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  • Hi, everyone. In this lesson we're going to look at new words for our times. These words

  • reflect social movements or new things happening in politics. We're going to start with "millennial".

  • "A millennial" is a person who's between the age of a teenager now and their late 20s.

  • Thankfully I just escaped being a millennial, because millennials are whiny and they are...

  • They're just so weak, and they're like little special snowflakes, very delicate. And millennials

  • are just... They've been so protected all their lives that when it comes to it in the

  • real world they are... They like whine and they shout, and they cry, but they don't do

  • a lot. No offence to any millennials watching. [Laughs].

  • Next word is related to the millennials. The millennials need "safe spaces", because this

  • world out there is... It's so... It's so mean and people say such horrible things that they

  • need to be protected inside their safe spaces. And so, the idea of a safe space would be

  • somewhere on a college campus where you know you can go and be safe, and you don't have

  • to be scared or upset by any of the mean things that old white men and politicians say. Anything

  • that offends you in the safe space, it's all very relaxed there. You can... Maybe you'll

  • manage to, you know, do a bit of studying in that safe space, nobody can get to you.

  • The next word is also related to the millennials in the safe space, they go here because there

  • nothing bad will ever happen to them, but when they go out into the big wide world:

  • "Oh no! Oh no!" They need "trigger warnings". "Trigger warnings" is... You give a trigger

  • warning when something you're going to say could upset someone, it could be offensive

  • to them, and it could create a trauma or a kind of flashback to them, and because they

  • are so weak they can't hear this thing and they need a trigger warning to keep them safe.

  • When someone is triggered, then they're triggered by something they don't want to hear, and

  • sometimes they might scream, like: "No! No! I can't take it! No!" That's when they're

  • triggered. So, because they have such big emotional responses to things they don't like,

  • that's why they need the safe spaces. And I think actually, come to think about it,

  • maybe the safe spaces are a good idea because they could just go in the safe space, and

  • we wouldn't be in there, so they could do all that alone in the safe space.

  • The next word is "social justice warrior", "SJW", also to do with the millennials. One

  • of the things associated with them is that they protest a lot, they're vocal, they like

  • to take a stand against the things they don't like, which they typically do online, they

  • talk about things online or perhaps they go on protesting and things like that. "A social

  • justice warrior" is someone whose main reason to protest is things to do with race issues

  • or gender issues, and they... Or they think that... Or feminist issues. They think that...

  • For whatever group they belong to, they think that life isn't fair for them, so that's the

  • reason they protest. They're warriors, they're fighters, they're warriors.

  • Next we've got "gender non-binary". A person who calls themselves gender... Say: "Oh, I'm

  • gender non-binary", what that means is: "I'm not a man. I'm not a woman. I'm something

  • in between those genders that hasn't... It can't be... Can't be specified as this or

  • that. It's my own identity which is gender non-binary." Not the traditional man, not

  • the traditional woman, but something in between.

  • Next word is a word that's used as an insult or a term of offence to people, is "libtard".

  • The "tard" part reminds us of the word "retard" which means disabled person, and the "lib"

  • part comes from "liberal". When you put it together: "libtard" means somebody who's so

  • liberal in their politics or their ideas or their vision and their view of the world,

  • they've actually become retarded and disabled because of it; used as an insult.

  • The next two terms we have to look at together. We've got "globalism" versus "populism". "Populism"

  • in politics is movements like Brexit in the UK, and the election of Donald Trump in the

  • USA. Two movements which were similar in the sense that in those countries the national

  • media didn't support or expect those two things to happen. So in the UK, for example, a lot

  • of the news coverage in the run-up to Brexit was all to get people to vote to stay in the

  • European Union. And many, many people were surprised when the people in the UK voted

  • in their referendum to leave the EU. So that's become thought of as a populist movement,

  • a movement of the people against their government. You know, they perceived that their government's

  • not working for them or their group of people, and it's a change in the old way of politics,

  • and it's more... It's more about them and their country and their small part of the

  • world than it is about globalism. "Globalism" comes from the world, having a bigger vision

  • of all the... All countries working in cooperation, for example, like the EU having a big super

