Hello, YouTube! There's a great book from 1985 called 'Amusing Ourselves to Death' by Neil Postman. It warned America about where we would end up if we kept up our wicked ways, which we did. Now, we're here. What do you think? Did TV ruin us? Has social media made it better or worse?
Hello, YouTube! Here, I talk with Dr. Donald about the voices in (some) people's heads. Where are they coming from? Different cultures say different things. We get into cultural bias in mental health as well.
#shaman #schizotypal #culturalbias
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy8qHtC4PgY
Hello Good People! I'm sure you've noticed the unnecessary strife in the US over a war in the Holy Land. It's almost like this country wasn't founded on avoiding religion. Is this a legitimate concern or is this a hashtag gone wild?
Like most Americans, I have no skin in this game. What we're going into here is WHY this issue has set off such a firestorm and is it deserved.
#freepalestine #propaganda #israelprotests
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja1LXRxJ7l0
Hello, Good People! There was some pretty big news out of Google recently, and Google wasn't happy about it. One of their language bots may have become sentient. Whoopsie Daisy!
CP and I read a little from the conversation with LaMDA. Is this thing sentient? Is it lying? Does one have to be sentient to lie? We don't answer anything. We come away with more questions.
Watch the full podcast here @Comedian CP channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBcJVYuebEs
It goes on for over an hour. We read many parts of this conversation and discuss in depth.
We don't get to the full conversation, so you can follow this link to read from LeMoine's Medium post. It has everything.
https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917
#AI #darkhumor #skynet
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hyL5hPvY1I
Hello, Good People! I came across an interesting article to share with you. Don't fall for these scam artists. Technology is only making them stronger!
Read the full article here: https://www.thecut.com/article/amazon-scam-call-ftc-arrest-warrants.html
#thecut #amazon #scams
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iKWH3WU2D8
Hello, Good People! Lot of the modern Western world has moved away from religion, but have they really? Or have the roles of religious leaders been replaced by celebrities? Has the Bible been replaced by Marvel Lore? Have the temples been replaced by the Magic Kingdom?
Monia Ali, our resident fandom expert, is back by popular request. We were supposed to discuss fan astroturfing, and we got to it eventually, but I was more fascinated with her article on the religion of fandom.
What do you think? Are Disney adults perfectly normal? Have you ever fallen into a fandom trap? Could it happen to anyone??
These ideas are fun when we talk about fandom, but the same ideas are dangerous when we talk about cults and political propaganda. Gotta keep an eye out.
Read along with Monia's Substack here
Love Beyond Reason: The Consecration of Fandom
https://exiledfan.substack.com/p/love-beyond-reason-the-consecration
Storyliving by Disney: Fan Domestication on a Grand Scale
https://exiledfan.substack.com/p/storyliving-by-disney-fan-domestication
Astroturfing by any other Name: The Flipside of Empowerment
https://exiledfan.substack.com/p/astroturfing-by-any-other-name
#fandom #disneyadults #celebrityworship
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYRD1ZE-N1g
Hello, Good People! Have you heard of the Asch Conformity experiment. This study came up in my Heaven's Gate research, so I gave it a deep dive.
The study was done in the 1950's and there's some debate as to whether it holds up today. What do you think? Are people more or less conformist than they were in the past? Would you say the line is a different length?? Be honest.
Here is the original if you want to read https://panarchy.org/asch/social.pressure.1955.html
#asch #conformity #psychology
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s4SUh6wrCM
Hello Good People. What kind of a person joins a cult? We laugh at them in the comments, but you'd be surprised to learn what kind of a person actually signs up. In this video, I go over the warning signs that you or someone you know might be susceptible to cult indoctrination.
The papers I referenced are as follows:
-Who Joins a New Religious Movement and Why: Twenty Years of Research and What Have We Learned? by Lorne L. Dawson
-The Joiners by Saul Levine
-Becoming a World-Saver: A Theory of Conversion to a Deviant Perspective by John Loftland and Rodney Stark
For more videos and my weekly podcast, join me over on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=60002924
We've got a great video on social identity movements coming up on Patreon later this week, so stay tuned for that!
#cults #indoctrination #toxicfriends
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emxo-YgxLcA
Hello, Good People! Boston University was playing with C19 in a lab, because why not? And news got out. It made me realize that you never hear stories of dumb people making viruses in labs!
Dumb people have been slandered. It's the smart people who are the problem! This is doing my head in.
This video is not about C19. I never want to hear about C19 again. Really wish they'd stop playing w/ it in the lab.
Here are the links. Decide for yourself if this is a problem you should worry about.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11323677/Outrage-Boston-University-CREATES-Covid-strain-80-kill-rate.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11327741/Top-NIH-director-admits-Boston-lab-created-new-Covid-strain-did-NOT-clear-research-agency.html
Boston University defends itself
https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/10/18/boston-university-covid-research-on-created-strain-bu-fulfilled-all-required-regulatory-obligations-and-protocols/
#intelligence #progress #humans
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Rr9284u4g
Hello YouTube. There's a problematic song on my playlist. Should I remove it?
Here's the song in question https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXwMrBb2x1Q
#jimihendrix
#heyjoe
#lyrics
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvBP9aSeZAA