Is social media uniquely worrying? | James O'Brien - The Whole Show
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I would not be here without the help of doctors, nurses, emergency services etc. I worry that my GP --who is just brilliant - will give up and find another job - I would vote for a pay rise for him and better conditions for his working life at the drop of a hat.
I haven't had a GP for years. Still pay lots of tax though.
They are all going to Australia and being replaced by inexperienced but well meaning jnrs
Google what a GP salary is in British Columbia Canada...$385,000 cad...convert that to £...our individual tax rate is about 8% less than UK...pay your doctors more or we, and other countries, will happily benefit from their expertise.
Funny how there's never so much as a quibble when it comes to giving politiciansma pay rise. How they can justify getting them when Doctors, Teachers etc have to fight for eveery penny. Disgraceful.
Liz Truss gets a prime minister pension of over 100000 every year for 31st of her life for 49 days work...
I have been waiting for an operation for 10 months and my disability and pain are getting worse. However, I support the doctors’ action 100%.
Doctors are not interested in patients. Most GPs work one day per week and get paid £150k. My elderly mother died waiting to see a GP, she didn't see a GP for the last 5 years of her life. She only got to see a GP after she died - to sign the death certificate. He was a quack immigrant with a medical degree from eastern Europe; the 'causes of death' were a work of fiction. Perhaps not surprising since he knew absolutely nothing about my mother or her conditions.
Like a turkey voting for Xmas.
@@Globaldave1970when you graduate and become a doctor and work for £15ph let us know pal
One of proudest moments was when I was a young Labour member and went to a conference. Two people where in front of me on the way in Arthur Scargill And Tony Benn who held the door open for me. Lol I am 73 now but that moment I still remember.
Lol interesting. Did you ever run for office?
I stood for town council 3 times, district council twice. Very strong Tory area never won but got close enough couple of times to make them spend money on campaign funds. Lol
What a wastes life you have led.
@timvella1817 Trolling is better then, in your view?
It’s cost more to prolong the strike than to settle the pay deal.
Why does nobody connect behavioural problems with the reduced quality of life we now endure?
I remember when there was a moral panic around Dungeons and Dragons game, and that it was connected to Satanism and would corrupt the young. People believed youngsters could inadvertently summon demons or the devil, or part take in witch craft due to playing the game. They even made a film starring Tom Hanks about this panic.
James O’Brien is a political genius. He’s wasted on the radio. He should be in government.
You have a low bar for ‘political genius’ he wouldn’t be able to change the goalpost and capitulate the voters the same way.
How?
@jamis..yep..he's right to disown idiotic name calling which undermines any argument put forward.
His job on this station is FAR more important to this nation, He is the mirror we put up to these people and the reflection he shows them is the reality they hate so much.
@@anonomous8719 yeah the tories do it so much better
It's not just kids or teenagers that are addicted to phones. I grew up in the 80s and I sit on my phone and you tube etc far too much on a daily basis. This is affecting my life and it really is not healthy for me. I feel sorry for the young these days they know no different whereas I have no such excuse.
How many children were born because there was no electricity in the city (malfunctioning for several hours) and no internet and future mum and dad were bored?
The suggestion that screens can easily be use as a babysitter...
Active watching with children not only keeps an eye on the content your kids are consuming but also engages the children talking with the child about what you are seeing what is going on and why...
It's more engaging than my generation sneaking off to watched kids TV in its allotted hours hoping parents wouldn't break in on that time
My parents knew nothing about ninja turtles
But I have friends who have learned such amazingly odd stuff by active watching with their kids
(one being led through a make up tutorial and seeing his young daughter give his wife handy tips on how to make her look 'pop')
I've sat with my siblings kids of mixed ages all getting different levels of understanding from the shared showers they were seeing after the fight over who got first pick.
It's sounds like we're all struggling with addiction to screens
OMG😂😂😂 my sister also sang out the intro tune for "Why don't you!!??.." last Friday ...😂😂😂
Hi James and Team
I've been knitting so much together over past few years I'm almost terrified! At the immenseness of the garment. Oh and almost expert knitter too, of sorts!😀
Thankyou for your sensemaking.
Sanity brain gym indeed.
Truly grateful.
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Social Media very often delivers thoughtless information !
