People On YouTube Love Stupidity
So I was geeking out on old music a couple of weeks ago, searching all of my favorite sites to find certain songs on, and I happened upon a YouTube video of “Let Your Love Flow” by The Bellamy Brothers, which happens to be an old country song recorded in the early 70’s that I quite liked as a kid. (My parents, in their religious fervor, somehow had it rationalized in their heads that, while they wouldn’t let me listen to any “contemporary” music, it was okay for me to listen to the kind of music that they enjoyed when they were younger. The one positive effect this had on me was that I was exposed at a very young age to a lot of songs that were “before my time”, something that has served me well as I grew into an adult music nerd.)
At any rate, this song is pretty catchy in a cheesy, 70’s pop kinda way, albeit very naive lyrically, suggesting that all you need to do is “Let Your Love Flow” and all will be right with the world. I scrolled through a few of the YouTube comments, which were mostly just praising whoever put the video up, until I came upon one fellow who made the comment that “everyone in the world should just listen to this song and realize that life isn’t so bad after all”.
I, of course, felt the need to point out that simply listening to this song would do little to make certain people realize that life “isn’t so bad after all”, such as kids who are being physically, mentally and/or sexually abused by adults who are supposed to be taking care of them, people who have lost loved ones and most of their possessions due to natural or other disasters, impoverished and/or sick people who have nowhere to turn to and nobody to take care of them, innocent civilians who are caught in the crossfire of government wars, etc., etc….
At any rate, I felt like I made a pretty good argument against his statement.
Plus, I felt like being a dick.
The funny thing is, nobody had even acknowledged his comment until my reply, and then all of a sudden he got a bunch of “thumbs up” from the other people viewing the video. Nobody gave my reply a thumbs down, or told me how wrong I was for being a dick. In other words, they knew I was right and that his comment was stupid in the grand scheme of things, yet they felt like they should encourage him anyway.
I guess it’s no real revelation on my part, but people on YouTube like to encourage stupidity.
