Six four ninety three or juju or tight tight price spin. I think I'm picking tight row just cuz he tall But stat this was all part of the plan bro to let him flood the first one. Yeah, after that I don't think juju's That's like seeing a shoot we start you never see that happen I'm picking juju you right Nick chubb trucking 94 that's what I like on my running backs although Sony Michelle 94 speed and Kings man, don't worry about it be on YouTube as soon as I get off this don't worry Y'all watch it again if y'all missed it The body back This is oh sharksy shark week.  I'm trying to tell people I'm different in the Mike game I should oh, I got Calvin.  I appreciate you I mean, I mean that two more. Oh snap pick them. Oh, yeah, that's probably this one probably Gigi's already sued You just send that whenever you want Set my thing up a little bit. So you mean I'm gonna do a thousand Yeah Check this team straight be straight right now, right? joku juju shark Julio big bodies Sony Michelle Deshaun Watson Man, Henry you gotta you gotta think about what's going You got a really thing it's cleverly gonna lose the dub 22 nothing Why are we trying to you know, I'm saying Are we trying to get good games Ash or something be reasonable Be reasonable All kinds of good cuts DC is it right now? Can't do that cam there when Tony Jefferson Clayton gathers Yeah, this team this team gets if I lost this one probably never play man again. That's how bad I Like people to get blown out and still talk. Yeah, I like that people too. You see that record Hey books Keep this books.  We are that laser you You know my paper is lasers and users watch what happened Watch what happened this game Give me ball first so I can sit this time that we gonna punch them in the mouth right now Hey, McKiffin talk to me Straight like that McKiffin straight like that McKiffin they come here to play no games, right? This won't get ugly. This is my real-life champions. Oh, too. You ain't lying. This is gonna get ugly. I promise you Oh, yeah, you can do all that pleasure You got it You got it. I ain't even what I'm mad at. I think I'm gonna be don't think that's gonna be it though It's stuff I do check like Like I really play the game like it's really not jokes and I really play the game Don't let them fall for a coach Yes, sir, good day Good day. I like I like what's going on right now Yep Oh, you're gonna come on Miller man That's so physical right there, Vaughn That's so physical right there Vaughn They come on Victor Victor beesley. Yes, sir From Yes, sir Come get physical if you really bought that With that I dare you to come get physical out here with us That'd be the day kids That'd be the day kids Run the alley check, please look I run the alley check, please look I ran that That's so clean right there dog. Oh Man, that was clean That's bad play. That's a bad play. You know what I'm saying? I mean, yeah, exactly. We play defense It's not really about all funds defense special teams. You know, it's about it's about one thing physicality Yeah, talk to him that he failed You know it You know, I ran that alley right there. That was That was beautiful Are you You ain't finna talk me out of my game, man. I doubt if I can bet, Coach. I don't, don't bring him in, I said wait. Oh, just quick lasers. Yeah, that's a big Calvin. That's a big Calvin. That big Calvin, he ain't really worried about none of that. Hey, Brian, you gonna watch for this, Brian? I'm about to methodically draw this ball. I left the Surgeon. Oh yeah, oh yeah, I like it when we get here. Just be methodically, everything will be over. Everything will be over. Calvin again. Bring methodically this draw. You don't like this set. You don't like this set. You don't like this set. You don't like this set. You don't like this set. Oh, I'm about to flip it. I'm about to play this like real good MCS game. Oh yeah, I like it. Good deal. Off the bounce, man. Off the bounce back door. Big Calvin, boy, that's a grown man. You talk about physicality. You talk about physicality. You talk about weight room. That's what we in, Coach. That's what we in. Physicality. Oh man, it's a man someone who's a boss, man. White games. He don't do white games. I mean, what? Look, he don't lose my game.    I promise they do. Oh man, whole lot of bag. Whole lot of bag about to go on now. What are you going to do? Bad boys, bad boys. What you going to do? What you going to do when they come? That's bad. Hey, you can have that. This one over. I promise you that. Hey, you can do an air play. Yep.  You playing with a lot of firecoats. That's one incredible use that you play. Oh yeah. Where's my co- That's all right. That's all right. I mean, it's to the point where I don't need to talk no more, Chad. Y'all see it. Y'all see it. I mean, y'all see it. We're going to make proper adjustments. Hey, I don't choice but to make proper adjustments. Nah. Darby a grown man. Darby a grown man. Now come get physical. I'll tell you. Come get physical. I'll tell you. Come get, come. That's what we're waiting on. I did that last time. You're right. I should be in that though. I mean, this is the tough part about Madden, man.  He has no idea what to do. He's just clueless. Run through the alley. Wow. This is the best. This is the best run through festival world. I'm so full.  That's all that's going on right now. That's all that's going on right now. It's that because I'm physical out of stack. You know why he just go to ball up and run over 100 people? Because I'm physical out of stack. That's why that's what they didn't expect. Cover three. He know what it he know what the play is. How are you going to stop it though? Yup. Double flag that side. Holy. Patience for six. I got reservations for six. Go to the crib.  What you doing? Oh. That was so physical, man. We spoke up.  They just like out of nowhere. It's awesome. You know what I'm saying? We spoke up. It's really sad. It's really sad. Sad. You know what I'm going to do?   How do you play around? We're going to just get straight up physical. All for real. We ain't going to waste no time. We ain't going to waste no time. We ain't going to waste no time. We ain't going to waste no time. We ain't going to waste no time. Oh my God. I mean this is just sad.  Hey, don't tap it. I don't tap. I ain't you don't build different. I'm going to build different. Don't be. Hey, don't be. You don't see. You want to put me down. What I look like. I wish I would tap. I wish I would tap. Hey. This Floyd right now. Don't be McGregor. I'm good. I mean the way to listen to my score. The way to listen to my score is crazy chat. Like what's the man supposed to do? I mean I'm just going down the field like this is the easiest thing in the world. Thank you, man. Oh, I like what I got played right here. I really like that cross man. Cross man. Oh, why you out thought him. Come here. I don't thought him. I like it. I like it. I'm starting to key in on what's going on. Yeah, I am. I'm starting. You see how man that guy. It ain't gonna be easy. Don't move. I know what I'm going to say. My first rodeo kill. Mm-hmm. Put them on that slant, Doug. Put them on the slant this time. Put them on the slant this time. Are you stricking him? You're stricking. Click on. Just click on. Good. Sorry, y'all see the chat. Y'all see it. No. Good. I'm gonna switch up the slant. Click on the man. Me up. What do I look like? Good. I like it. Look at that. Lower. This is so much defense. Lower. This is so much defense. Oh, there. You can't get there. What's that? Put them in the chat. You can't get there. You can't get there. You can't get there. That's a laser. You can't get there. Good, Doug. Good, Doug. I know. Good, Doug. Lower them perfectly. Everybody in perfect adjustments. You got somebody manned up on the other side. We're perfect. We're gonna let them have that one. Somebody got earned a touchdown. Hey, it's that. They gotta give me these ones, bro. You can't get that. That was perfect. His arm's too short to box with God, man.  