The first time I heard the phrase "Death of bordem" was in the novel "comfort crisis by Michael Easter. "
Your enlightenment from the firefighters strike makes me chuckle. I was part of the silent majority, son of NHS working parents, a junior rank in the Army who had to take on the firefighters jobs as well as my own, despite having a starting base salary £8k pa less than them. Happy for them to be paid their worth but were invisible
Firefighters are paid much, much more than they're properly worth by the simple laws of supply and demand. It doesn't need to be well paid cuz there are so many applicants.
James you can’t possibly believe that screens and social media is the same as the Beatles and other things. As an educator examples are children falling asleep in class because they’re up all night. Families not communicating with each other because they’re all on their phones . If you really believe that you’re not paying attention
The generation gap used to keep parents from talking to their kids
...
Plus a change
I'm thinking of going into nursing, needing a job and somewhere to live post divorce. I'm knocking on a bit. Got a degree anyway, first in my family, worked in public, academic libraries & pre school education. Had some rough times. It is underfunded and broken sector. I'm nervous about it though. My own position is.... (Never voted Tory), they force you when you want to be a giver and support people, into an intolerable situation. At the same time supporting people with better rewarded & lucrative jobs. Doctors especially the young ones saved my mums life.
[supportive hugs] I'm sure you'll be wonderful whichever direction you decide on... I've known a few friends in similar positions - scared, yet determined - who ended up glad they took the plunge and are much more happy for doing so.
@@AngeliqueStP Thankyou for the encouragement. I really appreciate it. My comment is bit all over the place, lol. I get a bit emotional & concerned , about the NHS not just for personal reasons, in general. Best wishes too.
Pleased that James has publicly criticised infantile and insulting name calling which does nothing but demean an argument put forward. Well done James!
Of course, calling the people who do that infantile is just another insult 🤣 this is the real reason that arguments never get anywhere: hypocrisy 😂
Putttng demeaning laughing emoji's in comments is similar. But you must know that? @Simulacrum84
@@davidsmith5523 yeah, I’m doing it on purpose and not telling other people I’m not though 🤣 maybe look up the word hypocrisy
@@Simulacrum84 I saw the concept of it demonstrated ably in your comment.
@@davidsmith5523 thank you, I guess?
Two things.
1. Nobody blindly follows all strikes because strikes are only done when workers have no other option.
2. The Scottish doctor's deal is actually not all that great either. So no need to big it up so much. Doctors across the UK deserve FAR better.
We're seeing times of insanity that even my grandparents didn't see.
I thought they have an oath of “do no harm” So whilst they are striking then patients are suffering harm. I agree that they should get a very high pay for the work and medical degree training they have and years they train. But it should never have gotten this far
Do no harm. Think about that. Do you understand the wider implications? The government who indirectly employs them as part of the docisl contract is undeniably running down th3me NHS. Sunak is considering reducing Bational insursnc3 contributions to appeal to the, we hate paying tax brigade. Thus further crippling the service. Yet Theresa May declared that austerity was at an end just prior to the pandemic. Did she reduce VAT back to 17.5% to aid both businesses and consumers? No. But you aim, do no harm at Doctors. Who do fabulous work relentlessly. Un noticed until they are forced to take this regrettable action. I find your comment myopic and insensitive.
social media, it's like when we already had cars, but also horses on the roads and there were no rules. until so many horses and people died that the whole world agreed that if there is red light, you stop, green means you go. therefore social media needs their "traffic rules" to be safe to use
Batman and Robin 😂😂😂.. That's kinda freaky.. My sister was just reminiscing last Friday about how it would freak out and terrify my older brother when it was first televised.. He'd be screaming to switch it off..
That Lady that text in and said about parents checked out of their kids life on their phone is right. When I'm on my phone it's to take pictures.
Phones are not the problem. It's what you do with them and they're not phones anymore. It's all the knowledge of the world. Just train your kids to use them wisely. Or they will be left behind.
