As someone in their 50's, whose been "terminally online" since I was 21... let me tell you.... the internet is a fantastic tool, social media is nothing but a soul crushing endeavor. There are no safe spaces, and the real world offline, is far more important than the doom scrolling. Touch grass.... ty for this episode.

@WisecrackEDU

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for this!

@dangerousdays2052

6 ай бұрын

Replace "touch grass" with "stay drunk" and i'm right where with ya mate

@acacacacacacaccaca7666

6 ай бұрын

When corporations laid claim to the internet the whole thing die There is so much I was able to do as a teenager that it's not possible today like talking with people without having a bot hide or burry what we are saying

@dangerousdays2052

6 ай бұрын

@@acacacacacacaccaca7666 Aye, like 90% of my comments get instantly shadow banned today. That's why I can't hang out in chat when Lee live streams. None of my comments show up.

@happinesstan

6 ай бұрын

@@dangerousdays2052 Just stop saying "touch grass" you sound like a fucking teenager.

I am now suddenly afraid someone will see one of my shitposts, not get the joke, and pass it along as fact. That is a level of anxiety I did not plan for today.

@WisecrackEDU

6 ай бұрын

True story: once someone saw one of my shitposts and accused me of threatening to burn down a comedy theater and I had to have a meeting with the manager to ensure I had no intent to do arson.

@iantingen

6 ай бұрын

In a world full of whatever it’s full of today, it’s generally a good idea to assume that somebody won’t get the joke.

@marshallbeck9101

6 ай бұрын

It’s the internet, this is why nobody including governments should have taken social media seriously, instead they did the complete opposite

@ibelieveingaming3562

6 ай бұрын

First time? Welcome to the club.

@ibelieveingaming3562

6 ай бұрын

​@@WisecrackEDUHahaha! 😂 OMG that's terrifying! I think this is relevant: I find in my retail job, when confronting shoplifters I find I'm subconsciously MORE willing to confront LESS guilty people. A white teenager is far easier to accuse than a 6'5 black man with designer pants and a bandana, and so on. I think this subconscious cowardess a big part of the problem.

This is why I feel that comedy is so important, especially in the darkest times. Comedians can help us to examine ourselves by making fun of our basic and often common idiotic tendencies. Through them we may be humbled to examine ourselves more closely and with a smile.

@ArcDragoon

6 ай бұрын

I would agree if only comedians didn't use the "it's a joke" defense. As much as comedy can open up discussion, it also protects ignorance.

@nates9105

6 ай бұрын

Cant tell you how many times satire has made me question things after laughing off the feeling how close to being real I thought it was! Solid actors, comedians, and skits!

@dtlegacy2495

6 ай бұрын

People who spread disinformation need to stop doing that. Because you never know when the consequences fall back on them. Furthermore there are just way too many other problems going on in this world we don't need any more people making it worse by spreading misinformation intentionally or otherwise.

@gaywizard2000

6 ай бұрын

And why the Trump crowd despise comedy or completely misunderstand it!

@dontusethisaccounttowatchp9635

6 ай бұрын

Basseem Yousuf hit hard

In school they teach us to always have an answer when you're called on. They don't teach us that "I don't know" is a valid answer.

People want to believe in bullshit to fit their narratives

@chrisoneill3999

6 ай бұрын

It's easy to fool most folk; you only have to take advantage of their gullibility. But you will never convince them they have been fooled, to admit that, they'd need to overcome their pride.

@necr0danc3r29

6 ай бұрын

It's funny because many think they are immune to this effect. They are not.

@spiritsafe-ko4ee

6 ай бұрын

Dunning-Kruger effect

@edd1EroxPwDblah

6 ай бұрын

Which is why this channel exists. At least that's how it's been the last 5 years for sure.

@happinesstan

6 ай бұрын

that's just you believing bullshit to fit your narrative.

“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” William Casey, CIA Director 1981-1987

@eric2500

6 ай бұрын

So social media was supposed to be the fix for that - and here we are discussing how THAT went sideways!

@dawnmoore9122

2 ай бұрын

It would've been so funny if that quote was false, but alas, it's true. Not surprising, but still.

On a brighter note, i finally have a reason to casually name drop Kierkegaard in every day conversations

@WisecrackEDU

6 ай бұрын

we fully support and encourage this behavior.

