Have we lost something irretrievable?

 I know the old adage that the previous generation was so much better but  as I getting older in this day and age I can't help feeling that we took a wrong turn somewhere.

I am not trying to be a Luddite and one of the thing I do appreciate is instant music at the touch of a finger: a portable 152g  jukebox .

But as I was sitting out the other day trying to meditate and think of nothing my mind was spinning 1000 miles a minute of all the things
I could Google RIGHT NOW. 

I almost found myself wanting a notepad and a pen and for what purpose to look up something and forget it right away (there is another song here somewhere)
Oh yeah Ani DiFranco of course 

In a coffee shop in a city
Which is every coffee shop in every city
On a day which is every day
I picked up a magazine
Which is every magazine

Read a story, and then forgot it right away
They say goldfish have no memory
I guess their lives are much like mine
And the little plastic castle
Is a surprise every time
And it's hard to say if they're happy
But they don't seem much to mind

Same with social media and news.
Outrage here,
outrage there , 
outrage forgotten moving on
to other selected outrage
and I say selected because
the REAL outrages are HIDDEN from us daily.

But all this instant everything feels like an overdose of Huxley's SOMA.

I don't think
our simian Dunbar's brain
can COPE with INSTANT.

By having everything instantaneously 
we ACTUALLY LOSE the INSTANT.  

We're not there. 

We are in the next instant,
the next moment,
the next click, 

the next FIX.

I always wanted a Wikipedia or a Google instead of a cumbersome expansive Britannica but somehow the feeling is anticlimactic.

As much as Antoine Roquentin's life of slow boring research felt nauseous in Jean-Paul Sartre's work of the same name: La Nausée, this instant research business is not any better.

Gone are the days of the polymaths:
people with vast knowledge of many subjects after years of arduous studies.

We have OMNIMATHS now:

A bunch of Fucking Know-It-All.

It sure messes up so-called democracy for one thing among many other things. It messes up reality and real science too.

I won't be around long enough to see how it will all go but I'd be curious to know how fucked the world will be in 50 years?
100? 500?
1000 if we last that long.

I certainly do not expect the world to
NOT be fucked up:
extrapolation and entropy being what they are.

Anyway just more muddled thoughts to add to the confusion and the endless data we are fed daily.

Ciao for now.

Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

 

There was a time where I dreamt I would have a reading spell again 

or maybe an exercise spell. 

I called them spells, manias, winds , spirits, whatyoumaycallit.

Where everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

Now I would just settle for a nice gaming spell again 

or at best enough brains left to progress in chess maybe.

Not sure what is all about, never did really.

AS I keep saying I am a SAIL BOAT and I don't know how to navigate.

I go where the WIND takes me 

and if the wind doesn't blow I am fucking stuck in the middle of the ocean going nowhere.

Don't even know where these words are coming from.

Usually a rise in blogs is a sign or mini mania but I think this one is out of depression: ongoing depression for weeks now. 
Blame Covid ,
Blame Medazepam,
Blame something
but it is what it is for the moment.

Waiting for the wind to blow again until someone finds a better solution.

Everybody Knows

 I might sound like a conspiracy nutter but Cointelpro or the powers that be, or big money, or what the fuck is programming us to be like TEFAL:
NOTHING STICKS! 

Totally outraged about one thing today
 and another thing tomorrow
and utterly ineffective to change whatsoever permanently.

Apparently angry people click more
and more clicks equals more money.

Be outraged, click, click, click and then move on.

It reminds me of a line in Rwanda Hotel

Paul Rusesabagina: I am glad that you have shot this footage and that the world will see it. It is the only way we have a chance that people might intervene.

Jack: Yeah and if no one intervenes, is it still a good thing to show?

Paul Rusesabagina: How can they not intervene when they witness such atrocities?

Jack: I think if people see this footage they'll say, "oh my God that's horrible," and then go on eating their dinners.[pause] Jack: What the hell do I know?

Nothing is really happening in Hong Kong to change the course of events

Nothing is happening in Syria to change the course of events.

Nothing is happening in Israel to change the course of events.

Vietnam was for nothing.

Afghanistan was for nothing.

Nothing is happening in hundreds of countries where human rights are non-existent.

The state of the workers and of women is still medieval for millions if not billions
even in so called first world countries.

Wars still exist and hatred and racism;
Health care is poor in so many places.
Education is tragically neglected.
Quite the contrary in fact myths and delusions and ignorance prevails for billions.

Still Trillions are spent on blood pouring armaments.

Brave New World indeed that they have created.

News are just a lie and a paid selective distraction to keep us busy the equivalent of Rome's Du Pain et des Jeux. Not mentioning the other trillions spent on entertainment and professional sports to keep the hooligans busy. That Rwanda statement was back in 1995 and 9/11 seems to have been the breaking point for any possible revolution.

I can blame the Medazepam for this blog LOL

Mind you these have always been my thoughts
as long as I am allowed or programmed to have thoughts :P

The Box has been fixed.

or as Leonard Cohen said:

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded

Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed

Everybody knows the war is over

Everybody knows the good guys lost

Everybody knows the fight was fixed

The poor stay poor, the rich get rich

That's how it goes

Everybody knows