I lost faith in humanity long time ago. And the truth is that I don’t really do anything to prevent from this mood. Quite the contrary in fact.
Below you’ll find two videos I recently watched, which are quite representative of the videos I watch all day long. A warning though: although I find them very interesting, they are also highly depressing (at least to a sensible person like me) and some parts can be graphic.
Certainly out of kindness, some friends of mine have told me I shouldn’t watch these kind of videos. But I can’t help it, and I anyway think it is important for me to do so. Not watching them is not going to make these atrocities magically disappear. Furthermore, watching and reading about these kind of events is what “made” me. This is one of the reasons I am so sensitive to other people’s problems. Why I really do care about strangers, often more than my own family. This is why, in spite of any scenario flaws one could find in the recent movie “Blood Diamond”, this movie moved me. It moved me because it was throwing at me images of all these documentaries I’ve been watching for years, linking it to reality. This is why I think I am particularly gifted for empathy. Like anyone else I have tons of flaws, but I can also recognize my own qualities, and I honestly think it is one of them. Thus, I won’t stop watching, even if it ends up killing me.
I’ve been reproached for saying that I don’t like History. I like to say these kind of things… That’s probably the inner smart-ass talking. But above all, I like saying these kind of things because it sometimes (often?) shocks people’s feelings. Because it makes them react. It helps to start conversations more interesting than the weather. I’ve also been told that people don’t want to debate or argue all the time, that when the weekend comes, after a long week of work, they just want to relax. But F*ck that! As a friend of mine, Javi, is often saying (although not in the same context 
), you’ll have time to relax and sleep when you’ll be dead (I hope readers will again understand the smart-ass-attitude in this last sentence and won’t start to argue about not wanting to debate _all_ the time. Read between the lines…).
So anyway, as I was saying I’ve been reproached for saying I don’t like History. I didn’t think I had to explain myself out loud, because I thought it was quite obvious that, in the facts, I show every day I do like History, in a certain way at least. I expected people to be smarter than that. Seriously, do you always take as truth what people say they are thinking? It’s probably in the first chapter of any psychology books, or in the top 10 rules of scenario writing: people are not what they say they are or think, they are what they _do_. So to remove any doubts, I’m going to clarify my thoughts: I don’t like the way History (and Geography) is taught at school. Merely a set of dates to learn, unrelated, split in multiple unrelated chapters “The ere of the Pharaoh; WW1; WW2; French agriculture; American agriculture…”, without any real explanations whatsoever about how you go from chapter A to chapter B. Instead of focusing on what makes History interesting: the complex Geo-political interactions around the world, they just try to make you ingest thousand dates. Apparently we are too stupid to understand the complexity of our world… so let’s just learn the dates… And to finish, for obvious reasons, I don’t like the content of the history itself: we are way too stupid and greedy. You may even wonder how we made it so far.
Don’t worry, I’m almost done with my monologue. The only reason I am writing all of this is that I anyway know most of you skipped the text long time ago to directly watch the videos. But it’s ok, it is as expected. I already said it in the past, it just lets me vent 
So here they are, the promised videos. Now on, I’ll probably post a quick list of the interesting stories and videos I found each week, without the thousand words of introduction (to your relief).
Happy Christmas and Happy New Year. I hope you all enjoy how blessed you are, and your new fancy iPods (like millions around the world, and unlike billions). Louis Armstrong (or more precisely Bob Thiele and George David Weiss) got it all wrong… What a “shittiful” world… I feel ashamed.
Update: Apparently Google took the video about North Korea down.
North Korea - Children of the Secret State
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