That's not gonna work on me. Everybody work one play. Look, come on, man. Doug, I gotta let them score once to keep me entertaining. Man, I don't attack. Oh, yeah, to read. Oh, yeah, to read. That's... Man, I stepped from the 50, like, D. I stepped from the 50, like, D.  Like, seriously. They literally gift this man three touchdowns. Rico voice. What's that? I mean, Chet, like... Oh, man. Yo, shout out to the dude who's speaking Spanish right here, man. You're a role model. I mean, it's just... In the worst part, honestly, I know this is just a game, but he's getting 5,000 looks at what I want to do on offense because he's just not, you know, taking long time to score.  Go outside. Uh-oh. I can put my wide receiver on the baseline. He fits. Jesus. Come on, man. That's underrated stick right there. No, it's not. This is... I don't have Tyree killed. Oh, come on, man!  Get busy. Get busy. Yo, look at Chet. Chet, y'all saw it. Yo, saw it. Yo, saw it. He saw it, too. He ain't trusted. He ain't trusted. He was just hoping. Oh, yeah, I make perfect reads. Precise. Precise.  As long as y'all see it, I mean, I don't know what you want a man to do.  Hey, runners, you see what's going on, brother? Ain't nothing but a whole lot of bad talk. Oh, I like the way this looked. I just like the way this looked. Verticals. Yeah. Calvin Big Guido. Calvin Hughes over there. Oh, God. That's all right. Let me get another look at this. See what's really going on. Let me see what's really going on. Let's kick it through and be proud of yourself, man. Let me animate. Just let me animate right there. That's crazy. By the way, this look right here, I really just like. That's a laser. Look at that. I can't help it. The whole team knows. Like, what happened? Go kick it through and be proud of yourself, man. Yeah, we're going to kick it. We get baller hat too. We're going to get it. Take this. Give it a little squeaky. Bumble to the crib.  Break six tackles to the crib. A play that he was boxed on. Throw to the crib. Pick the ball up. There you go, Ham. There you go, Ham. Fight for him. Hey, scary hours. Scary hours. He know he can't move the ball. He's just looking like 48 to 14. It's not. It's not. You haven't played a lick of defense these days. Like, not a lick. Like you said last game. I ain't got to. Not a lick of defense, man. I ain't got to. All right, let's see what we got right here. What we going to run? At this point, it's what we going to run. I'll do the end. Just I'll do the end. Make everything.  That's what he's supposed to be. That's on me. Oh, yeah. I'm like, don't get sticky. We're still flipping in draft champions. Like losers out here. Hey, come on. Call you play like a man. Here we go. That's loose. Bounce off that. Bounce off that. Bounce off that. Playmaker hit superstar. I'm just lasering right now. I'm just getting. You got me, mommy. You got me. Oh, my gosh. That's hot. That's pocket.  That's the way you step up like a grown man.   I like this one right here. I like this one right here. I just, for some reason, I just do. God, look at you real big over there. I know what I got to do. Where's that? That's on me. I know what's going on, man. Let's find a dot one time. I know what's going on. I got you. I got you. Damn, man. Are you kidding me? Take this, man. Just throwing the ball. And you willusily marry me. We're making it a time. We're making a time. That's to be easy offense, man. We're making a time. We're fine. We ain't want to put up 30 man like that. You cool? Let me animate. Let me animate. Let me animate, let me animate, let me animate. Let me animate, coach. Are you andony? I want to play with it, coach. Let me animate. That's what I'm going to do. I don't ask for much. Oh, a D-shirt. Oh, a D-shirt. Oh, that's a fresh to... I told him I ain't playin' with him this game, I told him I ain't playin' with him this game. Stack, you see what's goin' on bro? I appreciate you rockin' with me. Slim, you see what's goin' on? Too little man. Too little over there man. Jesus. I mean how many times I hold right down to the fuckin' field and not get touched though. Ain't much twins. Like I work at Walmart. Like I work at Walmart. I like this play right here too. Just a little short corner right here. I just like the way it looks. Caval, you better get big there. Come on man, give me that book! There's no way these are the passes we makin'. Let's see what we got right here. We need these. You know what man, don't shoot. That's when you step on them. That's when you step on them. Bull this wide. This wide. Caval. Oh my gosh. Good D. I know!  You gotta tell me. Yeah, good D. Holiday. Oh my god. I mean, you can just tell when these kids are just really used to having 6 or 5 receivers. I don't want to take 3 versions. No way I'll take 3 right though. I don't want to... You're using that slot, I see it. Ah, good D. Good D. Good D. Good D. Good D. Because you see they ain't fighting. That's alright though. Caval, you broke 7 tackles. Caval. Because you see this one. That's cool though, you know why? Because I got... What? A person. He's so lucky. He's so lucky, bro. That was the wrong person.     That's cool, man.  No, he only 94 speed but I know how to play. I don't know how to coach his technique. I don't believe it. Take a flip. Run him over. That's a bad man right there. That's a bad man right there. Thank you Lou.   That's a bad man, Cam. Calvin, I might need to see what's going on. I'm getting physical with Calvin, man. That's just normal, man. Good D. Let's dial it up right here. I'm gonna just run right through the ground. Grab him in the bag right now. Point and play D. Some backspin on that one. Oh my God. That's just great special teams. That's just great special teams. We better stop it. We better stop it. Yeah, that's been getting picked up. Oh, you're gonna pay for it out of bounds, too. And you're gonna pay for it out of bounds. Man, that's what's supposed to happen out of bounds. Like that's what's supposed to happen. I don't believe. Hey, keep testing it.  That's the hole. Don't run, Juju. Let me do, like, cheat me this game. Just cheat me. Oh, I gotta figure it out. It's cool though. There's nothing gonna be over anyways.  I didn't even want to throw that, but the mutual's there as well. Y'all see what's going on, man. Y'all really do. I mean, that ain't gotta be me. Man, that's crazy. Okay, now I'm gonna tell you what. I know what you about to throw and it's a pick already. That's just pretty, that's pretty beefing right there. Yeah, it's coming back where our emotions are then, so we're wasting so much time. Screamer. That's what I hate about the game, man. Oh, you think you're gonna get two stops? Come on. You got a kick return and everything, chat, bro.  Oh, you can't do it again, too. Yeah, like, what am I, I mean, one more button. I don't have another button to kick it. Oh, man. What do you want to do? I'm gonna do this right here. AKG. Did you expect anything else? You had expected that we were going to get this ugly. How about that, kid? Just tell me. Just tell me. Keep the blocks. Keep the blocks. Keep the blocks. Cabo. Hey, AKG.   You don't want to highball anything, I'm saying, bro. I ain't even high-passed that. Bro, look. You're gonna get a stop in this. Childish. Childish.  Come on, man. Oh, my God. That was the... Nick Manis. That's a joke, man.  