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Amazon banning shoppers

The headline on various news sites is:
Amazon banning shoppers who return items too often

But Amazon has been banning shoppers for other reasons as well such as selling fake reviews.  If a user publishes eBooks on amazon and they have been doing things to manipulate the rank of those eBooks then that is also causing customers to be banned.  Amazon has rules and they expect their users to follow those rules.   I don’t have a problem with that.  I don’t take issue with that in the way that I take issue with the behavior of youtube and twitter treating users like crap for political reasons.   Even though Jeff Bezos is pushing a political agenda at the Washington Post I don’t think that has translated into any bad behavior at Amazon in the way it has at youtube and twitter.

As some people may know I operated inwoods.com that sold things both in physical stores as well as online. I didn’t mind the returns when they were warranted.   But with inwoods, because I also had to do free shipping to compete, just one return could not only cancel the profit from that sale but the next sale.  The margins were that thin.  So I don’t blame amazon for telling customers who are costing them money, “bye.”

Because I haven’t been selling that many eBooks lately, returns haven’t been a problem for me on amazon.  But there was a period there that there was no doubt that Amazon had customers who were abusing if not out right cheating the system.  There were other writers in certain forums who were being hit by far worse than me and wishing amazon would do something about customers abusing the return system.  Apparently, now they have.

Still, some customers claim that they have not broken any rules.  They really don’t understand what they did.  If that is true, which I don’t know, hopefully Amazon will straighten those issues out.

 

by Chuck Peters

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I Don’t Crave the Meat 2071

Horror and humor
Some talk about Jared Leto and also about some weird prophecy about 2071 I don’t really believe; but it is interesting. And yes, I do love hamburgers and steak.

 

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God’s Tax, Right To Free Speech, Self-Protection

Note: in part of this the voice/lip movement is off. A setting has changed that had previously corrected the problem & I did not realize.

