How Conspiracies Changed (Flat Earth, Anti-Vaxxers) - Wisecrack Edition
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"Arguments are something to be WON, instead of to seek the truth." That's it, that's everything wrong with society.
Basically what it's like in a court room, it doesn't matter who did the right the thing or the wrong thing, its about making sure you win the argument.
Paradoxical John The very basis of Philosophy is to present ideas in the form of arguments to either strengthen or weaken a previous idea to see which one is more true (or atleast more useful, like round earth mathematics for gps rather than using a flat earther’s version of it), if the goal of an argument is to win it, rather than find an idea that people can agree on, then the whole point of arguing becomes moot. Arguments are not meant to be competitions used to stroke one’s own ego when the other person can’t or chooses not to respond.
@@paradoxalJohn Sure, it's hyperbole, but it's still fairly undeniable that it's caused massive damage in the fields of politics, philosophy, and economics. And at least 2 of those have important impacts on the world.
Look into Flat Earth:
czcams.com/video/x0EGB_o9TZM/video.html
czcams.com/video/0NM5q22j5VI/video.html
czcams.com/video/nyDey7QSgg4/video.html
The Flat Earth Society is Controlled Opposition: czcams.com/video/tQ1l99KO6-0/video.html
"behind the curve" is a Mockumentary making fun of flat earth, featuring fake flat earthers giving false flat earth arguments, so that people marginalize, ridicule, and write off flat earth as a "crazy conspiracy theory" while beLIEving in scientific theories and experiments that you can't test, repeat on your own, or prove in anyway: ifers.123.st/t298-behind-the-curve-controlled-opposition-documentary
Also, just too many people
Bojack Horseman-“You want to know what the problem is with everybody? They all just want to hear what they already believe.”
Like the dumbasses who watched this vid. God forbid they actually research beyond the government propaganda.
Wisecrack: "Flat Earthers will be having their own cruise in 2020"
COVID: I'll not stand for this.
Hope they go to Brazil and see the Southern Cross instead of the North Star.
Covid-19 is released by the govt. to stop us flat earthers from proving we are right.
Won't they end up making that claim😅
It just became an anti-vaxxer cruise instead
Technically, they weren't wrong. I mean, who goes on a cruise during a pandemic?
@@avamasquerade Not to mention who allows them? Cruise lines must be struggling even worse than we thought....
Flat Earthers: "Only believe what your own eyes are telling you."
Atom: Am I a joke to you?
Where is the curvature?
All atoms are...are smaller than dust in the wind...
@@eddiethailand Look and you will find, where is the flatness?
@@eddiethailand all around you
lmao
The quote: "the gamification of Truth is particularly worrisome." is a severe Understatement.
Only in the same way that is post is under appreciated ;)
How to spot a deceiver..... they put rainbow colors in the background of video, where a joker shirt with 1600 Trust no man, but trust God whom CANNOT lie. click my name to watch Son of Perdition part 4 or watch the whole series.
@@TheWormzerjr
Since you are proclaiming your faith on an open forum, I feel this is warranted:
1 free will is a mystical force that cannot be in any way justified except to perpetuate the justification of "deserving hell". As much as this may have been good for driving the worst of humanity to be better for thousands of years, fact is - god lied to ensure that we are better people.
2 your lack of critical thinking makes me sad. You are not trusting "a person" but the documented unique accounts of generations of people.
Nobody ever brings it up but after the moon landing the US sent th USSR a sample of the moon and the USSR confirmed that the US had landed on the moon
Conspiracy theorists would say that USSR willingly accepted their "defeat" as a means to end the space race, it cost them too much.
fake news
How would they even be able to confirm that the sample was even from the moon if they never went there themselves??? The USSR was obviously in on the conspiracy the entire time. The Space Race and the Cold War was an entire fabrication unto itself in order to hide an even bigger scheme. I'm not saying that it was aliens.... but it was aliens.
@@b.sharp. I can't tell if you're joking or not.
@@ManaMastery Yes you can.
I literally have no idea what flat eathers end goal is. It's like a conspiracy for conspiracy's sake
It's a plot by the CIA to mislead the masses and discredit dissenters.
