at least you're aware that it's mostly nonsense and are already looking at things reasonably objectively. what i hate most about that shit is that people who may be willing to educate themselves end up getting shitty view points because whoever delivered them may have emerged as the 'victor' of the argument, despite having a shitty take, which then gets instilled into the audience.
Just judging by the fact that Vaush fans think Vaush "won the debate" with Hakim and therefore ML is cancelled, tells you all you need to know about how effective it is.
I have a lefty friend from high school who had cool takes last summer and now just reposts Vaush shit, it's tragic.
Also now that I mention it, I don't even think it's debate culture that's the root of this evil. I think what's much more concerning is that people get such a following without doing ANY of the intellectual work behind it. Vaush literally just picks a topic, reads some Wikipedia entries, draws an analogy (literally draws, on MS Paint) and that's his streams. Prager U is literally more well researched than Vaush is.
Actually Hasan Piker is similarly terrible in that regard, even though I'm torn on him as I agree with many of his takes. Idk man. Shit sucks.
at least you're aware that it's mostly nonsense and are already looking at things reasonably objectively. what i hate most about that shit is that people who may be willing to educate themselves end up getting shitty view points because whoever delivered them may have emerged as the 'victor' of the argument, despite having a shitty take, which then gets instilled into the audience.
Just judging by the fact that Vaush fans think Vaush "won the debate" with Hakim and therefore ML is cancelled, tells you all you need to know about how effective it is.
I have a lefty friend from high school who had cool takes last summer and now just reposts Vaush shit, it's tragic.
Also now that I mention it, I don't even think it's debate culture that's the root of this evil. I think what's much more concerning is that people get such a following without doing ANY of the intellectual work behind it. Vaush literally just picks a topic, reads some Wikipedia entries, draws an analogy (literally draws, on MS Paint) and that's his streams. Prager U is literally more well researched than Vaush is.
Actually Hasan Piker is similarly terrible in that regard, even though I'm torn on him as I agree with many of his takes. Idk man. Shit sucks.