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| Muertos | Posted: Mar 06, 2011 - 11:07 |
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 Paid Disinformation Blogger Level: 14 CS Original | Myles Dyer, popular YouTube celeb from England known as "Blade-376," joins the Zeitards. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdJMMXAxyTA Very disappointing. I've been following this guy on YouTube for like 4 years. Virtually unknown among "Internet activists," he actually did some real good in the real world--for example he organized an online fundraiser for UNICEF (I think it was UNICEF, or something similar), raised something like a million dollars, and has been very active in charity drives and other things that actually have real-world impact. When I was president of my charity club I was actually looking at trying to emulate some of his techniques to translate social media into boots-on-the-ground activities in the real world. Unfortunately now he's thrown in with the Merola/Fresco cult. He's starting to say stuff like "we're headed for a collapse" and "they don't ask you to believe everything." Pretty soon he'll be out there claiming "the movies aren't the movement" and "we have no leaders." This is absolutely tragic in my opinion. This guy could have done a lot of good for the world, but now he's wasted it by joining a conspiracy cult pushing a clueless high modernist ideology. This is the second example I've come across in the last month of well-meaning people or organizations who have the potential to make positive change getting poisoned and corrupted by association with conspiracy theories. It's like, you can't even form a group or join a cause advocating legitimate change without the danger of having that cause infiltrated and bastardized by CT's and their ilk. Reason #539784746823284664642846 to hate conspiracy theories. | |||||
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| Agent Matt | Posted: Mar 06, 2011 - 11:31 |
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 Genuine American Monster Level: 70 CS Original | I see it a different way. I see someone who became frustrated by lack of recognition who cannot live in a world on the world's terms rather than his own. Instead, he turned to apocalypse porn because a world who won't embrace the ideals of "Blade376" deserves an apocalypse. The question you should ask yourself is why was he doing the previous charity work? To help others or to help his own ego? I'm leaning towards the latter. | |||||
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| Muertos | Posted: Mar 06, 2011 - 12:54 |
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Paid Disinformation Blogger Level: 14 CS Original | I think this guy had good intentions. He's young, and obviously his instincts are not tempered by experience. I don't think anyone can become a YouTube celebrity without a certain degree of ego, but whatever the reasons he did charity work, they were at least successful in real world terms. | |||||
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| Agent Matt | Posted: Mar 06, 2011 - 12:56 |
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Genuine American Monster Level: 70 CS Original | I think where you and I are disagreeing is the motivations behind the charity work, not the validity of the charity work's impact on those who received it. *He* didn't get what *he* wanted out of the charity work. The impact it had on those receiving it is secondary to him or he wouldn't have abandoned it to join a goofy Internet cult that preaches against charity work. | |||||
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| Wolf Bird | Posted: Mar 06, 2011 - 15:52 |
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 I shoot you dead. Level: 9 CS Original | Hooray, more collapse porn. I think I have to agree with Matt. When you stop helping real people in the real world in favor of an ideology that parrots collapse porn and preaches AGAINST real world activities and impact, your primary reason in engaging in charity work was probably not to help people. By the way, for how long have we been headed for a collapse? I thought the collapse was supposed to happen in January, but...nothing! For how much Zeitgeist also talks about believing in science and the scientific method, they are sure against GMOs, modern argiculture and science based medicine, while favoring organic farming and alternative medicine. | |||||
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