 Have you ever noticed how narcissism plus easy technology makes for some very strange happenings in the world? Hey there, njrude22.com here with a really quick tech talk and a societal observation vlog today. And I entitled this video or this this session about narcissism and easy technology and how that is the selling ticket these days it seems. I'll give you a point of reference. I don't use social media the way most people do like where I'm constantly swiping up on the phone. This isn't a phone, this is a piece of my chainsaw, but I'm going to pretend it's a phone where people just sit there and they mindlessly go through like timelines and they like and they do this and after just a few weeks or months and then years go by they're just doing the same thing every single day and it just becomes this routine that gets programmed into their brain. But I was looking at, excuse me, Jesus Christ, got a frog in my throat. That's a Smirnoff spiked sparkling seltzer I'm drinking which is delicious. Anyway, we went on this this website Snapchat and I think Facebook owned Snapchat. I forget who or maybe not. I don't know they own something but it's this platform where people take these short videos and they do stupid things. As a side note this is a social media channel we're on. We're on YouTube and we're also on BitShoot. We have more followers on BitShoot. We don't even do any kind of announcement. I don't understand how YouTube keeps us bogged down so badly. But this is about how I went on this Snapchat and they have this map application. I did it on my desktop computer. I did not. I don't have the Snapchat app but you go on like I was curious to what was happening with that one of these hurricanes that happened recently. And it's just people making what amount to mindless videos of doing really nothing. Like it's like you getting to peek in somebody's living room and they do some stupid thing. And I don't see any net worth other than the only thing that I can see that amounts to anything is someone gets entertained for a few seconds. And that of course equals what is the next video I'm going to see? What's the next video I'm going to see? What's the next video I'm going to see? And then 20, 30, 40 minutes, two, three, four hours go by and you're just sitting there like a voyeur looking at other people's videos. And there's no real information. It's just people doing stupid things. And I just don't understand how these mindless things get traction. Well, I do because because these platforms and these people are just taking advantage of the human condition. But what's more important is I don't understand how like meaningful discussion and long form talks like where you don't just get a knee jerk reaction like I disagree. I agree. I know everything. Everybody seems to know everything these days. But you can't know a single human being knows everything. You may have an opinion about everything, but you don't know. I don't know everything about everything. But what I do know is that the number of people I can find to have a nice debate or a discussion about something where we let's say we're two opinions and we just listen to each other and you think about it. You don't even have to respond on the spot. Believe it or not, that's how presidential debates used to happen. They used to have like six or eight hours where they would talk. And then the next day, the person would respond in a public forum and talk about their viewpoints. And then it may take two or three days to have that debate. And that was short for the time in the 1800s they did that. Nowadays, you can't even finish a goddamn sentence without somebody having an opinion or even thinking about it for more than a minute, let alone a day or a week or a month. I mean, you just get an idea from somebody and just say, let me sit on that. I'll think about it for a while because no one thinks about anything anymore. They just move on to the next thing that grabs their attention. And there's never really any kind of concept or idea to think about. I just don't understand why meaningful discussion, truly meaningful discussion, has almost been eliminated. And when I look at these platforms that come out and they feed into something that is very easy to tap into, and that's the human ego. It's people looking me, me, me, me. I'm not doing these videos here because I want any kind of attention. I'm trying to just share good ideas and maybe find a soul or two out there that is willing to have a discussion or share some ideas. It's kind of a sad thing. I'm kind of disappointed that our viewership is low. And maybe I'm not doing the right thing. There's all sorts of methods to get recommended. And obviously, I have to be interesting. Maybe somebody doesn't think I'm interesting at all. Or maybe it's my delivery. I don't know. I mean, it's hard to sell anything to anybody these days, but apparently not because you can get a million views of you eating an Oreo cookie on the sofa in your freaking underwear. I don't understand how that gets so many people excited when like, hey, I have a new idea for you. You can eliminate your food problems almost forever. And then nobody wants to see it because they just want to eat their addictive Doritos or bread. See, that's what gets me. I just don't know. This is kind of a, I'm going to kind of bummed out about it. But when I was taken aback when I looked at this Snapchat map and all these different people doing things, and they're on this map and they're getting traction for what? I mean, who benefits from it? Obviously the owners of the platforms get, you know, receive benefits and then people are spending money because they want to get in front of eyeballs. And that's how eyeballs sell. You know what I mean? Like if a million people are looking at something stupid, yeah, you'll obviously connect with those million people if you promote your, like the Super Bowl, for instance. I don't know how many people watch 30 million people watch the Super Bowl. I mean, maybe it's a bad idea to go on the Super Bowl and you could just spend your money on targeted advertising on social media. But the fact that anybody falls for targeting advertising is beyond me. Meanwhile, I have a website and a vlog that I want targeted advertising on because I'd like to make money too. So anyway, that's it. It's narcissistic, people love, they think they're empowered, they think they're somebody with, if they have 20 or 100 or 1,000 or 50,000 or a million followers. Some people have tens of millions of followers. I don't know. It's all about narcissism. And like I said, the meaningful discussion and just maybe that's left. That's why people still can meet in person these days before we're fully in the matrix. People can still talk. But then again, as a final note, I really don't, I can't find too many people that are that are even capable of having like a little bit of a longer discussion. I know a couple people in my area that I can actually talk to for five minutes and it's actually so refreshing. That's it. Thanks for watching. Please subscribe, hit the bell. I rambled, always unscripted. I have a couple bullet points and that's it. Enjoy the rest of your day or night.