@@kingmantheman Maybe, but if you want to discredit the CIA, MKUltra is a more reputable matter to brought up.
Their goal is to prove that their model of reality correct. It is a more comforting idea that the earth is the center of the universe than it is for it to be a part of one solar system out of an uncountable number of other star systems within an uncountable number of galaxies.
@bcd7977 might as well observe a drying paint, then.
@@ridhosamudro2199 You got it backwards it is to discredit 911 truthers,false flag flaggers etc. Its easy enough all you have to do is keep flat-earthing cozied up to the subjects that are of a real concern.
Flat earthers: lets have a cruise
Covid-19: I’m bouta ruin this whole mans career
The only reason autism is increasing is because the definition keeps changing, when I was 6 I had ADD, when I was 16 I had Aspergers, now I have autism
When were you born?
Steven Bills January 93
@@sparkydoodle696 here's a history of autism research that may explain why.
1994: Asperger's Syndrome is added to the DSM, expanding the autism spectrum to include milder cases in which individuals tend to be more highly functioning.
2009: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 1 in 110 children have autism spectrum disorders, up from 1 in 150 in 2007, though the CDC notes that the increase stems at least in part from improved screening and diagnostic techniques.
2013: The DSM-5 folds all subcategories of the condition into one umbrella diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Asperger's Syndrome is no longer considered a separate condition. ASD is defined by two categories: 1) Impaired social communication and/or interaction. 2) Restricted and/or repetitive behaviors.
Steven Bills NEEEEEEERRD! But seriously, the point I was trying to make is just that the definition is more liberal than it was years ago
Aspergers is a type of Autism. Like swine flu and bird flu are strains of influenza virus. ADD symptom of autism. Like how sweating and coughing are symptoms of influenza. No definitions are changed.
*1920s:* In the future, aliens shall become our greatest allies on Earth...
*Future:* Antartica goes to Logan Paul's brain to prove human brain's are flat.
Lol, nice try sheep. The fact that human head can only comprehend 24fps of information proved that this Logan Paul entity is just a social construct.
Hey! Logan’s brain is not flat, just perfectly smooth.
Mr. Friendship Man is he saying Pizza Gate? Is that a new Restaurant? What In The Hot Hell PizzaGate? Lmao. Please tell me I’m jUst hearing my man there wrong?
@@dustyalbones-reendust4385 I mean, I refer "flat human brains" as "stupidity". You just missed the point.
@@poweroffriendship2.0 done did 1920's people think dat?😶
Real quote from a Flat Earther: "I investigate through CZcams for over 4 years now, so you can kinda call me an expert."
lol
Destiny argued with a guy who asserted that he had watched "a lot of youtube videos" of violence at BLM rallies, so he had the data to claim that BLM was intrinsically a violent organization.
@@summpwner7837 "he had the data..." NICE...
sigh
lmao
Yesterday: knowledge is power
Today: sanity is for the weak!!
About 15 years ago, Stephen Colbert dropped the idea of "truthiness", which is really in the same vein of this whole premise.
Don't teach people what to think. Teach people how to think.
The problem is that there is too much knowledge out there for that to work. You cannot possibly derive what you need to know to function in a contemporary society from first principles or direct observation. You must rely on facts that you learned from others that you believe merely because they were told to you that you are unable to evaluate.
@James Endicott I disagree. The whole point of a larger society is that they are able to specialise and form opinions based on facts. Saying 'there is too much info' is just saying 'be lazy and don't bother with research' which is the start of the whole damn problem in the first place.
observable reality, is not thinking... Earth is no spinning ball, by any means what so ever in reality.
@@o76923 complete nonsense. ask for evidence and form your own opinion, dont just believe what other people say at face value, no one expects you to know everything, but of the things that you base your decisions on, yea just check the data.
@@lifeyoushouldtryit, that's a profoundly arrogant idea. The fact that you believe that you can meaningfully evaluate data in every field relevant to your life is purely the Dunning-Krueger effect.
Yessss! philospher with an actual answer for once! love the idea of emphasizing slowness, patience, and listening. Gives me alot of hope. big uppps to William Davies
Well sometimes there isnt always an answer
"Religious wars" are rarely ever about religion. The religious issues are a veneer over the underlying political questions.
