And they are right!
YouTube as a teaching tool is amazing. Don’t know how to get your fancy dryer with all sorts of buttons that light up to just spin out your laundry? Ask YouTube. Not sure you have the experience to tackle patching a piece of ripped linoleum? Watch three clips to be sure you know what you are getting into before putting exacto knife into vinyl. Practical tips from handy people make life easier. They reduce the risk of getting in over your head on a simple repair.
Recently I’ve mosied into collegiate level material. This guy from the U of Chicago was informative, but also very entertaining. As someone raised in a different generation, it’s mind-blowing to be as good as in the classroom at a U that I could never have accessed.
All that stuff is fun and immediately useful. If YouTube weren’t around, it is information one could have gotten from a neighbor or at a leadership course. But there is more. The video hosting site gives you a key to difficult ideas as shared through people as passionate about them as their authors. I found David Harvey as I’ve never known much about Marx. And when I went looking all I ran into were those clinging to revolutionary impulses and socialist utopias. Harvey tells you that’s not really what Marx was about. Harvey will read the book Capital with you. Harvey won’t let you get sidetracked by politics because he wants you to understand the essence of what Marx had to say.
This will be my dog-walking media of choice, at least through Vol 1.
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