Shadowing-Übung: Consume more than you Create: Žižek, Lord of the Flies, Balenciaga, the Pygmalion delusion, ADHD - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video

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Everyone on the internet is reinforcing create more than you consume.

And one cannot exist without the other.

You can't create without consuming because you cannot just fathom things.

Otherwise, everything only exists in your mind.

I love consuming and I think we should stop telling people to stop consuming because that's how you learn.

Who else are you going to learn the information from if you do not know it yourself inherently?

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and I don't think we need to tell people to stop just to stop consuming because personally that is how I learn.

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So another thing that I wanted to tell you

that the internet gets wrong is the ideology that you should create more than you consume, which I think is wrong.

I think you need to actually consume more than you create.

So when that balance is off, leaning towards creation being higher than the consumption,

that's when you start saying things wrong and you start saying things that you've just made up.

And I guess the sort of difficulty is that a lot of the internet is untrue.

Another thing that you do have to learn is how to decipher between correct and incorrect information, factual information and opinion pieces being presented as a fact.

You need to be able to recognise pseudo-intellectualism and not just pseudo-pseudo- intellectualism but actually sort of people presenting opinion as fact.

I do try not to do that and that's why I sort of include

so many screenshots and visuals and whilst I call this, whilst I affectionately call this a podcast it's it wouldn't really

work as a simply audio medium it is also visual

because I like to include a lot of the evidence with screenshots

and sort of stuff like

that I do think that's important in portraying information as no

it's not just my opinion anyway what I was going on

to tell you was along the lines of create more than you consume another thing

that I hear on the internet is the sort of importance of curation

and planning today's podcast episode is about learning

and about finding things to find interesting

and how do you how do you discover things one of the things

that i hear in this section of the internet creating your own curriculum um it's not

that serious if you want to become disgustingly educated build your own curriculum

if you want to become disgustingly educated you need to start

a personal curriculum you want to become disgustingly educated first i actually stop with my personal curriculum.

This is how I set up my personal curriculum and all of the classes are divided by units.

So you want to be disgustingly well read, then you should create a personal curriculum.

Stop creating, stop curating, stop ordering, organizing, planning and just do it.

So the temptation is that you spend all this time curating, planning a curriculum and oh yeah I'm going to learn about this

and then that links to this and I'm going to learn about that next.

Just do it, just fall into it, just consume.

Some things are going to be wrong

and along the way you will recognise things that are wrong

and if you start saying it on the internet people will tell you that you're wrong but that's part of it, you know it's this curiosity tax I guess.

Some of it is going to be wrong

and you're going to get things wrong

but you're not going to learn from getting everything right in the like you know

if everything is right right from the beginning you've just spent too much time planning

and you end up not creating anything at all one of

my new favorite youtube channels i know his name is julian he's sort of like a meme philosopher

and i find him terribly interesting he's obsessed with zhuzek zhuzek

has a lot of ideas on gambling advertising pornography the internet it's something

that you don't get quite so much from very old philosophers because the internet didn't exist.

I mean, obviously, no one's creating anything new here.

Humans have existed for far too long to be creating anything new.

Whenever you're talking about consumption and capitalism, there's always going to be some sort of Marxist view.

But Zizek does have some really great ideas.

And Julian, this YouTuber that I watch, loves Zizek.

Zizek has a good joke about this.

It's an old Jewish joke where Zizek says that the difference between a pessimist and an optimist is this.

the pessimist looks at the world and says everything's crap, everything's doomed, it's all going to hell.

And then the optimist looks at the world and says, no, no, no, no, it can get a lot worse.

And I think it's great, to be honest.

Anyway, this is not really a podcast about Zuzek.

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I was more talking about where I'm learning stuff from and I do learn stuff from Julian.

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I know that a lot of you think it's quite funny to write in my comment section, okay, pens out, notes taken.

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I take notes on YouTube videos.

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Here are some of my notes from Julian's YouTube channel.