Note: This video is not listed on youtube

Transcript: contains errors

howdy and welcome to the mightmuddychuck
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channel topic 1 Trump is talking
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about putting a tariff or duty on the
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imports of steal an aluminum and of
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course the globalist went batass crazy
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[Laughter]
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and Fox I tend to leave the TV on Fox for
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basically noise and I just kept hearing
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this Globalists propaganda oh it is going to
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add it’s going to push the price of
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steal and aluminum up it’s going to cost
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businesses money it’s going to cause
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consumers money it’s just going to cost
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people money okay first of all steal and
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aluminum is not a fixed price item it is
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something that goes up and down in price
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all the time you can look at the charts
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you could google it you can look up the
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charts the price of aluminum will go
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up and down all the time it’s not a
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fixed price item the price might
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naturally go up the price might
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naturally go down those are costs that
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change all the time a tariff or duty on
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aluminum is just an added cost to
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the cost of production it’s certainly
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less of a barrier to economic activity
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than the EU’s use of VAT (Value Added Tax) that kind of
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like a sales tax they have when I sell a
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book in one of the European countries
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there’s a tax on it it’s a ridiculous
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tax here’s a clue globalist if you
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really if you really if you really want
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free trade do away with all the freaking
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taxes all the taxes do away with your VAT do
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away with tariffs and duties do away
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with the income tax do away with the
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property taxes do away with advalorem
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taxes do away with all the fucking taxes
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if you want free trade and for your budgets
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just print the money out just print them
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just print the money out and you know
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what happened if that’s the economic
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system we move toward there will still be
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a tax but it will be a God’s tax it
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will be the tax delivered by that
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invisible hand and what’s that tax
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called come on class what’s that tax
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called you know it you know what that
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tax you know what God’s tax is you know
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what the tax that invisible hand puts on
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the economy is when there’s money
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printed out its inflation and unlike
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government tax God’s tax falls into
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equilibrium you print out more money you
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create more demand the more demand it
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raises prices you raise prices and that is
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inflation it will reach a certain point
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if you pull back from printing money it will
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reach a point where it will eventually
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burn itself out because the price
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increases automatically reduces demand
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you reduces you to reduce demand then
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suddenly there’s not an impetus to raise
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prices it the inflation tax the god tax
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it burns itself out irregardless of all
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the mindless propaganda the globalists
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have taught you in school
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God’s tax will burn itself out because
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it will fall into equilibrium unless
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you’ve got monopoly powers playing games
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in the economy unless you’ve got the
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unnatural forces trying to manipulate
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prices so all the hell of a lue about
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Trump and terracing duties it’s all a
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bunch of BS the United States needs to
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bring is trade into balance and tariffs
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and duties is a way to do it
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what I prefer an economy where there are
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no taxes hell yeah
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what I prefer an economy the basically
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functions off of God’s tax inflation
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it’s dangerous to some degree because we
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do have monopoly powers in the
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marketplace who do take advantage of the
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churn who in fact do try to manipulate
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but
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if you deal with those monopoly powers
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in the marketplace if you if you make it
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possible so that prices will fall into
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equilibrium with an honor tax and here’s
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the thing about God’s acts not only does
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it burn itself out as it falls into
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equilibrium it reduces debt it not it
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reduces not only government debt it
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reduces proper debt so you go back in
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time loo go back into move okay back in
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time back in time you could buy a house
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a for $5,000
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now you’re getting come with such that
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was actually a high price $5,000 is a
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high price for our house back in boot
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back in time so that $5,000 might
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represent 20% of your income I’m just
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making that number up it’s just it’s
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just a phantom number might make up 20%
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of your income so you’ve borrowed the
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money to buy that $5,000 house and
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you’re having to pay on it and to start
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with those payments are steep for you
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because your income is low here’s the
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thing inflation raises your income it
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makes it easier to pay for that $5,000
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house and here’s another thing that
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inflation raises the value of that
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$5,000 house so your payments not only
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become easier but the value of the house
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is going up that’s God’s tax
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that’s God’s tax it helps a little man
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an understanding globalist hate God
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hates God hates God’s tax the globe
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let’s take God oh no because you know
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here’s the thing your inflation makes it
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easier God’s tax makes it easier to pay
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down debt but here’s the thing in the
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economy once person’s debt is another
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person’s savings
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I loan you $100 I consider that under
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dollars worth of savings and the
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interest you pay on the hundred dollar
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debt that you that you now have to me
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it’s how I earn money off that that
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money but inflation makes $100 bottle s
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so when I first blown you that hundred
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dollars it’s worth $100 by the time you
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pay it back that’s $100 he put it on the
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inflation right you know it’s going to
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go down and it may not even equal the
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interest that you’re paying me on it and
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rich people hate that rich people hate
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that man to hate it
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topic 2 the god-awful shooting down in
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parkland Florida I don’t see a whole lot
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on it because it’s really just you know
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but besides the tragedy down in Florida
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and the troubled kid that was
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responsible for the god-awful event down
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in Florida who may have been pushed over
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the edge by whatever forces you know is
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a tragic event and the behavior of the
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Sheriff’s Department is questionable
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please sitting outside the school while
