Eating A Dinosaur

We exist in a culture of overindulgence and self-loathing. Even people as intelligent as Klosterman are not free from it. He himself makes note that his relationship with technology makes no sense and that he loves the Internet.

You know what speaks volumes to me? We capitalize the word "Internet." AP style is to capitalize that word. Doesn't that scare you? The Internet has developed past all other technology and actually grown it's own identity. And it's fitting. Our relationship with the Internet and technology (or rather, Technology) has developed to a point that is similar to the relationships we share with actual people. That's terrifying.

I thought about deleting my Facebook after seeing The Social Network. I wasn't disgusted by the story behind Facebook or angry at Mark Zuckerberg. I just felt figured out. One man had figured out a way to exert a massive amount of influence upon an incredible amount of people. In some way, I think everyone wants to believe that they are a little different, that they can't be corralled. I didn't delete my Facebook.  Like someone in class said today, we keep our social media close and our devices closer because we want to be in the loop. We don't want to miss anything when in reality being so wired in is causing us to miss everything.

We are constantly told that we do things too much. We eat too much. We drink too much. We use the Internet too much. We work to much. We sleep too much. We fuck too much. The list goes on and on. Where does it end? How are we supposed to tell what is actually being a detriment to our lives and what isn't? And once we're told that whatever we're doing is bad for us, we stop for a day or two and then go right back to it. We feel bad about it and then buy whatever someone says will fix it. It is a vicious, blood thirsty cycle.