Doom and laughter in a digital age
Seeking the wisdom of Inspiro, the kinky, drug-addicted bot, is becoming something of a daily ritual now. Once again I’m going to share these pearls with you, my friends.
Stay kinky
I’m kinda tired. I was going to do another music blog, but instead I’m going to spam my hundreds of thousands of readers with some of the most absurd inspirational do-dads the internet has generated in the last hour. InspiroBot splices strings of text and images to create amusing nonsense, sometimes bordering on the philosophical.
There’s a lot of stuff on the net. I found Pandyland. It is good.
Some other faves from Pandyland:
Witches Brew
Randys Redemption
Gorefield
Goblin King
The Young Turks YouTube channel cops a lot of trolling, ignorance and generally inflammatory rhetoric, but seeing the levels of aggressive ignorance on a recent video was truly appalling. Ignorance, I can deal with, but when when it’s accompanied by this degree of hostility, it fills me with a bitter, despairing rage. So, what was the video about? Well, for this years Halloween, a company released a costume dress titled “Anna Rexia”.
Why the name? Dunno. Seems like someone decided to be puny, but headed in a distasteful direction. The panel was split on whether the company had gone too far. I think the name is offensive, and given the way it’s marked I can understand why there is noise on the subject.
Of course, no one is expecting a rational debate on a platform like YouTube. But I found it deeply disturbing to witness the tirade of statments like, “they bring it on themselves”, “stupid people deserve to die”, “anorexia is a made up first world disease”, etc, etc. And this goes on and on, and some of these “discussions” become brutal, with anorexia survivors (who had the courage to identify as such in the ruthless forum), we told they were stupid, vain, self-obsessed, attention seeking, and so on.
One can only assume that most, if not all of these people’s whole logical process must be something like, “oh, I don’t understand or know anything about anorexia or mental health diseases, therefore all these things are made up, and/or self-created.”
Where does this faith in one’s own ability to know all come from? What makes them believe they know more than the psychologists, and neuroscientists that research these issues? What makes people, in general, think they should even voice an opinion, let alone be highly outspoken on any given subject, when they are running on nothing more than their own assumptions, and the assumptions of similarly uninformed types.
I think we need to discuss, as a society, what is the value of an opinion, and when one should bother to utter their opinion. Sure, we all have that right to free speech, but if we don’t know squat about the given topic then there is a good chance our opinion is worth shit all, and can be more harmful than constructive. I know, let’s teach critical thinking in schools from the very start. Surely these sorts of comments and unfounded opinions are beneath us, as a species.
Lev makes videos that make us screwy anxious and depressed people laugh and feel at ease a while. He perfectly expresses a relatable inner monologue and rational behind the sorts of decisions common to introverts, especially those that suffer from the aforementioned conditions. His “cult following” (actually, let’s call them subscribers) often can’t help but edge out of their shell to share their thoughts, feelings and experiences related to the topic at hand. Lev, you have my thanks and admiration.