I enjoy Glenn Greenwald’s channel very much, even when his views do not make sense to me, and sometimes they do not but mostly I find his reporting stronger for being free of left wing/ right wing allegiance. Some call him names – a right wing puppet which seems less about logic and more about name calling. I don’t follow the logic. When surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden needed to trust a journalist with his life, he choose Glenn Greenwald. Right wing forces would have jailed Snowden for life or sentenced him to death. It was more than amazing Obama calmly canceled Snowden’s passport and he became stateless for the crime of proving his own country spied on its citizens which Obama said they did not do and later admitted they did. When I recorded a wide spectrum of music, Mendelson Joe told me it would be rejected by the music industry. He acted like a concerned old uncle wanting to help me avoid bullshit. I think it took him awhile to figure out how his own wide spectrum of songwriting didn’t fit so well. He wanted to be useful, I think he said things like that to me – Can I be useful to you Bob? I hope the same for the students and artists I meet. In the latest piece Glenn Greenwald expresses amazement at the mainstream media being confused about how many people voted for Trump and how they blame podcasters or project a lack of intelligence on the body politic. The point he makes is they make no self reflection. It could not be their work which was more political than journalistic, more ideological than open-minded. I don’t agree with part of Glenn Greenwald’s conclusion. I don’t hold out belief it could ever be different. I like the Jan Cox model more that says everything life is doing is exactly what it wants to be doing. There is no sense except the apparent senselessness – that is the sense of it. Based on that logic people are doing exactly what they always did and always will do including paying $800 to see Taylor Swift, sending sewage into their fresh water supply, re-electing Trump and complaining about themselves still living with the same problems.