Nnnnnot really. A lot of "political questions" and issues today are actually about people's underlying religious beliefs - the acceptance of LGBTQ+ people or abortion for example. These are issues that sprout almost entirely because some people won't let go of their precious beliefs. It wasn't different in the past.
Yes and no we of course know that religion is a bullshit cover for an individual agenda but it wouldn't be nearly as bad a problem if everyone believed that the reason it's such a potent tool is because many people really believe their actions are in the name of their religion
Bollocks.
@Usman Usmanovic Quite, on one or both sides.
Imbecilic bleatings of the historically ignorant. Y'all are great advertisements for education reform.
All of these Theories are easy to explain.
Aliens...
When I read aliens I imagined the hands from the memes.
IT ALWAYS COMES BACK TO ALIENS.
There's some sort of wall joke here I think.
Your thoughts intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter
and Aliens are easy to explain.
Humans...
"Peer review is the backbone of great science."
- Doctor Otto Octavius, 2018.
Star Trek Theory obvious bait is obvious
Is that even an actual quote from him?
Especially if the peers agree with you and promote your interests.
_It's funny because molluscs don't have backbones!_
So who peer reviews NASA?
Flat Earthers: "Only believe what your own eyes are telling you."
Me: "Well, then, read some goddamned scientific papers with YOUR OWN EYES."
Or go to see magicians! Thay can make disapear things! you can see it WITH YOUR OWN EYES! xD
@Claudia Juarez If it's written in a book and it has been peer reviewed multiple times then it has good chances to be true and is always open to debate with valid arguments. Nothing is absolute in science. That's the biggest fallacy that groups like flat-earthers fall into.
@Star Trek Theory You are heavily messing things. Peer review in science comes AFTER experimentation and proof discovery. To publish something you have first to answer how, why, when and then let others review your discovery.
Topics like black holes are THEORIES. Theories in science serve this very purpose. When you cannot prove something in practice, you write your speculation and start discussing it with your peers. It still remains speculation though.
People like you are part of the problem. You have the illusion that you know how things work when in fact you have complete ignorance of the situation.
Why cant you**
@Star Trek Theory no one claims string theory to be true. It's a series of mathematical models that help further a search for testable truths. Papers on theoretical physics are published and peer reviewed by mathematicians using mathematical rigour.
This channel is so ridiculously good. The ideas are articulated so well. You guys always seem to decipher the chaos and make a very useful order out of it. Thank you!
@Rudiger Glique which is basically how smart your average flatearther is...
You all saw it, Jared confirmed that Wisecrack is Illuminati.
No I didn't
How do I join? Are they hiring?
Thumbs up for the nudge to PBS Spacetime! Matt O'dowd and the crew on that channel are amazing!
Also, great video haha
"A picture says a thousand words" said Mark S-but pictures of the planet just whisper softly ,"I'm a globe I'm a globe"
bUT clEARlY NASA phOtOshOPped tHE pICs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OPeN yoUR EYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m sorry if reading that gives you a headache lol
"A picture says a thousand words... Except the thousand pictures proving me wrong obviously"
@@gingergamergirl98 is ok
@Urban Criters WHY TF WOULD THEY DO IT
like they would gain nothing from that
Urban Critter “what kind of channel is this attacking other people’s beliefs“
Well, when those beliefs are obviously fucking stupid, and based on zero factual information, they deserve to be attacked. Maybe they wouldn’t be attacked if they could stop being fucking stupid for just one second.
Probably one of your best video essays...very timely too...
How about a philosophy of wise crack? I'm sure it's been suggested before but I'd love to hear what you guys believe in and what you strive for in detail
Whoa that's meta
@farenheit041 morbid curiosity, be interesting to see what drives the channel
@@SkywardSpork What drives the channel is new world order propaganda, this is what drives every channel on youtube.
Thanks for the recommendation of "Nervous State" just added it on Audible, sounds like a fascinating topic and I look forward to reading it. Great video!
Thank you for the wix plug
Quite a wonderful video.
Needed this rn.
Thanks my dude.
Trust is essential; even the most ardent conspiracy theorists need to trust their own senses, instincts, and thought processes to some degree. The important question to ask is who/what you trust and why.