The starting wage for the average Jnr Doctor is around £29K which to many sounds like a lot, but when you consider that from April this year anyone working full time on minimum wage will earn around £22-23K a year. Then you realise how low they're paid, someone who effectively stack shelves in a supermarket, a job role that doesn't require any qualification beyond GCSE is only earning about £6k a year less than someone who has spent around 5 years plus of study and are responsible for helping sick individuals better, and in many cases keeping people alive. I'm not denigrating those who work in minimum wage jobs, these are in most cases important roles within society but a qualified doctor should be earning a lot more than a £6k difference than those in minimum wage jobs.
Too many middle managers .
Exactly, don't get me started.
My local NHS group advertised last year for a "director of lived experience", no medical knowledge needed, salary £120,000. And in the Lucy Letby case, seven consultants were ordered by a manager (with no medical knowledge) to make a written apology to a mass murderer for hurting her feelings.
@@JupiterThunder 😤.
@@JupiterThunder it's a "Sick" ( Pardon the pun) joke. I know of someone in a middle management roll who stole NHS funds, but was just dismissed from her role. No police involvement . Wish I'd flagged that up to a journalist to look into it. Maybe you should have also leaked that job ad , to the MSM . It's not so much underfunding, but where the funds are going !
Max Headroom was an incredibly prescient show from the 1980s. They had blipverts. We have the constant bombardment of stimulation that being online *all* the time provides. And if people are "addicted" to dopamine, I wonder if its possible to build up a tolerance to it and need more to feel the high like your body does with drugs.
“The days when the Daily Telegraph was a proper newspaper”. Hear hear, I remember those days.
Hello again
Also know our youth can and should have a greater understand of their own agency when thinking, emotional pychosociol health, etc...
Need to address this in early years onwards, education please.(highlighting the obvious of course!).
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Boredom led to me being a professorial Jazz musician today. My guitar was a constant companion growing up (before the internet) and is still the primary pre-occupation of my mind and my time. I feel sorry for the generations today…glued to a screen 24 hours daily while we sleep walk into fascism all over the world. The lack of boredom has led to a cultural cul-de-sac of rehashed movies, a lack of artistic creativity or original ideas.
It's the people your age sleepwalking us into fascism. Literally and voting-wise. Young people are more radical than boomers!
I honestly do not see this as much different than the "satanic Panic" yes it IS more enhanced and prevalent than before but I think it's fairly similar when boiled down, I get bored of my phone, frequently, I find myself in a waiting room or some other similar place, the phone holds my attention for only so long, maybe 30 minutes and I put it down and just people watch.
It’s so terrible what’s going on in Gaza
it was 'terrible' on Oct 7th
Both sides are as bad as each other, stop moaning and whinging and play the victim.
MP's earn 46 GBP / an hour
Please update your intro pic James
One of the differences i feel is that its not only they young who are affected by online bullying in their area of the social nedia but the adult pile ons are as nasty and insidiouse. I had to ban a lot of o ver 50s from a memories forum for the wordt pile ones
This was going on in the 19th century. And it will still be going on in the 25th century.
I'd like to hear James speak up for the disabled and how they are under attack. Massive changes coming in April. It would be a great platform them. So far not a word though. I suppose you can't be covering everything.
It’s disgusting how this government are treating the disabled
Indeed! Just had to fill in my UC/disability update, and while it contained 6-7 different options of how your disability affects you... you're only allowed to choose ONE option.
I watched Carol V interviewing a Dr discussing the 87 billion that the government say they put into NHS when in fact there is 70 Billion unaccounted for, they printed new money to give to their pals disguised as ppe companies and the amount of money they make as MPs and expenses is way more than Dr's make, I know who I want on my camp when the world goes full zombie apocalypse and its not an MP. What qualifications does an MP need to get into government who then votes on the pay for Dr's compared to the years of studying a Dr does to get to the position they save countless lives
The whole show?,Christ,it's bad enough having some 2 or 3 minute segment,appear on my CZcams wall
James at 19min arguing with someone that agrees with him LOL
It started with Thatcher. the rest you can connect the dots both here and abroad!
As a creative person at the later stages of life i am never bored, but i remember being bored as a child! but i don't think its about boredom as such, its being able to deal with quiet time, reflection time, thinking time.
In visual art that is important part of being an Artist, but modern society is not allowed to have that, everything is geared towards audio visual immediacy, everything! you have to seek out solace, space, nothingness to create and think.