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Philosophy is incredibly hard to explain and I'm sure

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that Julian would do it much better than me and basically I'm regurgitating stuff that I've learned from other people.

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As I say, this is not stuff that I invent.

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I'm learning from other people and I get it through consumption.

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But one of the things that Zizek, one of his main philosophies, is you can realise that something is an ideology but still believe it.

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You can realise that it's ideas and opinions

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and it's all a think piece but still participate in it and I love that.

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When you start to consume you start to relate everything to each other

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so another thing that I was um that I that I consumed the BBC adaptation of Lord of the Flies.

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Lord of the Flies holds such a big space in my heart

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because I don't actually particularly like reading which you might find odd

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because I think I talk about you know books and texts and literature quite often.

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I don't like books, I don't like novels, generally I'm a non-fiction reader.

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I like essays, articles, news, podcasts, it's quite unusual to me to be interested in a novel.

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But anyway, I watched for the first time the BBC adaptation of Lord of the Flies, and it was the most horrific, horrendous, disturbing thing I've ever watched in my life.

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I hated it.

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It was disgusting, but I loved it.

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It was an amazing, dreamy, hallucinatory depiction of Lord of the Flies.

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the vbc adaptation is in four parts piggy jack simon ralph

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i believe is the order i might have to fact check

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that thorn is his name thorn was the writer i think

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simon in particular in this this thorn adaptation was most misrepresented character

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i'm sort of saying this assuming

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that you know lord of the flies i mean it's a very well-known book

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so i'm sort of saying this assuming that you know what happens

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but in the book i don't want to just tell you the story of lord of the flies

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that would destroy the enjoyment you would get from both watching this series

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and reading the book which both i think are fabulous as i think think I've said

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but in the novel Simon discovers the beast isn't real

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and goes to tell everyone don't worry the beast isn't real

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meanwhile the rest of the boys are having sort of this ritualistic dance in the rain

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and they kill Simon mistaking him for the beast they're all chanting

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and singing and dancing kill the beast slit his throat blah blah blah

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and in their sort of frenzy they kill Simon whereas in

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the series adaptation there's this frenzy chanting dance ritual going on but Simon finds the Lord of the Flies.

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The Lord of the Flies speaks to him, which does happen in the novel.

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Simon has this sort of hallucinatory moment where he speaks to the Lord of the Flies, but in the series he does not find the beast

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or realise he's just a parachutist who's landed on the island as a dead man.

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He goes back to camp and he's killed because the boys think he's a beast,

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but it misses this part where Simon is going to tell the boys the beast isn't real

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and you don't need to worry it's just a dead man on the mountain um

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which don't worry it's just a dead man on the mountain

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but i think

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that that's an actual that's actually quite an important part to

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miss the overarching concept in the lord of the flies was

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there was this idea of the beast there was this idea

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that the beast was harmful was going to kill everyone

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and everyone believed this beast to be real

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when actually it was just a dead parachutist and one thing

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that i do think the series did do well was the

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parachutist him sort of like raising in the wind was absolutely terrifying

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and horrible but still the boys believed this to be to be the beast

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and they still called it the beast

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and they genuinely believe this was the beast it was this sort of collective ideology

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that this was the beast that led to killing simon i think

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that it was an important thing in the book to have simon find out

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that it wasn't a beast because it disrupted the illusion the delusion of these boys

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that there was even a beast

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and don't worry you have nothing to be afraid about the belief in the beast creates the social reality

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that they fear and I think that was Simon's role was to dismantle

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that but he was killed before he could do that which was the interesting thing in the novel in which Thorn missed.

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The boys believed this beast to be real.

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The beast isn't simply an imaginary creature anymore.

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The belief in the beast becomes socially real through its consequences.

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That is why the boys needed Jack because Jack said

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that he was going to kill the beast but it's actually Jack's group.

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Jack and Roger mainly but Jack's group as a whole that become the terrifying thing.

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It's sort of this dialectical unity of opposites where you create authority to protect yourself

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but it's actually the authority that is the dangerous thing.

