On Free Speech, Manners, ‘Disgust’-response, and Verbal-Graffiti; from a Content Producer and YouTube Channel Runner
It applies to the Producer/Critic dichotomy, the Achiever/Dullard dichotomy, the Player/NPC dichotomy and finally most importantly the Manners (Polite) vs. The Profane (rude);
On Free Speech, Manners, ‘Disgust’-response, and Verbal-Graffiti; from a Content Producer and YouTube Channel Runner
So many ideas to go through, lets start with the most important.
1)The Philosophy behind Free Speech is for the best ideas to triumph and flourish. This by its design in the liberal democracies is meant to be open and unrestricted such that ideas grow in a society.
This is a tenet of Liberalism and classical liberalism at that.
For the most part, speech on the internet and at Mob assemblies does not represent this high ideal. A slogan, or a banal or idiotic statements as found on chatrooms and message boards and YouTube channels really mostly amounts to garbage or verbal graffiti; and You will be convicted of this the more You deal with the public from the perspective of a content producer.
As a producer You are making attempts at creating substance. The public is filled with shitty little critics and persons Who cannot formulate a sentence or use basic grammar—and They insult You with Their hair-brain verbiage.
Not exactly living up to the Ideals of the Founding Fathers or great liberal theorists like John Stuart Mill.
And You will find, the more You witness from these people, Who don’t even add up to be worthy of the title ‘Trolls’ but rather are aimless losers with marijuana minds. That They resent Your very Production and Substance. It has been My experience that People Who don’t work or produce or achieve are always 100% resentful of those Who do or can. I’ve seen it in My family, in My former friend circles and in spades over the virtual realm.
And it’s not necessarily about vulgarity. A good example of a Free Speech renegade and starling Who Is insanely vulgar yet reaches the Ideals of the Founders is Gavin McInness (ultra censored/banned founder of Vice magazine and the lovable Mens group now supposed domestic terrorists ‘Proud Boys’); I watch Him every week to get News, Satire and comedic relief. He is insatiably vulgar and lampooning, yet He expresses Deep Ideas on society, culture and politics and life in general. This is what Free Speech is about and so its no surprise that He gets discarded by the Powers that Be, including de-banking Him.
But when someone says something without a hint of substance or high ideals; and when They package it in a bitter-resentful, insulting concept I have no respect or reverence and cannot in good conscience connect Their expression to ‘Free Speech.’ They’re allowed to say it but it doesn’t even reach the threshold of being able to call it ‘speech.’ It is and always will be Verbal Graffiti.
I won’t delete it or block Them unless it really irks Me in the moment or if they are repeat offenders on My YouTube channel.
[aside—signs/props at rallies with mind numbing slogans are not so much ‘Free Speech’ in My mind as They are expressions of Freedom of Assembly or Right to Petition the government.]
2) Next ‘Free Speech’ ought to apply to Governments, Institutions of the Public, and Public Platforms (Such as Twitter or YouTube) but not to Channels as such.
It is highly injurious for Google through YouTube and Twitter, or worse the Government, deciding what is Free Speech; We on the Right Wing of the Political Spectrum have known the caustic effects of censorship and shadow banning all too well over the last 7 years of ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ afflicting the the Left (really of the ‘Establishment’ including the Murdochs of Fox network and goes without saying the Main Stream Media MSM otherwise Known as the Brian of Larry Fink!). YouTude/Twitter are platforms that should almost be considered ‘public utilities’ for the Real Benefit of substantive Free Speech. But the First Amendment really applies as it is specifically worded to ‘laws made by congress’ and nothing else. That doesn’t mean that since it is not in restriction by the law that it should not be a Highly Regarded Convention/Custom on the cusp of being Law or following ordinances in the Future lawmaking [Google, Twitter, YouTube Ought to Be, and We’re dealing with Oughts Here, a virtual public utility generously interpreted in favour of unabridged Free Speech .
This being said, a Channel is not a ‘government [Congress], Institution of the Public, Public Utility or public platform’ and so is not to be held to the litmus test of un-abrogated Free Speech.
My channel is the means by which I broadcast My content. It is not am untouchable lightning rod to attract all the seedy ideas, marijuana-brained and hyena-like cackling with oozing amounts of cynicism, resentment and sneering. I don’t share the values of 99% of the Public and I do have control of My channel.
A Radio Station for instance doesn’t have to broadcast every callers’ stupid comments or every letter sent to them. This is the definition of a ‘channel’ it is owned and privately managed by Me. Or the producer or broadcaster. And I urge channels, please do block and delete the mindless air—otherwise Your channel becomes cluttered and attracts more bugs.
3) Which leads into an important note on Manners, Manners and ‘Disgust.’
You see that ‘Conscientious,’ hardworking, achieving people—being people that produce and create ex-nihilo, out of nothing—aren’t simply only attracting resentment and seething vitriol; They Themselves also have Manners and a ‘Disgust’ response.
This is not only a Right-Wing Characteristic; I Know that George Carlin and Charles Bukowski (being liberal artists) expressed this same response towards people.
It is really about People Who have ‘standards’ as opposed to people Who do not have standards.,
It applies to the Producer/Critic dichotomy, the Achiever/Dullard dichotomy, the Player/NPC dichotomy and finally most importantly the Manners (Polite) vs. The Profane (rude);
I really feel like Hannibal Lector from the TV series, He Eats people who are rude for breakfast.
I have a disgust for anyone (including in My Own extended family) Who is a rude asshole unceasingly. And it is oft because They never achieved anything worthy of writing about.
The exception to this Rule seems to Be Donald Trump’s vitriolic warpath agains the Established ‘Bush’ Republicans and the Clintons [but You see that They are trying to enslave Us behind a fake smile—and so They are the really rude, unscrupulous type]. Trump is on the surface rude but He is actually the Man on a Mission to Save the Republic so its about time someone told the Establishment to Go Fuck Itself (this I openly support).
But notice that it comes back to ‘Standards,’ the bug like public commenters devoid of manners and lashing out in anger all over the comments section [They have little and lower standards]. The Bushes and Clintons Who sell out Their Own Country [they have no standard but the almighty dollar and power hunger], Trump has the Standards and the Backbone to save the Country. I have the Standards to produce and broadcast quality-substantive Philosophy Content. My Colleagues in the CTMU Compatriots Work hard for no money to make content for Free distribution to the public.
So We reserve the right to occasionally block or delete the nasty NPCs [Who have No standards or Who have debased Themselves as such—As with Verbal Graffiti all over Our Hard Work].
Thanks for letting Me vent and flesh-out these ideas. God Bless.