Guess I am a lousy communicator

"Rev - it kinda looks like you are getting a bit sidetracked by all this youtube/yahoo stuff. What happened to the insightful articles and the sardonic humour?"

I received this comment this morning. It came as close as anything possibly could, to leaving me speechless. I did not start writing this blog to see to it that the starving hordes were entertained. I started this blog because humans were in trouble, and were working their way towards extinction. To complicate matters, these humans were scrapping with each other. The far right and the far left were too busy knocking the snot out of each other on their own pet issues, to bother to even discuss the oncoming threats to their existence.

I felt that my job was primarily to get the message out about not only the threats, but also the divisions that were causing a paralysis of our ability to deal with them properly. I spent eight months doing so on this blog. I developed numerous methods to enable each one of my readers to help me spread the message out wider. Just one of the methods was a meme that died faster than a baby girl in China.

So after these eight months, with an audience that was still not much bigger than what it began with, I moved from this lonely little blog to video. In less than three months, I had a viewing audience that exceeded two million people, while the lonely little blog, struggling now for over eleven months has still not managed to reach 50,000 views.

Almost to the moment that I hit two million views, my videos started getting deleted and banned, even though my videos did not violate the terms of service with these hosting companies. Even though there were thousands of videos running on these hosting company servers that did violate the terms of service, that still today are up and running.

My problem was that I was still trying to do my job. Most of my videos contained the same messages that the articles on this blog did, which was pissing off extremists on both the left and the right, and I am convinced that they had more to do with the deletions and bans than anyone else. I am also quite certain that this happened because my message was starting to get out to a wider audience.

If you think that my job is to entertain, then I have done a lousy job of communicating. I must mention that other than King Bastard, I have not seen anyone really knocking themselves out to help me. This would tend indicate that most of my viewers and readers found me to be entertaining, and are not taking me seriously. It seems as though only the extremists, who I am trying to bring down from power, are taking me seriously, and the moderates who I am trying to enable, are viewing me as entertainment.

Right now the extremists are winning. If this keeps up, I will be more than happy to entertain all of you, as we descend down the slope on our way to the annihilation of the human species. You guys should be proud of yourselves.

How’s that for sardonic?

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