After a very long while attempting to Fight The Power without using its tools I've been warming lately to accepting the fact that we're all dirty little liars and sinners anyway, so - hey, sometimes you've got to use bad means to achieve good ends.
This is of course the ethical philosophy of every police force, business, and parent but having managed to remain in the rarefied field of the starving life-artist and honest-speaker for so long I thought I could ignore this obvious fact when History hit me in the face a few years ago and Commanded I publicly offer to steer the world toward sweeter shores.
The Command came with few instructions, hardly any in fact, so I stuck to my preferred principles for many months with little to show for it.
See, at first, as a strong believer in free and uninhibited inquiry and discussion, I balked at the rules of the internet so I spent many early videos arguing against them.
I would occasionally start livestreams with an innocuous N-word in the opening monologue and then loudly sigh that I even have to explain that as the only paleface living in a black neighborhood it's obvious I'm no hater of duskier folk so what right does some anonymous california YouTube programmer have to censor my use of the word when actual “black” people have never taken offense?
Yeah, I thought that the same principles of rational thought that work face to face, one on one, ought to (and therefore might!) work in the faceless inhumane world of modern cyberspace.
I was going to give an example of how human conversation saved me from being traded to ISIS in 2017, just a half hour drive from Rakka, the capital of that now defunct state, but seeing in the headlines that Fethullah Gulen has died I'm toying with making a video on the subject being as I'm likely the only non-invitee to Epstein Island who has actual firsthand information about the subject, so maybe I'll keep that story for the video if the spirit for doing so increases.
P.S. If you are not currently a paying subscriber and you subscribe with that request I will make that video. Turks will no doubt will consider my findings interesting but most of my findings on the subject (as the only non-Turk, non-spook, non-billionaire to have had full run of his military compound in Pennsylvania) are about AMERICAN leaders - two of whom have recently lived in The White House.
So, if you like me and want to help me succeed please subscribe, especially if you'd like to know about that weekend in rural Pennsylvania, and those months on the Turkish-Syrian border.
And now that my specific committment to The Most High is through (having sounded the Freedom Call of Jubilee on Yom Kippur) I can ask for money, regardless of whether you like my mission or not. If you like me and want me to be able to do well in the world, your gift or sponsorship is MOST WELCOME.
So, feel free to accept my commitment to the Gulen video along with my personal appreciation by gifting me with as much practical friendship as you would like. I started to write this piece about my need to acquiesce to using clickbaity titles for my videos but - infinitely more important - is my acquiescence to the fact that money is not only necessary but a good necessity.
As Jesus' more worldly contemporary, Rabbi Eleazar ben Azariah, pointed out אִם אֵין קֶמַח, אֵין תּוֹרָה {ihm ein kemach, ein Torah — without flour there's no point in Torah}. And, as God chose not to make a personal deposit to my bank account, and my survival is further imperilled by medical issues, without money there won't be a Yadidya, and certainly not a useful and lively one.
Yes, this is definitely the more important realization about the realities of success, even for the greatest good I may potentially accomplish, is more important than the matter of giving my videos their most honest titles. So of that matter I'll make short thrift after this request for sponsorship.
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As to the titular matter, my most recent video is primarily a call for interest in speaking to the ASTOUNDINGLY SPECIAL Rabbi Mordechai Machlis. Please make sure to watch all the way through and make your voice heard here or on YouTube if you would like to hear from him.
Our very own Stephen Lief, a member of Yadidya since discovering one of my comments on an unrelated blog, wrote a beautiful comment that I'm sure would be in Rabbi Machlis's wheelhouse. Pleaae feel free to share your own questions for him as well. As I've said before, nobody more than he exemplifies the common sense world saving values of ISAIAH 58.
Friends in Egypt, having already heard from me so much about him have also expressed a strong appreciation for him and interest in hearing his thoughts and feelings regarding the war in his home country of Israel.
To get to that point I first addressed some local advice I'd been given regarding video titles and to liveplay kid about the argument in their favor I meta-humored the title of that video itself into the punchline.
But waddaya know! Ever since YouTube sent my channel into the darkness some 3 months ago this video, handily the fluffiest video I've uploaded in a year, has received over 700 views — — in contrast to the 3 most previous videos (now unlisted, for that reason) having received less than 50 views each!
Even some subscribers with 🔔 “all notifications" on were telling me that YouTube hadn't offered them a view of our videos for months, and - yesterday - I suddenly have nearly a thousand views and a 7% click rate on impressions!
I thank my friends for having made me play that joke on myself 🤣🤣🤣.
But 💲💲💲 would be even more appreciated.
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