I felt so much healthier and relaxed after I gave up most of social media (Twitter, Facebook) and stopped watching the news. Usually, I find if an event of note has happened from a friend, loved one, or if it's important enough it ends up on my very manicured Reddit feed. If it's a news story about something from social media or what a celebrity or politician said, I avoid it like the plague. With Reddit and KZread, I keep most my interactions at surface level (mostly only watching videos or looking at rad images) only occasionally looking at top comments on funny stuff or hobbies.

@thenightwatchman1598

6 ай бұрын

horay for willful ignorance!

@arieljourdan2375

6 ай бұрын

@@thenightwatchman1598 Ignorance of what?

@thenightwatchman1598

6 ай бұрын

@@arieljourdan2375 yourself.

What gets me is that someone wanted to sell last minute tickets to a Grateful Dead cover band for $179, I remember seeing the real thing for $20 and thinking they were selling out by charging that much.

The louder the world gets? The more I value silence.

Disinformation bugs the hell out of me

its depressing to think that the only solutions that seem to float around to address this dumpster fire of polarization is either to become apathetic, to become willfully ignorant, or a combination of both. i hear very little in the way of constructive solutions anymore...

@OversoulGaming

6 ай бұрын

There is no solution because people are unwilling to learn. Fragile Egos and undeserved pride have stupid conspiracy theorists thinking that they are right because Joe Rogan or some other idiot agrees with them. There are people who think the Earth is flat and completely deny actual scientific facts. It's impossible to educate anyone anymore because they've all been brainwashed by the stupidest people on the planet and they refused to allow themselves to be properly educated they would rather exist in their own delusional bubble than actual reality

@scottsanford1451

20 күн бұрын

Willful ignorance isn't what this is talking about. The "idiocy" they are referring to is more properly "question the presumptions of these expectations". I think it is a constructive approach. But many approaches at once, in parallel, is the "solution".

I enjoyed the video. “‘The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.’” “That’s us, dude!” “Oh yeah!” - Bill and Ted

Why would you trust news on social media when they don't have to comply with rules of journalism?!

The BBC verified bit is rich considering they just got caught grossly mistranslating released palestinian prisoners. Changing lines about being tortured to praising Hamas, even though they never mentioned Hamas.

@duhduh666

6 ай бұрын

BBC is crap. When they say fact checking we gotta check the fact checker cause they can bullshit too.

@ciroguerra-lara6747

6 ай бұрын

I stopped following the BBC in spanish as soon as I saw that Milei is far right (which he is) while Massa and kirchnerism were moderate (which they are certainly not). They have veered to the left hard). I believe whenever consumming media, including Wisecrack it is important to know what ideology they are serving.

@duhduh666

6 ай бұрын

@@ciroguerra-lara6747 wisecrack is not the paragon of honesty and integrity. There are times when their blindness to their blind spot is outright funny

@ciroguerra-lara6747

6 ай бұрын

@@duhduh666 Totally agree. I tend to like their videos, even if they are the ¨postmodern socialists¨ that they seem to hate being called.

@-Gnarlemagne

23 күн бұрын

​@@ciroguerra-lara6747I don't think they mind being called socialists, but the terms "postmodern marxism" or "postmodern socialism" have always baffled me. Can you define what you mean by that? The principles of postmodernism are so largely at odds with the principles behind Marxism that it seems like a completely pointless term, unless they have a specific meaning when combined, in which case I would love a definition

Disinformation isn't the end of humanity. We survived religion.

9:06 Isabel Wilkerson talks about this in her book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent. In it she states that these people are not being racist but are instead responding to this very phenomenon, because the invisible programming of the caste system that exists within the United States (which Nazi Germany used as a direct model for creating their own leading up to the Holocaust) tells them they should benefit more than their lower caste counterparts. Those in the higher levels of the caste system see those invisibly deemed “below them” as benefitting more than them and they get insecure and angry for it. They feel cheated, having bought into an invisible system that we were all borne into. Fascinating read.

Honestly, I feel like I'm an enigma for how much I've been able to avoid social media. I have little idea what's going on in the world beyond hearsay from other people. It's honesty helped me be more people focused, since I have the brain space to care about the people around me. And none of that is fuel by what society tells me what I should feel or do.

