Musing on irony

There is so much beat up around the intellectual and academic and even entertainment traps that there is an epidemic gripping our generation. Be wary, they warn, it's coming for you - it'll take you in its arms and hold you until your pores explode all over the carpet. Watch out they say, your eyes may boggle out of control and explode in a gooey frenzy. Please don't go there your mind may vegetabalise itself and begin eating itself out from the inside..
This epidemic you may be wondering is our sneaky addiction to all things up-to-date, technological, on screeen and otherwise, circling us in the virtual realm. Many naysayers seem to dedicate their P.O.V on not only our addiction but our continued RELIANCE on these technological marvels. They seem to think the human condition will no longer function like in the long lost days of candlelight and rampant depression and musing on the never ending complexities of life.
They do have a point these thinkers, but consider the flip side of the argument. Technology has eased access to innumerable archives and allowed instant access to irrefutable evidence - as in video, sattellite and all similar types of images. Technology has changed our disposition eternally - we can call upon a million and one favours or otherwise at obscene hours of the morning at far flung places on our ever deflating planet.
Obviously there are rampant downsides to such ease of access, it means that that fleeting illusory notion of 'human contact' will progressively escape our grip. The mentality of the why not generation means that anything is possible while being blind to the fact that that leaves countless notions on the wayside - considerations like environmental impact, industrial ravagement and widespread meataphysical transformation that at times a regular human being may not be ready for.

We as human beings move in such interesting ways, using ourselves as our own vehicles of transformation. Thanks to the complete advents in communication technology and even the rise in robotics, musing on the impact of these on the human condition may be completely reshaped into discussions on the symbiosis of mind matter and spirit these transformations have caused.

At the end of the day however i am my own irony as i use all the new technological advances with some wayward zeal. In the early part of the naughties i was wary of many of the new formats for communication inherent to the internet, P2P, blogosphere, social networking... But as they have all congealed and metatastisized and become inevitable to refute i have been grounded within them without rebellion. They are necessary just like the traditional formats are but i believe there is no more point in bitching about their impact because at the end of the day they are here to say and they will be flung into games of the survival of the fittest and those vehicles which are the fittest will be here to stay.

So change your tune and begin considering just what these formats can do for you and your imagination, just how you can use your precious time through them...

Ironically, that's exactly what im doing right here, right now ... a pizza bite slice of wisdom that will inevitably get lost in the wide nothingness of html 2.0.