Pick a youtube video where you think you are learning something… and then write a bullet point essay on it by hand from the perspective of things you are interested in (or even just general critique), with further questions for research in the margins or in parantheses.

If you wanted to make a regular thing about this then get a blank/lined/square (squared is sometimes better for diagrams and what not) notebook, leave the first two pages blank for the contents section. Every page gets a number and you title the essays - write that title in the contents page with with its corresponding page number so you have a reference - and as you write your essay you can reference other essays you have done.

This will slow down how much youtube you watch, you will be more selective about what you watch, and you will find learning/retention accelerate. And hopefully get rid of the burn out feeling.

Then you can write essays on your essays (say a theme or a new idea or analysis you have picked from parts of other essays). And if you feel any of them are good enough then upload them to say substack or medium etc. Then critique those essays you have written, let’s say in 6 months time.

With stock footage and videos, and even AI (or personally shoot videos/animate), you could turn the essays into youtube videos yourself.

Or you know… don’t watch youtube :)

(1) why may people get more reactionary as they get older in the west (let’s say compared to these Indian farmers)? [Hint: it’s to do with their relation with private property]. Why do you consider that the default to compare to other countries? [Especially when that fallacy was pointed out to you to for you to look up further]

(2) why then did you not bother investigating further before doubling down?

(3) you think I am being harsh? The socialist organisation in India is despite it being a capitalist hellhole with fascist hindutva normalised. They don’t just protest, they are deeply networked with overground and underground political movements. They put westerners who have significant more privilege and access to way more wealth to shame. And that is the eurocentric bias I am critcising you on.

If you’re meant to be an ML you should really investigate and you should also consider why you have your biases (hint it is not to do with any perceived lack of intelligence; you should be confident in your intelligence but question the systems that made you think a certain way). Someone implies you are racist? Consider the class colloboration perspectives on why that maybe the case. The only racism that matters is the prejudice with power; everything else is liberal hogwash.

I am a westerner and I have not undone being one; which means no matter what I may identify as between my ears I am a cog of racist machine that exploits the Global South - the only real hope of undoing that is through organisation. It is patronising to disparage those from the south who do socialist organising through difficult circumstances and use the lens of those more privileged (who do significantly less) to judge them by.

It is true you don’t know me from Adam but you can look at my history if you want where I come down on hindutva freaks and apologists like a tonne of bricks. This, however, means jack-all with theory of political change but I thought I’d mention it for context and perspectives.

We are all learning here. You should learn from this too.

Edited: removed the gratituous swearing, if you’re not a native anglo-speaker it could be distracting (or not)

What a pile of (racist?) nonsense. I gave you examples but instead of furthering your research you decided to call it quits after reading the samples. It’s unbelievable the amount of orientalism even on an ML site. You’re not really giving the impression you are worth convincing otherwise. As bad as India is westerners and their bootlickers are the worst.

I would argue they don’t understand even basic science.

Even if they take a bio-essentialist paradigm (which is unscientific and undialectical anyway) they will have a hard time explaining themselves out of genetic penetrance. They’re about as scientific as so-called “race science”; it’s just another vehicle to channel their insecurities as violent supremacism.

If the older generation is more radical than the youth, the already fascist and insane Indian society really has no hope left.

(1) Why aren’t there more older folks marching similarly in the west? This should be more normal given demographic shifts.

(2) you’re not looking hard enough at the extent of organisation (this was a just an example of a quick search for sources in English):

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Hw4at0DyZWM

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/28/how-a-communist-youth-organization-in-kerala-raised-usd-1-4-million-for-covid-19-relief/

Yes India has a significant hindutva fascist cesspool. But it also has some of the largest socialist organising (outside of China of course) in the world.

“Rachel Reeves was confronted by a mother over Labour stance on Palestine”:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=zi7xTrUqPao

“Rachel Reeves just destroyed disabled people’s lives AND public services in one fell swoop”:

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/03/26/rachel-reeves-spring-statement-dwp/

Absolute scum.

The limits of a liberal democracy and peformative politics on climate change.

Thank you for taking the time to explain for all these queries; much appreciated! Stay safe brother.

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What’s stopping the state from “embracing” the sanctions Russia-style and going full throttle east? These western appeasing libs? If they are coming to power because of concerns with lack of geopolitical assertiveness from former government then wouldn’t they lose that power if they renege? Or are these “western” bourgoisie in Iran just that powerful? Are there competing factions of bourgoisie?

Damn that’s fucking bleak. Are they at least looking east or are they looking to be Honorary “Aryans” (ie I realise the irony of using that term to symbolise white supremacism to an Iranian)? Is there any chance that they may adopt anti-western-hegemony despite their bourgoisie sensiblities, even from a national self preservation point of view?

If we were to take the truly anti-racist approach on excess deaths and assume they (globally) would have all been developed (less take HDI greater than 0.9 as a very low bar to define “developed”) then excess deaths will likely be an extra billion on top of the estimates already stated

I no longer believe in Chomsky’s manufacturing consent. I think the right wingers are correct when they say the media gives the “people” ( I strongly believe the reactionary masses make up the “elite” rather than just billionaires) what they want in the US; the narratives are a license for their violent bigotry as they understand at some level they benefit from the exploitative relationship the US has with the rest of the world (even the vassal states that benefit from this hegemony).

If having the ability to livestream the genocide on their phones for the past couple of years isn’t going to change their minds, then their consent for murder was never manufactured in the first place.

If you consider excess deaths from the birth of US (including all that is not “direct” military action) it is likely to be 500 mill - 1 billion deaths.

Addendum - conservative estimates

The consitution itself are the slave owners compromise to the bourgoisie and petty-bourgoisie, let the liberals and fascists duke out how faithful they are to it between themselves.

I’m even irked when people call generative tools “slop machines”

I’m now starting to feel the same.

It’s not a problem only for those who are only affected by it “by looking up”. This is the privilege of those who benefit from Western Hegemon.

See my comment above:

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7915209/6395016

I would also look at: (1) Torkil Lauesen’s (a swedish marxist) book: The Long Transition Towards Socialism and the End of Capitalism (2) Kyle Ferrana’s Why the World Needs China

It is not just the West. India is an excellent example of failure at attempts of social democracy.

Inherent to social democracy is that there is no significant dictatorship against capital and therefore any progression in achieving a good standard of living will either not happen or if it does happen will require an excessive amount of surplus value extracted elsewhere to slow down the reduction in the rate of profit. And to protect itself capital will resort to fascism.

Despite the above there is sort of an exception to the above in our timelime and it happened in after the 1920s and started getting signifcantly slowed down/reversed around the time of the fall of the Soviet Union; it is effectively what we consider why the West is “developed”:

https://redsails.org/concessions/

Even if it has been debunked…

It is at this point, if you had any sincerity as a human being at this stage in your development, would have been to stop and have some introspection into how you got it wrong. You instead doubled down because you have already have decided who should be considered less than human.

And think about your scale of morality here; you consider assholery in calling out your racism not your defense of genocide. If you ask those who fight against their own ethnic cleansing not to fight and buy into the narratives of those commit who are commiting the genocide then you are the on the side of the world that is not destined to last.