@iamchato

6 ай бұрын

I was exactly the same untill I Binged all of Atrioc’s Marketing Monday Videos. Deadass, the Information Overload seeing a Timelapse of Economic Chaos and Ripple effects of Corporate Greed all of a sudden explaining why The fuck it’s so hard to Progress in Life. At first I thought I just suck at being an adult in comparison to my parents. Nope, just stuck learning how to deal with the results of the downsides of capitalism. I had a whole politically charged internal monologue thinking of ways to Shift America to a Non-Profit mindset. Then I Watched the OpenAI Controversy Explained, where THEY LITERALLY COULDNT STAY NON-PROFIT Once The Evaluation Was set at 80+ BILLION $$$$$ after beta testing.

If I was stuck at a Grateful Dead cover band concert, I'd be invoking my own day of rage.

@WisecrackEDU

6 ай бұрын

I respect this feeling even though I'd be one of the people having a good time while you went full rage.

@itaye666

6 ай бұрын

Like a rat in a cage? No wait, that's another band, ignore this comment

@vincentdamico6266

6 ай бұрын

Just joshin around@@WisecrackEDU

This is something I struggle with. Switching-off, or the "idiocy" sounds great, but also feels as if I am turning my back to suffering. How do I reconcile MY health, with ignoring injustice?

@thelemon5069

6 ай бұрын

Know that you are simply living in the world too. Suffering exists within non suffering.

@Raxis

6 ай бұрын

Being attentive of injustice is only useful if you can do more than just be attentive. You can and will do far more good for others and yourself by focusing on what good you can do within your actual reach. You deprive yourself of the good you are capable of by being a pawn to others who actively use your good will and disgust to make a fast buck. The goal isn't to solve the problems, it's to continue making a profit off of the perception of problems that might as well, to you, be fairy tales for all the involvement you can possibly give to it.

@AJX-2

6 ай бұрын

The health and justice of you and those close to you is more important than the health and injustice of people who have nothing to do with you. Priorities.

We need to force media companies to be honest again and repeal the law and/ executive order thats allowing them to lie.

@xero110

6 ай бұрын

We had the Fairness Doctrine, but like many nice things, Regan repealed it.

@arkhamftw6186

6 ай бұрын

I believe you could trace almost every terrible thing in America today to Reagan being a demon

@edd1EroxPwDblah

6 ай бұрын

Let's start with this channel. I don't remember when was the last time they didn't make a video full of bullshit 😂

@Hotshot2k4

6 ай бұрын

@@edd1EroxPwDblah I get you're trying to be funny and clever here (C- for effort), but this isn't a news source. It doesn't even *pretend* to be a news source, unlike random people on xitter. What specifically is the bs in this video? Is all information on social media actually great and trustworthy and we should take it all as true until it's disproven?

@edd1EroxPwDblah

6 ай бұрын

@Hotshot2k4 of course it's not a news show. It's a propaganda channel 🤣 that pretends they're giving you correct information

A major contributor is headline reading and paywalls. Ppl don't want to read and be informed and they definitely don't want to pay money on top of that.

@dawnmoore9122

2 ай бұрын

What do you mean, headlines don't inform you fully with all the context and nuance you need for a clear picture of the event?

It’s sad that I have to assume everyone is lying until proven otherwise. It’s almost feels people are trying to destroy innocent until proven guilty.

@blacklite911

6 ай бұрын

Think of it scientifically. People have to prove a hypothesis before you accept it as true.

@NickRedstar

6 ай бұрын

@@blacklite911 you should use a scientific method for large claims. But you almost have to be skeptical of everything these days. Or it could be me being jaded old man. Lol.

@blacklite911

6 ай бұрын

@@NickRedstar I learned to be skeptical as a teen from being a fan of Penn and Teller’s bullshit lol. Skepticism is a virtue for me

@dingusdingus2152

6 ай бұрын

What you are describing is one of the classic textbook definitions of psychosis. An absolute inability to accept another person as trustworthy. Very common symptom.

@NathaNeil27

6 ай бұрын

@@dingusdingus2152a common symptom of living in the 2020s? A common symptom of what?