Believing that you and you alone are the ultimate arbiter of ultimate truth frankly smacks of narcissism.
@Bryce Yup, someone you trust can completely destroy your sense of reality and construct a new one through manipulation. That's one of the reasons why trusting anyone or anything (including yourself) implicitly isn't generally a good idea.
The philosophy of "only believe what your own eyes tell you" referred to in the video is definitely part of Solipsism, which implies complete trust in your own perception. If you've met conspiracy theorists that don't subscribe to that philosophy then they could still be placing their trust in the wrong places. If they're open-minded and sagacious enough they'll figure that out eventually.
I acknowledge there are almost certainly "more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy," so I ask myself who/what I trust and why constantly, always stoking an ember of doubt in everything I hold to be true to see if it burns down. If I could put fine print in everything I say and write, it would read "I could be wrong."
QUESTION I dare you🌋🌋🌋 somebody's lying HOW ANYONE GET TO THE MOON
The Moon is an average of 238,855 miles away from Earth
my source spaceplace.nasa.gov/moon-distance/en/
Technically, objects in low-Earth orbit are at an altitude of between 160 to 2,000 km (99 to 1200 mi) above the Earth’s surface.
My source www.universetoday.com/85322/what-is-low-earth-orbit/
More sources FACTS
czcams.com/video/Hs3FCl-ONJE/video.html
czcams.com/video/tawzPj9qntk/video.html
The whole video
czcams.com/video/1cBrnIyeEwI/video.html
I'm not going to be(lie)f the world is round just because a liar and murderer (christopher Columbus) says he's proven you won't fall off the map YOUVE NEVER BEEN HIGH ENOUGH TO TAKE A PICTURE IT'S ALL THEORY
PROVE THOU SELF
I love these, but I found funny the "Expertise is evaporating" . Wix sponsor time 10s later: "Doesn't matter what's your expertise".
I find this funny because I develope web applications. OMG Wix, you'll "push me out of my job" (unlikely) XD
@@Stettafire well if you want just some frontend page that advertises your business wix is ok (although pages with bootstrap design are more likely to come up on a google search) but if you want a fullstack website with a fully functional database then yeah, you'll need a dev team
You've said so eloquently something that has been on the backburner of my mind for a couple years but struggled to think about in a cohesive way. As a researcher, my role is to find the "truth" of the world as it pertains to my discipline. However, the outcomes of my experiments are inevitably interpreted through my and my colleagues' incomplete and inherently biased view of how the world works. After all, I am a limited human being and I was trained by another more experienced but still limited human being. As I acquire more experience myself, I am getting better at identifying my own biases and the biases of others, but I will in all likelihood retain some level of my biases; I doubt they will ever truly go away for anyone at the individual level. However, I do feel that, as a field as a whole, the "cream rises to the top". In other words, findings that cannot be replicated will not ultimately shape future thoughts of how the world works as much as more robust results which can be replicated. Theories will be disproved and other better ones will take their place. In the long run, things will work out. However, it remains to be seen whether we as a society can, or will, look that far down the road.
Great vid!
THEORIES are PROVED. Theories are the most RIGOROUSLY LOGICALLY RATIONALLY PROVED ideas to explain a large variety of phenomena & making testable quantifiable predictions. UNPROVED or UNTESTED ideas are called HYPOTHESES.
Call them CONSPIRACY HYPOTHESES!
this only applies to *scientific* theories.
(also: name checks out lol)
Theories ARE NOT PROVEN. Your entire argument is a fallacy. If it was proven it would be called a fact. Stop giving out your opinion and never try and educate anyone because obviously you’re not even educated
Half of my family lives in USA.
Most of them started believing in conspiracy theories when they moved there.
America... Y U DO DIS?! -.-'
@Bryce
Well, I don't see half of America being detained. Alas, it is not my problem anymore. I will let America deal with Americans and their problems.
@Bryce yikes! Thought police much? 🤔
Good discussion, and it's time for Part 3, please!
This might just be your best analysis vid yet. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
My fave video thus far. Very thoughtful, Wisecrack! I appreciate the page citation on your videos as well. It shows how much thought and effort that goes into making and researching a topic.
Like!