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You get this sort of loop.

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Violence requires authority.

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Authority creates violence.

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Violence needs authority blah blah blah it's a loop isn't it?

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I think that that was Simon's importance in the story was

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that he was there to sort of dismantle the loop but he was killed before he could do it.

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And I guess Zuzek's philosophy would be this understanding of ideologies

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and understanding that an ideology is an ideology

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but still believing it anyway would be that there could actually be this understanding

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that there isn't a beast and it wouldn't matter.

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Zizek would say the problem isn't out there.

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The problem was never out there.

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The problem is somehow being produced by us.

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What you sort of infer, what you sort of made to believe is even if they knew that the beast wasn't real, there was no beast, would the same thing happen anyway?

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So that was one thing

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that I was interested it in you will not be able to eat for a couple of days afterwards

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because it's it's disgusting and horrendous the main differences between tv

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and books is that one is visual

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and one is in your mind you're given the aesthetics aren't you in in the series

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and one of the things that the books didn't include and

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that the series did was

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that there was there was adults there was adults on the plane

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that somehow died

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and there was sort of evidence of adults being on the

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plane in the series one of the pieces of evidence was

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that there were suitcases dotted around the island

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and the boys found a suitcase a woman's suitcase

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and it was filled with furs fur coats it was filled

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with you know sort of like the fox fur scarf

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and it had like a little head

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and little legs on it the boys used these furs as

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part of their tribal costumes who wants a piece of eel pie I was really interested in the way that fur,

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the link between death, power, the authority that it gives you to be wearing a dead animal around your neck,

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and the same thing, the sort of authority that killing the pig in Lord of the Flies gave was very pertinent.

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The idea that Jack went in once and couldn't kill the pig, went back again to kill the pig, and he did kill the pig.

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then he wore the furs and this sort of macabre authority

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that fur gives you i'm actually a fan of fur visually

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aesthetically i'm a fan of fur don't buy new fur

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but i think that vintage fur i like vintage fur i think

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that vintage fur is fine to wear and i think there's a major

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major hypocrisy in no you shouldn't wear fur

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but wear these leather boots i think there's a major hypocrisy in that and I don't really subscribe to it.

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I do believe that you can wear vintage fur

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and actually I think that it's really nice and I think it is interesting to have these dynamics inscribed within it.

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It was a very powerful aesthetic choice to have the boys find this suitcase full of fur.

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There's definitely a dichotomy.

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On one hand people want to get rid of this savagery around fur.

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Yes you can wear vintage fur because it's vintage

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and you know you're not you're not hurting anyone

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and then yes there's this faux fur

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which is no one really wants to talk about it hurting the planet

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because at least it's not an animal

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but why don't we just you know this is the kind

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of idea of ideologies even though you know the truth behind

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it even though you know this is a dead animal this

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is a dead animal why are we still trying to convince

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ourselves no it's just fur it's just it's just a piece of clothing no it is a dead animal

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and i think that it is actually interesting when people acknowledge it

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and it's okay to acknowledge it it doesn't make it any less factual by acknowledging it or not acknowledging it.

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I think it's interesting.

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On this vein, I quite like dressing villains in fur, leaning into this sort of savagery of fur.

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I think that villains are very interesting, actually.

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The villain's always the sexy one.

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And I like that.

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One of the main references of fur being the villain costume is Cruella de Vil, isn't it?

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Everyone knows Cruella de Vil, the fur jacket made out of puppies.

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Obviously, we don't want to be killing puppies, and that's not what I'm saying but the aesthetic of a fur jacket

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and I think it's I think it's fun to lean into

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that and I think that's kind of what the mob wife aesthetic was doing this was recognizing

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that this is what the baddies wear

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but it's this kind of okay isn't it fun to be a baddie though

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that we all secretly love the villain in the story a

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couple of years ago I think actually Balenciaga walked a model in a massive fur coat

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and she had Parkinson's disease with the characteristic Parkinson's tremor

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and I think that the sort of imagery of this older woman in terms of models

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like you know normally models are like 21 years old aren't

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they in this long dark brown fur coat with Parkinson's absolutely beautiful.

