You Tube and Me

2017-02-20

I've been YouTubing too much lately. Some of it's entertaining. Some of it's enraging. Some of it's edifying to the point that I'm questioning aspects of my existence I've never confronted before.

In that sum total of who I am there are things I have seen on the various videos which provoke thoughts of wonderment. There are other things which have made me want to kill my fellow man.

I have seen outrageous desecrations of the flag by various groups who think they're so down trodden that they have the right to treat it with disrespect.

There have been methods and properties of the universe pointed out from perspectives I have never indulged before.

All and all I will likely continue my foray into this mess but it's really an effort to discern the real from the fake and the amount of insanity I've witnessed in the younger generations in the form of paranoid and schizoid appearing interactions is a bit scary from the standpoint of getting through to individuals anymore.

Now I understand more of why my nephew is such as disaster for his folks.

I now realize that my "aloof" position has served me well over the years keeping me out of the most provocative elements of the fray and this is probably why I haven't been killed up to now.

I used to hang out with several groups of rough individuals and other groups engaged deeply in the drug culture.

All of that having been cast aside some thirty years back I can see those benefits of clear thinking and improved analytical skills that were hard pressed to acquire then reacquire later when the fog cleared.

I'm more content seeing much of what I've witnessed just today. I feel badly for the others, those who are awash in that failure to indulge reality because it's incongruent with their lives.