This is a
line from "
Delete Yourself," a '
song' by
Atari Teenage Riot. The song really is just a bunch of
yelling as per usual with an unusual amount of
buzzword tossing (as you can see from this
node title). It is everyday
ATR, but the thought behind it, now that I
think about it, isn't.
What does this mean?
Electronics have slowly
invaded the
human consciousness over the years...
tearing away at the once
meat and hay reality of the world. Well, let me narrow the world down to the
United States, because I know not much of the rest of the world during the
1800s because so much happened in the
U.S. that the history application processes here only feels the need to insert the United States: 1800s into our heads.
blah.
Anyways, the United States used to be a really really big field of
grass. It was
yellowish (yes, visions of
Little House on the Prairie are appropriate) even, and there were
women in dresses running and cooking about and men
farming things,
sweating and
milling about. Those that weren't farmers were bankers or some other such
business person. They wore
old-fashioned suits and tall hats and had less of that
accent. These old time business folk also appeared as
inventors, and such inventors used their
crowbar intellects to
pry open our door to the
future (what is now
present).
I think
Benjamin Franklin came up with enough
real inventions and
discoveries to not need the false credit he receives for "
inventing"
electricity. The real folks that discovered electricity are the ones that first applied it practically.
Edison's
evil ass deserves heavy credit (though he was very evil), as do other inventors and such whose names I am too
involuntarily ignorant to know. Things of note such as
Babbage's huge computing machine (plans) were real
indicators of what was to come.
I'm really not saying anything here, am I? Anyways, the
industrial age (indicated by huge
gears, the
cotton gin, and other such
brute force inventions) came and went, and the
stock market did it's
backflip (right into
the black water that is real finance and debt). The second war of the world came along, and put into
mass production the delightful
military-industrial complex. Such an
eager and government-charged call for
research and action to increase
destruction did for technology
what porn has done for the Internet. The applications of electricity
skyrocketed
exponentially and has continued through time.
Wow.
So many words, so little meaning...Um,
Internet. Now, (
Warning: Free Internet Advertisement) everybody's got Internet access and all these
kids are
online and sending pictures of grandma and making
online diaries. This like
MUDs are consuming the thought processes of the
socially challenged yet mentally elite.
Online gaming (including any
multiplayer thingy like
Age of Empires or a
Quake) gives more and more folk everyday a way of
detaching from the hell of modern Earth.
Reality hurts. There are
nerve endings all over your body. They are
rubbed the wrong way every day by every last thing you
encounter. The amount of
stress upon the common person has
blown out of
proportion in recent years, mostly due to this "
cyberspace" (which
ironically for some is the only way to
escape it).
dumbWord();
Reality is shit?
No. Reality is where the
technology that makes "cyberspace"
exists. It's the
hardware that runs the
software. It's the
hardware that holds the
firmware. It's the
hardware that you need for
wetware,
shareware,
freeware,
whateverware.
The hardware is reality, and without reality there is no virtual reality. In order for something
derived to exist, it has to be derived from something. In this case, that which it is derived from is also a
host, so there is no
loophole, no
paradox, no
backdoor,
no way out. Allow me to sum up this
simple phrase that
Atari Teenage Riot (don't get me wrong; I like them;
I buy and steal their shit) has dropped upon the
children without a thought, leading their
misled lives wrongly:
Reality is it. Cyberspace is not.
Get a life, kids.
function dumbWord(); {
//
displays problems with the word "
cyberspace"
print "'Cyberspace' is the dumbest fucking word in existence, by the way. It's an obvious buzzword, indicated by the utilization of the word 'cyber' and the attempt at a scientific connotation using 'space.' The word serves too heavily as a sort of wildcard the media and kids to use instead of knowing what the technology that is leading their lives really is. Do not use this word. Instead, fuck it.
}