Youtube Red, I gather, is a kind of premium mode, costing 12 Euros a month. I Googled “Youtube Red benefits”:

The primary benefit seems to be “ad-free videos”. Ostensibly, adverts offer information about products, and so they could be seen as a benefit. And yet they have increasingly become a plague upon the consumer, to the point that Youtube Red is worth 12 Euros a month so you can avoid seeing adverts.

Imagine you work in Marketing for Apple. You and an ad agency develop an advert for the newest iphone. And you know that this advert will simply piss off most who see it, that you are burdening them so much they will pay money to avoid watching it. What, then, is your job?

When I was younger I felt contrary & perverse for disliking/hating adverts. Others would sit passively through the commercial breaks on TV, paying as little attention to the adverts as they did to anything else.

Adverts are not presented with an apologetic “sorry to bother you and use up your time but we have to try and implant useless/damaging ideas in your head”. They are presented with a bright happy “isn’t this fun!” vibe. Youtube Red (and bear in mind YT is owned by Google) admits that adverts are not pleasant, and probably not in the consumer’s best interests – otherwise why would they openly say, “pay us 12 Euros a month and we won’t inflict ads on you”?

Google and Facebook claim they gather data on you to “give you a better experience”; to target you with the right ads. And then they admit that adverts are a nuisance and irritation.

A similar phenomenon with migrants. When the so-called Migrant Crisis began in 2015, one of the standard globohomo lines was “we need migrants! They enrich our societies! They have valuable skills!”

Okay, let’s assume that’s true. So why should the EU be so enraged that Eastern Europe basically refused to admit any of these highly-skilled, highly-valuable, enriching and simply wonderful migrants?

Wouldn’t it make sense for Angela Merkel to try to keep all these valuable migrants? She could, after all, use them as a kind of currency, so she could offer France 10,000 migrants a year if they will make up Germany’s electricity deficit. Or she could buy Russian gas and send Putin a migrant an hour instead of bothering with money.

Adverts advertise themselves as a life-enhancing benefit, then a Google-owned company offers to turn adverts off if you pay them 12 Euros a month. Eastern European countries were denounced for refusing hundreds of thousands of supposedly valuable, enriching migrants.

More & more, talking to the globohomo masses

I feel they are somehow insane. They are often educated and consume high-level globalist propaganda (Der Spiegel, New York Times). Yet they habitually operate with cognitive dissonance of this kind: migrants enrich us, every country must be forced to accept them, Germany cannot take them all, others must help, migrants are wonderful, I live in an all-white area and feel scared if I have to take public transport and see migrants, Germany must take millions of Muslims because of our dark history with the Nazis, the Muslims hate Jews and want to kill them, what do you mean I’m contradicting myself, are you a Nazi?

But then it is a peculiarity of human beings, especially the educated and intelligent, to convince themselves of anything.