A systemic view of the Tucker/Putin interview.

Danioover9000
By Danioover9000 in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events,
Interesting video that I'm going to analyze: Prior context: he has reacted and watched the Tucker/Putin interview and is giving his commentary here. Also for discourse and presentation: He's in his room, wearing a white t-shirt(in western colour psychology white symbolizes purity and innocence, and GOOD. So here I was naturally a bit weary and skeptical.). Standard size 3-4 haircut, even, and a nice mic setup, but also the camera for the audience is level to his eye level. His room to his left I note an art station, likely his room is an art studio as to his left has a drawing table with some piles of canvases. To his left and behind has a dim yellow lamp that contains books and again canvases(due note the focus of camera is on him and his background blurry.). Best guess as to his personal values is that he fancies paintings and drawings, loves drawing and education or educating himself(which later in my analysis makes sense as he communicates with care but with many exaggerations.). Body Language: Very expressive of his face and hands, quite a lot of hand gestures and illustrators. Also lots of eye movement to his upper and upper right, or directly right, which in NLP eye cues upper left is remembered visuals, upper right is constructed visuals, direct left/right are auditory, and lower left/right are both somatic and listing, direct downward gaze typically feeling of shame or embarrassment. In his case a lot of upper right to right and sometimes left eye movements. Also at 5:0 to 5:05 he raises eyebrows and widens eyes in surprise(in body language eyebrow flashes indicates feeling surprise, emphasis or seeking social approval/connection)in this case it's emphasis on the word choice 'ABSURD'.   Also a lot of lip compression and moments of lip licking and lip biting(in body language analysis lip compression indicates stress increase and non-verbally the subconscious mind didn't like what was said, similarly followed by biting/nipping of one's lips or lip licking after some emotionally charged statements means the subconscious mind is in disagreement and doesn't like what was stated). Plus I note he sometimes rubs his nose(rubbing of nose in body language indicates feelings of uncertainty, stress, uncomfortableness, anxiety.) but in this case he's not just rubbing but also pinching his nose each time before giving a loaded statement, which also at 6:37 he uses his left hand and really rubs that left side of his nose when after talking about the relative options that Russia has, how it wants to both be like the West but after the West becomes more limited in it's democracy or more orthodoxy and traditional.    There's also a lot of eye furrowing from him(in Body Language analysis eyebrow furrowing indicates feeling frustration and anger, but also concentration) here I feel like he's more concentrating when thinking about the West and Russia, and trying to draw parallels, possibility of frustration is still there.    IMO favorite moments of this analysis is whenever this man closes his eyes intensely, not squinting but he really closes his eyes and shuts down visuals in the outer world, like at 8:16 when he asks "How do we balance this-", and in general in body language when we see people shut down and are closing their body language down, like crossing arms, looking away, blocking and shielding gestures around mouth and eyes, even shifting shoulders and posture to face away from the person causing so much defensiveness and distress, in this case when this man actually intensely closes his eyes he's internalizing a mental representation of 'balancing' of 2 concepts and multiple issues in his mind, such that he needs to disassociate from physical visual reality to engage with his internal processing.  Tonality: Generally very calm, and somewhat soothing. Few moments of raised voice and projection, but his illustrators of his hands and face do most of the emphasis of certain words. what are your thoughts on that whole video? Do you think he was mostly performative to his audience? Do you feel he was a bit defensive or distressed? Do you think he's genuine?
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