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I've seen some blunt comments to be sure, but I haven't seen anyone criticize Jundo as a person. I don't know him personally. I have no idea about his family, his friends, what he's like at the office, etc. All I know is what I see here:
1. He's using a clickbait banner for his funnel
2. The funnel is to book sales
3. He denies he's selling books (despite providing us the links)
4. Beneath all that, he's advocating (I think; I didn't buy the books) recognition of the potential for technology to increase the dissemination of a message; the message being Buddhism in this case.

Having observed him here and in the videos to be observant and articulate, i recognize that there is certainly the potential for him to contribute meaningfully to the forum should he choose.

I doubt he'll choose. Among us, Shoshin did engage him on the concepts, at least initially. But critical mass in this thread seems to be that the sales/denial/innocense approach is off-putting (as it is to me), possibly fatally, and should he see this and decide to engage and salvage the effort here, it will be at notable cost in time and focus, for a very small audience/prospect pool. (And his approach will have to be "OK, OK, my cloak is off now; let's talk.") If he doesn't resurface, or if he does but continues on the marketing trajectory, then it was just a sales channel. If he comes back and engages in substantive discussion about technology and the expanded medium it confers, it could definitely be quite an interesting conversation.

My prediction and my hope are opposites. Jundo, come through!

Lets try to keep any criticism we have to the ideas or approach and avoid critiquing Jundo as a person. We really don't know all that much about him.

The problem seems to be Jundo's presentation in the OP than anything about the money.

If it was going to be used as a fund-raiser, he should have led with that and not some egregious overstatement. In fact, "Buddhism Has Failed" should have been toned way down, otherwise it sounds like a bush-league, liberal pundit, you-tuber, trying to get attention for his videos and monetizing his channel. A real turn-off.

I wish Jundo the best of luck on his book. Maybe, after I get rid of the bad taste in my mouth, I'll buy a copy.

The arrogance of the man astounds me actually, 2500 years and all the various traditions and methods casually consigned to the bin as a “failure” but don’t worry buy this book and it’ll be fine.

Odd. Reminiscent of an American evangelist. Slightly scary.

@Jundo said:
It is time to begin exploration of technology and the laboratory, medicine, biology, engineering, nanotech, genetics and coming advances in neuro-science.

I watched the video, and it is unclear to me how these things are going to influence the billions of humans. The USA is home to about 350 million people, the European Union to about 550 million. China has about 1.4 billion people, India about 1.3 billion, out of a total world population of 8.1 billion people.

New technology doesn’t move so quickly towards the billions. There are still people to whom a smartphone is new, and it has spread like wildfire, being the first computer that many people own.
54% of the world owns a smartphone.

You could follow the road of politics. In the successful Trump election campaign of 2016 he made use of Cambridge Analytica to find the psychological levers which motivate people to vote a particular way. They profiled 50 million Americans from Facebook data.

Would you want to “persuade” all these people to take up Dharma?