Posted On: Wednesday - August 31st 2022 4:53PM MST
In Topics: Music Curmudgeonry Media Stupidity Muh Generation
This quick comment under an iSteve post by Rob McX had an embedded video that got me back on track for this post. I was going to write this over 3 months ago, but I was missing something.
See, it's one thing to do a search using some text, but I was in a quandary. In the post Immigrant non-Assimilation in Germany and 2 more items (you may very well remember Lauren Southern's "2 more items") I mentioned that I wanted to rant on 3 things that I don't like about the young pundits in otherwise very good video clips. I tried searching for 10 minutes here and another 10 minutes there, but without remembering the guy's name, I couldn't find out who was the one most representative to me of one of my pet peeves.
Ahaaa! The guy's name is Paul Joseph Watson. He's a 40 y/o from Sheffield, England who's obviously very big as a young (OK, that's relative, but he does have a scruffy face, so ...) Conservative youtuber. It's a career, I guess. The guy's good, don't get me wrong. I have not found any major thing so far I disagree with him about, except for the delivery. I may as well use* the one Rob McX embedded - it's good material otherwise:
What's the deal with the frequent splicing? There was some of that in the Lauren Southern video too, one time by which this splicing moved her breasts apart 2 inches in a split second .. weird, but mesmerizing...
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OK, are you back or not? I'm talking about PJ Watson's video now. It's an extreme example... I hope! This is a thing with a lot of the young pundits when they make/edit their videos. Is this done to save on video play-time? Is it because the pundits can't do a good "take" for too long? (They could splice differently though, then.) Is this supposed to be cool? Is it done - almost the same as my first question - to save US, the viewers, precious seconds of our days? Do they think if they pause for 2 seconds we will have already clicked elsewhere?
I don't know, but what I DO KNOW is that this is very annoying. It's not just the foolish look of the whole thing, but brief pauses, for1 second, 2 seconds, even 4 or 5, are helpful for the viewers. One needs time to absorb the thought of the sentence(s) before listening to the next ones. Is this the way the Millennial Generation people think too? Can they let things sink in without a voice or text pushing it on them?
This quick jumping around will make me exit out from some of these otherwise good video... unless it's T&A that's doing the jumping around. Otherwise, no. I don't like it. I don't like it one bit, I tell you.
Oh yeah, what are the other 2 annoying things, you ask? One is the concept of the mobile pundit, discussed in our post I can link to spotted toad, I can podcast on the road, goin' mobile ... We covered that pretty well there. Sit still, calm down, and stop talking for a second here and there, for cryin' out loud! What was the 3rd thing? I can't remember, but I'll take any inputs the reader may have in the comments here.
Peak Stupidity featured this Wang Chung song at least once before, maybe twice even. This has to be here, though. It's an extreme example of rapid video splicing, but I give these old MTV-era people credit - it's just a song.
[Caution: Not recommended for our epileptic readers. - PS Legal Dept.]
Paul Joseph Roberts, I'm down with your opinion, but I want to know if you have Wang Chunged tonight?
* Whoa! Youtube is really freaking biased. The first bunch of videos I found, even when using the exact wording from the frame of the iSteve-embedded one, "Guess what this country did?", it put anti-PJ Watson videos as the first 5 or more. I don't know how straight-up that is. The guy's got to have more fans doing searches (especially with this exact wording) than detractors. Bunch of assholes there at youtube, I guess...
Comments:
Moderator
Friday - September 2nd 2022 3:07AM MST
PS: Mr. Hail, thank you for the additional background on Paul Joseph Watson. I left you one more comment under the post about Harry Truman. I see you put the Conrad Black review on just a separate "flat" web page, unlike a normal post - I couldn't comment there, of course.
Dieter Kief
Friday - September 2nd 2022 12:14AM MST
PS
Mr. Hail asked me about this last line of my Paul Manaford Interview tags: Italian-irish old European/ US/ Christian mentality, Mr. Hail, at work in a heavy duty existential crisis - and doing impressively well."