God damn. Come on, man. That's a bag, man. How many picks is that? Five? Five picks? Pick it off, man. B-R-A-T-R-E. Y'all see what's going on. Heck, you... What's this? It's just a bag. I said, are we gonna do that, though? Are you gonna add it on me? How to get physical. Get the ball back. Are you gonna add it on me? I'm just feelin' like George Boyn is in town. Right. That close. I mean, maybe I could be wrong. Quick little laser. Quick little laser, by the way. I mean, I'm the Galaday Calvin Sasson. He's just a brat. Quick little laser, by the way. Quick little laser. What was the site there, man? He's way too close to the box. He's way too close to the box, if you ask me. Way too close. Not so much to hit.  Come on, man. 21, no savage, man.   That's what happened. He was like, Clef got blown out. And now I am saying they're okay.  He can't get the... Yeah, I know he can't. I ain't like... I ain't even like that from the get go to be honest with y'all. That's bad. That's just bad. Watch this one right here, though. Yeah, they comin'. Oh, man. Squirrel can make a tackle. Yes, sir. Physicality. Physicality. Come on, man. Come on, man. Y'all want to go Squared good? Squared good, man. Squirrel can make a tackle. Squared can make a tackle, Mike. Hey, Josh. Josh Norman. I'm a high-latcher, Jay. I'm a high-latcher, Jay. Keep me in my mouth, man. Keep me in my mouth, man. Bro, we were as physical as in the chair. I like you right there, guy. There's some reason you... That's just me to move. No! I got six, too. I got six. That's me. That's me. That's me. I'm flippin' on time, man. Just flippin' on time. Just see what he's gonna do. Go. Oh, let me get... Oh, bro. Let me catch the ball, bro. It's 16-inches, bro. Oh, my God. They like this thing when it rain and pours. Bro, it's pouring. This is just like, man, like, jeez. Oh, this could be a full... It could be blocks. It really wasn't gonna let me...  Bro, it's gonna move me smooth out the way. Hey, bro. It's cool. Y'all keep bagging, man. I'm clickin' so crazy. I'm clickin' so crazy. I'm clickin' so crazy. Come on, man.  You can't score. You got seven picks, y'all. Oh, yeah. That's just a smooth one. And you're too little. Let me get out of bounds. Another one. Another one. Come on, Calvin. Let's go score. Why not us? I mean, why? Why not us, cowboy? I like this one. I like this one right here. It looked real crisp. Let me get out of bounds, Colin. Let me get out of bounds, Colin. I got split. I had split close this whole time. I didn't know. I'm about to take a time. I'm already getting arrested. We got two shots. Two shots, and then it's over here. What we want? I'm excited. I'm excited. This is why you couldn't get three on the first drive. I swear to game, they game cheats you.  That three went on to do nothing for you. That three, then I got back to the end zone 12 of the times. Right inside the five. We wasn't getting physical enough on the goal line. We was getting caught up on the goal line. Oh, yeah. That's perfect right here. And then a kick return, a fumble to the crib. That's perfect. I mean, when I tell you, that's a perfect down. Two shots. That's one. I see what's going on. Catch the ball, Calvin. You thought of him. What you want to do? That's too much. Six picks, man. It might make you to depend on what happens in the next game. It might just be a one game only thing. You know what I'm saying? That one. Y'all saw that game, bro. Like, come on. He ain't going to put that one on you. Y'all saw that game. Like, listen. Men lie, women lie. They don't. They don't lie.  That's all. That's all y'all had to see.


How's it going guys? My name is Kai and today we are going to be going over the five biggest mistakes people are making when filming dance videos. In case you haven't noticed, dance videos have become the thing to create over the past few years. By picking a good song and showcasing your talents, people are now able to amass thousands of followers and create hundreds of opportunities for themselves. And who doesn't want that? However, even with all of these followers and opportunities up for grabs, there are just as many mistakes people are making that are costing them all of these chances they could otherwise be getting. A little background on me, I started dance in high school and started filming dance seven years ago. And since then, I've had the opportunity of working with the top movement brands like STEEZY, KIONI and MARI, KINJAZ, Vibrancy, Stance, and many more. I've learned so much along the way and now I want to share it all with you. This video is here for free as a preview lesson to movement media mentor, an online course that I have designed to teach you all the secrets behind planning, shooting, and editing your own professional level dance videos that will bring you real opportunities, proven using techniques that have been tried and true by both myself and the pros before me. Click the link in the description below after the video to learn more. Mistake number one people make when filming dance videos, they overspend on the wrong things. This doesn't just go for dance creators, but for video creators in general, they think having the most expensive gear is going to do them the best justice. And that is just not the case. Fundamentally, all cameras have the same technology. It doesn't matter if you're using an iPhone or a RED camera. In fact, a majority of successful dance creators are filming on their iPhones and posting to social media. All you really need to get started is your phone. And in fact, most iPhones come with an editing software built in, which is iMovie, which could save you the cost potentially of a computer and an editing software. So don't go dropping all your bills on a nice, nice camera just yet. In fact, if you can figure out how to use the camera you have now at your disposal and get the best image you can out of that through lighting and composition and all of those first building blocks, then it's going to be much, much worth your money and time. So avoid this first trap of overspending on expensive gear by taking the time and resources to learn about the building blocks that create a good image and also improving your dance, right? Or binding a good dancer to put in front of the camera. Mistake number two that people often make when creating dance videos is that they don't go out with a goal in mind. While there's nothing wrong with just going out and having fun and doing whatever, if you want to be a professional and you want higher chances of your videos driving the results that you want, then you have to think about what you're doing it for. It's kind of like going on a road trip, but you don't really have a destination and so basically there's really no direction or cause or rhyme or reason for you to go in any direction and you end up just kind of putting willy nilly and you don't really achieve or have the experience that you want to. It's the same with making videos. If you don't have an objective or something to shoot towards, then everything that you create and all the things that you decide to shoot are most likely not going to lead into a common cause. You can avoid this just by asking yourself some simple questions such as, why are we making this? Who are we making this for? And what purpose are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to make the audience feel? Answering any of these questions is going to lead you down a path that will be more defined and will help you more likely achieve the goals that you wanted to setting out for that video. Common mistake number three to avoid is not doing the right planning and researching. I know a lot of people kind of like to just freestyle this thing because they feel like it's going to take them less time to accomplish, but counterintuitively not taking the time to plan and