JamScamly Před 4 lety +20

    this is actually the thesis statement of the jreg channel

  • @iamwhatitorture6072
    @iamwhatitorture6072 Před 4 lety +11

    When I first watched this video, I thought it opened my eyes and changed my worldview
    And still since then I have told people facts a few times without fact checking them beforehand

  • @artfuldodger5933
    @artfuldodger5933 Před 5 lety +572

    "Quebec's Silent Revolution - 1920s" this is such an unimportant but obviously intentional inaccuracy (it's off by 40 years). I love and hate this video so much.

    • @YellowJelly13
      @YellowJelly13 Před 4 lety +34

      The "shamanic" revolutions is what made me realize he was full of shit lol

    • @pqbdwmnu
      @pqbdwmnu Před rokem

      @@YellowJelly13 What are you talking about? Jreg is my favourite youtuber so it has to be true, and the talking points of this video feel right so I believe them

  • @genericyoutubeaccount579
    @genericyoutubeaccount579 Před 5 lety +252

    "Who said anything needs to be done?" God, I love this channel.

    • @ClayWar237
      @ClayWar237 Před 5 lety +11

      I mean he has a point

    • @plasmabat718
      @plasmabat718 Před 5 lety +5

      ME, I SAID THAT
      If people don't know what truth is you get shit like anti vaxxers

  • @CertifiedZoony
    @CertifiedZoony Před 2 lety +4

    that fraction of a section of an image at 6:53 says: we fret about polarization, but in fact those who are politically interested are more likely to have encountered different opinions, checked facts and changed their minds about a political issue after searching for more information

  • @WikiSorcerer
    @WikiSorcerer Před 4 lety +117

    What is so ironic about Ben Shapiro is that in-spite Shapiro turning "facts don't care about your feelings" into a meme, almost every point he makes is done with appeal to emotion.

    • @pap-bw2yd
      @pap-bw2yd Před 4 lety +12

      The Rational Rifleman why would a random youtube comment have to cite sources for a claim as simple as this.

    • @vonbass1300
      @vonbass1300 Před 4 lety +2

      @Fluffynator The hole in your opinion is, What's wrong with poking holes in your opponents opinion? Seems like a valid form of at least knowing what is not true. . . Sorry, I think this video caused some kind of temporary brain damage.

    • @rb5519
      @rb5519 Před 2 lety +2

      It's refreshing to hear the term "ironic" used properly. I've recently read two youtube posts where the thing being called ironic, was the exact opposite of ironic. (Oh no, maybe that's some new thing now where people are knowingly calling things ironic that are unironic? (I feel really old right now))

    • @HumanTooth
      @HumanTooth Před 2 lety +1

      @@rb5519 it just feels right, the value of the proper definition is basically nothing, and there's a third point to be made here to make the sentence sound good.

    • @rb5519
      @rb5519 Před 2 lety +3

      @@HumanTooth "sounds good", "feels right". You're right. I should just accept that nothing means anything anymore."

  • @aue2377
    @aue2377 Před 5 lety +1670

    I think you misspelled anarcho-post-truth. Please correct this error as soon as possible. Thank.

  • @some_shiptoster
    @some_shiptoster Před 5 lety +667

    Clearly you haven't read Beppe Grillo's work critiquing Dr. Yakatura's position.

    • @jakeplays1995
      @jakeplays1995 Před 4 lety +11

      TheSer1010 I knew that was him as soon as I saw the picture

    • @Matt-vh2ci
      @Matt-vh2ci Před 4 lety +3

      Why Beppe Grillo? I don't understand I am Italian

    • @Matt-vh2ci
      @Matt-vh2ci Před 4 lety +2

      @Emanuele Caproni i know who Beppe grillo is, I'm Italian, I just didn't understand why he was here (I know his image was used for comedy I just thought it wasn't well know internationally)

    • @totallycarbon2106
      @totallycarbon2106 Před 4 lety +27

      @@Matt-vh2ci he isn't especially well known internationally, hence why it works as the majority of the audience wouldn't immediately recognise him. However I suppose it's an "easter egg", some people would recognise him, although I can't comment on his relationship with post-truth.