So I noticed it a while ago but I appreciate Wisecrack research team has quietly but with dedication included so many non white scholars in their scripts. It geninuely feels like a breath of fresh air not to be in the same phiolosphy yotube of 2018 where we'd only reference the same 7 white scholars.

@WisecrackEDU

6 ай бұрын

Lots of room to go still but we're trying. Thanks for noticing and appreciating it.

@harryburganjr.969

6 ай бұрын

@@rationalfanatic426Dude, what? Academia is incredibly biased in favor of white scholars. It’s important to consciously work to be equitable

@OversoulGaming

6 ай бұрын

​@@rationalfanatic426it's good to get diverse opinions from all kinds of cultures and backgrounds. Limiting your knowledge to the opinions of privileged white people is grounds for failure

@matthewsilva8617

6 ай бұрын

@@harryburganjr.969equity is a fallacy. Merit is not only better, but ideal for mankind. Color has nothing to do with ideas.

@harryburganjr.969

6 ай бұрын

@@matthewsilva8617 How does one assess "merit" in a society structured through unearned advantage? Rich kids get test prep; kids in lower income areas often don't even have easy transportation to the tests lol. Unless your definition of merit is synonymous with chance... I don't see how the argument works

The struggle is so real. Additionally, I've come to really enjoy seeing your all-time "starting five" philosophers in each topic. While many of us have our own "picks" for each topic (mine would be William James on pragmatism), it is fun to compare and contrast your choices and perspectives with my own. Also, thank you for introducing me to Byung-Chul Han! I'll check out his work.

Glad I ditched my already seldom used Twitter the day Musky took over. That site is useless, but it's limped along for far longer than I expected.

My friends looks at me in disbelief when I tell them I am not on any social media other than KZread (if you can call watching videos being on social media), and they make me look like I'm crazy, when I should be the one looking at them like they are the crazy ones for willingly plunging themselves into cesspools of hate and vitriol and misinformation.

@toe2328

6 ай бұрын

🫵🪨! (Your post cleared up an itchy spot I'z suffering. Many domo's for giving the time to share.) You are not alone; yet I understand feeling lonely. Stay strong!✊️ 🫡! 🖖🙂

Somedays I unironically think the Internet has been more bane than boon for humanity. I'm genuinely impressed that philosophers have managed to keep up with all this. They certainly have their work cut out for them. The sheer number, size, density, and profitability of perverse incentives of the Information Age is just unreal. The amount of misinformation we all have to parse each day would make any cyberpunk author blush. It's really mess up all this is by design.

@CapnSnackbeard

6 ай бұрын

Look at the basis for the information first. An economist may have a silly robe, a magic hat, and arcane sounding words. Try asking one how to achieve exponential, infinite growth in a finite system. All you will get is "HEY, what do YOU know of our robes and hats and arcane words?! How dare...uh... look! Squirrel!"

@CapnSnackbeard

6 ай бұрын

So do you really "need to understand economics," or merely understand that economists are full of sh!t and can safely be ignored? 😊

@MisterCynic18

6 ай бұрын

Humanity wasn't ready for the internet. It's absolutely been a huge boon but we underestimated how half the population lacking in critical thinking skills would multiply the harm it could do.

@CapnSnackbeard

6 ай бұрын

@@MisterCynic18 guess we were better off when all the propaganda was identical, and came from 4 news sources, huh? 😆

@MisterCynic18

6 ай бұрын

@@CapnSnackbeard to be honest, maybe? You would think more sources of information would be better, but we've observed how information overload can lead people to being even more closed off and biased in what they choose to believe. There's countless echo chambers amplifying absurd beliefs to extremes, making public opinion more divided and chaotic and less critical or cooperative. It's bizarre; unlimited communication and information has revealed individual people aren't at all good at filtering any of it themselves, so they revert to irrational, instinctual responses that can be manipulated even more easily than before. I remember thinking as a kid the internet would turn everyone into geniuses, now it seems like it's had the opposite effect.

I’ve come up with a saying, and it goes like this. “I know enough to know I don’t know enough” in my quest for knowledge I’ve found that I have so much more to learn.

@thisdudegotreal

5 ай бұрын

Thats Aristotle. Its a good sign that you came to that conclusion on your own.