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the shooting was taking place inside the
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school it brings up a lot of questions
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but all that aside the troubled kid
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aside the shooting showed some other
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evil some other evil in our world and
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our planet and our great United States
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is show people so willing to give up the
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right to free speech the right to
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self-protection the right to
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self-protection that’s what our gun
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rights are it’s it’s the god-given right
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to self-protection
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and as for kids down in Florida they
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couldn’t protect themselves and I’m not
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sure there’s any way that you can create
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a safe system where they could protect
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themselves but you might not can protect
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yourself when you’re in your workplace
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you might not can protect yourself when
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you’re in school but at least in this
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country you have the right to self
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protection in your home and the
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globalists want to take that away they
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don’t they not only don’t want you safe
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in your workplace they don’t want you
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safe in the school they don’t want you
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safe in your home they do not want you
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safe in your home and when you try to
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present the argument too wide
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the right to self protection is an
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important right they want to shut you up
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they won’t take your free speech away
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they want to take the right to free
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speech away they want to take the right
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to protect yourself away these are evil
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people and to show how convoluted and
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evil some of them are okay
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Delta basically piled onto when a bunch
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of other corporations were attacking the
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National Rifle Association
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which is a free speech organization to
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give gun owners a voice it’s a free
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speech organization to give gun owners a
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voice people who believe in the right to
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self protection a voice it’s about free
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speech and Delta joined in with these
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other businesses basically attacking the
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NRA and NRA members right to free speech
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now what Delta did was was fairly
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minimal as they basically said we’re no
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longer going to give members of the NRA
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discount like we previously been given
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yeah that was it was piling on it was
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piling on that’s what Delta was doing is
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part of this propaganda chain a
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polynomial is do it was that in one
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attack after another on
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the NRA to try to present the image that
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everybody hates the NRA and then you had
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Google how are alphabet I still don’t
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call him Google and YouTube and the
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people is trying to present the
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arguments to the right to
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self-protection the people who is trying
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to present the arguments that you know
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that shooting in Florida was kind of
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weird there were some weird things about
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it things don’t all together add up
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about it you know just pointing out
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things and kids it was actually there on
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this thing they wanted to censor their
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videos they tried to cover up the fact
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that there was police sitting outside
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that school doing absolutely nothing
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they try to cover that up let’s don’t
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quibble on that basic fact Google
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attempted to cover that up
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but back to Delta in the main point so
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Delta join these other corporations
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basically trying to bash the NRA it
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wasn’t just about trying to take the
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park away from people who are members of
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the NAR take that discount away from
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people who you know members of the NRA
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it wasn’t just about that it was about
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piling on and attacking in all right and
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attacking free speech and now put this
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in context this attack on the NRA three
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speech this was was amplified by what
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YouTube was doing YouTube was already
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massively attacking free speech and we
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know that part of the reason the YouTube
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uses excuse the YouTube uses for
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attacking free speech is we can’t lose
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advertisers we can’t lose advertisers so
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YouTube is basically saying is these
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corporations that are pulling out the
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way from them is the reason that they’re
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going badass crazy badass crazy badass
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crazy censoring videos their excuse is
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their fear or the real the very real
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event that they are losing at revenue
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and that’s because these corporations
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are attempting to take free speech away
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from YouTube and away from their members
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so you had Delta attacking the NRA a
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free speech organization I’m it’s the
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more than just a free speech
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organization basically it’s a free
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speech organization at the same time you
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had YouTube taking free speech away now
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this is to show how evil the globalist
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are so the state of Georgia said okay
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Delta you’re going to do this to the NRA
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and their members you’re going to attack
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them you’re going to blame them for
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something that happened in parkland
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Florida here’s what we’re going to do
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we’re going to not give you a tax
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subsidy we’re not going to treat you
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special
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you treat the people of Georgia who are
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largely law-abiding citizens that
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believe in the right to self protection
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you’re going to attack them what we’re
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going to say you’re no longer a special
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well we’re going to take the subsidy the
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tax subsidy then we were going to give
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you we’re not going to give it to you
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any longer it’s not going to be in this
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new bill being passed now this is to
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show how evil the globalist are so the
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globalist turned this whole event upside
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down and said George is trying to take
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free speech away from Delta the globe
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was totally turned it upside here you
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are Delta attacking free speech and
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suddenly at the state of Georgia
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attacking Delta’s free speech these
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corporations that are attacking free
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speech and are attacking the right to
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self protection they need to be slapped
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they need to be told point blank but not
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just the state of Georgia but by all
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states you ain’t special and we ain’t
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treating you special these breaks you’ve
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been given it’s over it’s over it’s over
15:46
much thanks for watching listening I do
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appreciate it if you made it to the end
15:51
of the video
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Oh anyway hit that subscribe button hit
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that thumbs up button I know you will
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As A Writer My Thoughts on Pewdiepie’s Book Reviews

