There have been times when someone sent to me a viewing link on YouTube.com. Fine. IF I trust that person to pick something less than totally lame, I go-look-n-leave. In all these years, I've never gone "on my own" - until today.

It boils down to this: The first-world countries have SO convinced themselves their medias are not only goals, but the Ultimate Goal in achieving self-validation, that this effect, mixed with most of these same populations having a version of an idea of democracy equaling self-expression and entitlement, mixed with the incredible ease of self-publishing in the digital/web world, that YouTube is the perfect expression of our broad desperation, loneliness, loss of foundation, and need for approval.

It is one of the saddest sites on the planet.