Lately I sometimes find myself overloaded and pulled out of balance by all the highly polarized input to which we might be subjected to just living in the 21st century.
I offer here a small sample of my attempt to balance this with a widely varied assortment of available programming found on the screen of what the Eskimos have sometimes called the “Talking Lamp”, our video screens.
If we look for it, we may find many first person accounts/reports by travelers exploring and sharing their experiences. Sometimes the terrain described is actual geographical travelogue material; sometimes these reports may traverse the paths of scientific or sociological discovery, explicating discoveries in the realm of ideas.
The refreshing and invigorating quality of these armchair travels that we may partake in is often generated by their lack of any specific propaganda or hidden agendas. We are not being told what to think, but are simply being shown what the presenter has found, without guile or subtle manipulation.
This quality may sometimes be found in good fiction. The presentation may allow us to draw our own conclusions, and sometimes offer us new options that might generate hope and sometimes more creative and positive mental pursuits than the tired ruts that channel our thoughts down the negative roads that often may control our thoughts and mental state.
Some samples of my recent Youtube viewing, which might be very different according to one’s taste, (including current events, travel records, music, hobbies, and assorted research found by googling various subjects), follow:
They are varied, and some posts may be more to my liking than others. These are not meant to be recommendations, but rather a starting place for you to find what might excite you:
Mat’s Off Road Recovery, Eva Zu Beck, Peter Santenello, History of the Universe, Trevor Noah, No Perfect Plan, Playing for Change, Paul Simon, assorted Astronomy posts, American politics and Ukraine war updates, and much more.
Namaste, Daniel