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She added value that a healthy model just couldn't

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and I think that's the difference between inclusion for the sake of inclusion

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and the feeling that you get that Demner looks for specific people.

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So this was Demner's final kashore show for Balenciaga before moving to Gucci

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and he's always said that he looks at people

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that look as though they already possess an identity before the clothes put on them.

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So they are not just acting vessels for displaying his clothes, but they actually form part of his concept.

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Rather than the casting being this tick box exercise of do

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we have a black model an asian model a trans model

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a plus size model a short model a disabled model before

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casting the rest is all thin tall white women it really

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feels like each model fitted their clothes like they were made for them

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and not the other way around demna although of course he

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was um the creative director of balenciaga a fashion house you could just clearly see

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that the story was in more than just the clothes it was a concept it was provocative

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and it was an incredible show an incredible final show at balenciaga for him another thing on consumption and consuming

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and watching things watch old videos watch three-year-old youtube videos i

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swear i like watching old youtube videos i put out an instagram story the other day saying

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that i was just terribly bored this is the content i'm

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seeing on the internet at the moment within the commentary youtube space

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and unfortunately the way the algorithm works is

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that you watch one commentary video and it thinks

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that all you want to watch your commentary videos

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and it's really hard to get out of so men in commentary um Rahul Rai

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and peter pan girl be that thing um

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and then women in commentary pastel text tick stock pastel text tick tocks

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and sort of this idea that creativity is dead and

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that everything is the same

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if you're being served content where people are telling you how

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to be cool those people have no idea what they're talking about.

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Most of that kind of content is just a regurgitation of trends that they have seen other people label as cool.

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One day the internet decided that wearing certain pieces

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and doing certain things made you cooler than everyone

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but how can you be cooler than everyone if you're doing the exact same thing?

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Everyone is having a niche off and everyone is losing.

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Have you seen the rise of girls posting these kinds of videos?

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A trendy outfit with pastel Calibri tech saying something provocative, cunty, relatable.

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Anything can be chic.

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An algorithm can be chic.

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Humans should strive, particularly in an era of AI, humans should be striving for more than simply chic.

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Brenda Hashtag, an influential person online who actually grew her following back in the Tumblr days, recently wrote a Substack article that went pretty viral as well,

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where she also criticized the tendency for people to engage in AI templates

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and Canva templates to create a certain style of content

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which I will put up on the screen

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but essentially it's like the pastel text on screen style content

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you're seeing imagine someone in a particular outfit with pastel text on screen

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that could literally say anything

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and everything could be interesting could literally be the most basic phrase you've ever heard Brenda Hashtag's argument was

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that this is creating a level of creativity demise honestly I think there's a great irony in

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that and this is what my Instagram story it was about um

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which i actually you'll know the story if you'll know the story

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if you saw the story

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but my sentiment was there's a great irony in saying everything

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is the same look at all these tiktoks of pastel text

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over a video everyone is doing the same thing creation is dead no one's creating anything unique anymore

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and seeing 10 videos of people saying creation is dead pastel text, TikToks are dumb no-one's creative anymore

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it's the Spider-man pointing-at- Spider-man meme and as I always like to say like the performative mail the original performative mail

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performative mail calling out performative mail performative mail calling out performative

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mail for calling out performative mail it's the same thing it's cool girl being called out by cool girl

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and then you have me calling out the cool girl, calling out cool girls and then you have me calling out the cool girl, calling out cool girls, and And then you have me calling out the cool girl for calling out cool girls.

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And then you have me calling out the cool girls for calling out cool girls.

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And everyone just needs to calm down.

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So yes, that is why this video is not about that.

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But the whole reason why I'm trying to create a video on finding things interesting

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and what things I'm finding interesting outside of fashion

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and outside of the algorithm and trying to go outside of my algorithm is

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because I was just terribly bored with all of that.