It's what Paul Manaford says: That his Irish-Italian/ Christian roots helped him to - avoid to become crazy during the process. And I want to add, that the way in which he got through all of this impressed me even more. Andrew Anglin seems to not much like Paul Manaford, but he says nevertheless that this is a bright man; I'd add courageous, firm & humble.
Mr. Hail asked me about this last line of my Paul Manaford Interview tags: Italian-irish old European/ US/ Christian mentality, Mr. Hail, at work in a heavy duty existential crisis - and doing impressively well."
It's what Paul Manaford says: That his Irish-Italian/ Christian roots helped him to - avoid to become crazy during the process. And I want to add, that the way in which he got through all of this impressed me even more. Andrew Anglin seems to not much like Paul Manaford, but he says nevertheless that this is a bright man; I'd add courageous, firm & humble.
Hail
Thursday - September 1st 2022 9:21PM MST
PS
The Manafort interview
Here is a full copy of the Tucker Carlson Today hour-long interview with former political prisoner Paul Manafort:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/zfdD17KjKQzq/
Hosted at Bitchute, it may survive there longer than the version linked to at Bing Videos. (That link only sent me to a three-minute preview version.)
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RE: Dieter Kief writing on "imagined tags for this interview" with Paul Manafort:
"FBI going off the rails; corrupt judicial system in Washington DC; Black & white & class aspects of the jury-system; Blacks & Democrats; Russia Collusion hoax; Ukraine; corruption; the Biden family & Ukraine; Julia Tymochenko & George Soros and Urkainian gas. Italian-irish old european/ US/ Christian mentality, Mr. Hail, at work in a heavy duty existential crisis - and doing impressively well."
I'm afraid I don't understand the last line, can you clarify?
The Manafort interview
Here is a full copy of the Tucker Carlson Today hour-long interview with former political prisoner Paul Manafort:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/zfdD17KjKQzq/
Hosted at Bitchute, it may survive there longer than the version linked to at Bing Videos. (That link only sent me to a three-minute preview version.)
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RE: Dieter Kief writing on "imagined tags for this interview" with Paul Manafort:
"FBI going off the rails; corrupt judicial system in Washington DC; Black & white & class aspects of the jury-system; Blacks & Democrats; Russia Collusion hoax; Ukraine; corruption; the Biden family & Ukraine; Julia Tymochenko & George Soros and Urkainian gas. Italian-irish old european/ US/ Christian mentality, Mr. Hail, at work in a heavy duty existential crisis - and doing impressively well."
I'm afraid I don't understand the last line, can you clarify?
Hail
Thursday - September 1st 2022 9:18PM MST
PS
Paul Joseph Watson was a longtime InfoWars / Prison Planet talker and reporter, who launched his own career as social media star. He became big for his "twitter-zingers"---there is virtually no other form of "content" on twitter---and was a relatively big name on "social media" by about 2016, I think. About that time he became one of the names associated with the so-called "Alt Lite" (persons seen as watered-down versions of the Alt Right). Strangely, PJW has remained unbanned through it all.
To me, he is comparable in important ways to the demagogue known as Cernovich, also a "social media personality."
Another smaller-fry version of the same was known as "Baked Alaska," who was a classic internet-troll, I think from video-gaming culture, a prolific "streamer," and who in 2016 drifted into the Alt Right. "Baked Alaska" today counts as one of the thousand-plus January Sixth political prisoners. He was the one chanting "fed! fed! fed!" in one of the widely circulated videos, and received a cruel sentence for briefly trespassing in the Capitol.
The problem with all the people like this is: they are interested in being celebrities, but they market themselves as fearless truth-tellers. The ease and of video creation and consumption now feeds these people's proclivity to pursue fame and attention like never possible before. The female-centric internet-subculture of "influencers," which involves women who develop followings and then are paid to talk up certain clothing brands or make up brands, or destinations to travel, is a similar phenomenon. The male equivalent is more often political in type but still has important similarities with that frivolous "influencer" model. Who's that scholar who said "the medium is the message"?
At some point in the 2010s, the phrase "social media personality" entered the language. I don't know, when that day came ("social media personality"), we had entered uncharted waters.
