This video I react to George Carlins famous bit on soft language Watch until the end because you’ll be glad you did!
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I don't mind if you talk through the videos because you always have something intelligent to say. Not many reactors say it the way you do. Keep up the good work.
As i understand it, Carlin had come out of the very much restrictive 50s and 60s when he begun to liberate himself and his Art since the 70s. Boy, i don't want to start about some big BS in regards to the German Language nowadays, but we have some fights about it….
I have been ( canceled ) on youtube . And just did what carlin would do . I changed my user name ! Now i am another person!! I am at the age that i don't care . I have no facebook , twitter or intagram . They can cancel me all day long . I don't care for i live in the real world with real people around me . I don't care about friends i never seen or " likes" and not to start about tictoc ! Don't care about this narcessistic platform ! Making weird faces is not a talent . I watch youtube and thats it. For the rest i scuba dive , sail , swim and i go to a gym at 4 am and meet real women for i live in the caribbean . Try to cancel that !!! You can't ! For it's the real world . I live free, people thats how life should be . I hope some or all of you find something like i did in your life. Keep it real.
Well, the thing about autism (I have it myself) is that it has nothing to do with medicine, social conditioning, etc. There are more autistic people because the internet has grown and more people with autism can be identified, especially with the great splash of females with autism as well. Now you can make the argument that diet is a cause, but that argument is all for naught, for there is no evidence suggesting diet changes your brain biology to the point at which one will become autistic. All evidence points to autism being strictly genetic with some environmental influence (mainly from society only accommodating neurotypicals). Also, I find your point on the DSM switching things to pass on medicine or drugs to be very misinformed. The DSM switched things for many reasons, including, but not limited to, new symptoms, neurological research, behavioral findings, and even physical ones. I think it’s great that the DSM changes things and pushes drugs that relieve symptoms of certain conditions, like Lexapro, Concerta, or any other drug that can help reduce symptoms that would otherwise cause massive problems for said individual in the future.
I like it when you talk during and after the videos. It's always interesting to hear another perspective.
Pronouns are not hiding anything, it's just a preferred way to be addressed… I do not understand how people are so hardline against that. Personally I don't understand it either, but if someone says "I wanna be called Andrew" i am not such a dick that I go "Nah, I'll call you Andy". What kind of asshole would feel righteous about that? Same exact thing for any other pronouns. Takes you almost no effort to do and the other person feels good. WHAT A TRAGEDY. Americans are fucking retarded.
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You want to try "The 10 commandments" by Carlin, very insightful!!
@5:56mins: I must respectfully disagree, conditioning as you describe it would mean that it takes only one trial to classically condition a response in a person, but all the research shows that it takes numerous trials to pair the stimulus and the response together e.g., as in a sustained War like the 1st and 2nd World War's. PTSD is not conditioned in one trial (event) sir, and neither is a dog conditioned to salivate after only one pairing of the bell and food. You may want to revise your knowledge here as classical conditioning is only a small component of complete nervous breakdown i.e., Shell Shock. That is the problem Carlin is outlining, that the soft language has now translated a once destructive condition i.e., Shell Shock (sustained stress over a number of years) to PTSD that now can cover a bad relationship with a girl or boy.
Therefore, giving diagnosis to people that are not sufferers of the diagnosis they receive i.e., PTSD/Shell- Shock is an act of mis-labelling which then precedes the outcome of self-fulfilling prophecy of adopting the sick role. This is one reason schizophrenia was changed to Salience Syndrome because it was found that labelling theory had a much profounder affect on the outcomes in schizophrenics. Moreover, giving the label "schizophrenic" culminated in the patient being more schizophrenic, this is why they changed it to "Salience Syndrome" i.e., you treat what is salient (in this case, the positive and negative syndromes that are most salient in the patient). Moreover, behaviour has a much deeper context than you tend to think e.g., multiple stressors that threaten your existence for LONG periods of time.
In regard to mental disorders, it's reaching the point where there is no normal. Wouldn't it be better to have a range of normal before you are autistic or retarded or ADHD? Same thing seems to be happening with sexual and gender identity. Identify as what ever you like, but there are so many different identifications now that it almost seems like there really aren't any at all. Too many labels defeats the purpose of labels, so let's just drop the labels and simply tell people what we like and allow them to discover who we are. People are complicated. Life is complicated. Labels should be reserved for cases where it interferes with or significantly augments our ability to function in society.
It's pretty obvious that he saw what was coming before it really got here. I am beginning to feel like I'm living in a society of people who read Wittgenstein on LSD. Language is important and it can set a tone, but the idea that changing a word will somehow change the thing the word is referring to is nonsense. You can start calling a tree a car, but it's not going to then sprout wheels and drive away. Another example of this comes in terms we use to describe groups of people. At one time it was acceptable to call black folks, "colored people." That was then thrown out as offensive. We're not `colored!` Fast forward 50 years or so and now "people of color" is accepted. It's that absurd. The attempt to not offend, is in of itself offensive. If you enter a situation and someone is there that you now feel self conscious about your vocabulary around them, you have completely missed the point.
Stop pausing so much…
He was a genius!!! Spot on everything! ❤ And indeed, it's gotten worse!
Please watch more of his great content!
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A war on homelessness
List of people who ought to be k!lled
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Cultural issues
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