Déchéance:
here is another French word that gets lost in translation
Bing tranlates it as: DECAY which is kind of lame
Google says FORFEITURE but also offers DEGRADATION which is better IMHO
Anyway that is the word that came to mind lately as I have been in the habit of watching this "new" chapters on Facebook called Reels and now on YouTube called Shorts.
And I feel the déchéance not only of the world in general
but also of my own soul when I watch them too long.
Thousands and Thousands out there if not MILLIONS trying to get your attention, trying to sell you some TRIPE as Van the Man would say.
And even though my attention span is getting shorter and shorter sometimes it is not short enough as
ALL I NEED is 5 seconds out the of 15 seconds short
to move on to the next one with some thoughts
like Fuck off you try hard or Get fucked you loser.
(One of the most offensive to me being the cunt who uses a spray bottle on some stranger and pretends to sneeze as a prank:
get a fucking life you losing wanker. Grow the FUCK UP.)
So many wannabe GURUS, SO LITTLE TIME.
It always reminds me of one of my fav Ani DiFranco song:
EVERYONE IS A FUCKING NAPOLEON.
There sure is a lot of "ink" time, or zeros and ones as I call them out there INCLUDING MINE.
DECADENCE might be a better word exactly
as in the decadence of an empire or of a generation.
You can't cancel YouTube or Facebook or even better TikTok out there.
The market goes where it is wanted and way too often to the LCD unfortunately,
the Lowest Common Denominator.
P.T. Barnum was fully aware of that now.
I am sure there are excellent informative, educational wonders on the internet, pearls one might say, but like everything in life a bit à la Huxley they are utterly buried in a fuckton of manure making it nearly impossible to find, making the digging completely exhausting and the stench unbearable.
Anyway it seems to be a "new" trend from my POV and not one in the right direction if you ask me but then again I IS NO GURU either!
People vying for their 15 seconds of fame in a pandemic world void of real contact and even real jobs these days.
Easy money street aka the oldest profession in the world.
Mind you the oldest profession in the world gets more respect in my book.
So here is my two bits to throw on top the fuckton of existing manure already.
As Booker T. & the M.G.'s once said:
TIME IS TIGHT! :)
but that was FIFTY THREE years ago way way before the days of the internet