    • @lagrangiankid378
      @lagrangiankid378 Před 3 lety +4

      Beppe is Georgio's twin brother separated at birth (they were adopted by two different families), few people know that.

  • @R0S3inC0NCR33T
    @R0S3inC0NCR33T Před 3 lety +4

    A year later, i still think this video is your best work.

  • @josephurbanich7344
    @josephurbanich7344 Před 3 lety +5

    I cited this video and your video on anti centrist praxis for my English final essay and I somehow got a 20/20 on the essay. You are officially a trusted source.

  • @duncannslade
    @duncannslade Před 5 lety +158

    The trust built over parasocial relationships on CZcams is a deadly currency. And we're all in a such a rush to be right, being wrong is virtually inconceivable at this point.

    • @lucastark1784
      @lucastark1784 Před 5 lety +8

      And not every CZcams personality is untrustworthy.

    • @greekmyths8804
      @greekmyths8804 Před 5 lety +17

      @@lucastark1784 bUt wE cAn TrUst jREg

    • @thomasjardine2108
      @thomasjardine2108 Před 5 lety +16

      It a form of societal fracturization that occurs in cyberspace, in which echo chambers are developed and are integrated into our world view which inevitably influences our worldview. This is true with any form of media but in cyberspace, its anybody's game.

    • @Zorro9129
      @Zorro9129 Před 5 lety +4

      @@thomasjardine2108 Censorship is then especially pernicious, since certain powers could isolate or crack down on particular fields of view with the broader society being none the wiser.

  • @eoincampbell1584
    @eoincampbell1584 Před 5 lety +323

    As you started making question whether this whole video was actually fake my eye started twitching. Video essays are my favorite thing and now you've destroyed them with FACTS and LOGIC you monster!

    • @PASTRAMIKick
      @PASTRAMIKick Před 5 lety +16

      your eye started twitching? Are you a cartoon character by any chance.

    • @jongyon7192p
      @jongyon7192p Před 5 lety +2

      @@PASTRAMIKick It's based on reality tbf

    • @lucastark1784
      @lucastark1784 Před 5 lety

      Not really, he just portrayed them as all potentially false, which is pointing out the obvious.

    • @mrcapitalistic2539
      @mrcapitalistic2539 Před 5 lety +1

      PASTRAMIKick you do know that the eyes twitching is a real thing that can happen when someone’s distressed right? And that YOU sound like a cartoon character when you don’t know that?

    • @Graknorke
      @Graknorke Před 5 lety +3

      He's not destroyed them with facts and logic though lol, it's still an emotional appeal.

  • @floridamancode_e2673
    @floridamancode_e2673 Před 4 lety +69

    The second I saw the title I thought "yeah he is going to lie to us"
    But God damn that was a good lie. Or was it?

    • @MaJetiGizzle
      @MaJetiGizzle Před 4 lety +1

      Code E It’s whatever you want it to be Code E... O_o

    • @Bryndleson
      @Bryndleson Před 4 lety

      CODE E BABY HOW YOU DOING

    • @DragonWinter36
      @DragonWinter36 Před 4 lety +1

      It was a very sincere and good-natured lie

    • @ahmedamine24
      @ahmedamine24 Před 3 lety

      That is not dead which can eternal lie.

  • @YourMajesty143
    @YourMajesty143 Před 4 lety +7

    I'm a nihilist & skeptic, so alarm bells started ringing at 0:22 when he used an "Appeal to Authority" and pretty much self-proclaimed himself an "expert" just bc he wrote a research paper. Red flags ensued throughout the video, but in the end I enjoyed the ride bc it reaffirmed that my nihilism & cynicism were much more useful than previously thought. But then I realized maybe that's the point, that we should seek discourse that challenges our beliefs, rather than ones affirming them. Yet he's also right in that we're human and our beliefs/non-beliefs ground our lives so we can focus on working & being. The world would absolutely be dull if everyone believed the same truths. But what do I care, nothing matters, everything is meaningless, and we're all gonna die 😁

  • @halpointon6085
    @halpointon6085 Před 5 lety +287

    I'm going to be honest:
    1. I felt soooo betrayed when I looked up Georgio
    2. Jreg is my favourite channel on CZcams at the moment

    • @CandaEH
      @CandaEH Před 5 lety +2

      Is he fake?