Short of it: I think his book reviews were interesting and helpful from a writer’s perspective to see what he liked and didn’t. Note that I have added his video to the bottom of this post.
pewdiepie video

Brave New World – https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/huxleya-bravenewworld/huxleya-bravenewworld-00-h.html

1984 http://self.gutenberg.org/articles/1984_(book)

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde – http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/174

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Transcript: Note some errors!!
welcome to the mightymuddychuck channel
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channel Iza Chuck, I was over at pewdiepie’s
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channel and there was a video that he
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did where he’d read five books and he
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reviewed five books. If you are a
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writer I would advise you to go watch
00:15
that video because it really gives you
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insight into the way that a real person
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looks at books while they’re reading
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them and thinks back and judges the book
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as opposed to some of the BS reviews
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that you may see on Amazon he gives you
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insight into the way a reader actually
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delves into a book and thinks about the
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book and considers what they’ve read I’m
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not going to redo his reviews obviously
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and I’m not going to put them in just
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because you know I’m not going to I’m
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not going to do that but when you get a
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chance go over to his channel and then
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look for the video that he did on book
00:56
reviews he read five books and in
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some cases he compared the books and it
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really will give you insight into how he
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judges the book and why you as a writer
01:09
may not be connecting with your readers
01:12
or maybe why you are connecting with
01:14
your readers why you’re being successful
01:17
I just thought it was interesting from
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from a writer’s perspective to see how
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he was looking at the books and
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considering the books and what he
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considered good about the books and what
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he considered bad about the books I
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thought was interesting because so many
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reviews that you read on Amazon they
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really just they don’t come across as
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real

Pewdiepie Book Review Video that I was talking about.
🙌 BOOK REVIEW 🙌 January

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Concrete Memory vs. Abstract Memory

Understanding the difference between Concrete and Abstract can make the difference between whether your story or video will better be remembered or forgotten.  Although the video Logan Paul did on the suicide forest in Japan was controversial and caused him a good bit of hate before he took the video down, it is a good example of concrete vs. abstract.

It should be noted and understood that although concrete can be better remembered, our modern world is not a culture that particularly likes concrete over abstract because concrete can be more disturbing and harder to forget.  Abstract can be more warm and fuzzy be remembered for the moment and then forgotten.  It fits well with our throw away society.

 

