Again, I would like to invite you all to watch Plato Is A Bitch: A.I. and Bomberguy with me on February 24th at 4pm EST (as well as the trailer now) here. There will be a chat for the premiere and we can have a good time sharing an event.
The doc has been done for several weeks, though, and I haven’t just stopped working on stuff. I spent several days ensuring there are no errors in the render and set up the premiere.
Then, I moved on to the next doc’s script. I have multiple projects going at all times, and just as Hbomberguy provided a perfect case study for what I wanted to say about Plato and AI, Vaush has jumped up to provide a case study to help me make my point about Horseshoe Theory.
What I want to talk about is the historical class origins of the left-right political spectrum, which emerged during the French Revolution, with representatives of the bourgeoisie on the left of a room and the aristocracy on the right. I argue that this dichotomy reflects a class distinction that evolved from two classes to two parts of one class, the bourgeoisie: old money (right) and new money (left). The dichotomy is fundamentally of capitalism and it appeared to support capitalism’s rise.
I’ve outlined it and am a ways into the script, but I wanted to share a little piece from the introduction because I think it’s quite funny.
Left, right, left, right, red pill, blue pill, Morpheus, walruses. Directions and amounts. This is how we talk about human progress: a bunch of relative positions. And some people say it wraps around like a Horseshoe.
Hay! Get it? I'm Peter Coffin, and as you can see, I've switched careers. I am now a jockey. And let me tell you, I'm killing it — making crazy money on the racetrack. Not because I'm a good jockey, mind you. I'm so bad at this! I have no prior experience; I didn’t train. I just egotistically said, “I could do that,” and started doing it.
Normally, when I throw myself into something new because I think I will be a natural professional but inevitably realize I’m not, I try to preserve my unjustifiably high view of myself by saying it’s not for me and moving on to another thing. But that kind of narcissist is bound to cycle through “new things” forever. I had an even better idea: I bet against myself. But don't worry, it's not cheating; I’m trying as hard as I can to win. Betting against myself is just being realistic.
Today, however, I'm here for a different kind of race: Horseshoe Theory. Man, that is a labored segue. See why I’m running this jockey scam?
Just a little taste so people are aware that once the Saturday doc premiere is done, I am still on it. I also have a cover of Ginuine’s “Pony” prepared that I think is really legit.
I wrote this before the Vaush shit all went down, but I did a reaction video to his “Context Video” (this way, it cannot be said I didn’t watch the whole thing) where he repeatedly calls himself “dumb” as “context” for having a folder with cartoon CSAM in it. I said this:
This guy's such a narcissist. :ike every single time he says, ‘I'm such an idiot,’ it's like he knows that it's ‘super charming.’ It's not. [Also,] in fact we know that you know you're not an idiot [because] the argument that you've used to nullify all of your old arguments was you were an idiot ‘back then’ [but are different now].
Not more than two minutes later in his video, he said:
And I thought, you know, maybe in a way this fuck up would come across kind of charming, you know, like, uh, that's my streamer, that fuckin’ idiot right there!
- Vaush
Now, I almost never call people “narcissists.” People who know me know how allergic I am to the word “narcissist” due to a previous podcast co-host’s over-reliance on it as an explanation for everything. When I call it, though, I fucking call it.
This alone made me say, “Oh, okay, right, this is the right doc to do after the Plato/AI/Hbomb one.” Why? Because I’ve already shown why Vaush falls right into my Horseshoe point. It’s a perfect thing to show why Lenin was right.
So, again, I want to invite everyone to watch the premiere of Plato is a Bitch: AI and Bomberguy at 4pm EST this Saturday. I’m really excited about it, and I’m excited to continue to have opportunities to show how the actual dialectical materialist method wins out.