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Basically.

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Is the reason for this video.

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youtuber that I'm terribly interested in.

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A psychiatrist I believe or some kind of doctor.

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Some kind of medical doctor.

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I can't remember if he's a psychiatrist or not.

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I think he's a psychiatrist.

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I was watching this video on something that he called the Pygmalion Delusion.

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Everyone's heard of narcissism.

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You know the story of it.

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Narcissus.

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Narcissus?

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Is that his name?

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Narcissus.

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Narcissus.

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And he looks up.

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Narcissus.

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Narcissus.

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Narcissus.

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Narcissus.

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Everyone's heard of Narcissus.

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The person who fell in love with himself, right?

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Narcissus, terribly beautiful, found himself terribly beautiful.

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He looked at himself in a puddle and he died by the puddle because he was so obsessed with himself.

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Narcissus.

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But do you know the story of Pygmalion?

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Pygmalion, he made a sculpture and he fell in love with his own creation.

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I was watching a YouTube video by this psychiatrist about the Pygmalion delusion.

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His main case study for this was Anna Stubblefield.

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So this is what happens when you commit to consuming.

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I watched, I started watching this video from this doctor.

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He started to talk about the Pygmalion delusion and Anna Stubblefield.

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I didn't know who Anna Stubblefield was.

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I stopped his video halfway through to watch an entire documentary on Anna Stubblefield.

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So Anna Stubblefield was a university professor.

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She had a student who had a disabled brother who had cerebral palsy and autism and didn't speak.

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She was sort of this pioneer of this thing called facilitated communication.

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The idea of FC is that there are people who are nonverbal and that if someone has a spasticity or dystonia,

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it's too difficult for them to to point out letters or to hit keys on a keyboard.

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So what is shown in these sort of exemplary videos of FC is a stabilization of the elbow

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so that the more distal spasticity, the stuff up here is at least controlled, and there will be smaller deviations

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that would obstruct the person to use letters on a page or a keyboard to spell out words.

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She believed this disabled man could communicate.

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He just needed this facilitated communication to be able to do

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so and that he was just sort of stuck inside of his body.

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Basically, by the end of this documentary, it's untrue.

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It's a belief that carries the implicit presupposition

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that there is no such thing as a central nervous system lesion

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that would cause the inability to generate language or communicate linguistically.

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Could it be that it's a belief not based in evidence and in fact contrary to the evidence, like the entire field of neurology,

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but instead is a belief that is based in the love of a social model, a particular social model in which intelligence, which would include verbal capacity,

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is a mere construct, as is perhaps biology as a whole, as is perhaps empiric truth as a whole.

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And if only we broke down these constructs, anyone would be able to do anything if they just dreamt it or something like this.

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It's a social model where anything is possible and we are only constrained by our concepts.

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I think if this model is loved like a Pygmalion-esque statue, it becomes something more than optimism.

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It can become a delusion.

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She sexually assaulted this man and believes that she had a loving relationship with this disabled man.

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The Pygmalion delusion of it all was that she was

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so in love with her own creation that she believed it to be true.

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She believed in facilitated communication so much and she believed in, she called him

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Demarn sorry some of it some of it's absolutely ridiculous

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so she called this this poor man Demarn

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because Demarn supposedly told her through facilitated communication

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that he liked to be called D-Man

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so this man's name the the disabled man with cerebral palsy

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he was mute he didn't speak he couldn't speak his name was Derek apparently he told her

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that he wanted to be called D-man because he had like some, he had like a youth,

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a youth pastor or a youth leader or someone I can't remember who called him D-man.

