This video was recorded for Sargon's channel, but he got busy in Milwakee.
@citycrusher9308
7 жыл бұрын
Bringing up the Doctor issue won't work to set them back. They'll simply say "white privilege" and that'll be that.
@sirshaggeh6205
7 жыл бұрын
I agree with your remark on Sanders' vaguery, but understand that even suggesting the most obvious source of funding for SPH (a measly 40-50% of what gets allocated annually to deserts full of surplus tanks and metal tubs that will never fly, even 1 trillion later) is too easy a target for character assassination by the right. He seems to strive for things a majority of americans are at least open to considering, but that means he cannot risk alienating those from the center right by opening himself to claims of compromising "national defense." I liked this vid, just wanted to offer a congenial counterpoint (though I agree with the point made, just adding what I hope is relevant context, so....tangentiapoint?). I get that he was not the focus of the video in total, so please do not think I am trying to dismiss you on one niggling part. I like your sedate delivery of substance. Sargon is a master of snark, but a more languid stereotype of what we yanks think of as the classic brit, who can insult you while being perfectly gentlemanly, is a welcome reprieve from the overcharged nature of muh first world crises. All that to say, I hope to see more of your benevolent chastisement (and dismissive praise). Feels like the sitcom fam that none of us deserve, but desparately need right now. Till then: Welcome, to the shitstorm, of the real. Er...youtube discourse...fuck, you get it. Morpheus, pills, "WOAH" faces, not like this!!!. Shutting up now.
@MrSonicAdvance
7 жыл бұрын
Good stuff! I notice you steered well clear of the JQ though. 😉
@FirstLast-cf4mi
5 жыл бұрын
But WHO IS the AcademicAgent..and why are his recommended books priced at £300 on amazon?
@theloyalopposition4210
6 жыл бұрын
I am not an objectivist but I can tell you that the antagonist of The Fountainhead did this. Ellsworth Toohey, the newspaperman. He would get his people to write about individualism as "outmoded" and write about collectivism/socialism like it is inevitable. This is one way Ayn Rand totally nailed SJWs. These days SJWs write about "outdated" masculinity and talk like feminism is the future.
@raystargazer7468
9 күн бұрын
Objectivism has changed me life bru.
@TheImperatorKnight
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you, I found the video very useful.
@juliantheapostate8295
2 жыл бұрын
Nice. AA certainly knows his stuff
@raystargazer7468
9 күн бұрын
Yaay it's Tik! :D
@nonsuch1
5 жыл бұрын
This channel is brilliant. Please keep making these videos!
@ShinobiYaka
7 жыл бұрын
Firstly The inclusion of Roger Scruton was a nice touch, whether you agree or disagree with him, he should always be listened to with care, he deserves far more attention, listening to AA in this video the impression I get, is of someone who is becoming comfortable with his opinion and refining the detail, Kudos AA, great video... and more than a few well-made observations.
@TheBrunarr
7 жыл бұрын
You really should have more subscribers
@FirstLast-cf4mi
5 жыл бұрын
I HATE ISLAM = put on MI5 watchlist I LOVE ISLAM = put on MI5 watchlist ''That's just weird, dude? bro?" - Hasan Piker - KZitem approved Yemen funded news..uh..commenter?
@commentconnoisseur1001
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah... What?
@MatthewBester
5 жыл бұрын
You've given a name to somethings I have been struggling to put into words. I had a debate about the very word "progressive" and how it is assumed to mean an improvement without argument. I pointed out there are some very progressive forms of cancer too. Thank you.
@efthymakisemanouil
6 жыл бұрын
Another excellent video by the unknown heavy hitting Academic Agent.
@dillanmaneny859
5 жыл бұрын
I now understand what a lefty is
@burnsnight1
3 жыл бұрын
A hilarious example of verbal inflation is criticising Trump for using "fight" in his speech when the left consistently use it in their speeches.
