typography IV - inciting incredulity

In the spirit of fair-mindedness, I am sharing this video for your perusal. Let me state this as a disclaimer that although the video and its contents are portrayed as credited facts, I challenge you; an intelligent, educated, and sound-thinking audience, to validate and verify the information presented herein. I am neither discrediting nor reinforcing this content, merely sharing it for the sake of impartial indignation. The bottomline here is not that the video attempts to expose certain longstanding theories, or that it is obviously unilateral in its target, but that it affects us – to become indignant advocates of truth, to awaken the inquisitive and the questioning, to begin the process that peels away ignorance by incredulity.

My personal opinions do not matter at this point. The content is simple, straightforward and expansive enough for people to formulate their own assessment of it. But as a word of caution, be reminded that nothing is completely dichotomous and Boolean. There will always be shades to a story that the act of opining polarizes. It is our sole responsibility, as free-thinkers, to evaluate the information as it best suits our values and convictions. There are no wrong answers, no invalid actions.

Some call it propaganda, and I cannot contest this because its objective is to influence opinion, despite the benefactor of that opinion remaining vague. And, in the same breath, it establishes the corollary that all forms of education is, and quite surprisingly, a form of propaganda. Information is never neutral, only because free will imposes it upon everything. There are no neutral facts, merely evident opinions of information.

A voice is never just a voice. Its sound is always propelled by motive.



[On a personal note, I primarily gravitated towards this video because of the kinetic typography it employs, a method of animation that I am currently obsessing about. I particularly enjoyed the aural cues and transitions employed by the animator/ creator that effectually incite a specific emotional response through the sublime. Being a detail-oriented person, the nuanced and cinematic use of sound and the effective punctuation of pauses and silences, the choices of palette and font, and the balance of vivid and dark gave me a virtual buffet of details that I could peruse, distill, analyze and infer from.]