[ExI] Inflation and the 2024 election

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 17/10/2026 01:39, John K Clark wrote:
> >…Am I the only person on this list who had no idea who the hell Hasan Piker is? 


Of course not, and with good reason. We all have better things to do with our time than looking for randos on the internet with a loud mouth.

I just did a quick search, and he seems to be another political demagogue, an 'influencer', in other words someone with an inflated opinion of his own opinion and an audience. Someone who thinks that everyone else should take notice of him for no good reason. Not a politician, not an expert on anything but himself, as far as I can see, and not someone anyone needs to take any notice of. Wikipedia calls him a 'left-wing political commentator', but I think that's being polite. 

In fact, he appears to be a good example of what Keith and I were talking about re. understanding and changing our genetically-determined knee-jerk responses to perceived threats. He generates the perception of threat, and his audience respond with knee-jerk emotional reactions.

I don't know why spike is picking him in particular to talk about, these kinds of provocateurs are a dime a dozen on the internet these days (e.g. 'Mr Beast', and his many imitators). Maybe he is just one of the noisier ones.
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Ben
"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything." - Pablo Casals, via Albert Einstein