    • @CandaEH
      @CandaEH Před 5 lety +6

      Yes he is! :D

    • @todessehnsucht
      @todessehnsucht Před 5 lety +1

      me too lmfao

    • @GameBreaker1055
      @GameBreaker1055 Před 5 lety +24

      That was the oint of the video.
      It is quite easy to make people believe something as long as it sound plausible.
      Btw. What he said about Post-Truth was still true.

    • @CandaEH
      @CandaEH Před 5 lety +6

      @@GameBreaker1055 I was pretty skeptical, but I also know jreg is full of shit (and its hilarious).

  • @oni2538
    @oni2538 Před 5 lety +414

    For those of us tearing their hair out trying to catch the little popup in frame 6:54 (I know I was!):
    "We fret about political polarization, but in fact those who are politically interested are more likely to have encountered different opinions, checked facts and changed their minds about a political issue after searching for more information."

    • @miketacos9034
      @miketacos9034 Před 5 lety +13

      Found this after fretting over it lolol

    • @pokexchespin012302
      @pokexchespin012302 Před 5 lety +9

      Damnit I spent so damn long on trying to see it and now found a comment on it :/

    • @meatyay
      @meatyay Před 4 lety +10

      You know, you always can slow down speed of the video in the settings, so you can easily catch this type of stuff?

    • @SpookySkeleton738
      @SpookySkeleton738 Před 4 lety +37

      if you pause the video you can use the , and . keys (< and > without shift) to frame advance or frame rewind the video

    • @Hortortortortor
      @Hortortortortor Před 4 lety +4

      Дмитрий Данилов I did that, and it was still a massive pain in the ass to catch the frame.

  • @TRUETOILETTENPAPIER
    @TRUETOILETTENPAPIER Před 4 lety +27

    imagine my delight as an Italian seeing that picture of “Georgio Yakatura” at 0:34

  • @zakhaddad2468
    @zakhaddad2468 Před 4 lety +65

    when Jreg starts off by saying how he's an expert on post truth, he's referencing how Ben Shapiro often uses that tactic in his arguments to validate what he's saying (regardless of how much that actually qualifies him to speak on that subject, and regardless of his inherit bias)
    eg. "my dad was an expert music teacher so I know alot about music. Rap isn't music guys"

    • @chroni3659
      @chroni3659 Před 4 lety +4

      I immediately thought of that exact example before I clicked ‘read more’ lol. rAp iSn’T mUsIc tRuSt mE gUyS i kNoW wHaT rEaL mUsIc iS

    • @mohandasjung
      @mohandasjung Před 4 lety

      Rap isn't music, is more like poems with background noise.

    • @chroni3659
      @chroni3659 Před 4 lety +12

      @@mohandasjung What qualifies as music is subjective, since music is an art form. Rap is widely considered to be music, so it is music in a general sense. “I don’t consider rap to be music” would be a more accurate statement than “rap isn’t music”. You’re allowed to have your opinions, of course.

    • @Edge-xy3fv
      @Edge-xy3fv Před 4 lety

      @@chroni3659 funny how you didnt catch the irony on the other guys statement

    • @chroni3659
      @chroni3659 Před 4 lety +8

      Edge3105 What qualifies as irony is subjective, since being ironic is an art form, being a comedic art. Nobody wins, nobody is happy. Now *that’s* comedy :^)

  • @floof_hair3857
    @floof_hair3857 Před 5 lety +872

    This channel is so deep in irony I dont even know what jreg's actual political alignment is

    • @TheNickdog573
      @TheNickdog573 Před 4 lety +219

      probably a centrist

    • @spectralisation
      @spectralisation Před 4 lety +209

      He's dead in the center, and is feeling so guilty about it, he'll advocate for WW III just to distance himself as far from the center as possible.

