Re:Joe Rogan, Parody of the Open Mind
by mindslight on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @11:52AM
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I guess when you put it that way, I grew out of TED talks a decade ago...
I don't think any of these politickers are lying. I think they start with valid critiques of pretty straightforward things, and then extrapolate them into ridiculous conclusions. In a way our polarization is a result of extreme left-brained thinking without the tempering of wisdom.
Listening to a 3 hour unfamiliar narrative doesn't give you many places to go afterwards. It's just a huge dump that binds together many various points, and whether you found it insightful or not has more to do with presentation and self-consistency rather than it making sense in a larger context.
It's definitely better than 2 minute / 140 character soundbites. But the format is an overcorrection masquerading as a middleground.
I don't think any of these politickers are lying. I think they start with valid critiques of pretty straightforward things, and then extrapolate them into ridiculous conclusions. In a way our polarization is a result of extreme left-brained thinking without the tempering of wisdom.
Listening to a 3 hour unfamiliar narrative doesn't give you many places to go afterwards. It's just a huge dump that binds together many various points, and whether you found it insightful or not has more to do with presentation and self-consistency rather than it making sense in a larger context.
It's definitely better than 2 minute / 140 character soundbites. But the format is an overcorrection masquerading as a middleground.