It's a little off-topic, but one of my hobbies is studying advancing dehumanization in the age of technological miracles. While the internet is oft heralded as a global community, it also ushered in the age of the otaku -- people who revel in societal detachment and anomie. Anyone who has studied sociology and psychology can tell you that anomie (social maladaptivity) and technological industrialization go hand in hand, and this dynamic is most acute in the free-market techno-havens of America and Japan. In America our detached young adults pull guns and mow down their peers; in Tokyo they do it with cars and knives, thus proving that gun control can only do so much to curb homicidal sociopathology.
"I just needed to kill someone."
This is the defense of those who take part in such random bloodletting. In the US our homicidal perps typically blow one into their own skull before the police can take them down, but Tokyo's stab-happy psychopaths generally get taken down and -- gasp -- rescued by paramedics before they can ritually disembowel themselves, thanks to the slow lethality of self-inflicted knife wounds and todays top-notch trauma care.
There are those who would like to blame this kind of behavior on the internet, or video games, or metal music, or negligent parents, but I say all of these excuses are lame attempts to dodge the real issue. What motivates this kind of sociopathic horror is the feeling of impotence caused by the oppressive omnipotent control of the information state. There is no way to escape it, no way to deny it. If you are a loser everyone will know it immediately by Googling you, so why fight the grinding power of fate? You either become the machine, deny that you are part of the machine, or blow a gasket from too much machine pressure.
Welcome to the future.
reading all the posts, are funny, and interesting, and u guys, really funnee,
thanks.
Look at the logo for fux sake; it's just The Usual from 'The Man' to march all the dum-dums down pre-determined paths to the NWO niche-box that's been carved out for them. Or haven't you caught on to the particular religion you are meant to be a believer in around these parts, man.
Oh yeah. Have you come to kill the Colonel. Interesting anyone can find out a person's details from their dial-up IP address; so Nothing has a static IP, and their ISP also gave out their details? Cause that can't happen - the website here would have to have some kind of malware-cookies and monitoring stats to be able to get anything more than a session IP address. Oh yeah they all do it - some'll even passive-active sniff your TCP connection, and send ICMP spies down the line if they can get away with it; but none of that comes from an IP address.
The IP just gives an ISP (or equiv. if it's some internal un-proxied .mil address/domain for example), and what country/ part of the country their ISP service is in. Fr'instance, mine always shows up as being in Manchester UK, but I don't actually live near there. But if I did I'd be down the Hacienda in the late 80s/early 90s.
interesting, shall i say more?
in yourself that if it were allowed to go unchecked would proceed on a similar path. i feel alienation. i carry it with me. it builds up and subsides. the outside world is very automatic and i see my self dancing to the tune of the machine.
if one tree falls does it make a sound? no. but if you cut down many trees on someones sacred ground then you will be heard. or at least you think you will. this is why i've always thought buddhism is so brilliant. it's all dukha and there is no way out, even if you kill yourself, you will be reborn. with 7 billion people in the world and counting, weird stuff is just going to expand exponentially.
btw....
it's "too bright" nothing....just an fyi
and blog on drugs, isn't to bright in my book either.
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