Early Access: I Hate Mondays

Holy shit this is amazing! So freaking accurate!

Reed

I _cannot wait_ to share this with my friends. This is frankly incredible.

Ben Bariteau

Yeah, I'm ambivalent as well. It's genuinely hard to find photos of "criminals with guns" that aren't stereotypes, but I think I'll look harder and swap it out for the final edit. As for getting false-flagged for swastikas... I think we'll have to take that chance.

Ian Danskin

I'm not sure how I feel when you use a picture of latinx criminals at 4:52 for "criminals". Also, do we have to worry about people flagging the content because of swastikas?

I am of course not surprised when you turn out another great video, but this one is truly stellar.

Mark Paglia

Yes, yes, yes, yes, YES! Amazing. Thank you! The binaried view—and recognizing that this is a natural function of the brain because it helps us navigate the world. It would be really annoying to have to figure out what a chair is as opposed to a table every time we encounter each. But we can become aware of how our brains do this with people too. And that yes, this is a matter of shifting someone's paradigm that believes that their binary view is inherent, rather than a function of the brain making meaning of the vast amount of information it receives. Thank you for this, as ever. An amazing resource.

Kait Hatch

Ian, if you'd like to have English subtitles the day you release the video, I'll be happy to do sync work given I get a hand on the transcript.

Lunar

I like how three dimensional pie charts are bad at being pie charts, but somehow they communicate an idea of being a pie chart better

This is the most excited I have been about one of your videos so far--my degree is in rhetoric and, to toot my own horn, I did rather well in the subject and am unusually skilled at considering perspectives other than my own. I was also raised conservative and evangelical and grew up around quite a few people who turned fascist (though, thankfully, not my parents--it is not an accident that I came out the way I did). You *still* manage to regularly present points on conservative and fascist thinking that have never occurred to me, even with the amount of time I have spent thinking about it, and that seriously impresses and excites me. I was never good at thinking this way, which is why I left pretty much immediately upon becoming an adult. (Side note: reading Bob Altemeyer's take on how traditionally "intelligent"--a term that signifies little of use but paints a picture--children handle being raised with right-authoritarian worldview made SO MUCH SENSE to me, and I am grateful to have been pointed at that book.) I always, always appreciate insight, and you consistently bring it. Thank you for the work you do.

Jenlifer Fronester

Also most excellent use of a clip from Bill and Ted.

AaronRobertoMusic

Most excellent work. And arguments I as an Australian am sick of having with gun toting muricans.

AaronRobertoMusic

While I'm generally in favor of data, I feel like it's kinda redundant when this pattern of argument is so incredibly pervasive in conservative rhetoric?

Ian Danskin

Overall I like the video. Good work!

I think the comments on this one are going to be really interesting. I have some vague ideas about cancelling on the Left that I can't really articulate very well. I'm sure someone in the comments will bring up that point with real words. Hopefully will be a good discussion.

Good stuff, though I don't buy that binary thinking is either exclusive or more common/prevalent/virulent on the right than on the left. At least, not without hard data.

I think Guy from Payroll's Beard is fine the way it is, but his mouth should match the rest of the characters relative to the eyes/head. :)

ugh, but the UK is so much more visually interesting!

Ian Danskin

Great stuff! Love it! A fairly minor point, but you use a picture of the United Kingdom, but keep saying England. I hate to be that pedant, but you'll get pulled up on it in the comments, if you care about that sort of thing.

Sarah Hall