@Goths-On-The-Beach
3 жыл бұрын
Orwell has some brilliant writings on the use of euphemism in the political and media sphere still relevant and on point today
@billmelater6470
5 жыл бұрын
Another point to make is that the Left has anointed themselves as the "caring" group; the ones that will see to the "needs of society". *This should frighten everyone.* This by itself is an abdication to recognize the realities of the world with regards to scarcity (for starters) and more importantly, places limitless bounds on what they might do with no cohesive foundational philosophy. Human needs and wants change all the time, without limit. We always want more. And so long as people want more, the Left will try to be the ones to give it to them, justifying their means by the ends and therefor absolving themselves of the sins they commit to achieve their goals.
@juliantheapostate8295
2 жыл бұрын
Yes. They are 'The Anointed' as pointed out by Thomas Sowell
@Sir_TophamHatt
2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely correct. Very underrated point here
@rswtr
7 жыл бұрын
Having debated the left and leftist ideas for decades I would say that the core of leftist thinking is the perceived moral high ground; Nothing else remains if their thinking is systematically and honestly analyzed and "deconstructed". This makes it next to impossible for individuals possessed with that ideology to revise their views unless they are willing to challenge their self image, the very foundations of their personality rooted in this one-dimensional split between good and evil.
@AcademicAgent
7 жыл бұрын
TOTALLY agreed.
@TheReaper569
7 жыл бұрын
Can you also tell me the core of right wing thinking is?
@Synodalian
7 жыл бұрын
Capt Trdl At this point, I don't think it even matters anymore. Any and every label or "-ism" has already been fallaciously equivocated to the point where these terms are essentially meaningless for use in any rational discourse in the debate over political and economic policy. If we're ever going to solve these social problems, I don't think identitarian tactics will get us anywhere. These grouping labels are nothing more than an attempt to dismiss argumentation entirely for the sake of prejudice and rhetoric.
@SonofTiamat
7 жыл бұрын
The moralist will always make excuses for their own immorality
@rswtr
7 жыл бұрын
Hakan, I'd say acceptance that every process of transformation that uses a scarce resource (time, energy, raw materials etc.) generates unequal outcomes at extremely high probability. Evolution is one such process.
@brianring3425
5 жыл бұрын
Loved it. I need to rewatch it. Word magic/Rhetoric and proper grammar were not taught in the schools I went to. I have been working on it myself.
@mielerodriguez5678
5 жыл бұрын
An excellent presentation. I need to watch it again.
@TheWorldFromFerg
7 жыл бұрын
Probably one of the most important topics discussed. I hope this gets out to everyone.
@capybara1775
2 жыл бұрын
The academic agent was sent to this planet with the sole intention of obliterating leftists 🤣. So glad I discovered your channel
@flairandscurr3063
7 жыл бұрын
Can't stop laughing at the mocking of corbyns chant brilliant this video is fab though as it's finally helped me to pin down in my mind what the left is actually doing with language and cut through the confusion as it twists and perverts itself
@GSXK4
4 жыл бұрын
This video is double-plus good.
@rogerrodgers6550
4 жыл бұрын
Another great video Academic Agent will never be outmoded
@wordsofdv
3 жыл бұрын
*sigh* That early quote from Orwell is in context of W H Auden. A poet who initially wrote leftist poems, famously one titled "Spain" about rise of communism and end of fascism, but later softened its political edges. Orwell didn't like that. He considered these people "weak" for flirting with leftist ideas but not going all the way through because they realise that "fire is actually hot". Context matters.
@SerMattzio
3 жыл бұрын
Just started reading The Vision of the Anointed. Thank you AA for putting me onto this book, it is simply fantastic.
@Kurtlane
5 жыл бұрын
This is why I keep losing debates with the left, even though I know that truth, sanity and logic are on my side. I hate debates. In an argument, demagoguery is born. I remember "The Firing Line" with William Buckley Jr., where entire show were filled with his leftist guest trying to pull language tricks and Buckley undoing them. They never got to any substance. Perhaps because there wasn't any. Left a very empty feeling.
@juliantheapostate8295
2 жыл бұрын
Thomas Sowell was a great guest on that. I could tell William enjoyed having him on
@janism94
3 жыл бұрын
I once watched an interview with a North Korean defector. What stood out to me the most was she had no word, or no concept of "hobby". It's not featured in their version of Korean, and the whole concept of hobbies and leisure was very foreign to her.
