Ben Shapiro is a conservative talking head who uses primarily strawmen and slippery slope logical fallises to whip up ignorance into anger. This picture looks like Ben Shapiro ate several other Ben Shapiros to become a meat Voltron of bad right wing thought.
I heavily curate my watch history on YT, I know exactly what kind of content I want to be recommended for me, light gaming, odd documentaries, tech, trustworthy debunkings, and that is about it.
Sometimes I get sucked into different types of content, when I want to see cool music videos, but once I am done, I clear them from my history, else they will mess up my recommendations.
I have seen how one new video in my history can completely mess it up untill I remove it from history.
Youtube is doing a pretty big nazi push right now. A more naïve me would have bought into the whole ‘nazis abusing the algorithm’ narrative but I think them running transphobia ads for the daily wire is proof enough that they’re in on it at this point.
Can someone eli5 this premise again? It’s that we’re in the cave and our experiences are just projections? I can’t remember why that is or what the thesis was.
To oversimplify, it’s a metaphor about what it’s like to go through life relying only on your senses and not using reason to question or analyze the deeper meanings behind your surface impressions. The story goes on to discuss a prisoner who escapes the cave and gets a taste of true reality, that prisoner is meant to represent a philosopher. When the escaped prisoner returns and tells the others of what he’s seen, they reject his claims saying how absurd it would be to believe that there’s anything more than just the shadows. I think in this day and age it’s easy to guess what that interaction represents, but Plato had a particular bone to pick about this since his mentor had essentially been executed for questioning various things.
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