The person who texted in about Oct7. Distraction based in Playing the Victim card of a one day atrocity v a 3 month atrocity, no surprise, israeli apologists trying to score points off the suffering of others while saying their suffering is forever, but others suffering is unfair propaganda! wow these people have a nerve!
James that need to walk in there shoes for god's sake
Boredom is not a motivator.. the internet is..
The teacher was quickly dispatched. Did we independently reach the same conclusions as to why?
CZcams is the best social media because at least it has some content.
have Douglas Murray on your podcast. hes a brilliant intellectual
I had the same sentiment, until ......🤐🤐🤐 He's a bad one.
Lol. No chance of that.
Phones are THE ultimate fidget-spinner.
11:45 who ever happens to be paying for it
The lady complaining that ADHD is on the rise sums this up. Adhd wasn't even a recognised condition not long ago. It's more understood and more things fall under the umbrella, there is no evidence of actual increase of the condition. Just because we see more things doesn't mean they are more common, it means we communicate faster and observe them more.
Yes, ADHD is caused by trauma. We are simply acknowledging trauma more!
18:09
Caller. "...if you've got 90% right wing media who are prepared to attack anybody who stands up for their own interests, and therefore, by definition against their interests, against the right wing..."
James "...but that's not true either is it? Because if people are standing up against inheritance tax, or to demand they still get VAT breaks on their school fees, then the media you describe is defending them.."
For clarity in case you missed the point, just like James did. The caller's key point was that the right wing corporate media defends it's OWN interests.
So when James cites "...inheritance tax, or VAT breaks on their school fees..." he literally confirmed the caller's thesis by providing examples of corporate right wing media defending it's own interests.
Edit:
31:32 "...I'm still not entirely convinced that there's a conspiracy in place to reduce the NHS to such low standards that the case for privatisation becomes irresistible...for the very simple reason that that credits this lot with a lot more intelligence than they've got...." ???
What are you talking about james? There is no need for "conspiracy" when a cohort of powerful people have shared interests, and the means with which to further them.
And there is no need for "intelligent government" when it has been completely captured by capital interests.
In short, government that serves capital interests doesn't need to be competent, it just needs to do what it's told.
This ties into corporate right wing media, and its capacity and motivation to determine/shape/influence public opinion.
Again, there's no conspiracy, it's just capital looking after capital interests in a competitive market neoliberal capitalist framework.
He annoys me when he denies the blatantly obvious in favour of propping up the establishment as is. Betrays his true purpose as what Noam Chomsky referred to as vigorous debate being allowed, even encouraged, within agreed guidelines. Which is why he sets his questions in such a hugely restrictive manner.
The meditation book called 30 Days Without Social Media by Harper Daniels helped me with meditation.
OOPs I meant Tories salaries
thats easy: yes
CZcams cuts are so fast...
Nobody remembering 'yoof TV' rapido, the word etc?
quick cuts were creeping up in speed all through the 70s, 80s and 90s
When it was all we had you only had to better than the other channels
Nowadays your video has to be better than every other video, short, podcast and tiktok in the world
You should be our prime minister James.. those corrupt polatitions wouldnt be able to get away with what they get away with 🥺
Sound would be helpful..
Are his dreamboat film star looks not enough?
Netanyahu had his own agenda.
The Israeli Times - Two companies of troops from the IDF’s Commando Brigade, which were deployed to the Gaza border during the Jewish holiday season in September and October, were sent to the West Bank just two days before Hamas’s October 7 massacre, according to a Monday media report.
The 100 or so soldiers were deployed to the West Bank’s Huwara, the Kan public broadcaster reported, amid heightened tensions there. A shooting attack in the Palestinian town took place against an Israeli family later that day.
The Guardian - A senior US politician said Israel had received an official warning from Egypt of a possible attack from Gaza three days before Hamas launched its deadly cross-border assault.
Knowing Netanyahu do you still think it is a coincidence?
Add genocidal war criminal to his list of crimes.
Never truly bored as a kid if you have a pet dog.
'bored'
In France inheritance tax cuts in after 100,000 euros for an only child. The government gets huge sums from inheritance tax
9:56 those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocity's
Cricket has actually bored me a million times. Bring a laptop
He's talking to people who were born before the internet about how they got their careers going. If you have this conversation in 15 years, you're going to get a very different response. I'm so annoyed with this concept.. it's too important. The internet is the most powerful learning tool. It's more powerful than school or college.