@SonofTiamat
7 жыл бұрын
2:15 Newspeak freezes and hardens. Or, to quote Rules For Radicals: "Pick a target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it." That entire book is full of double-think, and also had plan of its own for gradually taking away everything the "haves" possessed while burning down the house. I question Sargon's reading comprehension if he honestly couldn't pick up on that.
@SonofTiamat
7 жыл бұрын
And "Centrism" too is merely another word game for that. Centrist may as well mean "please don't notice how left-wing I am."
@pollysshore2539
6 жыл бұрын
Son of Tiamat I see centrist and moderate to be two sides of the same coin. People can be moderate or centrist in respect to their party. As far as I know Sargon has always said he’s on the left but like autism, political parties have a spectrum. When I was approaching voting age in the early 1990s independent was a term commonly used. The majority of young Gen X voters called themselves independents because they were sick of the extremes on the left and right. We hated both. We had grown up watching an absolutely psychotic moral panic/witch hunt that the extremes of both parties participated in. Unfortunately we did not have many options when it came to voting. Most see value in policies within each party. Most look at the issues of the day and say 3 out of 5 ain’t bad. Most are not an self anointed narcissists
@Confucius_76
5 жыл бұрын
I question AA's reading comprehension! He's a smart guy and he makes awesome videos but he makes a lot mistakes when he's reading text
@justinhart2831
5 жыл бұрын
@@SonofTiamat A left-winger may say that centrism means, "please don't notice how right-wing I am." But then the conversation is back at the beginning.
@alhizzy4837
4 жыл бұрын
It's a good thing AA didn't pursue a career as a singer! That David Byrne attempt was something else!
@aob5206
5 жыл бұрын
I Must Say that I am very Impressed with the way you get to the Meat of Today's Political Environment....Perhaps it may just be that you think like i do...Perhaps ? LOL. But I Like ( very much ) how you get to the point and go to the Relevant Points of Today's Discussion of Tactics and of Origins of Modern Leftist Think ( in terms of Tactics ). I have enlightened so many folks on the use of the Marxist ( manipulated ) Dialectic. Using Hegel to ' Create Crises out of Thin Air ! '. Your 'verbal studies ' should be Classroom Discussed Topics. You and Steyn and Jordan do more to educate than Many out there . Keep up the Great Work !.....You are a Rare Bird. Thanks
@lanna7917
5 жыл бұрын
AOB520 what he didn't mention is how liberal/marxist use these same word tactics to pass laws lawyer speak
@uberwayz
4 жыл бұрын
If we stopped using their words then we would start winning. Ive been saying this for years but conservatives keep ceading ground. Political correctness = political coersion
@dartharpy9404
3 жыл бұрын
Loving your channel
@dillanmaneny859
5 жыл бұрын
they have words but no argument I have fund this time and time again
@caleb--
3 жыл бұрын
Just going through some of your back log a bit. Getting more and more based.
@brianbob7514
5 жыл бұрын
I will pay 50 dollars to hear AA sing the whole talking heads song
@MrFisch-jj1yz
5 жыл бұрын
Sad, that I found your channel far to late ... Thx!
@zefanyamarcelino3555
3 жыл бұрын
nice video as always
@plekkchand
3 жыл бұрын
It should also be remarked that much of the linguistic inheritance is influenced by post-Structuralist "interrogations" of difference- and the infinite play of signifiers,etc. The questioning of all distinctions upon which language and society is presumably based. Talk about playing with fire.
@InlineSkaterDad-
6 жыл бұрын
Great video.
@Zipperscarr
6 жыл бұрын
Great video. Thank you.
@duanebidoux6087
Жыл бұрын
I have to admit, it's a lot more nuanced than the language of the Right, where you're exactly sure of everyone they hate and why.
@shadowartist8892
6 жыл бұрын
that was good! has anyone ever told you you look like George Sanders?