I see only possibility for flat-earthers to prove anything: bring a group of "scepticists" to the edge of Earth))
Exactly! "Where's the edge, Lebowski? Where's the @&$!% edge, Lebowski?!"
Would be enough if they made a picture of Mount Everest - from the USA. Shouldn't be to hard on a flat earth.
Honestly. The best reply I ever heard was if the earth is flat cats wouldve pushed everything off by now
Or into space
@@unchosenzombie5144 I don't know what to say to you, I just hope you can regain your trust in society someday.
Excellent video
Who wrote your outro music?
That s#!t is Bangin'!
it always baffels me how for example flat earthers doubt scientific facts because "they can´t see the curve" and other stuff, but most of them will happily belive in a fairitale book with no proove whatsoever.
Putting existence of God/s aside, pompous wanna be intellectuals using worlds like fairytale and invisible friend just to feed their ego are no better than people actually believe that Earth is flat.
I'd trust my fairytale that predicted what is happening today in our generation
Then trusting your logical science bullshit
Fkn idiot
Philosophy/Analysis of avatar the last airbender?
The TV show not the movie. The movie is trash.
@@unwantedmacguffin5611 lol why the fuck would anyone talk about the movie besides criticizing it
@@unwantedmacguffin5611 They could do a What Went Wrong episode.
@@Andshrew94 Too many things went wrong that movie to even attempt an analysis of it.
Alfonso Payan
I’ve been asking for a Wisecrack to make a Philosophy analysis of Nickelodeon’s, Avatar: The Last Airbender for a long time and never have I gotten a single thumbs up for it.
Excellent video.
The music at around 3mins is badass
You guys should do philosophy of The Maxx!
Joshua Morelion yaaaaasssss
@illyounotme yes! Then we must join forces and have everyone see The Maxx!
lol..that one flat-brainer says he trusts his eyes over math. So..I guess he doesn't know how eyes work either.
Where can I find that Poop Sandwich book???
LOL!
awesome video
Dammit. Looks like the lizard people got ahold of wisecrack.
why do you say that
What? You didn't see him shapeshift mid-video? Let me slow it down frame by frame and reduce the video quality to that of a toaster so you can see the split-second lizard eye.
Nope, we are time travelling, human eating, shape shifting lizard gods.
Re-establish the teaching of the scientific method and critical thinking for all children. Institute basic philosophy classes to teach humans how to question their world, and implement a course for learning basic life skills that are required for our current society. Nothing beats ignorance and blind prejudice quite like knowledge and reason. Observation is the first step forward towards thoughtfulness, and conscientious thought brings us to a better society and personal life. But I'm just some crazy neck-beard in his 40's that has been battling mental illness all his life... what would I know? '\_('-')_/'
cavv0667 A-fucking men. Our public education system needs radical changes
Agreed. Things like basic finance would go so far in making functioning adults, but we need a work force that can think critically as all the dumb work is done by computers and robots. We are looking at a new Dark Ages if we don't adjust the education system.
@cavv0667 Becoming 41 in only two days from now and having the same challenge in my life and the same ideas as you just stated, I hereby would be honored to digitally) shake your hand. Sincerely, your brother from another mother (as we all are in the end).
Look into Flat Earth:
czcams.com/video/x0EGB_o9TZM/video.html
czcams.com/video/0NM5q22j5VI/video.html
czcams.com/video/nyDey7QSgg4/video.html
The Flat Earth Society is Controlled Opposition: czcams.com/video/tQ1l99KO6-0/video.html
"behind the curve" is a Mockumentary making fun of flat earth, featuring fake flat earthers giving false flat earth arguments, so that people marginalize, ridicule, and write off flat earth as a "crazy conspiracy theory" while beLIEving in scientific theories and experiments that you can't test, repeat on your own, or prove in anyway: ifers.123.st/t298-behind-the-curve-controlled-opposition-documentary
Wierd thing to add at the end there
Wisecrack, you guys are my favorite CZcams channel! 🥰 Even if I’m not familiar with the subject, I always watch bc something sparks my interest. I love how your videos make me think, introduce me to different concepts and inspire me to find my own answers. I look forward to new videos every week and just wanted to say thanks and I appreciate what you do! Oh, and imma go with both - earth is flat, the planet is round 😉
1st time finding this channel it's pretty good
I think some people believe conspiracies because in their opinion they know the "truth", which gives them more value in society over the 99% that don't know or don't subscribe to that "truth".
