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That Time YouTube Tried to Radicalise Me

by The Mattmosphere

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It's a bug and a feature It's a bug and a feature It's a bug and a feature It's a bug and a feature It's a bug and a feature It's a bug and a feature It's a bug and a feature It's a bug and a feature It's a bug and a feature It's a bug and a feature It's a bug and a feature It's a bug and a feature It's a bug and a feature It's a bug and a feature It's a bug and a feature The balance in your card is currently zero Your current default currency is Australian dollars I think when we go into solitude We shut off the external stimulation And we let the dreaming part of our mind emerge And that's this non-verbal, pattern detector that thinks in images In images In images In images In images In images In images In images That thinks in images And it's If you understand it completely, You can say it And you can act it out If you don't understand it you represent it in images And it's the emotion It's the thing that mediates between what we don't understand and what we do understand If you understand it completely, You can say it And you can act it out If you don't understand it you represent it in images And it's the emotion You can say it You can say it And you can act it out You can say it You can say it And you can act it out You can say it You can say it And you can act it out
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To The invisible others To To To To The invisible others To To The invisible others in the future To To The invisible others To To The invisible others To To To To But we're in relationship to the invisible others who will judge us in the future But we're in relationship to the invisible others who will judge us in the future But we're in relationship to the invisible others who will judge us in the future But we're in relationship to the invisible others who will judge us in the future You should sacrifice everything in you that isn't serving that, to that
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And a metaphorical truth A very useful fiction Is actually more useful than the truth
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For example How does a person answer Ask why Reasonable question to ask Of course it's a reasonable, it's an excellent question But the problem that you're asking You see when you ask why something happens You see when you ask why something happens How does a person answer why something happens For example You see when you ask why something happens Why something happens Why something happens How does a person answer why something happens Why something happens You see when you ask why something happens How does a person answer why something happens Why Why something happens All that is understood by people Now when you explain a why, you have to be in some framework that you allow something to be true Alright, I'm not answering your question but i'm telling you how difficult a why question is (what it is you) Understand and allowed to be understood and known and what it is you're not You'll notice in this example that the more I ask why, it gets interesting after a while, that's my idea that the deeper the thing is the more interesting it is We could even go further and say Why did she Why did she Why did she Why did she Why did she Why did she Why did she Why did she Why did she Why did she Why did she Why did she Why did she Why did she

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That Time YouTube Tried To Radicalise Me was made in Paris just before the #NotreDame went up in flames,. This concise collection is composed from sampling the increasingly right wing videos served to me during a 2019 free-trial #YouTube premium subscription. The algorithm picked me up in the beginning with #Žižek and #Feynman and proceeded via #ElonMusk, #RichardDawkins, #SamHarris and #JordanPeterson to deliver me all the way to #BenShapiro and #flatearth conspiracies. The vocals in the songs themselves seem quite logical but at some point I understood that these voices and their thinking were a concerted effort by the YouTube #algorithm to prime me for #extremism, #god belief (#Dawkins to #Shapiro), the leveraging of exploitative business aspirations (#RobertKiyosaki) and more.

Also my self-assuring justification for what may at first listen be perceived as incomplete sparseness comes from the old adage that "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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released March 2, 2020

The MATTMOSPHERE is an Asia-Pacific based sound ensemble whose work interrogates how we embody systems – social, cultural, political, or technological – and in turn how these systems embody us by forming communities and informing identities.
The MATTMOSPHERE's musical compositions have been played at the Sydney Opera House and featured in Extreme Sports DVD's as well at various arts festivals around the world and radio stations across oceania and south-east Asia.

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The Mattmosphere Sydney, Australia

m@ works across Pacific-Asia as a choreographer, composer and more. His music is world-building, intimate and transportive - the choreographers' efforts sublimed - engulfing and inconspicuous.

He has composed award winning sound for stage, film, extreme Sports DVD’s, gallery installations, podcasts and more.

m@ is also the founder of Wombat Radio.

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