research properly can end up leading to way more time taken on the entire project versus maybe that extra hour or two that you could have spent planning. If you go onto the field and you want a freestyle dance video, then that's fine, but you may end up running into a ton of problems, including problems with location. Maybe the lighting is not good enough. Maybe it's more crowded than you expected it to be. In fact, maybe you might not even be able to dance there and they'll kick you out. Who knows? Now you do not have to plan every single step along the way. You don't have to get that meticulous. All I'm saying is that each point that you decide to actually look into ahead of time, including what music you're going to shoot, what type of movement or dance are you going to do? Are you going to freestyle? What type of style are you going to do? If you can figure those out, then that way you have a better way to frame your videos. And if you can figure out the location schematics and the details, then you can figure out if you can shoot there or not, if you can even access that place. And if you take the time to look into locations, you'll probably find one that is way more rewarding and it looks way better than it would have if you didn't. Once again, freestyle is completely fine. In fact, a lot of TikTokers and social media content creators do just that. But those that you see who create the videos that you remember and tell a story, those are the ones that took the time to decide to plan and gave that invisible ink under word. So if you want the same for your videos, then it's a very good practice to start getting into this habit of planning and not trying to just avoid that your entire life. This take number four people often make when filming their dance videos is that they don't pay attention to lighting. I know if you look into it, lighting can look like a complex endless journey of learning and just so much technicalities. But at the end of the day, there's really one thing you should have to remember as a beginner. So let me explain a key light to you real quick. That's my camera. This, this right here, what I'm pointing at, that's my key light. This is the light that's allowing most of my face to be lit up and my entire subject. This is what it looks like when my key light is turned off. While it does kind of look pretty cool and moody in this situation, most times I want you to focus on me. And so right now there is no key that is helping you focus on me. That is the power of the key light. And while lighting doesn't have to be that expensive and buying a few lights can actually help you immensely when filming videos, especially at night, you still don't really technically need to buy a light to understand how to use a key light. In fact, we have the most powerful source of light that's free pretty much all the time, as long as it's daytime and you're outside, which is the sun. And the sun is going to be your best friend when filming dance videos, especially without lights. Only thing about the sun is that you can't position it exactly where you want it to be. You are at the bidding of the sun. That is why it's important to plan people plan for the right time of day. And so we're going to go over it just very briefly here. Okay. If the sun is right overhead and it's really bright out that day, it's going to cast rights on top of your subject. And it's going to give them raccoon eyes. And it's going to look very intense, which can be a look you're going for. But most of the time, if we want a subject to look flattering, we do want diffused lights, which is what this light source right here is doing. And ways you can get diffused light is either you go into shade and you make sure that you find a background or a whole shot that is shaded or indoors, or you can wait until dawn or dusk, which we refer to during Lee as golden hour. This is when the sun is right below the horizon. The sky turns a different color, but the light from the sun is diffused throughout the entire sky.  Some of the most common mistakes I see beginners make when filming dance videos is that one part of the frame is super dark and one part of the frame is super light. And unless your camera's dynamic range is high enough, which even if it was, you still wouldn't really want to push it like that because the image won't probably look as great. What's going to happen is your brighter areas either going to be overexposed or your darker areas going to be underexposed, which means it's too dark to see anything or it's too bright to see some stuff. Like you can see that most of my face is starting to get white and like not natural. That's because the light is blowing out my face right now. And once you see too many of these in shots, it's a dead giveaway that you made a mistake and that either it's going to make audiences feel a little bit more comfortable or professionals are going to see it and immediately know that you may not know what you're doing. So it's very important to understand these fundamentals. Last but not least, one of the most common but critical mistakes I see people making when filming dance videos is skipping video fundamentals. If you're a dancer and you're watching this, you probably understand by now that there are fundamentals to your style. And if you decide to skip all that and learn the crazy stuff first, then you are not going to have a good foundation and it's going to show. It's kind of like trying to put on all these fancy and nice pretty clothes, but you don't even have a skeleton. So yeah, you can imagine how that looks. You're just a blob and everyone can see it. It's the same thing when you don't have your video fundamentals. If you haven't taken at least a little time to learn about things like lighting, camera settings, shutter speed, frame rates, ISO, aperture and all these other things, then it's going to show. And I know it's a lot of things to crash. And that's why I don't really blame people for not knowing this stuff.  And then you learn incrementally slowly over the years. The thing is not everyone has the time for that or the patience for that. And I don't blame you. On the other end, you can go to school for it. You can spend thousands, if not tens of thousand dollars on a tuition and they will teach you the right ways. I did both of these and honestly, my film education, I feel like I learned more from YouTube. So I'm just putting that out there. There's better ways to spend your money, especially if you're trying to get into filmmaking. And also I want to give you guys props for just being here until the end of this video because it shows that you're looking to learn. And I know it goes deep. There's a lot more stuff here that I haven't covered. This is the tip of the iceberg people. And if you were like me, someone who sometimes just can't wait to achieve their goals as fast and efficiently as possible using the smartest routes, then I really, really think that you should check out Movement Media Mentor. This is something I've created out of frustration of just thousands of hours of trial and error, blood, sweat, and tears. And honestly, if something like this had existed earlier, I probably wouldn't have had to go to college for film. Because in this course, I have packed the fundamentals and the secrets that I've been wanting to learn for so long and was finally able to learn from the people that I've looked up to all these years. I've now had the opportunity to work with all of them and learn so much from them. And now I'm looking to democratize this information so that anybody who has a dream to make amazing videos and grow their platform specifically in the dance and movement sector can now do it in this one course. So check out the link in the description below.  