Why are video essays like this?

[Antilocal123]

Because they fucking suck lmao

 

[deh]

What can you say because it is so.

 

[Grumpy_Old_Man]

This also regularly happen in written forms(like essays, thesis, literary analysis, etc) in the "intellectual spheres" is a rather common practice to frequently falling in "circumlocution" discourse(saying the same thing over and over with different wording).

 

[Sfjeov]

This also regularly happen in written forms(like essays, thesis, literary analysis, etc) in the "intellectual spheres" is a rather common practice to frequently falling in "circumlocution" discourse(saying the same thing over and over with different wording).

Yea, I really hate that essayists keeping spewing the same old argument and act 2deep4u as if they're original.

 

[Grumpy_Old_Man]

Yea, I really hate that essayists keeping spewing the same old argument and act 2deep4u as if they're original.

More like repeating a mantra with no though processing or spewing a bunch of canned speeches.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

This also regularly happen in written forms(like essays, thesis, literary analysis, etc) in the "intellectual spheres" is a rather common practice to frequently falling in "circumlocution" discourse(saying the same thing over and over with different wording).

Oh, that's on point. I also sense a lot of paraphrasing (beating around the bush instead of getting to the point).


I really feel that some are confusing intelligence with the ability to employ complex words in long sentences.

We are in a wisdom vs knowledge situation: someone smart would know complex subjects in their entirety, someone wise would manage to explain it as simply as it could get.

 

[Grumpy_Old_Man]

Oh, that's on point. I also sense a lot of paraphrasing (beating around the bush instead of getting to the point).


I really feel that some are confusing intelligence with the ability to employ complex words in long sentences.

We are in a wisdom vs knowledge situation: someone smart would know complex subjects in their entirety, someone wise would manage to explain it as simply as it could get.

Other way to put it is: "too much theoretical discourse, very little on the practical side"... You need to "land back to earth" your concepts, for example by giving examples or making your listeners apply the concepts you are "teaching".