Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "'Pursuing Your Dreams? 100% Bullsh*t' Scott Galloway vs Piers Morgan" video.

  1. Australian here: These days YES absolutely YES. However - YOU mentioned at 19:40 the issue with virtue signalling and then immediately attached it to the "woke" arguments. 1) I deplore the people on the LEFT who hijacked the word "woke" in the first place. The word "woke" came out of African American blues music in the 1950s and until around 3 years ago it was singularly a reference to whether or not people understood (as in awake to) the ECONOMIC plight of African Americans. Then it was hijacked by a pack of Radical Leftists who as usual made a mess of public discussions with a potent combination of idiocy and ignorance. 2) I deplore the fact that people on the RIGHT have picked up the word "woke" to use as a club to bash anyone who does not comply with their views of the world on every subject. The hypocrisy of the Radical Right is so unbelievable. What ever they do is justifiable and whatever anyone else wants or does is a crime. They howl about political interference in courts and then interfere in court cases themselves. They howl about cancel culture and then cancel people. They demand they rights as they strip away the basic rights of others. So lets be clear VIRTUE signalling does not just come from the Radical Left but it also comes from the Radical Right and BOTH SIDES accuse the other of doing it while denying they do it. The reason we have these issues with Virtue Signalling is simple. The Entire media landscape from the Radical Left through the centre all the way to the Radical Right now has it its core activity VIRTUE SIGNALLING and they do nothing but use it to drive wedges between people on every issue possible. As Professor Robert McChesney said a few years ago "presenting facts doesn't make money anymore." As Scottish American Professor Mark Blyth (Brown U.) said of the Murdoch Media empire "Their product is outrage." The only thing that's unfair about Mark Blyth's statement is that it singles out the Murdoch Empire when it applies to the media landscape in general. There are very few media services commenting on political, social, and economic issues that aren't divisive virtue signallers and the human race must face the future united or it will fail.
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