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Conversation with the Supplicant or Fear and Loathing on Twitter

May 27
Note: this is old (two months almost) and I barely feel this way anymore, but I still find this interesting.

I've been reading a book called FEED which deserves it's own review when I set it down. In the meantime . . .
It's set in the future, where people have computers in their heads and of course, these kids try to break theirs.
God, I hate sci-fi.
A quote on the book says the novel can be interpreted as a promise or a threat.
So, I'm suddenly all freaked out about how lifeless people are becoming since the internet became mainstream and how Twitter is almost exactly like the computer chips in the brain, except not here yet.
To me, the internet is for sharing life, not for having one. Like characters in a novel, we have to exist off the page. We have to, or we sacrifice our humanity and it saddens me and scares me that more and more, people are shelling themselves into screens. A mind chip will only seal the deal.
I was going to spend hours writing a detailed account of how I'm freaking out, but decided to copy and paste a conversation I had with Dave which moderately expresses every sentiment I was going to write anyway. This is faster, more concise and . . . feed-esque.
God, I hate sci-fi.


Dave
: You know why I quit twitter?
It's BORING
me: oh yeah, well it's totally changing the way people are perceiving information.
i'm sorry that bored you
it scares me
7:59 PM I've been alive for 19 years and I've had to deal with way too many extreme social changes in the last 9 alone. From blogging to myspace to facebook to twitter, all of it getting more and more compact and destroying the peaceful, thoughtful world I once knew.
8:00 PM I'm reading a book about this disaster and that's fueling my paranoia to unknown lengths, but what am I to do?
I just want people to use payphones again. Read books. Watch movies on VHS.
Dave: Blogging: Never have so many with so little to say said so much to so few.
8:01 PM Twitter: Blogging on crack.
me: Fair enough, but now, no one pays attention to much else.
8:02 PM Dave: Like anyone ever has?
8:03 PM The only difference between the inattentive, dumbasses of today and of yesteryear is now we can gawk at each other's sublime retardation in HD.
8:04 PM me: I don't know why I'm concerned. It's all going to end in nuclear way anyway.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iURO8fOyWVOA0ytFlaAGuC9F7R9wD98EMMPO0
Dave: Don't forget Iran.
8:05 PM me: that's this weekend, isn't it?
Dave: Their President thinks his role in history is to bring the end of the world and cause the second coming of Arab Jesus.
what's this weekend?
me: Iran invasion
Dave: Fuck if I know.
I never pay attention to these things anymore.
me: maybe the weekend after next
8:06 PM Dave: It will always be some big bad foreign person versus the glorious "Christian" USA
Just look at that death toll thing you posted earlier
The war industry is what's made our congressmen wealthy
that or the other aspects of the over-arching death industries
People will always kill each other for reasons that end up being utterly pointless.
8:07 PM It's just the kind of guys we are.
The older you get the less you start to give a shit.
And I started out not giving a shit pretty well.
me: oh boohoo, existentialism.
8:08 PM i just want to live in fear!
at least until 2012 blows over
that's a joke, by the way.
Dave: right
8:09 PM me: but I am getting very nostalgic lately. Especially for discarded novelties of generations I didn't even exist in. Retro, vintage, these words have no meaning to me, I want things to always be relevant
8:10 PM Dave: Just don't get nostalgic for lawn darts. I don't think Bobby's head can take any more abuse.
me: So I've been watching Tim and Eric's Awesome Show because of the crappy videography reminiscent of the '90s, viewing old fashioned pictures on Flickr and collecting shit at thrift stores I don't need.
8:11 PM Dave: Ugh
tim and erics awesome show
><
On second thought, maybe lawn darts wouldn't be such a bad idea...
We were born out of time
we should have been born in the 40's or 50's so we could have come of age in the 60's
8:12 PM
I miss the 90's
in some ways like I miss a hole in my head
8:14 PM me: I hate the '90s. It was incredibly stupid, way worse than the '80s. But I still miss its simplicity, its stupid dialup, Furbies and grunge music.
Dave: omg
furbies
haha
8:15 PM after like 4 months of trying i taught one curse words
me: hahaha, so did we
Dave: at least the chinese know the meaning of community support

8:16 PM me: that's amazing
Dave: isnt it thou?

5 minutes
8:22 PM me: i'm going to play GTA and kill pigs
8:23 PM Dave: say wha?
That's back in 2005



5 minutes
9:30 PM me: "Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity."
--Robert A. Heinlein from The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

9:32 PM "My wife set off the metal detector at the airport the other day. Apparently it was the collar."

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