Like_youknow

Clip for Def Poetry Season 2 talking about the use of like and you know in today's society

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[KnightofMotley]

This phenomenon comes from this Hegelian Dialectic groupthink pandemic that few of us hear about but everyone knows about deep down. It says that it is WRONG to actually stand on your position, rather than behave relationally, because "there is no right or wrong."

If you doubt me, ask yourself if you've heard yourself say this: "You can't push your values on me!" Reality check: THAT is a value that you are pushing on me.

[ReggaeMetalFox]

@c16sh1 YES, just this! I've grown up around classmates who'd look down on me for expressing opinions in an intelligent manner, and I used to think... "What? Why is it cool to make yourself seem dumber than you are?" Now even I use "like" and "you know" sometimes. I'm determined to change that though, at least in time to teach my own future children to speak properly!

[yitz0987]

I have nothing invested in my own opinions. I'm just like inviting you to join me in the bandwagon of my own uncertainty.

What has happened to our own conviction?

Have we gotten to the point where we are the most aggresively inarticulate generation to come along since, you know, a long time ago?

[93staybeautiful]

OMG my sister and I talk to each other all the time like this

but not really to other people when we are alone with them and the other is not around it is so freaking weird lol

[KnightofMotley]

@osahju914 Yeah; I'm stealing it.

[KnightofMotley]

@XxGonixXFAN Interesting, especially about actions. Right or wrong compared to what? On what basis are we determining right and wrong? I'm interested in your response. (ie: these questions are not meant as statements)

[XxGonixXFAN]

@KnightofMotley If you're going to ask yourself if you're right or wrong, you can't. You can never govern your own bases on being right or wrong towards your thoughts because there is no legal or different frame of view. You don't decide if you're right or wrong through your thoughts, you just think. It's the actions that are carried out that define if you're right or wrong.

[TheShinyZorua322]

My teacher showed me this in English my whole class was laughing afterwards, if you don't get this, then you are not that smart...like ya know?

BTW like 71 people like......ya know?

[meganlibero]

have they been like chopped down with the rest of the rainforest...ya know?

[anitasseo]

excelente!!!!!!!

[KnightofMotley]

@cometkite I wasn't insinuating a contradiction, but an obfuscation. Is truth knowable? Is there a truth of a matter beyond our perceptions of it? Some say, "You can't claim absolute truth." That's an absolute statement. What they're really saying is, "I get to claim absolute truth; you don't."

Normative doesn't enter into it. Normative is relation-based, not factual or didactic in nature. We must get beyond the self to interpret truth, for self is bias.

[cometkite]

@KnightofMotley The claim that normative claims are undecidable is not itself a normative claim, but instead a descriptive claim about normative claims (a meta-normative claim, if you will). So the statement that "you can't push your values on me" is not inherently self-contradictory. In fact, it's perfectly reasonable to believe that normative claims can never be proven, because of the is-ought distinction.