In all the old familiar place
That this heart of mine embraces
All day through
It’s a song.
What I mean by that is that I have ordered myself a new webcam .
Yay for that! I can make an attempt to become a YouTube star who makes money off of clicks every time he posts a video.
That would improve my work ethic substantially.
In fact, honestly, if the business world was really and sincerely concerned with getting the most labour per local currency unit, everything would work like that. You’d get paid for every bit of work you did.
Mop the floor at McD’s? Ka-ching.
Submit that projected earnings report? Ka-ching.
Sit through another tedious lecture from a senior civil servant? Ka ching.
And just think of how much more efficiently your workplace would make use of your time and effort if they were paying you per task.
Employee would work harder and make more money both for themselves and their employer, and everybody would win.
Well, except for peckerhead managers far too used to treating workers like sheep who now have to face the fact that labour is, in fact, valuable, and that wasting employee’s time means wasting the company’s money, so now their power is slipping away.
The more bad things that can happen to those kind of people, the better. Such undemocratic attitudes have no place in enlightened society.
Anyhow, where was I before I diverged into solving the relationship problems that arise between labour and management?
Oh right, getting a webcam.
I have a feeling that my output as a YouTuber will be a lot like my output here : without format or subject matter, just whatever I happen to be thinking about when it came time to make my video for the day.
The best I could do is use tags to separate my different streams of consciousness, or maybe have separate channels for my different subjects or foci.
Tags would probably be easier for me. The channels solution would probably end up where all such categorizing ends up for me : with me ending up just throwing everything into the “miscellaneous” bin because I can’t decide which of two or more categories to put things in.
Which defeats the entire purpose of the categories (channels) in the first place;
And I can see myself getting into the habit of finishing the video creation process by thinking of all applicable tags.
I’d hate doing it at first, just like I hated doing it on TikTok, but if I want my video blog (?) to spread and grow, I have to play by the common rulebook at least somewhat.
Then there’s the somewhat sticky issue of people not liking pure talking head videos. That’s changed somewhat in the era of TikTok and the rise in listenable YouTube content, but it’s still better to give people something to look at.
I mean, I consider myself to be a compelling speaker, but not at like, the Martin Luther King level, where what I am saying is so powerful that people are enraptured by me.
But, ya know, dare to dream.
I suppose I will be experimenting with different kinds of content in order to see what gets me some traction.
I can make long thoughtful in-depth talking head pieces. I can make lighthearted and silly “audio captioning” style comedy pieces. I can do strident political screeds.
Boy, could I do some strident political screeds. It could be epic.
And who knows, maybe I could a the big bad bullshit destroying iconoclast who changes the way people think and see the world for generations to come.
Or maybe I could just make a few bucks being yet another loudmouthed fat dude with a YouTube channel and too much to say.
Honestly, at this point, I would make whatever kind of videos people want, and by want, I mean the kind that generate clicks and therefore money.
I’m just that desperate for financial validation.
More after the break.
The American election
I suppose I have to talk about it.
Right now, it’s doom and gloom. Trump is way ahead. Things look grim.
But that’s only because the vote moves from east to west, so right now the results are skewed by all those red states in the middle of the country.
The exact same thing happened before Biden’s win in 2020. Hence Trump whining about them “suddenly” finding a whole lot of Biden votes.
Um yeah. Because the Left Coast was never going to vote for YOU, ya cocksucker.
Plus, early and mail-in voting is often not counted right away, and polls show Harris is way ahead with those voters, so do not abandon hope.
I know that four more years of that fucker is a horrifying prospect, but remember that horror and probability are not related.
In other words, the scariness of a potentiality has no bearing on how likely it actually is, just on how large it looms in our mind, which can be mistakenly thought to be the same thing, but it ain’t.
Hence people being disproportionately worried about extremely rare and improbable things like crime and terrorism when what’s a lot more likely to hurt them are things like heart disease and car accidents.
The world would be a much safer place if we could concentrate on the real threats instead of the bugbears of our minds.
I mean, terrorism is so rare as to be almost fictional and yet we waste trillions of dollars trying to prevent it.
Might as well go bankrupt buying werewolf insurance.
And as should be obvious from the name, terrorism succeeds only inasmuch as it makes people scared and causes them to do injury unto themselves out of fear.
I mean really, do you think the architects of 9/11 were sad that they made the whole world crack down on everything everywhere despite their small numbers?
How about we take all that anti-terrorism money and use it to stop climate change?
If only we could convince the world that global warming is caused by ISIS….
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.