And either way, if you finished this video, great job, because you've already learned about the mistakes that I had to make and a lot of other beginners had to make. And you will be able to just level up way faster because of this. 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Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, everyone. On behalf of ITU, welcome to this fourth and final dialogue in the Road to Burn via Geneva series. Let me take a moment to thank Jean-Pierre Raymond and his colleagues at the Swiss Mission to the UN and the Geneva Internet Platform for organizing this very stimulating series of dialogues ahead of the UN World Data Forum next week. It's now October, and we're almost at the end of the first year of our decade of action, with just a little over nine years left to deliver on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. With progress lagging on almost every goal, we urgently need to find new ideas and approaches that can dramatically accelerate solutions to the world's biggest problems. At ITU, we have long advocated for the catalytic role of digital technologies in accelerating sustainable development, and I'm most encouraged to see that our message is now being heard around the world, with the release of the UN Secretary General's Digital Cooperation Roadmap, with the strong focus on digital at this year's UN General Assembly debates, and with COVID-19 throwing the spotlight on what it means to be unconnected in the digital age. The pandemic has illustrated, as perhaps nothing else could have, the vital importance of meaningful connectivity to people's livelihoods, employment, health and well-being, education, and social participation. It has also served as a wake-up call to the global community to renew efforts to connect the 3.6 billion people still offline. We have never faced a situation of greater urgency, and I believe global recognition of the vital importance of digital infrastructure, services and skills offers us an unprecedented opportunity to make real and rapid progress. The Secretary General's roadmap makes it clear that if we truly want to achieve the SDGs, the global community needs to mobilize, to energize, and to find ways to collaborate more closely and more productively. As the main operational hub of the UN and the multilateral system, I believe Geneva's unique international ecosystem can contribute substantially to identifying and fulfilling some of the most pressing demands of the 2030 agenda. As an input into the World Data Forum, the focus of this series of dialogues has been on digital and data cooperation. The first three dialogues discussed data collection, the protection and privacy of data, and the sharing of data. This last dialogue will deal with the use of data, and in particular, the use of big data. Our discussions today will focus around three core questions. What type of cognitive, technical, and analytical skills are needed for the effective use and communication of big data? How can we make the rather abstract results of big data analysis more tangible through data visualization and storytelling? How can big data be used more effectively for evidence-based policymaking, especially in developing countries? These are all crucial questions. Extracting value from big data is a complex activity. And if we are not using the results effectively, all our efforts go to waste. It is very important that data, all types of data, are made accessible and available to inform the policymaking process, while of course always respecting principles of data protection and privacy. Let me share with you ITU's experience with the project on big data for measuring the information society. Through this project, we've been exploring ways of using big data from the ICT sector to improve and complement existing statistics and methodologies used to measure the information society. The goal of this big data project is to enhance the accuracy, granularity, and timeliness of ITU's ICT statistics, which are entrusted and relied upon, not just by our sister agencies, including the World Bank and IMF, but by governments worldwide and by the ICT global industry. In this project, which has been piloted in eight countries to date, ITU collaborates with national regulators, with mobile network operators, and internet service providers to leverage massive amounts of user data. In implementing the project, we've already identified a number of challenges. First, accessing mobile phone data in most countries requires clearance from the organization in charge of data privacy to ensure that the privacy of mobile phone users is protected. This requires non-disclosure agreements to be signed by operators, regulators, and data scientists before data can be accessed. This is a lengthy process, usually taking at least six months. The second challenge relates to the infrastructure and hardware resources that are needed to extract and process large amounts of raw data. Regardless of whether data extraction and processing is handled by the Ministry, the regulator, or the National Statistical Office, most countries, and particularly developing countries, simply do not have the necessary infrastructure to handle such large data volumes. These two challenges have already been touched on in the previous dialogues. But a third challenge that has not yet been mentioned and which is directly relevant to today's dialogue is that extracting useful information from very large amounts of data is complex and requires specific skills. Big Data is a relatively new field and expert Big Data scientists are scarce, especially in developing countries. For the same reason, policymakers frequently fail to understand the potential and the value of Big Data, which represents a further challenge when it comes to securing government buy-in. Visualizing Big Data through compelling stories is an important tool in promoting insights into our results so that policymakers understand the information that the data yields and are then able to effectively use that information in their decision-making processes. At the ITU, we have already begun this journey and we're working hard to make our data as useful and as revealing as possible for analysts, policymakers, and the industry that we serve. Next month, we will launch the 2020 edition of our ICT facts and figures publication as part of our measuring digital development series. I highly recommend everyone with an interest in the potential of Big Data to drive development outcomes to take a look at it when it comes out. This publication offers a very good example of what I've been talking about in terms of visualizing data in an impactful and meaningful way. Before concluding, let me just take a minute to thank our co-host, the World Economic Forum, and in particular, Dominique Waray and his team. The WEF is a pioneer and a champion of multi-stakeholder collaboration and a frequent and valued collaborator of the ITU in advocating for digital technologies as catalysts of sustainable development. It is an incubator for innovative initiatives such as Vision 2030 and a supporter of several initiatives that the ITU cares deeply about, including the Equals Global Partnership and the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development. In closing, I wish you a very successful session today and my best wishes for a stimulating and productive virtual UN World Data Forum next week. I'm very pleased to confirm that the ITU Secretary General, Hu Lien Zao, will participate in that important meeting and from my own part, I hope very much to have the chance to meet you all and burn next year for the 2021 edition of the forum. Thank you very much.