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You know, you know, like people go, hey D-man, because your name begins with a D you know I call

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my dad D-Dog sometimes he calls me Shlea Shlea Dog you

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anyway you get you get the picture he apparently told Anna

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his name was D-Man he liked being called D-Man by this youth leader so

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so she's it's not funny it's not it's not funny it's

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not funny um she started calling him D-Man sorry it's not it's not funny

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it's not funny she started calling him deman

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and it's like his name is derrick

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if you don't want to call him derrick call him d-man it's not deman

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but anyway anyway i just i found

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that absolutely hilarious um what was i going on about um oh yeah

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so the pygmalion's illusion was

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that she basically created this character she created deman deman wasn't a real person deman was her creation

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and she fell in love with her creation and the unfortunate consequence of that was that

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Derek is a real person and this was not real.

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Be careful learning about philosophy kids um because she was a philosophy professor

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so yeah um but anyway I watched that entire thing

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and then I went back to his video

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and I think it's very interesting because you sort of see this Pygmalion delusion

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and people don't know what to call it because they're so fixated on this narcissism narcissists,

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narcissists, narcissists, storyline, the Pygmalion delusion, Pygmalionism, whatever you want to call it.

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It's not like a medical term.

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Whereas narcissism is a psychiatric disorder.

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I think that this is why it's important again, to recognize what is sort of a think piece.

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This is all a think piece.

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I should take out educational podcast from my description.

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Don't take anything I say seriously, because I have no idea what I'm talking about.

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But this information was from someone with, it was from a doctor.

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It was from a psychiatrist, which gives the information credit.

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At the same time, you're listening to a professor of philosophy getting put in prison

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because she wanted to have sex with her creation.

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I understand there's some conflict there.

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Let's just smooth over that for a second.

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Let me get on with what I was talking about.

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You can see this Pygmalion delusion in real life with in-cell manosphere culture.

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My next video, which I'm researching incredibly hard on, it's going to be absolutely fabulous, I'm sure my next video is going to be on woman

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discusses menswear how to get girls with fashion what women find

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attractive in fashion in men it's going to be great

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and one of the things I'm sort of realizing is with

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this sort of manosphere incel culture it's not narcissism they're not

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they're not in love with themselves they believe themselves to be

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doing everything right they believe to have created themselves as the ultimate boyfriend the ultimate man

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and yet no woman wants them they can't seem to understand the mismatch right why don't women want me

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when i am supposedly this perfect this perfect man

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that all women want and it's the idea that they are

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so disillusioned by their own creation of this perfect man they don't understand

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that women don't want that also men taking advice from other men about what women want

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and it's all very bizarre um

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and i will talk about it i will talk about it

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more in the next video i'm sure it's terribly interesting

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but again it's this idea of being in love with your own creation

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and believing the creation to be true to relate it back to lord of the flies

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and the beast it's this idea that the beast was true

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that created everything else they believed the beast to be true

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but the beast is a figment of their imagination isn't it it's not actually real

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but it was able to create this authority

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and this violence at the same time and is guided by a person's belief

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or unconscious desire or belief you know it's expectations creating reality.

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But it's all in their mind, it's all in their mind and I just, ah, I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it.

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Fascinating, absolutely fascinating.

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Hello it's me again, back again.

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Um, there shouldn't really be a break but my microphone is out of battery.

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um so here i am back here i'm going to probably speak really quickly

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because i charged it for about five minutes because i'm terribly impulsive impulsive

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and impatient and i can't wait for anything i'm including this

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so um what else do you want to talk about i

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mean i was going to talk about then the sort of relation to um lord of the flies

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and the pygmalion delusion but i won't talk about that right now

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because i want to talk about other stuff

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if you want to talk about it tell me

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and i'll talk about it in the next episode

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so i made a video about my clinical insanity i opened the video talking about ahd

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and again i'm not the adhd police i don't want to tell anyone whether they have

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or have not got adhd um but i watched a documentary on channel four um

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that said that ADHD isn't real and I thought

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that was incredibly interesting

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and you know don't shoot the messenger there was a whole documentary on it with medical doctors

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and psychiatrists people who know their staff were saying

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that ADHD isn't real and it got 3,000 Ofcom reports 3,000 Ofcom do you call them reports