@KingCrocoduck
7 жыл бұрын
Good video, though I didn't like the bit on climate change. Both "climate change" and "global warming" have been in regular use since the 70s (at least in the literature) and the author seems to have missed out on the basic distinction between "weather" and "climate." Weather is local and climate is global, and an average rise in global temperature has long been predicted to produce more extreme local weather events, including blizzards. "It's cold outside" =/= evidence against global warming
@noelplum99
6 жыл бұрын
King Crocoduck "Weather is local" unless you live in Lincolnshire, in which case the correct expression is "weather is shit"!!!!!
@ThePharphis
6 жыл бұрын
Came here to make a similar complaint.
@RandyKalff
6 жыл бұрын
Correction: The weather is what happens in the moment while the climate is the weather over the course of time. That's why we use things like "warm climate" or "inhospitable climate". Those terms don't refer to the whole world because they're used in relation to a particular place. Of course "climate change" refers to a change in all climates, but that's another point.
@chewie1355
3 жыл бұрын
Great content
@montanacreed5826
3 жыл бұрын
No differentiation between small businesses and State-supported (taxpayer funded) monopoly/oligopoly industries ("too big to fail") creates the illusion that there is no significant difference, when it is de facto socialism for the wealthy and powerful, and "free market" capitalism for everyone else. Modern economics has deliberately created deceptions of its own, as well. So-called "consumers" are actually the job creators, as every business depends upon sales. No buyers, no sales, no business. Lost is the vital element which had economics in its proper realm of moral philosophy, the actual meaning of Adam Smith's "hidden hand", yet another concept which has had its meaning bastardized in the service of oligarchic dogma and the eternal quest to find a moral justification for selfishness and greed.
@unownnnn
5 жыл бұрын
What a great quote by Orwell.
@antkcuck
5 жыл бұрын
Amazing video
@beholder9
6 жыл бұрын
Made it this far? I wlll be watching again and taking notes.
@sto59
3 жыл бұрын
Addison Dewitt as played by George Sanders.
@Mark_Dyer1
5 жыл бұрын
The use of language for ideological ends is not unique to 'the Left'. I have long wondered why the language of 'service' is reserved to our military brethren and our wretched POLITICIANS. It is only THEY who "serve their Country". Do not Nurses, Police and Fire officers, refuse-collectors and ambulance workers "serve their Country"? No, it is just the Prime Minister and the Marshall of the Royal Air Force who "serve their Country".
@juliantheapostate8295
2 жыл бұрын
The NHS is venerated as if it were a high priesthood, so I don't think you have a good point
@Mark_Dyer1
2 жыл бұрын
@@juliantheapostate8295 JTA: Note the year of the posting of the original. It was BEFORE 'the' NHS had morphed into the religious form you mention, 'our' NHS. But you are absolutely correct about this new version sharing all of the characteristics of a religious CULT. It has certainly lost its 'humanity'; and - possibly - its soul.
@ulexthefirst715
6 жыл бұрын
Nice video Mr. Bastiat from XXI century ^^
@ThatCrimeGuy
6 жыл бұрын
16:02 I'm pretty sure that is the complexion Shaun King is trying to emulate...
@zaidhernandez4601
Жыл бұрын
Ooh awesome
@Inspector-Chisholm
5 жыл бұрын
How about "Words have consequences?"
@metalwellington
4 жыл бұрын
so spot on.
@ivrishcon-abarth38
6 жыл бұрын
Excellent detailing of the abuse of language for devious purposes, if one might use such expression.
@ThunderChunky101
4 жыл бұрын
Scrut'n!
@ChallengRtHim2
7 жыл бұрын
Don't forget Racism and Racists. By Trosky
@maverickstclare3756
3 жыл бұрын
Even Marx didn't use "Capitalism", the word was added to later translations by the Soviets.
@benjaminwalker7793
6 жыл бұрын
I'm actually listening to the audio book of 1984 about 2/3 of the way through.
@rami6259
6 жыл бұрын
I look On History I started it but it is so freaking long
@johngreen2855
3 жыл бұрын
Of for god's sake.. Soul its Thomas Soul. Yes I know its spelled sowel but are many interviews with him on KZitem.
