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Pleased to Be
Oct. 19th, 2018 11:10 amSo I'm journaling again after a rather long hiatus...to put it lightly. I chose this site because, (a) it's not a megacorporate Silicon Valley platform, and (b) a refreshing throwback to magical springtime (i.e. early days) of various "Web 2.0" technologies.
This springtime was back before nearly all social interaction on the internet devolved into a game of fishing for as many dopamine-inducing "likes" and upvotes/downvotes as possible. And most importantly, there were a lot less people around during the "good old days" of the internet, and thus it had a lot more intellectual focus, owing to its more specialized and geeky user base. Not to sound like an elitist prick, but once the internet became flooded with so-called "normies" then it started to take on that sort of character. And thus the overall format became dumbed down as the tiny handful of social media behemoths rose to prominence, each catering to the instant-gratification convenience needs (more like wants) of the general user base.
So fast forward to today and everything has been further dumbed down to the stultifying convenience dictates of smartphone and tablet ubiquity. With the widespread use of these obnoxious micro-devices, the so-called "microblogging" type of social media interaction has become the default, i.e. the format that most effectively exterminates brain cells.
And hence why I am here, fully embracing this rather quaint format. It's the most "punk rock" (I was born at the ass-end of Gen X, so I get to use this particular cliche) thing to do in this day and age, in terms of online creative expression. I've experimented with a few of the "alt tech" platforms and they all seem to me to be too gimmicky and trying to half-ass mimic the big tech platforms, none in a sufficiently complete manner. I'll probably be ranting about those alt-tech sites at some point in the near future.
The long and short of it is this is where I get to blather on about my many eclectic interests, which will focus mostly on things like: history, comparative spirituality and religion, philosophy, tech, personal development, politics (ugh), the collective madness of modernity, general absurdity, ect. This should (hopefully) be fun, even of no one ends up reading my rants and conjectures.
This springtime was back before nearly all social interaction on the internet devolved into a game of fishing for as many dopamine-inducing "likes" and upvotes/downvotes as possible. And most importantly, there were a lot less people around during the "good old days" of the internet, and thus it had a lot more intellectual focus, owing to its more specialized and geeky user base. Not to sound like an elitist prick, but once the internet became flooded with so-called "normies" then it started to take on that sort of character. And thus the overall format became dumbed down as the tiny handful of social media behemoths rose to prominence, each catering to the instant-gratification convenience needs (more like wants) of the general user base.
So fast forward to today and everything has been further dumbed down to the stultifying convenience dictates of smartphone and tablet ubiquity. With the widespread use of these obnoxious micro-devices, the so-called "microblogging" type of social media interaction has become the default, i.e. the format that most effectively exterminates brain cells.
And hence why I am here, fully embracing this rather quaint format. It's the most "punk rock" (I was born at the ass-end of Gen X, so I get to use this particular cliche) thing to do in this day and age, in terms of online creative expression. I've experimented with a few of the "alt tech" platforms and they all seem to me to be too gimmicky and trying to half-ass mimic the big tech platforms, none in a sufficiently complete manner. I'll probably be ranting about those alt-tech sites at some point in the near future.
The long and short of it is this is where I get to blather on about my many eclectic interests, which will focus mostly on things like: history, comparative spirituality and religion, philosophy, tech, personal development, politics (ugh), the collective madness of modernity, general absurdity, ect. This should (hopefully) be fun, even of no one ends up reading my rants and conjectures.
