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it's worth saying is how rare it is,
to actually imagine the people who live in the future,
- after we are dead -
and consider them,
in a non-sarcastic way.
you have to admit,
some percentage of our lives
should honour
the thousands of generations
of people before us.
and we do not do this at all.
people honour god,
and we call them religious.
but when people try,
to simply find the names
of their ancestors,
we call them ancestry.com subscribers.
how can you believe god
and not know the name
of your own great-grandmother.
we are pretty-sad people
the way our connection to this real timeline
is held so weakly,
and how our thoughts for these people,
who will live in the future,
are glib at best.
and it's obvious -
that we all like computers,
- a lot -
in a super-creepy way,
and it is not a phase.
it's something that's really happening,
and it's going to continue.
and we can't stop.
and no one is really sure what this means
and maybe it's the wrong thing.
I think all the time -
about what my ancestors would think about me
and it's never nice things.
maybe our ancestors are screaming -
- yelling at the top of their lungs -
- you just sit there?
- what the fuck?
- you just sit there?
- don't you know what we fucking did?
either way, it's very important.
There's this great episode of Connections,
where James Burke credits the beginning of intellectual Europe,
with the creation of the chimney.
because now you could relax in your bedroom.
you could be warm, and by yourself
and finally think.
being alone is the best.
you can hear it in people's voices,
when they talk about losing the newspaper.
that was actually a really nice thing.
it made life better.
that's gone.
and what's left is just so much hornier,
acrid, and mean.
there was a short-lived motto at google in the early 2010s:
‘the web is what you make it’
I'm glad they don't say this anymore, because it is wrong.
You can technically find peace on the internet,
like you can technically read a book at a boxing match.
The web is a hot medium now,
and if you've avoided it, you're lying.
nobody does.
the internet used to be a place,
where you would surf for hours,
and never visit a news outlet.
I loved it.
ctrl+s.
I have a old linux computer with a huge hard-drive.
I've been downloading things, while breathing heavily.
I grab hundreds of youtube videos i've been meaning to watch.
I don't actually watch them.
having 300 daniel dennet lectures, in my living room,
that's good stuff.
I gotta do that now.
people feel the same with their e-readers,
like they've finally wrestled-down the internet.
. . .
all the outrageous mania, and corporate microaggressions
- and all the endless fucking comments! -
who wants those?
osama bin laden used to do this too,
save random webpages
to keep them.
it doesn't feel positive, at all.
The main problem is websites
and all that shit that we put on them.
we're
jamming things in
like cartoon villians,
as society bleeds,
and users are gasping.
- stop -
and we can't.
no - the main problem with the web is crowdfunding.
where you go onto the internet -
and it's literally people that you know,
begging you for help.
fuck.
then you scroll and there's more.
the internet was made to share documents between organizations
Governments of the Industrial World,
you weary giants of flesh and steel,
I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind.
On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone.
now it is not that.
in the 60s there was a fear that hippies would put LSD in the water supply,
which was scary.
the LSD is in the water supply now
I don't know where it ends.
or maybe it's good.
i really do not know.
I really recommend watching this studio tour by youtube star, Casey Neistat.
he's a vlogger, and makes very personal videos
- like a lot of youtubers -
which get 2 million views, most days.
but his private studio,
is plastered with surveillance cameras,
there is an alarm if another person is nearby.
which may prompt you to sit down,
and weep for something that is happening in our culture,
that we can't really articulate.
when people say dopamine,
and say facebook is addictive,
they are describing the desire to be alone,
in combat with the desire to be with people.
