Name: The Gatekeepers of Information
Uploaded: 2021-09-08T17:51:08.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Gatekeepers of Information' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-09-08. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Gatekeepers of Information' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-09-08. Transcript available.

I think you said it also very very good point which is who has the time that's
a big one I mean because it does take me three times longer to read to read a
news article yeah because I got a vet I don't have to I could be like a lot of
other probably most people but they're counting on it if I if I read this and
something doesn't vibe with me I sit there and I go look up and I grew
research I mean we don't all have a Jamie right next to us you know yeah
checking everything that we say and calling us out if I was wrong it's like
the idea that forever for this whole time I thought that Jay-Z said that quote
right and then I was like well I don't know maybe I'm wrong but you know and so
but it's like but we don't have most people don't take that time like if
somebody else would have corrected me on the on this on the bus and I don't
know
if anybody would have taken the time to google that and make sure well that's
not
even important right it's not even important important yeah have to
look up and try to figure out like why are we in Afghanistan or why is this
happening or why is that important or why is this law being passed or what's
you
know what's the real motivation behind this drug being pushed like what what
the
fuck is going on with that guy who's and that there's so much of that in this
world that it's you could lose yourself like if you didn't have a job and your
entire day was sifting through the news and trying to find truthful narratives
versus propaganda you would lose your fucking mind how much do you think is
that because how much you think right now the the exaggeration of it is because
of
that because that people have a chance to now consume so much of this
information I
think that you know locking people in their house where they just have access
to
the internet like think I thought about it this way when I remember we were in
the
beginnings of our first quarantine kind of lockdown thing and I was like I
still
had Netflix and I still had FaceTime and I still had I mean it didn't I was
like
this is fine like I really it wasn't that bad well I wasn't going crazy but I
was
like imagine if this happened in 1985 right right I mean and you and you had to
wait till the next morning to get a newspaper well maybe the newspaper wouldn't
even be printed because nobody worked in the newspaper and imagine if the
newspaper was as full of shit as CNN is and then you got it you're lost you
really
don't know what's true or what's what's lies what's propaganda you have that
one
thing and so I was thinking like man how how difficult would it have been how
much
more isolated would it have been if we just can only get the information twice
a
day once a day and we have one channel to two or three channels local news or
whatever it was you know we didn't even have that you know whatever well there
was
so much propaganda back then that just slipped through the cracks it took
forever
before something hit the light of day right right where there was something was
obvious like especially like government shit like the Gulf of Tonkin incident
that
led us into Vietnam and there's a bunch of those yeah instances there's a lot
of
gatekeepers back there yeah oh my god and there was agreements with the news
the
news had agreements with politicians and and government agencies and they you
know they followed the narrative and I just yeah so I think that maybe us now
with
access to all this information and all this content and all this data and all
these people all these voices of somebody that used to do ten minutes of
twitter now doing four hours of twitter and just sitting there and getting in
these little rabbit holes I mean it's got to be damaging I got a like we said a
lot of it is junk food I'd treat a lot of it like junk food thing you know I
love a
potato chip every once in a while but if I eat it for eight hours a day I think
it would probably be pretty unhealthy and so it's like consuming this kind of
garbage yeah there's a guy named Alan Levinovich and he's uh he's he's looked
at it in
in the the same way you look at processed food that's how he described it he's
like
you you can't eat all processed food and you can't eat all processed
information and
that's what it is it's like this social media version of information is just
processed information right and you're getting it and these weird sort of
bursts
and it's all boiled down with preservatives on it and filled with nonsense it
has an
agenda and it's like you know I think that there's a monetization of of human
suffering I think is difficult you know anytime you have that opportunity to
wear because it's more interesting and it's more you want eyeballs onto your
content so you just it's it's a very simple algorithm it's just we just need
eyeballs so whatever got people to watch it then let's get more of that instead
of
stuff that's not interesting you know that's might be just very boring data you
know and so I think you just tend to lean towards that kind of stuff a little
bit
and I think it's tough yeah I just that's the that's the stuff that it always
fascinates me a little bit it's just because I think I think it takes us I
don't think we have a lot of people have that kind of thing I think that a lot
of
people are just like I don't I don't bother with that I don't I don't take the
time to think no they don't have the time they don't take the time and
that's oddly enough where podcasts have sort of come in to fill that void
because in podcasts you can have two intelligent people just sitting down
talking about stuff in a way like well maybe that's not true maybe this is true
let's find out let's discuss this and let's figure out why people are saying
this thing that is clearly untrue and saying it across like multiple platforms
like what's the motivation behind this like yeah that's a thing that didn't
exist
before because first of all in the past we didn't think of the news as being
this
thing that was lying to us yeah that's that's a real recent thing and I think a
lot of that was exacerbated during the time that Trump was president because
the
media was so upset that Trump had become the president and so upset that this
what
they thought this con man was now running the entire government that it's time
to
fight fire with fire and so they started attacking in the same way that they
felt
like he was attacking the way he would you know call people by a nickname you
know lion ted or
you know fucking lion hillary or crooked hillary or you know you have all these
nicknames for
people yeah call the news the fake news and like god we have to fight fire with
fire we have to
attack the same way he's attacking but in doing so they've undermined their
credibility to an
almost irreparable way right and that's what's scary right what's scary is that
the amount of
people that actually trust the news now is fucking lower than ever lower than
ever and I think it's
because we all believe that people have an agenda even even with science people
think we are so used
to people having an agenda yeah that people think that there's an agenda with
everything yeah and
there might be I mean there's not to say that there isn't I think that that's
the balance of it all
to sit there and say I'm again I'm even victim of what we're talking about
right now which is to say
that while I believe that we probably lean this way we're not to say that it's
a purified like I that
there's no such thing that it's not possible that there's some puppet master
out there that's really
kind of affecting this this way with that the third but I'm just saying that at
the end of the day
not everything has such a mastermind full type of thought process behind it I
think some of it is a lot
more simple I think it's a lot simpler sometimes it's about just money
sometimes it's about just
just most of it's about money yeah that's most of it's about narratives
narratives that are set up in
order to have people extract money from a system and that's what's really scary
is that you follow
the money and it's right there and you know many people have talked for years
about getting money
out of politics and getting money out of you to make it so that these people
that make these huge
decisions that affect policy affect the way we're allowed to live our lives
that there should be no
money being exchanged in these decisions there should be no motivation no one
should profit from
these things no one no one who wants to be a politician should ever get exorbitantly
wealthy
from being a politician but yet that's the case over and over and over again
and that's dirty that's that's
dirty and that is what affects these people and that's what affects the way
they behave and the way
they communicate and the things they talk about and the things they won't talk
about maybe sometimes
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