This blog thing is like a whisper in a hurricane. Really, anything online is like a hotdog down a hallway. Everybody is online, everything is online and attention spans are dangerously low because of the internet. Even smart people are finding it difficult to read a book now. I once protested in favor of the internet, that what difference is it to look at a paper screen or an electonic screen. Well, now I see that it makes a lot of difference since the effects are now apparent. Not just because of the screen, but because of the SIZE of the delivery system. Click. Around the world. Click. Around the universe. Click. See some sex. Click. Shop shop shop and... Click. Buy. All the while, the really big players who own much of the web technology and access want to privatize the web and do what big corporations have always done: invade and enslave. This must never happen. But the best way to avoid such tyranny is to use the web less than we do now. Internet addiction is very real and barely understood... and it serves to enable many other addictions. Gambling, sex, shopping and any number of anti-social tendancies made easier by anonymous communication.
One benefit of the coming famines and Peak Everything is that we will have to become more human in order to survive. Community will be of greater importance and immediacy again, and computers will die. Getting there will be UGLY. People will die. Nightmarish days must be endured, but once the economic collapse reaches a baseline, life will be charged with a new profundity. I even suspect that strong deja vu will become common as our cellular memories awaken and our ancestors whisper loudly in the New Quiet.