    • @cameronburke8002
      @cameronburke8002 Před 4 lety +46

      @Patric Chasseur I agree and this is coming from someone on the centre right. He shows a lot of signs of being quite leftist but he keeps it to himself which is good.

    • @Michael-kp4bd
      @Michael-kp4bd Před 4 lety +53

      @@cameronburke8002 keep your assessments to yourself, bud

    • @nicktaylor1902
      @nicktaylor1902 Před 4 lety +103

      Leftist, cynical about hierarchical structure but conflicted about how goals can be achieved

  • @Hawktied
    @Hawktied Před 5 lety +162

    This is some next level shitposting. You got me for a second there.

  • @thelegom7116
    @thelegom7116 Před 3 lety +9

    I love living in a reality where my frame of reference of reality has been erased and people abusing my cognitive dissonance of said erasure will act like there trying to help me, y,know, get my house in order, set me on the right path, meanwhile that path is going straight into a house that I don't like and makes me homesick for a place that I've tricked myself into believing ever existed

  • @fractalicflow
    @fractalicflow Před 2 lety +3

    Genius video

  • @chrisserrific
    @chrisserrific Před 5 lety +369

    Georgio will be missed. His essay on the true, post truth origins of grilled chicken changed my life. RIP in peace.

    • @ferdjur4195
      @ferdjur4195 Před 4 lety +17

      You'll be happy to hear that he reincarnated as a comic and a politician in Italy.

    • @E4439Qv5
      @E4439Qv5 Před 4 lety +2

      @@ferdjur4195 THIS IS SO ACCURATE IT HURTS, OML.

  • @GtaNewsITA
    @GtaNewsITA Před 5 lety +57

    Being italian I knew that as soon as I heard "Georgio Yakatura" I was in for one hell of a ride

    • @moonie1825
      @moonie1825 Před 4 lety

      he said italian japanese though

    • @GtaNewsITA
      @GtaNewsITA Před 4 lety +11

      @@moonie1825 but he showed the picture of comedian/politician "Beppe Grillo"

    • @ferdjur4195
      @ferdjur4195 Před 4 lety +1

      @@moonie1825 A name like Georgio (a mix between italian Giorgio and english George) is something incredibly hard to pronounce phonetically correct in any of the two languages.

  • @ody1212
    @ody1212 Před 3 lety +3

    Holy shit, I've long understood the danger of assigning authority on a mental level, but today, you made me *feel* it. The genuine shock I felt while watching this might've been intense enough to henceforth pop into my head whenever I'm presented with a piece of significant information. You've likely made me a better, more skeptical individual, and for that, I thank you.

  • @SecretSynth
    @SecretSynth Před 3 lety +8

    This is actually a masterpiece. Completely threw me for a loop, even though I was *expecting* some kind of trickery.

  • @samharper7001
    @samharper7001 Před 5 lety +130

    Me: jreg’s postmodern surreal videos can’t further my existential crisis anymore
    Jreg: hold my beer

  • @StevieDamnit
    @StevieDamnit Před 5 lety +1827

    📂Documents
    └📁Politics
    └📁Ben Shapiro
    └📁 Facts and Logic
    └⚠️ This folder is empty

    • @attilakatona-bugner1140
      @attilakatona-bugner1140 Před 5 lety +130

      The funny thing about him is when i check in detail his beliefs there are barely no stuff i agree with him, but boy do i feel sorry for the people who had 0 factual knowledge and tried to debate him like that

    • @StevieDamnit
      @StevieDamnit Před 5 lety +206

      @@attilakatona-bugner1140 He chickened out of debating people at Politicon 2018. Kyle Kulinski even tried to get a debate with him. Ben Shapiro is a fraud.

    • @Horus-Lupercal
      @Horus-Lupercal Před 5 lety +80

      @@attilakatona-bugner1140 Shapiro's a joke.

