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The Taiwan Conflict
🕑 Added 2022-10-19 16:14:30 +0000 UTCHey all, here's the video on Taiwan. I went through three different editors trying to get it done and ended up doing most of it myself as they struggled to edit in my style. So there were some complications there. I tried again upping the production value on this one (like the After Effects mapping sequences towards the beginning), hoping to make the content a little more entertaining. I think it worked but slowed down the process quite a lot. I'm going to focus on pushing this next one out faster.
I have three subjects I want to cover, and I'm still debating the order to cover them in. For the next one I want to cover the question: 'why are politics so negative?' I plan on covering it from a number of angles (history, theory, psychology), to hopefully give something satisfying and comprehensive. I have not found many deep answers to the question so it means primarily leaning on my own theorizing. It's something I haven't done much of yet on the channel ('What Makes An Argument Good' is really the only example), so hopefully that's not a problem for you guys.
The other two subjects that I want to cover soon are 1) Going back to domestic politics and the culture war (polarization, identity, issues with democracy), and 2) Covering political fiction, which I haven't done since Orwell. I'd love to cover Huxley.
Let me know what you guys think about any of that or the Taiwan vid, either through here or private messages. The feedback really does help. I'm trying to cover subjects that I'm personally interested in, but I'm also trying to balance that against what you guys want covered. Obviously the best scenario is when our interests line up.
- Ryan
Comments
BeBe Lan
This kind of unbiased and informative video is exactly what I want to see more on YouTube, which has been a place with endless quarrels...As a Chinese, I feel Taiwan is definitely a place heavily influenced by Chinese culture(I heard that TW includes many ancient Chinese literatures and philosophies in their textbooks), and undoubtedly, from the ethnic perspective, you cannot deny that Taiwanese is mostly Chinese. However, from a political view, TW is not necessarily to be a part of the Chinese, especially in the situation that Mainland China has such a bad government. TW's democracy is a live example telling the world that Chinese people also deserve more political rights and better life. I hope Taiwanese people could keep their freedom and democracy forever.
Victor Aught III
Cover Huxley. Vik