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howdy and welcome to mighty muddy chuck
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channel I’m Chuck have you ever wondered
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about the difference between a concrete
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memory and abstract memory a concrete
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thought versus an abstract thought an
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abstract thought is more likely to
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present itself from the viewpoint of why
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what is a concrete memory our thought is
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more likely to present itself as how
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that’s the difference between an
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abstract thought and a concrete thought
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now one thing to understand is a
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concrete thought will stick with you
00:47
you’re more likely to remember a
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concrete thought and episodic memory in
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a memory as an episode of your life it
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is the concrete thoughts that you’re
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more likely to remember it’s the
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concrete events that you’re more likely
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to remember as you remember episodes in
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your life abstract is more likely to be
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more hazy because it’s it’s abstract is
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hazy to start with it’s not it’s not
01:24
concrete it’s more foggy you’re less
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certain of what’s happening you’re more
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time you’re in a more confused state and
01:35
so you’re less likely to remember the
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more abstract moments in your life now
01:46
if when Logan Paul had been doing the
01:48
video of when he went into the suicide
01:52
forest in Japan if he had done the video
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where he only talked about seeing the
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body or reacted to seeing the body that
02:04
would have been more abstract if he
02:07
didn’t show the body you would have
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wondered is this some kind of joke you
02:12
would have a
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thought is this real or isn’t it
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you wouldn’t be sure the video would
02:20
have been more hazy because there have
02:25
been more questions regarding to what
02:27
exactly was going on in the video if
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Logan Paul had not shown the body it
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would not have impacted the viewer as
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much it would not have affected the
02:44
viewer as much the viewer would not have
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reacted as severely to what was
02:50
happening in the video because the video
02:53
would have remained more on that
02:54
abstract level and the truth is is a
02:58
week to two weeks from the time the
03:00
viewer saw the video that would be less
03:03
likely to remember that time that logo
03:05
Paul went into the suicide forest in
03:08
Japan and saw a body now there is a
03:12
contradiction between abstract and
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concrete a level of fear can actually
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make a very really vent a scary event
03:24
something that conduct it just affects
03:27
you it affects you in a major way to
03:32
where a concrete event that you’re in
03:36
becomes more abstract there is that that
03:43
contradiction there for example if
03:46
you’re giving a speech for example now
03:49
that’s in itself is not a big deal to a
03:51
lot of people some people you know they
03:53
get stage fright okay so say you’re
03:56
giving a speech and get real nervous you
04:03
almost feel sick at your stomach you’re
04:04
just it’s it’s it’s not pleasant so even
04:08
though you’re in that event in a real
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way to deal with that stress you pull
04:15
yourself back into a more abstract mode
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you may even project yourself to the
04:25
back of the auditorium
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and for the back of the auditorium view
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yourself giving the speech that’s
04:33
disassociation some people look at that
04:36
like a split personality type thing but
04:38
it’s actually it happens to people that
04:42
are not having severe mental issues it’s
04:44
just a level of stress it can cause you
04:47
to remove yourself from a situation to
04:51
make that situation more abstract so
04:54
that you feel like you’re not really
04:55
part of that event it’s a way that you
04:59
deal with stress and that’s a reason if
05:04
you’re in a stressful situation you may
05:08
have part of that memory maybe concrete
05:12
and you may remember part of that memory
05:16
as an episode and then a different part
05:21
of that memory even though it should be
05:23
concrete as well you’ve removed yourself
05:26
from the situation because it’s not
05:28
pleasant to you so it becomes abstract
05:30
so when you’re trying to remember an
05:32
episode it should be longer a longer
05:37
event in your life because it’s concrete
05:38
from you know the full length is
05:41
concrete you’ve removed yourself into an
05:44
abstract part so that you may remember
05:48
this part of the event there’s a memory
05:51
skip and then you remember another part
05:53
of the event and depending you know it
05:56
goes back to the level of stress or how
05:58
you’re dealing with it to the degree you
06:00
bring yourself back into the event or
06:02
the degree that you want to remove
06:03
yourself from the event so much that it
06:05
becomes abstract that’s the reason so
06:10
you’ve in episodic memory either as an
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episode in your life you may remember
06:16
parts of that episode which is that a
06:18
fairly long episode you may remember
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parts of it but there are memory skips
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now some people reacted to Logan Paul’s
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behavior when he saw the body and his
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behavior to some degree did not come
