WATCHING THE WATCHERS

la vie c'est court
mais c'est long des petits bouts

Life is short

but at times it feels very long for a brief moment

We are but a blink in cosmos time 

but we think of ourselves as very very important

and yet

give it the time the earth has been around

and we will all be long gone and forgotten.

May you live in interesting times
is reputed to be a Chinese curse IIRC

Looking at social media one would think so for sure.

The humongous amount of stupidity one was never ever faced with before is now infiltrating our lives and making significant changes to our psyche if nothing else.

What is one to do really to savour his short time on earth and make it if not profitable at least enjoyable?

Even having ONE passion will surely go away with time, thinking here of chess players or sports players or even scientists buried in their lab.  There is a time where you become obsolete and your declining faculties are not in demand anymore. Plus that gold watch at the end looks tarnished by the time one gets it.

The is a French female stand up comedian who was deploring the demise of television programs and many of her friends would say:

I am only watching it to see how shite it is.  

WTF? 

FFS

And program makers go on making shite
because hey it is popular and in demand. 

What a vicious circle!  

A few names come to mind here
among reality tv shows from hell.

First that habit of

WATCHING THE WATCHERS???? 

WTF is all that about? 

Not only are we watching the crap
we're watching people watching the crap.

It's the same principle on YouTube
so-called reaction channels.

Can't we just listen to the original quietly ourselves? 

Preferably a studio version
with no drunk morons
screaming his head off
during the sound of silence
of all places

or them Satanic coughers at classical concerts come to mind. 

Not even mentioning  you would have to be 8 foot tall now to watch a concert over all them raised phones.

But spending time on Facebook or YouTube
( I don't even Twit)
is detrimental to one's mental health
if one is attracted to comments
like a moth to the flame.
How many times do I find myself shaking my head in disbelief and distress over the situation of some.

Mind you in CONTEXT

the Internet is not the whole world

and especially the English (or French) speaking Internet

but still as far a a good survey
it is a revealing slice of our society.

I guess my next step is to avoid the comments at all but like the proverb says iron sharpens iron and one needs to know different shade of colours to know what shade one is at times.

I already stay away from the news as much as I can even though it is nearly impossible on Facebook. I used to have a Trump blocker and I should put it back on again. I just wish the blocker would ALSO block all his supporters.

Anyway. What does it matter anyway?

I am ONE of those drops after all

and the whole ocean stinks.


None of us are free as Solomon Burke would say.

and so it goes

and so it is

and it is what it is.

Nothing really matters it is clear to see

But sometimes a knee jerk reaction is enough to make me feel alive for a short while.  

It would seem that this softie snowflake liberal Eloi 
NEEDS a world of Morlocks to know the diff.

Et voila for now end of my short brain fart
back to my game,
my season 16 is being ended short this time
due to unforeseen vacation LOL

Or back to bed whichever comes first.











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