The Machine is (Changing) Us: YouTube and the Politics of Authenticity

L1ng0 Says:

May 20, 2011 - great stuff!

errolwil1 Says:

May 24, 2011 - Really enjoyed the video.

kathmandau Says:

Jul 23, 2011 - Thank you for sharing, my friend.Blessings,CG

TowardIntentionality Says:

Jul 30, 2011 - Preach it! Thanks for so eloquently and so graciously laying out numerous ideas, words, media, and human characteristics -- you are a generous teacher and a talented encourager. Press on...and many thanks.

Meskarune Says:

Sep 15, 2011 - I think that technology allows people who often do not have a voice (either because they are shy or because others are more powerful/louder) to express themselves in a safe and more effective way. Not everyone can speak in front of an audience. For me, my online persona and my real life persona are the same. My previously online only friends have told me I was exactly what they expected when we first met. I would rather not go back to the consumerist and apathetic 80s and 90s.

royalsteven Says:

Sep 16, 2011 - Yes, it allows us to be a lot more safe, but also weaker, more cowardly and agressive because of that!?!?!? Check e-bullying, e-crime, online gaming arguements, hidden chat identities and harrassment. Since we can often hide behind another name or pretend to be another character we loose our true identity. This is not necessary and possible when we meet face to face!?!?! See that is my problem with internet. Ofcourse I appreciate the positive things it can do (quick communication, help for

royalsteven Says:

Sep 16, 2011 - shy or problematic people, access to about everything, a way of communication or voice for people in difficult/problematic (war) situations....). But see, I still rather get a love letter through the mail than a cold e-mail. For me the positive sides of internet do not outway the negative because we are talking about social and human emotions. If you know what I mean!?!?!

irishdancerv8 Says:

Oct 17, 2011 - <3 I found myself agreeing with a lot, if not all, of this video.

12TabulaRasa12 Says:

Nov 27, 2011 - great video

nstgc379 Says:

Jan 29, 2012 - People can say that this new form of communications brings with it new problem, but you can't censor the bad without threating the good. This is the road we need to pave for our future. It would be no less criminal to neglect paving an open road then it would be if the government set up road blocks and inspections at every city intersection or highway off ramp.

rodgerfox3 Says:

Feb 23, 2012 - I did that in 1997, and I still don't miss TV. As for youtube, and the internet in general, it is an escape, but it's one that brings people together, unlike TV. TV isolates us, and tells us how to think and feel, the internet in contrast encourages us to reach out to other people, to connect to another for our entertainment, and in the end, to make our own content to complete the circle of communication.

suddenlyitsobvious Says:

Mar 13, 2012 - I found it started out extremely interesting, the guy handling a very large amount of important perceptions and insights about society in a rich & fast developing coherent discourse of supreme interest. Unfortunately, by 10:10 it turns out that he doesn't understand that there is such a thing as SOCIAL ENGINEERING, and that most if not all communities in a general sense are being created in a top-down fashion, designed, set up and controlled from A to Z.

suddenlyitsobvious Says:

Mar 13, 2012 - (2) Since not everything is predictable & humans aren't robots,unexpected occurrences may occasionally happen or grassroot movements shoot up all of a sudden. However, this seems to be pretty rare, & the system typically anticipates where the crowds' energies will most readily flow & sets up & opens the suitable channels, generating fi the suffragettes, black lib, gaylib, anti-Vietnam crowd, sexual liberation, hippies, anti-nuclear/green crowd etc. It is being quite shallow & in denial...

suddenlyitsobvious Says:

Mar 13, 2012 - 3) ...to not know that such movements started out small & NOT from some random crowd, NOT fromthe bottom upwards; they were always set up by hidden hands, involving intelligence operatives & corresponding to an actual intent & execution of social engineering. So the speaker is apparently NOT aware of this, that society is being SHAPED by people in high places who ultimately control press, politics, finance, art, literature, science etc in a fashion btw that is constantly being...

suddenlyitsobvious Says:

