Without context to explain what we're seeing this is bullshit. Sorry. We have no idea what we're watching. We have no idea what they're saying. This could be a film production for all we know. We have no information about what this is. Who's the source? Where was it filmed? What is the author/presenter alleging we're seeing? How did he happen to come across the film? When was it taken?
This scene has unfolded hundreds of thousands of times over the millennia. One of our most famous fairy tales, Hansel and Gretel first published in 1812, tells a similar tale.
There is a great famine in the country and the woodcutter's family is starving. His wife suggests to take their kids (they are his and his late first wife's children) into the woods, so they would have two hungry mouths less to feed.
After some hesitation he agrees and they leave kids in the wood. Hansel and Gretel heard about the plan and return home thanks to the stones Hansel was using to mark the path. But at the next attempt, Hansel can't load his pocket with stones because the doors were locked. Instead of stones he used bread crumbs, but they are eaten by the birds, so the woodcutter and his wife succeeded and children were lost in the woods.
They find a mysterious hut made of sweets. There is a witch living inside. She is a cannibal and intends to eat them.
But they are too lean, so she decides to feed Hansel first, using Gretel as a slave and for some time children manage to postpone their tragic end.
It is hard to not be triggered and respond emotionally to this sort of content, but because of that, it's all the more important to apply critical thinking, which is what you are doing here.
Often this isn't the popular route, but in Information warfare, the information is the weapon, and needs to be handled responsibly, with discipline.
Actually, I kind of agree with you. I think the Moose really goes too far in saying "without context... .this is bullshit". To be honest, it doesn't look like bullshit to me at all.
However the questions the moose asks are good questions and relevant. It was really that aspect of the Moos's comment that I was addressing. It's not critical thinking to just say "without context .... its bullshit".
On the other hand, from the viewpoint of information sharing, one might say the sharing of the information is bullshit*, in that it may have no or even negative value, and cannot really advance the knowing of truth.
Admitting that we just don't know is a more balanced approach, but I also think that some aspects of the three different viewpoints expressed here actually have some merit.
Well we can surely say that this is not buisiness being conducted in English or any European or Asian language. Likely a tropical climate. Probably Caribbean, possibly select areas of South America or Africa. No-one has any particular interest in the people tied up in the sense of being concerned for kidnapped family members.
There are groups around the world who routinely traffic humans. For instance, there is/was a group in Columbia known as ELN that runs false check points and kidnaps people frequently moving them from camp to camp.
Without context to explain what we're seeing this is bullshit. Sorry. We have no idea what we're watching. We have no idea what they're saying. This could be a film production for all we know. We have no information about what this is. Who's the source? Where was it filmed? What is the author/presenter alleging we're seeing? How did he happen to come across the film? When was it taken?
AGREE 100%. Where is the BASIC context around this? I poured over the comments in the tweet and there was zero context rendered.
This scene has unfolded hundreds of thousands of times over the millennia. One of our most famous fairy tales, Hansel and Gretel first published in 1812, tells a similar tale.
History is our context.
It is hard to not be triggered and respond emotionally to this sort of content, but because of that, it's all the more important to apply critical thinking, which is what you are doing here.
Often this isn't the popular route, but in Information warfare, the information is the weapon, and needs to be handled responsibly, with discipline.
assuming something to be fake is just as bad as assuming it to be true. lets just admit we don't know
Actually, I kind of agree with you. I think the Moose really goes too far in saying "without context... .this is bullshit". To be honest, it doesn't look like bullshit to me at all.
However the questions the moose asks are good questions and relevant. It was really that aspect of the Moos's comment that I was addressing. It's not critical thinking to just say "without context .... its bullshit".
On the other hand, from the viewpoint of information sharing, one might say the sharing of the information is bullshit*, in that it may have no or even negative value, and cannot really advance the knowing of truth.
Admitting that we just don't know is a more balanced approach, but I also think that some aspects of the three different viewpoints expressed here actually have some merit.
no thanks, i would rather pursue truth honestly.
whether you know if something is true has no bearing on whether it is actually true.
no need to assume either way. use discernment.
Yeah, came here to say just that. Who, what, where, when... you know, the BASICS of news reporting.
Agree may as well be assumed propaganda
Well we can surely say that this is not buisiness being conducted in English or any European or Asian language. Likely a tropical climate. Probably Caribbean, possibly select areas of South America or Africa. No-one has any particular interest in the people tied up in the sense of being concerned for kidnapped family members.
There are groups around the world who routinely traffic humans. For instance, there is/was a group in Columbia known as ELN that runs false check points and kidnaps people frequently moving them from camp to camp.
Disagree about it not being Asian. It sounded like Indian subcontinent (urdu/punjab)
Given. I was thinking Oriental Asia vs. Occidental Asia. Occidental Asia would fit the tall masked individual.
People believing things like this that are untrue or fake is exactly how/why millions of children are harmed.