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To be honest with you, my first instinct was to hit “Unsubscribe” and never watch anything by JP ever again.
The problem being, not only would this have been an extremely childish thing to do, it would have hurt me far more than it would hurt him. He’s hilarious after all.
If you’ve never heard of JP Sears, stop what you’re doing right now and go search “Ultra Spiritual” on Youtube. It’s one of the best things on the platform.
Maybe that’s why it was so disappointing that his latest video, “What It’s Like to Believe Everything the Media Tells You” is one of the worst. It’s 8 minutes and 36 seconds of entitled, misinformed idiocy skillfully disguised as biting satire. Worst of all, he closes with this fantastic piece of baiting:
“After all, following the mainstream narrative helps me classify anyone that doesn’t go along with its narrative as an irresponsible lunatic conspiracy theorist. That way I can label them as crazy instead of thinking about what they’re saying.”
As anyone who knows me knows, my entire self-image hinges delicately on the belief that I’m a reasonable, open-minded person who doesn’t dismiss opinions I disagree with without investigating them. So, even though I’m probably just falling for some masterful trolling, I decided…
