connecting you now

whether we like or not, agree or disagree, or even realise it or not, we, recently in the past decade or so especially, have been connected to a lot more information, people as well as ideals in this new era of technological fuckery, than ever. everything is embedded with this notion of being in the future perfect world where there's only one language, style and taste. true enough, but we're achieving it with the most damaging problem solving medium man has ever created: electronically.

this security blanket of 'needing to feel connected' that us humans have started to just recently depend on just turned into addiction. we slowly find ourselves taking it as a life and death matter to make sure we read our favourite blogs every morning while having our morning soy cafe lattes, while 5 years ago, we probably didnt even care for people in the world who drink coffee with soy milk.

from gossip bloggers to online gamers, from online shopaholics to facebook addicts, and from movie leechers to music pirates, chances are we now belong to at least one of these categories, if not all (!).

i know, there are one or two good things that we can only do now because of the internet, but most of the time we fail to acknowledge that some abuse that we do on daily basis is slowly going into a grey area. i can definitely sit here for another hour or so, just rambling randomly away and try to argue what's wrong and what's right, but in the end i'm not a caped crusador and you're not gotham city, so nobody really cares if that new Bloc Party album is being downloaded for free 'illegally' (unless of course you were personally involved in the making of it, but hey that's another entirely different blog post altogether).

so really, if we ourselves don't care if we're fast becoming a breed of internet junkies, who would? well, from the googalisation of modern society (have you seen streetView? that shit is cool) that we've seen in the past few years, my best bet would probably be the pandora's box that is the internet herself. i mean look at me: im posting my dissatisfaction about the very medium i'm writing on right now. this is beyond irony - this is sheer mind fuck.

so if you please excuse me, i'm gonna go google myself while waiting for that new tarantino movie download to finish. oh, and please, all i need to be 'connected' to the world everyday is a mug of long black coffee with 2 sugars in the morning. kanye west's blog comes second, ok?

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