@juliantheapostate8295
2 жыл бұрын
Sowell
@pruusnhanna4422
7 жыл бұрын
Does the term 'Lingua Tertii Imperii' mean anything to you?
@caleb--
3 жыл бұрын
I would call verbal inflation concept creep
@kennybania3757
6 жыл бұрын
Everyone should read Scruton.
@wasabimanic
5 жыл бұрын
NAAPOC Imagine if "People of Colour " referred to EVERY colour except................................ .black.
@tlbritcher6865
4 жыл бұрын
1000th like! Hahaha xoxo AA
@theoneheretosty
5 жыл бұрын
as much as I agree, you should cut down on the smoking in your videos. ;)
@rwl0323
6 жыл бұрын
Genius !!!!!!
@chipo8877
6 жыл бұрын
that is right, now we have leftist newspeak.
@hasyourgulaggotplanningper2459
4 жыл бұрын
Double-plus gud vid.
@gustav1235
3 жыл бұрын
lmao I thought BAME meant Black, Asian and Middle East and this is in 2021!
@gustav1235
3 жыл бұрын
Am i wrong? I don't know the answer! haha
@vangamut
5 жыл бұрын
Do you really smoke the pipe or is that just a prop?
@AcademicAgent
5 жыл бұрын
I smoke cuban cigars.
@slimmorrison
5 жыл бұрын
Personally, I've never understood why the left despises this type of information. Theres nothing wrong with being a race know for superior athletic ability.
@markgreen4612
7 жыл бұрын
A good critique of the authoritarian left but certainly doesn't describe the libertarian left, otherwise known as liberals.
@AcademicAgent
7 жыл бұрын
Most of the examples from Sowell were from liberals.
@markgreen4612
7 жыл бұрын
But Sowell refers to the authoritarian left as liberals so anything that he has to say about liberals is therefore suspect because of his miscategorization.
@Danarcis
7 жыл бұрын
Does there exist a non-capitalist left anywhere in the western world? Apart from the fringe parties?
@AcademicAgent
7 жыл бұрын
Danarcis Yes, Jeremy Corbyn's Labour in UK. Also Melanchon in France, and current governments in Spain and Portugal.
@Danarcis
7 жыл бұрын
Oh right, I already knew about the frenchies. I always figured that Labour was a bit capitalist since the UK seems more capitalist in general, but I havent followed UK politics much. It is kind of interesting about Spain though, having a far left-wing government so strongly agaisnt Catalan independence, it seems incongruent in principle. I am quite happy about living in Denmark, as free markets as possible while having a very secure social safetynet, which also actively helps drive people back into jobs. Pretty much 80 % of our parliament agrees on this model and our main disagreement is about refugees (Although the right wing government has breached some basic Danish democratic principles recently) and a little bit on taxation levels.
@Danarcis
7 жыл бұрын
Hah, that's such a misunderstanding. There's a reason we have occasionally been on the top of Forbes list of where it is best to start a business~ We run our welfare system largely through taxes on people rather than taxing businesses. Which people are perfectly happy with. So our market is very liberal in the true sense of the word.
@SlintEastwood
6 жыл бұрын
not really, the most popular Western anti-capitalist party I can think of is Die Linke in Germany, which is relatively popular in East Germany and especially East Berlin. UK Labor, PSOE in Spain, and PS in Portugal aren't anti-capitalist, they're social democratic parties
@Danarcis
6 жыл бұрын
It did seem like AA was being quite hyperbolic
@MaisieDaisyUpsadaisy
7 жыл бұрын
The term global warming has not been replaced with the term climate change, they describe completely sijfwrenr stuff and have been used since the 40s
@MaisieDaisyUpsadaisy
7 жыл бұрын
*different
@MaisieDaisyUpsadaisy
7 жыл бұрын
Capt Trdl I have no understanding of what relevance your comment has to my post??? Are you trying to say that Al Gore - when people bring Al Gore into a discussion on climate science I know they are ignorant on the topic - invented the term climate change and global warming??? I'm just baffled as to why you wrote that comment.