Mar 13, 2012 - (4)...formulated overtly & in fact hypnotically repeated over & over by all political leaders & social prominents in a discourse that is clearly misanthropic, toxic & deceptive, aiming to simply erase the individuality of society's members, melting them together in an amorphous, obedient mass that is cynically being shaped and moved like a pudding. After the first 10 minutes, with the sudden revelation of this disappointing lack of perspective, the ...

suddenlyitsobvious Says:

Mar 13, 2012 - (5)...initial promise of the discourse basically collapses further into a sociological taxonomization of social media such as youtube.Isn't it obvious that social networks in a psychotic society of short attention spanned, confused and dissociated people will necessarily generate mediocre & negative results? The system merely needs to do some basic surveillance of the anomalies that turn up...It's really quite noticeable that all significant youtube communities have already been...

suddenlyitsobvious Says:

Mar 13, 2012 - (6)...been brought under authority's control, that is getting tighter all the time. In fact, as soon as anything makes an impact on the Web, it becomes exposed to the collective and engages in an unfolding interaction with it affecting both, but in a manner that isn't quite as open-ended as one would like to think. In fact, wherever one goes one either sees stupidity and sensual overload, or else increasingly strident lines, that are basically propagandistic slogans, ...

suddenlyitsobvious Says:

Mar 13, 2012 - (7)...such as 'science got evidence', 'you're a tinfoil hat', 'you're a homophobic hater', 'you're so ignorant','religion breeds hate and stupidity' etc etc. It seems one can hardly say anything on any thread today without immediately being confronted by people who feel their identity is under attack, & the reason they feel this appears to be that their party-line, their RELIGION, is being confronted.

suddenlyitsobvious Says:

Mar 13, 2012 - (8) Much more than 'creating identities', which essentially is really just pointing out the dimension of an individual's psychological motivation for engaging in the network, what social media networks really do in the larger scheme of things is LEVELLING identities, harmonizing them with the collective, which is of course determined by society's paradigms. Group immersion, that's what it's all about.

suddenlyitsobvious Says:

Mar 13, 2012 - (9) And while everybody is thinking they've got very pronounced individualities with a very personal view on the world and a very special way of feeling, and that they are expressing thismeaningfully to the entire world, what remains the same is that most people can't face reality. Amazingly,even after 9/11, an overwhelming majority simply won't get that they are living in a Matrix, that society doesn't 'evolve' naturally but that the progression has been mapped out and is being guided.

suddenlyitsobvious Says:

Mar 13, 2012 - (10) Such 'self-expressing' people can network all they want, they'll merely help institutionalizing complete mindlessness, which incidentally, was precisely the purpose of the network's very existence. Who needs a brain, the controllers think, when we control the global brain, of which YOU are merely a constituent cell, immobilized in your space by the collective weight of the other cells. What they think and feel touches what others think & feel touches what others experience and so all ...

suddenlyitsobvious Says:

Mar 13, 2012 - (11)...thoughts are joined in a giant pool, cancelling each other out in a chaos of confrontations and conflicting priorities. Global culture being uniformized.And while all this chatter is going on, the controllers of the system simply proceed energetically with their geopolitics and global rearrangements of the world as they see fit, creating a financial crisis or announcing an earth-shattering event or discovery and really using an entire arsenal of means ...

suddenlyitsobvious Says:

Mar 13, 2012 - (12)...to constantly expand control over society's members, who are psychologically changing in the process, which in turn feeds back into the social media networks in an ever unfolding interactivity. Of course, the speaker functions in academia, which precludes assessments critical of authority or any type of awareness of foul play. No fundamental questioning allowed of the system itself.

suddenlyitsobvious Says:

Mar 13, 2012 - (13)He must think networks like the Google corporation or Youtube were simply created and are controlled by some smart kid in his mid-20s.

HiJoDeBoRiNqUeN1 Says:

Apr 7, 2012 - and i bet when people are done watching this they gonna say...''WHATEVER''...but it is so true YOU,ME,WE are being condition to act the way we do..towards each other.the HUMAN BOND is LOST..