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So, we live in a world where everything is categorized from a political perspective into left and right. And many people who maybe don't feel comfortable with the way, let's say, the right has moved further out to, as they call the hoshu theory, towards greater and greater, maybe, status and view themselves somehow as center, and then you've got people on the left who don't associate themselves, definitely, necessarily with identity politics and with woke and all that, who again identify themselves as kind of center, center-left, center-right. But the idea is, of the hoshu theory, is if you take the ideas of the right and you take them to their extreme, you get some form of status, fascism. And the idea is if you take the ideas of the left and you take them to the extreme, you get some form of communism, egalitarianism. So the idea is, and this is the hoshu theory, right, that the left and the right converge, converge, get very similar to one another. Then you take their ideas to the extreme. So let's think about that. What are the ideas typically associated with the right, historically, right? And right or left are concepts that are really European concepts. They originated after the French Revolution by where people sat in the French Parliament. Really the left and the right in Europe during the 19th century really forms of statism. There was left statism, right statism. And it was, you know, in what ways should the state impose itself on you by whom? Left and right really came to America in the early part of the 20th century, really in the 1920s and 30s. The concept of left and right was brought here by the communists. The left, indeed communists thought in terms of left socialist, right socialists. Those were the terms that they used. Those were the ways that they thought about the political spectrum. And they brought that conception left and right and it kind of got well-established in the United States, this idea of left and right, basically associating the Republican Party with the right and the Democratic Party with the left. And so let's take some basic, let's deal with Osho theory first and then maybe let's think about the whole concept of left and right and whether it makes any sense and how does it fit into any of this and should we still think in terms of left and right? Is there any use to think in terms of left and right? So right, for example, is typically associated in the minds of some, particularly if you go back a few decades. Maybe with founding fathers, maybe with economic freedom, with the idea of freedom and liberty. Maybe some with religion, but a big emphasis I think on the right particularly if you go back to the Goldwater era, but even Reagan associated the right with limited government, economic liberty, founding principles. Now if you, and then the left, the left was thought of as socialist, as state involvement in the economy, no real economic liberties. You know, to some extent, some social freedoms, strong emphasis on the left in the past on free speech, for example. Free speech was a positive value for the left, you know, at least as they claimed. I mean, this is again, common perception, common view. If you take free markets to the extreme, to the end of the Osho, does that lead you to fascism, statism, control, authoritarianism? No, extreme free markets lead you to more liberty, not statism. It doesn't lead you down that Osho.  That take you towards authoritarianism? No. I mean, one could argue that certain ideas of left and right when taken to those extremes do lead into the Osho, religion, certainly of the right, wanting to control people's sex lives, certainly on the right, on the left, the socialism, if you take it to the extreme, that's communism, yeah, that's statism, if you take the religion and they're wanting to control people's sexual habits to the extreme, yeah, that's statism, that's part of the Osho, but does not every part of what we consider part of the right, if taken to extreme leads to fascism, and not everything in what we used to consider parts of the left, take the extreme leads to communism. Now it's true fascism and communism are very similar, but they are extremes of what? They are both extremes of something, but are they extremes of the good parts that belong to the right and the good parts that belong to the left? No. So the whole concept of left and right, I think the Osho theory illustrates quite well, is that the whole concept of left and right is a package deal. There really is no such thing as left and right, and indeed one of the things that categorizes left and right is just how fluid the ideas that people on the left and people on the right actually have held through history, they're very inconsistent, particularly when you think about the left and the right today. The left used to be a bastion of free speech, today it's some of the most strongest voices that anti free speech on the left. The right used to be a bastion of free markets, today some of the strongest voices are against on the right are against free market. The left, the right used to be, at least for the most part, the right used to be opposed to authoritarian regimes in the world and viewed America in some important way as exceptional, as different. The right today admires dictators around the world and views America, particularly America today is dramatically unexceptional. Left and right have become, and I think always were, completely fluid concepts, today and maybe always, but certainly today we can see it today because I think social media gives us visibility to the way people think that we really never had before. Today people associate themselves with the right and the left as tribes, not as ideas, not as ideology, not as a set of principles to guide their political agenda. Today left and right are tribes and the ideas that people hold within these tribes depend on all kinds of factors that many of them independent of ideology and have much more to do with the dynamics within the tribe and dynamics between the two tribes, the conflict between the two tribes. Indeed you see this particularly with somebody like Trump where the tribe, the right, will change its views on a particular issue as Trump changes its views on a particular issue. I mean there being some polling studies done asking people on the right a question and then they give an answer and then they're told the Trump thinks the answer is a B and then everybody switches to B because what's really important to them is the tribal affiliation not any particular view or any particular idea and in that sense, I think left and right are empty concepts, there's nothing there, there's nothing of interest, there's nothing, concepts are supposed to help us. Concepts are supposed to integrate around principles, around key ideas. But what are the key ideas, what unifies the right today, what would you say identifies the right in any particular formulation and is that the same or is that even similar to how you would have identified the right in 1964 and I'm sure there's certain things that are similar and you can even show how certain ideas that the right had in 1964 led to where we are today. But in terms of a deep ideology and in terms of the application of that ideology, it is very little that is similar between a Barry Goldwater and a Donald Trump and yet both the figures of the right. There's a new book out, maybe it's not so new, but there's a book out that I just discovered whether it's new or not, I do not know, I can click on it and find out and tell you whether it's new or not, but it's a book called, let me just first see if it's new or not, all right, it's old, it's a year old, it was published by Oxford University Press in January 2023, but it is a book called the myth of the left and right, how the political spectrum misleads and harms America and I think there's a lot of truth to the ideas presented in the book, at least as summarized by a variety of different articles that I've read about in the book. The idea that left and right are these baskets of policies or political views that are completely flexible, that are completely move around, that are not static and are not unified by any ideological principle. It used to be, I talked about the right as protecting individual rights, protecting rights with regard to economic rights, generally fighting for those, but violating rights when it comes to our freedom of speech and women's rights and abortion and homosexuals, sexual behavior and the left, so social kind of issues and the left was good on the social issues or had a particular view on the social issues, but then rights violated when it comes to economics issues. And that, okay, I can kind of see a left and a right, I would still want to ask where do I belong, right, somebody who believes in liberty and individual rights both in the social and on economic issues, where does one belong if this is a spectrum where you get more and more freedom in economics but more and more repression when it comes to, as you go out to the extremes, I mean none of these, it just doesn't fit, none of it integrates. And this is the thing about left and right. It doesn't integrate, there's no concept there. The left doesn't integrate into a concept, okay, these are the ideas that make the left, that unify the left and make it understandable what the left is. They're the ideas that make it and we can see that you can move from moderate to more consistent to radical positions because the problems of both left and right is they're a complete mishmash of ideas. There is no unifying factor, there's no integrating factor, it is a complete disintegration. By the way, Jonah Goldberg interviewed the author of this book recently and he reviewed on his podcast and he reviewed the