@Dave-ws9pt
7 жыл бұрын
I think he is talking about the general use of the terms has changed from global warming to climate change, before that I can't remember of the order, but it used to be 'the greenhouse effect' before that.
@GLORYNEVADASMITH
5 жыл бұрын
Pray tell of the language games of the right .
@mrj3nk044
5 жыл бұрын
Censorship: Local and Express. A. Rand. Summary: different sides of the same coin. Both [conservatives and liberals] hold the same premise-the mind-body dichotomy-but choose opposite sides of this lethal fallacy. The conservatives want freedom to act in the material realm; they tend to oppose government control of production, of industry, of trade, of business, of physical goods, of material wealth. But they advocate government control of man’s spirit, i.e., man’s consciousness; they advocate the State’s right to impose censorship, to determine moral values, to create and enforce a governmental establishment of morality, to rule the intellect. The liberals want freedom to act in the spiritual realm; they oppose censorship, they oppose government control of ideas, of the arts, of the press, of education (note their concern with “academic freedom”). But they advocate government control of material production, of business, of employment, of wages, of profits, of all physical property-they advocate it all the way down to total expropriation. The conservatives see man as a body freely roaming the earth, building sand piles or factories-with an electronic computer inside his skull, controlled from Washington. The liberals see man as a soul freewheeling to the farthest reaches of the universe-but wearing chains from nose to toes when he crosses the street to buy a loaf of bread. Yet it is the conservatives who are predominantly religionists, who proclaim the superiority of the soul over the body, who represent what I call the “mystics of spirit.” And it is the liberals who are predominantly materialists, who regard man as an aggregate of meat, and who represent what I call the “mystics of muscle.” This is merely a paradox, not a contradiction: each camp wants to control the realm it regards as metaphysically important; each grants freedom only to the activities it despises. Observe that the conservatives insult and demean the rich or those who succeed in material production, regarding them as morally inferior-and that the liberals treat ideas as a cynical con game. “Control,” to both camps, means the power to rule by physical force. Neither camp holds freedom as a value. The conservatives want to rule man’s consciousness; the liberals, his body.
@rogierb5945
Жыл бұрын
Interest way to look at it. Thanks for posting.
@luckyaway9665
7 жыл бұрын
I wish that we could stop assuming what "the left" and "the right" do. It's so intellectually dishonest to argue against strawmen. That's why internet discourse will never be important. P.S I hate to be "that guy" but George Orwell himself was Left-wing, and that quote was misattributed. That being said, I don't really believe this was a mistake on your part. I just think you're being dishonest. There is no-one on the internet who hasn't had it pointed out to them that George Orwell was a Socialist by some leftist.
@AcademicAgent
7 жыл бұрын
Ze Gogo Am I wrong in anything I said in this video? You also attack internet discourse but I spent most of this video reading from books and newspapers, so was that really a point?
@luckyaway9665
7 жыл бұрын
If you give me some time I can come up with a list, but it'll take a while so I won't reply immediately. And also, yes, at least one thing because I've already mentioned that that quote was misattributed.
@AcademicAgent
7 жыл бұрын
Ze Gogo I provided the source of the Orwell quotation in the links. It's an essay from 1940.
@ordinarydevin
5 жыл бұрын
Ze Gogo Still building that list? Or have you retired to your lie hole Tarantula?
@DrSpooglemon
4 жыл бұрын
Well, this video was pointless.
@alexandereleniak657
4 жыл бұрын
And so was your comment.
@tamanwar203
6 жыл бұрын
Using 1984 for a video criticizing the left. You're a genius, aren't you ?
@baigandinel7956
5 жыл бұрын
1984 is not about a simplistic left-right paradigm. The left is more than capable of being the primary one to adopt most of its tactics.
@The31JOEISANERDS
7 жыл бұрын
wait are u actually using Orwell to criticise the left? How original and... ignorant.
@AcademicAgent
7 жыл бұрын
What?
@TheBrunarr
7 жыл бұрын
I think he's trying to say you're ignorant for using Orwell to criticize the left because he was on the left himself, but that's not a valid argument.
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