    • @Curiosity_R
      @Curiosity_R Před 5 lety +129

      @@attilakatona-bugner1140 Anyone with 0 factual knowledge will get destroyed on a debate. The problem is that he will look for people without knowledge ( mostly collage students ) to make himself look better

    • @leocunha4985
      @leocunha4985 Před 5 lety +49

      Um, no? Ben has been to Politicon and done debates there several times. Stop spreading false information.

  • @SkyMushrooms
    @SkyMushrooms Před 4 lety +71

    Everyone: “oh no how are we gonna reach the truth?!”
    Diavalo: “First time?”

  • @damian-lk6dh
    @damian-lk6dh Před 2 lety +3

    Changed my life

  • @jacobslack4967
    @jacobslack4967 Před 5 lety +244

    I get my facts from one source and one source only:
    NPR Tiny Desk Concert

    • @xSTARRYxEYESx
      @xSTARRYxEYESx Před 5 lety +5

      How they gonna make a scone out of a fucking squash I mean OH! it blows my FUCKING mind

    • @manvsn8ture
      @manvsn8ture Před 5 lety +6

      @@xSTARRYxEYESx but what were you saying? Your boyfriend is being really mean right now? I think he'll turn it around at some point, I THINK

  • @sebasmusician736
    @sebasmusician736 Před 5 lety +108

    This video taught me how to love myself, thank you Georgio Yakablaka

  • @menendez6218
    @menendez6218 Před rokem +4

    Wow, this is the best video on post truth.
    Have I ever watched any other videos about post truth? Nope, but it feels like it's the best to to me at least it is the best!

  • @AliceDiableaux
    @AliceDiableaux Před 4 lety +23

    Lmao I caught on when you said that the concept of post-truth was used in the French Revolution in 1863. Finally a practical use for my obsession with the French Rev!

    • @melchid8448
      @melchid8448 Před 4 lety +1

      But isnt it common knowledge. Like atleast everyone know French Revolution happened in somewhere in 1700's. And Napoleon took the power after he killed Louis XV. And Queen I dont remember her name.

    • @princejellyfish3945
      @princejellyfish3945 Před 4 lety +1

      @@melchid8448 he took power right after he invented water skiing. Good people, Napoleon was.

  • @42billybob
    @42billybob Před 5 lety +138

    "Do you have time for that? Do you have time to research every single video you watch? Do you have the energy to second guess every sentence you read?"
    Nope... that's what comment sections are for.

    • @grantlauzon5237
      @grantlauzon5237 Před 5 lety +1

      42billybob I never research stuff from videos but he sounded sarcastic so I googled Georgio and didn’t find anything that wasn’t related to this video.

  • @pathe8519
    @pathe8519 Před 5 lety +142

    Now I have brain cells designated to remember the name Georgio Yakatura and absolutely nothing else. Thanks jreg. This is what I'll be thinking about my next chemistry test

    • @bravetherainbow
      @bravetherainbow Před 5 lety +2

      Chemistry tests are the Truth they REALLY don't want you to know about

  • @aijunnjun6246
    @aijunnjun6246 Před 3 lety +6

    "can you really be so paranoid all the time that you're critical of every piece of information that enters your brain?" yeah and??
    in all seriousness, thank you jreg. somehow you make me feel better about the world. don't really know why i'm writing it, but yeah. nice low key mental breakdown by the end btw

  • @leftfootfirstpolitics
    @leftfootfirstpolitics Před 4 lety +8

    Very insightful and provocative so long as you pay attention to the subtext, which isn't difficult as Jreg conspicuously flags appropriate elements of the text as deserving scrutiny. Good shit, man.

  • @dragonlord2461
    @dragonlord2461 Před 5 lety +50

    This might be the best video I have ever watched.

  • @oh_no_martians
    @oh_no_martians Před 5 lety +143

    Don’t do this to me jreg. Please don’t make me question my trust in yet another source in this “truth isn’t truth” hellscape. I can’t keep going man

    • @Exofunny300
      @Exofunny300 Před 5 lety +17

      The scientific method is great for preventing insanity. The difficulty is feeding the resources and experiences to yourself in order to verify claims. Jpeg also gave a useful example of how to detect contention: incongruity. Yakaturo or Yakatura? 2005 or 2006?

