RE: My Response To John Oliver's Attack On EOS & His Hypocrisy. Plus A Comment on Misrepresentation of Reality By TV Shows.
Nice post, I was considering doing a response to John Oliver as well as there were a lot of assumptions / misinformation made in this segment.
I think something that I found cringe worthy was the mental jujitsu used to get his viewers to look at crypto-enthusiasts as faux-intellectual imbeciles by using the ideas of the community against itself. The fabricated 'dan' character who annoyingly points out that 'fiat money is also invented and backed by nothing.'
There's nothing false about this argument at all, but instead of granting the point we're suppose to ridicule and ignore this completely reasonable point because it came from the mouth of a smug crypto enthusiast.
They also tended to pick on weak points in the community, such as BitConnect which the entire cryptosphere has been mocking for over a year. Yet, it's news to John Oliver so they attempt to paint all cryptos with the same pyramid-scammy brush.
There are many more instances like this throughout the piece BUT fuck John Oliver.
Thanks! I have a big problem with sarcasm and 'satire' because they contain denial. Denial is always a clusterfuck of judgement and distraction that claims to be something it's not. Even if John is on the side of 'ignorant' rather than 'malicious', his 'comedy' has a real effect in the sub-conscious of the impressionable viewers. It would be nice to think that people aren't so impressionable after years of TV exposure, but that just isn't true - in many cases they are even more impressionable than early TV watchers may have been due to years and years of careful psychological manipulation by those who want to use the TV as a method of control... :/
I'm sure I'm not telling you anything you don't already know, I just feel a need to say this - call it therapy! ;)
I am not religious and typically advise against religion, but there are always gems among the BS in there and the phrase from 'the bible' has come to me repeatedly recently: