ContraPoints Is Political Philosophy Made for YouTube
I must say, if you are not prudish and don't have certain issues about gender, it seems that Natalie Wynn has her finger on the pulse of our culture and she provides some witty insights into it, and, in my opinion they are very crucial insights. If you are not hung up by the way it is presented, she brings intelligence, knowledge and feeling in a very entertaining and provocative way.
Having watched all of her videos, I can highly recommend them, not just for her views on gender and feminism, but for how she looks into our growing problem with our disaffected, disenfranchised, testosterone-driven young men. We tend to focus a lot on contents of who, what, where, when and why, but the klaxon going off almost everyday in the form of extremely violent acts is about the HOW. Just what is going on that brings about the commission of mass shootings?
We could focus on individuals only, and some may just be unstable, etc. However, I think there is a more general, cultural issue that is, for some reason, being overlooked or ignored, (denied) when it comes to many of these violent outcomes. If you don't get to the heart of the problem, then it may continue unabated and even increase.
Certainly, we need to address the problem with guns and place restrictions on certain weapons, etc. It seems to me that this is not going to be enough. The mental illness excuse, just like the violent video game speculations, as the causes, (rather than, perhaps, symptomatic in some degree) is distracting and even way off base when it comes to the underlying factors that are contributing to the horror show of results we see regularly. I think that the death and fear that is being injected into our day-to-day lives means we all have to look more deeply into this and see what is really going on here.
The video entitled, Men, really hits on some factors that contribute to this crises and might even suggest a change in our views and inject some sense into the body politic that will address what needs to be done rather than apply bandages to the bleeding wound over and over. In that video, she talks about the impact her series has had on de-radicalizing young men, but what they then tend to do is not really shocking, they then tend to shift far left and take on a different kind of radicalism which is indicative of the problem here.
The host defends her own positions according to the same principles. Wynn takes on the strongest version of her opponent’s argument, acknowledges when she thinks her opponents are right and when she has been wrong, clarifies when misunderstood, and provides plenty of evidence for her claims. Wynn is a former Ph.D. student in philosophy, and though her videos are too rich with dick jokes for official settings, her argumentative practice would pass muster in any grad seminar.
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Socrates knew that anyone who wishes to win minds must also win hearts. He didn’t just earn the intellectual respect of his students; he inspired love, too. His acolytes followed him around the marketplace, hanging on his word, and one of the most moving speeches in the Platonic canon is the description by Alcibiades of his hopeless infatuation with the older philosopher. And of course Plato’s dialogues themselves are, along with being philosophical masterpieces, early examples of fan fiction. In other words, Socrates persuaded by both the logic of argument and the dynamic of fandom. Wynn is beginning to grow a dedicated following of her own: Members of online discussion groups refer to her as “mother” and “the queen,” produce fan art, and post photos of themselves dressed as characters from her videos.
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This is the subtle difference between Wynn and many of her prominent YouTube counterparts on the right—the ones who summon their opponents to the arena of debate, hungry for victory and for the cheers of their supporters. Contra does her makeup, dons her pearls, and invites her opponents and her viewers into the parlor for cocktails and conversation. The talk isn’t quite a heart-to-heart. Contra’s burns are scorching, her satire precise, and many of her arguments reduce her opponents’ positions to rubble. But somehow, when she does it, the effect is humanizing rather than bullying. She’s flirting, not fighting.
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/01/contrapoints-political-philosophy-natalie-wynn-youtube/579532/
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I agree, and the kleshas that we see reality though are the samsara of suffering on the repetitive wheel of habitual patterns based on karma, (actions).
As you may realize, Western culture and America in particular is quite estranged from that kind of realization and there are so many factors that contribute to that, i.e,. advertising that induces unnecessary wants, etc. We have a very complex arrangement of inducements to more suffering, rather than an environment that promotes an effort to plumb the depths of its cause and discover liberation and enlightenment and a collective harmony.
That was an interesting paraphrasing of the Four Noble Truths. I have not seen it put that way before. It is always good to get some Dharma into the picture though 
Tashi Delek
The teachings are clear on our projection of the mind and names onto form, thus, not self.
When we find out experiential that there is no actual self or separate entity, this is liberation, and then the provisional skillful means unite with the definitive Wisdom as the endlessly unfolding multiplicity of absent appearances, open in pure and total presence of unity. It is already accomplished.
Watching our preferences and expectations can be useful too because, when they are not fulfilled we can easily react in various, unwholesome ways like frustration and anger, etc. Both are the past, (as are thoughts) trying to change the present moment which always is just as it is...so...suchness.
This is more like now then it every was before. 
A Zen Master said once: "The Great Way is easy...except for those with preferences."