BEE52 wrote:
You guys are u-tube wacky!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BUT I still Love ya!!!
BEE52
These YouTube responses leave it up to the user to define the meaning of the content. It's like asking someone a question and they just wave at you in response. When you have to fill in the meaning, you tend to do so with an implied sense of synchronicity (that coincidence between outer world and inner awareness implies a meaningful connection). And in social space, typically, one does not want to appear as if they don't understand, so they just act like they 'get it' on the outside and assume the popular meaning of what was signified by the image, words, or gesture. This is the process of matching with cliches that numbs peoples' ability to articulate and communicate anything NEW while simultaneously believing that the content is actually speaking to their personal, inner realm of consciousness.
[Phatic:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/phaticPertaining to words used to convey any kind of social relationship e.g polite mood, rather than meaning; for example, "How are you?" is often not a literal question but is said only as a greeting. (Similarly, a response such as "Fine" is often not an accurate answer, but merely an acknowledgement of the greeting.)]
Each new environment marches in as "The Last Word" (for conveying social relationships and moods), then moves from cliche to archetype as the next hidden environment comes over the horizon.
Chad