Writing in your blog can be a scary thing sometimes. You see, I’m just basically a nice guy who likes to please people. And after launching this blog I get more and more concerned that I may disappoint my audience. Oh dear, what if you googled your way to one of my entries and it’s not what you’re after! Maybe you feel that I fooled you into visiting my blog?

It’s peculiar, it’s a completely anonymous enterprise - you don’t know anything about me and I don’t know the first thing about you - still I’m concerned that I’ll offend you or waste your time.

Which in turn brings to mind the countless haters participating in the web 2.0 experience - the aggressive teenagers on YouTube, even putting their greasy faces in front of the camera exhibiting their unattractive hate for all the world to see - I guess there’s a lot of repressed anger out there. I wonder how these particularly hateful kids behave in real life. My guess is that they’re simply a slightly less animated version of their web 2.0-selves.

Many people have a lot of anger today. I currently work with people who are in a difficult situation, and I often sense the same kind of hatred and anger that I spot on YouTube. Kids are angry with their parents , parents hopelessly tired of their kids - both kids and parents blame society, the government, the social services, the employers, you name it - for their misfortunes. It’s actually quite rare that I run across people who are willing to take responsibility for their actions. A lot of people more or less demand that someone else bring them out of their misery. Naturally that kind of attitude doesn’t cut it in the real world, and so an important part of my job is to help people understand that in order to change their situation, they need to start with themselves.

It scary that there’s so much aggression out there - it’s far more scary than writing in this blog. I always try to keep a positive attitude in my work, and a lot of good things do happen. But it seems to be an unavoidable pattern in modern society that psychiatric problems, antisocial behavior and violence grows dramatically as we move forward. I guess Emile Durkheim was on to something.