How Feel-Good Stories Let A Broken System Off The Hook
Added 2021-12-22 17:34:37 +0000 UTCHowdy, comrades! I'm sure we've all seen those despicable puff pieces about kids selling lemonade to pay for their chemo, or a janitor being gifted a car after walking 15 miles to work for 20 years, or any of the other dystopian nightmares spun as "heartwarming." Well in this video we're going to talk about it. How stories are framed plays a crucial role in propagandizing the population to accept things as they are. We need to push back against that. Hope you enjoy!
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2022-12-20 09:07:36 +0000 UTCAccording to Max Weber, it is from the traditional value social rationale. It's a rationalization that tries to make meaningless tradition more meaningful. So, there can be a subconscious process that just brings about these kinds of emotional responses rather than by contemplation.
2022-03-03 01:42:20 +0000 UTCI really enjoy your videos. And showing my mom this and the one about the myth of the "self-made" billionaire made her urge me to support you!
2022-01-17 12:05:53 +0000 UTCLove your videos. They are always spectacularly well made. Love from australia
Christie Aucamp-Schutte
2022-01-06 03:15:40 +0000 UTCThank you - this piece really made me re-evaluate our role in how we contribute to society. We shouldn't be offsetting the system's greed but use our resources to fix the broken system.
2021-12-29 11:23:34 +0000 UTCOne of the best videos on the channel!
Trevor Rose
2021-12-27 17:31:34 +0000 UTCI feel like your videos have gotten much more openly leftist since the program began. Of course, _I_ agree 10,000%, but one of the best points about your channel is that the videos are easy to share with non-leftist acquaintances. I'm not sure whether that is still true or not.
Danny Boy
2021-12-27 13:19:23 +0000 UTCI use to be a liberal and retweet those “feel good stories”. One of the few things America is number 1 at is using propaganda. Most the us news uses propaganda, the military videos, government videos, etc. Someone should do a video comparing the US/government to the BITE model.
2021-12-23 23:35:43 +0000 UTCMany Americans would feel proud that poorer citizens are handling their poverty as it should be handled, by doing impossible actions to raise money for other poorer people. The separation is getting wider and wider.
2021-12-23 21:16:48 +0000 UTCWord.
Nathan Ngumi
2021-12-23 11:30:13 +0000 UTCI'm so cynical that just seeing the puff piece headlines put me in a fit of rage (like "only in capitalism would a kid have to raise $ for his brother's cancer treatment). I don't see them as puff but indictment of the system
2021-12-23 03:37:45 +0000 UTCThe heartwarming news post and other videos about people helping others from a problem caused by capitalism, it just makes me angrier at the system.
2021-12-22 21:30:19 +0000 UTCExactly.
Dragi Raos
2021-12-22 21:15:30 +0000 UTC
