Usually on FFAF I try to stay away from the political and social stuff and stick to more personal, light-hearted, and not-the-news stuff, but this week there’s just no avoiding the discussion. I’m afraid I got a little passionate on this one, so there’s more NSFW language than usual; I’ve taken the step of self-censoring to avoid dropping any f-bombs on you if you’re listening with the kids around. Video archive at https://youtu.be/R4rYgAJNW0Y
Wrapping up the point-by-point discussion on deconstructing-combatting anti-Sanders rhetoric (and propaganda in general), plus thoughts on legitimate authority and expertise + more. Video at https://youtu.be/w8X1PYH3xQY. Companion article at http://passionate-cyan-owl.192-250-227-172.cpanel.site/combating-artificial-narratives-in-social-media-related-to-the-sanders-candidacy/
The Friday evening show is going to be the weekly open-topic “free for all.” This week it was so free I didn’t bother doing it until Saturday! That won’t be the case every time 🙂 We’re discussing a range of things today including propaganda, socialism, an interesting look inside the administration of a large Facebook page and how you can see them choking traffic over time if you refuse to buy advertising (it’s not about the political cant, it’s about the MONEY), integrity in matters of both public and private life, and JH’s sense of where we’re at as an evolving species and where he thinks we may be headed if all goes well.
As always if you’d rather watch than listen you can check out the stream archive on YouTube at https://youtu.be/_ECTZQHlBvk
A note about this particular show – there’s about twenty minutes cut out in which I’m discussing various aspects of the video production side of things, and an experiment intended to demonstrate some issues failed 🙁 Since there’s no point in an audio track of visual effects, I trimmed it out.
In today’s show I’m examining last night’s Democratic Party debate in Las Vegas, talking who won, who lost, and why. Do people even care in general? Did anything change? Also some conversation with a long-time fan about one of the big pages I administrated on Facebook and much more. Don’t forget you can also find video livestream archived on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuJi-GAxkbU and of course as always please like, share, subscribe, comment. This is as independent as independent media gets, and you are the fuel that keeps John Henry’s hammer swinging.
Who runs and controls Presidential Debates? Why? What regulates them, who makes the rules, and why? Who benefits, and how? JH digs deep into the history of the Presidential Debates to help you understand why they work the way they do, who’s in control, the pros and cons of the current system We also touch on why we have a “two-party” system and what the real options are to get out of it.
In today’s John Henry Show we discuss what “liberal” and “liberalism” really mean to folks who use those words professionally, why it’s important to understand that meaning and how it differs from the popular usage, and much more including JH stumbling repeatedly to try and formulate an aphorism that never did quite come out right…
Today’s show got kinda rambly and off-topic, but the focus is still social media fakes in the context of political and other discussion where there’s a high rate of disinformation, misinformation, and manipulation. We discuss some common tactics they use, and some ways you can push back against them, along with a bunch of rambling about some other stuff because frankly I was out of spoons about 9am today so I really wasn’t at my best. I’m going to do this topic again in a more organized, informative, and concise way, but it’s still worth a listen.
In today’s podcast we’re talking about doublethink, how we fool ourselves, how we can trip over our own words without even realizing it, starting with an example from a prominent political page on FB where they invoked 1984, doublethink, and “Fairness Doctrine” all at once without ever realizing that in so doing, they were simultaneously warning against and advocating for government control of the media.
First episode of the new podcast. Audio’s a bit clippy in spots, I’m not in the best possible environment; later eps should sound better. These casts are archives of audio+video livestreams, most of which you can catch live at 8pm Eastern M-F at https://youtube.com/johnhenryus/live.
In this inaugural cast, we’re talking about “Modern Monetary Theory” and what it tells us about how our money works and why the general public needs to basically forget everything they think they know about economics at the national and international levels and start over from scratch.
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