Following from my last, mercifully brief, post here, I obsessively decided to find out about the YouTube comment posters I mentoned a few minutes ago. I guess that already shows I’m too odd.

Because, obviously I was going to be deeply depressed about the state of American society, humanity in general, yada yada.

Well, duh. No surprises then. I have indeed became deeply depressed about humanity in general. Looking at the YouTube page of “pimpsxycute” – doesn’t the name say it all? – s/he is obviously just not very bright. And, yes, I know I shouldn’t insult people’s intelligence. Obviously no one can help how they are born.

“earmuffs420” is another matter. I still don’t know if the YouTube comment is a joke in any sense of the word , as earmuffs420 seems to be a white racist. Then again I don’t know if the YouTube persona is a joke but this time I am really praying to (insert name of any deity or natural phenomenon of choice) that the whole YouTube personal page is some wierd post-modern ironic joke. Although it’s not even remotely funny. The page is filled with obscure racist crap, an offensive but incomprehensible background and links to racially offensive posts by the writer, with only barely less incomprehensible complaints about them.

Now, people can’t help the level of intelligence they were born with, as I said before. Maybe they can’t even help being complete (insert most offensive word you can think of). But other people don’t have to like it. What you can do about it is another matter. I just don’t know.

My point here is not just the weakness of rationality to deal with the people who are off the scale, which I’ve already whined about. It’s that the Internet lets you see a lot further into the murky depths of humanity than anyone would reasonably want to go. How many aliens are walking amongst us who are seem to be getting mistaken for members of the homo sapiens species by accident?