As a Ukrainian and a wisecrack fan, I’m happy to see your video on this incredibly important topic. We Ukrainians had to face the horrible consequences of russian multi million dollar disinformation and propaganda campaigns in order to excuse the invasion. It’s not a secret to anyone but it still seems to be working, we are getting less and less help, there are always stalling and complications. It will cost us many innocent lives. It’s scary what “simple” lies in your phone and tv can cause…

@thenightwatchman1598

6 ай бұрын

so... theres no people being dragged from their homes to become conscripted cannon fodder for a war simply made as part of a money laundering scheme? id like to know why you think thats the case.

@nadiezhda96

6 ай бұрын

@@mythbuster6126 and how are you so keen on bothering someone living in a war? it's a question of survival of everyone i know and you decided 'let me prove to them they will not make it' with your pointless opinions. looks like you already painted a picture of Ukrainians in your head so i see no point in further discussion. you clearly don't understand us.

This has been something i’ve wanted you to discuss for a while now! Thanks for the video. I feel like it applies in this time more than ever.

@chasehedges6775

6 ай бұрын

True.

“For people who are privileged, equality feels like oppression.” Sounds like a pre-social media way of referring to what we’re seeing lead to this de-individuation.

I feel like this is a big reason why I have a general hard time hanging out with people. I’m an outsider idiot who doesn’t tend to conform to any group’s biases without some amount of self reflection. Which is a sure fire way to make lots of friends…

@convictedxmage4546

6 ай бұрын

The best way to make people dislike you is to have opinions. Have them often and out loud. Sure they have opinions too, but they’re store-bought; yours are homemade, which makes you a showoff.

For me one of the biggest challenges is figuring out how much the people around me trust what they see/read. It makes it difficult to get information the good ol' fashioned word-of-mouth way.

@eddyram4932

6 ай бұрын

Best thing you can do with people around you is just nod your head and say the occasional “oh wow”, “for real?”, “no way”, and move on😂 I have had to do it with my family because they watch “news” and I don’t. Guess who has changed their minds every few months in the past 3 years?

I go through social media with a few filters up on my brain.. one to discern what the goal of content is/what they want from me (I.e money, outrage, clicks, to dislike or like someone else etc) and one that asks who is behind this content and trying to get me to do something or feel a certain way. Bc there are pretty clear patterns that pop up when global superpowers want to vilify and dehumanize an oppressed group. And there are patterns that pop up when a corporation or an industry at large will profit from you feeling reaaaally bad about yourself or really hating someone else.

@itsirrelevant4565

6 ай бұрын

The ultimate middle finger to that pyramid is to turn away from it. It signals to your friends and family that you don’t have precious mortal time to waste, and they will be more likely to follow suit.

This was pretty great! The only thing that I would add rhetorically is that it’s not necessarily just status threat, but ego threat more broadly. (Reductionistically, you can think of status threat as a subcategory of ego threat.) The TLDR is that threatening part of a persons identity can lead to the same issues that you brought up regarding misinformation and disinformation, and it’s more inclusive of people who might not be part of, or might not see themselves as part of, privileged groups. The whole lens of the value of mis- and disinformation turns around the *individuals perception of themselves and their experience*, not the value of those things as ascribed by us.

"There will come a day that we will see far more radical extremists and terrorists coming out of Europe because of lack of decision-making, trying to be politically correct, or assuming that they know the Middle East, and they know Islam, and they know the others far better than we do, and I'm sorry, but that’s pure ignorance.” - Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed 2017

This is why I avoid the news nowadays. Everything gets so hyped, mistranslated, misinterpreted, whatever....you start reacting to every fart in the collective consciousness you're going to miss out on your life. Just live your life, condense your circle of concern to things in your immediate sphere. A healthy world starts with a healthy microcosm.

@gaywizard2000

6 ай бұрын

Ostrich

@sinisterbohemian

6 ай бұрын

@@gaywizard2000 your criticism falls outside my circle of concern. have fun fighting others on the internet while I'm out in the community giving a free martial arts lesson tonight.

