What troubles me about some of the people doing this is in most cases - JP especially - they have deep structural (scholarly) knowledge of populism & crowd-manipulation (JP talks about Hitler's etc speeches in old videos); so they *know* what they are doing. It's a deliberate acthttps://twitter.com/moiragweigel/status/1067870449412030464 …
Yea. Generally for what I study, I spend far more time watching things I disagree with than agree with. (I finally got smart and started using @brave in a private session to help isolate that form of browsing).
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But, watching his YT, it sure seemed like his popularity was mostly due to presentation style. And the received part is what
@moiragweigel said: identity with feelings attached. The ideas exist as means of subsequent viewer rationalization. ...what you learn about in his field. -
Ethos > pathos > logos
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Good idea - but this was just when YouTube's conspiracy problem was becoming obvious and I regret to say I wasn't being paranoid "ahead of the herd" about it. Anyway it's resolved now
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