I recently read an article on Medium that I thought was so good, I had to make a video of it so more people would read it/hear it. Sometimes I just run with an idea. Even though it is sometimes futile, I think a true open-minded conservative will understand this video, and the distinctions the writer is making between the grievances of both sides:
I get into it with a lot of people on facebook, since I am friends with a lot of "Home business" people, who are a lot of middle America.
They often just repeat the memes that they hear without thinking about them, and the conservative mems are far better than the liberal ones because they are less smart. They travel better.
While liberals are busy being clever, the conservatives go for the "gut reaction", and even when they make no sense, hit the spot they are intended to.
This article is also brainy, but by making the video, I hope that more people will see/read how good it is.
Yeah, I'm an intolerant New York liberal who has lived with different people from all over the world my entire life. That's the problem with us intolerantliberals who can't stand it when people don't think like us.
We spend just about all of our time with people from all over the world who have different: customs, beliefs, religions, genders, sexual orientation, gender identities, classes, economics, education, upbringing and ideas on how to create a mutually respectful and beneficial society. That's the problem with us intolerantliberals: we are trying to create a mutually respectful and beneficial society. We just aren't understanding enough of people who want to dominate and force the world to comply with their teeny, tiny, self-centered, self-involved desires to be in charge, and force their will on other people. If we intolerantliberals would just STOP trying to create a mutually respectful and beneficial society, and be more open to people who think only about their own personal predicaments, and their own selfish desire for gain, then we might actually see that their way is the one right way! So I guess you're right; Until I can open my intolerantliberal mind to the people who DO NOT want a mutually respectful and beneficial society... I'm an intolerantliberal with a closed mind.
There's a video on Youtube that seems like just another one of those "Subway Prank" videos.
And at first, that's what it was.
Bones Rodriguez is a high-energy, all-smiles fast-talking New Yorker who talks a lot with his hands, but as we talked, I watched him get serious.
He made this original subway prank video back in 2007 (before improv-everywhere made it a staple), pretending to be a rich guy, and begging people to TAKE his money:
"I was making money from this website http://www.JobsStink.com, and I wanted to promote it. As a born-and-bred New Yorker, the panhandlers kinda all have the same pitch [to us]. I thought it would be funny to beg people the same way, but actually GIVE AWAY money instead."
Pretty clever, but when you watch it (terrible quality- remember, this is 2007), there's something strange.
At 31 seconds in, there's a weird cut.
9 years later- people noticed.
While he was making a joke of giving away money, and the cynical straphangers were were actually refusing to take it...
He came upon a homeless couple.
"I was suddenly filled with this incredible guilt. I was throwing around some spare change for a joke, and here these people were actually counting coins together."
Bones says that he didn't want to embarrass them, so he just poured what he had into their hands, and then let it spill on the seat next to them.
"It looked like they were figuring out how much they had together... like trying to see how much they could eat with... I knew I had to keep the jar, but... seems stupid now. I probably should have just given them the jar."
Bones asked his friend (who was shooting on a hand-held DV tape camera!) to stop shooting, and they went and got some more change and started over.
After a little editing and dubbing magic, they released the video but absolutely no one took notice of the prank.
Despite his not-too-shabby singing voice.
He laughs again: "Like every once every 6 months someone would comment on it, usually about the bad quality. It was too early; people weren't really doing videos like that yet."
The video is actually pretty funny because the cynical New Yorkers keep refusing to take the money- it seems like that was the whole joke of the video.
But then years later, College Humor posted a very similar video, and people started to notice the similarities.
"At first it pissed me off!" said Bones Rodriguez again, very animated, "I was like 'What the hell man, we did this already!' But then I remembered that I actually got to help some people that day, and I felt guilty for being petty."
Bones Rodriguez continues to perform in New York, and you have seen him in dozens of commercials.
He still makes money from http://www.JobsStink.com, and like everyone else, he says he tries to give to beggars on the train, but sometimes he's pretty sure they're lying.
"That couple was definitely not one of those."
Watch it below:
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