Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wPWORZ-0mM
the jurgen experience the us is in a recession at the moment but it's not allowed to be called a recession well the government's trying to not call it a recession but it's wikipedia article got changed you see this really oh dude no so they redefined recession yep so recession used to be two consecutive quarters of negative gdp growth right not anymore not on wikipedia when was this jamie get the get the wikipedia thing up because this is wild how long ago they changed this weekend oh god uh i saw it got well i saw it got locked because people were [ __ ] with it is what i read but i don't know how much of that was but this is the definition when you type in google which is the same thing so a period of temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced generally identified by a fall in gdp in two successive quarters so in google it's still the same in wikipedia let's look at what it what it says recession is a business cycle contraction where there's a general decline in economic activity recessions generally occur when there is a widespread spread drop in spending and or an adverse demand shock this may be triggered by various events such as financial crisis and external trade shock and adverse supply shock bursting okay here it is a recession is defined by the national bureau of economic research has a significant decline in economic activity spread across the market lasting more than a few months normally visible in real gdp real income employment industrial production and wholesale retail sales so in the uk it's the in the uk it's defined as that in uk it's defined as a negative economic growth for two consecutive quarters so so that's what's changed that the united states used to define it as two consecutive quarters and now we don't anymore and people have pulled it up on the archive so a bunch of advisors economic advisers have got quotes of
them saying what a recession is especially when donald trump was in office there is a recession that's coming negative gdp growth for two consecutive quarters right and then this weekend people are asking them are we in a recession because the second quarter uh economics just came out and it's 0.9 decline again have you seen the white house press secretary define the economy as being strong and the the best economy we've had in over a decade have you seen her do that no it's hilarious it's like the wildest gaslighting because she's doing all of these political hand maneuvers that people do you know those moves that people do with their hands when they're talking and they're trying to display like confidence and control and there's like it's it's literally like political pantomiming it's it's weird to watch in the political tai chi yeah it's weird to watch because it's like sleight of hand it's like it's very bizarre you think they've been trained in that some neuro-linguistic programming if you put your hands here when you're saying this sort of a thing blah blah blah i don't know if they're there's clearly an indication that that's what you would do if you were trained but i think it's more mimicking it's mimicking like the great presidents and the great politicians who have done these very specific things like bill clinton famously used to do this thing with his fingers we'd take his thumb and do this and just so it's not aggressive and violent because you can't really hit someone with this but if you were doing this yeah it'd be a problem that's problematic that's angry right with the pointing the finger the fist is a sign of violence but this thing is this weird like a mushy so the bizarre thing about the recession situation is the fact that it doesn't matter what you call it right you can call it [ __ ] paradise if you want but it's still [ __ ] right like all of the criteria of what's happening yes indicates a recession yes and the reason obviously is you've got midterms coming up and you need to make sure that is in a recession is not something that can be thrown at
the democrats yes right it's a protectionist strategy yes so no don't use that word well it's not it's not because it's not defined in that way right that's not the accepted definition right it was until very very very recently that's wild well that's gaslighting that and just that alone you know is people would think that it's trivial because they are talking about this economic downturn but it's not trivial because we've always used that term recession and we've always used that term to define whether or not the economic policies that are currently in place and whether or not the management the government has done a good job of making sure that the economy stays in a good place that's they definitely haven't done that so in order to escape that in you know that sort of distinction they're literally changing the definition which is terrible and it should be pushed back against in a big way it should it should be something that people get angry about like hey you're [ __ ] with definitions in order to pretend that you're doing a good job well the reason that you attach a sequence of letters to something right is to represent what that thing is you don't change reality by changing what those words actually mean right but if you can't control the economy you might as well just control the language and hope for the best god what a bunch of weasels dude it's wild but again this is this is i think because everybody's opinions and their words now are what everyone's judged on not their deeds right we used to be judged on our deeds because they were the things with the most obvious but now because social media is one of the primary forms of communication people are judged on their opinions and their words far more and what that means is that your opinion is actually and the language specifically that you use is it's way more important than actually what's happening in the world and if that's the case what it means is that language should be the focus why wouldn't i lexically try and do some
brazilian jiu jitsu to [ __ ] around with this a little bit of semantic [ __ ] why not well because that's going to actually change the thing that most people are taking notice of and also there's a concept called two-step flow theory and what it says is that there are precious few original thinkers in the world and because most people feel like they have to have an opinion on everything because that's the world that we live in at the moment but very few people can be bothered to do original thought and do the research people just take on the opinion of whoever their favorite thought leader is so you could basically argue that the culture war is largely two armies of npcs being ventriloquized by a handful of actual thinkers above them that's a great way to look at it and that is kind of what's going on with a great majority of people or a large number of people i don't know if it's a majority but it's enough to make noise it's enough to show you that there's a real problem with ideologies and with tribalism because that's what people gravitate towards they gravitate towards a group of people that they feel like they can fit into and then they can adopt those patterns of thinking and those thoughts and instead of coming up with their own opinions they form this sort of conglomeration of other people's opinions and then they fiercely defend them