Yeah, there's a small (or, I assume they're small) but vocal group of leftists on YouTube/Twitter who seem to think content should be as dry and informative as possible. And look, I love creators like Shaun, Hakim, or BayArea415, but I think there's room for creators who are trying to make transformative, persuasive art pieces. It's a culture war, baby, and we need slightly flashier stuff like PhilosophyTube or maybe Noncompete or other leftist content creators with an artistic bent to their work.
Literally, a part of my radicalization came from the comedy stylings of Stewart Lee. He's a popular British comedian, and he seems Left sympathetic though I'm not sure if he's an actual leftist or just a woke liberal, but there's lots of stuff in his work about broadly Left ideas like post-WWII welfare state or positive representations of vaguely left-ish utopia, plus endless dunking on conservatives. He's friends with Alan Moore so he must be all right. And it wasn't just Stewart Lee's act that pushed me from being a disaffected liberal teenager/twenty-something to whatever I am now, but his stuff was a step on my journey, putting a positive spin on issues that if you asked me about six years ago, like universal healthcare, I would've said "it's a nice idea, but could it ever work?" Definitely encouraged me to think deeper about political issues and research more. That's just what art can do.
Yeah, there's a small (or, I assume they're small) but vocal group of leftists on YouTube/Twitter who seem to think content should be as dry and informative as possible. And look, I love creators like Shaun, Hakim, or BayArea415, but I think there's room for creators who are trying to make transformative, persuasive art pieces. It's a culture war, baby, and we need slightly flashier stuff like PhilosophyTube or maybe Noncompete or other leftist content creators with an artistic bent to their work.
Literally, a part of my radicalization came from the comedy stylings of Stewart Lee. He's a popular British comedian, and he seems Left sympathetic though I'm not sure if he's an actual leftist or just a woke liberal, but there's lots of stuff in his work about broadly Left ideas like post-WWII welfare state or positive representations of vaguely left-ish utopia, plus endless dunking on conservatives. He's friends with Alan Moore so he must be all right. And it wasn't just Stewart Lee's act that pushed me from being a disaffected liberal teenager/twenty-something to whatever I am now, but his stuff was a step on my journey, putting a positive spin on issues that if you asked me about six years ago, like universal healthcare, I would've said "it's a nice idea, but could it ever work?" Definitely encouraged me to think deeper about political issues and research more. That's just what art can do.