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across as real the little bits that I
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saw of it now
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let me remind you I didn’t see the full
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video I only saw the parts that people
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included in their videos where they were
06:45
being critical of it so I don’t really
06:48
know his full reaction to what was
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happening but it was part of the
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reaction that I saw you could pretty
06:58
much tell that he was removing himself
07:04
from the situation in other words he
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wasn’t just trying to act goofy he went
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into that mode to remove himself from
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the situation it might be compared to
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say that you go you have gone to the
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funeral of someone that you care about
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and did you love and it’s a highly
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stressful event for you to go to their
07:28
funeral and and other people are in the
07:35
same situation that you’re in
07:38
so to distract yourself and they are
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distracting themself removing themselves
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you’re removing yourself from the
07:46
situation you might tell jokes you may
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laugh that may come across as
07:54
disrespectful but it’s a coping
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mechanism because you and they are in an
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awful situation that you don’t want to
08:07
be happening you don’t want it to be
08:08
real you don’t want it to be concrete
08:12
you do not want it to be concrete
08:15
because you don’t want it to be real so
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you go into another mode where you kind
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of remove yourself from the situation
08:24
and you and they may kill jokes and you
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may laugh many times you may bring
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yourself back to the sense of the
08:33
reality of it and reflect on the life of
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the person that you’re going to miss but
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it’s a coping mechanism it’s it’s not
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disrespect its removing yourself from
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the situation and when it’s all over you
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may not even pull it remember
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that abstract moment of the event you
08:56
may mainly remember you feeling like
08:58
crying and you’re dying inside yourself
09:00
that may be what you remember you may
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remember the part where it’s concrete
09:05
which real when you’re facing it and
09:07
you’re knowing it you may remember that
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part of it but the part where you’re
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trying to distract yourself from the
09:14
moment where you’re trying to make it
09:16
more abstract you may not even remember
09:19
that part of the event now of course
09:23
it’s possible as some people have
09:25
suggested that logan paul and his
09:29
entourage went there because they knew
09:32
there was going to be a body there they
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had already in fact discovered the body
09:36
before the the videotaping at the
09:39
videotaping of you know finding the body
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in other words it was kind of scripted
09:44
out and that’s possible too
09:47
but there again it’s still a coping
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mechanism
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it’s still coping mechanism mechanism
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now some people are offended that he
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showed the body or at least they pretend
10:24
they’re offended that he showed the body
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but
10:37
understand by showing the body he took a
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video that could have been primarily
10:44
abstract which you would have forgot
10:46
about in three days from the time you
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clicked it up you’d already forgot about
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it
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if he kept the video abstract it would
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have been forgettable by showing the
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body he made it real his behavior aside
11:07
showing the body brought it into
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concrete mode there was no one if
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there’s a body there is now how would
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people react if there was a body it
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wasn’t him telling us a body there but
11:19
not showing the body by showing the body
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he made something that could have been
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abstract he made it real
11:27
he made it concrete he made it
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unforgettable and it was there
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and we live in a society they prefer
11:43
stuff abstract that prefers stuff fuzzy
11:46
that prefer stuff forgivable on some
11:52
level we as a society actually prefer
11:54
stuff that’s forgettable
11:58
it’s our throwaway Society but by making
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the video concrete by making the video
12:10
less likely to be forgotten he brought
12:17
home a very serious issue suicide now it
12:24
may be a question to whether he was the
12:26
one that should have done the video and
12:29
I guess it’s a question to whether that
12:30
type of video belongs on YouTube but
12:37
it’s an issue that does need to be
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discussed it’s an issue that does need
12:43
to be made real because too often when
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the subject is talked about when suicide
12:48
has talked about it is put in at more
12:51
abstract terms let’s put in abstract
12:56
terms so you know in the abstract people
13:02
care in the concrete people realize it’s
13:07
