Which Side is More "Ideological?"

I have a "Show Me the Meaning" shaped hole in my heart.

I've been watching you since the beginning Jared. I really love all the editing work you put into this video. One of the best video essays I've ever seen.

Thank you for this channel Jared; I followed you from your Wisecrack days, and am grateful for your content. You provide nuanced, thoughtful, and intellectually honest critique that distills real insight into the issues plaguing us today… without the ideological cheerleading that usually accompanies such discourse.

I’ve always been fascinated about how the most ideological centrists and moderates see themselves as and their worldview as inherently non-ideological and rational.

This was a amazing essay Jared, thank you. And thank you for introducing me to Zizek's "big other" idea. I have had a very immature version of this idea myself for years, and have been looking for where I could read more about it. I knew somebody else had to share this concept

I think ideology and Heidegger's concept of "thrownness" are closely linked. Any being born into this world will seek to orient itself. That drive to find orientation or balance is potent because you can't ever feel "good" until it's resolved. Ideologies provide a path toward an individual's sense of worldly balance. Maybe a "balanced" world means mother earth is pleased. Maybe it means the individual ought be higher up in the pecking order. Regardless, each individual usually grows up with a sense that they've been brought into this world by pure incident, but the trajectory of their life is not incidental. I figure most people gravitate toward ideologies for mostly the same reason - it's easier than coming up with your own. Ideologies are just a convenient shorthand when one pursues that feeling of orientation after being "thrown" into being.

Love the videos Jared!! Glad to see you still making content after wise crack these always give me a lot to think/ talk about

Most of the world are just children disguised as adults. Regardless of political affiliation or class systems most people behave as school children trying to fit in, and that usually involves putting someone(s) else down to feel good about yourself, or feel better about yourself to take off heat. I agree when you say both sides just make fun of the other rather than do something about it. In my experience talking to most people I have notice a grey area or one in the middle. Few are on extreme opposite sides. They become annoying. The other if you will doesn't have to be a diety telling us what to do or be our overlords. I believe they are to be our guides. A good guide, cuz the what I see is not leading by example as how you said, talk about helping the poor, but not doing it.

Which ideology is more ideological is a stupid fucking question

Jared, your recent content has genuinely made me reconsider who I actively listened to within the media landscape and to some extent reconsider many positions I may have once held. Cheers!

Great to see you making videos again. This was A+

First time seeing one of your videos. This was great. The line about “an authoritarian hole in your heart” was spot on. Great job.

I hope these videos are reaching a wide ideological spectrum.

Even without a rift or polarization everything that is human thought subsumes into ideology, and slinging it as a dirty word to describe the perverse worldview of your opposing tribes reveals an ignorance of your own biases and worldview. That Bush speech sure shows plenty of that ignorance and Fukuyama's prediction about the state of the world and its history couldn't had been more wrong because his tenets were, unbeknownst to him, ideological. Probably the best legacy that the nascent metamodernist philosophy will leave is the understanding that ideology shapes the myths and narratives that we tell ourselves even in the absence of competing worldviews.

The girl you picked to illustrate "left" deserves compensation (not from you, the whole internet lol). If you watch the original video, she was very polite and patient while an idiot provoked and insult her. They later cherrypicked a frame mid-speak in which she looked "triggered"

I still dont understand how these essays are so good, Happy holidays to you as well Jared

Jared, please never stop. This is top quality stuff

This is my first time seeing a video of yours; loved it!

Jared with the theory essays. I'm here for it

most depression is from attaching one's value to an external result... and most depression only amplifies if those ideals are met. I remember seeing that depression commercial as a teenager, when I was most mired in an obsession with fitting in, admiration, and feeling horribly behind from the celebrity ideals I'd set out and expected of myself. Now I see I was too smart to fall for it, but the world wasn't smart enough to admit it was lying.