I'm watching Folding Ideas 'The Nostalgia Critic and The Wall' and Olsen hasn't said or implied this at any point in the video, and I can't say I'm all that experienced with Walker's stuff but it feels like he [Walker] was projecting when he made that video.

I want to believe its a sign of maturity that I fell out with angry review youtube of the mid-10s, not that I was all that into them to begin with. I think out of every Yahtzee video the only one that really stuck with me is his review of Silent Hill 2, a game he loved.

Which even anecdote I think it helps illustrate the power of sincerity versus cynicism and irony. People remember the times you gave a damn than when you didn't give a fuck. Which is the point I feel Olsen is making with his video, its deeper than the video title.

The video isn't really about Doug Walker, his Nostalgia Critic Alterego, or the fan parody of The Wall. They're really more of a vehicle to drive home certain points, much in the same way in Search of a Flat Earth wasn't really about Flat Earthers.

You can watch the video as Olsen is very approachable and analytical with the way he talks, as he explains himself better than what I could really summarize in anyway.

Its helpful he does this, otherwise I wouldn't watch. I've no interest in Walker.

Early on he [Olsen] mentions Critics (Himself, You, and Me Included) can't review something to belittle because what we find silly, what we cut out of our critique, what we don't, is revealing to us about what we truly value and think is important.

Many of Folding Ideas videos are educational about film-making, and that is something I find reflecting in his view, where he talks about Walker's literalism falling apart when it comes to the heavy symbolism laden animation segment of the Blitz.

'We need more victimization' is probably the segment most about him [Walker] apart from the start that provides the necessary context to know who Doug Walker is and the video he produced in collaboration by others.

I mean that segment is about how context matters, that Roger Waters grew up in a very different schooling environment (prior to the 1986 act against Corporeal Punishment) and the song is about the institional forces that help shape culture not 'school bites', amongst other points

It is the segment that really hammers home how 'incurious' (Olsen's word, I would have just used the term dickhead) Walker is, its somewhat bewildering someone would go in an apparent creative field (making videos) and come out with the opinion school is to get you a real job.

As if the school worked as Olsen talked about the pedagogical approaches of what schooling is for, with the industrialist view. He wouldn't have made this video and would be filling in a time sheet at a factory.

I don't want to rehash Olsen's entire video, but the segment 'Comfortably dumb' while the shortest is the most brutal.

*watches 'Its not that vague, Doug'* ...Christ.

Olsen, an intellectual: "The monsters are psychosexual visualizations of those literal characters and ideas those characters represent: Parents, The State, The Education System, Intimate Partners."

Me, intellectus squared: The Wall is a Silent Hill game.

Wow Such Gaming made a video on how Silent Hill is basically a therapist from hell pitting your inner most insecurities against you as visualized monsters made manifest:

And RagnarRox does a breakdown of the different monsters and how they reflect character's fears. I'm not just pulling it out my ass, that how the Wall uses monsters is not too dissimilar to how they are designed in Silent Hill games.

I've finished the video, and this thread isn't to summerize Olsen's video so I'm just reading the comments, and hey Soviet Womble is there.