What would pocket videos capture 200 years ago? I often wonder this. When there was no video to record anything. When it was simply one word versus another. What sorts of foolish things might you have seen “back in the day”?
You can pull up YouTube today, and see the world’s most elite bunch of idiots doing all sorts of crazy things. Someone had a phone in their pocket. An act was recorded, shared, and now that clip has been viewed millions of times.
It’s the outliers that we share. The normal dose of life is too uninteresting to be of note. They go unnoticed. It’s the extreme ones that get shared and viewed again and again. The unbelievable. How could someone be that stupid? How could someone be that cruel? Oppressive? Rebellious? Ruthless? Unkind? The worst of the worst, and at their very worst. A bad day. A thoughtless act. An outlier caught on live feed. Shared with the web, and there for the rest of the world to say, “What the heck?” Another embarrassment for the human race.
The best of the best at their best aren’t captured enough. The common folks when they are doing okay, and not being an idiot. The everyday heroes. The moderates. The salt of the earth. These folks never get the airplay of the sure enough idiots. But hey, these people are the reason to still have a little faith in humanity.
You can pull up YouTube today, and see the world’s most elite bunch of idiots doing all sorts of crazy things. Someone had a phone in their pocket. An act was recorded, shared, and now that clip has been viewed millions of times.
It’s the outliers that we share. The normal dose of life is too uninteresting to be of note. They go unnoticed. It’s the extreme ones that get shared and viewed again and again. The unbelievable. How could someone be that stupid? How could someone be that cruel? Oppressive? Rebellious? Ruthless? Unkind? The worst of the worst, and at their very worst. A bad day. A thoughtless act. An outlier caught on live feed. Shared with the web, and there for the rest of the world to say, “What the heck?” Another embarrassment for the human race.
The best of the best at their best aren’t captured enough. The common folks when they are doing okay, and not being an idiot. The everyday heroes. The moderates. The salt of the earth. These folks never get the airplay of the sure enough idiots. But hey, these people are the reason to still have a little faith in humanity.