Saturday, October 16, 2010
tl:dr
Barking at each other from across the planet.
Leave a comment. Validate my existence.
If you don't have to make an effort to have your voice heard, do you really have anything worth saying?
Current western economics is based on debt. People and companies borrow money to buy and invest. Our economies don't grow by adding value, they grow by adding debt.
In much the same way, the internet grows not by creation but by multiplication.
Sure, we still have manufacturing sectors that pump out cars, guns and hard-on medication but the foundation of that industriousness is the ability of those manufacturers to receive credit. Borrowed money created by lending institutions at the click of a button.
Likewise, there are people creating new, fantastic things on the internet but the large majority of sites and users are copying, forwarding, leaching from those with more talent and greater skill.
So is the virtual world imitating the real world? Or are they both emblematic of a modern degeneration?
Fucked if I know.
But luckily for us, the technology that allows the garbage to proliferate also allows every back alley Picasso to have an audience and a platform.
It might take some effort to find that little golden nugget of brilliance amongst all the chaff but considering that either way all you have to do is sit there and click your mouse a few times it's probably not a good idea to be complaining.
Leave a comment. Validate my existence.
If you don't have to make an effort to have your voice heard, do you really have anything worth saying?
Current western economics is based on debt. People and companies borrow money to buy and invest. Our economies don't grow by adding value, they grow by adding debt.
In much the same way, the internet grows not by creation but by multiplication.
Sure, we still have manufacturing sectors that pump out cars, guns and hard-on medication but the foundation of that industriousness is the ability of those manufacturers to receive credit. Borrowed money created by lending institutions at the click of a button.
Likewise, there are people creating new, fantastic things on the internet but the large majority of sites and users are copying, forwarding, leaching from those with more talent and greater skill.
So is the virtual world imitating the real world? Or are they both emblematic of a modern degeneration?
Fucked if I know.
But luckily for us, the technology that allows the garbage to proliferate also allows every back alley Picasso to have an audience and a platform.
It might take some effort to find that little golden nugget of brilliance amongst all the chaff but considering that either way all you have to do is sit there and click your mouse a few times it's probably not a good idea to be complaining.
