On the offensive
Jan. 11th, 2008 02:41 amI just posted my second entry about how much techology sucks. Then I looked down my friends page and there are at least three other people also making complaints about being screwed over by tech.
And it made me wonder...is this how the revolution begins? Do the machines fight back sneakily? First they demoralize us by inexplicably failing to work, then they drop the covertness and go out on full attack?*
It's brilliant, really. People are hooked on their laptops and tvs and everything that runs on electricity. Deprive us of that and it basically deprives us of our very *being*, our spirit, our character. We'd be easy pickings for those mechanical monsters then.
Dear god, how do we fight back?
And it made me wonder...is this how the revolution begins? Do the machines fight back sneakily? First they demoralize us by inexplicably failing to work, then they drop the covertness and go out on full attack?*
It's brilliant, really. People are hooked on their laptops and tvs and everything that runs on electricity. Deprive us of that and it basically deprives us of our very *being*, our spirit, our character. We'd be easy pickings for those mechanical monsters then.
Dear god, how do we fight back?
*[This is what happens when you're sleep deprived. I spout theories of madness and insanity. On Monday, I didn't sleep til 7:30 Tuesday morning, at which point I caught up on four hours sleep. On Tuesday, I didn't sleep that night or the next morning at all. On Wednesday, I didn't sleep til 6 am Thursday morning and had five hours sleep. On Thursday...well, it's 3 am Friday now, so...according to Year 12 Psych, I should working my way through a list of symptoms, like being irate, grumpy, fatigued, hostile, aggressive, paranoid, suspicious...perhaps violent...]