Productive
Wow, two videos in one day! I never thought I’d do that. Actually, technically, it’s just after midnight, so I suppose I didn’t. But they were less than an hour apart; it was just kind of an important hour.
Combined they’re less than two minutes long, so don’t worry. This first one is just a little silly thing, made in response to a request by another user:
Click to viewThe other, I’m afraid, is rather more serious, and I think I did both together to take the edge off of this one a bit. It’s about the death of Osama bin Laden, and the concept of justice, and for this one I include a transcript, even though it’s short:
Hello, brothers and sisters. I am OgreVI, and I had not planned to make a video about Osama bin Laden.
His death does not trouble my conscience. I’m not sorry he’s gone, and it’s clear to me that the world is a better place without him. Those sentiments are being expressed by virtually every American YouTuber, and in fact by pretty much every American period. There seems little point in my saying the same things everybody else is already saying.
I do just want to make a quick point, though: “justice” is an important word, one of the most precious in our language, and I don’t like to hear it misused. We live in a civilized society, and in our society justice is administered by juries. It comes from our laws and our courts, not from the barrel of a gun. Like I say, I’m not sorry he’s dead, but I wanted a trial. I wanted him to come here and answer to us.
I keep hearing that Osama bin Laden has “finally been brought to justice.” No, he hasn’t. And now, he never will be.