The You Tube Apocalypse.

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 The You Tube Apocalypse.

“God Cancelled Everything Because of You!”

“It’s Happening. September 10th. 4 Major Cosmic Shifts in One Day!”

“GROK — The Unborn Self.”

“It’s Hard to Hold on to Islam.”

“Spiritual War.”

“It’s Coming in 2027.”

“Houthis’ Big Red Sea Victory.”

These are just a few titles randomly picked from a single page of YouTube.

It boggles the mind just reading the titles alone.

And yet, after a while, one begins to notice something even more interesting: beneath all the different subjects, religions, predictions, wars, cosmic events and supposed revelations, the narratives begin to sound remarkably similar.

Something is happening.

Something enormous is coming.

You need to know.

You need to wake up.

You are running out of time.

The urgent nature of these messages seems almost as important as the messages themselves.

And this, I think, is where the real story begins.

How does one remove oneself from being sucked into this smorgasbord of podcasts, videos, revelations, predictions and opinions?

It has become a challenge—an unnecessary and unwanted challenge.

The irony is that the technology that gives us access to practically all the knowledge of humanity also gives us access to practically all of humanity’s fears, fantasies, certainties and nonsense.

And we keep clicking.

Perhaps that is because there 

is something in all of us that wants to know what is coming next. We want the mystery explained. We want somebody to connect the dots. We want to believe that, beneath the apparent chaos, there is a pattern.

 

But perhaps there is another reason.

Many of us simply have too much time on our hands.

Drifting somewhere between boredom and curiosity, we open YouTube almost innocently. One video leads to another, and another, until suddenly we are listening to somebody explaining the future of humanity, the end of the world, the next great spiritual awakening or the secret meaning of something we had never even heard about ten minutes earlier.

And then we wonder where the afternoon went.

This, too, is a reflection of the state of humanity.

Perhaps the most revealing thing about today's media is not whether it is fake or real.

It is that we are willing to keep watching it.

The algorithm has discovered something about us that we perhaps haven't discovered about ourselves.

We are fascinated by uncertainty.

We are attracted to urgency.

We are seduced by revelation.

And, apparently, we are never quite satisfied with the answer.

I care about what is happening in the world. I care about humanity. I care about where all this technology, religion, politics, war and spiritual searching is taking us.

But sometimes I wonder whether the wisest response is simply to turn the screen off.

Go outside.

Look at a tree.

Make something.

Cook some fried rice.

Talk to another human being.

Or simply sit quietly for a while and discover what remains when nobody is telling us what we should be thinking about.

Maybe that is the real spiritual challenge of our time.

Not finding the next revelation—

but learning when to stop looking for one.

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