@thelemon5069

6 ай бұрын

​@gaywizard2000 sure them prioritizing thier mental health makes them an ostrich. Hey did you know Ostritchs don't actually Bury their heads even lmao nice misinformation

@AJX-2

6 ай бұрын

If you dont read the news you're uninformed. If you do read the news you're misinformed. - Mark Twain

@gaywizard2000

6 ай бұрын

@@thelemon5069 f off, I don't need a literal explanation of ostriches! You know what the metaphor means.

We have misinformation, and disinformation, but what about datinformation or deezinformation?

Oh I got so excited by the name drop! I’m just finishing Byung-Chul Han’s Psychopolitics and it’s easily my favorite book of the year. I really clicked with episode tho, I have such a morbid fascination with misinformation and how corrosive it on people’s judgement. Mob mentality is such an interesting social experiment, you can immediately see the micro effecting the macro. Likewise Kierkegaard’s my favorite but he can be a little bit esoteric most of the time, so it’s great to hear him being applied to a common everyday issue. Great vid as always keep up the great work!

This needs to be taught in school and practiced via analysis of current events.

Paranoia runs deep in the US... we read the same news yet we don't panic for every news article... 1st world problems...

@MayonakaMidnighter

6 ай бұрын

Idiots are those of us with 55 subscribers and 800 published works

@bloodink9508

6 ай бұрын

Where?

@MayonakaMidnighter

6 ай бұрын

@bloodink9508 here and if you don't know that fact it proves the point precisely

@bloodink9508

6 ай бұрын

@thePointsaviour no ya ninny. Where is the OP from? I know where the US is. Ffs.

@MayonakaMidnighter

6 ай бұрын

@@bloodink9508 oh another insulting failure get outta here

This is the first time youtube prompted me with a “this video may not be appropriate for all viewers” warning.

I needed this video so badly. Thank you

That X quote from 4:25 ending in "...not for me to address" is concerning.

@brendanmcculloch2406

6 ай бұрын

why? because they don't feel it is their job to fix elon's fucked up decisions at a busines run by elon? why is it someone outside twitter who has to address it? why not leave that for someone who can?

@SoopaPop

6 ай бұрын

@@brendanmcculloch2406 I was not making any statements about who is to blame or who is to fix it, just that the entire quote states something of concern. Mostly, I was trying to make a minimally thoughtful comment to drive engagement on the video while not just saying "comment for the algorithm"

Love wisecrack! You're all fantastic! Keep the great work michael!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

I think a big part of the problem is that the hegemonic ideological trend of perceiving things as firmly right or wrong or even correct and incorrect is what leads to people ending up married to positions which they adopted with little consideration. We learn in our upbringing about scientific facts or historical facts and all the like meanwhile any actual person who studied the philosophy of science to the simplest degree that you understand why in science there are no facts only theories quickly grows skeptical of any hypothesis presented with a high degree of confidence.

Great video. Disinformation is super prevalent today, but we also have to remember that it's always been around

This is an unbelievably good video, wish it was longer! Thanks

@WisecrackEDU

6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much.

This is actually the most accurate reference to our (Philly fans) behavior I’ve heard from outsiders. It isn’t a cheap potshot or dated stereotype. Thanks, Wisecrack.

@WisecrackEDU

6 ай бұрын

I love philly, and you all take your fandom to a whole other level. it's both beautiful and terrifying.

@paisan8766

6 ай бұрын

@@WisecrackEDU you get it

"The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it." -Terry Pratchett

Excellent video, humour and dead pan sarcasm nailed. it was hard to tell that this was a satirical comedy skit. At times it felt like the presenter was delivering a "serious" and genuine message and that it was your actual honest opinion being shared despite the obvious irony of delivering a message about perceived disinformation by delivering even more disinformation. The new onion

I can tell youve been watching invincible recently with that radiohead reference. (Nice video btw)

@WisecrackEDU

6 ай бұрын

Honestly I probably watched that episode the day I wrote the script.

As someone who doesn't use social media, It's been remarkably easy to avoid mis and dis information. Just read the news directly from a trusted source and you are pretty good.

I can feel it... the Absurd is growing... the video is coming. Excellent work, as always.

Really good to find this video. Thanks so much.

Byung-Chul Han is the philosopher we needed and, thankfully, got.

@WisecrackEDU

6 ай бұрын

He rules.

