Culture

And by culture, I mean whatever dregs of common parlance we have managed to squeeze out of the internet. I have to confess: I tried; I tried hard to read The Canon of dead white men who tried to teach us about life, but I much prefer the bottom-up evolutionarily-driven occassional-nugget-of-wisdom hit-and-miss culture of the internet. Take today. I was just wetting my whistle in a webcomic I had been linked to, when this set of panels came up. The clumsy exposition made me smile. Then it made me laugh harder than many webcomics to date. I can't figure it out. But I can't escape the feeling I've learned something about myself, no matter how hard I try not to. Web comics are distractions, after all. Or are they bellweathers of poignancy

But I can't just rattle off a post about internet culture without a few more examples. Here we have all humanity assembled: all the shock jocks, all the rambling madmen, all the old ladies with their cats and pushcarts, every alpha male barking out his orders to lackeys and cronies, every loser looking for his fame and every loser wearing that loserdom like a badge of honour, every overmodded teenage girl's bedroom, every secret to beauty and sex (there is no link I could provide here that would not inundate my computer with tentacle porn--so none of that) and gossip, every philosophical problem and the madly brilliant solution to that philosophical problem, every metacommentary you can ever imagine, every cult and religion and creed and nation and ideology and idealism, every snarky cynic and critic, all the rockers and lovers, the poets and *dreamers, the careerists and demagogues continue their parade.

I hyperlinked the hell out of that, and it was needlessly time-consuming. But who knows what link someone mught follow? Fly, little piglets. Explore! There's such a world out there!

That's it for "culture" for a long while. I shall return with long dialogues about the test I'm studying for. It should be "a" "hoot". If you like endlessly debating human rationality, problem solving, artificial intelligence or the scientific revolution. Frankly, I'm too tired.

Consider: "Don't take this the worng way, but you are born alone and die alone."