    • @oh_no_martians
      @oh_no_martians Před 5 lety +8

      Exofunny300 shit man I didn’t even notice that he switched it

    • @Graknorke
      @Graknorke Před 5 lety +4

      Jokes on you, there was never a better time. The only difference in the past was that people put their blind trust in much fewer potential authorities.

    • @daod8286
      @daod8286 Před 5 lety +10

      @@Exofunny300 you are not getting it. Science doesn't help. You can claim that any source is biased, wrong, written by the wrong person. You are enterpreting the results, so you are in control of what study says to you.

    • @oh_no_martians
      @oh_no_martians Před 5 lety +1

      Graknorke I suppose you’re right. An informational oligarchy doesn’t sound any better than what we’ve got

  • @Azu_303
    @Azu_303 Před 4 lety +3

    "This video is so fucking good, Jreg!" - Georgio Yakatura, 2006

  • @Ausstein
    @Ausstein Před dnem

    I came here 5 years later again. This is my favorite video on all of CZcams!

  • @diegosanchez894
    @diegosanchez894 Před 5 lety +217

    The Giorgio Yakatura twist beats everything shyamalan. Well play Jé.

    • @alexandredesouza3692
      @alexandredesouza3692 Před 5 lety +4

      Dude. I'm rewatching the video, there's foreshadowing. He put Easter eggs!

    • @yourboy9236
      @yourboy9236 Před 5 lety

      @@alexandredesouza3692 please give an example

    • @alexandredesouza3692
      @alexandredesouza3692 Před 5 lety +1

      @@yourboy9236 When he talks about the Pós-Verité being created in the 18th century, the image he pulls up is a Wikipedia article in French. It focuses on "xiv siécle". The 14th century.

    • @CDG7755
      @CDG7755 Před 5 lety +2

      @@yourboy9236 The picture of the supposed Doctor is Beppe Grillo

    • @samueloak1600
      @samueloak1600 Před 5 lety

      @@CDG7755 Time to sell out to Lega lmao

  • @LevisaProductions
    @LevisaProductions Před 5 lety +95

    "12 Rules for Death: An Antidote to Order" is probably my favorite work by Dr Yakatura - a brilliant, in-depth analysis of post-postism, neo-fallōism, and thanatoism. Thanks, Jreg! You ARE a true scholar.

    • @Screeno1993
      @Screeno1993 Před 5 lety +19

      Post postism is a dangerous ideology which is threatening to dismantle the anarchies of our society.

    • @E4439Qv5
      @E4439Qv5 Před 4 lety +5

      Thanatoism... damn, I haven't heard that one since before I came back from that phrenological acupuncturist convention.

    • @DragonWinter36
      @DragonWinter36 Před 3 lety

      lol, neo-fallōism

  • @463896
    @463896 Před 3 lety

    Your videos are always a rollercoaster

  • @JarielCorvus
    @JarielCorvus Před 4 lety +3

    Wow.
    I never thought I'd finally find someone who can talk about the great master Giorgio. I'm Italian, and he's been a very important figure in our modern politics, despite his move to Japan. I had a chance to speak to him, and he had this amazing nickname, 'Kuriketto'.
    He really was a 5-star figure in the history of political discourse.
    Thank you for bringing honor to him by furthering his teachings!

