The wind blew hard and cold all day, and the moon went down just after the sun.
It was a good sun period, though not in itself a productive one.
The rambling video I posted after going to the movie last night is now my most popular ever, with the exception of that first stray kitty exploitation clip. I thought about why. When I went to go do a search on ‘gabor mate the wisdom of trauma’, I found that I was coming up as the fourth hit. I think that might have a little something to do with it.
While that was happening, YouTube finally came through with “handles”, meaning that you can sorta name your channel after yourself, like so:
https://www.youtube.com/@vairtere/videos
This is an improvement over the current system, where your URL is a long string of random bullshit. But it’s still less good than the way they did things five years ago, where the semantically correct URL would have been
https://www.youtube.com/user/vairtere
… which today just breaks, in the Newly Improved Situation.
They also launched their “Community” tab on everybody’s channel, meaning that creators can now poor rough blog posts for the purpose of interacting with their viewers, independent of the comments section of individual videos. It’s a good thing, but I’d still much, much rather have a real blog like this one, running real software that can be customized by the content producer, like this lovely WordPress, instead of suffering the choices of the corporate platform.
On the political side I’m starting to understand and make distinctions on what I stand for. The gentlemen of the Duran had a candidate on:
Diane Sare with Alex and Alexander
She’s a Larouchite just like the people who interrupted AOC the other day (see the DueDissidence people for an interview with them), and I feel like she, and the Duran guys, have a whole lot in common with people like Jackson Hinkle and Caleb Maupin. A lot more in common with me than most people too, but there’s this one place where I differ real hard.
They remain solidly pro-growth, whereas I see that as a huge part of the Problem.
It’s true that the ‘green new deal’ approach to that Problem has been viciously co-opted by globalists, and by sanctionistas in places like Germany. I guess I’m all for ‘green jobs’ in theory, but I have such a problem with ‘jobs’ period, as well as growth, and the marxist framing of human-being-as-worker, or faceless Labor, that I find a disapproving frown on my face at times when listening to people with whom I otherwise feel brother- and sisterhood.
This isn’t making a ton of rhetorical sense. I don’t feel sensible. Blame it on the wind, I think, is the approach I’ll take to that small-p problem, for one night.
My heart is with you regardless, and open, and full.