Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "US National Debt, Part 1: Fundamentals" video.

  1. "The more connected we all become, the more difficult it is to spread propaganda and lies." sez Upcycle. Would that it were so! The central fact of the social media era, however, seems to be exactly the opposite. Western society right now is drowning in bullshit, trolling, and stupidity. Even the honest and decent folks are for the most part flooding the Internet with half-baked, facile, and shallow explanations of things. Educational video? There is almost none. (Big shout-out to Khan https://www.khanacademy.org/ the major exception. Can we have a Nobel Peace Prize for Salman Khan, puh-leeze?) The first and biggest "educational" effort on the 'Net was MIT's OCW. They point cameras at people talking in classrooms so we can see what classroom education looks like -- a very different thing from participating in online education. We've now seen the backs of a hundred learned heads as they scribble in chalk on blackboards: ah, the electronic age! Sorry, Upscale Electronics, nice hope, but we're not there yet. All we've accomplished so far is the electronic amplification of the babble of the mob.
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