What is Bullshittube, you may ask?
You probably already know, certainly your sub-conscious does...
Feel free to search any of the following keywords to find out:
- Info Wars
- UFO
- Anti Gravity
- Government Secret
- Limitless Energy
- Gang-stalking
Youtube has always had its absurd sides, however the exponential growth of validated madness seems to be in crescendo. Never before in human history, has someone with a hallucinatory mental disorder had the ability to gain validation from from large groups of people.
I certainly do not doubt that most creators of such videos believe what they produce as 'facts'. Often I ponder over where all these videos originate, how many hours are spent in producing the ever prevalent still image shots of UFOs.
Nothing to be done but inhale that special sense of irony, that large groups of people are producing videos, of still images, of something that would be proven true, if it were presented as video instead of pictures. And yet there are still videos of UFOs, that any seven year old could produce in after effects.
Screaming Alex Jones, years after being relevant. Worrying random truckers in the middle of the night. Not unlike the radio show Coast To Coast, which at one time had a host that would question the bullshit he was given.
The conspiracy circle jerk online has grown and grown. One cannot search cat videos without finding at least one All Seeing Eye. Or a magical infinite power source. Or anti-gravity technology that "they don't want you to know about".
As the education systems within the United States have deteriorated, so too has increased the complete lack of fact checking. The X-Files isn't on TV any longer, why is this still happening?
Sometimes I wonder if 9/11 is the ultimate validation event. Truthers and common sensers alike watched the country plunge into the worst *Depression since the original (please, stop calling it a recession). Yet, all these Bullshittube videos have been piling up since long before that. Now, thanks to the magic of the internet, one can find a local Gang-stalking Support Group. Schizophrenics can now find like-minded people who have experienced the same types of delusions.
Is this good or bad? Harmful or helpful? I honestly cannot tell.
If I were to point out one single overarching explanation to all this, it would be that of Digital Culture Shock. I would tout this concept as original, if I didn't fear falling prey to the same circle jerking of made up ideas stemming from it.
In just two decades, the world has become a much faster place. Children read faster, scan text faster, communicate more, and do so silently outside parental prying eyes. Bullshittube seems to be a direct result to this monumental change in how people use the Prosthetic Memory of the Internet.
One man's fan fiction is apparently another furries reality (sorry furries).
When one can construct online environments to validate any made up reality, a moral question arises. Does this 'virtual reality' then become reality through it's consensus? Is there a moral obligation to censor ideas so absurd they may become dangerous? Community driven validation does not seem to be a reliable means of determining quality (as seen by so many front page 'native advertising' campaigns on reddit, and others).
With the whole of human knowledge at one's fingertips, is there an (internet) cultural obligation to ensure thought segregation?
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