Bones And Juice i doubt they’re looking for value in a world full of dumbass people if they’re apart of that 1%. i think most people just want to know the truth,
Well spoken.
Anyone can become an "expert" today after watching 20 minutes of CZcams.
more like spending 2 seconds reading a headline off something.
well yes, youtube was place of FREEDOM of INFORMATION.
but not anymore, truth is now being censored, flat earth and other truths
Flat Earth Reality Stop with the blatant bait my guy
Flat Earth Reality the real flat thing is your brain
Flat Earth Reality I explained the physics to two other people, they were reasonable and had hope, you can piss off.
Watching this again during covid is a trip
Same
Wonderful video , leaves a lot to think about. Now how do we fix this issue ....
I'm not saying it's aliens... But it's aliens.
So what are you saying ???
@@seanbaugh3239 he's saying it's aliens. But HE'S not saying that.
@@kingmantheman
So what are you saying about what he's saying ???
First time I've caught a Wisecrack video this early
Really glad to see you guys doing more of these videos, I love to know the philosophy of my favorite movies but videos like this one are a service to our society. Things are getting crazy out there!
I'm literally grateful to watch this.
Well, I'm thoroughly depressed now.
same
The Philosophy of Metalocalpyse would be quite insightful
despite being dump on the surface...I'd argue its actually quite deep
On behalf of all metalheads. Thank you.
@@nixadventures3938 Sure Metal may not seem like one of the Deepest Topics Philosophically at first glance, but it actually can be when delved into
Also Brandon Small is fabulous Show Writer and extremely talented
Some deep, deep thoughts are presented here. It's amazing. Thank you wisecrack for exploring such a delicate, in my opinion, subject
I felt so special when you referred to spacetime, lol
Could wisecrack do a “The Philosophy of Hunter S Thompson”
Well, it seems that we need to add some new material to our school curricula, maybe media literacy, or things that focus on logic and critical thinking, perhaps even philosophy and ethics at younger ages.
universities and colleges have this, but schools do not. Way too much focus on finding the 'right answer' (even in English Lit where there isn't always a right answer) and not encough time encourging students to research and make coherent arguments backed by that research.
@@Stettafire I remember in the earlier years of school we'd be punished for being skeptical
I had Philosophy Class in Mid school, it was one of my favorites. Most kids hated this though. Honestly I think it was the single most important class and I learnt so many useful things there. Like argueing without creating anger via the socratic method. This was in Germany btw.
another great video were you explain a phenomena without condemning it and all who believe it, just trying to be informative and thought provoking. This is why I love this channel
I remember back in the 90s, almost everyone never questioned an "Expect". it became a problem for me, when i did my own study of the subject and suggested the expects might not know everything, everyone flipped out. it was then that i realized how much the term expect had control over public opinion. People didn't look into the subject themselves, they just repeated information that they heard, arguments turned into echo chambers of of what someone heard and not studied or researched themselves. Second was me coming to the realization that not all expects are unbiased. Nowadays, i'll hear anyone out and take notes, then cross-examine them and they're findings. if everything lines up, i'll then categorize it as Fact or personal option in levels ranging from amateur to expert option.
Wait, Jim Carrey is an antivaxxer?
Well that sucks.
He also trusts the mainstream media and thinks socialism is a good idea. He's lost the plot.
imo that post seemed more libertarian than anti vaxxer but in reality he's more of a troll than anything else.
Given how his mind works I'm not surprised.
what's an antivaxxer?
@@Valuemeal_papi Someone who is against vaccinations because they're bought into a lot of B.S.
Can you please cover the Leftovers this show has so many themes and symbolism.
One of the best shows of this decade that nobody saw. Still a toss up for me between that and Twin Peaks.
I'm watching this May 22, 2020. I had to check the date twice, I thought you made this video a week ago, not a year ago.
It does bring to mind something that I’ve learned overtime. That initial reactions are usually misplaced or incomplete. Often you need to stop your own reaction and take a step back and look at things with perspective and context.
