Good morning dear readers, subscribers, followers, and fellow pontificators.
This has felt like a very strange time where things are shifting quickly and yet at a deep core level, I find humanity as a whole more confused than ever.
Back in the 1990s, I had the glorious fun of being in the seminar business.
Most people who attended these events were looking to step out of the circle of mediocrity, reinvent themselves to create a much brighter future for themselves.
It was an environment that I thrived in because I love any situation in which we humans want to stretch ourselves and do something greater.
As my dear friend RR likes to remind me, “you are in the August season of your life.”
In other words, I may be past my expiration date. Maybe the focus is on the legacy I will leave behind or it could be finding greater meaning before I go.
To me in July of 2025? It feels like the humans have exited the building. The reason you follow this Substack, the reason I follow you and actually comment personally to my Subscribers and Followers is that I am fascinated by people.
There is a life we learn with and a life we live with.
The stuff that people talk about these days feels very mundane.
For reasons that I don’t know why, I am fascinated by everything.
Nothing bores me ever.
Why do I feel like the conversations are mundane is that so many text me, email me or even call to say, “Mitch, I don’t know what to believe anymore.”
Each time I hear that phrase, it leaves me scratching my head because I have strong feelings, opinions and vies about everything.
Oh yes, back to where I started about my days in the seminar business.
It wasn’t a business to me, it was a human experiment in creativity, love, and connection.
Late at night was my favorite time of the day.
Why?
There was always a group of us who were cultural creatives, who didn’t follow the rules, we wanted to seek a new path. I’d sit in the lobby of the hotel, usually a Marriot or a Hyatt in a nicer section of town, sip hot tea at 2 AM, and have deep conversations with students and teachers who were at the “class,” “conference,” “cult,” whatever you want to call it and those conversations permanently changed my life. Each time I learned so much from the other person.
In order to be here on Substack and to connect with so many here, I have had to learn to let go of everything I have ever been taught because everything I was taught from Kindergarten to 12th Grade in High School wasn’t an education. It was basically social engineering.
By nature I have an obsessive compulsive personality which means that I may become obsessed with a particular topic and dive deep.
Over the past six months I’ve been obsessed with technology, science, the social nature of why so many here are so lonely when humans just thrive on social connection.
Were the Covid-19 lockdowns created to traumatize humanity?
Have we lost our ability to think for ourselves?
Are we looking for something bigger?
Thank you for being here. Thank you for reading this. To all my new Subscribers, all I can say is thank you. For all the Subscribers who disabled your email from this Substack, and don’t read me anymore, I wanted you to know I love you too.
I guess the point of this post is this, I miss those late night conversations. This morning, I have posted a real time conversation that came up on my YouTube Algorithm between a young man and an unleashed a.i. platform.
There is a societal shift happening right here right now and I am finally starting to get a handle on what it is, so as I learn more, I will share more and as I do that, please know that my posts, notes, and comments are inspired by YOU not me.
I’m not just writing some random post trying to “build my Substack.” I’m here because I sincerely believe that we are the ones we have been waiting for.
The greatest gift that God ever gave me. The biggest prayer that was ever answered in my own life is this: I’m not an angry man. Anger solves nothing. You can’t inspire others or yourself being angry all the time.
Don’t let someone diagnose you with some mental illness simply because you can think for yourself. Okay?
It feels like things are getting better and worse at the same time and I think in the days, weeks, and months ahead, we are all going to be challenged as a humanity because whatever happens, we must hang on to our humanity.
For me? The man in this video is like all of us. He has the same dreams and aspirations as we all do.
It’s 2:44 AM here on west coast of California and I know I’ll be taking a nap tomorrow because it is in the quiet of the night that I do most of my “truther” research.
Thank God I keep weird hours. Thank God I haven’t lost my creativity.
Do you have late night conversations? Do you remember the most creative time in your life?
For me? The most creative time in my own life is right now and if I could have a wish it would be to have my youth back because if you took the knowledge I have now, with the energy of my youth, I’d be unstoppable. I’ve decided to be unstoppable anyway.
Thanks for being a part of this late night conversation that was a bit one sided but I know you get the bigger message here.
Here is the YouTube Channel from the above video. He only has 16 Subscribers and I am one of them. I think he is onto something.
https://www.youtube.com/@SignalsFromHere
Why does PewDiePie have 110 Million Subscribers and Signals from here has 16 Subscribers and I am one of them? Answer: It’s the Algorithm. 100%, case closed.
Don’t let the Algorithm of Substack or the Shadow banning of any platform make you depressed okay? So maybe your outreach isn’t as big as others. Hey, I’ve got 4,956 Subscribers as of this morning. Do I wish I had a 100,000? I course I do but it’s the Algorithm.
I wonder what PewDiePie will do next? Here you go:
Post notes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PewDiePie
https://quillette.com/2018/12/20/pewdiepies-battle-for-the-soul-of-the-internet/
https://www.biography.com/celebrities/pewdiepie-felix-kjellberg
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