  • @angrypepe7615
    @angrypepe7615 Před 5 lety +123

    Holy shit this man is playing inter-dimensional quantam Schrodinger's chest my mind is absolutely melting

    • @DragonWinter36
      @DragonWinter36 Před 3 lety +6

      _Schrödinger’s chest_

    • @pqbdwmnu
      @pqbdwmnu Před rokem

      @@DragonWinter36 Yeah that feels right, no need to fact-check

  • @EmmyHucker
    @EmmyHucker Před 5 lety +325

    I know this is supposed to be comedic, but it ended up being quite alarming 😂

  • @Zenith3352
    @Zenith3352 Před 4 lety +18

    I noticed it was satire when it said “Neolithic rejections of Shamanic “Truth” leading to several Stone Age wars” lmao

  • @claudiomonteverdi847
    @claudiomonteverdi847 Před 4 lety +29

    I felt weird when you posted a pic of Beppe Grillo as Yakatura but I went: "I'm sure they just look really alike"

  • @zannchristo
    @zannchristo Před 5 lety +126

    God damn, this is a great video even if you forgot to talk about Anarcho-Truthism

  • @rachelslur8729
    @rachelslur8729 Před 5 lety +230

    0 dislikes. Good to know, that the youtube's filter bubble extremism isolation algorithm is working fine.

    • @sambone2809
      @sambone2809 Před 5 lety +21

      Pretty good for a channel that tries to appease both sides of extremism and this video in particular is a complete lie, so it's even more surprising that people didn't dislike.

    • @rachelslur8729
      @rachelslur8729 Před 5 lety +2

      65 dislikes now 🤔 (the fifth one was mine)

    • @random_estonian5356
      @random_estonian5356 Před 5 lety +2

      Ahh, nevermind, its now 5 dislikes, also. How the fuck has Sam Julius commented 19 minutes ago, but "..." has started this comment string 17 minutes ago?
      Edit: Now it fixed itself.

    • @angelrodriguez732
      @angelrodriguez732 Před 5 lety +3

      Don't be so sure too quickly

    • @MrRogerogerio
      @MrRogerogerio Před 5 lety +3

      You jinxed it!

  • @r34dood
    @r34dood Před 2 lety +1

    I don’t watch very many of your videos but with your video style and what i remember of the few I’ve watched, I took most of the video seriously, believing you were just a smart guy spouting facts, and not bothering to check anything said
    As you can tell, I am not the brightest
    By the end, not only was I left bewildered, and shocked, but I learned one hell of a lesson

  • @WildWaver
    @WildWaver Před 4 lety

    Woah. Thank you for this. I really appreciate you making this video. I like to think I'm aware of the content I'm viewing, and thinking critically while watching, and this helped me understand how much I was wrong. Thank you so much.

  • @vasilisdouklias6992
    @vasilisdouklias6992 Před 5 lety +37

    I love you and everything you do man. This is the best video I have ever seen

  • @DnlLauridsen
    @DnlLauridsen Před 5 lety +29

    yeah, I had to watch this a second time after googling the name georgio yakaturo.
    And now I got a lot of thinking regarding my perception of parasocial relations and my relationship with what I regard as true.
    Damn you Jreg! you trixter

  • @kasimirbrotz
    @kasimirbrotz Před 4 lety +1

    A grade work. Was really glad to see all those sources cited really showing you did your work. Time stamped footnotes would have made this an A+. I want to see you keep pushing for improvement and am glad to see such a diligent mind pursue scholarship so almost exceptionally.

  • @tylermacdonald8924
    @tylermacdonald8924 Před 3 lety +1

    This is actually incredible, please do more like this

  • @SiniAnimations
    @SiniAnimations Před 5 lety +63

    Ffs Jregmy, you can't just have a 1 frame message and then have your video in *60 fps*
    To save the rest of the audience some time: 6:54
    "We fret about polarization, but in fact those who are politically interested are more likely to have encountered different opinions, checked facts and changed their minds about a political issue after searching for more information"

  • @mjm8853
    @mjm8853 Před 5 lety +38

    6:54 "We fret about polarization, but in fact those who are politically interested are more likely to have encountered different opinions, checked facts and changed their minds about a political issue after searching for more information"

    • @felixhampe6480
      @felixhampe6480 Před 5 lety +1

      God ^

    • @josecarlosmoreno9731
      @josecarlosmoreno9731 Před 5 lety +12

      Yes and no, someone who is politically interested may have more info and have chosen an ideology, even "extreme" because they maintain consistent and thorough beliefs based on a solid framework. Or they may just be tribal and want to bask in reflected glory and in group acceptance while fighting the out group like every day is an existential battle.

