Stationery rape

What do you do in the middle of the night when you got nothing to do but sit down, do whatever you want to your own detriment but maybe also to a smaller good? Your creativity is trapped in your brain and it wants to express itself somehow out of boredom. Your brain is not big enough to withhold these thoughts and yet here they are, jumping on an electronic piece of paper. Why typed, why not handwritten? Bah, I gave that up a while ago, I love writing though. The grip on the pen, the tip scratching across the paper's grain, the homogeneous and uniform blue color that oozes out, stays lustrous for a while yet remains firmly on the paper without overflowing or diffusing through the paper's fibers, thanks to a protective shiny coat on the paper, ah there are but few things as authentic as this.

But nowadays it's all blogs and vlogs. I'm definitely not a purist, I like electronic communication, it's faster and easier to express yourself without going through the whole 'physical' obstacle of transferring thoughts into a flick of the wrist just to write an "S", by typing at a faster speed than if writing, but at the same time writing something by hand is not the same thing as typing something on a screen. We're at an age where we live in a hybridity of old and new. Cars? Old. Hybrid cars? New. Paper and pen? Old. Electronic notes? New. See a pattern? More and more of our society, culture and work is "electrifying" itself (by loosely quoting Lenin), look at Phoenix University: First all-out online university. No building, no res, no food joint, just an online university. We are at a point in time where we are using a little bit of both. This IS the beginning of the 21st century. A hybridity of old and new, a sort of limbo before getting to the REAL future, the one everybody thinks would be made of flying cars and holographic Elvis Presley's.

I can see it even in my life, I'm taking one course online, and another still in real life. I'm predicting that within 10-20 years most if not all of our courses will be at least in some way or another electronic, whether it be online lectures, electronically submitted assignments only, or online readings rather than having to buy a book. There are advantages and disadvantages to this, but I'm not here for that. I encourage progress, and I'm letting the hippies and the powers that be decide which way we'll be going. I trust it will be a convenient and functional one.

Instead, I'd like to say that despite how much I love writing and curving those letters on a piece of paper, I quickly lose my train of thought, and it's hard for me to get a one hit wonder out of a piece of paper, I'm speaking of all the corrections, mistakes, and all the shit that you can just erase and re-type on a computer but that makes a mess on paper. I wish I could continue writing, but typing still stays more convenient for me. I still kinda fear I might lose my aesthetic and eventually my hands would become stiff when holding a pen.

But as we're moving on into the future, think of the way our times are changing, our habits along with it, and think of the future jokes and nostalgia you might have remembering the first color ink jet printers or the first time you watched a movie on DVD. Try to think of the things that instantly changed when you moved on from your "traditional" medium to an upgraded one (from paper to word processor, from home phone to smartphone, from vhs to blu ray, from 2Mb to 2Gb,) I sure do. And I'm gonna continue focusing on these little yet major changes that illustrate our culture, time and society. Because if you are aware of these changes, of these trends, of these events and notice how people react around it, you might prepare yourself better for the future, yet you might also be one of the last few who will remember our past and keep it in mind as we move ahead. Using the past efficiently for a smoother future, that should become one of the top 10 priorities of humanity along with the big Global Warming idea and the Consumerism fad.

And finally, I didn't mean for all this to sound like some dumb hippie moralistic lecture. I'm just saying, dude, don't be a bitch to your cell phone just cos it has 10 mega pixels and I-dunno-whats, do you really need all this? Serially, Blackberry this, iPhone that, application this, mine-is-bigger that, it's just tools. Remember that. Stop writing in some dirty-ass butchered up language, English muthafucka, do you speak it??

I'm not saying read a book, I'm not saying go to a museum, I'm just saying, don't be a bitch to technology! When I was your age, girls didn't have boobs, so we had to imagine them, we didn't have Google.

Sincerely.

PS. This blog is back on track yay huzzah yipeekayay. But I'm not gonna serve nobody here. This is a spontaneous dumpster where all my shitty thoughts will be expressed in a vacuum for whomever reads it on a boring shitty day. I dunno what will come up, but I'm done with regular postings and all. Enjoy, bitches!