SpiralTruth

When I started watching this, I almost wrote it off as some web 2.0 remix version of the infamous “after school special” of days gone by. It seemed – how can I put this? – very straight edge. [ For those who are unfamiliar with the term "straight edge", you can click the link for the wikipedia article or you can just be satisfied with my admittedly biased labeling of this group as journeyman fundamentalists. ] Even after it has gotten over the sizable chunk of time dedicated to admonishing you for ever taking an intoxicant, it goes on to suggest that anyone with a new laptop is probably using it to hide his or her inferior creativity. But just as I started to think that the creator had simply taken everything he had not experienced or did not own and turned it into crosses that the geniuses of the world must bear, the moralizing that had been bothering me got turned down a bit, and I was able to enjoy a Desiderata-like message to the creative class. This side of the video is, I think, captured best when it warns the struggling creative to “avoid the water cooler gang”.