  • state, and looking out towards other countries, more of them is coming back down. And it's

  • also an evolved term, I would say, from the word "nationalism" which is about putting

  • your nation first, but "nationalism" has connotations for many people to be... Bring up the Second

  • World War again. So the new term is "populism", and I think what's different about "populism"

  • as well is there are so many ways for average people to get involved in politics now which

  • happens a lot online, starting Facebook groups, making YouTube videos, all things now where

  • people can be their own media, which you couldn't do before. So this brings us back, in a way,

  • to the millennials, and using the internet and using new ways to communicate our message

  • and the politics we believe in.

  • Next we've got the idea of "fake news". "Fake news" can be completely made-up stories on

  • the internet, which the whole purpose of making up the story is to get people to click on

  • it. When they go to that fake story, whoever created the fake story makes money from all

  • the people going to look. So that's what fake news means in the truest sense. The way it's

  • also becoming used in my understanding and how I'm seeing it evolve as a term is that

  • the mainstream media, traditional newspapers, traditional journalists will say that the

  • alternative media, that it's not supported by a big newspaper behind, but it's, you know,

  • someone making content in their bedroom or whatever, the smaller... The smaller kind

  • of people giving out opinions. The mainstream media will say some of their stories are fake

  • news, they're not true. And they'll say: "People are believing fake news and things that are

  • not true", and the same the other way around; the people who don't believe the mainstream

  • media and only look at the alternative media will sometimes say: "Oh, it's fake news, it's

  • fake news, it's fake news" in the mainstream newspapers, so it's a bit like two sides disagreeing

  • on something, whether something's true or whether it's fake.

  • The next idea is "to virtue signal" or people who are "virtue signallers", this means people

  • who have a kind of politics or a kind of belief, or they do something in their life because

  • the reason, the real reason is they want to look good, or they want to look kind, and

  • they want to look like they're really good people. But it's not a genuine... It's not

  • really genuine; it's just to look good. So an example would be let's say you decided

  • to adopt children, and you decided: "Oh, I'm going to go and adopt children from the middle

  • of the Congo Rainforest. I'm going to go and adopt five children from there." And you bring

  • them back to your country, and then you start making... You start, like, telling everyone

  • about these children that you adopted and why you're helping them so much, and you know,

  • and you have to let everybody know about it. And the reason... The true reason isn't because

  • you love the children or you wanted to help them, it's just so that everybody says: "Wow,

  • you help people so much. Oh, you're so kind", and you get attention.

  • Next example is "data dump". A "data dump" is when an organization like WikiLeaks, a

  • group of hackers or an organization that brings hidden things out into the news, they will

  • get thousands or millions and millions of emails, and then they will pass them on to

  • the newspapers or they'll put them out there so that individuals can go and look into a

  • subject, and find the information about it. But there's so, so, so, so much information,

  • it's too much for one person to do all by themselves. And the reason for doing the data

  • dump is to bring the hidden secret things out into the open. So perhaps there was something

  • illegal that happened in government, or perhaps there's been a conspiracy, a secret about

  • something, and the reason for doing this data dump is to... It's not... If you think about

  • it, then it's not one individual person, saying: "Hey, you did this!" which is maybe going

  • to get them into be really... It would be dangerous for them to come out and speak about

  • the government perhaps or an important person, but when the information comes out this way,

  • perhaps... Perhaps that's why it's done, maybe it's safer to get the information out this

  • way.

  • Okay, the next term is "Pizzagate". When you hear of something going on, an event or a...

  • Yeah, something that happens and it has the word "gate", the suffix "gate" in it... "Gate"

  • comes from a famous time in American politics called "Watergate" when there was... Right.

  • American history is not my strong point, but anyway, there was a... There was a problem

  • with a president being in trouble about something, and things had been kept secret about it.

