The Devil is in the Derails

Damn.

Once again procrastination central.

This post can be counted as the one constructive thing that I will accomplish tonight.

Why?

I dunno.

Personally I blame the internet and it's very limited treasure trove of inactivity. Limited in the sense that facebook (goddamn you facebook), trawling for new music and Stumble Upon are my internet drugs of choice at the moment. Nothing else. Is there really anything else though? Has this beast known as the internet been truly as wide, bold and exhaustive then when it was originally envisioned? Well it was envisioned as a network for scienctific lads to nerd out on, so this initial premise is a fallacy. Yet the idea of the internet is still suppose to be true to the slightly naive view that I'm postulating.

Why isn't it?

Why are we so dictated by the three major social network platforms? Twitter, myspace and the gargantuan facebook are now our main method of information exchange, and I swear to god, if my lecturers put my assignments up on facebook, that shit would be done, snappy like. We are so dictated by the meme of the moment that we don't look elsewhere to develope our own sense of humour, language, and conspiracy. 4Chan and all the anon's that reside upon the domain of exchange set the tone for how our humour will be dictated. It's the height of fashion when its decided by a few people and it's all essentially intangible bullshit. Maybe it's just our generation, but the scary thing is that it isn't. When 7 year olds are trolling on their blackberrys and posting the latest Charlie Sheen rant to their mates, what hope is there for them ten years down the line when they will be digitally digestive of everything that comes their way?

It's the antithesis that is the appealant to us.

The advertisers think they have the power of running our notions of what is the trend at the moment, but they truly don't. The true control is the submersion that you experience in some respective digitial diversion. Derailing you. Ha! You had a goal tonight? Not till you have checked, rechecked and explored every link available and every bit of information available to you, as long as it appeals to your appetite of internet debauchery.

We are a world of information addicts, and do you think this blog is actually helping matters? Pffft.

OUT!