The difference between inherent stupidity and selective absurdity is a narrow gradient, and both can be found in appreciable quantities in most people I see around me. The walking pillars of illusionary complacency form what unfortunately is the majority. Teenagers are either "Twilighted" or "Two Stated" ( apart from a plethora of other "novel syndromes"). And these they hold for cinematic and literary brilliance, I know not if in order. The love story of a wannabe Vampire who is black-paint-around-his-eyes short of Joker from the Dark Knight, with skin snowy and lips crimson, or that of a wannabe writer, is met with a genuine round of applause by an audience of wannabe I-am-at-power-with-rest kinda people. Be it those grappling at the whims of DOTA or WOW, for their peers
are "imbas", or those whose virtual mafiasos are at a lower level as opposed to their clan members, to those who actually maintain virtual farms (R.I.P) and aquairiums (I weep for humanity), the fight, or rather, the chase is no more a matter of personal opinion. It is an induced acceptance of the unacceptable, so as to follow the mass behaviour.
The rifts in the virtual world tend to circumvent the barriers of its servers, and actually end up in feuds among friends, or at the least, quarrels (Have seen firsthand examples). With "Zynga" (The Skynet of MafiaWars and its esoteric kinsmen) being declared a new superpower, by all denizens of its various * states *, the doomsday conspiracy seems a greater metaphorical threat. With facebook projected to be clustered with more and more users, and Zynga being the moronic opiate, the apocalyptic end of intellect holds greater danger of annihilating humankind, than a shitass huge asteroid with a rhetorically high momentum. With our blog being flagged as too cluttered with "level 80 words" by an ardent gamer, and KronoS himself saying (In regard of the 3rd guy in the group in FluMech lab) "Right click, Promote to leader", I feel left behind in a jargonic sense. Not that I plan to indulge myself in a MMORPG, to feel at home with the conversations permeating the air in their alien use of allusions and metaphors.
Shorthand, the universal language, undoing the damage wrought to unity by the tower of Babel, has its roots in the very essence of being senseless. F9 and N9 stand for Fine and Online respectively, by a turn of logic I fail to grasp. The text messages are a cyphered script to a more unabridged mind, and actually consume more time to convey a meaningful message.
Seeing this adherance to the insignificant, I am forced to consider if the arrow of time has actually reversed? Is the universe entering its phase of negative entropy? I hope not. Coffee spilt cannot still be recovered. But that is no consolation in itself. The age of Aquarius is here, also called the age of enlightenment. We are hopefully in for a mammoth paradigm shift. And unprepared as we are, it is going to be one hell of a shock, if the IQ bar for a moron is raised to 120.
In my preparation for it, I will not play any game by Zynga, or read any book by Chetan Bhagat or watch Twilight. I wouldnt have, were they slightly any better either, but I would've pretended to be interested atleast...
R.I.P
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2 comments:
India being a free country, relatively at least, everyone, if he/she knows a highly placed politician/policeman, is entitled to speak their mind. The Reaper does the same here, speak his mind.
Perception is a product of a person's upbringing and ideals, it can vary over a shockingly huge spectrum. To one person it may look like a moronic apocalypse, to another it may look like the Dawn of the Intelligentsia, its all perception....
True. and without movies like twilight what would we use to categorize people by intelligence? it should be there on UIDs (unique IDs) you know, like a simple IQ test sort of thing so that people have a rough idea about the persons mental capabilities
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