book on one of his dispatch blog posts and that's where I found, I discovered it, I'd never heard of the book. It turns out that the authors are both affiliated with a Miller Center or the Miller Center who funded this book, the Jack Miller Center, Jack is a friend, I'm actually gonna see Jack on Thursday so Jack's a good guy and the Jack Miller funded this book, the Jack Miller Center. They sound like, I mean they're self-identified, the author self-identifies classical liberals and they say, where do we belong? If there's the spectrum, what's the spectrum of rights, well that doesn't fit because they each violate rights in different ways and they respect rights in different ways and those don't go together and what they argue, and I think this is right, is what this causes is conceptual muddling and conceptual laziness or political laziness, thinking laziness on the part of American political participants. Oh, I'm of the right because I agree with X, oh then I must agree with YZ, BA, X, you know all these other ideas and as they shift, well I'll shift my views as well because now I'm of the right and it creates a certain laziness, well what do I think of A and B and C and D and is in my own thought, is there a unifying principle? Is there something that puts it all together, well when I start breaking it down like that, I think for many people if they start really breaking it down, really thinking about the issues and really thinking about it from the perspective of principles, they suddenly discover, well wait a minute, I don't agree with half the things that they believe. So if I'm not on the right, where am I, I'm not on the left because I disagree with them on pretty much everything, so where am I, well this is too hard, I'll just be on the right. The label itself, there is no concept there because it doesn't integrate anything unifying, there's no unifying principle, the concept itself is, it's just useless, it actually I think distorts thinking, it actually represses ability to think clearly about the issues involved and more importantly the principles involved, the principles should guide your actions. Are the founding fathers left or right? Well by some measures you could argue that on certain issues, I don't know, you could categorize some of them as right, others as left, but again it's confusing because on other issues they're very similar and they very much agree. Does that mean they're centrists? There's no, you draw a line, left, right, but what is the characteristic, what are we moving along? What is the line represent? What are we moving across? Because they're baskets of goods, there's baskets of opinions, not good, baskets of opinions, combinations of opinions across the line, but what is unifying them to create a line? Nothing, it's not liberty because both directions both enhance certain liberties and repress other liberties and to various degrees and depending on where you are. So, Ken for example writes, Hamilton would be considered far right if not for his belief in a central bank, but no, it was because of his belief in a central bank that he was considered far right because far right was considered more statist and Thomas Jefferson was considered far left, less status, less government, and everything, well I guess except education, the one thing Jefferson was definitely flawed about. So it's not useful. What is useful is to think about, because there is a spectrum of ideas, it's to think about what is the fundamental, foundational principle, principle in politics?  What are they about? What are we talking about when we're talking about different laws and we're talking about different political programs, different political controls or the dismantling of controls, what is the fundamental principle on which you could take any political issue and say this is somewhere along this, what is the unifying principle on which you can put all the issues in politics? And I think the fundamental principle is individual rights. Is a particular policy for individual rights or is a particular policy anti-individual rights? Is it for limited government that protects individual rights? Does it move in that direction? Or does it move us in the direction of statism, collectivism? That is a coherent political line. On the one side, you have at the extreme, at the very extreme, at the extreme of what people associate with the horseshoe, at the extreme, you have a limited government that only does one thing, protect individual rights that has a military, a police, and a judiciary and nothing else and is dedicated to the preservation and protection of individual rights, the life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness, that's it. Minimal government in terms of its, you know, minimal government in terms of its reach, in terms of what it does and as big as it needs to be in order to do it well. And as you move away from that, government is more intrusive, does more, tells you more about how to live your life, tells you more about how to run your business, maybe on different dimensions, maybe in some areas, you know, some people might be for more economic liberty, but fewer social liberties, okay, but it's all somewhere along the spectrum. We know what the extreme is, we know what the, what I would consider the ideal, but fine for other people to think about, oh, that's the radical, the radical extreme. And then on the other side, you have a different radical extreme. The other side is some form of totalitarianism, a totalitarianism where the government is telling you everything about how you should live your life.  You know, in every business decision, everything is guided by government. That's the other extreme. And on this other extreme, you can imagine that there are a lot of variations of it.  You can imagine a fascist variation. You can imagine Stalin, and you can imagine Mao, and you can imagine Popat, slightly different variation, and you can imagine Hitler, all of them, on this extreme, far end of that other side. And now you've got a coherent line. And I can pretty much plot every politician along this line. It's not always easy, because they might be further along in one dimension, further back in another dimension. But generally, there'll be somewhere, not at this extreme, maybe not at that extreme, somewhere in between. Some politicians are more inclined to freedom, and some politicians are less inclined to freedom. And that's basically what individual rights means. The spectrum is a spectrum of freedom, maximal freedom here, minimal, zero freedom here. Or another way to think about it is a political system dedicated to individualism, dedicated to the sovereignty of the individual. Over here, a political system dedicated to collectivism, and the collective as the primary in every political, every issue. And that's the spectrum. And again, that gives, that's a coherent spectrum. It's drawn along an axis of a principle, an idea. And then you can take every other year out there that people hold, and you can plot it along this, and you can say, okay, if people hold this, this, this, this somewhere over here, on this axis. And you could argue, you know, what do you call it? Classical liberals are not quite where I would be. They're not quite as radical maybe as I am, but they're close. They're not far. They're on this, generally on this axis. And then you've got, I don't know, Goldwater conservatives pretty close to the classical liberals, somewhere in the direction of individual rights. And then you've got, I don't know, modern right, Trumpists, which are going to be on the other side, going towards the more authoritarian, the violation of rights in pretty much every dimension that you plot. Women's right to abortion, business's right to determine where they set up their factory.  On all of these, they would be towards a statism, they would be towards, and then if you take the modern Democratic Party, there would be a nice spectrum, they would be at the same place basically as Trump, just slight variations in terms of the particular issues and how they view them. But they would both be on the status side of the spectrum. And indeed, there would be nobody representing the individualist, pro-individual rights, pro-liberty, pro-freedom side of the spectrum. Nobody there, completely empty. And there isn't anybody there today in our political world. So to properly think about politics is not to think about left and right and have this instinct, well, it's left, therefore it must be bad and we have to kill it. Or it's the right and therefore it must be good, or the right must be left, bad, or whatever. It's to think about, is this pro-individual rights or is this against them? Is this moving us towards more freedom or is it moving us towards more statism? Where are we? Where's this politician? Is this particular politician moving us, moving us towards freedom? Is he an incremental step towards freedom? Or is he an incremental step towards authoritarianism? I mean, the sad things is, the sad thing is about American politics today is everybody is a step towards authoritarianism. There is nobody on the political spectrum today a step towards freedom. And in that sense, in that sense, you know, I don't care if they're left or right. They're all bad, all of them, every single one of them. And it's not by the standard of perfection. It's not even by the standard of the funny fathers. It's just by the standard of a simple principle, more or less freedom. Every single candidate running for president is probably, and certainly the two main candidates, are definitely moving us towards less freedom. And it doesn't matter if it's left or it's right. What matters is it's violating our rights. Now, it might matter which one of the candidates, because which one of them leaves the most room for renewal of