UNPOPULAR OPINION: The perception that the world is offended by everything now days compared to other eras is just false. It's just the reflection of the modern media landscape, packaging pockets of anger in order to allow you to also be mad, about a few people being mad about something silly. But they make it look big and real and want you to react and feel smart about it. It's just backlash to fake backlash, sponsored by your corporate sponsors, for clicks.

Twitter/Social Media offers every descending opinion on a platter, that can easily be packaged into a "People are Saying Taylor Swift Eating a Taco is Cultural Appropriation", as if it represents any actual sizeable portion of the population. As if it's something you should pay attention to, or react to, or even think about. And that package of 20 annoying people saying extreme opinions, creates an exponential counter-reaction, simply because a website packaged it up and put a title on it. And then people click it and react to it. Faaarrrr too many people click on them and react to them. Or build entire personalities about being against entire concepts of articles like this. As they consume it as if it's news. As if it's worthy of their time. And it works for clicks, and here we are.

Media Literacy Tip: Just because someone can create a narrative, doesn't mean it holds any real water or even represents things in a way that reflects reality.

So when I see people complaining about cancel-culture or saying "Everyone is so sensitive now days", it just irks me. Not from where I'm standing. It just depends what you are reacting to I guess. I think you're being fed things to be mad about, for clicks. People are just reacting to what they consume without noting that. And you are what you eat.
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So the cycle continues and will never stop in this direction, if you're not actually DISCERNING about what you are consuming. #MediaLiteracy

Well here's a perfect example of something I don't know how to feel about.

I soak this in, and I unquestionably love it. This is really interesting to stare at, appreciate, think about. It's awesome.

It was created by AI...and that led to a crazy amount of backlash in the comments. And I understand why.
But I can't argue that this is awesome, and I enjoy it.

So, where does that leave "us". It's foolhardy to think you can full-stop technology being used and developed when it exists and capable of so much. But there is a human toll to be taken on what it will replace and change. No doubt.

I got no final statement to make here. Just dang. I like this art. Does that have to be a bad thing? I dunno.
Image Source: Ugleh on reddit
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Fellow Video Editors of the world...

Ummm...wow! Do you realize how good you have it now? I've just been rocking some Premiere Pro the last 2 days with my FCP7 hot-keys, on a computer that's not 4x Moore's Law's ago, and just WOW!

As someone that kind of just took a 10-year hiatus from video editing, holy cow you guys have it good now days. There's like no rendering wait time for anything anymore on a modern system? It will do a bunch of auto-captioning for you if you just push the right buttons? A built in export-encoder asks all the right questions for the modern landscape without overcomplicating everything?

Geeze -- dang. Just wow.
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Back in my day you had to walk 10 miles in the snow just to encode just so you could walk back and encode again on another program, I tell-ya-what...

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Three months ago I was driving my 4-and-a-half year old home from a day with her Grandparents, and she suddenly had questions about God.  I answered them as reasonably and openly as I could without forcing an ideology on her, even my own. Within 3 minutes she got to this above logical conclusion from asking pointed questions in this direction.  I agreed her logic was reasonable.  My four and a half year old.

That moment alone made me recognize how early everyone's mind should be capable of deep thought, but how early indoctrination starts to mold the brain. If she had someone in the driver's seat that wasn't willing to allow any next question with honest open-ended responses, everything changes. She doesn't get to chase honest questions. If I just forced some ideology down her brain at that moment, or distracted her with some overconfident BS answer, she doesn't get to understand that not knowing something is okay. That honest open-ended questions are normal and reasonable and important. She doesnt get told some false Black/White narrative to make the world a simpler place at the sake of nuance and honesty.

And she leads herself on her own honest questioning journey.

It was a huge win this post reminded me of.