I seriously laughed out loud by the time he finished the first sentence. To answer your question, no this is not typical. This is especially laughable.
Just a few things I noticed:
“I got on to my school database to look up articles”
What is this school database? What does it contain? Why is it a better resource for articles than “the Internet”?
“I wanted to find out the merits of the system [of the Austrian School of Economics?]”
A school of thought is a “system” now?
“Turns out this is funded by the Koch brothers”
It is? That would be quite interesting. I’d like to know where he got this information.
“Plutocrats that want supply-side Austrian School economics to take over”
Can you say “oxymoron”?
“One thing I couldn’t find was any serious scientific endeavor concerning the Austrian School”
Huh? Could you define that please? Would would a “serious scientific endeavor” be, exactly? And not only one concerning economics, but a school of thought. I’m quite interested to hear this.
“This is why we are going to put forward this question to you now…”
We?
“If this is indeed a sound scientific and economic principle there should be evidence to support your claim.”
I really hope he is referring to some previous discussion he was too dumb to mention in his 8 renditions of the video, because it would be quite embarrassing if he were referring to a school of thought as a “principle” and a “claim” that needs evidence to “support it”.
“[the collapse] was very blatent to most people.”
You mean like, in 2009?
“[predicting the collapse] didn’t make them special, it just made them part of the majority at that point.”
At what point? 2007? 2006? 2004? 2003? 2002?
“Because there is this incredible lack of scientific evidence devoted to finding out whether or not this idea is actually true, it forces me to reject the idea entirely.”
Again, what the hell is he talking about?
“So that’s what we want. […] Give us the evidence.”
Again, who the hell is he talking about?
“You’re taking information that you don’t understand, have little or no understanding of in terms of scientific understanding, and probably don’t even have such an understanding the economic sense”
The irony is almost palpable.
“the system that we have now, supply-side economics”
And if he hadn’t already, I think it’s safe to say he totally proved his ignorance.
"Do wealthy people, like the Rockefellers or the Koch brothers, have they ever been known for giving up their money willingly?"
Gee I don’t know. You tell me, chief.
But yes, even aside from all that, the scientism is obviously prevalent, as well as his ignorance of the Austrian School. I guess you could say the hostility and the ignorance is typical of “critiques” you might hear, but I’m not sure I’ve ever heard many people get so emotional about it. I mean, he might argue he was completely calm throughout, but I found it quite obvious how affected he was. And he began the whole thing mentioning how he’d already filmed it 7 times before.
I actually feel kind of sorry for people who get so emotionally affected as a result of their own ignorance. I think in large part it stems from a feeling of helplessness. And maybe a bit of jealousy. But mostly powerlessness. The thought that there’s nothing he can do and he’ll always be fat and poor and lonely. It can make people quite bitter. Much like not understanding how the world works and why things happen the way they do…Where wealth comes from and why some people are poor and others are not. Being that ignorant can very easily lead to a lot of fear. Not being able to explain things, and just putting all your faith in overlords is not a very cozy place to be. But it’s all most people know. And as a little green guy once said, “fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate…” And I think that’s what we’re seeing in our generously proportioned friend here. He’s come to hate rich people (notice in his world they’re “plutocrats”), and he developes his own theories to explain everything based on that view.
This is what many people have done for a long time to explain things they don’t understand, so that they don’t have to feel so confused. Kind of like how people long ago used angry gods to explain bad weather, or large lumberjacks dragging enormous axes to explain the Grand Canyon.
This doesn’t always help the feeling of helplessness though. Even if it gets to that point of theorizing that everyone who has a lot of money is evil and everyone who defends a free market is funded by evil people with a lot of money, it still doesn’t change his not being able to do anything about his own situation. It just gives him someone to blame. Which, in some ways might actually make it worse, as it puts a face to his misery and makes him feel the human ego element of another person getting the best of you, or taking advantage of you.
This is why people like this rotund gentleman have the time to remake (8 times, no less) a youtube video “calling out” a nameless, faceless youtube user. A video that will likely not get seen more than a few hundred times, if he’s lucky. (I noticed this particular video has gotten around 760 views thanks to this thread and the resulting sharing…which is more than twice as many as almost any other video he’s made.)
But people do things like this because it helps them get through the day…makes them feel just a bit more powerful…like, at least they told that guy off. But ultimately they’ll never gain satisfaction in the long run. Because their only solution is to keep giving away more power. It’s quite the ultimate irony in a way. They feel so powerless, so they give away more and more of their power so that their superiors might keep people from gaining too much power over them. It’s a bottomless pit that provides no solution at all, but they just don’t see it. And that’s why no matter how much they demonize wealthy people, and advocate for more and more oppression of them, they will only find they themselves end up being more and more screwed…and more and more disappointed, and more and more angry and fearful. Which is exactly what we see.
P.S.
Just as a side note…did anyone else get a major Creepy mcCreeperson vibe as he kept getting closer and closer to the camera?
