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How Blogging Proved that The Human Experience is Suffering
The human brain is a fickle beast.
It didn’t take long after I moved from Canada to the United States to decide there was enough misinformation that I desired to have a voice. Each project I’ve been a part of has, more or less, had a brighter peak than the last. The New Truth was a weekly news show that, at its height, had a video with 80 views. A solo project, The Daily Merge, landed a few videos with several hundred views, before I got my first “big break”.
My favorite internet news show, The Young Turks, featured one of my graphics. Featured like showed MY logo, announced the source as MY “The Daily Merge”, and even had Cenk holding up MY handiwork. My news heroes, if there were such a thing, mentioned me, in prime time, live, on air, and the video has a quarter of a million views to date. Not bad for a dude filming out his bedroom.
The thrill was surreal. It spiked me with a passionate motivation, which lasted about 36 hours. How can that be? Imagine the feeling of seeing something you thought would never happen, followed by writing a blog post seen by 21 people, and spending an hour on a 3 minute video seen by 12 people…
