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Edit: I was looking at the pictures rather than watching the video. The video does make mention of the invasion of Iraq and does a fair treatment of the subject
by ctchocula 12y ago
Edit: I was looking at the pictures rather than watching the video. The video does make mention of the invasion of Iraq and does a fair treatment of the subject matter.
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Your points bringing up an absolute morality opens up another can of worms I'm not acquainted with well enough to discuss. If you haven't yet, I would direct you to the one about Iraq and ask you to tell me what you think. I went in with the expectation that there would be some mention of Bush's invasion of Iraq, but I got none. By its very omission and going straight to ISIS tells me that the creator of such a medium is (deliberately or not) expressing a political message.
Is it really necessary to use the medium to present value judgments? What I implied in my original post was that better media exist out there for more nuanced topics such as politics or history. Not everything in human knowledge needs to be expressed through this medium, which does it with the finesse of a sledgehammer.
- SamReidHughes 12y agoI'd love to look at the one about Iraq if it weren't impossible to find behind the mystery meat navigation. (Actually, I wouldn't, because the whole site is decadent, cutesy-wootsy infographical tripe.)
- ctchocula 12y agoIf you're still curious, here it is: http://kurzgesagt.org/project/iraq-explained/ http://kurzgesagt.org/project/iraq-explained/