Like any powerful tool which changes society it has positive and negative implications. It can be a library of vast information used to educate or a tool of vast misinformation used to misinform, swing elections on falsehoods and let dangerous fringe communities more easily segregate and get deeper into their beliefs, whilst recruiting more easily than previously. (That old quote about how fast and easily a lie spreads before the truth gets its boots on). And, once invented, it quickly becomes so a part of the world that the genie can't be put back inside the bottle, so we need to roll with it overall and be aware of possible problems that emerge through it.
I find tech has made me, personally, have far less inclination to devote time and attention to whatever the interest is. An abundance of media on every topic can make the individual user have the attention span of a gnat and eventually more and more media is aiming to get that audience, so everything must be sensationalised and clickbait and immediately grab a person. Anything else becomes niche. I wonder about that side of it - whether it fails to make people attempt to reach up in the way things used to. Abundance is great. Far better than scarcity. But it can make people a bit fat and complacent too.
But I'm not wholly or even mostly against. I just see positive and negative aspects to it in different areas.
It's not a dobermean hit . It's just that the way we used to teach is too slow now . they need to change the way they teach. The old ways are over. They have been surpassed
What is a ‘dobermean’?
The whole concept of boredom. The reason nature gave us this emotion is to make us move towards knowledge. Being bored is a ridiculous waste of life. Now that we can focus on learning in a way that previous generations could not have imagined. It's basically a crime . Being bored is not some great thing where you finally go and do something because you're bored. through technology now, you can find inspiration and knowledge unimaginable to previous generations. .. if you carry on thinking like this, you will be super seeded by people that don't think like this. Do you see?.
Nonsense. Constant distraction means that they find it more and more difficukt to focus for periods of time. As a university lecturer for more than 30 years i have seen students' attention span drop and they no longer seem to read whole books. They search for key terms, find a phrase that nay do, but don’t grasp the context and are far less adventurous as a result. And this applies to mature students as well as traditional school leavers. Much more interested in personalised stories and less in the difficulties of abstract ideas - or challenging conspiracy theories that seem to provide easily digested answers to everything . Not all of course but most.
It’s dangerous because it’s much easier to manipulate people who find it difficult to follow complexity.
@@philomel1000 Agree, there is a difference between knowledge and information.
It’s mad the conservatives hate the English
And Labour even more. Vote Reform.
@timvella1817 what's the difference?
diablo game :D
James is a bit speradic with his rulings
Sporadic
If your never bored. You don't learn patience he says. How about instead learning about deep focus and knowledge . Incredible depth and knowledge about a subject through your device, the internet.. this is such a dumb cul-de-sac..
Only boring people get bored...
I once read in a novel about vampires or some everling supernatural creature
Eternal life is wasted on those who have ever had a boring day.
(The idea being that they aren't inventive enough for the turning of the centuries.)
What a hypocritical voice.Has millions in the bank , private health care . No body deserves 35 % rise for doing their job . Doctors nurses have let people suffer and die with these strikes. So much for an oath that life is sacred
It seems that you don't understand how negotiations work? So what if someone is wealthy, are they not allowed a view on how the governments decisions affect those in need? The strikes have cost around £2billion, if government had given the doctors what they asked for it would have cost half that. Moreover, government are floating the idea of cutting inheritance tax, this would cost the government around £2-3billion per year and only affects 2% of the population. Is this a real priority given everything that is happening, and the cost I've already mentioned for reaching an agreement with doctors?
People have been dying and suffering because of the chronic underfunding by the conservatives and not because of strikes.
With strikes there is still emergency/ acute care. The wards are staffed, ED is staffed, emergency operation still happen.
However patients die when the hospital has chronic understaffing and the doctors are regularly put in unsafe conditions, stretched to cover more areas, more unwell patients because they can’t retain Drs and are not paid what they deserve.
They're asking for pay restoration to 2010 levels, 35% isn't even a payrise
Stick to politics James, you're out of your death on this subject. Things have moved on.
I have epilepsy all my life without doctors i would have been dead many years ago also i thank paramedics etc