    • @sploofmcsterra4786
      @sploofmcsterra4786 Před 5 lety +1

      @@josecarlosmoreno9731 it honestly depends on their critical thinking. If they are the kind of person who is close-minded, then researching an issue and encountering opposing arguments can definitely polarise.
      For example, a strawman might be made about feminists hating men. A man who has seen such a claim then looks up a feminist article. He sees that they are saying that toxic masculinity is dangerous. Because he isnt great at critical thinking, he thinks he is encountering the strawman (this is why such strawmen are powerful), and that the author is arguing that men are bad. Thus polarising the person. A critically minded person might be more likely to identify the nuance of the argument and not be as susceptible to bias.
      This is just an example. You can argue that masculinity isnt toxic and all that, but I'm explaining how people can fall for fallacies and be polarised even when cross-checking.

    • @sploofmcsterra4786
      @sploofmcsterra4786 Před 5 lety +1

      So yeah I agree. There's this idea that if you're an extremist youre biased. Which is ridiculous, you're only biased if you make a decision on the validity of an argument based on prior experience with the people making the argument, rather than actually listening to the argument.
      So you have like you said some people that are tribal and are actually biased - because they decide the validity of arguments based on who makes them.
      And then you have people who aren't tribal, who won't be polarised by arguments in a negative way - and naturally those that are inclined to want to make radical change will tend towards extremism if they find one sides arguments convincing. For example socialism if you have decided society has enough resources for everyone, or fascism if you have decided Jews are somehow the secret establishment (though people who arrive at the latter with critical thinking aren't common).
      The trouble is, post truth affects BOTH of these. Even the critically minded can fall prey to post truth, since it isn't possible to be an expert in every field.

    • @katrinal353
      @katrinal353 Před 5 lety +1

      @@josecarlosmoreno9731 Wouldn't "politically interested" kind of exclude you from being someone that chooses thoughtless solutions for imaginary fears? I would assume "politically interested" means at the very minimum that people are interested enough to apply some extra metacognition and avoid the "passionate about something, but too lazy and used to it to question it."
      I mean other than that, I guess people can be stupid enough to be unable to be convinced of something, and therefore become destined to have an ignorant polarization despite their good-faith interest...

  • @lebenslangerschicksalsscha6690

    Beyond thankful for existence of this type of content❤️ what a time to be alive

  • @DiomedesRangue
    @DiomedesRangue Před 4 lety

    I think this is one of your best videos

  • @gee8419
    @gee8419 Před 5 lety +19

    I have to be honest - knowing the source of information determines how much I fact check it. Eg because you are a satirist (and, tbh, because you praised Peterson et Al -a bit of a giveaway. Also most master's/doctoral students don't view themselves as experts on a topic so broad.) I immediately started checking your claims. But it really made me think about how I view my sources. Like, am I always getting the right information from commentators I typically view as educated and thoughtful researchers? And I should really know this better than anyone - I wrote a master's thesis last year on a niche topic and experienced first-hand how difficult it can be to pore through research and separate wheat from chaff. I run into similar struggles now that I do communications for a nonprofit data organization. Supposedly objective data rests upon persuasion - you can't just lay down numbers and expect people to care. Facts don't care about your feelings BUT the people who create facts care very much about your feelings.
    Anyway this is great. Rest in peace to the totally real Georgio Yakatura and good luck on your totally real doctoral dissertation.

  • @yeeyee5117
    @yeeyee5117 Před 5 lety +16

    On the linked page: "Greg is a very well spoken student despite suffering from Autism." lol

  • @SLSat
    @SLSat Před 2 lety +4

    This was something I've been feeling lately. I hate how everything that is objective is getting perceived by a subjective lens and how I am just as guilty as everyone else for wanting something to be true when it likely isn't. But I also don't want to be critical about everything, living would get so exhausting.
    You're a good yt channel.

  • @henreyeraser3402
    @henreyeraser3402 Před 4 lety +24

    "...than I'm basically your guy".
    He is /Our Guy/