Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin - Update
Aired: 2016-08-05
Duration: 03:56


=== Working Harder Than Usual (03:47) ===

[00:00:00]  Hello everyone, I thought I'd give you a quick update on what I'm doing, because I know I'm not producing as many videos as usual.
[00:00:06]  So the reason that the amount of work I've been producing has slowed down is because I've been working harder than usual.
[00:00:12]  Aside from other reading, I've been working on an analysis of a book called The Wrong Way Home by Arthur Diekman, who is a clinical psychologist who wrote the book in the 90s, and it's talking specifically about cults and cults' behavior.
[00:00:28]  And I think there's a lot of value in this book that we can deal with in the ongoing war against the SJWs and the regressive leftists.
[00:00:36]  And it's not just these people.
[00:00:37]  It's pretty much any ideologically focused internet community falls prey to these behaviors.
[00:00:44]  And I think it's really important to understand them.
[00:00:46]  So I've been working a lot on that, and it's taking up a lot of my time, so I'm not making just the sort of random off-the-cuff videos I used to.
[00:00:54]  But I do think this is important, so I'm going to soldier on.
[00:00:58]  So in the meantime, I'll take the opportunity to inform my new subscribers about the other channels that I run.
[00:01:04]  The first one is a live stream channel, because I was always getting copyright strikes back in the day.
[00:01:11]  I haven't had one for quite a while, so I could still live stream on this channel, but since I do all the live streaming on the other channel, it's just easier to do it there now.
[00:01:21]  At the moment, I'm currently running, like a total nerd, a Cyberpunk 2020 game.
[00:01:27]  I haven't DM'd anything in ages, but I'm really enjoying it.
[00:01:30]  And I think we'll be playing in later on tonight, and like I said, I'm a total nerd.
[00:01:35]  But I also have various interviews and conversations and whatnot with other people on there.
[00:01:40]  And generally, I try to get people...
[00:01:42]  I mean, I do like to have conversations with people I disagree with, because I like to understand where they're coming from.
[00:01:48]  So that's what that is.
[00:01:49]  I've also got sort of a gaming slash shitposting channel called Vevictus.
[00:01:55]  And I guess I must have been shitposting on it a bit too hard recently.
[00:01:58]  Because I got a community guideline strike, which I've never had before, for a video I did after the Nice attacks, because the media was really pissing me off.
[00:02:08]  And I'm not joking, they were framing these attacks often in the headline, truck attack kills 80, or something like that.
[00:02:15]  It's like, truck attack.
[00:02:17]  As if the truck is a fucking, like, lion on the Serengeti or something.
[00:02:22]  The truck was not a sentient being, and that's why the video was called Optimus Prime Converts to Islam, where I had posted a bunch of these, and there were loads of these headlines that made it sound like the truck had the agency in the situation.
[00:02:35]  And so I got a clip of Optimus Prime talking at someone, overlaid a voiceover by Andy Chowdhury, an Islamist preacher from Britain, and then a clip of Optimus Prime running into an explosion.
[00:02:50]  But apparently, this wasn't deemed sensitive enough and was removed.
[00:02:54]  And so I can't actually live stream on that channel anymore, which I used to sometimes live stream games or something like that.
[00:03:00]  But I mean, the Cyberpunk game would normally be on that channel, but I can't do it because I was too edgy.
[00:03:06]  And the third one is me reading historical texts called Ancient Recitations.
[00:03:10]  They're not all ancient, though, and people often say this.
[00:03:13]  It's like, well, I couldn't think of a better name.
[00:03:15]  But anything that I find interesting.
[00:03:18]  And I try to read really obscure things, things that you probably never heard of, or that wouldn't normally get the light of day.
[00:03:27]  Not only because I think it's interesting to publicize these things, but also because I like to read them myself, and it's hard to find a justification to go looking for really odd things, especially if you've got more important things to be doing.

=== Reading Audiobooks (00:23) ===

[00:03:42]  And that helps me provide one.
[00:03:43]  And so yeah, I had a lot of people saying, oh, it'd be nice to hear you reading audiobooks.
[00:03:47]  So I thought, well, I guess I can do something along those lines.
[00:03:52]  So yeah, if any of that sounds interesting, I'll leave links in the description.