Here's an idea.
Being home for Thanksgiving is kind of weird.
So I'm in Massachusetts at my parents' house
for Thanksgiving.
And I got to thinking a lot about the idea of home.
So you're not from the United States
or you've never seen any romantic comedy ever,
then basically what happens on Thanksgiving
is you go back to the place that you're from,
probably hang out with a bunch of your old friends,
sleep in your old bedroom, and kind of be generally weirded
out about being home.
Which is weird, because even though this is home in a sense,
it's not really.
I mean, I think of New York as my home,
because it's where all of my things are.
It's where I pay my rent.
But this is still home-ish.
Home, capital H, home?
I don't know.
So I was thinking about this and why it might be.
And two really smart guys came to mind
who wrote some things that are maybe kind of related.
The first one is this French philosopher, Jean Baudrillard,
who in his book System of Objects
talked about something called historicalness
as it relates to antiques, and that this is a characteristic
that they embody.
They have a historicalness.
And so I was thinking maybe some of the objects in your parents'
house also embody a historicalness, because you've
kind of left and come back.
And where you once had an intimate relationship
with them, now you just kind of are coming back to them
after an absence.
And so they've maybe turned into antiques in the time
that you've been gone, which that historicalness can maybe
contribute to some weirdness.
The second really smart guy was an Austrian philosopher
called Ludwig Wittgenstein.
And in his Tractatus, which I'll post a link
to that in the description too, he
talked about objects and what he called
states of affairs, which is how objects relate to one another.
And I'm not so confident on my Wittgenstein,
that he doesn't really talk about how this affects people.
But I can understand how, if a state of affairs
suddenly changes or is very different,
like, say, you get home and your childhood bedroom
is a completely different color and there's new furniture
in there and there's a new wing built on your parents' house
that that can be unexpected and strange.
There's also Tom Wolfe also wrote
You Can't Go Home Again, which is a novel that
is all about how home is a thing that is always
changing and always confusing.
So clearly there's a lot to be said on the subject.
One other thing that I've been thinking about
since I've been home is-- so I'm here with nothing to do.
And what do I do?
I watch YouTube.
And what do I watch?
I watch this.
Which got me kind of thinking about Destin's video
that he just posted, which, if you haven't seen it,
you should watch it, because it's great.
And so I think about, if I had to personify my YouTube
viewership, what would it look like it?
It would probably look at least a little bit like this.
Nah, it's cool.
We're friends.
No, it's cool, we're friends.
No, we're friends.
No, it's-- no, hey-- oh.
But then also, a lot of this.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
So those are just a couple things
that I've been thinking about since I've been home.
What do you guys think?
Is it weird being home for Thanksgiving?
And if you had to personify your YouTube viewing experience,
what would it look like?
Let us know in the comments.
Or make a video of your own.
And, of course, happy Thanksgiving.
WOMAN: That's a very good Grumpy Cat.
Thanksgiving!