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or complaints 3,000 Ofcom complaints complaints is more emotive they got 3,000 Ofcom complaints

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which I thought was so funny because how many of those people have ADHD

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or how many of people who have children who have have

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adhd i thought it was terribly funny there was a boy

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on trial um on a clinical trial of taking him off

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his meds for adhd he himself wanted to be off the

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meds his mother took him off the meds his mother wanted him to be off the meds um

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because they were saying that these adhd med the adhd medication just completely subdues him

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and it takes away his personality and they don't want to do

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that they took him off the meds and it gave him back his personality

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but it meant that school was harder he just couldn't concentrate in school very well

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but i guess the sort of conversation in the documentary in the conversation

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that people should be having is not whether um people are

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saying oh how can you how dare you say adhd isn't real it's how should we adapt to

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if people don't want to medicate for adhd if it isn't real

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if you know what i mean so there's a spectrum of normal behavior right

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and this documentary was saying

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that was asking the question was proposing the question is adhg

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adhg just one end of this spectrum of normal behavior adhd

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diagnoses are given out really nearly to everyone um adhd diagnoses are on the rise

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and the question about that

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or the sort of no it's not on the rise it's just people are now being diagnosed

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and people know how to diagnose it and it's not as stigmatized

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so people are getting diagnoses but the host

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or the documentarian i don't know the sort of presenter of

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the documentary got a ADHD referral to get tested for ADHD and he got diagnosed with ADHD.

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So he was allowed to start the meds and they sort of documented, he sort of documented himself on the meds and he was basically saying I do not have ADHD.

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Yes I might be a little bit chaotic but aren't we all?

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Children don't have a say in this.

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Are children being medicated for

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just being on the spectrum of normal behavior so

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that teachers are able to teach them better in this environment

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that is not tailored to them and should we really just be changing the environment

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so that they can learn in an environment where

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that behavior is okay we used to have corporal punishment

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and that's not allowed anymore so instead we just medicate our children

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and is that wrong um but anyway i can literally see my microphone is running out of battery

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again i will end it there absolute pleasure to be working with fussy

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because i actually genuinely i love them i genuinely love them

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and i really do hope that you check them out

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because they are actually insanely affordable you can literally get the little refills five pound tesco without my code

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but get my code anyway use my code anyway i love you i love you

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so so much this might be the future of the ash calligan channel tell me

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if you like these sort of longer podcast thought episodes

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because these are very easy to make I literally I have I have my notes here

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that I that I was just reading from just off the top of the dome

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and I can do these sort of interspersed with scripted videos where I do a lot of research

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and present a lot of research to you this is more

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of a think piece okay love you very much I really

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hope this little last bit recorded um I'm not entirely convinced if it didn't ah oh well um okay anyway Oh.

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That's it, I'm not going.

Was ist die Shadowing-Technik?

Shadowing ist eine wissenschaftlich fundierte Sprachlerntechnik, die ursprünglich für die professionelle Dolmetscherausbildung entwickelt und durch den Polyglotten Dr. Alexander Arguelles populär gemacht wurde. Die Methode ist einfach aber wirkungsvoll: Du hörst englisches Audio von Muttersprachlern und wiederholst es sofort laut — wie ein Schatten, der dem Sprecher mit nur 1–2 Sekunden Verzögerung folgt. Anders als passives Hören oder Grammatikübungen zwingt Shadowing dein Gehirn und deine Mundmuskulatur, gleichzeitig echte Sprachmuster zu verarbeiten und zu reproduzieren. Studien zeigen, dass es Aussprachegenauigkeit, Intonation, Rhythmus, verbundene Sprache, Hörverständnis und Sprechflüssigkeit signifikant verbessert — was es zu einer der effektivsten Methoden für die IELTS Speaking-Vorbereitung und reale englische Kommunikation macht.

Shadowing-Übung: Consume more than you Create: Žižek, Lord of the Flies, Balenciaga, the Pygmalion delusion, ADHD - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video

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