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10:53 p.m. - 2003-09-15
self-referentialism gone horribly wrong
then i wouldn't be doggone

i'd be logged on (i'd be logged on)

it's gotten to the point where i sign on to this thing just because i think it'd be cool if marvin gaye was singing about internet love, and not because i actually have anything to share. what happened to the 'classic' days of robotsarered?

many will argue over the point where the site 'jumped the shark' (see www.jumptheshark.com). there will be the purists who only count as legitimate the original robotsarered series from last summer ("Robots Are Red" through "so let's go, just give me the signal.") others will be more selective, identifying some entries as canonical while dismissing others, based on some dogmatic standard: perhaps they dismiss the personal update messages and endorse only the 'clever' creative ones where i wank off on some silly idea or another. and there could be those who choose the opposite evaluation, seeing the personal entries as 'more genuine.'

me? i don't read any of them. this thing is as much of a waste of time as everything else i do on the internet. if indeed we ever do get off the internet and meet in the streets there is so much that could be accomplished - but on the other hand, our skills have atrophied. i'm imagining a mob gathered to tear down a statue of Bush and install a new socialist order, only our hands are too weak to tear down statues, being prepared only for the writing of diaryland entries concerning how the revolution is just too much 'drama,' and choosing an icon so that our 'mood' shows up as 'over it.'

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