No spoilers?
The true shape of the Earth is the biggest spoiler in some people's lives
"True shape" is too ambiguous for my tastes in a comment section about flat earthers...
Last time I came this early I was still welcome at the library.
Excellent, especially the "Game of Truth"-Part, which I think is the most critical truth to understand.
We cannot build any trust among each other as long as we keep playing this game instead of actually truly caring for a healthy society. This starts with actually listening to each other and not just trying to win every single debate to feel good about your sad ego for a brief moment.
Thanks for a topic on flat earth ON MY BDAY
In my freshman composition class research essays using conspiracy theroeies and why we believe them. I use this as a conversation about how to find reliable and relevant sources for a paper.
Oh the "who dies of the flu" bit is PAINFUL hearing in a day of Covid-19.
This is a really fascinating video and the ways of solving this are rather unique. I think the real issue we have right now, which I feel most might disagree with, is anonymity. We don’t know who is disagreeing with us, their merits, whether or not they are a bot, a troll, a paid shill, etc.
From your video, it seems like transparency was what began trust. Right now it seems like society has this desire for a shadow internet self and then their real life self. We don’t know if likes, upvotes, and other ways of gaining the spotlight are being artificially increased or not.
It seems like in a day an age where clickbait is king, agenda pushing is seeping into all aspects of media and entertainment, truth is becoming more and more difficult to uncover. Marketing has taken over for truth. Being visible is more important than being right. Previous places for objective truth now have agendas of their own. And ironically, what I see as the next generation of experts has been CZcamsrs like Wisecrack. CZcamsrs are starting to fulfill this role because we trust independent creators more so than big groups. Thanks for the video, really gets you thinking.
I want to reinforce that last thought! The ability to hold multiple possibilities in mind without needing to decide immediately is what we need. It's not indecisive to see that there are multiple angles told about any given occurence, and that each angle has its own bias. Thinking for yourself isn't a crime against the people who have already decided their stance. Keep on thinking, y'all!
Great video, love the respect to the theorists as well as the temperance of your well-read team.
I think Jared wearing a Joker 1600 shirt is a conspiracy.
Alan Watts - The Joker
HEY WISECRACK! I would love to see you do a deep or dumb analysis of the 2003 reboot of Battlestar Galactica. #BSG'03
Best video yet!
Awesome Vid! Also you should do Game of Thrones S8, what went wrong?
The lack of trust in day to day arguments tend to always get railroaded by semantics.
In my personal experience, even basic definitions have stopped potentially decent, truth-seeking conversations. Not even for the "sake of argument" will folks take something at face value.
Whenever i go to a debate with my friends it seems like all they argue about are definitions and what something "really" means. It goes no where and feels like a huge waste of time.
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Woah wait, I’m no flat-earther, but I hope you’re not implying mk-ultra didn’t actually happen.
Rothschild on there too... So they don't have absolutely insane amounts of wealth and you're a tin-foil hat wearer if you're suspicious of what just a few people could choose to do with that wealth? I'm not some big "conspiracy theorist", but something makes me uncomfortable about all this backlash against people who question just about anything major at this point. It's similar to people who insist that anyone who is not an engineer or demolition expert has no right to question what happened on 9/11. You don't always need a doctor to tell you you're bleeding.
@Captain Jack and many of them, combined too, have said it's fake.Brother,no matter what the other side says, they will not and cannot explain how bulding 7 randomly fell(even more perfectly down) too
@@quigglyjohnston6118 you don't have to be a structural engineer or demolition expert to have a say on 9/11 but you can't expect people to give a rando's opinion the same weight as an expert's
sskspartan - Building 7's collapse has been explained ad nausium. Probably to you personally, hundreds of times. You're no different then a flat earther claiming that no one's explained how determine if the earth's a sphere.
@Uluvu That's all well and good, but thats also not what I was arguing against. My argument was against giving two arguments the same weight when one is made by someone who has knowledge and training to back up their point and the other does not.
Nice video.
I really hope the "Game of Thruth" has a better ending than it's fantasy counterpart.
a "market place " of ideas is just gonna give you what you get in any market place.
