Friday, November 29, 2024

Shhhh! Digital Media Presents: A Few Words From Brian Joseph Johns

 


The quality of this video is very garage-ish, and I certainly look like I've seen better days, but as most of you content producers know, if you don't have good lighting, reflector screens and a proper reflective surfaces (most professional content producers on YouTube and other platforms wear some form of foundation or light camera makeup), you'll appear much more dismally than you actually are in real life. Perhaps some good lighting equipment will be a future purchase of mine

I posted this video yesterday (on Thursday November 28, 2024) as a sort of follow up to address the issue of my recent posts, which themselves were responses to collective harassment and abuse I've been the target of for the last couple of weeks, though I've been experiencing this sort of thing since the turn of the millenium.

I think that this video addresses the issue without being specific, though I can say that in the wee hours of the morning today (Friday) that the same issues that spurred both those posts and this video have started to arise again. 

I watched a video early this morning about Naoya Inoue, a particularly skillful Japanese boxer. I'm not a fan of boxing and never really have been, but I am interested in martial arts and especially those found in Southeast Asia, hence I was interested to see how this boxer fared and learn a bit more about him. I in no way see the character Jack Warren from Two Butterflies as being Japanese, and I certainly don't regard boxers as simple thugs in the same or similar way that the character Jack Warren certainly is.

Jack Warren is a caricature of certain human qualities rather than being based upon an actual person or a representation of certain ideologies. If there is such a person out there such as that character, I'd certainly stay clear of him and not out of fear, but out of common sense. He's an ambitious thug who lucked into the good graces of a very, very powerful clan unfortunately for Valerie Aspen (an ex business associate of his) and the rest of her friends at West Meet East.

My point in bringing this up is that my watching that video seemed to trigger my neighbours and some others into attacking my person in a very coordinated way with a variety of forms of harassment, and ironically, that is the very reason I ended up posting such rants in the first place, after which I produced that video.

When I write, I don't become the character. I become the entire collective experience of interaction between the people involved in the scene I'm writing and perhaps, the nature that surrounds them, so it would be wrong to assume that when I write specific characters, that I become like them. I know the characters so well that writing them is a second nature to me and most of what I write of their dialogue comes very easily, but also goes through a meticulous process where I reread what I wrote some time later, to see if it feels right. 

I am myself throughout the entire writing process, and when I'm done writing, I go on being myself and do the things I need to do in my daily life to survive and deal with the struggles I have, which everyone deals with in some way and at different magnitudes, and then try to find some time to enjoy life in a very minimalistic sense as well. My hope is that my work here will one day expand those possibilities, both the aspect of content creation and the ways I have at my disposal to enjoy life.

Treating me with adversity will likely eventually result in my boiling over like a kettle, and depending upon who is delivering that, will affect what my response to it is. I tend to try to speak with people in their own social idioms and dialects, and that is certainly the case when I've boiled over. If I want to make a point very quickly and piercingly, then I'd best do it in the language of the gremlins from whence this adversity arose.

When I respond, I do not become a different person at all. If I did, then I would take on some of the lifestyle habits and choices of such a person and that has never been the case. I always retain my beliefs and my standards. If I'm affronted by a group who I've often protected or gone out of my way at risk to protect, I see that as a betrayal and I've only got patience for three. However, the first time it happens, my respect and regard for such people dimishes, as that kind of a betrayal is absolutely without honour, and much worse if it is without remorse on their part, and it usually isn't.

All in all though, it lets me know who I'll let into my life and who I won't, and the problem seems to lie in those who ignore those boundaries and my inability to stop every person of such vitrolic being from getting in. That can be a problem when you want to reserve that space for the people you choose and whom choose you.

No matter how much you try, hate will never be the same thing as love, much the same way as forwards in time will never be the same thing as backwards in time. Sure, it would be the same if the structure of matter and the nature of entropy were not involved, much the same way that up would be the same thing as down, if gravity weren't involved, but the fact is that both gravity and entropy are involved, much the same as human will and desire are involved in love, and all but absent in hate. 

Hate is like the rake upon whose end you step, then causing the entire shaft of the rake to swing up from the ground and strike you in the face (rest in peace Peter Sellers). Real hate is a simple machine, void of freewill and thought. Push one button, and get a specific result. At one time in our very early history it was necessary for our survival. Now, it is the lowest state of our being in the modern world, and yet, anger expressed without action can sometimes be very liberating. Anger and hate, they are not the same thing, much the same as love isn't hate.

Regardless, none of us have to put up with it and I know I'm certainly not going to. That is my point with human rights.

Anyway, I've got to get ready soon and make sure there's food in the cat's dish and food on my table. I will be starting my work today much later, at around 12PM or possibly as late as 1PM. I am not quite sure what I will be doing today but you'll know when and if I post again.

See you soon :-)

I am very much with my Shhhh! Digital Media colours, as much so as I'm still an Atheist that leans toward Buddhism and Taoism and I way what I mean and mean what I say. There's no two ways about it. 

I have never been incarcerated in jail or prison and my name is not Terence (someone with whom my harassers seem to have been swapping my identity).

In the interest of preserving my own identity, I am not African or Caribbean or Jamaican or Haitian or Guyanese with all due respect. I am a Canadian man, with European ancestry whose love interest is Southeast Asian (she's not Filipino with all due respect to members of that hard working and industrious community).

No disrespect, but I'm not a security guard and have never worked as a security guard, but it certainly is an honest way to make a living, and a means by which one can truly make a difference.

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