I firmly believe that what people need to be taught about conflict reporting is that live situations are uncertain and that you can't fully trust any live reporting. This has always been true, but has just become more of a problem as mis and disinformation spreads faster than ever before via social media. What we need to do is to stop spreading anything that we aren't very confident is true, and to stop being very confident that the events which mirror our feelings are true simply because they mirror our feelings. Just wait. Wait for more sources of information to confirm the same events. Wait for primary sources, and reporting from multiple sources which you place at least some faith in, rather than John Twixer's latest clip of people speaking a language you don't understand, without context or timestamp. And recognize that lying for a cause you believe in only HURTS your cause, so stop reposting things which aren't true and make your 'side' look like a bunch of liars.

The fact that this video is oddly restricted is kind of telling...

Very professional in its presentation, great delivery of content, quality sound, all said with a genuine looking smile and friendly demeanour, and not one swear or vulgar word. Also no long drawn out loud banging intro pieces to set up the video. My congratulations. Enjoyed it! I would use depth of focus though, blur the background slightly, its too busy and flattens the image.

Thanks! Another good one.

@WisecrackEDU

6 ай бұрын

Thank you SO much.

Greed breeds capitalism. Capitalism breeds folks who think they are richer and therefore smarter and more valuable than people/citizens who don't chase social status/wealth successfully. Those folks who have thus justified their own superiority eventually decide that disinformation can make them even wealthier as long as they decide it is morally acceptable to use misinformation to prove they are the best humanity has to offer. The problem is that any change to this dynamic will require wealthy people to help everyone become wealthy...which will make them less wealthy because kw they have to share resources. Good luck using social media campaigns to get the rich to act against their wallets on behalf of folks they consider deplorable deadbeat liberals

I have been reading the Tao te ching and I was surprised how often a philosopher was advocating for idiocy. Lao Tzu goes even further than wise crack by saying not only should we be idiots so we question things, but also that idiocy is the natural compliment to wisdom. To be cunning is to try and gain from others and decieve leading to strife. Being a fool is to accomplish much while doing nothing.

It’s stupidity and ignorance we should fear,

He said he wanted fun. in the comments, so here: Give me a second I, I need to get my story straight My friends are in the bathroom Getting higher than the Empire State

Michael your depression sounds like mine, you're too self-aware. And I feel like it's impossible to not pay attention to all of the garbage in the world.

@WisecrackEDU

6 ай бұрын

We're gonna get through it though.

@ConQuixote

6 ай бұрын

Day by day "self awareness" is becoming a problem and not a virtue.

@xczechr

6 ай бұрын

But it's not impossible. Put your phone down and go outside. Take a walk. Touch grass.

Thanks for a great video! A lot of stuff to think about on here..

Thank you for the Devo reminder

Great background in your videos by the way. I just want to show respect to the many legitimate journalists who sometimes risk their lives to report on the real situations of conflict to the best of their ability. Unbiased journalism is pretty important for a well functioning democracy. However, I feel it can be useful to consider what news stories from different sides of the political spectrum are saying. I get most of my news from a range of more classical news companies never from social media, though I do listen to some dodgy philosophy advice from a crazy youtube source that has a donkey head as a logo

Love Wisecrack

@chasehedges6775

6 ай бұрын

💯

@WisecrackEDU

6 ай бұрын

love you too.

It’s the lack of nuanced thinking - and more importantly the equivalence with nuanced thinking and “the enemy” - that scares me most. You can’t be nuanced in many internet social networks these days. Everything has to be black and white. If you offer a nuanced view, either or both sides assume you’re arguing against them (and sometimes even worse, think you support everything they’re saying, no matter how horrific). But worst of all is watching both sides use the same horrific language against each other, with little regard of the cost to human rights, quality of life and justification of atrocities to the innocent civilians on the ground (who they often have zero interaction with or connection to outside their personal ideology).

@mindlander

6 ай бұрын

I laughed at how you lacked nuance while complaining about it. Be the change you wish to see in the world.

Thanks for your content (and for toning down the background track.)

@WisecrackEDU

6 ай бұрын

whoa thanks so much!!!

Am Israel Chai 🇮🇱

Disinformation will always be spread by people who seek to advance their own agenda

@kellanaldous7092

6 ай бұрын

Duh?

