Everyone is on Digital Speed and The Idea of The Digital Fun House Mirror

    Greetings to the interwebs, it’s the One-Eyed Nerd here again. It is that time of year again with the weather getting cold with December on it’s way and to a New Year as well. Speaking of New Years, it is crazy that it is about to be 2025, isn’t that something? All them old movies and shows from years ago that depicted 2025 as the future with flying cars and people replacing their brains with a cyborg implants and fake memories, until some hacker hacks into them and they find out it is all fake. Wait a second this seems familiar but from where hmm? 

    Well it will come to me at some point, but that got me thinking from watching old Sci-Fi flicks and you would think that we could never get there, you then look after a few years have passed you by and there it is. All my life I heard, "when you get older life gets slower",well I think it's the opposite or is it? Now I feel it depends but here in the 21st century I do feel time seems to fly by faster because we are always hooked to something. No I'm not saying it’s the Internet's fault but I want to explain why I do blame our culture. 

    To elaborate on this, look at how people act nowadays. There used to be a subculture or counter culture, from the hippies and punks to weebs and emos, but most of it was that generation's rebellion. However looking onto the generation now with social media, and something start to rear it’s ugly face. Most of the time each generation has about one of two sub cultures or counter cultures that last around a decade or however long. But with the new generation you barely see that to a point it seems a new subculture is made each year and the old one dies out like it was nothing, or in a week it seems sometimes. With a culture that is on overdrive 24/7 is makes since to think people are on speed, or it is just a small digital Fun House Mirror?

    If you look at the, let’s call it the Fun House Mirror Culture, everything seem over exaggerated to an extreme degree. For example most social media that involves a more visual look into someone’s life like Facebook on Instagram. On these platforms, you are not going to see reality but reality ran through many filters to make it look like something it is not. Add in a system of mass production and it makes the world seem like it is on turbo all the time.

    Lets talk about fads for a sec. So look at all the fads of the past years and or what was popular on the web, and see how in that same time it went out like a honeysuckle. It smells great, it looks divine, and the taste is rich as gold, then nothing. Just like that, it is over right as you set your eye on it, sort of like disco (But disco is 50 times better then any fad of the last few years). Now take any fad and run it through the fun house mirror, now add the clown who keeps saying,"It is real, all of what you see is real, everything is like this, you are looking at "real life"." The way the internet warps what is real to push ideas, make bank off it, then add on the fads with diminishing rates, that changes every week, and you are running through that fun house on speed, with the suits, and influencers that look more like clowns, trying to sell you on the next big thing.

    So you have what seems to be an endless hall at this point, one that never ends or so that what they want you to think..You don't have to play the game and get sucked in nor do you have to have your prospective on life distorted because the Internet is telling you this is the "real life". If you are running around thinking the world is ending and can't escape that endless hallway, turn around and go the way you came. Now the world may not be as well, calm most of the time, but it sure as hell is better then krusty and his hall of misery loving clowns. At this point it is better to leave the park entirety. To quote Bender from Futurama "I'm going to build my own theme park! With blackjack! And hookers! You know what -forget the park!" (That's a joke son, I say that's a joke)

    Alright time to end it here before this thing start to look like a damned APA paper. That is all I got folks, now to end it here with the Oasis favorite thing, some good solid gold music. Here is Time Marches On by Tracy Lawrence from his 1996 album of the same name. (the 2004 remaster because I could not just find the original song in audio) This is the One-Eyed Nerd saying good night and raise your red solo cup to a brand new year. This is the One-Eyed Nerd signing off, and see you in the next year, So Long Space Cowboy.

 

Introducing O.E.N Rambles: Hey It Adds More Posts To The Oasis

    Greetings to the interwebs, its the One-Eyed Nerd here again. Now yes this place is looking more like a ghost town because well I might have devoured more then I could chew with the long form blog posts here. This in turn came into the idea of the rambles, more short form posts, that I can type out without overthinking them. Now idea of this blog was that I wanted to post more and grow it to say form a community around it. That was great on paper and if it was the still early 2000s, then it could work. Unfortunately, the landscape has changed for a lack of a better word. I guess most people would go to social media and post whatever idea comes to their head, hit post, then it is already out there for the masses.

    Let’s take for example a small post on a blog vs mainstream social media. Here you make the post, check for spelling and grammar as that matters more. Now yes you do have more control and if you know HTML and CSS, then you can waste a day just with formatting and experimenting alone. Compare that to social media on the other hand. You have a word limit depending on the platform, not counting your freedom is limited as in how your post can look, and you might have to deal with some form of moderation. Now here come a major issue with a blog. You have to work to get it seen.

    Now you be thinking, "But the Internet is what everyone uses nowadays, its filled to the brim, someone will see it." To that I say here is a question for you. Where are the people at exactly? If you said any of the big social media platforms then congratulations because I bet you got here from social media. If you got here by word of mouth, or hell even a damn search engine then I must of hit the big time then.

    To clarify, sure I have my opinions on the modern internet, but that could be it own ramble or technically a rant. It is wild to think just how huge the web is now, but has anyone notice it don't seem to lead to anywhere cool? Sure if you search for say, how to replace a oil pan in a Datsun 380z, you will get Youtube videos or old car forums, but that would make sense, because it is a niche interest. A regular user will get 1,000s of the same damn title of a website headline with tiny changes to set them apart. You know the ones I am talking about, and don't get me started on recipe websites or god forbid gaming news.

    Well that's all folks for tonight and hey for shits and giggles lets play a game. I created a few (totally real) headlines for the top site on the internet, lets see if you been on the web long enough to pick them out. Post the reference and the site down in the comment, I want to see if people can get it. This is the One-Eyed Nerd saying good night and don't take the internet too serious, it not the most accurate depiction of real life. Now here is I Love My Computer from Bad Religion's 2000 album, The New America.

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