Repent wrote:The guy's name is Aaron he is a young father, and four years ago all his video's we're 'marketed' out of his tiny trailer home. He is a computer programmer. He's aware of peak oil, and he's in our camp.
Well okay then, I'll take my Russian intel tinfoil hat off.
Slick production styles are just popular on youtube, regular people have gotten so good with that -- it's WHY infomercials work so well. It draws you in. People don't mean to do it, but these are actually propaganda tactics. Movies are dramatic and have the right music and editing and narration *for a reason*, it's to pull your strings, and draw you in on some other level besides rationality. That's why I immediately get suspicious with that stuff, it's the "RT style." It's on Foxnews too. It's propaganda tactics. And everyone on youtube talks that way now.
That's why Limbaugh was always so popular, he's got a great voice. That's how Glenn Beck draws so many in.
And that's fine -- this one-sided stuff, dramatically presented with hypnotic voiceovers and smart editing and music -- so long as you're looking at the other side, too, and actually *thinking*. It's like a Foxnews vs. Msnbc thing.
But anyhow I'd never poke at just some guy doing videos on his own, fair enough.
Your video is *food for thought* but just in general, I dislike how polarized all our information is becoming and we get our views from youtube and websites and we've just lost how it was in the old days, more objective professional journalism.
Personally, I can get a LOT of information about a place and what the deal is over there just by seeing regular people interviewed.
Like the Anthony Bourdain episode I mentioned. (good show btw) He sits down with a Palestinian family and they just talk, and they don't "hate Israelis" but yes there's tension.
One of the women talk about how her family is on the other side of the occupied territories and she can't ever see them because she can't get let across the border.
But you know Repent, these people do coexist and live together and it's not all black and white they all hate each other, it's not so simple as that.
Probably a good parallel would be racial tensions, in this country. We live together, and things just flare up sometimes.
US presidents have given up on the whole middle east peace thing, but there are some FAIR things Israel could be pushed hard on, like surely these people don't have to just be trapped forever and can't go visit a relative their whole life, 30 miles away or whatever.
But neither is the Palestinian side all right either. Israel really does have security issues and things to worry about.
They have tit-for-tat northern Ireland type violence, over there. We can differ on our opinions I just won't say one side is all right and the other all wrong.
And.. my values are about free speech and the core of what is in our declaration of independence and our constitutional rights, and that democracy really matters, don't go running off embracing tyranny because it's cool to be "anti-American" and "anti government." Our gov has issues, but it's madness to forget we're still better than most places.
That's the main point I keep driving at, if anyone is going to harp on about the US then just apply those same principles to other places. It's worse in Russia. It's worse in China. It's worse in Iran. And Hamas being all in charge of a place would be worse, too.
EDIT: don't know what I'm griping about, other than just a general beef about all these people who claim to know "the truth nobody else is telling you." Truth is in the middle, and that's the truth.