The most popular ideas will be the ones that sell the most.
so the things most true will be the need behind the purchase consistent with all the people who bought this popular idea.
In such an environment the most palatable sexy ideas end up being the ones held as "true"
If we want a discourse in truth, we have to do something with this need we all seem to have to sell each other on something. the link information sharing with profit also goes here.
This is great. Could you do a video on polling? Maybe cover things like why people put so much faith in them and instances of when they are right or very very wrong (Like the 2016 election). People forget polling is higly focused with a relatively small sample size, yet many on tv and FB act like polls represent the majority of voters
I believe the polls failed to predict the 2016 election, because people were ashamed of admiting they were going to vote for Trump, so he was underepresented. So it's not the fault of pollsters. Some people simply weren't telling the truth. I believe he might still be underrepresented a little bit in the polls.
@@TheOsamaBahama you're sort of arguing the point that polls are unreliable then, right? Since their basic premise depends on honesty.
If they did a video on it, you'd absolutely hate it. It would be 15 minutes of tearing apart all the inaccuracies in your claims and confusion you seem to have.
For example, the polling in 2016 was some of the most accurate in the history of politics. The gap between post-labor day pre-election polling and final vote counts was remarkably accurate with a 1-2% average error in non-swing states and 2-3% average in swing states. That is far closer than it was in 2012.
Some people, like you, just don't understand the difference between media analysis and what the polls actually said. Or you confused a close race with an inaccurate one.
Also, go watch some intro to statistics classes on Kahn Academy. Maybe follow them up with more detailed videos from udemy or lynda on how polling works. You are just embarrassing yourself with the claims you are making.
You guys should do the philosophy of Looper!
I see the video "Debunking Flat Earthers While Drinking Their Tears" in the recommended, yes I'm going to watch it
So glad that i can just point people to this video now. Trying to explain that there's an underlying issue creating conspiracy theorists, that they're not just dumb people, usually gets me marked as one of them, and promptly ridiculed. I'm pro vax, believe the earth is a geoid, etc. But my own side is the one i find to be the hardest with whom to have a serious conversation about these topics. I also think many of the people on my side are just in it so they can ridicule someone else, and position themselves above other people.
"How can we continue to build a society based on trust while still promoting healthy skeptcism and criticism?"
I think that is impossible. Everything you receive (News, info, commentary and etc) from others you only accept if you believe/trust in the people giving to you. For intance, if I see some News telling something absurd, I'll verify the source and believe in it or not, depending on the source. If I see it in a lot of diferente locations I'll believe it more, but not completely only because of that.
The problem in the question, I think, is in the idea of "trust". Trust is something very important, it isn't for nothing that without other people we perish. But the "trust" shown by the system is like "Trust in me because we [the system] care about you" but we know that it isn't the truth, because happened a lot in the past situations that they doesn't cared about us. Same thing in the relationships; "trust in me because I love you/I like you" but people forgets that love and care is developed by time, not only by one phrase.
If someone wants to exclude the trust in the process even though I have express my believe above that it is very important for human relationships, the only way to "still promotes healthy skeptcism and criticism" is not telling about something, but show it to the population. For exemple, instead of showing the picture of a black hole, put in there all the equations and theories that led to this picture. Need to explain why it won't work? For me and A LOT of others people won't understand ANYTHING of it because we aren't physicists.
Love your vídeos, Wisecrack! And sorry if there is so many mistakes. English isn't my first language :)
I’m surprised that no one correlated the speed of information to the rise in distrust until it was briefly mentioned at the end.
I think the biggest thing is understanding and recognizing fundamental attribution errors in our own thinking and in arguments we listen to. If I steal bread because I am hungry and you steal bread because you are a criminal, I have wedged myself off from you even though we should work together to figure out why we are both hungry and how we can solve it. We may have differing views, but we understand that at heart we are fundamentally similar in motivation. A lot of hypocrisies need to fall, but this is the one that I feel is most to blame for the decline of trust
4:51 Uh... What country you been livin in for the past 10-15 years!? lol
Kudos for using SpaceTime as an example of what CZcams could be,
(Given you couldn’t point to yourselves, of course!)
i like the cat yawning.
4:43 when the experts rise and the beat drops