@MisterCynic18

6 ай бұрын

The greater threat is when it's spread by people who just don't know any better

@zenleeparadise

6 ай бұрын

​@@kellanaldous7092obvious things are sometimes worth saying (think "This is Water" by David Foster Wallace) - there's no need to be so hostile about someone stating the obvious. If you didn't need it stated, that's alright, it just means it wasn't for you.

This also acts hand in hand with the loss of respect for expertise, and the sense of alienation as we are further disassociated from our work, community and loss of friends. People in this situation lack the support network or emotional psychological security to not be sucked in by misinformation and digital tribalism

One of the first times I’m early for a wisecrack video thanks KZread for actually notifying me

@WisecrackEDU

6 ай бұрын

Thank god - it seems like KZread likes to keep our videos underground these days.

Bump for JRAD

@WisecrackEDU

6 ай бұрын

lets go.

@seansmodernlife9823

6 ай бұрын

@@WisecrackEDU Bring the team, it'll keep us busy until Dead & Co inevitably comes back with a new name 🤙

I don’t use Twitter or X or whatever is called but the current biggest threat to society is not AI but is social media

@LostInTheRush

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, now combine the two.

I don't agree with 100% of your views, but I am very glad that you guys are doing what you do and I appreciate you.

the hand gesture game is strong in this video.

Except Hamas did call for that… Hamas is a terror group. It’s not Islamophobia to say that

Drinking from the aquarium again, Michael?

Right when u said, incase u just zoned out there…which I had… just had me cracking up! 🤣

Great topic!

Comment for the algorithm

I have a difficult issue with this very discussion, so maybe someone here can help me. As an Israeli, I was deeply emotionally affected by the 7/10 massacre (though not personally). So much so that there is a part of me that doesn't care if Israeli officials spread misinformation, as long as it serves the purpose of eradicating Hamas and returning all of the hostages. Now I can't say I really don't care what happens in Gaza, and my opinion on the bombings by the IDF keeps fluctuating. It's just impossible to know what to think sometimes, and naturally I want to think that my country does its best to be moral (I am well aware that is not always the case, especially with the current government). I'm not sure what exactly I'm trying to say here, but clearly some things don't add up for me. And some criticism on the video: All of the examples given were mis/disinformation from Israel. Not one was from Hamas and their supporters, and there is PLENTY of that around. I might get the impression that you are biased against one side.

@deus_ex_machina_

2 ай бұрын

It is rather ironic that liberals and leftists support Hamas even when they know what they would do to women and LGBT folk. It's depressing that they can't separate genuine causes from providing cover for terrorism. Love 🇮🇱, from 🇮🇳

Don't know a single person who heard of "Day of Rage". We don't use the TV or gov entities for information

“Incase you zoned out there” omg thank you 😂

Desinfotmation Like Trump's Russiagate?

@theduck2970

6 ай бұрын

Ah, here we have whataboutism, a form of disinformation.

From The River To the Sea Palestine will be Free! 🕊️🇵🇸✊🇮🇪

@NoeliaGenov

6 ай бұрын

❤❤❤

@ubik5453

6 ай бұрын

Hell yeah 😎 bro 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

@yoursvikas1

6 ай бұрын

😂

@shadebug

6 ай бұрын

Now why would you not just say “Palestine will be free everywhere?”

@MrTooEarnestOnline

6 ай бұрын

@@shadebugthat’s like saying why are the native Americans specifically calling for freedom in the Americas?

*Plays Radioheads Karma Police AT the algorithm in an ambiguously threatening manner*

Glad you didn't miss that JRAD show!

@WisecrackEDU

6 ай бұрын

It was the best one I've seen! That St. Stephen was unreal. Check it out if you haven't.

I never thought about idiocy as a perspective

Social media is the gutter of the information age...smh

As person who just discovered they missed/survived the day of rage Id like to ask which day was this ?

Your background/set is badass👍

I seem to remember a day back in October that...

I'm glad to see that wise crack can still even when directly referencing Kierkegaard. They still managed to reference Kierkegaard

16:26 very true michael! A little of it is gonna make you more mellow and friendly not more likely to divulge prejudice😊😊😊😊

Comments should be allowed on every piece of news. Anything short of this is irresponsible of all news networks. Discourse is necessary to resolve and sus out false information.