Paul Joseph Watson was a longtime InfoWars / Prison Planet talker and reporter, who launched his own career as social media star. He became big for his "twitter-zingers"---there is virtually no other form of "content" on twitter---and was a relatively big name on "social media" by about 2016, I think. About that time he became one of the names associated with the so-called "Alt Lite" (persons seen as watered-down versions of the Alt Right). Strangely, PJW has remained unbanned through it all.
To me, he is comparable in important ways to the demagogue known as Cernovich, also a "social media personality."
Another smaller-fry version of the same was known as "Baked Alaska," who was a classic internet-troll, I think from video-gaming culture, a prolific "streamer," and who in 2016 drifted into the Alt Right. "Baked Alaska" today counts as one of the thousand-plus January Sixth political prisoners. He was the one chanting "fed! fed! fed!" in one of the widely circulated videos, and received a cruel sentence for briefly trespassing in the Capitol.
The problem with all the people like this is: they are interested in being celebrities, but they market themselves as fearless truth-tellers. The ease and of video creation and consumption now feeds these people's proclivity to pursue fame and attention like never possible before. The female-centric internet-subculture of "influencers," which involves women who develop followings and then are paid to talk up certain clothing brands or make up brands, or destinations to travel, is a similar phenomenon. The male equivalent is more often political in type but still has important similarities with that frivolous "influencer" model. Who's that scholar who said "the medium is the message"?
At some point in the 2010s, the phrase "social media personality" entered the language. I don't know, when that day came ("social media personality"), we had entered uncharted waters.
Moderator
Thursday - September 1st 2022 7:06AM MST
PS: Dieter, thanks for the comment. I will see if I can't watch that Tucker interview today or tomorrow sometime.
I'm guessing these young people would not be up for the 1 3/4 hours long Jordan Peterson / Camille Paglia discussion (one of them was interviewing the other, but I forget which way) I had up on here long ago. I surprised myself by enjoying it.
"Camille Paglia and another Intellectual going on for an hour and 43 minutes":
https://www.peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=438
Of course you can't have jump cuts (thanks for the term Alarmist) in live recordings, but I just like things to be a little calmer. I don't mind the ranting, Alex Jones style, even, but just stay the hell in one spot (unless you need to get to the chalk board like Glenn Beck, haha) and give me a few milliseconds to reflect on what you've said.
If it comes to playing a video at 1.5x or 2x speed, I think I'd enjoy a transcript much more. From what I've determined from my estimates of reading John Derbyshire's "Radio Derb" podcast transcripts, and the exact time that is shown on the pages, reading is 5 - 10 x faster for me. OTOH, Mr. D., even in an audio sense, would not splice things, and he has snippets of music in between times that I can't read.
I'm guessing these young people would not be up for the 1 3/4 hours long Jordan Peterson / Camille Paglia discussion (one of them was interviewing the other, but I forget which way) I had up on here long ago. I surprised myself by enjoying it.
"Camille Paglia and another Intellectual going on for an hour and 43 minutes":
https://www.peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=438
Of course you can't have jump cuts (thanks for the term Alarmist) in live recordings, but I just like things to be a little calmer. I don't mind the ranting, Alex Jones style, even, but just stay the hell in one spot (unless you need to get to the chalk board like Glenn Beck, haha) and give me a few milliseconds to reflect on what you've said.
If it comes to playing a video at 1.5x or 2x speed, I think I'd enjoy a transcript much more. From what I've determined from my estimates of reading John Derbyshire's "Radio Derb" podcast transcripts, and the exact time that is shown on the pages, reading is 5 - 10 x faster for me. OTOH, Mr. D., even in an audio sense, would not splice things, and he has snippets of music in between times that I can't read.
The Alarmist
Thursday - September 1st 2022 5:00AM MST
PS
Jump cuts are so edgy ... like seven years ago. Yes, it is the hallmark of the tl;dw generation, who are also known for watching videos at 2X. Despite being a late-stage Boomer, I can nevertheless watch videos at 2x, but I still like to watch them at a relaxed 1.5% to ensure I get the gist. I don’t mind jump cuts, especially if it takes out the excessive use of fillers like ummm, like, and uh, that are endemic in Millenial and Z comms.
