The depressing thing about charity is that no charity should exist, the things charity advocates for should just be built into the system. - hbomberguy

Imagine sitting in front of your computer with the script for your final Doctor Who episode and looking at a screen where you have physically typed the words, "Oh. It's not an evil plan. This was all pointless." Well, that's the place where I would do a rewrite or hope that, like, someone would stop me! WHY DIDN'T ANYBODY STOP HIM?!

I think people tend to fool themselves. People think they’re good at what they do, and they don’t question their practices. Because James [Somerton] and [co-writer] Nick both thought they were experts on the topics they talked about, they bumbled into so many blind alleys. I mentioned making this video to my friend Todd and he independently started watching James, and fell down all these rabbit holes, and made a video about him as well. It’s the Dunning-Kruger effect, when you’ve managed to stay at the top of the curve so you think, "I must be an expert", and you never do any work that can disconfirm your hypothesis. It’s scary how easy it is to do that.

People seek these solutions because they perceive on some level a problem, and they’re right. Something is wrong with the world right now. The world is figuratively on fire, world leaders are asleep at the wheel, there’s nothing in place to prevent another massive financial crash which will destroy thousands if not millions of livelihoods, and ecologically speaking, instead of being, you know, figuratively on fire, the earth is literally on fire, wildfires are getting worse, temperatures are shifting all over the place, ice is melting at an astounding rate... even on a globe Earth, the edge is coming fast. So I can’t blame anyone for feeling alienated and lonely about living in late capitalist society. You know, at least under feudalism we had job security. So of course people are gonna try and find something that helps them cope, or seems like a solution. I mean, that’s why you get cults, that’s why you get Scientology, that’s why you get Jordan Peterson supporters. You know, something is wrong, and we can all tell, and some people have arrived at a solution that doesn’t really work.