It's a hard knock life, they say! So various elements of society have taken it upon themselves to make things simpler, but building more complexity to aid the simplification. Complex machines, complex programs, complex software... its like a cow chewing and predigesting its cud before swallowing. Y'know, if the cow built a ultra-complex cold fusion powered food processor that fits into its gullet, to predigest the food.
The concept of processed, predigested information is good, (interestingly, most concepts are good, as a concept/ Processing conceptually removes the concept of a concept in its rush to concise and abridge the finished form. Yes, I think that one got away from me a bit) but like many concepts, flawed in the execution. Because processing isn't just about the core idea of something being filtered, but its about it being spiced and flavored with biasness and unwanted opinions. In the same way that processed food isn't about filtering down the nutrients and maintaining the essence and healthiness of something. The rush to be jack of all trades and dipping our toes into everything leaves us no option but to have the cliff notes version of everything in life instead of focusing on one good thing and enjoying an in depth equation with it.
Hey, maybe it's the new path to world peace, you know. Give the same processed information to everyone, generating similar emotions and opinions, ensuring overall consensus and fewer dissents and arguments (I refer to you, the new Star Wars movie). But here's the thing. There is dissent and chaos and anarchy still prevailing. Here's where it gets complicated. Both sides manufacture a processed, made simple for the proletariat, version of their assessment of events. So now we have people fighting and arguing on borrowed points, saying things they don't understand themselves (politics to net neutrality, every raging debate holds true to this theory. (Also, Star Wars debates. Meanness before correctness for Nerds).
It's really a byproduct of our mentality of meddling in everything. wanting to butt into every debate and offer our two cents. Just that our two cents are Canadian coins, or Sri Lankan rupees (you pick). We take ready-made opinions, put our force behind it and peddle it. Free marketing for those opinions. It's a new trend anyway, to let idiots do your promotions for you. Nerds or bloggers, or commentators or hobos. The principle is the same. That should be a new year resolution, maybe. Have fewer opinions. But original ones. Here's hoping we survive 2016 (yeah, new goals. Lower standards).
The concept of processed, predigested information is good, (interestingly, most concepts are good, as a concept/ Processing conceptually removes the concept of a concept in its rush to concise and abridge the finished form. Yes, I think that one got away from me a bit) but like many concepts, flawed in the execution. Because processing isn't just about the core idea of something being filtered, but its about it being spiced and flavored with biasness and unwanted opinions. In the same way that processed food isn't about filtering down the nutrients and maintaining the essence and healthiness of something. The rush to be jack of all trades and dipping our toes into everything leaves us no option but to have the cliff notes version of everything in life instead of focusing on one good thing and enjoying an in depth equation with it.
Hey, maybe it's the new path to world peace, you know. Give the same processed information to everyone, generating similar emotions and opinions, ensuring overall consensus and fewer dissents and arguments (I refer to you, the new Star Wars movie). But here's the thing. There is dissent and chaos and anarchy still prevailing. Here's where it gets complicated. Both sides manufacture a processed, made simple for the proletariat, version of their assessment of events. So now we have people fighting and arguing on borrowed points, saying things they don't understand themselves (politics to net neutrality, every raging debate holds true to this theory. (Also, Star Wars debates. Meanness before correctness for Nerds).
It's really a byproduct of our mentality of meddling in everything. wanting to butt into every debate and offer our two cents. Just that our two cents are Canadian coins, or Sri Lankan rupees (you pick). We take ready-made opinions, put our force behind it and peddle it. Free marketing for those opinions. It's a new trend anyway, to let idiots do your promotions for you. Nerds or bloggers, or commentators or hobos. The principle is the same. That should be a new year resolution, maybe. Have fewer opinions. But original ones. Here's hoping we survive 2016 (yeah, new goals. Lower standards).
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