Remember when MTV made shaky cam the in thing, and then when hand-held cams became widely available, everybody had to rush out and buy Steadicams because there is such a thing as too much shake.
As George Harrison once sang, “All things must pass.”
Jump cuts are so edgy ... like seven years ago. Yes, it is the hallmark of the tl;dw generation, who are also known for watching videos at 2X. Despite being a late-stage Boomer, I can nevertheless watch videos at 2x, but I still like to watch them at a relaxed 1.5% to ensure I get the gist. I don’t mind jump cuts, especially if it takes out the excessive use of fillers like ummm, like, and uh, that are endemic in Millenial and Z comms.
Remember when MTV made shaky cam the in thing, and then when hand-held cams became widely available, everybody had to rush out and buy Steadicams because there is such a thing as too much shake.
As George Harrison once sang, “All things must pass.”
Dieter Kief
Thursday - September 1st 2022 2:25AM MST
PS PS
He has found his internet niche. I watched him ca. 20 minutes per year. Which is a lot. Well spend time. And - for lots of reasons, not least, Mod., aesthetical ones, - I'll not spendd more time with his vids. - Maybe less.
I've spend 60 Minutes watching this - very old style video: Tucker Carlson talking to Paul Manaford. After this 60 minutes, I thought, that this one'd be history-book-worthy:
https://tinyurl.com/mtrfet49
Imagined tags for this interview: FBI going off the rails; corrupt judicial system in Washington DC; Black & white & class aspects of the jury-system; Blacks & Democrats; Russia Collusion hoax; Ukraine; corruption; the Biden family & Ukraine; Julia Tymochenko & George Soros and Urkainian gas. Italian-irish old european/ US/ Christian mentality, Mr. Hail, at work in a heavy duty existential crisis - and doing impressively well.
Andrew Anglin is attacking Paul Manford quite harsh here - but he made me aware of this great Manaford-interview, so I thanked him in the comments:
https://www.unz.com/aanglin/the-fifth-impeachment-doj-says-theyre-investigating-donald-trump-for-obstruction/#new_comments
He has found his internet niche. I watched him ca. 20 minutes per year. Which is a lot. Well spend time. And - for lots of reasons, not least, Mod., aesthetical ones, - I'll not spendd more time with his vids. - Maybe less.
I've spend 60 Minutes watching this - very old style video: Tucker Carlson talking to Paul Manaford. After this 60 minutes, I thought, that this one'd be history-book-worthy:
https://tinyurl.com/mtrfet49
Imagined tags for this interview: FBI going off the rails; corrupt judicial system in Washington DC; Black & white & class aspects of the jury-system; Blacks & Democrats; Russia Collusion hoax; Ukraine; corruption; the Biden family & Ukraine; Julia Tymochenko & George Soros and Urkainian gas. Italian-irish old european/ US/ Christian mentality, Mr. Hail, at work in a heavy duty existential crisis - and doing impressively well.
Andrew Anglin is attacking Paul Manford quite harsh here - but he made me aware of this great Manaford-interview, so I thanked him in the comments:
https://www.unz.com/aanglin/the-fifth-impeachment-doj-says-theyre-investigating-donald-trump-for-obstruction/#new_comments
Moderator
Thursday - September 1st 2022 12:41AM MST
PS: Thanks, UsNThem for the background. Maybe he's a special case, in that this is his "trademark", so to speak, but I've seen this in lots of videos.
usNthem
Wednesday - August 31st 2022 8:09PM MST
PS
His videos have used that odd format ever since I've watched him off and on for a few years. I believe he was affiliated with Alex Jones at one time. He's good, but the only time I see him these days is when one of his vids pops up on a website I happen to traffic.
His videos have used that odd format ever since I've watched him off and on for a few years. I believe he was affiliated with Alex Jones at one time. He's good, but the only time I see him these days is when one of his vids pops up on a website I happen to traffic.