I am becoming increasingly disenchanted with the internet. You let me down, you know? I thought I could love at least a small part of you, but who the fuck doesn't like The Rock?
I'm tired of pictures of cats and Norwegian supermodels, and people who don't talk seriously or think about anything (you bring out the worst in me), and people who intellectualize everything (you bring out the worst in me), and having money (you bring out the worst in me), and having annoyingly persistent pains on the right side of my body, and not caring enough about new music anymore. It's stupid that I'm 24 and the album that speaks to me the most at the moment is something I should have listened to and internalized years ago. But the XX are still shit - listening to them is like listening to music that doesn't exist. Why did this not sell out? I sound angrier than I intended.
Let me restart: My biggest and most persistent fear is that somewhere in the universe, a random encounter will cause matter and anti-matter to touch, and everything will end instantly without anyone even being aware of what happened. Something, nothing.
What I'm trying to say is that this is the point where we need bold plans (diagrams included) and rousing halftime speeches and sudden illuminating theoretical insights and ninth inning upside-down-inside-out rally caps.
So here's one:
1 - enroll in a Marketing doctoral program on the Best Coast.
2 - focus on some bullshit topic like "internet economy and social networks."
3 - obtain a series of bullshit jobs consulting web 12.0 companies in a medium-to-large U.S. metropolis about stuff like digital commercialization and consumer behaviour.
I am selling out and never looking back.
I really should have thought of this a couple of months ago before Sept. 2010 admissions closed, but even though I won't be doing this for the next little while, it's something to look forward and prepare to. Let me go out on a gurney.
Drugs are boring,* Romance is boring.
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* Side note - in the spirit of turning lemons into lemonade and all, here is an idea for a young-adult syfy book series: there are tiny particles that comprise the particles that comprise everything in the universe. these particles are so small (even in relation to atoms) that they do not necessarily follow the laws of physics on their own. more specifically, they can freely travel in all four dimensions. normally, they don't make extreme moves in time because it takes a ridiculous amount of energy, but it is possible. since these particles are embedded in everything, including human beings, in some cases (possibly under serious duress?) people can produce flare-ups in these particles that push them forward and backward in time for micro-seconds. this is how deja-vu is created. however, with the proper training and/or technology, some people are actually able to actively use these properties and push and pull themselves through time. of course, they are still unable to go stay there beyond a few seconds, but it's enough for these individuals to gain some very valuable information about the future. oh and an additional thing is that even with these powers, it's kind of unreliable because the future is unstable - so the future you see is the future as it exists right now with your current intentions and the current circumstances, but you could change things all the time and produce very different outcomes. so the idea for the actual book series is that the main character is a young protagonist (male or female, or maybe both in alternating chapters a la The Subtle Knife) who learns that he/she has these powers and then learns to control them and overcome some sort of a large obstacle in a way that is not at all reminiscent of Harry Potter. the clever thing is that the book series will also discuss lots of concepts about physics, the nature of time and space and quantum mechanics, giving it an educational angle of sorts not unlike old Asimov books or LOST. the concept right now is still a bit messy, but i like it. it's almost as good as my idea for a sci-fi TV movie where a descendant of time-travelling Hitler (long story) meets and tries to kill the biblical Abraham and Sarah but ends up falling in love with Sarah.
1 comments:
I agree with much of this, although, I would go so far as to say that this reflects my sentiments regarding the whole of our society. It's something else that we have all of these images at our disposal--all of this information--and yet we waste it. It all seems... idle. These are distractions.
I can't say that my blog is any better, of course (although, you did reference one of them!) so I'm probably talking out of my ass.
I think that you can't expect much from other people. People are, at their absolute worst, apathetic and boring. But sometimes, we do beautiful things. You just have to keep looking for them, you know?
What I mean is that, when you use the internet responsibly (this sounds like a PSA), you gain access to people who are worth all the shit.
(Also, The XX... you took the words out of my mouth.)
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