I love the internet. I love the whole id-driven, troll-laden, nigerian-prince-scamming mess. I worry sometimes, though, about what's going on in meatspace while I try to get my chess.com rating above 1100. I have observed lately that The Kids These Days -- people born in the internet era -- have a really odd relationship with reality. So many seem to think that signing an online petition or posting in an internet forum is equal to physically showing up at a protest rally or walking an abortion patient through the Hate Line. And ya know, maybe it is. What the fuck do I know? I'm old.
It's just, I get suspicious sometimes. Remember 1984? How we shuddered at the idea of those TV screens everywhere? The reality turned out to be much, much worse. We not only have TV screens everywhere, we carry the damned things around in our pockets. I'm not saying there's some kind of grand unified conspiracy to stop us paying attention while the megatheocorporatocracy rapes the planet and everyone on it, but if there were... wait a minute...
It's just, I get suspicious sometimes. Remember 1984? How we shuddered at the idea of those TV screens everywhere? The reality turned out to be much, much worse. We not only have TV screens everywhere, we carry the damned things around in our pockets. I'm not saying there's some kind of grand unified conspiracy to stop us paying attention while the megatheocorporatocracy rapes the planet and everyone on it, but if there were... wait a minute...
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