  • But in Watergate, the secret came out. And since then, when there is a big scandal, usually

  • in politics or when something that was a secret before comes out, this is where the "gate"

  • part comes from. Now, in terms of "Pizzagate", I don't want to go into it too much; this

  • is something that you could look in yourself if you're interested, but "Pizzagate" is about

  • the idea that the elite, the people in the government, people in the high-up positions

  • are... Not saying all of them, but they... They abuse children and they're into pedophilia,

  • having, like, sexual things with children. So the idea, this whole Pizzagate scandal

  • and storm is about those people in the high-up positions using code words to do with pizza.

  • So they're just writing emails about pizza, it looks like, but actually what they were

  • writing about was secret messages about having sex with children. So that's all I'm going

  • to say. If you want to look at it, look at it yourself.

  • Next thing is "digital nomad". "A digital nomad" is someone who works on the internet

  • from anywhere in the world, a "nomad" is a person that has not one home, they just move

  • their home all the time, from here, to here, to here, to here. Nomads used to be in the

  • desert, but now nomads can be anywhere with their laptop computers. I did this... I did

  • this for a bit, I lived that dream. I lived that dream for a while. I thought I'd live

  • that dream forever, but no, not anymore.

  • The next word is "minimalist". "A minimalist" is often a digital nomad who can't carry a

  • lot of stuff around because they're always moving, so they say: "Oh, I don't want to

  • have a lot of stuff. I'm beyond stuff. I don't need to have lots of things, because I'm a

  • minimalist. And I care about the environment, and I don't need material belongings." So,

  • yeah, a minimalist is usually someone that cares very much about the planet and wasting

  • things, so the point of living their lifestyle by not spending a lot of money, not buying

  • things they don't need. And it's a trend, it's one of the trends at the moment of a

  • lifestyle trend, how to... And a lot of people are interested in how to minimalize their

  • life. "How do I not need so many clothes? How do I...? How can I stop buying so many

  • things from the supermarket? How can I live with less?" So people will be interested to...

  • In those kind of things would be minimalists.

  • The next word is "coworking". "Coworking" is when you don't have a... Perhaps you're

  • someone who works for themselves, perhaps you're someone who works on the internet.

  • Generally you could work from your house, but when you work from your house all the

  • time, it's... The downside of that is you don't see enough people, perhaps it's hard

  • to stay motivated, perhaps it's just boring as well. So, a trend is for coworking or coworking

  • spaces, where you rent... You rent access to a place where you can go and work. And

  • another reason people do it is because here in the coworking space you have fast internet,

  • you have... Maybe there's good coffee you can drink there, and maybe it's a cool, inspiring

  • environment for you to be around. So, it's either somewhere that you pay to use and you

  • can always go, or it could also be as well some caf�s are designed this way so that

  • people can go and work there real easily; they have good desk space, lots of places

  • to charge your laptop, so those would be coworking caf�s.

  • The next idea is "hot-desking". "Hot-desking" is when... It could be in your office where

  • you always work, but it could also... Yeah, it could be wherever you work you don't have

  • a set chair and desk where you always work every day. "That's my space, I always sit

  • here by the window." No. Hot-desking isn't like that. You could move around to different

  • places in that place where you work, and other people can sit in your chair, because you

  • don't have a chair when you're hot-desking; you move around.

  • And the last word, to mention here: "preppers" are people who think... They're getting prepared,

  • basically. They're getting prepared, prepared for a big disaster; World War III, environmental

  • catastrophe, riot, looting - they're getting prepared for when... They're getting prepared

  • for when... For when shit hits the fan. So, what they do is they... Perhaps they'll be

  • energy-independent, they'll have their own way to generate electricity, they'll have

  • survival skills, like how to capture animals, how to butcher them, how to grow food, or

  • they might, if they... I'm not going to call them... It's a different way. Some preppers

  • aren't going to want to learn the skills; they'll just buy lots and lots of space, travelling

  • astronaut food or army food, they'll buy, like, three years' of army food so that if

  • all the food did run out from the shops they would still have something... Something to

  • eat when shit hits the fan. But yeah, the point of them is they're worried about all

  • this stuff going on, and I guess they want to protect themselves, and feel safe and feel

  • ready for if things go dangerous and wrong politically.

  • So, thank you all for watching. Now what you can do is a quiz on this lesson. I'll see

  • you again soon. Bye.

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