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Re: George Ought to Help Sequel NOW OUT!!

zg7666 — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 01:57:29 GMT

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Re: George Ought to Help Sequel NOW OUT!!

Wheylous — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 01:52:06 GMT

I agree that it's not as focused (and neither was Edgar). Still, it answers objections to George.

Re: George Ought to Help Sequel NOW OUT!!

Stephen Adkins — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 01:21:49 GMT

it falls short of the standard of "George" and "Edgar" as a persuasive introduction to libertarian philosophy.

That's interesting, because I felt similarly about Edgar.

Now that you mention it, I agree. Edgar tried to distill the concepts of minimum wages and really supply & demand into a digestible video designed for somebody apparently unfamiliar with economics. No short order and I'm not sure how well it succeeded, as I haven't sent it to anybody who isn't already libertarian.

Re: George Ought to Help Sequel NOW OUT!!

John James — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 01:16:15 GMT

Stephen Adkins:

I posted this on reddit:

I like it, but I feel like it's too unfocused to be persuasive to anybody not already initiated. "George Ought to Help" is great because it's a simple concept that's well executed and relatively brief. This video gets into like 6 different ancap topics with visually distracting and inexplicably weird cartoon characters (are they halloween costumes or...?), changes in setting, a lot of different, changing hypothetical scenarios etc. Too much IMO. I doubt I'll use it.

I hate to be critical of it because it is well done, but I think it falls short of the standard of "George" and "Edgar" as a persuasive introduction to libertarian philosophy.

That's interesting, because I felt similarly about Edgar. It seemed too complex for a newbie to fully grasp and appreciate.

But I actually find this one great. Sure it's a bit longer, but I didn't find the characters or scene changes distracting or confusing at all. In fact that's how it should be done. It's basically a rule of cinema...you almost never see a character actually telling a story...you just show the story.

I think this one is incredibly well done and I think it serves well as a follow-up. It obviously tackles virtually all the immediate questions that came up after George.

Kudos Bitbutter. This will totally get shared by me.

Re: George Ought to Help Sequel NOW OUT!!

John James — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 01:03:00 GMT

OMG

Re: George Ought to Help Sequel NOW OUT!!

Stephen Adkins — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:59:51 GMT

I posted this on reddit:

I like it, but I feel like it's too unfocused to be persuasive to anybody not already initiated. "George Ought to Help" is great because it's a simple concept that's well executed and relatively brief. This video gets into like 6 different ancap topics with visually distracting and inexplicably weird cartoon characters (are they halloween costumes or...?), changes in setting, a lot of different, changing hypothetical scenarios etc. Too much IMO. I doubt I'll use it.

I hate to be critical of it because it is well done, but I think it falls short of the standard of "George" and "Edgar" as a persuasive introduction to libertarian philosophy.

George Ought to Help Sequel NOW OUT!!

Wheylous — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:46:39 GMT

Pretty dang awesome:

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