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There are a couple of stories before the main one, but Mike Rowe rarely disappoints.
It is a video @ F*c*book, so there’s that, but still with everything bad in the news, it is something uplifting.
And you can find Mike Rowe at this link.
In his usual brilliant way. Mike Rowe Brilliantly Responds To The ‘Death Of The Boy Scouts’ | Chicks On The Right
I could reference his original response, but that is in FaceBook, and they get no links from me.
Not surprised to find out that Mike Rowe is an Eagle Scout.
Thirty-five years after that, I became a “Distinguished” Eagle Scout. I’m still not sure what I did to “distinguish” myself, but I accepted the award with gratitude, and I’ve tried ever since to give something back to the organization that gave me so much.
But he isn’t feeling great about it. Or about the 60% decline in membership.
Too many kids are graduating from high school with no sense of who they are. Too many kids are leaving college with no marketable skill. Too many kids have never pondered a code to live by, or considered the importance of anything beyond the pursuit of their own comfort. It’s easy to call these kids “snowflakes,” but where do you suppose they came from?
We are the clouds from which the snowflakes fell. We are the ones who gave them trophies just for showing up. We’re the ones who told them that their feelings were more important than their actions, and that their dreams would come true if they simply followed them.
His take on dreams, if you’re not familiar is that dreams are nice, but if you don’t have talent you will never be a singer, play for MLB, etc. All you have to do is watch the opening episode of any of the televised talent shows – where hundreds of people who can’t sing are distressed to discover that “following their dreams” isn’t enough.
As they say, go read the whole thing.
Why? Because he calls for hard work over being a layabout gadfly, apparently. Thomas Gallatin: YouTube Restricts… Mike Rowe? — The Patriot Post
Mike Rowe recorded a 5 minute video for the graduation “ceremony” of the on-line university, PragerU. The video is entitled “Don’t Follow Your Passion.” You can see the video for yourself at this link. (It isn’t objectionable in anyway. Unless you’re a snowflake liberal who can’t abide dissenting opinions, I guess.)
So if it isn’t objectionable, why suddenly was YouTube having a problem with Mike Rowe’s entire YouTube channel?
Rowe explains that he was shocked at the news as he had not run afoul of YouTube’s appropriate content policies, or so he thought. Rowe said that he then reread YouTube’s policy fine print and found the following sentence: “Some videos don’t violate our policies, but may not be appropriate for all audiences. In these cases, our review team may place an age restriction when we’re notified of the content.” In other words, YouTube’s censors are essentially saying they will restrict you if they don’t like your message.
The video is full of words like “hard work” and “opportunity” and it dares to poke fun at folks in Hollywood. It says you should consider opportunity, not just your wild imagination (or dreams as they are called) because there are a lot folks with college degrees working at Starbucks, but there are 6 million jobs going wanting that no one is trained for. Oh, and there are 3 trillion dollars in student debt. So it must be “inappropriate” to make available to high school students.
The “Occupy Wherever” movement was full of people who had “followed their passion” to a degree in something meaningless, and they were cheesed off because they had a mountain of student debt, and no job, and no prospects. The refrain was “we did everything we were told to do.” Well you got bad advice.
Now Mike Rowe has a big enough following on YouTube and Facebook to get that censorship “reviewed” and eliminated. But that doesn’t mean that YouTube isn’t restricting everyone they believe to be conservative on a wholesale basis.
Was talking to a friend about Mike Rowe’s testimony in front of a Senate subcommittee, and while I was looking for the video, I ran across this.
My friend and I were talking about how even though he has hired a good contractor, that contractor is having trouble finding people he can trust to do the actual work. My theory – which this video shows that Mike Rowe shares – is that people have been told all their lives that plumbing or electrical work or whatever is not important. (Let me know if you think that the next time your plumbing doesn’t work.)
Anyway, enjoy.
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