A.U.B.I.E.
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Everything these days is over mediated. That is, there is too much media, not
too much negotiation, but I'll have to get back to you on the latter, I haven't
negotiated my rights on that yet. Media is everywhere, we can't get away
from it, and just when we think we've effectively tuned out all the
advertisements, it seems like we give them just what they want: unregistered
direct subliminal access into our heads. We constantly see advertisements out in
the world. Instead of getting a 1/100th of a second image or subaudible prompt
we get 1000 billboards we have to try and ignore. Hmmm, which do you think is
more effecitve? It's terrible, but every here and there you get a
nice relaxing page of text you can engage that rants on about stuff you don't
normally think about, but you only get that benefit if you actually finish
reading it.
Every here and there you can see people rebelling to media. I find it funny
how in a world of commercialism, where video phones are possible, virtual
reality is a budding promise, and multimedia hangs off of every greedy
hi-tech firm's tongue, the fastest growing form of communication is e-mail.
In a time when every sense can be tapped, we fall back on rapping on our
keyboards with our knuckles. Good? Bad? As usual, a bit of both.
It makes perfect sense though. When so many women are afraid of (me) being out
alone at night, they can cruise along on the information traffic jam, meet
people with no possibility of personal harm, no chance of being stalked unless
you foolishly give something away about yourself. While e-mail is entirely
removed, that becomes its advantage in certain instances. While you can't see,
smell, touch or otherwise approach a person, the limits are placed on what
one can articulate through typed words. Girls can get that sense of humor they
always ask for, and they can't judge you by your looks. I'll call it the first
rejection of commercialism. The further evolution of mind over eye.
The downside is that one can't trust a lick of what's said on on-line, but
that usually falls to the personal judgment/opinion of one's faith in humanity:
``Are we mostly good or mostly bad?" in a general scale of societal
character. But yes, the revolution against oversold commercialism has begun,
we deny overtaxed fake glossy realities for a simple return to the real and
intimate e-mail box, just don't use an easily guessable password...
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