If I add up the time (I realize afterwards ) I've spent trying to gather world news, editorials from people who can tell me what to think about the world news, habs news, habs analysis from people who can tell me what to think about the habs, emerging-conversation news, articles by people who can tell me what to think about the emerging-conversation, music-biz news, criticism from writers who can tell me what music to like and dislike, and googling whatever odd periphery is burning my mind with cosmic intensity with the urge to investigate immediately, IT'S A LOT OF TIME.
By contrast if I add up all the moments (I realize afterwards) I feel aggravated, victimized, sorry-for-myself, and generally persecuted because I have neglected to spend time on the individual pursuits I really want to get on with in my life, my paintings, my songs, my writings, getting back into shape, THEY'RE A LOT OF MOMENTS.
And despite the fact that I've acknowledged the fact it recurs.
I am an INFORMATION JUNKY. The internet and news media is my SMACK. It is burying the substantive output of my life, and rendering me the static, non-contributing, unimaginative drone society likes me to be. And it is NOT HEALTHY.
AAAAAARRRRGHHHHHH
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from one info junky to another, do what you gotta do. try and cut back on some of the peripherials (even if that means stopping by my blog from time to time). definitely eliminate the Habs altogether...that is useless information. the rest, well, just think how much more informed your stories, music and art will be when you get around to creating them.
Pusher, you're just trying to drag me further into your world of seedy addiction!
Let us just say that the internet has given us a glimpse into the reality of just how small and meaningless our lives really are when put into the context of this universe. The fact that our lives are small and insignificant is not a bad thing, the fact that it is shoved in our face every day by the various media outlets we see everyday is a bad thing. Some of the most remembered and influential people ever would be considered antisocial depressed hermits who were doing nothing productive with their lives, if they were put up to the standard of what we conform to today.
Busy, busy, busy, reading, internet, doing, learning, busy, busy, information, information, mmmmm TV, doing, internet, busy, etc...
That is why people have misled themselves to think that information = knowledge. You can't know shit if you can't sit down by yourself for more than 10 minutes without going insane. Our brains have been made to consume, not to produce.
Not to sound like I don't think you guys know anything because you consume lots of information, cause I know you think about it. Just making broad sweeping statements with my angst riddled, sarcastic and antagonistic paint brush. Fun times.
No, no, I hear ya. But the main cause of my primal scream was more about the time wasted gathering information, rather than the emptiness of said information without time for reflection, discussion, and extrapolation...
you could argue, though, that even time spent reflecting, discussing, and extrapolating from CERTAIN information is a waste... the information worth doing those things with is pretty few and far between as they say.
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