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Sunday, September 17, 2006

Wiredheads

I feel it! i sense it. We are all heading towards a culture of wiredheads. I just can't seem to be a minute without music and information flowing into my brain. Gadgets(ipod,laptop to be precise - not cell phone hell no) wired to my head make it to every place. Bathroom not spared too. Its as though this information is the new opiate. We seem to be living lives with such changes happening over a single lifetime, not a thousand years of history would have seen it. Just compare our mindsets ten years ago. Unfuckingbelievable you could even call yourself 'you'. Slowly we are tapping into the complicated neurochemistry of the brain, tweaking conditions so as to produce the best possible state. Traces of nihilistic hedonism are already apparent. No one seems to be preparing long-drawn plans for the future unlike previously. It's all in the moment and how best you grasp reality - at least thats how i sense things right now. All a learning process. I dont wanna seek closure in any 'doctrine'. Just am so fucking wonderstruck at the level of simplicity and complexity of life. Hell, closure seems to be the worst possible thing. And one of the biggest traps is CULTURE. I dont buy the arguments of culture heads who keep saying we need to preserve OUR culture. National pride etc etc seems to be the biggest farce. Wondrousness of life could not be more shackled with these.