It's come to my attention lately, that society in general seems to be suffering from a collective disease I have coined "Brain Atrophy" It's when your brain gets weaker and more useless because you stop using it. Look at the media. Food for thought is relegated to simple indie. What do we have for entertainment these days? Snakes on a motherfucking plane... What kind of music do people like listening to these days? Commercial bullshit that's produced to make money. Hip hop, rock, pop, it's all shit these days. The mainstream is all shit, brain-destroying SHIT. And they tell us computers are bad for brains, huh? WRONG.

Computers, and then internet are the only thing keeping people's brains alive. Really, it's the life blood of the underground. Without the internet, we'd all have sunk into bullshit brain-death caused by media, money-grubbing corporations, and sheer ignorance. And yet, the idiocy's reaching there too... I'm talking about the terror that is myspace. I'm not insulting people who use it, go ahead and use it, I don't really care. I just don't like how Myspace is all "easy-to-use" and crap, and everybody can use it, cause it's so easy. Whatever happened to good ol' flash, java, HTML, PHP? A few steps away from being obsolete... that's where they are, has no one realized that?

Soon enough, people won't have to think, computers'll do the thinking for all of us. And guess who's gonna do the thinking for the computers? Who's going to program them? Malevolent smart people. Out for personal, financial, political, any sort of gain. Anybody ever watch the matrix? Because that's essentially where this world is headed. A world where our obsession with comfort, ease, and convenience surpasses our will to self-fulfill. A world where we're all just some batteries for some machine... Really, would you like that? Would you like to be no longer born, but grown? Would you like to live free, but still in terror of machines created by man's greed? I'm speaking metaphorically here, for those who think I'm saying the movie "The Matrix" is an accurate portrayal of the future... That's not what I mean.

And back to Brain Atrophy, isn't it humans' ability to think on a completely different level than all the other creatures on this planet what makes us different than everything else? Your ability to think is in itself your humanity. If you lose it, if you let this machine that humanity's building consume you, are you still human? Are you any different from the bees, who work only to create honey for their hive, and die in about a year? Are you any different from wolves, who roam around, surviving and not doing much more?

Humankind's always been proud of the fact that it's different, maybe even "better" than everything else on the planet. Maybe it is. Maybe that's why humanity has to be its own downfall. It can't be natural disasters, it can't be another species that wipes it out. It has to be humanity itself. Is the pride of humanity so great, that it can destroy itself and truly believe it's creating something great? Shit, in that case, I might just rather be a wolf, shit. No rent, no bullshit, no capitalism, no media, none of that shit. It'd be better than living in this shrinking universe we call humanity... Know all those future movies? Like 1000 or so years in to the future or whatever? I somehow highly doubt humanity's gonna last that long. Something's gotta give.

Perhaps. Maybe the world will turn out to be something like it is in Farenheit 451 or in 1984. However, at the end of both of those books there is hope.

"Whatever happened to good ol' flash, java, HTML, PHP? A few steps away from being obsolete... that's where they are, has no one realized that?"

Probably not, because you can't realize falsehood. You say things like myspace, and then proceed to say the very thing which its based on is near obsolete.

Except people are becoming too stupid to know how to use them because they have premade stuff like myspace. My point is people don't seem to need to think anymore.

Then they're not obsolete, just less used. Obsolete is when there is something thats just so much better its useless. Even though stuff like myspace allows people to do stuff without the knowledge, its html (maybe php, I don't use myspace) that allows that type of system to work.

I guess I see what you mean, and I think it's HTML based, but my point stands. People don't like thinking anymore, and now they don't need to.

On topic again, I do pretty much agree with the premise, I'm just less cynical about it. While I believe that many of our generation are mind dead degenerates, I think that there are as many if not more that aren't. Its just the stupid ones to make sure they're seen, partly due in fact BECAUSE of that degeneration. Just another scenario of the old saying, squeaky wheel gets the grease.

Yeah, I understand that. It's why I said the internet's the life blood of the underground, and transversely, the smart people, what else would we have?

Destroy your TV! Cause mass riots!

That's quite strange. I never knew that the computer was my last stitch of intellegence.

It's some fucked up irony, ain't it?

Like I said, I agree with you on some points, but you're being overly cynical. The computer is not the only smart place left.

Yes it is. Other than calculators and old-math-teachers-that-smell-like-mothballs machines.

Yes, it is. Now I know the National Geographic Channel, Discovery, Animal Planet, Discovery Science, Discovery Times, and PBS (ewww) 'aint worth crap.

XD, I was being kinda radically cynical. Some TV's still decent... But most modern media's shit. I was pissed that day, don't remember why.

There are some places left of knowledge even if that's a lone person, there's still the mind. It is being wasted away but somewhere there will always be one source of pure knowledge, and personally I don't think it's possible for the world to last more than 1,000 more years.

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