If you are over 18 and want to take part in the international kurzgesagt meetup: Go to our temporary subreddit and look for your area or city, to find a Kurz...
I haven’t watched this particular video, but it’s worth pointing out that the channel (Kurzgesagt) is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (and possibly some part of the German government, IIRC, but I can’t find a source for it right now), so be wary of any political content like their video on climate change
Kurzgesagt gets funding from the German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF. Their financing model is a little weird but they are in practice state media. German liberals love to claim that they’re not state media as their money doesn’t come from the government but a separate household broadcasting fee.
In looking that up I found mostly German media articles referencing the partnership (it looks like it’s primarily to support the production of German language content). There’s also a bunch of far-right German libertarian type conspiracy blogs raving about how these videos are all lies.
Empanada (regardless of what we think of him) has also done some great responses to them. I stopped paying attention to them a while ago without the need for anyone’s input. Their videos are off-putting. Their videos are all lies cleverly developed to confuse and convince people who haven’t seen the big picture yet.
That’s the point. Without a grasp of social theory you will only engage with the video thesis, “why am I lonely” and take their words and cutesy pictures at face value without being able to root the thesis into it’s broader social context. Without a grasp of social theory you can be lied to and persuaded in any direction. That’s what these videos are designed to do.
It’ll be interesting to see how they slip their shitty politics into this
Edit: okay, this video wasn’t as bad as the climate one. It makes some pretty basic points which I think we can all forget when we get tunnel visions sometimes. Yeah, call your friends who you lost contact with, just send a text/ call, don’t be afraid of rejection, etc.
It talks about social media and how it isolates some of us, but naturally, it doesn’t really ask why social media is oriented the way it is. Not surprising of course.
I don’t know what it is, but I feel like these are the more banal videos sprinkled in there to put other things into your mind in the future. If there was anything you could take away, great! Just be aware of why Kursegast even exists to begin with. Every video has some kind of intention behind it. Perhaps I’m cynical.
I haven’t watched this particular video, but it’s worth pointing out that the channel (Kurzgesagt) is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (and possibly some part of the German government, IIRC, but I can’t find a source for it right now), so be wary of any political content like their video on climate change
Kurzgesagt gets funding from the German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF. Their financing model is a little weird but they are in practice state media. German liberals love to claim that they’re not state media as their money doesn’t come from the government but a separate household broadcasting fee.
In looking that up I found mostly German media articles referencing the partnership (it looks like it’s primarily to support the production of German language content). There’s also a bunch of far-right German libertarian type conspiracy blogs raving about how these videos are all lies.
Empanada (regardless of what we think of him) has also done some great responses to them. I stopped paying attention to them a while ago without the need for anyone’s input. Their videos are off-putting. Their videos are all lies cleverly developed to confuse and convince people who haven’t seen the big picture yet.
That’s the point. Without a grasp of social theory you will only engage with the video thesis, “why am I lonely” and take their words and cutesy pictures at face value without being able to root the thesis into it’s broader social context. Without a grasp of social theory you can be lied to and persuaded in any direction. That’s what these videos are designed to do.
Thanks, that was probably what I was thinking of
It’ll be interesting to see how they slip their shitty politics into this
Edit: okay, this video wasn’t as bad as the climate one. It makes some pretty basic points which I think we can all forget when we get tunnel visions sometimes. Yeah, call your friends who you lost contact with, just send a text/ call, don’t be afraid of rejection, etc.
It talks about social media and how it isolates some of us, but naturally, it doesn’t really ask why social media is oriented the way it is. Not surprising of course.
I don’t know what it is, but I feel like these are the more banal videos sprinkled in there to put other things into your mind in the future. If there was anything you could take away, great! Just be aware of why Kursegast even exists to begin with. Every video has some kind of intention behind it. Perhaps I’m cynical.
yeah i basically only watch them for their science content, which is still pretty good