a political movement towards freedom might be important. Which one of them is likely to institute an authoritarian regime that lasts longer might be very relevant. So it doesn't mean you're indifferent between the two. But it does mean that they're not that different in terms of freedom, not freedom. On the political spectrum, they're not that different. Freedom or slavery, individualism, collectivism, individual rights, statism, capitalism, statism. That is the spectrum. That is the spectrum. And left, right today have become just basically variations, variations on statism. You've got status of the left, status of the right. That's all you have today. You have nobody who breaks out of that mold. To be, you know, going towards individualism, towards capitalism, towards liberty, towards even what we'd call classical liberalism. And that's really, you know, and it's getting, it gets worse every cycle, right? So with Ronald Reagan, you can say at least there were hints of a kind of a classical liberal agenda somewhere hidden there. They were mired by his appeal to religion, but it was there. Certainly it was Barry Goldwater. You got a lot more than hints, but you got a definite classical liberal trend, wasn't it? And in that sense, again, drop the whole idea of right, but you know, he's in the direction of more liberty, of more freedom, of more individual rights. So what we need today is a rejection of left and right and a proposal of something new. What we need is the capitalist party. What we need is the individual rights party. What we need is an alternative to the existing model to recognize that at least in the United States and to a large extent, I think this applies, I think it applies less to different pieces in Europe. I think the left-right model, I mean, I don't know that, you know, how strong, I mean, the left in some ways is strong in Europe, right? And suddenly in the economic left, kind of a Marxist left, a regulatory left is strong in Europe. Regulations are big in Europe. Control is big in Europe. But that's not exclusive. The left in Europe anymore is Orban more for economic liberty or less for economic liberty than the social Democrats who are left of center in Germany. Well, he's more control. The real challenge in Europe is, well, it's not a challenge. The reality in Europe is they don't seem to have, well, I hesitate to say this because it's probably not true. They don't seem to have the wacky left that we do. Well, maybe they do. They have it in the form of environmentalism. That's where it manifests itself. Whereas in the U.S., it manifests itself in woke and identity politics. In England, it manifests itself in maybe the biggest issue for the left in the U.K., the wacky left is transgender rights, the way they view transgender and how they politicize transgender. But they're much more traditional socialist rather than woke. And in mainland Europe, I don't think woke has much currency. I don't think identitarian politics of the left have much currency. It's much more traditional Marxism, traditional leftism, existentialism, soft egalitarianism, not the kind of egalitarianism that identitarianism requires. Maybe some of the Europeans will correct me. And the right in Europe is even more explicitly statist than it is in the United States. The United States, the right tends to give lip service to liberty and freedom less so today than five years ago even. I mean, the rising stars on the right, Josh Hawley, J.D. Vance, those are the young rising stars on the right. They don't give lip service to liberty and freedom. And they're the statists through and through. And indeed, they have much more in common economically with Elizabeth Warren than they do with the Barry Goldwater or even with the Rand Paul from an economic perspective. So in Europe as well, you have a right that is statist moving towards fascism. So the model is Orban, who has basically dismantled the media and put it under the control of the government. He's basically dismantled an independent judiciary and put it under the boot of the government where the government controls pretty much everything. And where the government is fairly in its economic policy is statist. That is, it's regulatory and redistributionist and very regulatory. It's very difficult to be an entrepreneur in Hungary. And Hungary's economy basically survives on subsidies it gets from the EU. That's the new right. And the talking point, the thing that seems to rally them is a rejection of freedom when it comes to immigration. But nobody wants to immigrate to Hungary. I mean, Orban built a wall to prevent Muslim migration, not to protect Hungary, because nobody wanted to stay in Hungary. There's no economic activity in Hungary. There's no, the welfare checks are too small in Hungary. Nobody wants to stay there. They were all going to Germany and Sweden. So what he really built the wall was to protect Germany and Sweden. But by building that wall, he gained creds as the anti immigration guy, even though it had nothing to do with Hungary itself. It's so bizarre how people relate to politics anywhere. But you know, in parts of Europe, it's amazingly strange. In the United States, Donald Trump is a statist. Joe Biden is a statist. There might be small variations in how that state is a manifests more associated with the kind of people they surround themselves than with their own views. I don't think there's that much difference in their own views when it comes to, for example, economic policy between Trump and Biden. I think they both basically have the same kind of instincts. Trump generally surrounds himself with at least in the first administration with better people than less status people than Biden. Not sure that will happen in the second administration. But again, what's the difference, the fundamental difference, the philosophical, political, fundamental difference between the two? There is none. What we need is something different. What we need in America is something new, is something radical, is something extreme, radical and extreme for liberty, for freedom. What we need is capitalism, which would be an alternative to both left and right and wouldn't be a center. That's the problem. If you have just one line left and right, where do the capitalists belong? They're in a third dimension. They don't belong in that line. But if you draw a line of individual rights pro against, then you can put people along that line. Everybody fits. Everybody fits. Some are mixed, but they all fit. Unless we do that, this country is doomed to continue to drift towards greater and greater authoritarianism, greater and greater statism, greater and greater economic and cultural stagnation, greater and greater bitterness between the tribes, because all we have are tribes. Again, we don't have deep fundamental philosophical, political differences. We have tribalism, and they will kill each other, not over liberty and freedom, but over which one of the tribes gets to control our lives, just like the Communists and the Nazis, right, killed each other, and they consider themselves huge enemies, but in terms of policies, in terms of the things they actually did, about the same, about the same. Main differences, Nazis focused on your ethnic origins and the Communists focused on your class, your economic class. Other than that, same thing. That's why people wonder, how did Stalin and Hitler get along enough to launch World War II, because Stalin and Hitler were very much the same, very much the same. And this is why people who were rabid leftists, landed up supporting Hitler in Germany, and people who were rabid right wing, if you will, statists, landed up supporting the Communists, because they all do the same thing. They all place the state above the individual and sacrifice the individual to the state in mass. There's no difference between the Communists and the fascists. Not at any important point. It's more who the victims are, slight variation in who the victims are, so you better know whether you're in a socialist or fascist place, so you know whether you need to run away or not, but you should run either way, because if you're an independent thinker, they're both coming after you. So I agree with the myth of left and right. I think the whole conception of left and right hoods our ability to think politically. It eliminates the need, well, it doesn't eliminate the need, but it eliminates the will, the need in individuals to define political principles and deal with political principles and deal with specific political positions that they have based on those principles. It encourages people just to join tribal groups, and that's the state of American politics today. It's a state of tribalism, and it really is probably the ugliest it's ever been in American history. I think this is worse than before the Civil War, because at least the dispute during the Civil War was over something real. Dispute during the Civil War was over principle, and over a principle of individual rights. Today, they don't disagree about principles, they're going to kill each other. They're talking about a civil war.  What exactly? What do they disagree about? Who should control us? Not over whether they should be controlled or not, and that's the real question, the fundamental political question, the foundational question in politics. Should we be controlled or not? As individuals, should the state control us? What comes first? What is the purpose of the state? What is the purpose of government? So, yeah, let's drop this left-right or at least recognize that both left and right are just variations in collectivism. They're both variations on bad guys, and we do not belong to either one of those. We're not on that spectrum. We're neither left nor right.


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