Ewen Bell 📸Mar 13
Every so often I check the comments on the YouTube channel and there's usually at least one person who wanted to say thanks and I feel good.

Then there'll be one person every few weeks who just leaves a mean comment for the sake of being negative. I can't understand why some folks put their energy into bringing others down. Serves no purpose.

There's enough to bollocks happening in this world without being that kind of dude.
Show threadSteve of MastodonMar 13
@ewen 100% agree with your observation, with thanks! In a universe a long time ago, used to be at universities at least some 'critical' discussion around the concept of 'human development'. Mainstream social theory said humans developed by means of capitalist economic development. In practice, young men openly sought to emulate then the likes of trump, now the likes of Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, giving us "bollocks happening in this world" and "that kind of dude".
Show threadEwen Bell 📸
@marsfield

When I was a teenager there were books about dysfunctional families and toxic masculinity. Eventually someone would tell you to go read one, and you could work out for yourself why you act like such a douche bag. Or maybe my schooling managed to sneak in a little "critical thinking" skills without me realising it. Who can say.

Today the signals are conflicting and scrambled and who even reads a book when there's 16 million YouTube channels telling you how to get rich by investing in alpaca spit.

I'm not sure humans will survive the internet.
Mar 13 at 9:14pmWeb