A Little Piece of Ourselves

   Admit it: at some point in time you've fallen prey to Keyboard Cat.  David after the Dentist, "LEAVE BRITTENY ALONE!" and "Is it a good idea to Microwave this?" are just some of the things we waste countless hours on over the course of our days when we surf the web and inevitably end up on Youtube.  But why, of all things, do we watch these videos over something like a physics demonstration, or a public service announcement by an environmental group?
   To quote Michael Strangelove, "we watch them because we see in them a little bit of ourselves."  We all have an inner-child, and that child is devious and destructive, so why not throw a random object in the microwave oven and see what happens?  Even the amusement of seeing a cat manipulated to play a keyboard, thats something that we as a group relate to for the comedic effect.  People love a good laugh, so we drift towards the exotic, insane, the humorous,and the bizarre. It catches our attention; and in doing so, we see a little of our own humanity in those videos.  We like to play with our animals and make them do silly things, and we've all been loopy on medicine after a visit to the dentist.  It's in reality us that we see in those videos.
   Like Strangelove said, the videos shows our past and present, our triumphs and tragedies; they embody physical aspects of our ethereal selves, something not exactly tangible that we can then see made real.  While Youtube is a treasure trove of humor and knowledge, it can be seen in a more in-depth sense as a mirror of ourselves, seeing who we are and what we are: cats who play the keyboard.