Ladies and Gentiles. Today’s journal has no rhyme or no purpose. Some days I just don’t feel like writing anything, and today is one of those days. The so-called news is the same boring predictable shite, so who cares? I’ll just keep putting words on to the page and something will appear, I’m sure. I’ve been watching videos of how to put up a greenhouse. Obviously I’m interested in putting up a greenhouse, but I hate it when youtube content makers make these how-to videos, and sign off with a promise that they will do a follow up on whatever stupid idea they had in the first place. Many of them never do the follow-up, which is really annoying.
Looks like a downed weather balloon, not a greenhouse
There are many buffoons (and also some intelligent and thoughtful people) who do farmstead, homestead type videos. It always starts with a Hi! and welcome to Zeke’s Farmstead Bunker From Hell out in the boondocks of Mississippi or Oregon or some godforsaken place. There are always chickens running around. Always. That’s a given. Some numbnut I was watching somewhere was trying to do a video with roosters crowing in the background. You couldn’t hear a fucking word. A lot of these people overdo their projects as well. They’re building a simple greenhouse and they want to put in a concrete foundation, the type that you’d need to build a twelve story office building. It’s nuts. That’s youtube though. It’s full of crazy people and their crazy channels. “If you like it, hit the button and subscribe”. No, I don’t like it, and why is there a video of you playing Minecraft on your Prepper channel? “Go ahead” and get to the point already.
My spelling on the other hand….
The other annoyances are the idiotic intros that they slap on the front end of these dumb videos. They always sound like the twee intro music to some crappy basket weaving show show on Public Television, or they are loud and obnoxious, especially the auto ones. We don’t need to hear a revving engine to know that it’s about cars, dumbass. Do you think you’re the only person in the world who came up with that brilliant idea? Don’t get me started on the guitar guys…..if I’ve heard one lightning fast boring standard heavy metal or blues riff, I’ve heard a million of them. You guys are so talented, why aren’t you famous? Oh wait, you are.
This pedal is shit...ok? Look at that enormous rack of compressors behind me.
Youtube has become one enormous reality show where the average person with a cellphone can amass thousands of subscribers and make a living out of it. It’s a good thing, because fuck the legacy media. The only problem is that the gatekeepers of these platforms are borderline bolsheviks and/or fascists. As soon as your political point of view doesn’t fit into their idea of what it should be, you’re gonna be de platformed.
That’s the new way of describing social banishment. Nobody is really free to express their ideas on social media if they don’t fit in with the owners of Youtube, Facebook, Twitter etc etc. The only freedom of speech you have is between you and your your friends, or people you encounter outside of the internet. Even then you have to be careful of what you say. If you’ve ever watched the 1970’s version of movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers, you’ll know what I’m talking about.