a problem and they forget about it
13:12
now after Logan Paul did his video a lot
13:15
of people did their videos being
13:17
critical I didn’t really see any video
13:19
being positive about what he had done or
13:25
YouTube had done and I understand you
13:28
know that people feel like that Logan
13:31
Paul is treated special while other
13:34
channels are being knocked down by
13:36
YouTube you know demonetized and
13:39
censored in other ways and and this
13:42
makes people angry I understand that
13:44
part of it and I understand the part
13:49
that people reacted the way they reacted
13:51
because they did not
13:53
want it brought home real they did not
13:56
want it concrete in their memory they
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wanted it’s something they could easily
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forget about I know a lot of the people
14:06
that did the videos they you know they
14:11
present a lot they cared about the issue
14:12
of suicide and some of my guests did but
14:18
here’s the thing every video critical of
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Logan Paul it’s forgettable totally
14:30
forgettable nobody’s gonna remember both
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of those videos and yeah I know people
14:35
don’t remember well maybe the create the
14:40
level of cringe might make it so real
14:46
but I’m not critical of Logan Paul to be
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honest i I’ve never really got into the
14:57
Paul brothers
15:01
I’m not saying as a put-down or like I’m
15:03
so cool octave cool for the power
15:05
brothers you know I’m not trying to put
15:08
them down I just you know there’s only X
15:13
amount of time in a day and I’m having
15:15
trouble getting things completed as it
15:17
is so I tend to watch PewDiePie let’s
15:26
note and he does some really good stuff
15:30
and some of them some of the videos were
15:32
actually longer which I have trouble
15:33
watch because I have trouble finding the
15:35
time to watch and but
15:44
but back to the point I’m not being
15:46
critical Logan Paul when he realized
15:57
that there were so many people upset
15:59
with the video he quickly brought it he
16:01
took it down YouTube didn’t remove the
16:02
video he removed the video and he
16:06
deserves credit for that he responded to
16:10
the criticism on his channel whether it
16:13
was right or wrong for him to do the
16:14
video he responded to the criticism and
16:16
he responded fairly quickly I think I’m
16:22
not critical of Logan Paul and he
16:24
brought forth an important issue and he
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did it in a way that really you know
16:29
concrete concrete where the videos being
16:33
critical more abstract forgettable like
16:37
this video I’m dealing with more
16:39
abstract concepts
16:40
you might remember you might not for all
16:44
the long periods you won’t remember
16:46
which is unfortunate because I think I’m
16:49
making a valid point here it’s important
16:51
to understand you know the abstract
16:54
memory versus concrete memory and how
16:58
even a memory that’s concrete if your
17:01
level of fear is at a certain level that
17:05
it becomes abstract because you remove
17:08
yourself from the situation and
17:10
abstracts forgettable there are certain
17:12
things we just don’t want up here we
17:15
really don’t but at the same time didn’t
17:18
we start trying to analyze our episodic
17:20
memories and we realize our skips and
17:22
our memories and we realized we have
17:25
removed ourselves from certain
17:26
situations when the events were
17:28
happening now that this is true maybe
17:30
something happened wise 12 your Seldon
17:32
I’m not sure what I just I’ve got I’ve
17:35
got memories gifts between and of course
17:39
we start trying to feel and that’s gifts
17:41
that you’re likely to create false
17:42
memories and that’s a problem so you
17:43
don’t want to create false memories when
17:45
you start trying to fill in those blinds
17:47
and you’re trying to try to remember
17:48
abstract is very hard to remember once
17:51
you go into that abstract mode it’s
17:54
really hard to dig that back out and
17:56
it’s very
17:58
for whatever you dig out to be reliable
18:00
because when they’re skips
18:02
you’re likely to try to fill those skips
18:04
and sometimes what you’re trying to fill
18:07
those skips with what you’re trying to
18:08
rationalize in reason it’s more rifle
18:11
eyes and reason than actually
18:12
remembering and you just your memories
18:15
get muddled and you just not reliable a
18:18
hypnosis a lot of times it tries to fill
18:21
those skips it’s not reliable so anyway
18:29
I think it’s interesting I think the
18:34
memory you know want the one thing I
18:36
like about the discussion on the mental
18:38
effect is it does impart go to memory
18:41
you know whatever the full thing is you
18:46
know the fact that we do remember things
18:48
differently it does seem that certain
18:52
things change
18:54
it’s just weird but but even when you
19:00
get away from the supernatural and the
19:02
weirdness and and say this is a some
19:04
kind of digital computer program and
19:05
there’s glitches in the computer but you
19:07
can’t away from all that stuff just the
19:09
memory itself the way you remember stuff
19:11
and the way you deal with situations
19:13
it’s interesting in itself
19:15
so anyway much thanks for watching
19:18
listening and I do appreciate it don’t
19:22
be too hard on Logan Paul remember he’s
19:24
a living breathing creature care more
19:27
about the living than the dead care more
19:31
about the living than the dead and
19:34
there’s no reason to be mean to people
19:36
there’s no reason to be mean if you if
19:39
you didn’t like what Logan Paul did good
19:41
fine you know do your video and how you
19:43
don’t didn’t like what he did but don’t
19:45
be mean don’t be mean to the dude don’t
19:51
be jealous of the dude don’t be jealous
20:00
our success or failure here on YouTube
20:04
is our own my failure is my own I
20:08
understand that I think sometimes that
20:11
I’m being kind of knocked down by
20:13
outside forces I do and you know I get
20:17
into that mode sometimes my god I don’t
20:19
fully understand what’s going on why you
20:21
know this is whatever but at the end of
20:28
the day still my success or my failure
20:31
as a writer or are doing these videos is
20:36
my success or failure you know it’s it’s
20:39
me do it right or do it wrong it’s me
20:45
and I think that’s one really bad thing
20:48
about what YouTube is doing is because
20:52
we even when we kind of know it’s us
20:55
because of the shenanigans that they
20:57
pull it’s easy to want to blame them
21:02
when generally it’s still us you know
21:04
it’s still us it’s either felling or
21:06
succeeding it’s not them it’s not what
21:08
they’re doing to us but because they do
21:10
pull shenanigans and we do know they
21:12
pull shenanigans it’s real easy to get
21:15
in that mode and just play the blame
21:16
game
21:22
I just mistreat me so much no I’m not
21:26
gonna go in that mode whatever
21:28
shenanigans they pull it doesn’t matter
21:32
I’m not drawing traffic it’s me it’s not
21:35
them