Where the Hell is... the Truth?

So the number of amazing things that can be found freely on youtube boggles the mind.  Freedom of information is paramount to improving our understanding of the world, and therefore improving our understanding of other people.

In one hundred years time, when the lesser economies have access to youtube, or whatever the site of fashion is at that time; people will be forced to take notice of what their respective militaries are doing.  We see a sanitised version of war on the news right now, with the occasional amputee, or blinded victim paraded to gain a few extra ratings points.

What if we see the actual effect of a bomb?  What if we see the real effect of dropping a 500lb bomb on an orphanage.  What if the news wasn't edited and sanitised to make it safe for teatime viewing.  I think this is where the power of the internet can shine above traditional media.

Of course this won't work; and it pains me to say that it's merely a pipe dream for people to see what happens when such things occur, because websites such as myspace, facebook, youtube and twitter are subject to strict usage guidelines that effectively ensure no one is shown anything 'disturbing'.  In other situations this is called censorship, and is frowned upon by everyone who has more than three brain cells, as a way of controlling people and the way they think.  This essentially means this little pipe-dream cannot happen with the current generation of information sharing websites; but maybe someday in the future it will become viable.

So instead of showing you the horrors of war, and what our presence in faraway countries actually looks like (which is not as pretty as the BBC makes it out to be) I will show you the positive contribution such fluffy websites can offer.

This video is 'Where the Hell is Matt.'




Firstly I must warn you (perhaps this line of warning should go above the video, then?) that this has been commented on by Americans, and the comments are therefore best avoided for sanity reasons (unless you want a jolly good laugh, in which case, carry on).  This video is neither groundbreaking nor original; I only include it to highlight one common truth among all nationalities:  Everyone likes dancing.  (I also interject here to point out that I don't, because I look like one of the thunderbird puppets, so uncoordinated are my limbs)

Everyone is the same, ultimately.  Sure, some people want to kill all white people, some want to kill all black people, and some want to kill everyone; but that's yet another thing we have in common (along with dancing).  For us to invade a country for oil has sparked a hate-filled campaign to oust us from their countries.  This is merely hidden under the guise of religion (as all good, hate filled vendetta's are) and is an inevitable by-product of the invasion.

I don't condone killing, even for oil; but it was inevitable that we should be gripped by a 'terrorist' alert now.  If you punch me in the face, I will punch you.  This is the way humanity works.  And as someone very clever once said; every action has an equal and opposite reaction.  That's science, you can't argue with science.